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| 12 | [[quoteright:350:[[Film/{{Trainspotting}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/trainspotting-toilet-3_5929.jpg]]]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:350:There is not enough bleach in the world to ever make this right.]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | ->''"There's no toilet paper, no toilet seat''\ |
| 16 | ''In the next cubicle there's two pairs of feet''\ |
| 17 | ''And I hope this is water covering the floor''\ |
| 18 | ''And I'm whistling cause there's no lock on the door!"'' |
| 19 | -->-- '''Music/TheLancashireHotpots''', "No Lock on the Door" |
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| 21 | When PottyEmergency strikes, one is forced to find a place to go, fast. Looking around, you notice a public toilet. You sigh with relief, until you open the door... |
| 22 | |
| 23 | This place is littered with BathroomStallGraffiti, spare bits of toilet paper and paper towels, liquids and solids of undetermined origin (or rather, [[TooMuchInformation origins you]] ''[[TooMuchInformation don't]]'' [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow want to think about]]), and a toilet bowl that was possibly installed discoloured, clogged and smelling. It's full of used syringes, sleeping hobos, dead hobos. The handles on the faucets and bowls may be missing. In this case, it is probably better to just [[NatureTinkling go in the woods behind it]]. |
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| 25 | Part of the reason this trope exists is a form of the [[ForumSpeak GIFT]]. While ''clearly'' not on the internet; the idea that anonymity and lack of consequences/responsibility leads to [[JerkAss complete asshattery]] is still demonstrated. People naturally expect privacy in the restroom, and public toilets are not cleaned by ''them'', so they feel less guilty for trashing them, scrawling insults on the wall, or [[BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults insulting their peers]]. And the less said about "[[HandInTheHole glory holes]]" cut in the partition walls, the better. It is fading, but there's no better way to ensure the janitor will hate you than ruining the bathroom -- see TheDreadedToiletDuty for those unfortunate souls who have to clean these things. |
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| 27 | This trope of course comes from RealLife, as anyone who's ever had to go at a rest stop, a park bathroom etc. can attest. Even an ill-maintained flush toilet is extremely disgusting, but pretty much any toilet without flush technologies is going to be worse (even Porta-Potties tend to be a borderline case). Outhouses and latrines were once a familiar and disgusting part of everyone's life, and while they are now rare in the industrialized world, they're still necessary in situations like wilderness camping or a [[TheDungAges Third World village]]; therefore, the outhouse isn't something that will ever become so [[TechMarchesOn obsolete]] that people [[ForgottenTrope entirely forget]] such a nauseating (but necessary!) phenomenon. |
| 28 | Can be played for [[ToiletHumour laughs]], [[ToiletHorror horror]], or just plain NauseaFuel. Contrast with WondrousLadiesRoom. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | A variation is the Disgusting Public Shower -- some multi-user showers such as beach, gym, and recreational/work area showers can easily rival their toilet counterparts. For the opposite end of the bathroom niceness scale see FancyToiletAwe. |
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| 32 | [[noreallife]] |
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| 34 | !!Examples: |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 39 | * There's this commercial where a drag queen has to make a stop at a truck stop toilet, which is naturally horrible - then she brings out the product advertised and turns it all sparkling. |
| 40 | -->"How was the restroom?"\ |
| 41 | "Fit for a queen." |
| 42 | * There's a Lysol ad that starts out with a woman taking her young daughter into such a restroom, making the point that your own toilet might be just as full of germs. Mocked on one of Current TV's "Target Women" segments: |
