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A classic gag predominately featured in animation. It has all the implications of terrible injuries, without all that massive bleeding and annoying death getting in the way of the humor. When it turns up in live action it's usually in a slapstick comedy, bonus points if it involves the undead or immortal "victim".

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* Happened several times to Tom in ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'', with Tom being punctured by gunfire, garden implements and a baby woodpecker.

* It also happens in a [[Tex Avery MGM Cartoons|Droopy]] cartoon in which Droopy, as a sheepherder, catches a wolf trying to make off with his flock of sheep and repeatedly shoots his gun at him. The bullets all rush past the wolf, who calmly takes a drink of water and says, in a thick Southern accent, "Y'all missed me, sheepherder," and walks off, as the water flows out of holes made by the gun.

* In ''Mexican Joyride'', [[Daffy Duck]] goes [[South of the Border]] and has a bowl of chili, scoffing at how Mexican food is not so spicy. Immediately afterwards he [[Fire Breathing Diner|has an inferno in his mouth]], and he shouts, "It's burning holes in me!" A local sitting next to him says that he has eaten the stuff for years without any harm. He takes a drink, gets up to leave, and sure enough, water squirts from his body on the way out.

* In ''Mexican Joyride'', [[Daffy Duck]] goes [[South of the Border]] and has a bowl of chili, scoffing at how Mexican food is not so spicy. Immediately afterwards he [[Fire-Breathing Diner|has an inferno in his mouth]], and he shouts, "It's burning holes in me!" A local sitting next to him says that he has eaten the stuff for years without any harm. He takes a drink, gets up to leave, and sure enough, water squirts from his body on the way out.

* In the [[Tex Avery]] [[Wartime Cartoon]] ''[[Blitz Wolf]]'', the holes are revealed not by water, but by light shining from behind the character.