History Main / BowelBreakingBricks

!! Examples:

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* In one episode of ''{{Manga/Gintama}}'', Kondo, the Shinsengumi Chief had a marriage match up(with a gorilla of all things), and he had a... PottyEmergency. So he politely wanted to step out and go to the bathroom. The gorilla didn't understand what he wanted, and followed him. On his way there, he ran into Gintoki and gang. This happened. (MakesSenseInContext, if not anywhere else).

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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': After nearly being discovered by Randall in the bathroom, we see a huge splash in the stall Sully, Mike, and Boo are hiding in. Boo sums it up best.
-->'''Boo:''' Ew.

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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* A cartoon from ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' showed a spider dropping silk after a fright. (This comic was originally rejected by the syndicate, according to Gary Larson, but the editor liked it and hung it up in his office; later it was pressed into service to fill a gap.)
* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': In [[http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-12-30 one of the strips]], Dilbert is proudly walking around with a "vast array" of personal electronics displayed on his person, until he meets the only man that can beat him in this regard: Techno-Bill. The moment Dilbert sees him, a fax machine on his groin suddenly prints a long, long strip of paper.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]

-->'''Thurl''': The metaphor monitor indicates that Ennesby has vented his virtual bowels.\\
'''Kevyn''': I can see that, but where'd the virtual bricks come from?\\
'''Narrator''': [[{{Demographically Inappropriate Humour}} Goodnight]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} kids!]]

--->'''Petey''': [...] I was going to employ Tagon and company to extract you, but they declined. Apparently they'd rather see you dead.\\
'''Petey''': You look like you're thinking maybe the plumbing in here needs to accommodate flushed bricks.

* [[{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]] lost a considerable deal of oil after seeing The Terminators of ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRhCOSseP6Y this review]].
* Despite being typically vulgar on his show, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic invokes this after watching a scary scene of ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie''.
--> (thump) That was a brick. That was really a brick.

---> '''Critic''': Though the best scene comes in the very end where he [[spoiler: transforms himself into a Toon psycho]] and you can't count the bricks we shat after seeing this scene.
* A terrified BLU Spy drops an entire cinderblock after he upsets a RED Heavy by stabbing his Medic in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivy7tvc2fyQ this]] ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' animation by [[Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox Das Bo Schitt]]. Due to ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s style, the breeze block is notably wider in some dimensions than the Spy is.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': When [[CloudCuckoolander Pinkie Pie]] (wearing a chicken costume) is frightened by Princess Luna in "Luna Eclipsed," she bolts, [[RuleOfFunny leaving behind an egg]].

* In the Creator/CourtneyCox series ''Dirt'', the slimeball producer is having a hot work affair with a young intern who makes him wear a [[AssShove butt plug]] to work one day. It so happens that this is the day that an unhinged gunman takes the staff hostage, and when he turns the gun on the producer, the plug [[BringMyBrownPants falls down the leg of his pants]] and rolls away.

* In the Courtney Cox series ''Dirt'', the slimeball producer is having a hot work affair with a young intern who makes him wear a [[AssShove butt plug]] to work one day. It so happens that this is the day that an unhinged gunman takes the staff hostage, and when he turns the gun on the producer, the plug [[BringMyBrownPants falls down the leg of his pants]] and rolls away.

* As pictured in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' this happens whenever Bender is frightened and he literally shits bricks. Something of a RunningGag.
** Or when he eats chips with Olestra in them. Olestra is an ingredient notorious for causing loose stools.

* Despite being typically vulgar on his show, The Nostalgia Critic invokes this after watching a scary scene of ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsMovie''.

** Also mentioned in ''Top 11 Scariest Nostalgic Moments'' about the scene in Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit where Judge Doom [[spoiler: reveals that he's a Toon]].
---> '''Nostalgia Critic''': Though the best scene comes in the very end where he [[spoiler: transforms himself into a Toon psycho]] and you can't count the bricks we shat after seeing this scene.
* A terrified BLU Spy drops an entire cinderblock after he upsets a RED Heavy by stabbing his Medic in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivy7tvc2fyQ this]] VideoGame/GarrysMod animation by [[Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox Das Bo Schitt]]. Due to ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s style, the breeze block is notably wider in some dimensions than the Spy is.

* Inverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7SMo2xDaK8 this ad]]. The person WANTS the bricks out...

