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7->'''N'Dugo:''' Bad guy falls in poop: ''classic'' element of physical comedy! Now comes the part where we throw our heads back and ''laugh!'' Ready?\
8'''Kip & Baleto:''' READY!\
9'''All:''' AHAHAHAHAHA!
10-->-- ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle''
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12Any comedy featuring animals, especially pets or barnyard animals, is required amongst the typical gags to make at least one [[ToiletHumour poop joke]], regardless of how lame, or poor, or tasteless, or yes, ''[[{{Pun}} shitty]]'' it might be.
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14The {{Trope Namer|s}} is a euphemism for horse manure.
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16If ''eating'' said Road Apples or cow pies (a euphemism for cow manure) is involved, then the trope is IAteWhat If someone [[{{Slapstick}} falls into]] the poop, it's SlippingIntoStink.
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18Often a subset of VulgarHumor.
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20One subtrope involving birds doing number 2 is the BirdPoopGag.
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22!!Examples:
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26* In a PSA called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Nu5csQvdU "Be a Considerate Pet Owner,"]] a man steps in dog poop as part of his run of animal-related bad luck.
27* ''Advertising/ClaudeTheCat'': In the digging PSA, Claude digs and it's implied he planned to go number two.
28-->'''Claude''': "So much for privacy."
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32* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', Osaka goes to Yukari to ask a question, which Yukari initially assumes will be about exams, but it turns out to be about what would happen if all the members of an American family stepped in dog poop and got all the way home without realizing it, since there's no universal American protocol regarding wearing shoes inside one's own home. That'll teach Yukari to tell Osaka, "Ask me anything!"
33* In ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'' Manji's sister [[CloudCuckooLander Machi]] finds a 'bean cake' on the ground and gives it to him. It is (of course) horse shit. A few panels later Manji [[{{Squick}} absentmindedly takes a bite out of it]], but being the titular [[HealingFactor immortal]] it doesn't seem to do him any lasting harm.
34* Shows up at least three or four times in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', complete with raunchy noises taken out of the English dub (Digi-Sludge!).
35* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has a couple of these, typically delivered courtesy of [[CanisMajor Sadaharu]]. Amusingly, it's censored with {{Pixellation}} in most situations.
36* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': There are a good number of gags involving Onizuka and his "depositions". Once a teacher tried to punch him and Onizuka used a cardboard box with a sample of his feces for a medical examination to shield himself. Cue the unfortunate teacher urgently needing a bath.
37* In ''Kamikaze Girls'', Momoko's daydreaming is cruelly interrupted by the realization that she just stepped in some cow poop.
38* [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E60 One episode]] of ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPartII Lupin III]]'' focuses on the villain Basala trying to find the location where Lupin has hidden some hidden diamonds. As the episode goes on, Basala thinks he has found the treasure, but it turns out to be a trunk full of cow dung. Complicating things, Basala's suicide ray has hit Lupin and the master thief is attempting to kill himself. In an effort to stop him from biting his tongue and bleeding to death, Jigen and Goemon stuff Lupin's mouth with the dung, and inadvertantly end up curing him. Ironically, the discarded dung turns out to be important; [[spoiler: it hints to Lupin's hiding spot for the diamonds: inside the guts of a herd of sacred cows Lupin is sending overseas.]]
39* If there's a steaming pile on the ground, ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' will step on it. That can be based on an accident Creator/MasashiKishimoto suffered when he was a child, where he fell on a huge heap of manure.
40* Even ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' cannot resist: In "Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon, [[TheRival Gary]] discover a fossilized Pokémon dropping at the local fossil digit. And despite [[{{Bowdlerization}} what you're thinking]], this was the ''opposite'' and in the English dub only. It was an Ammonite-type creature in the original.
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44* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': While walking through the Black Moon army camp, Wismerhill dodges a giant who just took a crap above him. Pilou notes that it would have been a [[UndignifiedDeath particularly embarassing way to go]].
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48* The primary duty of the stablehands is a RunningGag in ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId''.
49* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] once claimed that his mother put a cow pie in his lunch bag, though it's implied that he was lying.
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53* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'', the [[CloudCuckoolander eccentric]] girl's cat Mr. Whiskers has prophetic dreams about people, which is always followed by pooping in the shape of the dreamt-about person's first initial.
54* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1'', Sid accidentally steps on glyptodont poo. Then wipes it on two rhinos' salad. Then gets some on one of the rhino's face. You can't blame the rhinos for wanting to kill Sid after that.
55* The chimps Phil and Mason on ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1'' talk about going to Lincoln Center to fling poo at Tom Wolfe.
56* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'', Snowball accidentally poops himself while doing his EvilLaugh. A cat in the background then starts playing with the pellets.
57* ''WesternAnimation/FrozenFever'': After the events of ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', [[spoiler:Prince Hans of the Southern Isles]] has been relegated to [[DefeatMeansMenialLabor stable-cleaning duties]] back home for his attempted assassination of Elsa and Anna in Arendelle. He gets knocked into a cart full of horse poo after being hit by a giant snowball created by a sick Elsa during the celebration of Anna's nineteenth birthday, causing the nearby horses to laugh at him.
58** While not appearing in the ride itself, a news page featured in the queue of the ''Ride/FrozenEverAfter'' at Walt Disney World noted that onlookers in the Southern Isles actually found it quite funny seeing him being pummeled into the manure heap.
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62* ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': When Dave accuses Theodore of making a poop on his couch, Simon insists it's actually a raisin. Dave dares him to prove it, leading to Simon uncomfortably putting the "raisin" in his mouth, and then spitting it out in disgust when Dave leaves.
63-->'''Simon:''' ''(to Theodore)'' You owe me, ''big time''.
64* ''Film/AmericanWedding'' has Stifler following a dog, picking up some turds, pretending they're truffles, and eating them to cover the fact he lost the wedding ring.
65* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' has three instances where a Tannen ends up in manure.
66** The [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 very first film]] has Biff Tannen and his gang crash into a truck of manure after a time displaced Marty [=McFly=] from 1985 evades them on a makeshift skateboard.
67--->'''[[MassOhCrap Biff, 3D, Match and Skinhead]]:''' '''''[[VisualPun SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!]]'''''
68** The [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII second film]] has just Biff who crashes into the same manure truck after Marty evades him again with assistance from Doc Brown in his flying [=DeLorean=] time machine.
69--->'''Biff:''' Manure! I ''HATE'' MANURE!!!
70** The [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII third film]] has [[IdenticalGrandson Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen]] on the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Marty (going by the name of Creator/ClintEastwood), culminating with the lad knocking him into a wagon of manure (shown above).
71--->'''Buford:''' ''[spits out manure]'' I ''hate'' manure...
72* There's a scene in the '90s ''Literature/BlackBeauty'' film where he's brought into his owner's house so she can paint a picture of him. He poops in the house.
73* In ''Film/{{Caveman}}'' [[spoiler: GoldDigger Lana is dumped by DoggedNiceGuy Atouk into a big pile of Dinosaur crap]] at the end.
74* The chipmunk Pip in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' lets one out when he sees the villain's henchman at a bar, lacking the benefit of [[BringMyBrownPants brown pants]] or for that matter any at all.
75* In ''Film/FiddlerOnTheRoof'', Tevye steps in something in the barn at the end of his dance for "If I Were A Rich Man". He casts a reproachful look at the heavens, presumably thinking that {{God}} decided to take him down a peg.
76* During his cross-country run, ''Film/ForrestGump'' steps in a pile of dog poo, which leads to the creation of an infamous bumper sticker.
77* In ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', Lyle faceplants in a large pat of elephant dung, prompting his native guides to engage in a contractually obligated round of hearty laughter.
78* ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' has a dog belonging to one of the heroes eat the keys they desperately need. They feed the dog laxatives and take him for a walk. The pooch just happens to "go" when a group of people looking to kill the heroes show up, and they're so disgusted by the man digging through (presumably runny) dog poop that they run off.
79* The same director of ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' ripped off his own movie in his next one, ''Film/{{Hop}}''. The difference is that it's the Easter Bunny, he defecates jelly beans and a human eats the droppings (as nature intended).
80* In ''Film/HotelForDogs'', the protagonists have to housebreak all the dogs because they step in poop, so they make them two separate bathrooms for peeing and pooping. The villains end up falling down the dogs' poop toilet.
81* In ''Film/JoeDirt'' Joe describes to a DJ host about his travels where at one point he found what he thought was a meteor that had crashed near him. He pulls it along his travels, even eating off it at one point before taking it to an astronomer to confirm its real. Unfortunately for him he finds out its not a meteor but a big turd ball from an airplane that froze during is waste descent.
82* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
83** As seen in the original page image, ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' heaped a great big steaming pile of dinosaur dung at the protagonists. Dr. Ellie Sattler went elbow-deep in it, too. The trike's excrement isn't really played for laughs, however -- the animal's gastrointestinal distress is due to the poisonous plants and berries placed around its paddock, and is one of the first (of many) signs that the Park wasn't as well-designed as its creators thought.
