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14[[caption-width-right:300:Let's hope there's toilet paper in there!]]
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16->''"YOU GUYS!! I HAVE TO PEE '''SO BAD!!''' I'M GONNA PEE '''RIGHT HERE!!!'''"''
17-->-- '''[[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Yosuke Hanamura]]''', ''[[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} Big Long Persona 4 Comic]]''
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19A comedy routine which involves a character ''really'' having to go to the bathroom, [[BathroomControl and being prevented from doing so by various plot contrivances]]. This often climaxes in a frenetic scene where the character darts desperately from location to location, [[PottyDance clutching their groin]], searching for someplace, ''anyplace'' where they can empty their bladder. The search will usually prove unfruitful -- and the visited places [[FromBadToWorse progressively more embarrassing]] -- as the routine wears on.
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21For example: the routine may start with the character finding some very obvious way of filling up his bladder, such as by chugging a KlatchianCoffee or a GiganticGulp. He makes a mad dash to the men's restroom, only to see a sign on the door: Closed for Cleaning. He tries to sneak into the women's restroom instead, and we hear [[PervertRevengeMode screams coming from inside followed by a couple of irate women chasing him out]]. The character then [[NatureTinkling runs outside and darts behind a nearby tree to relieve himself]], only to find it occupied by a child playing hide-and-seek. The character then runs off and ducks into a side street, only to find [[AliceAndBob a young, cardigan sweater-wearing couple]] strolling down it. The character quickly high-tails it out of there and hides behind a nearby school bus. No sooner has he started unfurling his pants, than he looks up and notices that [[PassingJudgment the bus is filled with a group of gawking nuns]] who are staring slack-jawed down at him. After a few more failed attempts at hiding and peeing, the character finally ducks into a building, runs down a dark corridor and into a room filled with rows of folding chairs, a podium, and a waste-paper basket. Sighing happily, the character unzips his trousers and starts relieving himself into the waste-paper basket -- at which point, the lights go on and a large group of burly police officers start filing into the room. Only now does the character notice the huge sign hanging on the wall at the back of the room which reads: "International Order Of Burly Police Officers Training Seminar #27: How to Spot And Subdue A Sexual Predator." As the scene fades to black, we hear the sound of a hundred nightsticks hitting the cranium of our hapless potty-goer.
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23Note that the above scenario takes a Potty Emergency to its logical severe extreme; most Potty Emergencies won't end like this, but instead, end with the character {{fainting}} or [[NatureTinkling just giving up and going in some random place, damn the consequences]]. Or, even more humiliatingly, it will end when the character just can't hold it any longer, resulting in PottyFailure (EmbarrassingDampSheets if asleep), or, if they were frightened, BringMyBrownPants. Very rarely does it end with him/her finding a suitable bathroom in the nick of time, but when it does, it ends with the character often enjoying that delicious euphoria that comes when such stress is relieved.
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25A person trapped in a Potty Emergency can expect to be [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere sadistically subjected to all sorts of "watery" imagery]] -- flowing water, spraying water, splashing water, kids running through sprinklers, water fountains, and worst of all, ''lemonade''. All of which will remind him of the ''one thing'' he so desperately wants to do, but can't. Relatedly, a character who has to go to the bathroom while asleep will have dreams of such watery imagery. If they are currently ''in'' a body of water with an emergency, they may resolve this by just [[PuttingThePeeInPool relieving themselves on the spot.]]
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27This trope can also happen on another end of the body, as the effect of [[TheFoodPoisoningIncident food poisoning]] or a [[LaxativePrank laxative or emetic prank]].
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29Sometimes a variant has the character(s) looking for a place to perform some non-potty-related but similarly private activity such as changing clothes, making out, or whatever. If this trope happens to a character who had been woken up and/or freed after an ''incredibly'' long time, it's RipVanTinkle. A video game that can potentially force players into one of these by denying them a chance to stop for a breather in the middle of some very long task expects them to have a BladderOfSteel.
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31Commonly happens in a ToiletTrainingPlot. Sometimes this is punctuated with the character engaging in a little CallingYourBathroomBreaks. Compare with AntiSneezeFinger, InconvenientItch, and ExcrementStatement. See JarPotty for one solution to this problem.
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33While [[TruthInTelevision we can all attest to this in]] [[RealLife our own lives]], [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease we do not need to do it here]]. (Fictional ones can be unpleasant enough.)
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35!!Examples Subpages:
36[[index]]
37* PottyEmergency/AnimeAndManga
38* PottyEmergency/{{Literature}}
39* PottyEmergency/LiveActionTV
40* PottyEmergency/WesternAnimation
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43!!Other Examples:
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45[[folder:Advertising]]
46* Several ads for Clorox Bleach have gone in this vein, "for life's bleachable moments". One includes a young boy trying to get his dad's attention, [[NotNowKiddo only for his dad to brush him off until it's too late]]. And then there's the infamous "Mommy, Mommy, I made poopie!" commercial...
47* A [[SideEffectsInclude drug commercial]] for the bladder-control medication Detrol has a JuniorHigh teacher trying to teach while desperately holding it in and waiting for the bell... what she CAN'T hold in is the fact that she needs to go. [[HilarityEnsues To the great amusement of her students.]]
48** Many of the Detrol TV spots feature similar situations. In another one, a traffic cop struggles to hold her bladder during rush hour. When a nearby fire hydrant erupts, she can't stand it any longer and literally ''stops traffic'' while she runs to the restroom.
49* A series of print ads for Fresh Step cat litter [[http://adweek.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c51c053ef0120a63f4e4b970c-700wi depict]] [[http://adweek.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c51c053ef0120a5e8a328970b-700wi felines]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fja83pRFr1o/S7X0eub6JHI/AAAAAAAAAdc/hdcM8u4DSps/s1600/cat+Fresh+Step+4.JPG undergoing]] [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fja83pRFr1o/S7X0gA2XPpI/AAAAAAAAAdk/z9cIxcN1ABU/s1600/cat+Fresh+Step+5.JPG these]] due to their inability to find the "odor-free" product.
50* The teaser for Music/{{NSYNC}}'s Superbowl performance was that they were in the middle of going to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXjG9IdPOCg bathroom.]]
51* A 2011 commercial for Model Environment starring Helene Traasavic, called [[http://www.welovead.com/en/works/details/675Cknpz "Helene on Toilet Paper"]], has her frantically rushing through the forest until she luckily spots a lone toilet in a clearing.
52* A 2015 commercial for Xifaxan has this happen to a sentient pair of intestines during a sports game, causing the intestines to run for the bathroom, but unfortunately there was a long line in front of the restroom.
53* A commercial for some prescription drug that's supposed to combat the main of irritable bowel syndrome (i.e. frequent incontinence) sells itself on the premise that taking it will cause the user to miss out on less of their lives going to the bathroom.
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57* ''Animation/DobyAndDisy'': In the Season 5 episode "Urban Planner in Australia", Logan and Doby don't consider that placing their carnival rides all willy-nilly might cause disruptions in the townsfolks' lives. This results in Doby having to go to the bathroom, only for him to have to go through a maze to do so. He's not able to get to the bathroom in time and... uh, does his business... somewhere within the maze.
58* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'':
59** Smart S. has one in episode 9 after being given expired milk [[ItMakesSenseInContext as part of a sponsorship deal]]. He gets there in time, though the sponsorship deals keep bugging him.
60** In episode 42, Big M. accidentally eats an orange he laced with diarrhea powder and desperately has to go to the bathroom. The only problem? There's a ''very'' long line of people waiting to use the bathroom as well.
61** In season 2 episode 34, Careful S. [[TheStoic of all people]] has a brief one when he and Happy S. return to their house with an escaped prisoner who they think is Doctor H. When they have to go to rescue the real Doctor H. who was mistaken for the criminal, he clones himself so one can use the bathroom while the other goes to rescue Doctor H.
62** Smart S. also has one in season 10 episode 9, while trying to act more like Careful S., though he hides it until he gets into a stall.
63** Smart S. has another one at the beginning of season 10 episode 37. He hears Big M. and Little M. plotting something in the adjacent stall, while he’s going.
64* ''Animation/KuaiLeXinXin'' (a.k.a. ''Happy Xin Xin''):
65** In the first episode, [[BrownNote whistling sounds cause these.]] It's {{justified|Trope}}, because many Chinese parents potty-train their kids by whistling.
