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* ''Film/{{Go}}'': After realising she has been caught in a police sting, Ronna attempts to stage one, but discovers that the bathroom window has been painted shout, so she is instead forced to FlushTheEvidence.
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* ''Series/TheThinBlueLine'': When Grim and Boyle attend an illegal pub lock-in, they try the "old copper's trick" of escaping through the bathroom window, when the police arrive. Unfortunately for them, they find Inspector Fowler sitting inside the toilet stall, who says "the problem with old copper's tricks is that old coppers know 'em".


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* In ''Theater/StagsAndHens'' by Creator/WillyRussell, [[spoiler: the bride-to-be elopes with Peter, by escaping through the bathroom window in a nightclub]]. To some extent, this method is justified, as the entire play is set in the toilets of a nightclub.
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* In an ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story where a bad guy has taken over the school with a teacher robot, Jughead gets out and is able to save the real teachers by asking to use the bathroom.
* In the ending of the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' story "And the Executioner Wore Stiletto Heels", Stiletto ([[TalkingYourWayOut who has excellent persuasion abilities]]) escapes death row this way, by asking for a bathroom break some time before execution.
* One issue of the 2007 series of ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' opens with Metamorpho captured in France for [[ItMakesSenseInContext hijacking an ESA shuttle and ramming it into the International Space Station]]. He asks to go to the bathroom, and the prosecutor and two police officers escort him inside the bathroom (giving him enough privacy to do his business, of course)... But [[ElementalShapeshifter Metamorpho being Metamorpho]], he finds a creative way to escape.

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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': In an ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story where a bad guy has taken over the school with a teacher robot, Jughead gets out and is able to save the real teachers by asking to use the bathroom.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In the ending of the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' story "And the Executioner Wore Stiletto Heels", Stiletto ([[TalkingYourWayOut who has excellent persuasion abilities]]) escapes death row this way, by asking for a bathroom break some time before execution.
* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': Emp talks about how she thought about doing this but decided against it, because it might dissuade crooks from allowing captured heroines to use the bathroom in the future.
* ''ComicBook/TheLosers'': Aisha escapes through the bathroom window of a hotel room during a gunfight.
* ''ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}}'':
One issue of the 2007 series of ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders2007'' opens with Metamorpho captured in France for [[ItMakesSenseInContext hijacking an ESA shuttle and ramming it into the International Space Station]]. He asks to go to the bathroom, and the prosecutor and two police officers escort him inside the bathroom (giving him enough privacy to do his business, of course)... But [[ElementalShapeshifter Metamorpho being Metamorpho]], he finds a creative way to escape.



* In ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', Emp talks about how she thought about doing this but decided against it, because it might dissuade crooks from allowing captured heroines to use the bathroom in the future.
* In ''ComicBook/TheLosers'', Aisha escapes through the bathroom window of a hotel room during a gunfight.
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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Spectra does this in the forest to slip behind a tree and escape the guards escorting her back to Stoneskeep.
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* A viable tactic in ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfDoubt''. Attempting to flee the police/the suspect/random witnesses to your break-in? Make a beeline for the nearest toilet and climb into the nearest AirVentPassageway where they can't follow you.
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* ''Film/DoctorInLove'': While in Dawn and Leonora's hut, Drs. Hare and Burke see Professor [=MacRitchie=] and Dr. Flower approaching. Knowing that they can't be caught breaking their isolation, they tell the girls they'll wait in the bathroom to sterilise the teacups and plan to hide there until the coast is clear. Once Dr. Hare blows their cover with an IllTimedSneeze, the pair flee through the window.
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* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The Major does this during a training exercise, despite the fact that the toilet window is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome halfway up a skyscraper]].

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* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The Major does this during a training exercise, despite the fact that the toilet window is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome [[WallJump halfway up a skyscraper]].
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* In Alistair [=MacLean's=] ''Literature/FearIsTheKey'' the protagonist has taken a woman hostage. They hide out in a hotel where he offers her a chance to clean herself up. At first she indignantly refuses, then suddenly changes her mind. Realising what she's thinking, he goes and waits outside the bathroom window for her to crawl through it, then marches her back inside.

