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When the character has to take a bath inside a barrel or small oil drum that is usually outdoors and heated over a fire underneath. This is typically seen in poor rural environments out in the country. Despite the bath being too small to fit more than one person, BathtubBonding still can occur, but it's guaranteed to get cramped, making at least one of the bathers uncomfortable (though if you change it so that way one person is bathing and the other isn't, you can have a subverted version of the trope. Or you can avert it by making the drum big enough to accommodate two people). OutdoorBathPeeping is another thing that is generally guaranteed. In comedic stories a popular bit of slapstick is to have the drum fall over and go rolling downhill with the bather inside.

This is the only time a bathtub can be outside without it being considered an AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub.

This setup is called a "Goemon-buro" (Goemon's Bath) in Japan, in (a somewhat morbid) reference to UsefulNotes/IshikawaGoemon and how he was executed by being boiled alive.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Nanako bathes in a barrel at the end of the second episode of ''Anime/AmazingNurseNanako''.
* In ''Manga/ArakawaUnderTheBridge'', it's the only kind of bath available to the bridge-dwellers. A ModestyTowel is recommended, in case the police come by.
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', it is shown in one scene at the very end of the series, as part of a montage of their humble and happy lives back at their home in the mountainside; [[spoiler:Tanjiro and Nezuko are back home, with Zenitsu and Inosuke now living with them as one happy FamilyOfChoice]].
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Goku commonly uses one as the default bathtub at his house. One notable moment is in ''Anime/TheTreeOfMight'' film when he bathes in it with Gohan.
* In ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' Saito, disgusted with the undersized servant's bathing house, sets up an old cauldron from the kitchen as a version of this. It's actually large enough for two people to fit in comfortably as he does with Siesta.
* Near the end of ''Manga/FutureDiary'', Yukiteru and Yuno take a bath in a oil drum together.
* ''Manga/PsychicSquad'': Mio bathes in one.
* Used on site by the cops in ''Patlabor: The New Files'' (2nd OVA series). Until an accident with their propane cylinder, which leads to them going to a public bath, where a mad bomber is hiding.
* Seen often in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', especially with Ryoga.
* In The ''Anime/SpaceFamilyCarlvinson'' manga, Belka can be seen doing so in chapter 3.
* Seen in the fourth episode of ''Anime/StrikeWitches 2''. With two barrels right next to each other.
* [[HighlyVisibleNinja Kaede]] and [[TheHero Negi]] share a barrel in an early chapter of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''.
* In the anime film ''Anime/TenchiMuyo In Love'', Kiyone is seen in one just before being [[InconvenientSummons teleported out of it]] by Washu.
* Akari and Chinatsu do this in Episode 12 of ''Anime/YuruYuri''. HilarityEnsues when Akari stretches her arms out and her barrel tips over and rolls downhill.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* The tiny size is LampShaded in one ''ComicStrip/{{Herman}}'' strip. A police officer is trying to give a man bathing in a drum a public nudity citation, whereupon the bather cheekily informs the cop that there's only one chair so he can't come in.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/CryBaby'': When we meet Johnny Depp's "drape" family, patriarch [[Music/TheStooges Iggy Pop]] is bathing in a little metal tub in the yard - he cheerfully exclaims "Ya caught me in my birthday suit!"
* In ''Film/FortyGuns'', the baths in Barney's Bathhouse are made from cut-down wooden barrels, although the bathhouse has wooden walls for some privacy.
* Creator/JeanHarlow's character Vantine bathes in a barrel full of water in ''Film/RedDust'', providing a few [[{{fanservice}} glimpses]].
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/ChicoAndTheMan'': Ed Brown catches Chico bathing in a drum in the men's room of the garage.
* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': After Justin gets turned into a werewolf, the cure involves him bathing in a potion, which his family prepares in a garbage can. He finds out that it was all unnecessary--his dad thought "ingest" was a synonym for "dunk," so he was supposed to simply drink the potion. Justin isn't too pleased about having to chug magic bathwater, to say the least.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The bath of the default house in ''VideoGame/AzureDreams''.
* ''VideoGame/LostInBlue 3'' has the ability to make a bath out of an oil drum to increase relationship values with other survivors.
* ''VideoGame/MegadimensionNeptuniaVII'' has Neptune, Nepgear, and Uzume Tennouboushi (later, [=BigNep=]) sharing a drum bath.
* The ending of ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' shows Dr. Light bathing in a barrel, with a [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]] Magma Man providing the heat.
* Travelers in ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' will bathe in steel drums if given a bath set.
* The first ''VideoGame/SuikodenI'' has the same feature when you recruit Sansuke, but you pretty much have to make him your ''only'' new recruit once available if you want to see the drums, as the upgrade to a proper bath happens much sooner.
* ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'' lets you add a bathhouse to your castle once you recruit Tetsu. The first version of it is just a series of drums for the characters to wallow in, but you can upgrade to high quality baths [[GottaCatchEmAll as you recruit more Stars of Destiny]].
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