84--->'''Malcolm:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JFfN5pKzFU That is one big pile of shit.]]
85** ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' has the protagonists going after a cellphone in a pile of dino dung (said phone was on one of the pilots that had gotten eaten).
86* In the movie ''[[Film/{{K91989}} K-9]]'', Jim Belushi's character decides to teach the dog who's boss by locking him in a walk-in pantry overnight. Fast forward to the next morning, and it is discovered that the dog has [[ChewbaccaDefense won the argument in its own way.]]
87* In ''Film/{{Madeline}}'', Lord Covington (a.k.a. [[MaliciousMisnaming Lord Cucuface]]) discovers that the Miss Clavel and the girls have broken his "no pets" rule when he steps in Genevieve's poop in the yard. In the original book he just hears Genevieve make a noise from her hiding spot, but that wouldn't have been as funny onscreen.
88* In ''Film/NannyMcPheeAndTheBigBang'', Cyrils call the farm "The Land of Poo" upon noticing all the manure on the ground.
89* In ''Film/OperationDumboDrop'', Bo Tat the elephant craps a ''lot'' in the flatbed truck that TheSquad uses to transport her. One guy gets covered in it.
90* In ''Film/PetticoatPlanet'', Steve ignores the mayor's advice to watch his step, trips down the stairs, and face plants in a pile of horse manure in the street.
91* ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' ends with a notable example of this. [[NauseaFuel Using real dog feces.]]
92* Disney's ''[[Film/Pinocchio2022Disney Pinocchio]]'' remake has the wooden boy stopping to sniff and poke a pile of horse poop in the street on his way to school wondering if he'll learn what it is in class.
93* ''Film/ProblemChild 2'' has Nippy, Big Ben's dog, being snapped out of Junior's botched trance by a brand new dog food known as Chow Down. Its main side effect is Nippy leaving behind a ''very'' big turd afterwards.
94* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' has a scene where the supporting characters are searching for rocks that Andy can carve. One brings one up and asks what kind of stone it is, only to be told it's petrified horse dung.
95* In ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'', an electronically rehabilitated Woody Allen is oriented to his new futuristic home, including a robotic Scottie dog ("Woof, woof! Hello, I'm Rags!"). Allen asks "Is he housebroken, or is he going to leave little batteries all over?"
96* In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', Grouchy lands in a candy dish full of blue M&Ms which he thinks are "Smurf droppings" before he eats them.
97* Jar Jar Binks steps into "icky-icky goo" when arriving to Mos Espa in ''Franchise/StarWars'' ''[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]''.
98* In ''Film/Strays2023'' all the dogs intentionally poop to be freed from the animal shelter. The shelter worker falls in it going to clean it up.
99* In one scene in ''Film/{{Willow}}'', the protagonist and Madmartigan are arguing, until the latter steps in what looks like dog doo. Cue an OhCrap expression from both of them, as they know it's not from a dog, it's from a ''troll'', which means those dangerous monsters are probably around. (And it just goes downhill from there...)
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103* Alice sees Bob carrying a wheelbarrow of cow manure. She asks him what it's for and he replies that it's to put on his strawberries. Alice says, "I don't know where you come from, but where I come from, we put cream and sugar on our strawberries, not manure!".
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107* ''Literature/AngelaNicely'': There are several dog poop jokes in “Puppy Love!” – the opening drawing has a dog pooping, Mrs. Nicely doesn’t want a dog as she doesn’t want to scoop its poop, and when Angela is looking after her neighbour’s dog Scruff, he poops on the driveway and later Mrs. Nicely steps in it.
108* In the ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' book "The Trouble with Pets", when Lady the dog is being house-trained, her poop is referred to by the UnusualEuphemism "calling cards".
109* In one of the ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' books, Greg steps in the poop of a dog named Rebel. Wearing new shoes, no less.
110* ''Literature/DirtyBertie'':
111** In the aptly-named story "Poop!", Bertie brings his dog Whiffer to a party, but he poops, so Bertie picks it up. One thing leads to another, and the poop ends up landing in the pool.
112** In "Pong!", Whiffer smells bad because he rolled in cow poop.
113** In the ''[[SpinOff Angela Nicely]]'' story "Puppy Love", one of the dogs that Angela, Maisie, and Laura are walking poops on Angela's driveway, then Mrs. Nicely steps in it.
114** In the joke book, one of the jokes is "What did Bertie get when he walked under a cow? A pat on the head."
115** In "Rats!", the first clue that Monty the mouse has moved in with the Burns family is that they find his droppings in the cupboard.