| 43 | -->'''Sarah Haskins:''' Why are you taking your kid to the bathroom in Grand Central Station in 1972?!? |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 47 | * Polnareff of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' [[RunningGag keeps running into these.]] The first one he went to had ''a pig sticking its head out of the toilet'' because it dumped directly into a pig sty, though the toilet itself seemed pretty clean. Joseph, on the other hand... found a disgusting one in the middle of desert where there's absolutely no water and then he's supposed to clean it with ''[[ToiletPaperSubstitute sand]]''. This prompts him to hold off taking his shit until he gets to a hotel. |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 51 | * In an early issue of ''Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}'', Kitty Pryde needs to answer a call of nature while being carried by Meggan across the Atlantic. They spot a freighter and land on it so she can go to the restroom, but the place is disgustingly filthy. |
| 52 | * ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'': A writer trying to track down John Constantine for an article ends up beaten and face down in a disgusting pub bathroom. And it's implied it wasn't even John's fault; that much bad luck just descends on everyone around him. |
| 53 | * In ''ComicBook/LikeAVelvetGloveCastInIron'' there is one of these located in a porno theatre. Inside a special cubicle is a Hindu wise-man who starts the main character on his quest to find his wife. Uh... and some other stuff. |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 57 | * In the ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' FanFic ''Don't Panic'', the Prancing Pony restroom is one of these. Obligatory comparison to the bathroom from ''Trainspotting'' ensues. |
| 58 | * There is a [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9812307/1/The-Many-Worlds-Interpretation crossover fanfic]] in assembly at Website/FanfictionDotNet, where the slightly maladjusted Doctor Sheldon Cooper and friends from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' are inevitably going to end up in the city of Ankh-Morpork on the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. Lavatory technology on the Discworld lags some 200 years behind modern California. A hole in the ground and a septic tank are considered posh. And Sheldon Cooper is... Sheldon Cooper. |
| 59 | * At the start of Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson's night of drinking in ''Fanfic/IfTheyHaventLearnedYourName'', Steve keeps having to use the bar's restroom every few minutes because his serum-ized super metabolism keeps processing the alcohol too fast. Every time he comes back out, he describes a new and horrifying piece of graffiti he's noticed next to the urinals. Eventually, Sam is so disgusted by Steve's descriptions of the graffiti alone that he refuses to use the restroom, stating that he'll piss in the street if he has to. |
| 60 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In "The Insomniac," Mittens is unsure what, if any, afterlife exists. She jokingly expresses hope it's not like a gas station bathroom in the Bronx. |
| 61 | -->'''Mittens:''' I mean, if the afterlife is like a gas station bathroom in the Bronx, it ain't exactly gonna be a joy -- but at least I'll have a little warning and maybe start poppin' vitamins and hittin' the treadmill to put it off as long as possible. |
| 62 | [[/folder]] |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 65 | * In a ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' DirectToVideo movie ''[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation How I Spent My Summer Vacation]]'', we don't see a bathroom, but we do see Hampton's family suit up in [[HazmatSuit hazmat type suits]] so they can clean the public bathrooms before using it. |
| 66 | * The ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' movie has Leonard's mom don a HazmatSuit as she prepares to clean a gas station bathroom before using it. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 70 | * In ''{{Film/Accepted}}'', the team visits a former mental institution for the first time in an attempt to clean it up. But upon seeing the bathroom, everyone gags and closes the door as soon as they opened it. Furthermore, the school is then opened to all sorts of people, but only the protagonist is concerned that his parents will see the filthy mess. |
| 71 | * In ''Film/AreWeThereYet'', Kevin has a Main/PottyEmergency and Nick takes him to a gas station, only for the last remaining stall in the bathroom to be one of these. Kevin ends up having to go in the sink. |
| 72 | * The toilets on Cabrini Green in ''{{Film/Candyman}}'' are terrifying. Not just for how disgusting they are (complete with excrement graffiti), but for the horrific attacks that happen there. |
| 73 | * In ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', the entrance to the secret room is concealed within a truly disgusting bathroom stall, to discourage casual visitors. |
