History Main / DroppedInTheToilet

Toilets are meant for specific functions and to contain specific things, which are '''not''' meant to be interacted with once in there. However, sometimes a character will have a moment of clumsiness and end up dropping something into a toilet that very much should not be there, such as a phone, keys, or a toy. In the best case, the toilet hasn't been used, and so the item can be retrieved without too much fuss, other circumstances notwithstanding. In the worst case, it happens after things have... processed. This confronts the character with the awful prospect of fouling their hand(s) (if not more) in the process of retrieving the item, and possibly dealing with trying to clean what was dropped. In either case, the character may decide to just leave what was dropped in the toilet and deal with its absence. Afterward, if the item is retrieved, it's likely to have an inescapable {{squick}} factor associated, even if it just landed in water. The toilet may also get flushed by accident with the item still in it, which can lead to plumbing issues or a convoluted quest to get the item back.

* WebAnimation/JaidenAnimations: In "An Uncomfortable Trip to the UK", Jaiden recounts how on her trip to the U.K., she ended up losing her wallet, and it wasn't until she got back from dinner that she realized it slipped out of her women's jean pocket into the toilet, and came to the realization that she peed on it in the process.

* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion''. When Yasuho Hirose uses [[TheTechnopath Paisley Park]] to enter a cell phone and infiltrate the Higashikata Estate, Jobin Higashikata finds her out and drops the phone in the toilet to try and kill her from electrocution so that Yasuho doesn't learn about the New Locacaca plant. When Jobin's wife, Mitsuba, finds the phone and pulls it out because she feels she [[IOweYouMyLife owes Yasuho her life]], Jobin urges her to place it back in the toilet, to which Mitsuba reluctantly complies, and Yasuho is only saved by last-second interference from Jobin's father, Norisuke.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':

** Done deliberately in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E4NastyPattyIdiotBox Nasty Patty]]". Mr. Krabs and [=SpongeBob=] think that the health inspector visiting the Krusty Krab is a phony out to get free food, so they decide to serve him a Krabby Patty that is repulsive beyond belief. At one point, [=SpongeBob=] dunks the patty in the toilet, and Mr. Krabs tells him to fish it out so he can wipe it with his sweaty gym socks.

-->'''Steven:''' [''disturbed''] It better not turn out that her phone was in her pocket. Or she left it on the dresser, or dropped it in the toilet. Seems about as likely as putting it away in your repressed war memories.

* In a commercial for 1-800-Contacts (an online supplier for contact lenses), a young woman drops one of her contacts in the toilet while attempting to insert them before going to work. She checks the box only to find it empty, so she scrunches up her face, turns her head, and ''slowly'' reaches toward the bowl before deciding it's not worth it and ends up wearing, to her shame, an obviously outdated dorky-looking pair of glasses instead.

* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': In "Peteca", Junior's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peteca peteca]] falls into Jimmy's toilet bowl. Jimmy is too disgusted to retrieve it despite Junior's pleas, but changes his mind after the latter coerces him by dropping his beloved "[[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Aguaman]]" action figure into the bowl. The boys then tie a knot around another toy and use it to fish the other two items out.

* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'': After graduating college, Michael Patterson took home Naked Ned, a novelty of a naked man with suction cups on its hands and feet. Mike and his wife Deanna have a daughter, Meredith. Meredith got hold of Ned, and threw him into the commode, flushing it away. Both Mike and his college roommate, Joe Weeder, were saddened at the loss of Ned. However, Ned managed to clog the sewer lines enough the necessitate a plumber, who retrieved Ned from the drainage pipe. Joe Weeder took possession of Ned to preclude Meredith from imperiling him again.

* ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'': {{Exaggerated|Trope}} for extreme {{squick}} value. Renton has a PottyEmergency, and ends up going into what's labeled as "[[DisgustingPublicToilet The Worst Toilet in Scotland]]" to void his bowels. However, once he's done, he realizes that the opium suppositories he had in are now also in the toilet. He tries to fish them out, fighting off trying to throw up the whole time, but can't reach them. The scene then shows him diving head-first completely into the toilet, swimming through pristine water and retrieving the suppositories from the bottom of an ocean bed, and then emerging from the toilet horribly befouled.

* ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'': While attempting to shoot a snake behind the outhouse, William and Young Ian are so startled by the snaking lunging up at them that Young Ian bumps into William, accidentally knocking him into the chest-deep waste pit, covering the boy head to toe in human waste. Young Ian is forced to go get the adults, who playfully mock the mortified William as they work to find a way to get him out. However, when they realize that the boys also dropped Lord John's very expensive military pistol (hard to replace in Colonial America) in the muck, they make Young Ian go in to retrieve it in spite of his complaints that the pit will destroy his clothes and take days to get the smell off of his skin. Even 10 years later (6 books later in the series), William is still embarrassed when he recalls having fallen into in the waste pit.

