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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* From ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'':
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'''Izzy:''' I'd settle for a small cow. }}
* I distinctly remember Ash from "[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]" saying at one point, "I'm so hungry I could eat a Horsea!"
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== [[Comic Strip]] ==
* One ''[[Mad]]'' strip. Four teenagers in a diner.
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'''Teen #2''': "I'm so hungry I could eat a rhino!"
'''Teen #3''': "I'm so hungry I could eat an elephant, including trunk and tusks!"
'''Teen #4''': "Now I lost my appetite!" }}
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* In ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'', the puppy Rolly insisted "I'm so hungry I could eat a... a whole elephant!" (even though he just ate).
* ''[[Flight of the Navigator]]'' gave us this conversation:
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'''Max:''' Back in time to when I picked up my creatures. By now they're so hungry, they could eat a zigzog.
'''David:''' What's a zigzog?
'''Max:''' Kind of like a hippo, but with feathers. }}
* An unusual variant by Vic from ''[[Neighbors]]'': "Ramona and I haven't eaten all day. We could eat a baby's butt through a park bench."
* Fred from ''The Foot Fist Way'' gives another strange variant: "I'm so hungry I could eat a grown man's ass right now!"
* ''[[McCabe and Mrs. Miller]]'':
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'''John McCabe:''' Well, at Sheehan's place you probably will.
'''Mrs. Miller:''' Ah, the frontier wit, I see. }}
* Phido the Vulture in ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler|The Princess And The Cobbler]]'': "I'm so hungry I could eat a vegetarian."
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* Nan from ''The Bad Mother's Handbook'': "When's tea ready? I could eat a buttered frog."
* From'' Sweet Land'':
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'''Inge:''' I could eat a horse.
'''Brownie:''' Well we could find dat. }}
* [[Cheech and Chong]] - ''The Corsican Brothers'': "I'm so hungry I could eat a bowl of lard with a hair in it!"
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' ("Faith, Hope & Trick"):
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* ''[[Angel]]'' ("Carpe Noctem"):
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* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' ("The Bus"):
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* ''[[The Addams Family]]'' ("Morticia, the Matchmaker"):
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'''Gomez:''' I am so hungry I could eat a wolf.
'''Morticia:''' Gomez, you guessed it! }}
* ''[[The Waltons]]'' ("The Homecoming: A Christmas Story"):
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'''Grandma:''' If this depression gets any worse, you may have to. }}
* ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' ("Custer"):
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'''Marshal Matt Dillon:''' This is all the hog you get this morning. }}
* Toby from ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'' ("Rock Solid"): "I'm so hungry, I could eat the Oldies section."
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''[[Veggie Tales]]'': In "The Gourds Must be Crazy" (from "Are You my Neighbour"), Jimmy and Jerry Gourd start trying to one-up each other on statements about their hunger. The conversation ends with Jimmy saying he could eat an entire planet. Then it turns out {{spoiler|this isn't hyperbole at all: the Gourds [[It Makes Sense in Context|save the ship by eating a popcorn ball meteorite]].}}
** This gets a callback in a later episode, "Dave and the Giant Pickle". This time, since the Gourds are playing the parts of ancient Israelites, the conversation plays out rather differently:
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'''Jerry:''' Oh yeah? Sometimes I get so hungry, I could eat a whole ''[[Anachronism Stew|spaceship]]!''
'''Jimmy:''' What's a spaceship?
'''Jerry:''' …I have no idea. }}
* In ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' episode "For Lunch", Arnold begins to insist "Not hungry? But I could eat a..." before Wanda, inside his stomach and pretending to be his conscience, cuts him off and forces him to drink instead.
* ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' gives this mixed metaphor:
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'''Tails:''' I'm so hungry I could eat our dust! }}
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Mr. Griffin Goes To Washington".
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* While stranded on an island on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''.
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