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* In ''Webcomic/SuicideBoy'', Jaehoon hears odd noises coming from the next stall over and thinks someone is having ADateWithRosiePalms. Turns out it's Hooni [[SelfHarm cutting himself]]

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* In PlayedForDrama in ''Webcomic/SuicideBoy'', Jaehoon hears odd noises coming from the next stall over and thinks someone is having ADateWithRosiePalms.[[CaughtWithYourPantsDown masturbating in the school]]. Turns out it's Hooni [[SelfHarm cutting himself]]
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* In ''Webcomic/SuicideBoy'', Jaehoon hears odd noises coming from the next stall over and thinks someone is having ADateWithRosiePalms. Turns out it's Hooni [[SelfHarm cutting himself]]
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* In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', during Sydney's introduction to ARCHON's higher-ups, she makes [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-96-you-know-a-hair-tie-wouldnt-hurt/ a couple]] [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-98-triple-facepalm-and-sidebutt/ of comments]] while talking to one of [[MesACrowd Harem's bodies]] that crack up another Harem who's currently using the restroom [[HiveMind and "overhears" the conversation]]. Unfortunately for Sandy, Arianna's assistant in the next stall, Harem's first laughing outburst startles her enough that she drops her phone in the toilet.

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* In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', during Sydney's introduction to ARCHON's higher-ups, she makes [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-96-you-know-a-hair-tie-wouldnt-hurt/ a couple]] [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-98-triple-facepalm-and-sidebutt/ of comments]] while talking to one of [[MesACrowd Harem's bodies]] that crack up another Harem who's currently using the restroom [[HiveMind and "overhears" the conversation]]. Unfortunately for Sandy, Arianna's assistant in the next stall, Harem's first laughing outburst startles her enough that [[DroppedInTheToilet she drops her phone in the toilet.toilet]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Dexter tries to give himself the ability to hear other people's thoughts but instead makes it where everyone ''else'' can hear ''his'' thoughts. After a day at school struggling with students and teachers hearing every inconvenient thought he has, he goes off to cry in a bathroom stall. Unfortunately, his mental thoughts on his bad day are worded in a way that makes it seem like he's having major constipation issues, causing two guys who heard it to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere frantically run out of the bathroom]] before he stinks things up.
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* In ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'', Eddie scolds Venom for wanting to eat Detective Mulligan, and Eddie heads into a restroom before Venom can be spotted by other people. As they argue in a stall, the woman in the next stall looks frightened at first and then peeks under the wall to see what's happening.

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* In the Creator/OlanRogers routine "Ghost in the Stalls", Olan talks about pranking the guy in the stall next to him by making noises while keeping out of sight. He ultimately yells, "RUN!" which the guy does... leaving his pants for Olan to report to the attendant.
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'''Other guy''': That's right, buddy, you show that turd who's boss!\\
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* {{Exploited|Trope}} in ''Film/FemmeFatale2002''. The opening heist involves female thief Laure seducing a woman in a bathroom stall, slowly dropping her jewelry as she undresses her. Unbeknownst to the woman, Laure's accomplice is hiding in the next stall, deftly switching out her jewels for lookalikes.

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* {{Exploited|Trope}} in ''Film/FemmeFatale2002''.''Film/{{Femme Fatale|2002}}''. The opening heist involves female thief Laure seducing a woman in a bathroom stall, slowly dropping her jewelry as she undresses her. Unbeknownst to the woman, Laure's accomplice is hiding in the next stall, deftly switching out her jewels for lookalikes.



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* In the Creator/OlanRogers routine "Ghost in the Stalls", Olan talks about pranking the guy in the stall next to him by making noises while keeping out of sight. He ultimately yells, "RUN!" which the guy does... leaving his pants for Olan to report to the attendant.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': During the montage of Judy's police training, one scene has Judy go into a bathroom stall. Unfortunately, since she's a rabbit, she's far too small for the toilet, and ends up falling into the bowl. Her DrillSergeantNasty instructor, who's in the next stall, yells at her for this as if she had messed up on a training exercise.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': During the "You're Dead" montage of Judy's police training, one scene has Judy go into she enters a bathroom stall. stall sized for mega-fauna. Unfortunately, since she's a rabbit, she's far too small for when she tries to jump onto the toilet, rim, she misses and ends up falling into the bowl. Her Major Friedkin, her DrillSergeantNasty instructor, who's happens to be in the next stall, yells at her for this as if she had messed up on a training exercise.
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-->'''Austin:''' Who does Number Two work for?!
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-->'''Vincent:''' Does all this feel like a dream to you?
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Restrooms in a workplace or public area, along with the usual business, can be a potent source of unusual goings-on, which usually leads to two circumstances. In one, a character is in a stall right beside wherever the weirdness is happening, and they either hear everything and react to it in some way, or they can't make sense of what they're hearing, causing confusion and/or irritation. In the other, one or more characters are doing something in a stall for whatever reason, only for someone who's in an adjacent stall to suddenly either speak up or walk out and comment on whatever they heard.

ToiletHumor may or may not be involved; if it is, whether or not the person hearing it thinks it's funny is another factor entirely. Extreme embarrassment can set in if someone is overhearing [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces people getting busy in the next stall]]. A GrossoutFakeout can happen if what's being overheard is mistaken for a really bad bowel movement. Can lead to ToiletHorror, a BathroomBrawl, or even TheCanKickedHim if what's happening turns violent, especially if it spills into the stall of the person doing the overhearing.

SisterTrope to BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults, where the overheard shenanigans are merely someone trash-talking someone else.