| 74 | * The bathroom of the Narrator used in ''Film/FightClub'', complete with a revolting bathtub and water faucets that spew out brown water. |
| 75 | * ''Film/{{Glorious}}'': Most of the movie is spent inside a disgusting public restroom. An EldritchAbomination has somehow materialized inside one of the stalls and only talks through a gloryhole. Guess what he wants... |
| 76 | * 'The worst toilet in Scotland' was also referenced in ''Film/GorskyAndButch'': In a pastiche of ''Film/TheMatrix'', the whole team escaped through the pipe, with Morphinius staying behind to flush them. It resulted in TheCanKickedHim when agent Butch caught up with him. |
| 77 | * The public bathroom in ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' is a good example of this trope. It's dark and grimy, the faucets are leaky, the floor is covered in litter and there is no toilet paper in the stalls. One wonders why the mother didn't just tell her daughter to pee in the bushes. At least then, it would be much more hygienic! |
| 78 | * ''Film/{{Kate}}''. The title character drags her hostage Ani into one so she can bandage her own injuries before confronting the Yakuza (Kate is already dying, so it's not like infection is an issue). Ani is grossed out, and even more so when Kate leaves her BoundAndGagged and tied to a faucet, with an Out of Order sign on the toilet door. |
| 79 | * There's a particularly revolting one at a gas station in ''Film/TheLayover''. It gets even worse when Kate's attempt to climb out of the window goes awry. |
| 80 | * The toilet on board the train from ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' is revolting, the moreso as whomever used it before Alex hadn't bothered to flush. |
| 81 | ** ''And'' when you do flush it, it just dumps out onto the train tracks. Eewww!![[note]]This was standard practice for trains for ''decades'', until around the early 1960's.[[/note]] |
| 82 | * The Port Authority bus terminal bathroom is like this in ''Film/NickAndNorahsInfinitePlaylist''. |
| 83 | * There's one in ''Film/NoHoldsBarred'' in the BadGuyBar that Mr. Brell visits. |
| 84 | * ''Film/{{Rovdyr}}'': The women's restroom at the gas station is disgusting, and includes a male vagrant sleeping off a bender in one of the cubicles, who scratches Camilla when she startles him awake and then passes out again. |
| 85 | * ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': The setting for most of the [[Film/SawI first movie]] is a dilapidated industrial bathroom, though it appears to be cleaner than most other examples of the trope. In ''Film/SawII'', it's shown that the bathroom is part of an abandoned house, and it makes further appearances in ''Film/SawIII'' and ''Film/Saw3D''. |
| 86 | * "The Worst Toilet in Scotland" in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}''[[note]]The fecal stains were made out of chocolate which made the set, ironically, smell very pleasant[[/note]]. Including cringeworthy scene where the hero dives into the toilet bowl. |
| 87 | * In ''Film/TheTripper'', Frank Baker hides from the killer in an out of order portaloo. The bowl is completely backed up with excrement. To escape the killer, Baker climbs into the toilet and completely submerges himself in the septic tank. |
| 88 | * Subverted in ''Film/TheWarriors''. The bathroom in which the Warriors face the Punks is a bit grungy, but it's nowhere near as bad as one would expect from a public mens' room in a New York City subway station. |
| 89 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': The title character gets [[FunWithFlushing flushed down one of these]] while trying to sneak into the [[AcmeProducts Acme factory]]. After accidentally falling through a jammed window Roger tumbles headfirst into the toilet below splashing water everywhere. The toilet flushes swirling him round and round in circles before finally sucking him down as he stretches his neck trying to avoid the nasty water. |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 93 | * ''Literature/AdrianMole'': In "The Wilderness Years", Adrian describes a filthy lavatory on a Russian train, with various comparisons, including a couple of healthy young skunks. |
| 94 | --> The lavatory on the train defies description. However, I'll try. After all, I am a novelist. |
| 95 | * ''Literature/ArtemisFowl: The Lost Colony'' includes a scene where Mulch tracks Doodah Day to a secret shellfish restaurant popular with pixies (who love lobster even though it's illegal in the Lower Elements.) He has to get through a filthy toilet stall in a dive bar to find the secret establishment within. |
| 96 | -->'''Pixie Hostess:''' Do you have a reservation?\ |
