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Time Bandits |
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Toward the end of Terry Gilliam's wonderfully weird film, the lil' guys finally confront the Evil Genius (the ever-brilliant baddie, David Warner) and, well, since everything is weird in a Gilliam flick, the scene kind of speaks for itself. Pixel's done a nice fade intro and outro that gives you a sense of the whole event, not just the inflation bit.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation |
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Macman (or is it Dr. Monsoon now? He'll always be Macman to me) finally grabbed this one for the world. It's not much of a scene, but it does count as one of those few bits that pretty much everybody with cable TV has seen and remembers. Daughter Audrey (Dana Hill) doesn't want to get fat on her trip overseas, and naturally has a nightmare sequence about pigging out and swelling up.
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Weird Al: Fat |
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Is there a geek on the planet who doesn't enjoy the wacky musical stylings of Alfred Yankovic? One thing you gotta say for the modern Spike Jones: He goes all out. He actually wears (or at least wore) the inflatable suit getup on stage in his live shows.
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Xuxa |
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Somewhere between Barney and Teletubbies, there was Xuxa. Yes, she was goofy. Yes, her fashion sense was...questionable. But she made [censored] happy, she had great legs, and she had acts like this guy, one Marty Putz (I'm not makin' it up--it's what Xuxa Web sez). Xuxa also exhibits a, shall we say, curious fascination with the inflatable suit (no! It's not just for a pre-commercial staged gag! I will not listen to reason!), which gives us hope that one day she will reclaim her pop culture spot, only this time on behalf of inflatable fetishists. Until that glorious day, we are cursed with monosyllabic technicolor infant things with cathode ray tubes surgically implanted in their stomachs who are terrorized by a giant baby-faced sun on a daily basis. Come back, Xuxa. All is forgiven.
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Growing Pains |
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Straight from the Media FAQ, courtesy of Wren: "In one episode, Tracey Gold's character is nominated to be prom queen, or something like that. She thinks she's just an ugly nerd; so one night she has a dream that she's in a beautiful gown at the contest, but then she looks in a mirror and suddenly she's wearing a t-shirt, overalls, glasses, and her hair is messed up. They call her onto the stage and she beings to quickly inflate, except for her arms and then she falls through the stage--from her weight I guess. She inflates pretty big too." Yes, it's all fuzzy, but that's for artistic reasons--the old Hollywood "dream sequence," you see. The sad part, of course, is that while Tracey's character Carol was always getting teased about her weight on the show, Tracey Gold was driven to an eating disorder in real life--and she wasn't exactly heavy to begin with.
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Kirby Super Star commercial |
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And now, a short history of video game marketing. When the Sega Genesis came out, it soundly trounced the Super Nintendo both in install base and mindshare, due in no small part to Sega's snazzy, screaming ads. So, Nintendo realized that it, too, had to get "extreme" (as the [censored] say) and make their ads more shocking, more in-your-face if they wanted to get attention. The "Play It Loud" campaign gave birth to this bizarre ad for Kirby Super Star, the one commercial that truly looks like someone filmed a body inflation story. Um, it helps to know that Kirby is this pink round thing who inhales enemies and can puff himself up in his games. And I've seen that doctor on lots of other commercials and shows, too.
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The Naked Gun
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The string of icky body explosions continues! There's almost nothing to say about this one--other than you don't see a lot of BE scenes on this site ending in explosions. I guess I shouldn't mention it lest I tempt the fates.
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Gilligan's Island |
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Yes, it's more wacky exploits with Maynard G Kr...I mean, Gilligan and the hapless stowaways on the island they call home. No, they can't build a boat, but they can find a rubber dive suit and create a makeshift breathing apparatus, then shove Gilligan underwater. Naturally, they feed too much air down to the Little Buddy, and he bobs back up to the surface, all swollen-like. Oh, will the mirth never cease?
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The Story of Ricky |
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I didn't know much about this until I started writing up this little description, but you will find no better fountain of information than the place we stole this clip from, The Bad Movie Review Website. The short version: It's from a 1991 ultraviolent revenge fable/prison breakout/action flick called Story Of Ricky, it's based on a comic book, and a different scene from this film was used for the head-smashing introduction to Craig Kilborn's "Five Questions" segment on The Daily Show. In this lovingly crafted scene, the prison warden (the one who looks like a chef with dark glasses), upset to return to work and find an uprising, takes revenge on his assistant warden (the guy with the mechanical arm and glass eye--are you with me so far?) with a compressed air pellet, after which the assistant swells and explodes (from three angles). And, hey, it's widescreen. Be warned: It ends with a nasty gory scene, so if you don't like your inflation endings to be extra chunky, avoid.
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Sabrina, The Teenage Witch |
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In a recent episode of Sabrina The Teenage Witch--after she'd gotten over her short-lived experience as a huge-breasted high-school student in the BE section--our heroine dealt with the serious topic of substance addiction. But, again, since this is TGIF TV, all family fun and fuzziness, there was no pesky crack, no darned alcohol, just the #46 killer of teens in the country today: pancakes. Sabrina's family have a severe pancake addiction, so they're not allowed to eat them. Sabrina had to find this out herself, of course, and came back in the state you see here. However, the show displayed her getting back to normal--in this case, deflating. But what fun is that? To satisfy everyone who saw the show and said, "Oh, if only we could see that in reverse," here you go.
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life |
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Like many among us, I think, Pixel Prevert is a fan of Monty Python, so he put his tools to work and digitized the nastiest body inflation scene of all time--Mr. Creosote, the world's fattest man, getting his just desserts (ha!) in Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life. The bad news? It ends with a thoroughly disgusting explosion. If, however, you are not bothered by buckets of innards being dumped on well-dressed diners, as John Cleese's waiter says..."Bon appetit."