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* In chapter 6 / episode 3 of ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls'', [[{{Chuunibyou}} Yamai]] follows [[EmotionlessGirl Shiori "Robo" Saginomiya]] to the bathroom and uses the stall next to Robo's. Yamai suddenly starts hearing weird mechanical noises from Robo's stall, causing her to go BlueWithShock and run out of the bathroom, suspecting Robo is literally a robot. It's {{implied}} that Robo {{invoked}} this just to mess with Yamai.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': During the montage of Judy's police training, one scene has Judy go into a bathroom stall. Unfortunately, since she's a rabbit, she's far too small for the toilet, and ends up falling into the bowl. Her DrillSergeantNasty instructor, who's in the next stall, yells at her for this as if she had messed up on a training exercise.
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* In ''Film/AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery'', Austin's visit to the can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-YVt4gfquA is interrupted by an assassin]], who he eventually overpowers and drowns in the toilet. While this is going on, the guy in the next stall is keeping a running commentary on what he's hearing.
-->*''Austin puts the assassin head-first into the toilet''*
-->'''Austin:''' Who does Number Two work for?!
-->'''Other guy''': That's right, buddy, you show that turd who's boss!
-->*''the assassin starts noisily drowning''*
-->'''Other guy:''' Hey, uh, that sounds pretty nasty. How about a courtesy flush over there?
* ''Film/{{Copycat}}'': When Helen goes to the bathroom in the prologue, her bodyguard checks the other stalls and discovers that there's nobody there except another woman in the stall next door in high heels. This turns out to be escaped SerialKiller Daryll Lee, who simply put on the heels to trick the bodyguard, then ambushes and attacks Helen by putting a noose up and attaching it to the bathroom stall next door.
* {{Exploited|Trope}} in ''Film/FemmeFatale2002''. The opening heist involves female thief Laure seducing a woman in a bathroom stall, slowly dropping her jewelry as she undresses her. Unbeknownst to the woman, Laure's accomplice is hiding in the next stall, deftly switching out her jewels for lookalikes.
* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'': At one point early in the movie, the titular characters are in Princeton University and hide from campus security in the women's bathroom. In two other stalls, a pair of twin sisters are playing a game of "Battleshits", eventually prompting the other duo to run away in disgust.
* In ''Film/LaHaine'', the three main characters are on the run from the police and hide in a bathroom, where they make a phone call and squabble about Vinz's attempt to kill a police officer in the previous scene. An old Russian man emerges from a bathroom stall, having overheard everything, to tell them an allegorical anecdote about his experiences taking a dump in the Gulag. This leaves them all confused, though it has symbolic meaning for the film's larger themes.
* In ''Film/Scream2'', Creator/OmarEpps' character goes into a stall since the urinals are occupied, but hears strange noises coming from the next stall. He puts his ear against the partition to try to hear better, only to have Ghostface fatally stab him through the partition.
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* This happens twice in the first season of ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'':
** In one episode, Nina is trying to study a strange clue she and Fabian had found and hides in a bathroom stall to do it. Then it turns out Amber was in the stall next to her; she rises over the wall to ask Nina what she's up to and threatens to tell Mr. Sweet that Nina is "doing something weird and (she) doesn't know what it is" if she doesn't.
** Toward the middle of the season, Fabian is in the boy's bathroom deciphering a clue by repeating the riddle out-loud to himself and then determining that it's pointing to the living room clock. It's then revealed that Alfie overheard this as he starts poking fun at Fabian's strange behavior from the next stall, throwing Fabian into enough of a rush to leave that he drops the artifact and accidentally fuels Alfie's suspicions about what he and his friends are up to.
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* In the Creator/OlanRogers routine "Ghost in the Stalls", Olan talks about pranking the guy in the stall next to him by making noises while keeping out of sight. He ultimately yells, "RUN!" which the guy does... leaving his pants for Olan to report to the attendant.
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* This is actually incorporated into ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}''. Vincent has several conversations with his friend Orlando in the bathroom about the strange things happening to him, but Orlando is often lost to some degree on everything as he can only go by what Vincent's telling him. This also leads to some snarky humor.
-->'''Vincent:''' Does all this feel like a dream to you?
-->'''Orlando:''' Who dreams of taking a shit with another guy?
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* In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', during Sydney's introduction to ARCHON's higher-ups, she makes [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-96-you-know-a-hair-tie-wouldnt-hurt/ a couple]] [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-98-triple-facepalm-and-sidebutt/ of comments]] while talking to one of [[MesACrowd Harem's bodies]] that crack up another Harem who's currently using the restroom [[HiveMind and "overhears" the conversation]]. Unfortunately for Sandy, Arianna's assistant in the next stall, Harem's first laughing outburst startles her enough that she drops her phone in the toilet.
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* [[PlayingWithATrope A variation]] in ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'''s "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E09BestThingThatEverHappened Best Thing That Ever Happened]]". Princess Carolyn keeps giving herself pep talks in the restaurant bathroom mirror, and a RunningGag is that a woman in a nearby stall keeps asking her what's going on, thinking that she's watching a movie or something. Princess Carolyn gets concerned for why the woman's been on the toilet for so long, and the woman assures her that she "got up and came back later."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Substitute Teacher", Billy tries to flush a skeleton model down the toilet, screaming louder and louder as he gets increasingly frustrated. Pud'n, who is in a nearby stall, listens to everything with a worried expression on his face, which turns into sheer horror when one of the fake bones slides into his stall.
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