History Main / NobodyPoops

* Not only does no one elder scrolls [[TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]] or [[TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]] poops, but no toilets exist in either games.

-->--''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''

* In the midst of its ToiletHumour, ''Manga/CityHunter'' has a magnificent scene where Kaori believes Ryo has left her behind to go into battle against the BigBad but actually was in the toilet. After finding out, Kaori screamed at him that nobody had ever heard of an hero that goes to poop before the battle, only for Ryo to reply that it's the smart thing to do (and calling her constipated).

* In ''Blog/AliceAndBob'', this trope is lampshaded:

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* Lampshaded in the new radio series of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. The teleportation devices in Slartibartfast's [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum Bistromatic Ship]] are in the bathroom cubicles. Just before they set off, Arthur says "You know, in all this time, I have never once [[SoundEffectBleep *flush* ]]."

* One scene in the pilot episode of ''LeaveItToBeaver'' had to be reshot when [[MoralGuardians standards and practices]] noticed [[FreezeFrameBonus a toilet tank in the corner of a shot.]]
* In ''HannahMontana'', when best friend Lilly Truscott is forced by Miley to go to the toilet, so that Miley can talk to a boy she likes. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when she gets back, after much drama has unfolded with Miley, when Lilly mentions how all the good stuff happens when people go to the toilet.
* Whedon was careful to show a toilet on Serenity. The first shot on the show inside a crewman's quarters was Mal buttoning up and kicking the toilet back into its resting place.

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* One USAcres comic had Roy dragging Orson to stop water leaking from a rain storm. When asked how his night was, Orson tells about his dream, he says he went to France and sailed on the ocean, and drank it, thus giving him a fat stomach. Usually when someone drinks too much water, they have to pee, so it would have made more sense if he [[PottyFailure wet himself in his sleep]], but since the comic was for kids, showing Orson wetting himself might have been taboo back in the 80's.

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* Lampshaded in the new radio series of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. The teleportation devices in Slartibartfast's [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum Bistromatic Ship]] are in the bathroom cubicles. Just before they set off, Arthur says "You know, in all this time, I have never once [[SoundEffectBleep *flush* ]]."
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* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', you actually ''can'' have Link enter the bathroom and sit down on the toilet... but he's always fully clothed. If you leave him there long enough, he'll even fall asleep.

* DaveBarry once mused that Batman never goes to the bathroom. "Maybe that's why he's always grimacing."

* The StephenKing short story "Umney's Last Case" features a distraught author trying to muscle out his most famous creation so that he can enter the world of fiction and live without pain. He succeeds, and while the character is getting used to the real world, he wets himself because he's never actually ''had'' to use the bathroom before.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** The lack of toilets is lampshaded in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'':
--> '''Cochrane:''' I gotta take a leak.
--> '''[=LaForge=]:''' Leak? I'm not detecting any leak.
--> '''Cochrane:''' Don't you people from the 24th century ever pee?
** Geordi goes on to chuckle at the euphemism, so the dialogue seemed to be more about the "take a leak" figure of speech being unknown to the crew in the future.
** Speaking of which, in a parody video on the website [[http://www.flowgo.com Flowgo]] called Tot Trek, Baby Scotty can't give them warp speed because "he's teething and his diaper needs changing."

The page lists [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] of the phenomenon; straight examples and aversions are too many to count.

* Averted in ''GingaDensetsuWeed'', where Hougen takes a crap in front of Gin and ''even dares him to eat it''.

* Whedon was careful to show a toilet on Serenity. The first shot on the show inside a crewman's quarters was Mal zipping up and kicking the toilet back into its resting place.

* In {{Skyrim}} very few, if any, of the player owned homes come with latrines or outhouses. It is possible to find a dug in hole with a bucket placed in it in a few dungeons, but no latrines are found where one would most expect, so we are left to assume that the people of Nirn have excretory needs.