66** In the 10th episode, one of the 100 baby [[ADogNamedDog Dinosaurs]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext (don't ask, it's a long story)]] has one of these, but it's eventually put aside for the rest of the story.
67* In the ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Meethi Masi", Samosa wakes up and wants to use the bathroom, his cousins (who were brought with his Aunt Sweetyhearty for a surprise stay at his house) keep getting into the bathroom before he can, making him afraid he'll wet himself. When his cousin Harinder emerges from the bathroom, he's not only used the toilet but also Samosa's toothbrush, much to his surprise. Whether Samosa does wet himself is never shown.
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71* The "Get Some" arc of ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' has Hughie having to take a dump when he and Butcher are confronting Tek-Knight. He isn't able to enter the restroom in time, so he resorts to crapping on the floor of Tek-Knight's cave.
72* Brittany Diggers undergoes one of these while in a submarine in the first issue of the full color version of ''ComicBook/GoldDigger''. She spots her sister's favorite thermos, and stares at it as her sister and Ryan unknowingly make more and more innuendos involving needing to pee. The joke is shortly dropped in rather anticlimactic fashion, though since it's heavily implied that, yes, exactly what you would expect did happen, maybe it's best that they didn't show [[{{Squick}} the obvious "hilarity ensuing" of that]].
73* A ''Meanwhile'' strip in an issue of ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' had a guy on a date with Devi desperately trying to hold back an attack of diarrhea. His final line, "Somebody put s*** in my pants!", has since become synonymous with the series. In the ''ComicBook/{{Squee}}!'' spinoff series, the titular character had been holding it in for two days. He manages to find a bathroom, but the violent, spasmodic diarrhea from the next stall cut him short.
74* ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' Issue #510: In a "A MAD Look At Celebrity Life" strip, a blonde celebrity has one while riding in her limo, and asks the driver to make a pit stop at a restaurant. As soon as she comes out of her stall, she's swarmed by paparazzi, much to her embarrassment.
75* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'':
76** This is the running gag for poor Superintendente Vicente in the book ''El Bacilón''. [[spoiler: The eponymous monster is ''disintegrated'' at the end by a single slap from El Súper because it stood in between him and the toilet.]]
77** Filemón has one of his own in a chapter in "¡...Y van 50 tacos!".
78* A one-off strip in ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' entitled ''Doctor Poo'' (sic) featured the [[Series/DoctorWho Fourth Doctor]] in a pan-galactic quest for somewhere to defecate.
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82* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
83** [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/03/01 One comic]] showed Calvin in one of his fantasy spots drinking one glass of water too many and turning into a puddle. The shift back to the real world shows Calvin in a car telling his mom "I don't think I'm gonna make it."
84** Another one depicted Calvin having a dream involving lots and lots of water. It ends with Calvin waking up and running to the bathroom.
85** And another one depicted Calvin putting on his winter clothes and getting ready to go outside. As soon as he walks outside, he realizes he forgot to use the bathroom. After taking his clothes off, he gets to go.
86** [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/07/05 Yet another one]] has him needing to go but trapped on his bed by the monster waiting underneath - the next morning his parents are looking at the plants under his window, wondering why they're not doing well.
87** In the story arc where Calvin is in the school play, [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/20 he ends up getting stuck in his onion costume]] when he tries to take it off. In addition, he was also supposed to be onstage soon. HilarityEnsues.
88* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'':
89** In an early strip, Roger drank a whole pot of coffee before work, saying his boss was holding one of his notoriously boring meetings and that there was "nothing more embarrassing than falling asleep during Pembrose's endless sermons". In the last panel, he's at the meeting, excusing himself for his third bathroom break in the past hour, and clearly looks very embarrassed.
90** In another strip, Peter drank an entire pot of coffee, claiming he had a killer math test, and thought a whole pot would get his brain functioning like a "super-fast calculation machine". In the last panel, he's in class, sweating heavily, thinking to himself, "If the boy's bathroom is a thousand feet away and I run at a rate of a hundred feet per second..."
91* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2021/10/17 The October 17, 2021 strip]] has Garfield being barked at by the Big Vicious Dog and the two temporarily stepping away to relieve themselves off-panel, explaining why when they get back to resume their interaction.
92-->'''Big Vicious Dog:''' Drank a lot of water this morning.\
93'''Garfield:''' Coffee here.
94* ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'': In one strip, Hagar's house is nearly buried in snow (as it often is in winter), and Hagar is shoveling very, very fast towards a tree for his ''very'' frantic dog Snert behind him.
95* One ''InTheBleachers'' [[http://www.gocomics.com/inthebleachers/2005/04/10 comic]] featured a race car driver who forgot something on his mental checklist.
96* ''ComicStrip/NonSequitur'': In one arc, Danae and Kate are snowed inside this house. This then becomes an emergency when their pets Lucy and Petey have to answer the call of nature.
97* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'':
98** In [[http://www.realclear.com/comics/zits/2015/01/05/ this strip]], Jeremy gets an idea similar to the example with Peter above, drinking three energy drinks before a big test. [[DidntThinkThisThrough Not the wisest idea...]]
99** In an [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ba/77/9f/ba779fa89279d8310e36c2aad77c81cb.jpg earlier strip]], Jeremy holds it all day and rushes home because "nobody in their right mind ever uses the school bathrooms".
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103* Greenland in a series of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfictions often suffers from these, either because she's trying on the guys' old traditional clothes and she can't take them off, or because the other countries are ignorant/oblivious to her need. Sometimes she makes it, and sometimes, [[PottyFailure she doesn't.]]
104* In a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic by Creator/AAPessimal, a group of Lady Assassins whose assignment means having to learn circus skills also learn a hard lesson - the reason ''why'' women who wear spangly tights and leotards to work drink sparingly, until the performance is over. During an energetic training session, one woman drinks a lot of water to keep herself hydrated. The urgent prompts from her bladder remind her that the way she's dressed [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome is not exactly ideal]] if you need to go to the privy in a hurry.
105* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
106** To the Tenth Doctor in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17861384 Doctor Loo]]'', which consists of a series of drabbles, with Donna. The last chapter has the Doctor peeing in an elevator right before meeting the Brigadier.
107** ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18999022/chapters/45116659 The Doctor needs to pee]]'' features various Doctors experiencing this.
108** ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19161562 Captivity]]'' features the Ninth and Tenth Doctor experiencing this while being held captive. The first two chapters have him asking his captor for assistance.
109* ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/823202043-my-wild-dreams-mephone3gs%27s-potty-emergency This]]'' WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity fanfic is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. MePhone3GS apparently had a GiganticGulp before a meeting, and 10 minutes into said meeting, he has to use the bathroom. Cobs doesn't let him, but he decides to go anyway, not before a case of PottyFailure arises, however. [[spoiler: Later in the story, [[AuthorAvatar Queenie]] has to help MePhone5, who has apparently been injecting water intravenously, and is unable to pee due to crystals in his charging port]].
110* A ''My Little Pony'' fanfiction called ''Fanfic/PrincessesDontPotty'', which is toying on whether or not NobodyPoops applies to Celestia and Luna, Celestia has one.
111--> Princess Celestia had to pee. She didn't have to potty, tinkle, whiz, or wee, the pressure in her hindquarters was serious and called for serious vocabulary. On the other hoof, there was nothing particularly high-brow or intellectual about her situation, so she didn't have to urinate or micturate either. She had to pee.
112* ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': From the first chapter, due to taking part in a bet involving consuming a lot of food, it struck Soma suddenly, but he managed to make it to a bathroom.
113* In ''Fanfic/PoundAndPumpkinCakesAdventuresAndMisadventuresInPottyTraining'', which is a fanfic set after the events of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the Cake twins, due to being in the middle of being potty trained, have several of these.
114** Both of them while being foalsat by Twilight, who had turned into a kangaroo.
115** Pumpkin at the store while buying Pull-Ups (first time she successfully uses the adult toilet).
116** Pound has one in "Missed".
117** And another one in "Pound's New Diaper", where he tries to make a diaper out of plushies.
118** Mrs Cake herself actually has one in "Everypony Poops", although it manifests itself in a weirder way than when the kids have theirs.