116** In "Hamster!", Snuffles the hamster poops on Bertie.
117* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book "Mort", Mort is made to clean up the horse poop.
118* ''Literature/DoggyDooOnMyShoe'' is all about people stepping in dog poop and wondering if they should teach dogs to pick up their own "doo", make rules about where they should poop, or even put nappies on them.
119* ''Literature/EveryonePoops'' is about how everyone, including different animals, poop, and at one point it jokingly says that camels have humped poop.
120* This trope forms the entire plot of the children's book ''The Mole Who Knew it was None of his Business'', as the titular animal questions everyone from beetles to birds to horses to find out who accidentally did their "business" on his head. Surprisingly, for a picture book about poop it restrains from vulgarity and is pretty damn funny. Now available in a "plop-up" edition.
121* There's a glossary at the start of ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyIvan'' explaining the particular turns of phrase that Ivan the gorilla uses in his narration. This includes "me-balls", dried excrement packed into tight, throwable balls. They barely come up in the book itself though, other than Ivan wondering why humans never seem to carry any.
122* In ''Petter och de upproriska grisarna'' (''Petter and the Rebellious Pigs'') by Ulf Stark dog shit is the important part of the chapter where the boys steal the unpaid wages. (The factory owner refused to pay his workers because of some prolonged dispute, and the boys decided to steal the cash and give it to the union.) First Staffan stepped into dog shit on their way to the office. Then they discussed at length how many dogs there were in Sweden and in their town in particular and how much shit do those dogs drop. And how clean their pet pig is. Then Staffan was busy working on the safe and Petter had nothing to do, but feel the stench from Staffan's shoe fill the whole room. Then they had to hide in the wardrobe and were found thanks to the stench. (The boys managed to escape unrecognized and with money.)
123* In ''Mr Bean's Diary'' (spin-off book from the series ''Series/MrBean''), Mr Bean starts "the Bean Anti-Poop Association", involving giving "a punch up the bracket" to owners of dogs who foul paths, and sends letters to residents inviting them to join. He receives angry replies from dog owners, and a letter from the police. He receives angry replies from dog owners, and a letter from the police. Later, he devises an elaborate plan involving fitting wings to his car, from which dangles a duvet cover containing half a ton of horse manure, and launching the car from the top of a tall building to crush dog owners; but he is stopped by the police.
124* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, in Leona the Unicorn Fairy's book, a goblin falls into a pile of horse manure at a stable and sprains his ankle.
125* In the children's book ''Randall's Ranky Day'', the first bad thing that happens on Randall's bad day is that his dog poops on the neighbour's lawn.
126* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'':
127** In “Let’s Go to the Beach, Roys Bedoys!”, Charlie the dog poops on the beach and Roys buries it, then later digs it up mistaking it for treasure.
128** In “It’s Friday the 13th, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys steps on cat poop.
129** In “Don’t Feed Wildlife, Roys Bedoys!”, the wild animals poop on the ground.
130* Literature/StephaniePlum has a dog, Bob. He eats everything. Stephanie has a mortal enemy, Joyce. [[ExcrementStatement Joyce has a lawn]]. Joyce is not amused.
131* The index of ''Literature/TheStinkyCheeseMan'' has a fake entry for a story titled "The Boy Who Cried 'Cow Patty'."
132* In the kids' book ''Stuck in Poo, What to Do?!'', a young bird ends up stuck in cow poo.
133* ''Literature/TheWorldOfPoo'' by Miss Felicity Beadle (actually Sir Creator/TerryPratchett) is all about this, with a young boy who decides to start a poo collection and find poo from all the animals in Ankh-Morpork.
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137* TruthInTelevision: A certain well-known incident involving a baby elephant in the ''Series/BluePeter'' studio.
138* General rule of thumb; if an animal appears on screen, expect their poop to be mentioned in the ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire''. Notable examples include a pigeon, a dog, and a cat pooping all over the gymnasium (albeit off-screen) in “An Inspector Calls”, Brittas being dragged through emu poop by said emu in “The Old Old Story”, and both Brittas and Helen falling into elephant poop in “The Elephant’s Child”.
139* Not seen, but referenced in ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' when Lewis and Oswald mention that "If his [[FrivolousLawsuit complaint about]] road apples holds up, we're [[ImGoingToDisneyworld going to Disney Land]]!"
140* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "[[Recap/FireflyE05Safe Safe]]" sees the crew smuggling a "cunningly concealed herd of cattle" to another planet, with Simon stepping in a cow patty on his way out of the ship. Later, Mal mutters as he is stepping around the cow patties, "This is the last time... last time with cows..."
141* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' has Colonel Potter's introduction to his horse end with a "tiptoe through the tulips".
142* Mucking the stables is close to being a OnceAnEpisode thing on ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}''.
143* On ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', Andy and Angela are touring Dwight's farm in the hope of staging their wedding there. Andy steps in animal dung in the barn, which is to be expected, and then steps in some more ''in Dwight's kitchen.''
144* Creator/MarkEvanier relates a hilarious story of his experience as head writer for the ill-fated variety series ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff''. He realized that he could ask the producers for anything for a sketch and they would get it for him, so he went a bit crazy and asked for a live elephant. Long story short, the elephant did a little improvising during the taping, to general hilarity. Read it [[http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL226.htm here.]]
145* Even the sober-toned ''Planet Earth'' documentary series couldn't resist showing its cave episode's film crew, marveling at how they've just spent ''days'' filming the world's largest pile of bat poop.
146* A famous TV blooper has Red Skelton on his live show doing a bit with a cow, who lets go on camera - for a long time. Red quips "No ad-libbing!" to her.
147** It was also done on other shows, most famously ''I've Got a Secret''. The week after, however, is another story.
148*** "...about 6,000 people in the audience began to go... (mooing noises) 'Hey Garry, where's your cow?'"
149* In ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS4E8MergersAndAcquisitions Mergers and Acquisitions]]", Ralph purchases a racehorse. His mistress, Valentina La Paz, tricks him into stepping into horse manure; partly as a prank to make her and the others laugh and partly because according to superstition, accidentally stepping in horse dung is a sign of good luck.
150* ''Series/{{Temps de chien|2023}}'':
151** When Kim tries to help Antoine heal a cow, she {{faint|InShock}}s, resulting in her landing her head on a big cowpat.
152** In the following episode, at the clinic, Antoine accidentally steps on some poop made by a customer's dog. One scene later, the same customer tells him that her dog once again pooped on the floor, causing Antoine to sarcastically shout "Good! Good!"
153* In a famous episode of ''Series/ToTellTheTruth'', Garry Moore literally had a mess on his hands when a guest brought an armadillo into the studio.
154* ''Series/WorzelGummidge'': In "Worzel the Brave", Worzel falls into cowpat and so when Aunt Sally tells him he smells like the pigsty, he tells her that, no, [[WrongInsultOffense he smells like the cowshed]].
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158* Many parodies of the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' theme involve poop:
159** One variation is "Scooby-dooby-Doo, took a poo, Shaggy [[IAteWhat thought it was chocolate]]. Shaggy took a bite and turned all white. That's the end of Shaggy." Another version has Shaggy [[SparedByTheAdaptation survive]], but another version has the whole gang accidentally eat the poop and die.
160** There's one parody that goes, "Scooby-dooby-Doo took a poo in Shaggy's slipper."
161* ''Music/TheTragicallyHip'''s album ''Road Apples''. The title was intended as a TakeThat against their label for rejecting the album's original title.
162** There was also a Tragically Hip tribute band in the 90s with the name Road Apples.
163* "Cow Patti", by novelty country singer Jim Stafford, is the tale of a young gunfighter looking for the man who killed her daddy; during the climax of the big gunfight, the killer "slipped in somethin' that was layin' in the street and was shot 'fore he hit the ground," and the heroine quips, "you gotta watch your step when you know the chips are down."
164* Music/{{Bloodywood}}'s Jayant Bhadula steps in a freshly laid animal crap (probably either from a cow or an elephant given it's in India) during the intro to the video for "Gaddaar", a song about the band's opinion of politicians who stoke ethnic and religious tensions to get votes.
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168* This is OlderThanPrint. Medieval people believed in a creature called the bonnacon, which could...[[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&id=HistSciTech.Bestiary&entity=HistSciTech.Bestiary.p0039 just read it, okay?]] This creature appears as an enemy in ''VideoGame/LaMulana''.
169* From Myth/ClassicalMythology, we have the Augean Stables. So full of animal crap that ''Hercules'' was needed to clean them up, as one of his Twelve Labors.
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173* The "Joe's Diner" mode from ''Pinball/TheFlintstones'' ends with a large pterodactyl flying overhead and releasing a giant dropping that engulfs the diner.
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177* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ERVPBlKjg0 Cake: El Hornito Pastelero]]'' (Cake: The Cake-making Little Oven), a mock toy commercial (in Spanish) from the now defunct Mexican radio station Radioactivo 98.5. At first you'd think that it's just a toy oven for baking mini cakes, except that the "cakes" are implied to be something else entirely:
178-->"Place your cakes on the floor in strategic places, and ''smear'' all the fun watching how your family and little buddies walk around hopping on one foot looking for grass and puddles!"