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Gas-X commercial |
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Somebody somewhere asked for this one to be digitized--maybe it was somebody on Spectre's site?--and I happened to have caught it on tape while recording another program. Lucky catch. How often do you see two grown adults inflating on national television? Okay, it's not exactly the most pleasant of thoughts--intestinal gas, whee!--but still in all, it's a digital effect of someone inflating, and therefore it makes the cut on this page.
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Wile E. Coyote, Inflation Genius |
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Ah, the classics. Who among us can say that they've seen these Looney Tunes segments and didn't have some sort of reaction? Normal people laugh, but oh, we know better. Both clips seen here are fairly similar, truth to be told, but every good joke is worth telling more than once, right?
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Class of Nuke 'Em High |
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To steal quite directly and openly from Troma's website (it's not like they'd care--they love the cult audience and they just want you to visit their site and buy their movies): "A courageous social statement from Troma about the power elite's abuse of Nuclear Power, sex, and violence. This Troma classic is set in Tromaville High School where the students are exposed to Readin', Writin', and Radiation! Psychotic punks, stoners, and the honor society alike transform into nuclear mutants, ride their motorcycles through the halls, and trash the school! It's like The Breakfast Club, only not as stupid, and really, really drunk." Somewhere in the "plot" a female student gets knocked up by a mutant; these are the interesting belly-expansion scenes that result.
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Freakazoid! |
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Since the inflation fetishist/cartoon geek ratio seems to be abnormally high, I will assume most of you are familiar with Freakazoid!, late of the WB and last spotted on the Cartoon Network. This is one of those random anecdotes that Freakazoid was telling to prove some point, and it wound up having no application to that point and making no sense to anybody in the room. Still...hey, someone's inflating. Or so it looks and sounds.
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Mortal Kombat II: Inflatality |
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Video game fans will recognize this instantly; it's the two female ninja (ninjas? ninjai?) from Mortal Kombat II, Kitana and Mileena. As is the custom with MK games, at the end of a battle, the victor is given the opportunity to perform a gory finishing move--a Fatality--on their hapless victim. One of Kitana's was to kiss the opponent and watch them swell up and explode. Kitana also appeared in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, but no longer performed this move. No sound.
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The Raggedy Ann & Andy Movie |
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The King of Looney Land (voiced by Mel Brooks) has a peculiar, um, ailment--he inflates when he laughs. But he never seems to be able to achieve that "ultimate joke," so instead, little bits of him inflate at a time, then quickly deflate again. When the dolls meet up with him, they're used in his plan to become the biggest king in the world and, by cartoon logic, thereby rule it. He gets, well, pretty damned big. Warning to the squeamish: He is the bad guy in the film, so this doesn't end pretty. Says Wren: "If you look past the fact that it's just a cartoon, this inflation scene is actually one of the best." And, due to the inverse law of things, the tape is currently out of print.
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Son of Flubber |
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In the sequel to The Absent-Minded Professor, everyone's favorite unstable compound "flubber" has been changed into a gas. To win the big football game, the prof's assistant talks a friend into wearing a rubber diving suit onto the field and pumps him with flubber gas, giving him extra bounding ability. Naturally, the regulator valve breaks and things get a bit bouncier than expected.
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Family Matters |
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Oh, Urkel...what would we do without your wacky hijinks? When his Aunt Una (or something), played by Donna Summer, partakes in Urkel's fat-cell-shrinking experiments, she's the svelte singer everyone knows and loves...but uh oh, wouldn't it be funny if the potion wore off right in the middle of church, with all those people watching her while she sang "Amazing Grace" and suddenly started to swell? Why, hilarity would ensue--of course! Anyway, how often do you get to see a pop star blow up? This should also appease the butt inflation folks, as there's a pronounced posterior growth shot.
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The X-Files: Ascension |
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"Mulder, it's me...and I'm huge!" X-Philes will no doubt remember this sequence from "Ascension," sometimes known as part two of the Duane Barry saga. Scully disappears, and Mulder has a daydream/hallucination that she's been kidnapped and inseminated..or inflated...or something. Of course, this has never been confirmed in the show's plotlines; it's one of those things that we're supposed to wonder if it was just in Mulder's mind, or if something lik this took place. Who are those shadowy guys at the end of the shot--aliens? Government spooks? Horny belly inflation fans? Gillian Anderson was actually pregnant with her daughter Piper at this stage in the show's shooting schedule, and this was their way of working her into scenes for the last few weeks before she delivered.
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Xtro |
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I must admit that I have been very reluctant to post this clip. You may have noticed that most of the videos on this page are tame--most or all of the clips are clothed, many are humorous...nothing too daring in any regard, so as not to attract unwanted attention that might shut the project down. Xtro has always been one of those borderline clips for me--a little too nasty, a little too gory, a little too dark for the page's atmosphere--but a number of people have asked for it, and then Frank simply posted it and sent the URL, so who am I to say no? I have not seen the film in full--I know it has something to do a father who's abducted by aliens, then returns years later to claim his son. This clip, however, doesn't say much about that--it's a woman who suddenly finds herself very pregnant and, amidst various crunching/gurgling/synthesizer noises, gets all bloody and falls over, slightly dead. She eventually gives birth to a humanoid, but that part has been mercifully edited out of this clip. Still, be warned: it ends on a rather graphic frame, and I find the inflation kind of hard to make out, as the actress is intentionally covering her abdomen throughout the scene so that we don't see just how primitive the effects are (looks like a good old-fashioned balloon-under-the-kimono trick). Gross and yucky for me...but, hey, maybe just right for you.
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