119** Pumpkin Cake has one in the chapter called "Pumpkin and the Potty", which was resolved by her using her diaper while on the potty.
120** In the chapter called "That's Not a Potty", Pumpkin has one in the garden, leading her to poop in a pot plant. Then, Pound has one in the mall, leading him to pee in a teapot.
121** The first official potty emergency in this fanfic was experienced by Pound Cake in the chapter "Pound's Pain".
122** Happens to Pumpkin when Fluttershy's animals steal her potty in "Fluttershy and the Missing Potty".
123** Pound when he's visiting Cloudsdale. His solution? Peeing on the clouds!
124** Pumpkin has one in the last chapter.
125** Scootaloo has one in the chapter "The Exploding Diaper."[[note]]The reason for Pound's diaper exploding is because he filled it up with helium.[[/note]]
126* ''WesternAnimation/EquestriaGirls'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/480932/pinkies-potty-problem Pinkie's Potty Problem]]'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; after drinking too much soda, Pinkie Pie has to relieve herself but is unable to find a bathroom. [[spoiler:In addition to seeing temptation at every turn, she's unable to use her friend's bathrooms because Rarity has the plumber in, Applejack's is too filthy, and Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are having a ShowerOfLove in Rainbow's. When Sunset Shimmer lets her use hers, she ends up going into her closet by mistake...and somehow uses it like an actual bathroom]].
127-->'''Sci-Twi:''' I wonder how she washed her hands.
128* ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13764733/1/Gotta-GO-GO-GO Gotta GO GO GO]]'' has Barbara Gordon running all around Metropolis to find a bathroom after winning a Dr Pepper drinking contest against Selina Kyle. [[spoiler: In addition to seeing an opportunity at every turn,she's unable to use her friend's bathrooms because Karen Beecher has a repairman unclogging her toilet, Zee Zatara casts a spell on her toilet to repel intruders, Barbara's own toilet is too filthy, Diane Prince & Tatsu Yamashiro are having a ShowerOfLove, the same can be said for Jessica Cruz's two mothers & Kara Danvers refuses to let her use her toilet. In the end, Selina Kyle lets Barbara use her bathroom]].
129--> '''Selina Kyle:''' UGGGGHHHH! I feel the need for a shower because Babs forgot to wash her hands! What an idiot!
130* In the final chapter of ''Not All Good Things Last'' by Heroine of the Valley, Boomer & Bubbles have this emergency when they are cuffed together as a result of drinking Powerade. Eventually Buttercup zaps the cuffs in half & when everybody gets home, Bubbles & Boomer fight at the bathroom door & Bubbles goes in first. After she finishes, Boomer goes in to relieve himself as well. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/402652/4/Not-All-Good-Things-Last Take a look!]]
131* [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/SMMiniMangas/SMMANGAAmiMizuno.jpg This]] ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fanart pokes fun at Ami Mizuno's Japanese name by having her wake up in the middle of the night after having a dream about... take a guess.
132* In ''WebAnimation/SonicZombie Doom Ship the Movie'', Sonic, Tails, Shadow, Rouge, and Amy all get diarrhoea from eating Vector's Swedish meatballs. Sonic, and Shadow in particular, realise this after their own guts wake them up in the middle of the night, and send them rushing to the (apparently only) bathroom. Amy's occupying it at the time.
133-->'''Shadow:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I'VE. GOT. TO. SHHH[bleep]TTT.]][[note]]The bleep is part of the original movie.[[/note]]\
134'''Sonic:''' Oh man I've gotta go poop!
135* In the (uncompleted) ''Film/{{Superbad}}'' fanfic ''Memories of the Past'', Seth and Evan went to a carnival in the 8th grade, and Evan drank too much punch. When they got on the Octopus, [[PottyFailure Evan just couldn't hold it anymore, resulting in a big yellow puddle forming at his feet]]. His pee then ''[[{{Squick}} splashes the both of them]]'' when the ride tilts sideways.
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139* In ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'', Mater has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZJ9s0o3ATE one of those]] after accidentally leaking oil on stage in Tokyo (which is treated like he [[PottyFailure wet or soiled himself]]). However, [[spoiler: it was actually Axelrod who leaked, not Mater.]]
140-->"But I ''never'' leak oil! [[MadnessMantra I never leak, I never leak, I never leak..."]]
141* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', Hogarth doses JerkAss government agent Kent Mansley [[LaxativePrank with chocolate laxatives]] to induce one of these so he can finally get away from him. Mansley ends up having ''several'' over the next few hours.
142* At one minor point in ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'', this serves as Kiki's alarm clock. Fortunately, the outhouse is nearby right outside her bedroom.
143* During the chase scene in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' Robin asks Batman if they're near Wayne Manor. Batman asks why. Robin's response, "Your #2 needs to go #1." It ends with BringMyBrownPants when the Batwing gets hit several times.
144* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Migration}}'', duckling Gwen has one during her first-ever migration with her family. They all have to land because [[ShyBladder she's too nervous to do her business in the sky]] like the other birds, much to her mother's frustration.
145* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': Hammy, the squirrel, has one at the beginning of the movie when he (and the other animals of the forest) [[RipVanTinkle wake up from hibernation.]] [[TheLeader Verne]] warns him to not pee in the lake that they [[{{Squick}} drink from.]]
146* In TheStinger of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Bart has one, and he tells Homer that he's been holding it since the EPA put the giant dome over Springfield. Homer makes him stay, telling him, "A lot of people worked hard on this film, and all they ask for in return is for you to memorize their names!".
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150* In ''Film/ElevenFourteen'', Eddie is desperate to take a leak and decides to piss out the window of Mark's van. [[spoiler:This distracts Mark and causes the accident that kills Cheri and [[GroinAttack severs Eddie's penis]].]]
151* ''Film/AWedding1978'': Once the wedding party arrives at the BigFancyHouse for the reception, most of the characters immediately start racing around to try and find the bathrooms.
152* Paul from ''Film/AdamAndPaul'' is struck by heroin withdrawal cramps while walking down the street. He's scared of the nearest public toilet, so instead he shits in a narrow alleyway and wipes himself with a soggy newspaper Adam finds.
153* In ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting'', Sara suffers a potty emergency that causes Chris and the kids to crash a frat house party in order to use the bathroom.
154* ''Film/AmericanPie'' uses it in a [[ComedicSociopathy cruel prank]] where Finch, who has indicated that he never uses public bathrooms for fear of germs, gets his drink spiked with laxatives at school. Cue the boy's bathroom being down for repairs, no toilet seat covers, etc.
155* The [[TheSeventies 1970s]] Creator/{{Disney}} movie ''Film/TheAppleDumplingGang'' has a RunningGag of the girl announcing that she has "to go."
156* One scene in ''Film/AreWeThereYet'' features Ice Cube's attempts to find a bathroom for one of the children he's babysitting. They find a bathroom, but the toilets are so filthy that the child resorts to peeing in the sink. That's when a woman shrieks in horror and Ice Cube, who's holding the boy, turns around to face her...
157* In ''Film/AreYouBeingServed'', the sound of pouring wine at dinner makes all the Grace Brothers staff need to race for the toilet:
158-->'''Mrs. Slocombe''': Captain Peacock, 'ave you got your phrasebook?
159-->'''Captain Peacock''': Yes.
160-->'''Mrs. Slocombe''': What's Spanish for "Where is the little girls' room?".
161* Another non-potty version comes in the [[Film/BatmanTheMovie feature-film version]] of ''Series/Batman1966'': "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!"
162* In ''Film/{{Bean}}'', Mr. Bean sneaks into an art museum to swap paintings of "Whistler's Mother". To keep the security guard busy, he pours laxative onto the man's coffee and swaps the bathroom keys. The guard makes a desperate attempt to use the bathroom.
163* In the Creator/MatthewBroderick movie ''Film/BiloxiBlues''; a soldier in ranks has to pee, and the DrillSergeantNasty views his discomfort and makes him do ''two hundred pushups'' before letting him go to the bathroom.
164* ''Film/TheBlackBalloon2007'': When Charlie has to pee, he enters a stranger's unlocked house while Thomas tries to stop him. This leads to a MeetCute with Jackie, who is taking a shower in the same bathroom Charlie uses and screams when she sees the boys.
