Everyone likes bubblegum * except people with braces, facial hair or both, and the government of Singapore, and so it is quite common in media for someone to blow a bubble with it. It seems that whenever the bubble is blown, there's a fairly high chance that someone, or something, will be there to pop it.
This is often done for the Rule of Funny, especially if the bubble's size is drastically [...] [tvtropes.org]