| 97 | '''Mulch:''' More than one. For starters, do you think it's a good idea to put the secret entrance to an illegal restaurant in the bathroom? It didn't fool me, and I think I've lost my appetite. |
| 98 | * Creator/DaveBarry described places like this as either "not having been cleaned since Rome fell" or "containing the skeletons of Health Inspectors who died trying to examine it". A column about summer camp referred to it having the sort of latrine where you wonder how it could get so disgusting when nobody ever has the courage to use it. |
| 99 | * ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': |
| 100 | ** ''The Long Haul'' has Greg go into a gas station bathroom only to find out that it's full of graffiti, toilet paper sprawled on the floor, and the mirror is partly broken. He decides to go in there anyway. |
| 101 | ** In ''Old School'', Greg's father reveals that when he went to Hardscrabble Farms, the only available toilet was a gross outhouse. |
| 102 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Since Borogravia has not encountered the invention of [[NamesakeGag Sir Charles Lavatory]], the men's privy at the inn where Polly enlists in ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' is pretty gross, to the point where behind a tree is a better option, even if it's snowing and you can hear wolves. The one at the Duchess isn't much better; Polly sloshes two buckets of water in every day while trying not to breathe, but that doesn't stop weird moss from growing on the floor. |
| 103 | * ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''[[Literature/{{Sorcery}} The Crown of Kings]]'' has one in the guard barracks, complete with illustration. You can search it if you want. [[spoiler:[[SchmuckBait There's nothing useful or interesting at all there, and you risk catching a disease by searching it.]]]] |
| 104 | * Referenced in the first ''Literature/HarryPotter'' - apparently, mountain trolls smell like a cross between old socks and "the kind of public toilet no-one seems to clean." |
| 105 | * ''Literature/TheSomedayBirds'': The toilet in the camper is so foul-smelling that Charlie refuses to use it. When the travelers arrive at a convenience store, he rushes to the bathroom, only to find a concrete cinder block with no toilet paper and an empty soap dispenser. Charlie is so desperate that he goes anyway, but he can feel his hands crawling with germs, and insists on going to another public restroom ten miles away so he can wash his hands. |
| 106 | * ''Literature/WildOrchid'': In the first book, Taylor goes into an outhouse near the entrance gate of Prince Albert National Park. Instead of a toilet, she finds a horrible-smelling hole in the ground with a wooden seat. She runs out in disgust, but she's desperate, so she holds her breath and goes back in. |
| 107 | [[/folder]] |
| 108 | |
| 109 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 110 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In "The Fetal Kick Catalyst", Sheldon mentions preparing to go into a Halloween haunted house by going into a bus station bathroom. When Amy points out that he never went into the haunted house, Sheldon explains that "you never saw what jumped out at me at the bus station." |
| 111 | * ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'': In "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS9E3Sunday Sunday]]", the girls are locked in a car park, with the only route being through a gent's bathroom. Said bathroom is apparently so bad that the girls decide to wait a week to be let out instead. |
| 112 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': "Disarmed & Dangerous" opens with a fastidious FBI agent entering the men's room at a filling station. The inside is pretty gross, with an unidentified liquid leaking on to the floor from a broken urinal. The agent then becomes the VictimOfTheWeek and dies in the disgusting bathroom. |
| 113 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': "[[Recap/CSINYS01E11 Tri-Borough]]" finds Detective Flack and CSI Burn with a victim who was subjected to OverturnedOuthouse in a Porta-Potty before dying at a construction site. Flack makes her examine it since there might be evidence. She opens the door and is completely grossed out. |
| 114 | -->'''Aiden:''' Ewww, what do you guys *do* in here?! |
| 115 | -->'''Don:''' I don't go in public. |
| 116 | * Mike Rowe in ''Series/DirtyJobs'' has seen some of these. The bathroom in New Orleans shown after Hurricane Katrina deserves special recognition. |
| 117 | * ''Series/HankZipzer'': While attending the rock festival in "Hank Rocks Out!", Stan encounters a portable toilet so disgusting he decides to hold it in for the entire weekend. |