165* ''Film/Buffalo66'' begins with Billy getting out of prison and asking the guards to let him back in so he can use the bathroom. They refuse. The next twenty minutes or so revolve around his attempts to find somewhere to pee, during which time he also kidnaps Layla and persuades her to pose as his wife in front of his parents.
166* In ''Film/LaCiteDeLaPeur'', bodyguard Serge Karamazov (Creator/AlainChabat) has one at the worst moment, that is, while chasing the film's resident SerialKiller through the streets of Cannes. And he farts all the way through. {{A|rson Murder And Jaywalking}}nd [[EveryoneHatesMimes mimes get in the way]].
167* Right as the alien ships' light-and-music display is building up in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', a lone worker can be seen ''racing'' to one of the port-a-potties lined up near the edge of the site. It's unclear if he's been holding it in so he won't miss anything, and can't avoid dashing for the can any longer, or if he's simply so overwhelmed by the magnitude of the situation that it's a BringMyBrownPants situation.
168* ''Film/CrystalFairyAndTheMagicalCactus'': While the group is driving through the desert, Crystal insists on stopping to pee.
169* ''Film/DadsArmy1971'':
170** As all the men at the police station try to be the first to sign up for the LDV, Godfrey is more concerned about finding a convenience.
171** Later on, when Private Godfrey is patrolling the woods, it begins to pour down and he has to try and think of poems to take his mind off the urge to go.
172* In ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', Greg goes into his brother [[BigBrotherBully Rodrick]]'s room; when Rodrick finds Greg, he chases him to his bedroom. While locked in his room Greg says "Rodrick, time out--I have to pee!" to which Rodrick replies "No time outs--only death." We then see Greg waiting until finally, he tries to try to run through Rodrick. He opens the door, only to find that Rodrick has left his shoes there to fool him. Greg rushes to the bathroom and tells Manny to get off the toilet, and he starts relieving himself, but... Rodrick jumps out of the shower and Greg turns to face him--at which point his parents come in. [[HilarityEnsues This all adds up to a hilarious scene]].
173* ''Film/{{Dobermann}}'': After Joe stops him from snorting cocaine, Manu has a sudden urgent need to take a shit, Joe tells him the bathroom is occupied and sends him outside to to a crap in the river.
174* In ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'', when the passengers believe the ''Golden Horn'' is sinking, Wendover (who has unknowingly drunk Captain Spratt's constipation cure) remarks it'll have to sink without him and dashes for the gents' toilets.
175* In the original ''Film/DrDolittle'' film, Charisse has to go the bathroom, but Dr. Dolittle doesn't want her to go in because there's ducks and a goat in there. He tells her she's drinking too many liquids; she insists she really has to go, and he manages to hide the ducks and get the goat out.
176* Happens to ''Film/ForrestGump'', simply saying "I gotta pee!" as he meets [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy President Kennedy]]. Drinking a dozen Dr. Peppers will do that to you.
177* Throwaway line in ''Film/{{Help}}'' - as the MadScientist makes his way to the Beatles in a motorized rubber raft he tells his lackey "You should've thought of that before we left!"
178* In ''Film/KingOfThieves'', Billy the Fish suffers from incontinence and is constantly having to dash off to find a toilet. Even after he is arrested, the police have to stop the van and let him out to pee, with one of the policemen holding his penis because his hands are cuffed behind his back.
179* Benny in ''Film/{{Kopps}}'' has to take a dump while he and Jacob, [[ChainedHeat tied together]], have to flee from a SWAT-team through the forest.
180* Another clothes-changing example: the silent Creator/LaurelAndHardy short ''Liberty'' has escaped convicts Stan and Ollie putting on each other's pants by mistake, and spending much of the film trying to find a suitable place to exchange them. They're repeatedly exposed just as they're dropping their pants together, leading to the onlooker(s) [[NotWhatItLooksLike getting the wrong idea]].
181* Played straight in ''Film/{{Magnolia}}'' when Stanley has to pee during the taping of the game show.
182* ''Film/MermaidDown'': As the mental patients are [[spoiler:fleeing the facility]], Alex says that she desperately has to pee and can't hold it any longer, and runs back to the bathroom. [[spoiler:She walks in on Dr. Beyer right after shooting people who didn't get out on time. He electrocutes her to death.]]
183* In ''Film/MidnightMovie'', Sully has a bad reaction to some chocolate coated raisins, and first develops uncontrollable flatulence, and then has to dash off to the cinema bathroom. [[CampingACrapper Where the killer ambushes him.]]
184* ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonightII'': While Sergeant Waldemar is interrogating Zosia at the twins' house, his stomach starts gurgling, an indication that he needs to go to the bathroom. He handcuffs Zosia to a nearby bed so she doesn't go anywhere and heads to the nearby outhouse. Unfortunately, the bed had an asteroid full of black alien goo under it that decided that Zosia would make a good host.
185* In ''Film/TheOddWayHome'', a customer tells Duncan, "I gotta pee like a racehorse." This inspires Duncan to dream about a peeing racehorse, which he later draws.
186* In ''Film/OnTheBuses'', Blakey and the women bus drivers all desperately need to urinate during their bus routes after drinking tea laced with Olive's diuretic pills.
187* The 1968 comedy ''Film/TheParty'' has a long sequence involving this. The protagonist Hrundi V. Bakshi (Creator/PeterSellers) cannot find a single unoccupied bathroom on the ground floor of the mansion where the titular soiree is being held. Then the young starlet he has a crush on is to perform a song for the other guests, and out of politeness and interest, he puts his search on hold for ''several minutes'' as she sings - literally painful though it is for him to do so. Once she's done he sneaks upstairs and uses the fancy bathroom there, and with that taken care of, soon he's facing a whole different set of problems...
188* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ktiBNws4kc this]] 2004 German MadeForTVMovie ''Prinzessin Macht Blau/Royal News'', Princess Sophia has one when she arrives at an airport in her private jet at the start of the film.
189* In ''Film/RatRace'', Creator/JonLovitz's character, Randy Pear, is speeding through the desert with family in tow in a race to a fortune. His young daughter begs him to make a rest stop, telling him "I'm prairie dogging!" - when he realizes what that means, he's horrified and disgusted (as we all are). In the end, [[{{Squick}} he forces her to go out of the window of the still-moving car]].
190* Happens to Teddy in ''Film/SaveYourLegs'' when he comes down with a bad case of Delhi Belly after eating Indian food.
191* At one point in the Korean film ''Film/ShesOnDuty'', a scientist on the run from criminals meets with his high-school student daughter in the girlearner plates bathroom. While they're in there, the door's locked, and a line of increasingly aggravated girls gather in front of it. Eventually, the door slams open into them, causing PottyFailure... though by that point their response is more along the lines of "Oh, ''heaven...''"
192* In ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', shortly after Renton decided to quit using heroin after "one last hit", he has a sudden case of the runs after his drug-induced constipation goes away, and ends up having to use "The Worst Toilet In Scotland". His relief at finding a toilet in time turns into a (quite literal) OhCrap moment when he realizes that the opiate suppositories he'd recently taken had yet to melt, and he now has to [[{{Squick}} fish them out of the toilet]].
193* ''Film/TuffTurf'': After Nick's gang has been driving around for hours, one of them complains that he has to pee. Nick tells him to go out the window, which he does.
194* In ''Film/TwoWeeksNotice'', Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant leave a tennis game (in white uniforms, natch) and find themselves stuck in a traffic jam -- just as the chili dogs Sandra has eaten start "barking." Fortunately, they manage to locate an RV in the line of traffic.
195* ''Film/LesVisiteurs'':
196** In ''Les Visiteurs II: The Corridors of Time'', poor Jacquart (who's been [[TimeTravel sent to the 12th century]] by his ancestor Jacquouille) is forced to drink gallons and gallons of water by inquisitor Friar Ponce's {{Torture Technician}}s. As a result, his belly inflates with all the water, and he can't stop urinating for a good while afterwards once he's freed from the inquisitor's clutches.
197** In ''Les Visiteurs: Bastille Day'', the boudin Philibert specially cooked for him messes with Maximilien Robespierre's intestines... with predictable results.
198* In ''Film/WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen'', Berger finds himself desperately needing to pee while trapped motionless in the LaserHallway.
199* In ''Film/WhiteChicks'', one of the main characters has to go to the bathroom after eating some quiche due to his lactose intolerance.