179-->'''Mom:''' It smells weird in here...
180-->'''Dad:''' What do you mean "weird"?
181-->'''Mom:''' Yeah, weird... stinky... BLEUGHT!
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185* There is a widely-circulated (though false) story of a zookeeper in Germany who attempted to give an elephant an olive oil enema by injecting it up the animal's anus. This resulted in the elephant releasing 200 pounds of dung onto him, crushing him to death.
186* A similar story tells of an American zoo visitor who, hoping to prove the effectiveness of Krazy Glue to some [[JapaneseTourist Japanese Tourists]], covered his hands in the stuff and placed them on the rear end of a rhinoceros. Guess what happened next?
187** A variation of the legend is that it was Gorilla Glue used on a horse that ended with the man being dragged to death by the animal trying to get away from him.
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191* The game ''TabletopGame/DontStepInIt'' involves players being blindfolded, and following instructions from others to avoid walking in dog mess, made from clay.
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195* Similarly, in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'', fossils can be dug up, such as trilobites, the Peking Man, a dinosaur track, a dinosaur egg, and... dino droppings. So close...
196* In ''VideoGame/BlueDragon'', there is a race of enemies called the Poo Snake. Three guesses what they look like. A large one of them even uses a flatulence attack.
197** There's a Mecha-Dinosaur boss that has a large one of these as a minion in the boss fight. If said poo snake dies, the dinosaur...umm...[[{{Squick}} replaces it]].
198** Enemies will also sometimes leave behind droppings when they are defeated, and the heroes can actually search through it to find treasure.
199* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' actually has a variant of this as an integral part of a Game Plot fetch-quest chain.
200** Specifically, you have to be knocked out, go to the dream world where the fairies live, run out monsters who have invaded their homes...for which you receive a fresh, steaming "Fairie Drop" as a reward (complete with aforementioned fairie ''relieving hirself in the bushes to give it to you'' and even saying at the end "Wow, that was a big one!" Ewww...) This is so that a broken sword can be reforged (the fairie poo is a magical component) and a party member can be sprung out of prison. (And yes, the DrunkenMaster of the party even explicitly ''states'' in horror that you're carrying around ''a piece of fairie shit''.)
201* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' has more than a few jokes about animal feces, even if you don't count the Great Mighty Poo as an animal.
202** One level has you turned into a vampire bat and you can only fight by pooping on things. It's described as the end result (heh) of all the antigravity chocolate you'd eaten previously.
203* ''VideoGame/DinosaurKing'' has dinosaur feces (yes, it's called that in game) as something you can dig up. [[ShopFodder They sell for a very high price]].
204* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'' has manure and guano, which are occasionally dropped by various creatures. They're actually incredibly useful items, serving as both fuel for campfires and fertilizer for gardens.
205* Used in the ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' {{DLC}} ''Mark of the Assassin''. During the Wyvern Hunt, Hawke can examine wyvern dung to aid in the quest.
206-->'''Fenris:''' Aww, Hawke stepped in the poopy.
207* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'', one of the items you can get is a 'cowpat'. When you 'use' the item, it says "Hero grips the cowpat tightly. Hero deeply regrets his decision."
208** These have actually appeared as useless items since ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV''. In the NES version of that game they were actually ''called'' Road Apples, although this was mainly due to Nintendo's censorship policies that prevented them from calling them anything else.
209** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'', you can throw a "cowpat" on some poor guy's fire. Needless to say, he doesn't appreciate it.
210* ''VideoGame/FossilFighters'' also has fossilized droppings, but they're so worthless they barely even qualify as ShopFodder.
211* ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' requires you to collect horse farts and pick up a cow patty.
212* In ''VideoGame/{{Glitch}}'', piggies and batterflys produce dung, though it's generally useful.
213* In the world of ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'', racing on giant cats is a celebrated sport (much like horse racing), and the player gets to visit a cat race track in Rubacava...and discover the giant cat litterbox behind it.
214* In ''VideoGame/HamtaroHamHamHeartbreak'', Hamtaro can investigate some rustling in a bush by poking it with a stick. A hamster will jump out and run away, embarrassed. Should Hamtaro run the stick through a second time, that hamster's poop come out stuck to it.
215* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' features the return of Guays, previously seen in ''Ocarina of Time'' and ''Majora's Mask''. However, in this game, instead of dive-bombing you to attack they... take craps on your head. Huh.