* In the {{Elder Scrolls Skyrim}} very few, if any, of the player owned homes come with latrines or outhouses. It is possible to find a dug in hole with a bucket placed in it in a few dungeons, but no latrines are found where one would most expect, so we are left to assume that the people of Nirn have excretory needs.

* In the {{The Elder Scrolls Skyrim}} very few, if any, of the player owned homes come with latrines or outhouses. It is possible to find a dug in hole with a bucket placed in it in a few dungeons, but no latrines are found where one would most expect, so we are left to assume that the people of Nirn have excretory needs.

* In the {{The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim}} very few, if any, of the player owned homes come with latrines or outhouses. It is possible to find a dug in hole with a bucket placed in it in a few dungeons, but no latrines are found where one would most expect, so we are left to assume that the people of Nirn have excretory needs.

* The intro to the 1998 version of ''{{Anime/Himitsu No Akko-chan}}'' shows Akko waking up and going into a room labeled "Toilet". The room has a shower and a mirror, but no toilet.

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* An outhouse is hinted at in TheSmurfs comic book story ''Bathing Smurfs'', where Handy shows Painter and Poet the house he has built by a lake in the mountains.
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* The lack of toilets in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is lampshaded in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'':

* There's a sequence in TheLordOfTheRings which genuinely suggests that Hobbits Don't Poop. When Merry and Pippin are kidnapped by orcs, they spend several days hanging down orc backs as they run to Isengard. There are three possibilities. A) They got bathroom breaks, which are never mentioned, despite bathroom breaks being an opportunity for escape, or humiliating, or worse. Or, B) they pooped their pants, which would have led to them wanting to clean up badly the minute they escaped. No such cleaning-up is mentioned. So, the text appears to say that over the course of a couple days, they never had to poop. Or, C) They may have just held it in.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter''
** Toilets and bathroom scenes are often quite important, although we never actually see them used for, y'know, what they were designed. Characters will use them to cry, brew illegal potions, talk to ghosts, find secret chambers, decode mermaid messages -- anything but the whole defecation thing. And Harry passes out in the bathroom in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''.
*** In fairness, it ''is'' set in a school, and school toilets- even more than office toilets- are often used for private conversations, among other things, as it's the only space where students feel entitled to a certain amount of privacy.
** Moaning Myrtle does mention that people sometimes flush her into the lake through the toilet she haunts, but Harry's mind literally shies away from this topic before he can wonder about what happens to her beforehand.
** Related to that, out of all seven books, only ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' features a scene in a bath (you know, to actually take a bath). They shower after Quidditch: in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerofAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' Oliver Wood takes a shower ("We think he's trying to drown himself.") and in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince The Half-Blood Prince]]'' Ron and Ginny, covered in mud, go to their separate dorms to take baths.
** Hermione is actually mentioned to go to the bathroom several times. Though it is sort of a plot point: She, being a girl, regularly [[BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults hears other girls gossip in the stalls]], and the gossip is often about Harry which she shares with him. And half the times, she doesn't go there to do her business, but to cry (like in the famous troll scene, but also when Ron mocks her in the sixth book, and she is comforted by Luna in there).
** Harry was once attacked in the Hogwarts Express when walking back to his compartment after using the bathroom. He also seems to like to use the excuse that he has to go.

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' Jerin is eventually captured and tied to a bed with a chamberpot nearby. He engages in ObfuscatingStupidity, trying to take advantage of his world's stereotype of men as more innocent and childlike by whining that he has to 'wee-wee and poo'.

* ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. You'd think the need to go to the bathroom would be addressed at some point given the fact that the characters are in an arena fighting to the death and any evidence of your bodily functions that you leave behind might help your competitors track you. Peeta is probably the stand-out example. He spends at least three days lying in camouflage by a river and not moving. Then he's moved to a small cave where he spends the next couple of days being unable to move. So he doesn't use the bathroom at all in almost a week?
** It is mentioned. Katniss talks about how she knows she's severely dehydrated by the colour of her pee.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'' had a scene in which Sinclair and Garibaldi are strolling through the station, chatting. At some point the two are side by side and only a low wall is visible in front of them. Turns out, they are in a lavatory. Conversation continues as they zip up, then proceed to wash their hands.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' occasionally has characters occupying stalls in the head for everything from overhearing conversations to romantic encounters. In one episode Gaius Baltar is shaving at a sink and turns to see Kara Thrace, sitting on a toilet, watching him (while peeing no less.)
* As a small historical note, the first time a toilet was shown on television was in an episode of ''LeaveItToBeaver'', and even then, the censors only allowed the tank to be shown: the bowl was considered taboo.
** The first time a toilet could be heard flushing was on ''AllInTheFamily''.
* The bathroom on ''TheBradyBunch'' is notorious for its blatant lack of a toilet, due to the above-mentioned censors. This was one of the many things lampshaded in TheMovie.
* In ''HannahMontana'', when best friend Lilly Truscott is forced by Miley to go to the toilet, so that Miley can talk to a boy she likes. ''{{Lampshaded}}'' when she gets back, after much drama has unfolded with Miley, when Lilly mentions how all the good stuff happens when people go to the toilet.

* Justifiably '''defied''' on ''PicketFences'', one episode of which started out with the entire family gathered in the bathroom, doing everything they can to encourage the elder son to pee. He'd been paralyzed by a gunshot in a previous episode, and regaining voluntary control of his bodily functions was a milestone in his recovery.
* The ''DoctorWho'' episode "The Curse of the Black Spot" mentions there are several bathrooms aboard the TARDIS, but like the library and swimming pool, are never seen.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTardis Well...]] still no toilet, though.

* Notable (partial) aversion: in VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} and VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas, almost every major building has at least one bathroom, and rural areas may also include outhouses. Toilets aren't used, but NPCs will sit in the outhouse from time to time. You can drink out of ''anything'' that has water in said bathrooms, although the bits not intended for drinking tend to be more highly irradiated.

* ''VideoGame/{{Dark Forces|Saga}}'' has one mission set aboard a Corellian Corvette. It is possible to sneak up behind a stormtrooper in the head while he's relieving himself.
* There's a hidden animation in ''Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening'', which makes PajamaSam use the bathroom and takes a dump. He then wipes his butt with his cape.
* In ''TheSims3'', sims with the Steel Bladder lifetime reward no longer need to use the toilet. The same for Mummies and Plantsims.
* [[OncePerEpisode Every single game]] in the ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' series has an occasion where Sam sneaks up on and interrogates a bad guy who was in the process of relieving himself in a corner.
* The MassEffect series gets as close to subverting this trope as any it can in part 2. Shepard's quarters finally has its own bathroom with a toilet that can be flushed. In the previous game, the Normandy only had the common bathrooms on crew deck.
* While occasional outhouses dot the landscape in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', your player-character never, ever has to go to the bathroom. The only exception to this is an Alliance-side quest chain in Grizzly Hills, where you need to expel some amberseeds from your system that you accidentally ate -- and then you poop so hard you get experience points for doing it.
* Practically inverted in the ''{{VideoGame/Hitman}}'' games, where just about everybody uses the restroom (and with really unhealthy frequency, so the opportunity to kill or knock them out isn't LostForever if you aren't in the right place at the right time).
* In the fifth ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' game, the thief character can sneak into a mercenary fortress through the toilet.
* It could be argued that virtually every first person shooter, RPG, action game, etc that depicts "real-time" for the player follows this trope as you never find any that require the hero take time out to relieve him/herself; even if the game requires players make their characters eat occasionally, they never have to use toilets.

* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': Eggman's Egg Carrier has restrooms that can be visited in the Hot Shelter level. Played straight in Casinopolis, which has a bathroom with showers, sinks, and no toilets.
** At first it may seem strange to have public showers at a casino...until you see what they do to people who don't do well enough at the pinball tables, that is.
* [[{{Main.DigimonWorld}} Digimon World 1]], the first [=PS1=] game, made it necessary to bring the Rookie and below Digimon to the potty or eat a portable potty to avoid having it to evolve into a Numemon or Sukamon (at max).