200* In ''Film/YoungGunsII'', an elderly reporter has to go but is stuck on a horse. In case the viewer had any doubts, said character loudly and desperately announces that "I have to have a movement" repeatedly. He manages to dismount, onto a cycad. It is not known whether or not he made it in time.
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204* One urban legend involved a potty emergency. A person really needed to go, but the only place within walking distance that had a functioning restroom was a funeral home. They pretended to be a mourner so they could use the facilities. Afterwards they decided to pay their respects anyway (or alternately, the officiant assumed they were there to pay respects) and discovered they were the ''only'' person at the funeral. [[spoiler:Later they are told that the deceased's will stated that their entire fortune should be divided among the people who attended their funeral. Since they were the only one there they inherited all of the money.]]
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208* A joke: Two guys are going to the theater (that sort with the stage, not with the flicks). Shortly before the play begins, one of the guys feels he has to pee, so he starts looking for the bathroom, but can't find it and gets more and more desperate. Finally, behind a door he finds an empty, badly-lit room, pees into a vase and goes back to his seat. Being arrived there, he asks his friend: "Did I miss something?" The friend answers...
209--> 1. "Seems to be one of these modern art pieces - some guy enters, pees into a vase, and exits."
210--> 2. "Hey, you should know. ''You'' were at the stage after all."
211* A joke book title: ''1000 Yards To The Outhouse'', by Willie Makeit. The actual distance may vary, but isn't really the point of the joke. (It may also be edited or illustrated by Betty Dont, published by Andy Dint, with an introduction by Doris Locked.) This eventually spawned a tractor puller to name his tractor after the joke.
212** Another book title: ''Waiting In Line For the Bathroom'' by Ivana Tinkle.
213* A joke found on the website of Nicholls State University concerning how crawfish use the bathroom:
214--> Little [[Series/TheNoddyShop Johnny Crawfish]] raised a claw in class. "May I go to the bathroom?" he asked. Crawprofessor replied, "Gee wiz, crawkid! Your classroom is a mud tunnel. It's all a bathroom!" "That explains everything," Johnny replied.
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218* Creator/BennyHill used the joke version (see Jokes above) in his song "Anna Marie".
219* The band Music/{{NOFX}} has a song entitled "I Gotta Pee", in which the lyrics are just the title [[BrokenRecord repeated a lot]]. Except the last lyric is "I gotta ''poo''."
220* Music/{{Psychostick}}'s "No Pun Intended":
221-->I've got bad diarrhea
222-->It might be a good idea if I found the bathroom quick before I-
223--> Oh, '''''[[PottyFailure shit.]]'''''
224* ''Music/TheDillards'': Referenced obliquely in the intro for "Old Blue"; Mitch explains why their version of "Old Blue" is less sentimental than Music/JoanBaez's. Namely, dogs in the Ozarks are likely to hole up in your privy after running out of steam and growl you out regardless of how desperately you need to go.
225* Music/WeirdAlYankovic touched upon this trope in his song "Traffic Jam":
226-->Trapped inside my automobile
227-->Cobwebs growin' on the steerin' wheel
228-->Now, I'm no genius but one thing I know
229-->I shouldn't have had that [[OhCrap bag of bran muffins]]
230-->An hour and a half ago
231* One Website/YouTube user made a parody of “Call Me Maybe” about how the urinary system works from the point of view of someone who needs to pee. A similar Website/YouTube parody was based on ''Is it Too Late Now to Say Sorry?" called "Is It Too Late Now to Go Potty?". It was also about how the urinary system works from the point of view of someone who has to pee.
232* The song "Arlo Barlow" by storytellers Andy Offutt Irwin and Bil Lepp focuses on a guy who doesn't mind giving rides to neighborhood kids, but who demands that they use the bathroom before getting in his car because he absolutely won't stop along the way for any reason. He breaks that rule when two kids suffer Potty Emergencies in the back seat and threaten to ruin the interior unless he stops.
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236* A particularly vicious example in the video for "Smile" by Music/LilyAllen -- as part of a scheme to get revenge on a cheating ex, [[MagnificentBastard Lily]] takes him out for coffee, then [[LaxativePrank spikes his coffee with laxatives]]. Meanwhile, some friends of hers are trashing his apartment, and he comes home with impending diarrhea to find not only is his entire place wrecked, but most of his clothes have been stuffed in the toilet.
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240* Wrestling/EddieGuerrero once gave Wrestling/BigShow a tainted burrito as revenge for Big Show spitting in Eddie's. Later that night in the middle of a match, Big Show had to flee the ring clutching his butt to find a bathroom backstage, losing the match by a count-out. Making matters worse, while doing "number two", Show finds out Eddie stole all the toilet paper.
241* Chris Sabin and Jay Lethal gave Petey Williams a laxative before one of his matches when [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] was doing a (reviled) ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' angle.
242* Wrestling/SethRollins once had to roll under the ring and pee into a water bottle in the middle of a match.
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246* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'':
247** Happens twice in the episode, "When You've Got to Go!", which should come as no surprise, since the episode deals with using the bathroom. The first time, it happens to Tutter during a game of checkers with Bear, and the second time, it happens to Ojo during a game of hide and seek with Treelo. The former makes it to the bathroom okay, but the latter... [[PottyFailure not so much]].
248** This also happens in the episode "Morning Glory" to Pip and Pop [[RipVanTinkle after they wake up]], which causes Bear to remind the audience of the importance of using the bathroom after you get out of bed.
249* Happens twice in the ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' episode, "Nature Calls", when Earl unsuccessfully attempts to potty train Baby. The first time, it happens to Earl, who is trying to induce it on Baby by following advice from a toilet-training book about imagining running water. Upon thinking about it himself, Earl practically shoves Baby off the toilet so he can use it himself. The second time occurs later in the episode, and it happens to Charlene. When Earl is still in the bathroom, having thought Baby flushed himself down the toilet (long story), Charlene breaks the door open, and the rest of the family is shocked to find the state of the bathroom when Earl attempts to rescue Baby.
250* In "Accidents Can Happen" from ''Series/ThePajanimals'', after Cowbella and Sweetpea Sue go to see the Pajanimals' mom after Cowbella has her PottyFailure, Squacky talks about how hard it can be get to the bathroom in time sometimes. He then darts off in a manner that [[ImpliedTrope suggests]] that he really needs to go the bathroom himself.
251* The ''Series/SesameStreet'' special “Elmo’s Potty Time”, being a special focused on [[ToiletTrainingPlot toilet-training]], features about three of these:
252** Baby Bear has one while he, Gordon and Elmo are discussing Curly’s potty training. Elmo mistakes his [[PottyDance fidgeting]] for his “potty animal” dance that he did earlier, but he clarifies that it’s more of a “uncomfortable fidget” and exclaims he needs to go. Gordon lets him use the bathroom in his apartment.
253** Not too long after that, Grover rushes in, also having to go. Thankfully, the Hooper’s Store is open, so he goes to the bathroom there.
254** Later, Curly Bear has shoved herself under a table and refuses to come back out. Elmo and Baby Bear are confused as to why, but Gina quickly figures out that Curly has to go “poo-poo” (or “woo-woo”, as the Bear family calls it). Thankfully, Gina has a potty for kids in-training like her in her office, and so, Curly does a “woo-woo” in the potty for the first time.
255* Sooty has one in the ''[[Series/TheSootyShow Sooty and Co.]]'' episode, "Fun Park" as the result of drinking four colas at a restaurant. Unfortunately for Matthew, the coach's toilet is in use, so Matthew has to ask the driver to stop the coach so Sooty can [[NatureTinkling pee outside]]. Matthew then asks the viewers to [[ShyBladder give Sooty some privacy]].
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260* The radio show ''Radio/CarTalk'' on NPR refers to this occasionally, usually as a driver in need of "an urgent haircut." They even refer to Urgent Haircut Productions.
261* Intentionally inflicted in ''Radio/CabinPressure'' by the staff of MJN Air on their passengers, by keeping the seatbelt sign on and sending the drinks cart around repeatedly, this allows them to play 'Passenger Derby' taking bets on which passenger will reach the aircraft's loo first.