216* In the Old West chapter of ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', you can find horse dung and have it set up as a BoobyTrap.
217* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', Luigi steps in dog doo (or its equivalent) the first time he encounters the Polterpup.
218* It seems that Some are involved in the certain later levels in an Platform/Xbox360 Indie game ''Maid_San's Caving Adventure''
219* Weaponized in ''Videogame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. One of the abilities that D-Horse can gain when leveling up his RelationshipValues is the ability to crap on command. While seemingly just there to be funny, it's actually capable of causing enemy vehicles to skid out of control and crash if they drive over it.
220* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': One of the things you can buy related to the legendary glammoth is its droppings.
221* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' you can drop a weaponized goddesspat.
222* In ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', there are a bunch of Pokémon "surprises" in the shopping mall in Hau'oli City, and a sidequest involves finding all of them and putting them in a bag without leaving the mall or going into any of its stores. Doing so gets you the TM for the [[MagicMusic Round attack]]. To keep the game family-friendly though, the turds are not actually shown in the game; they are depicted as invisible piles of sparkles.
223* ''VideoGame/Postal2'': In the ''Lost Paradise'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]], a member of an AnimalWrongsGroup frees an elephant from an animal detention center. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished it "thanks" her by taking a huge dump on her, burying her in a mountain of excrement and attacking the rest of the group]].
224* In ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'', the only creatures to produce noticeable dung are Sea Treaders. Treader dung is one of the best fuels for the Bioreactor if you can secure a steady supply.
225* In ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'', you can gain 1 XP each for shoveling horse manure (or, at Halloway's Hideout, squirrel droppings). There's also a destination called "The Big Apple"... let's just say it's not New York.
226* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has a reference to the ''Gone in 60 Seconds'' bit above, where you have to lead a felhound around and kill demon pigs, then rummage through the...leftovers... to find the keys to a [[PoweredArmor shredder]].
227** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' loves to do this. Three different quests involving handling or looking through poop, and there's another where you eat seeds that are supposed to be planted in a farmer's field. Guess how you get them back.
228*** It's implied at the end that you're [[{{Squick}} not the first player to go through this process.]], both a jab at the absurdity of players doing the same quest multiple times, and another one of blizzard's lovely gross out gags.
229** As of ''Cataclysm'', monkey pets, gorilla [=NPCs=], and '''Ogres''' have an attack called "Fling Filth". It's exactly what it sounds like, and the spell description ends off with "How rude."
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232[[folder:Web Comics]]
233* An example featuring the Shetland Pony provides the page quote for ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant''
234* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Lord Shojo disciplines his paladins by forcing them to clean Mr. Scruffy's litterbox. Belkar thinks this is ''awesome''.
235* ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish'':
236** The monkeys are infamous in the lab for throwing poop.
237** In one strip, Thaddeus gets a stool sample from the lab monkeys.
238* Done frequently with Kiki in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', and [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090504 occasionally with Bun-Bun.]]
239* How do you decide whose turn it is to clean the cat box? [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=81803 Trial by Combat!]]
240** Later, Lee III celebrates coming of age by accepting [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=202763 adult responsibilities.]]
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243[[folder:Web Original]]
244* On ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', dung is a running gag, with creatures wearing, chewing, eating, and making furniture out of it.
245* The Low End Mac website uses [[http://www.lowendmac.com/roadapples/ "Road Apple"]] for the worst Platform/AppleMacintosh models. Bought a Performa 6200? It's no better than horse excrement.
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248[[folder:Web Videos]]
249* ''WebVideo/OzzyManReviews'': Video called "Rebellious Dogs" has a dog taking a dump in the middle of a pet show. And the dog has been doing really well in the contest.
250-->'''Ozzy Man''': Look at Ravi! Over the first hurdle, the second, the third... Majestic as fuck. And he decides to take a shit. He gets through 90 % of the course and then says, "Enough, I have to snap one off, I had a huge breakfast." And in comes the human to clean it up. Classic human.
251* The title card for ''WebVideo/YouKnowWhatsBullshit'' features [[VisualPun a bull releasing a huge mound of feces from its anus]].
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254[[folder:Western Animation]]
255* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', "Arthur's New Puppy" has D.W. joke about how Arthur will need a shovel to clean up Pal's poop.
256* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has done a couple.
257** In ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheAvatarAndTheFireLord The Avatar and the Firelord]]'', Aang's spirit takes a ride on Roku's dragon. This causes his body to assume a position remarkably similar to that of someone relieving themselves.