* In ''{{Sixteen}}'', Nikki goes to watch movies at Jonesy's house and ends up clogging the toilet.
* In ''{{Daria}}'', Jake Morgendorffer poops in a bathroom without toilet paper. He bribes Daria to get some toilet paper, which sets up the rest of the episode "I Loathe the Parade".
* Similarly to the Himitsu No Akko-chan example, the animated movie MuzzyInGondoland shows a bathroom with no toilet during the song "How Many Are There?".

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* Grotesquely averted in ''Literature/{{Dreamcatcher}}'', but [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when they have a conversation about people in movies brushing their teeth.
* Averted in ''Film/TheGoonies'', where the band stops to go to the "little boy's room" and "the little girl's room". Brand, meanwhile, elects to use "the '''men's''' room" instead, causing the rest of the Goonies to follow suit.

* Both averted and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in Donaya Haymond's ''Literature/LegendsOfLaconia'' series. In ''Waking Echoes'', the prison cell Ty spends three days in has a toilet, and in ''Bite Me'' Matthew asks Dianne if her [[OurVampiresAreDifferent father]] goes to the bathroom, saying he's always wondered about those in his [[UnusualEuphemism condition]].

* Averted and Lampshaded in the KevinBrooks novel ''Lucas'' - while waiting for the antagonists to walk past, so she can stalk them, Cait realises that she really needs to pee, and she decides to go in some nearby tall grass...[[spoiler:only for the antagonists to find her when she's still got her pants down]]. She muses in her narration that you never see anyone got to the toilet in films, and if you do, it's only because something dramatic is going to happen when they're in the toilet - being attacked by an enemy, for example.

* Averted pretty solidly in WatershipDown, where the rabbits are mentioned to "pass ''hraka''" multiple times over the course of the book.
* Frequently averted in the works of MichaelCrichton. So frequently, in fact, that it borders on AuthorAppeal.

* Averted in ''Series/TeenWolf''. Erica admits that she's wet herself during a seizure at least once. And this one is not PlayedForLaughs though her classmates didn't seem to agree.

* The lack of a washroom anywhere near the bridge of the USS ''Enterprise'' in the original ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' has been the subject of snickers for years. Later averted by official published blueprints for later versions of the ship clearly showing a head attached to the bridge (though it was never shown on screen).
** [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Toilet The franchise wiki has an article on the matter]].
* Averted on many an occasion on the HBO miniseries ''GenerationKill''.
* Averted in spectacular fashion on ''BreakingBad'', at the end of the fifth season finale, when [[spoiler:Hank goes to the bathroom at the White family's house and finds a book of Walt Whitman poems given to Walt by Gale. Hank finally realizes the connection between Walt and Gale and thus, that Walt is the infamous drug kingpin Heisenberg...while sitting on the toilet]].

* Averted in that there is a toilet right in the first room of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''. The toilet even says "Your business is appreciated." A reference to processing "a sample" is also made. You pass the same toilet in the beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''.

* Averted in ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty''. [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/08/15/action-packed/ Not only does Mittens take an emergency bathroom break during the crew's first encounter with]] [[BigBad Zenith]], [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2012/04/29/spend-a-space-penny/ but Monster!Socks realizes he should take a bathroom break before his brain is transferred back to his original body.]]

* Notable (partial) aversion: in VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} and VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas, almost every building has at least one bathroom. Nobody ever actually uses or mentions them, though. You can drink out of ''anything'' that has water in said bathrooms, although the bits not intended for drinking tend to be more highly irradiated.

* I think EarthBound deserves special mention. They didn't just use this trope, they lampshaded the fact they were doing it. They have bathrooms in the game, but they all are occupied or otherwise unusable. In the first bathroom you come to, walking towards the door will result in a cutscene where one guy rushes in ahead of you. Attempting to enter will make him say: "Occupied!"