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265* In ''Literature/ElephantAndPiggie's We Are in a Play'', there is a song number number called "Don't Go" adapted from the book ''I Am Going''. However, in the play, Piggie isn't going to lunch like in the book. Instead, it turns out that she needs to go the bathroom, hence her frustration when Gerald delays her by singing the song about not wanting her to go, then breaking down and begging her.
266* Kinda the whole basis of ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}},'' a musical about what happens when an entire ''town,'' due to drought, is taxed for every toilet flush, and thus caught in a perpetual Potty Emergency.
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270* This trope is quite common with talking toys [[ToiletTrainingPlot themed around toilet-training]]. The toy will often ask to go to the potty after the child does a certain action, and will get more desperate if the child doesn't listen to them.
271** The first toy to have such a feature was Playmates' Potty Dotty doll.
272** [[Series/SesameStreet Potty Elmo]], a doll depicting a baby Elmo from ''Sesame Street'' that gets re-made every 5 years, will ask for the owner to take him to the potty after drinking his sippy cup. He sings songs about using the potty successfully and having accidents to encourage the child.
273** Another doll by Playmates, Amazing Amanda, asked for her potty at random times. The feature was notable for being one of the only ones available if the doll didn't recognize you as her "mommy". However, some of these dolls don't recognize their potty and only had accidents.
274** Baby Alive Learns To Potty, the hot Christmas toy of 2008, would ask you to take her to the bathroom after feeding her food or water. With each success, she would ask multiple times (for example, she would ask two times after her second success, three times after her third success, and so on). The toy was remade in 2018 as Potty Dance Baby, but with three differences: it only can drink water, it can only pee in its' potty and it can move its' legs to do a PottyDance (it also does this when it says "Watch me dance!" after the owner holds its' hands).
275** Potty Monkey, a potty-training aid that's a hybrid of a plush doll and a timer for toilet-training, will ask for it's toy toilet when the timer goes off. The longer the person waits, the more desperate the monkey gets, and it will have an accident if you don't get it there on time.
276** [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Ready For Potty Baby Dora]] was basically a gender-flipped version of Potty Elmo, with the only difference being that she did not have accidents at all.
277** Toilet Train Bing, a toy based on the British TV series ''Bing'', will have these at random as you play games with him. If you don't take him on time, he has an accident, represented by a glowing yellow light on the front of his underwear.
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281* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'':
282** In the original game, during the final battle with Gruntilda Winkybunion, Grunty will sometimes say things such as "Another hit, I'm getting weak, I really need to take a leak!" and "Soon you'll lose, and when you've gone, I have to go and use the john!"
283** In ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'', when you talk to Groggy in the Ice Side of HailfirePeaks, he will tell you that he needs to use the bathroom, but he's too fat to walk there on his own.
284* One of the sequences in the ''VideoGame/BishiBashi'' game series involves a man who needs to climb up a lot of ladders to reach a toilet at the top.
285* The FirstPersonShooter ''VideoGame/{{Cyberdillo}}'' actually makes a gameplay mechanic out of this: running into laxatives gives you a pressing need to use a toilet. How does this affect your HyperactiveMetabolism? It doesn't, actually.
286* This is the main plot of ''VideoGame/DontShitYourPants'', a game where the protagonist desperately needs to defecate and you have to guide him to the restroom. It has a sequel called ''VideoGame/DontWetYourPants'', which is the same except the character needs to urinate instead.
287* While there are no [[PottyFailure Potty Failures]] in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders2'', [=NPCs=] will complain about having to go to the bathroom if they're isn't a place to do so, or if the only place to do so is already occupied and they're waiting in line.
288* In ''Dubbelmoral!'', a Swedish-language Mac game, as the schoolboy protagonist consumes beer, the "Nodighet" (urge to urinate) meter increases, requiring him to periodically relieve himself at the urinal on the "Nilen" screen. If the meter maxes out, he suffers PottyFailure and you get a NonStandardGameOver.
289* ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'': Freddy has one of these after [[spoiler: the town's water supply is poisoned with a nasty substance]]. It's so bad he actually [[{{Squick}} shares an outhouse with someone else]]. TruthInTelevision, some outhouses were ''three-holers''... Except this one's barely large enough to fit one guy. And Freddy has to tell that guy to "''scooch over a bit''". Yuck.
290* In the museum level of ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', the team are at one point barricaded by a door covered in black slime. Before the player chooses to open the door using the slime blower, Winston Zeddemore will complain that he has to "go".
291* Trying to go through a restricted area in ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio Future'' will result in Professor K saying to you "Hey, are you looking for a bathroom or something?"
292* In ''VideoGame/KingOfTheCastle'', the story event "A Late Night Visit" sees a noble stagger into the King's chambers late one evening, drunk as a skunk. They ask the King to tender their apologies to the Archbishop about his hat, which they offer to replace; the privy was occupied and they were desperate. The Archbishop shows up the next day, minus his mitre and furious enough about its profanation to become a DryCrusader.
293* At the very beginning of Creator/{{Infocom}} InteractiveFiction game ''VideoGame/LeatherGoddessesOfPhobos'', you, the FeaturelessProtagonist, get the sudden urge to use the bathroom; if you take too long, you'll pass out from PottyFailure (which may count as a PressStartToGameOver). Fortunately, you start the game in front of two bathroom doors, leaving you to choose one of the appropriate gender in order to empty your bladder. Which is a pretty weird and ridiculous way of [[PurelyAestheticGender choosing whether you (and your future sidekick) are male or female]].
294* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', one of the struts Raiden has to cross has a guard on the roof. Said guard gets a cutscene where the urge hits him, and he decides to just piss over the roof of the strut. Crawl under the stream and you'll get a Codec call of Col. Campbell expressing his sympathies and Rose making Raiden promise to shower when he gets back. Crawl under with the box on and the guard spots you.
295--> '''Guard:''' Oh! I'm going to go in my pants... no one's looking, right?
296* This is the main goal of the 2018 game ''VideoGame/NekomewsPottyTrouble''. A four-year-old kitten named Nekomew has to sneak into the bathroom late at night to take a leak after waking up from his nightmares; the only problem is that the bathroom is a long way ahead of his own bedroom, with the nightmare monsters attempting to stall him on his way. Once the bladder meter is full, Nekomew [[PottyFailure does it all over himself]] and it's GameOver.
297* One of the stages of ''[[VideoGame/OsuTatakaeOuendan Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2]]'' is about a little boy who made the mistake of drinking too much before bed, considering he has a bedwetting problem. During the stage the Ouendan cheer him on as he fights against a bunch of water-related nightmares so he doesn't wet the bed.
298* Level 5 of ''VideoGame/PaRappaTheRapper'' has [=PaRappa=] needing to take a dump as a result from eating too much cake. He finds a chance to relieve himself during his drive with his love interest Sunny Funny when he stops at a gas station to use the restroom there, but winds up encountering a queue to use the restroom. He engages the previous levels' mentors (Chop Chop Master Onion, Instructor Mooselini, Prince Fleaswallow and Cheap Cheap the Cooking Chicken) in a rap contest so that they will let him jump the queue. Actual lyrics include "In the rain or in the snow, I got the funky flow, but now I really gotta go." Plus, when you do 'BAD', it starts raining, when you do 'AWFUL', loud claps of thunder that could scare you, and when you fail, he soils himself.
299* Very early on in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', when you, Yosuke and Chie enter the TV for the first time, Yosuke gets a case of this.
300** It was very much a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, and the game has many. Especially since Chie brings it up much later, thinking Yosuke actually peed his pants.
301*** In the Webcomic/{{hiimdaisy}} comic: YOU GUYS!! I HAVE TO PEE '''SO BAD!!''' I'M GONNA PEE '''RIGHT HERE!!!'''.........OKAY NEVER MIND. Chie and Souji were not amused.
302** Nanako triggers the gas station pit stop event by having one of these. (In Episode 1 of the anime, she even tugs on Ryotaro's sleeve and says "Potty time, hurry!".)
303* In ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', there is a fisherman (Fisherman Ned) on Route 106, just north of Dewford Town who wants to use the washroom, but is afraid of missing a big catch while he's out. When you defeat him in a battle, he claims to have lost because he has to go so badly.
304* The premise of the app game ''VideoGame/PottyPanic'', where you have to guide people to porta-potties. The people blinking in red are those suffering from [[TitleDrop Potty Panic]].