| 118 | * The MTV show ''Series/{{Homewrecker}}'', which modified the bedrooms of pranksters into unlivable disaster rooms (think ''Trading Spaces'' or ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' turned on their heads), turned one room into one of these. |
| 119 | * The Singaporean talkshow ''It's A Small World'' is about foreign talents working in Singapore discussing cultural differences - one episode, on the subject of travel, leads up to the subject of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARgIHPlgYLc&feature=related toilets all over the world]], naturally leading to this trope. Of special note, one 'toilet' in China is basically out in the open, with little ditches with some running water acting as the 'receptacles', and the running water isn't very strong so some stuff will be left around... |
| 120 | * On ''Series/TheJohnLarroquetteShow'', the bus station has one of these as a RunningGag. |
| 121 | -->'''John''': ''People'' did that? Bears, I could imagine. But ''people''? |
| 122 | * Subverted in ''Series/{{Monk}}''. Monk expects the men's room at the theater to be like this, but instead it's incredibly clean and even has an attendant offering a variety of scented soaps. |
| 123 | ** Played straight though in the first episode of Monk, in which Monk runs into a toilet and it's overflowing with waste and toilet paper. |
| 124 | * During a segment of ''Series/NotNecessarilyTheNews'', Danny Breen is asked to check out a men's bathroom in a New York City subway, something he is disgusted by - it's not helped by the gunk on the doorknob. However, when he enters, he's greeted by a men's room attendant dressed as TheJeeves, with a palatial bathroom. |
| 125 | * In one episode of ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' Jim and Michael go out on a sales call. When the camera catches Micheal coming out of a gas station's Women's Room, he explains that the Men's was too disgusting to use. |
| 126 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgBxxEL-3TI Bodega Bathroom sketch]] on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' mashes this trope with songs from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''. |
| 127 | * ''Series/WynonnaEarp'': At the beginning of "Purgatory", Wynonna describes the toilet on the coach as a 'crime against humanity'. |
| 128 | [[/folder]] |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 131 | * "Gas Station Washroom" by Radio/TheFrantics is about one of these. |
| 132 | * "No Lock on the Door" by The Lancashire Hotpots is about one of these at the singer's [[MyLocal local pub]]; the eponymous complaint is just one of very, very many. |
| 133 | * Shown on the cover of post-1986 issues of ''Music/BeggarsBanquet'' by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}. |
| 134 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "One More Minute" details all of the disgusting, painful, and generally unpleasant things the protagonist WouldRatherSuffer than spend one more minute with the girl who has just dumped him. One of these things is cleaning all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with his tongue. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]] |
| 138 | * Creator/RickyGervais in ''Fame'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BUFYh2Xnj4 finds that]] even the most refined places - where there's classical music playing and people discussing Kierkegaard - will have the most revolting toilets. |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 142 | * ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'' has Public Amenity #9, where the poor have to pay to pee. Many of them would rather do it anywhere else, especially given that the line in front of the decrepit toilet runs to the hundreds, but for the DystopianEdict against it. |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 146 | * ''Toys/FlushForce'' uses gross and slimy toilets as the transport from the sewers into the above ground. This ties into the motif used for the toy packaging, which are slimy water-activated toilets that break to reveal the Flushies. |
| 147 | [[/folder]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 150 | * In ''VideoGame/BadMojo'', The first-floor restroom in the bar you explore plays with this. Eddie went to the trouble of painting the walls, but the rest of it still looks grimy. Oh, and because you play as a [[CreepyCockroach cockroach]], you get to explore it ''disgustingly'' up close. |
| 151 | * Subverted in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite''. One of the toilets in the Salty Oyster restaurant has flies all around it and two brown lumps in it, setting up this trope... but the lumps turn out to be potatoes. Which you can eat. |
