'''Basic Trope''': A character holds their crotch and jumps to hold the pee.
* '''Straight''': Alice is having a PottyEmergency, and dances trying to hold it in.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice realizes she has to pee and immediately breaks into an energetic and impressively skillful tap dance.
* '''Downplayed''': As her PottyEmergency grows more severe, Alice is briefly seen bouncing back and forth.
* '''Justified''': Alice is really struggling to hold it, and she either thinks she's alone or isn't easily embarrassed.
* '''Inverted''': Alice is dancing at a nightclub, but stops when she notices she has to pee.
* '''Subverted''': Alice is seen dancing like this, but it turns out she's just on stage at a talent show.
* '''Double Subverted''': Afterwards she reveals that she really does need to use the bathroom, and does the exact same dance backstage.
* '''Parodied''': As soon as Alice starts potty dancing, music plays and everyone nearby breaks into SpontaneousChoreography.
* '''Zig Zagged''': It's too hard to tell if it's just a dance or Alice actually needs to use the bathroom.
* '''Averted''':
** Alice doesn't have to go to the bathroom.
** Alice has to go to the bathroom but gives no indication of it.
* '''Enforced''': The writers want to make Alice's PottyEmergency more obvious without adding extra dialogue.
* '''Lampshaded''': Alice exclaims she is embarrassed doing her "dance."
* '''Invoked''': Bob gives Alice a GiganticGulp while she's watching her favorite movie, and locks the bathroom door afterward.
* '''Exploited''': When Alice drinks a GiganticGulp and [[CallingYourBathroomBreaks announces that she's going to the bathroom]], Bob turns on his webcam and starts filming her.
* '''Defied''': Alice does not do a dance, as it would embarrass her.
* '''Discussed''': "Are you doing the bathroom dance?"
* '''Conversed''': "Why do characters dance when they have to go?"
* '''Deconstructed''': Someone video tapes her "dance" and uploads it to Website/YouTube. [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube It becomes an internet meme in an instant.]]
* '''Reconstructed''':
** After her friends see the video, [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain they decide not to talk about it]] and attempt to have it taken down.
** Alice herself is amused by the video and uses it to launch her influencer career.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice's PottyDance is used as a RunningGag.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice becomes a laughing stock after her friends see the "dance" she is doing.
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