305* If one is so inclined, you can inflict this on your [[VideoGame/TheSims Sims]] and watch as they try to signal for a need of a bathroom. If you don't let them make it in time they [[PottyFailure wet themselves]]. If you give them the command to use a toilet or they do so through free will while they're in this state, they will run for the toilet.
306* The Japanese indie UsefulNotes/RPGMaker game ''[[https://aokurage.booth.pm/items/49439 Sokoumi]]'' features two:
307** After spending most of the early game drinking several potions that improve her ability to explore the underwater ruins, Umino spends the next part of the game searching those ruins in vain for a bathroom before she's finally forced to relieve herself [[JarPotty in the same treasure chest]] that she earlier rescued her FairyCompanion from.
308** Later, being rescued from a DrowningPit, Hideri repeatedly complains that she's suffering the same thing, and once untied she hurries into the next room, where a large and suspicious puddle can be found thereafter.
309* In ''VideoGame/SpyFox in: Dry Cereal'', Sal, the sailor on the S.S. Deadweight won't let you look at the map in the control room. During his conversation, he mentions that he needs to use the restroom as the result of drinking 17 bottles of prune pop, but he can't leave his post until his shift ends and his replacement arrives. You have to [[ClockTampering change the time on the time clock according to the time Bea Bear tells you]], then show up in a sailor hat in order to get Sal to leave.
310* At one point in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', the player visits Marrymore, a wedding chapel. There, you meet one child who has to go to the bathroom so bad they shake. Eventually it gets so bad that talking to the child will cause them to run out of the chapel to take care of business.
311* The premise of Chapter 4-2 in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' is as follows: Squirps desperately needs to use the bathroom, but whoever's inside won't come out. Mario and Co. have to find something that can be used as toilet paper, [[spoiler:even if it's a treasure map.]]
312* In ''VideoGame/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'', a side-effect of being [[BackFromTheDead resurrected]] is that the person is afflicted with "[[ResurrectionSickness Resurrection's Revenge]]", which leaves them stuck on the can for hours on end. This ends up incapacitating [[FakeUltimateHero Lok]], requiring Tak to be the one to get the moon stones.
313* ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'':
314** On ''VideoGame/MyTamagotchiForever'', your Tamagotchi will send you a warning saying "I have to go to the toilet. Quick!" when its toilet meter is low. If you ignore this message after two hours, the Tamagotchi will poop on the floor (though sometimes the accident will occur beforehand).
315** A similar Japanese game, ''[[VideoGame/LineDeHakkenTamagotchi Line de Hakken!! Tamagotchi]]'' also uses this feature, with your Tamagotchi sending you a message via line that it has to go to the bathroom with a unique phrase, ranging from phrases shared among characters like "I'm gonna have an accident!" (which just so happens to be the most common one) and "I want to use the bathroom now" to character-specific ones like Violetchi's "It's not gonna smell like flowers soon..." (Violetchi is characterized as being an InnocentFlowerGirl).
316* In ''VideoGame/TheUrinalGame'', trying to leave on one of the levels gives you the message that you're too busting to not go.
317* This trope occurs in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead Video Game Part 1''. When you get to the pharmacy in Macon after the car ride from Hershel's house and a conversation occurs, Clementine announces to Lee that she has to pee. During the remaining argument Clementine's bladder issues were brought up now and then. Soon enough, Clementine gets the keys to the bathroom. We are then given that there's a zombie in the bathroom, as Clementine is attacked by the zombie but she is saved. Other than this occasion, everyone in the story has a BladderOfSteel.
318* ''VideoGame/WarioWare'':
319** ''VideoGame/WarioWareIncMegaMicrogames'': In Crygor's chapter, the scientist is working with chemicals and then drinks what he thinks is a tasty beverage, unaware that it's a chemical that makes his bowel go haywire. He goes quickly to the restroom for an evacuation. Winning the microgames symbolizes the speed to get rid of the drunk chemical out of his body before it's too late.
320** ''VideoGame/WarioWareDIY Showcase'': The FramingDevice for Wario-Man's stage is Wario-Man coming across a series of people trying to get into restrooms, only for the shoddy door handles to keep them from easily getting the door open. Your goal: complete a microgame to have Wario-Man successfully pull the door open for them.
321** ''VideoGame/WarioWareGold'' has this as the plot's punchline -- [[spoiler:the vase Wario stole at the beginning of the game was that town's only toilet, and [[PunnyName Lulu]] claimed everyone has been holding it in since. [[ShaggyDogStory Her quest turns out to be completely unnecessary]] because they got a modern toilet in her absence]].
322* At some point in ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch 2'', Jibanyan suffers from a case of this in the middle of the night while in the countryside.
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326* Yuka from ''VisualNovel/CorpseParty'', who spends a good length of time looking for a restroom while she's wandering around a haunted school. [[PottyFailure Guess how well THAT turns out...]]
327* Early on in [=ClockUp=]'s ''Euphoria'', [[TokenMiniMoe Rika]] has one, [[JarPotty but there's only a bucket available.]] [[PottyFailure It does NOT end well...]]
328* ''VisualNovel/HighwayBlossoms'': After visiting the Grand Canyon, Marina suddenly has an urge to poop due to eating a gas station burrito beforehand. She begs Amber to stop at a nearby rest stop, and Amber eventually says yes after some persistent begging.[[note]]Gas station burritos earn a sorry reputation due to their usually sketchy quality that makes one go to the bathroom pronto.[[/note]]
329* In ''Kuremono'', Yui needs to go while on a date, but due to being unable to find a bathroom in time, she's forced to relieve herself in an alley.
330* In ''Lovely Day of Girlfriends & Me'', Yuka has one while on a date with Shou at an amusement park. [[PottyFailure She ends up having an accident...]]
331* Yae has one early in Episode 3 of ''VisualNovel/MalusCode'', after getting stuck in the cold storage room with Will due to them not being able to open the door. It nearly escalates to a PottyFailure, but Suzukake saves the day by opening the door from the outside after noticing their absence.
332* ''Sucre Portable'': Sayoko has this at one point in her route, while she and Keiichi are out on a walk. [[PottyFailure She doesn't make it...]]
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336* Leek’s entire schtick in ''WebAnimation/AnimatedInanimateBattle''. He has bladder issues and has to see the little leek's room often.
337* ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'': This happens to Wallow at the start of "The Puppetyville Horror", making the team postpone their mission so they could stop at an [[spoiler: seemingly]] empty planet covered in yellow snow, setting the main plot in motion.
338* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'':
339** "Happy Trails Part 1". After drinking a lot of juice boxes, Petunia ends up [[BringMyBrownPants wetting herself]] when the bus is about to fall off the cliff.
340** Happens to Petunia again in "Wingin' It". While on a plane, much to her horror the bathroom's walls are covered in vomit, but this time she does make it after cleaning up the restroom.
341** Flaky gets this in "Royal Flush", after she eats a sandwich with [[{{Yandere}} Mr. Pickels]] (sic) inside it.
342** Lumpy in "A Hole Lotta Love" after he ate a lot of beans.
343** Lumpy's elephant in "Junk in the Trunk" while it was being taken out for a walk.
344** Nutty has to go in "Going Out With A Bang" after eating a lot of candy and explosives.
345* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
346** In the long-lost cartoon "Jumping Jack Contest" (which can be viewed [[http://www.hrwiki.org/mirror/jumpinjacks2.html here]]), The Cheat tricks Homestar into drinking lots and lots of Melonade so that he will have to pee and thus forfeit the contest. But he simply relieves himself [[JarPotty in a jar]] supplied by the Poopsmith.
347** At the end of the Strong Bad E-mail "Extra Plug", Strong Bad tells everyone not to move, and then Homestar and Strong Sad start singing about how badly they have to pee.
348* This commonly happens to Deandra The New Girl from ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool''. [[spoiler: It's even an important plot point, as revealed in Episode 29.]]
349** In Brittnay's final French Class notes (MPGIS app only), there's this moment where she excuses herself for a bathroom break; judging from the following stuff she wrote below, she must've really had to go.
350--->''BRB bathroooooooom timeeee ''(pee droplets on paper)''<--ugh I missed a little while I was peeing!''
351** Everyone who [[spoiler:unknowingly drank [[LaxativePrank laxatives]]]] in Episode 82 end up with these. Some make it; others don't.