-->'''Jake:''' Also, I'm going to need a new department issued phone.

* WebAnimation/JaidenAnimations: In "An Uncomfortable Trip to the UK", Jaiden recounts how on her trip to the U.K., she ended up losing her wallet, and it wasn't until she got back from dinner that she realized it slipped out of her women's jean pocket into the toilet, and came to the realization that she peed on it in the process.

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': While pondering whether or not to call her father, [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5018 Liz drops her phone into the toilet]]. She does retrieve it, but her reaction when she reaches in indicates that her hand got dirty, and the the cracked screen means that it got damaged, which [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5019 she angrily vents about]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E5TurkeyInACan Turkey in a Can]]", Bob finds that someone keeps putting the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner in the toilet. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Bob himself, who has been sleepwalking due to allergy medication, dreaming of the time he toilet trained Tina.]]

** In "[[Recap/RugratsS1E6RuthlessTommyMooseCountry Ruthless Tommy]]", Tommy is captured by Bob and Mike, a pair of criminals who mistake him for the infant son of millionaire Ronald Thump and hold him for ransom. While in their apartment building, Tommy finds some stolen jewels and tosses them in the toilet. When Bob and Mike find out, they are horrified, and argue over which one of them is going to get the jewels out before Tommy can flush them.

->''KEEP BEACH CITY WEIRD IS BACK! I've been off the grid for the summer. Not because government was on my tail, but because I... dropped my phone in the toilet. And then I was googling "how to remove a phone from a toilet in a way that isn't gross" and I... dropped my laptop in the toilet."''

->''0KEEP BEACH CITY WEIRD IS BACK! I've been off the grid for the summer. Not because government was on my tail, but because I... dropped my phone in the toilet. And then I was googling "how to remove a phone from a toilet in a way that isn't gross" and I... dropped my laptop in the toilet."''

-->-- ''Blog/KeepBeachCityWeird'', [[https://keepbeachcityweird.tumblr.com/post/95404315941/keep-beach-city-weird-is-back-ive-been-off-the#notes 8/21/14 post]]

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->''KEEP BEACH CITY WEIRD IS BACK! I've been off the grid for the summer. Not because government was on my tail, but because I... dropped my phone in the toilet. And then I was googling "how to remove a phone from a toilet in a way that isn't gross" and I... dropped my laptop in the toilet.''

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* ''WebVideo/CalebCity'': {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhDl2RtGidI Dropping anything in the bathroom]]" where somehow anything Caleb drops will, on its own volition, travel to the bathroom and fall into the toilet, even when he's nowhere near the bathroom. This includes [[spoiler:a cellphone which crawls there from the living room, snakes under a closed door, ''[[BeyondTheImpossible locks the door]]'' so Caleb can't stop it, and then finally dunks itself in the toilet]].
* ''Blog/KeepBeachCityWeird'': In the August 21, 2014 post, Ronaldo announces that the blog is back, and that he was off the grid for the summer...because he dropped his phone in the toilet, and then dropped his laptop in the toilet while trying to look up a way to retrieve the phone that isn't gross.

'''Sandy:''' [''giving the Harem there an icy look''] I dropped my phone in the toilet. Harem.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Turkey in A Can", Bob finds that someone keeps putting the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner in the toilet. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Bob himself, who has been sleepwalking due to allergy medication, dreaming of the time he toilet trained Tina.]]

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Toilets are meant for specific functions and to contain specific things, which are '''not''' meant to be interacted with once in there. However, sometimes a character will have a moment of clumsiness and end up dropping something into a toilet that very much should not be there, such as a phone, keys, or a toy. In the best case, the toilet hasn't been used, and so the item can be retrieved without too much fuss, other circumstances notwithstanding. In the worst case, it happens after things have...processed. This confronts the character with the awful prospect of fouling their hand(s) (if not more) in the process of retrieving the item, and possibly dealing with trying to clean what was dropped. In either case, the character may decide to just leave what was dropped in the toilet and deal with its absence. Afterward, if the item is retrieved, it's likely to have an inescapable {{squick}} factor associated, even if it just landed in water. The toilet may also get flushed by accident with the item still in it, which can lead to plumbing issues or a convoluted quest to get the item back.

-->'''Elaine:''' You still couldn't kiss her?
-->'''Jerry:''' She has a taint. I can't see it, but I know it's there.
-->'''Elaine:''' Oh, so now you're finding fault on a sub-atomic level.

-->'''Jade''': *''in a [[SarcasmMode sarcastic]] SouthernBelle accent''* "Nothing to worry about!"
-->'''Tori''': [[RunningGag I don't talk like that!]]

-->[''Sandy enters the conference room and speaks to Arianna'']
-->'''Arianna:''' Sandy? Why didn't you call?
-->'''Sandy:''' [''giving the Harem there an icy look''] I dropped my phone in the toilet. Harem.
-->'''Harem:''' What? How is that my fault?

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