| 152 | * The dook huts (Porta-Potties which double as loot chests) in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' are purest distilled NauseaFuel. When you open one, you're greeted with a revolting squish noise and a geyser of sewage. Have fun rooting through that! |
| 153 | * One of the chore minigames in ''VideoGame/CookServeDelicious'' involves this at first, but this can be subverted when the player upgrades it. |
| 154 | * The restrooms in the adventure game ''VideoGame/DarkFall: The Journal'' are fairly gross, and they've gotten much, ''much'' worse in ''Dark Fall: Lost Souls''. The girls' and staff bathrooms in ''Dark Fall: Ghost Vigil'' are not only disgusting, but ''haunted'' as well. Averted in ''Dark Fall II: Light's Out'', as the tourist restrooms on Fetch Rock [[spoiler:2004]] aren't filthy, they just need their trash bins emptied. |
| 155 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' starts with a [[CampingACrapper grisly murder]] in the Disgusting Toilet of a GreasySpoon. |
| 156 | * In ''VideoGame/HectorBadgeOfCarnage'', Hector starts the game by having to fish out something out of a toilet in the prison cell of a police station which while not 'public' fits the trope completely. After many other disgusting bathroom jokes and puzzles, episode 3 has you interacting with the portable public toilet at an outdoor festival. |
| 157 | * The school bathrooms in VideoGame/KrakenAcademy. Honestly, it's a surprise the sinks even work. In addition to the usual grime of a filthy bathroom, there's also rats running around, and tentacles in the toilet. Don't worry about the tentacles though, [[ItMakesSenseInContext that's just the headmaster.]] |
| 158 | * ''VideoGame/LakeviewCabinCollection'' uses a movie theater for its HubWorld; one of the toilets is completely backed up, overflowing and completely unusable. |
| 159 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the bathroom of the Stock Pot Inn in Clock Town has some fungus growing inside it, as seen when wearing the Mask of Scents. From midnight to 6:00 AM, the toilet has a huge nasty hand of unknown identity sticking out of it. "Pa-Pa-Pa-Paper!" This hand reappears in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'', but in those games it is less creepy than the original. |
| 160 | * ''VideoGame/{{Madagascar}}'': Invoked in ''Penguin Mutiny'' when Skipper flushes all the toilets on the ship, distracting nearby crewmen enough for him to sneak past. |
| 161 | * The [[LethalEatery Dur-T Cafe]] from ''VideoGame/Mother3'' is basically one of these in restaurant form; as for its actual bathrooms, you ''thankfully'' don't get to actually see what's in them, but they both have rather questionable-looking doors to say the least, and at one point, the "women's" one even (presumably) gets used by a quite-literal '''[[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext wild cow!]]''' |
| 162 | * One of the [[PortalDoor Portal Doors]] strewn across the map in ''[[VideoGame/NexusWar Nexus Clash]]'' was once the door of a fast-food men's bathroom and now leads directly to the pits of FireAndBrimstoneHell. It's implied that this may be an ''improvement'' on its previous destination. |
| 163 | * Played with in ''VideoGame/NightmareNed'', where a transition between two nightmare levels involves a toilet with a sign overhead marked "The Worst Toilet in Ned's Nightmare". The titular character opts to avoid it entirely and drop down a crevice instead...leading into a nightmare level inspired by his fear of bathrooms. |
| 164 | * Aya Brea in ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2'' has great fun discussing the bathrooms and lavatories she investigates, before coming to the conclusion she needs to get out more. |
| 165 | * Scattered around Paradise, AZ in ''VideoGame/Postal2'' are these and in Paradise, there's no WondrousLadiesRoom. They look just as nasty as the men's room with toilet bowls full of piss and grimy floors. |
| 166 | * One of the levels in ''VideoGame/PowerWashSimulator'' is set in a washroom containing six of these, with the PlayerCharacter having to clean them up with their trusty high-pressure washer. However, since the protagonist is wearing a [[FeaturelessProtagonist full-body suit complete with respirator mask]], it's a bit less disgusting than it otherwise would be. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': Entering the first of the public toilets in the Questionable Area will have [[PlayerCharacter Raz]] remark how disgusting they are. Entering the other will have him yell that it's ''even worse''. |