'''Narrator''': [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Goodnight]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} kids!]]

** The writers got quite a bit of bricks [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar past the radar]] in "Lethal Inspection" when Bender suggested everyone get [[TheAlcoholic brickfaced]].

* Whenever Scarecrow from ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicAdventuresOfMumfie'' falls from a high distance, he poops straw.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy's dad becomes an astronaut. Built into their spacesuits is a compartment that you can go to the bathroom through. When you go about your business, it makes a beeping sound. When a monkey is told that he has to go on a mission all by himself, his spacesuit makes the beeping noise.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'', Fender lays an egg after facing a huge array of robots that want to recycle him. He looks in surprise, as he didn't know he could do that, since he only had the female legs for a short time.

* A cartoon from ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' showed a spider dropping silk after a fright.

** In "Bloom & Gloom," Apple Bloom scares the family rooster off the windowsill, [[AnimalGenderBender causing it to]] [[MisterSeahorse lay an egg.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Nemo's classmate, Pearl the octopus "inks" near the beginning of the film. [[BookEnds Her father also does it near the end]].
** [[TruthInTelevision This is actually the default reaction for ink-producing mollusks when faced with a dangerous or stressful situation - they do this to use the ink as cover/an irritant and swim away.]]

** Also in "Wet Painters", when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick think Mr. Krabs is going to cut their butts off.
-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' Alright, boys, you know what I'm gonna do now?\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' You mean our butts?\\
'''Patrick:''' Can I use mine one last time?

A [[ComedyTropes Comedy Trope]] that also functions as a sort of Tension Breaker, in which a character is so shocked or surprised that [[BringMyBrownPants they lose complete control of their bowels]]. Of course we don't actually see this happen, we instead get [[StockVisualMetaphors a quirky little visual metaphor]] to let us know what they mean. It's a subtle way of ([[IncrediblyLamePun wait for it]]) GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

Related to PottyEmergency (and especially its subtrope, PottyFailure), DramaticDrop [[FridgeLogic ...]] [[{{Squick}} Ewww...]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': A variant of this happens in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E14ThatWillBeAll "That Will Be All"]]; when Blue Diamond says that she never asked any [[AnIcePerson Sapphire]] to go to Earth, the latter begins to [[VisualPun ice up]] the part of the floor that she was standing on.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': A variant of this happens in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E14ThatWillBeAll "That Will Be All"]]; when [[spoiler:Blue Diamond]] says that she never asked any [[AnIcePerson Sapphire]] to go to Earth, the latter begins to [[VisualPun ice up]] the part of the floor that she was standing on.

* In the ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' spin-off short ''Disney/OlafsFrozenAdventure'', Olaf tries a fruit cake fresh from the oven, which ends up sliding down through his backside.
-->'''Olaf:''' Well, that went right through me.

* ''Film/{{Rio 2}}'' has one of the "bird lays an egg" variety.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': A variant of this happens in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E14ThatWillBeAll "That Will Be All"]]; when [[spoiler:Blue Diamond]] says that she never asked any [[AnIcePerson Sapphire]] to go to Earth, the latter begins to [[VisualPun freeze up]] the part of the floor that she was standing on.

* In the vampire comedy ''Eat Local'' (2017), a chicken lays an egg when a vampire snarls at it.

* The opening of the pilot for ''NewGirl'' has Jess doing a surprise striptease for her boyfriend only to discover he's been cheating on her. We cut to a shot between her legs of a bow hitting the floor. Where that was originally is anybody's guess.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': A variant of this happens in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E14ThatWillBeAll "That Will Be All"]]; when [[spoiler:Blue Diamond]] says that she never asked any [[AnIcePerson Sapphire]] to go to Earth, the latter begins to freeze up the part of the floor that she was standing on.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Chocolate with Nuts", after being cornered by the "Chocolate Guy," who reveals that he wants to buy all their chocolate, pile of chocolate bars fall out of Patrick's pants and is crowned by a tiny chocolate kiss.

** In "Bloom & Gloom," Apple Bloom scares the family rooster off the windowsill, [[AnimalGenderBender causing it to]] [[MrSeahorse lay an egg.]]
* Several times during ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'', a baby binome is shown with a suddenly expanding diaper whenever something startling happens, such as [[BigBad Megabyte]] unveiling his latest scheme to take over Mainframe or a massive portal to the Web opening in the sky.