352* ''WebAnimation/ETUAnimatedStories'': Steph has to go to the bathroom after Derrick laced her food with laxative after she mocked him for being a waiter.
353* ''WebAnimation/GrimReaperFlagChan'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS-8NQHHECw Mobuo]] is holding in his poop on the train. After getting off the train he got stopped many times on his way to the toilet. When he finally made it, the male section had a long line. In desperation, Mobuo went to the women's bathroom but is caught by Mobumi and he ended up soiling his pants.
354* In one ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' short, Jaune is in need of the bathroom, but Ren, Nora and Sun end up keep running in and wasting time. Even worse, Pyrrha has spotted him and, unknowing of his emergency, thinks his potty dance is battle moves. [[spoiler:Sun smashing him into the wall with the door causes him to go and he must shamely slink away to change, Pyrrha confused as to what he's doing.]]
355* ''[[WebAnimation/ShutUpCartoons Smosh Babies]]'':
356** In "Extreme Desert Dodgeball", Ian suffers one due to having drank a lot beforehand (he thought P.E. class was called "Pee Class"). He ends up [[PottyFailure soiling himself near the end.]]
357** In "Bathroom Confusion", Anthony, Singh, Ian, Hector, and Isla have one while protesting separate bathrooms for boys and girls. [[PottyFailure It doesn't end well.]]
358* ''WebAnimation/SonicZombie'': In ''Doom Ship'', Franchise/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}} and Shadow develop bad bowel problems once Team Chaotix's Swedish meatballs kick in after dinner. They find Rouge waiting outside while Amy uses the restroom, and Tails "walks" in later needing to go too.
359* The events of the first episode of ''WebAnimation/{{Tankmen}}'' are started by Steve leaving behind and losing the tank he was supposed to drive due to needing to urinate outside urgently.
360* In the short video Banjo-Kazooie - Inkura has the Jiggy Piece, Ikura has to pee after she drinks some soda. Banjo and Kazooie offer her toilet paper if she gives them their Jiggy back.
361* In ''WebAnimation/TalkingTomShorts'', Tom, Ben, Ginger and Hank have one in "We Destroyed the Toilet!". [[PuttingThePeeInPool They ultimately end up peeing in the pool at the end.]]
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365* Subverted in ''Webcomic/AllenTheAlien''. Allen comments that he needs to use the restroom, but he finds one rather quickly.
366* Poor Mace in ''WebComic/{{Dreamkeepers}}'' has a mild case when running waters reminds him that he needs to go. When he seeks seclusion, he is prevented from relieving himself by the Nightmare that was following the group. He even had his pants down, flashing the Nightmare and Wisp.
367* ''WebComic/{{Freefall}}'': While tied to a chair, Florence realizes [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2500/fc02432.htm she needs to use the bathroom]].
368-->'''[[UpliftedAnimal Florence]]''': Seriously, if I don't get a break soon, this chair is going to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urination#Other_animals permanently considered part of my territory]].
369* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', the juice Dave drank much earlier comes back to haunt him, and as he's about to relieve himself, he finds his toilet uprooted and located in his bedroom. After expressing his frustrations to Jade, he thinks of how to use it to his advantage and pee in the bottle that contained the apple juice now haunting him, and then send the code to John because they'd be reenacting a scene from one of John's favorite movies, but [[SubvertedTrope decides that'd be too much work and he'd rather just pee in the shower.]]
370* The snarky Charisma from ''Webcomic/{{Magellan}}'' has one of these [[http://magellanverse.com/reasons/ suddenly imposed on her]] by a security guard who's [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway low-range psychic power]] is the ability to make people feel like they "really, REALLY need to pee".
371* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
372** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0086.html This strip]], which is notable in that the use of this trope itself is the punchline, since normally NobodyPoops in ''D&D''.
373** In [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1089.html this strip]], the first time Durkon ate human cooking, he got [[TheFoodPoisoningIncident a case of food poisoning so bad]] that he ended up running to the can for six hours, much to the disgust of the High Priest of Hel.
374--->'''High Priest of Hel:''' I'm gonna throw up!\
375'''Durkon:''' Ye cannae! [[CallBack Yer a negative energy spirit, rememb'r?]]
376* ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'': Avery [[https://ozyandmillie.org/2002/08/29/ozy-and-millie-972/ gets one]] when he mistakes a laxative for something that will make him cool.
377* Annayya from ''Webcomic/{{Pawn}}'', no thanks to spoiled rations.
378* One ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' strip had FunnyForeigner Pepito saying "I need to go to the bathroom" (in Spanish) as a FunnyBackgroundEvent while two main characters talked in the foreground. The last panel was "I no longer need to go to the bathroom."
379* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110211083548/https://tompreston.deviantart.com/art/SYAC-Bathroom-Breaks-196789138 Happens here]] in ''WebComic/SoYoureACartoonist'', and is {{discussed|Trope}}.
380* Early in the comic ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'', Lisa's very first request to Ally when they have their first face-to-face meeting is for directions to the bathroom, since she ''really'' needs to pee. She is shown embarrassed that how awkward that felt.
381* ''Webcomic/WorldOfFizz'': While on a date with Tim, Kelli has to pee after drinking a whole pot of coffee. She relieves herself in the bushes after asking Tim to pull over.
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385* ''WebVideo/SevenSecondRiddles'': A woman driving home from the supermarket realizes she suddenly needs to use the bathroom. During a ZombieApocalypse.
386* Both of the eponymous characters of the ''Blog/{{Alice and Bob}}'' get this due to rancid food. And Bob still has the runs in the next chapter.
387* At the beginning of ''WebAnimation/AGranaryAdventureTheUnderdogStory'', there is a brief scene where BLU Scout has to pee, but Heavy won't let him into the bathroom.
388* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz_(comics) Viz Comic]]'' did an animated spoof of ''Series/DoctorWho'', aptly titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiCcp4Jk-34 "Doctor Poo."]] In this, the TARDIS clearly doesn't have a toilet, and the Doctor travels through space and time looking for somewhere to defecate.
389* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Aw5y1l2xwI This parody of "Let It Go"]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' involves the struggle of a college student who drinks a lot of water on a hot day and has to urinate badly, but faces a lot of challenges along the way.
390* ''WebVideo/TheMarkRemark'': His first few episodes had him not talking about the women's matches because he has to pee every time. He later drops the pretense and makes it clear he hates these matches being used as a promotion for ''Series/TotalDivas''.
391* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': In the game "Petpetsitter", there will Petpets who need to use the bathroom. Failing to take them to the designated area in time [[PottyFailure will lead to puddles on the floor]].
392* [[http://notalwaysright.com/urine-her-way/24264 This]] ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' story, appropriately tagged "bizarre".
393* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'':
394** In the episode, "Bowser Junior's Punishment!", Charleyyy has one in an episode of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Charleyyy and Friends]]'' that Bowser is watching. Unfortunately, someone (presumably Franchise/{{Shrek}}) is already in the bathroom. Charleyyy then improvises by using the litter box.
395--->'''Charleyyy:''' If cats can do it, I can, too!
396** Bowser Junior has one in the episode, "The Elevator!", which sets the episode's main plot in motion. He eventually relieves himself in a cup he found on the floor, much to the disgust of Joseph and Cody.
397** Bowser Junior in "Life Is Ruff" while [[FreakyFridayFlip inside of]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext Chompy's body.]] He tries to get Chef Pee Pee to take him outside but Chef Pee Pee doesn't understand and [[BringMyBrownPants wets himself after Chef Pee Pee yells at him.]]
398** Jeffy has one at the beginning of "Jeffy Gets Stung By A Bee!", and acts like a dog so he can get Chef Pee Pee to take him outside to poop, which sets the episode's plot in motion.
399* In the literal video version of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", the "Bonnie Tyler" character has to go to the bathroom during the bridge, and one of the gymnasts kicks the door open for her. Only it's not the bathroom; she ends up in a room with a bunch of "blind possessed choir boys".
400--> '''"Bonnie Tyler"''': ''Get outta my way, I gotta pee!'' Never mind, I just went on the floor! Now I need to find a mop!
401* In one of WebVideo/ThomasSanders' Website/{{Vine}}s, he and a friend really need to go but can't because their toilet-trained cat is taking his time.
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405->''[[BrickJoke ".........OKAY, NEVER MIND."]]''

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