| 168 | * Inverted in ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad''; the bathrooms at Snucky's are told to be the cleanest in five counties. After Max does his business, he and Sam can steal the keys as no one deserves bathrooms that clean (they also need the rasp from the keychain to [[spoiler:get past the bouncer at the Bigfoot convention]]). |
| 169 | * In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', you don't see the bathroom itself, but apparently the ''Red Sprite'''s bathroom gets so disgusting that Kanbari, "God of the Privy", invades. After you defeat him, he chides the crew for not taking better care of their facilities. |
| 170 | * ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' opens in one of these. James eventually ''plunges his hand into one of these to get a key''. [[NauseaFuel Ugh]]... |
| 171 | * ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' also features equally disgusting toilets, though unlike James, Heather outright refuses to stick her hand in one [[OldSaveBonus if you have ''Silent Hill 2'' save data on the same memory card]]. |
| 172 | * ''VideoGame/TheSims'': This can be a randomly-rolled fear of a Sim, which means that they fear using a public toilet in general, even if it's clean, but when it's one of these it becomes a thousand times worse. |
| 173 | * In ''VideoGame/TheSims4'', a Sim that uses an outdoor public bathroom will get hit with a negative "So Gross" moodlet, saying "Setting foot in that public bathroom ''may'' have been a mistake." |
| 174 | * This is an item available to use as a decoration in ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}''. Naturally, it's located in the derelict human prisons. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 178 | * In ''WebAnimation/TheGrosseryGang'' webseries, the toilet of the Yucky Mart is even more disgusting than the store itself, which says a lot, considering the state of the store. The walls are littered with marker graffiti and random stains, while the toilet is actually ''hairy''. Most of the time, characters are flushed down it to get rid of them. |
| 179 | * ''WebAnimation/{{TP}}'' is mainly set in a public washroom that's shown to be very filthy and unkempt. This is likely a stylistic choice to emphasize how bleak the protagonist's situation is. [[spoiler:We see the outside world in the credits, though.]] |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 183 | * ''San Antonio Rock City'' [[http://www.mitchclem.com/rockcity/index.php?comic=56 "Autobiography II"]] |
| 184 | * Subverted in an old ''Basil Flint'' strip. Basil expects a gas station's restroom to be filthy...and is ''awestruck'' when it turns out to be the cleanest restroom he has ever seen. [[MundaneMadeAwesome He spends an entire strip sitting on the toilet basking in the restroom's radiance.]] |
| 185 | * ''Webcomic/BetterDays'': [[http://www.jaynaylor.com/betterdays/archives/2005/10/chapter-13-thic-3.html]] |
| 186 | * In [[http://deathandmaiden.com/2009/05/18/inside-the-outhouse-2 this]] ''Webcomic/DeathAndTheMaiden'' comic, the protagonists try to lose one of Death's 'accidental' corpses in a public bathroom stall, getting second thoughts when seeing the stall. Nobody, they reason, would sit there - not even to die. |
| 187 | * In ''Webcomic/DaisyOwl'', [[http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-08-11 the Rest Stop bathroom described by Mr. Owl]] is a humorously extreme example. |
| 188 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Subverted in [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-20 this]] strip where Elliot initially dreads going into a gas station bathroom, out of fear that it will be absolutely disgusting. However, someone really takes pride in keeping that bathroom clean. (In TheRant, Dan admits that the reason for this is that he shares Elliot's distaste to the extent that he couldn't bring himself to ''draw'' a "realistic" gas station bathroom.) |
| 189 | -->'''Janitor:''' I'm gonna win the prize someday!\ |
| 190 | '''Clerk:''' There's no prize for clean bathrooms.\ |
| 191 | '''Janitor:''' I was talking about ''Film/{{Highlander}}''. |
| 192 | * In [[http://www.mascotcomic.com/index.php?strip_id=1109 this]] ''Webcomic/ImMyOwnMascot'' comic, this leads to the destruction of the Earth. |
| 193 | * An old sub-comic hosted on ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', ''[[Webcomic/JailhouseBlues Jailhouse Blues]]'', featured Nasty Toilet Man, the multiple failed attempts at defeating became a running gag of sorts. He was finally beaten with More Ammunition Than God and a microwave. |
| 194 | * ''[[https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/St_Dyphnia_Academy/4887637/ St. Dyphna Academy]]'': There's one bathroom at the school so absolutely filthy that even the ghost won't go into it. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 198 | * [[https://twitter.com/scarytoilet Toilets With Threatening Auras]] on Twitter exists for images of this trope. |