258---> '''Katara:''' Do they have bathrooms I'm the Spirit World?\
259'''Sokka:''' [[CallBack As a matter of fact, they do not.]]
260** In ''[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheRunaway The Runaway]]'', Sokka buys a [[InstantMessengerPigeon messenger hawk]] (naming it [[ADogNamedDog Hawky]]). While it delivers messages just fine, it's only response to being asked for advice is to poop.
261* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' episode, "I'd Rather Not Talk About It", Jim and Jeremie are pursued by XANA-controlled wolves; Jim remembers and mentions a trick in the army where he masked his scent using dung. Jeremie shoots the idea down quickly. (Not that it was feasible anyway.)
262* In Creator/ChuckJones' "WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy", Western Hero Daffy ends up declaring, "I told you I'd clean up this one-horse town!" and we see he's been made the town street cleaner. Sidekick Porky (who's been made sheriff) tells us, "Lucky for him it ''is'' a one-horse town!". This last line gets cut from TV syndication nowadays.
263* When WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim gets his supersuit cleaned, he comments that it's as clean and fresh as a country road. Peter Puppy replies, "Evidently, you've never been to the country. Does the term "Horse apples" mean anything to you?
264* In the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' movie, ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'', after chimps become the dominant species on earth (long story), a glob of brown gunk gets thrown into Wanda's face, to which she groans, "Please be mud."
265* A rare instance in a preschool series. Literature/{{Franklin}} once stepped in the mess of a duckling he was keeping in his room while he couldn't find the parents.
266* As ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' wandering through the sewers and complaining all the way, he comments, "Eww! I hope that thing that just floated past me was a candy bar!"
267* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
268** In "Chore and Peace", Lana's chore is cleaning up the pets' poop (except for Geo, who she taught to use the toilet).
269** In "No Guts, No Glori", Cliff the cat keeps pooping outside his litterbox.
270** In "Pasture Bedtime", Liam talks about (and lands in) the manure on his farm.
271** In "Butterfly Effect", Lincoln imagines Charles pooping on the couch.
272* ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' occasionally does poop jokes - not surprising, considering it's about a school for animals. Examples are Jake eating bat guano, Mr. Hornbill (a rhinoceros) offering the lunch lady a "rhino pie" he made himself, and the Animas Rock from the YouMeanXmas episode "Have a Joyous Little Animas".
273* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': The very polite and well-spoken chimp Mason is still keen to fling faeces at people in one episode, claiming it's "traditional". He also mentioned doing so in the original movie, ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}''.
274* Averted in the ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' short titled "Road Apples", as no poop is actually shown, but you do get [[SquIck skunk milk]] and [[CreatorsPet Wilbur Cobb]].
275** The BannedEpisode "Man's Best Friend" has George Liquor giving Stimpy a "Lawn Cigar" chew toy.
276** A scene cut from "Sven Hoek" implies that Sven and Stimpy are playing with turds from Stimpy's litter box. ("Look, I'm a juggler!" "I'm a sword swallower!")
277*** And also:
278--->'''Ren:''' MY DINOSAUR DROPPINGS! PAINTED LIKE ''EASTER EGGS!''
279* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers G1]]'' FantasyKitchenSink episode "A Decepticon Raider In King Arthur's Court'', a seagull lets loose on Starscream while flying over him. In addition, seagull droppings are [[BreadEggsMilkSquick an unexpected part]] of [[WizardClassic Beorht's]] recipe for "dragon's bane" (aka gunpowder).
280** Would you believe this is actually TruthInTelevision? Seabird droppings are a source of potassium nitrate, an important ingredient in explosives.
281* In the ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' episode "Big as Texas", the heroes are doing a cattle drive when Raimundo falls off of his horse.
282-->'''Raimundo:''' What did I just land in?\
283'''Clay:''' That would be a cow pie.\
284'''Raimundo:''' No, I know my pies. Pies have cherry, or apple, or rhubarb. ''This is no pie!''
285* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has the Griffins visiting the Amish. Meg, who is behind a horse and is distracted by talking to one of the Amish, gets crapped on by a horse offscreen while the Amish man comments on it. Meg screams as the horse keeps shitting on her and it's implied she's completely submerged in horse crap when she stops screaming, which has the Amish man suggest to her that she should close her mouth. Said horse is named Dumper.
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288[[folder:Real Life]]
289* The most expensive coffee in the world, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak Kopi Luwak]], is made from coffee beans that have been eaten and excreted by Asian Palm Civets. Thinkgeek sells this [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/d60c/ coffee]], but doesn't even try to cover up where it comes from, possibly to avoid IAteWhat.
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