| 199 | * In "20 Reasons Why NOT to Be 'In Da Club'" by WebVideo/MatthewSantoro, Matthew says that the bathrooms at clubs are a reason to not go to the club. He gags, and says that that reason is self-explanatory, so he won't bother getting into it. |
| 200 | * In an episode of ''WebVideo/CounterMonkey'', Spoony describes how he used to clean/"muck out" the facilities in the game store he once worked at. It was not pretty. As he described it, when faced with a public restroom, gamers seemed to "lose all sense of public decency". |
| 201 | * Website/{{Cracked}} has this article in which a normal, decent restroom gradually becomes one: [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-4928-public-restrooms/]] |
| 202 | * In ''[[http://www.eastpark.hu/index2.html East Park 3.]]'' the toilet bathroom has [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] eggs in it. |
| 203 | * In Season 12 of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', Grif finds one [[spoiler:stuffed with a dead body]]. |
| 204 | * The website ''Website/RetailHellUnderground'' has an entire section dedicated to this. Let's just say...people do some ''really'' disturbingly gross things in public bathrooms, and sometimes even ''worse'', when people don't even make it ''to'' the toilet, or when they mistake the ''fitting rooms'' for a Bathroom Stall. |
| 205 | ** The book ''RetailHell'' by Freeman Hall, one of the founders of Retail Hell Underground, describes a story in which he walks into the bathroom and finds that someone had taken a massive dump in the urinal, and nobody could use the men's room for the rest of the day. He also describes a very disturbing incident involving a fitting room disaster...Let's ''not'' go there. TooMuchInformation. Really, let's ''NOT''. |
| 206 | * There once was an [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP]] called The Worst Place/Thing In The World which is located inside a porta-potty. It's driven all who have seen it, even over a video feed, insane. So do most [=SCPs=] really, but this one does a really good job of it. Although it was removed from the official SCP site, one may still find it [[http://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-100 elsewhere]]. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 210 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', the episode "Potty Emergency", Wakko is in a desperate search to find a bathroom and arrives at a gas station. When he turns on the light, the entire wall seems to recede: It's covered ceiling to floor in [[CreepyCockroach cockroaches]], and the rest of the horrors within are mercifully implied by Wakko's reaction to it rather than shown to us. |
| 211 | -->'''Wakko''': I can't potty in there! It's disgusting! |
| 212 | ** In the ''Animaniacs'' movie ''Wakko's Wish'', King Salazar's torture routine involves a trip though the same restroom. The attendant's previous warning of "I haven't cleaned it in a year" is changed to three years. PlayedForLaughs, obviously. |
| 213 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'' episode "Bracelet Yourself" Betty looks in one while looking for her bracelet, but unlike most examples of this trope the contents of said toilet are offscreen. |
| 214 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'', Nick and Andrew have no choice but to use a gross restroom at a sketchy truck stop (inexplicably run by Coach Steve) during a Passover vacation to Florida, having no time to waste because of Andrew's perpetually irate father. The restroom is disgusting enough on its own, but there's also substantial evidence that someone was ''murdered'' there. |
| 215 | * On ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Bloo has to stop at a truck stop to go to the bathroom, and he wears plungers on his feet "because public bathrooms are so grody" and he wants to keep from stepping in the germs. |
| 216 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' - there's a porta-john at the Venture compound yard sale. They're never really pleasant, but the Monarch just won't shut up about it. However, his issue is less of sanitation and more about discomfort. He ends up determined to break into the building and find a ''real'' bathroom. |
| 217 | -->'''Dr. Girlfriend:''' How'd it go in there?\ |
| 218 | '''Monarch:''' Oh not well. It was all [[Theatre/MacBeth sound and fury, signifying nothing]]. ''We have to find a real toilet!'' |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
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