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* In Alistair [=MacLean's=] ''Literature/FearIsTheKey'' Creator/AlistairMacLean's ''Fear Is The Key'' the protagonist has taken a woman hostage. They hide out in a hotel where he offers her a chance to clean herself up. At first she indignantly refuses, then suddenly changes her mind. Realising what she's thinking, he goes and waits outside the bathroom window for her to crawl through it, then marches her back inside.
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* ''Film/RuthlessPeople''. Creator/JudgeReinhold's character has kidnapped a woman. Some cops come in to question him, and he excuses himself saying he has a touch of stomach flu. They hear moans and groans and assume he's having serious diarrhea, but he's really trying to squeeze out the window. Meanwhile, the cops have received a call implicating the husband, so they just leave.

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* ''Film/RuthlessPeople''. Creator/JudgeReinhold's character has kidnapped a woman. Some cops Detectives come in to question him, and he excuses himself saying he has a touch of stomach flu. They hear moans and groans and assume he's having serious diarrhea, but he's really trying to squeeze out the window. Meanwhile, the cops have received detectives receive a call implicating the husband, someone else, so they just leave.leave (while failing to notice him stuck halfway out the window).
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* ''Film/DadsArmy1971'': When the three Nazis hold everyone at the meeting in the church hall hostage, Warden Hodges escapes through the bathroom window, much to the bemusement of the Verger.
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* In ''Film/Revolver1973'', Milo Ruiz goes to the bathroom in the prison infirmary, then escapes by prising boards off the window when the guard escorting him is called away to the warden's office.
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Related to TheGuardsMustBeCrazy. Usually requires a character to engage in CallingYourBathroomBreaks. A character may also feign a ShyBladder to get away with this. See also BalconyEscape. Contrast LockedInTheBathroom, where the intent is to ''stay'' in the bathroom. Compare BathroomSearchExcuse, where a character uses ''looking'' for the bathroom as an excuse for snooping. A common method of escape for those attempting to DineAndDash.

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Related to TheGuardsMustBeCrazy. Usually requires a character to engage in CallingYourBathroomBreaks. A character may also feign a ShyBladder to get away with this. See also BalconyEscape. Contrast LockedInTheBathroom, where the intent is to ''stay'' in the bathroom. Compare BathroomSearchExcuse, where a character uses ''looking'' for the bathroom as an excuse for snooping. A common method of escape for those attempting to DineAndDash.
DineAndDash. If a person goes into the bathroom to escape via flushing themselves, that's ToiletTeleportation.
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* ''[[Film/OceansEleven Ocean's Twelve]]'' opens with a flashback to Rusty coming home to Isabel and asking her about the case she's working on. She tells him they've found a boot print and a hair sample from their current suspect, which Rusty knows belong to ''him''. He tells her he's going to take a shower, and then jumps out the bathroom window to go on the lam.


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-->'''Rachel:''' (''seeing the open window'') Oh, look at that, same thing.
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* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', Bella knows that the bathroom in the Phoenix airport has two doors in and out and her watcher, Alice, does not. Bella tells Alice she's going to the bathroom and then quickly escapes through the bathroom's other door before Alice can realize what she intends to do.

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* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''[[Literature/Twilight2005 Twilight]]'', Bella knows that the bathroom in the Phoenix airport has two doors in and out and her watcher, Alice, does not. Bella tells Alice she's going to the bathroom and then quickly escapes through the bathroom's other door before Alice can realize what she intends to do.
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* ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm''. Larry attempts this when he's accidentally MistakenForAPedophile after putting a water bottle in his pants.

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* ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm''. Larry attempts this when he's accidentally MistakenForAPedophile MistakenForPedophile after putting a water bottle in his pants.

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* The "hostages" at the LARP/ModelUnitedNations meeting do this to escape in the Mary-Kate and Ashley movie ''Film/WinningLondon''.

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* The "hostages" at the LARP/ModelUnitedNations Roleplay/ModelUnitedNations meeting do this to escape in the Mary-Kate and Ashley movie ''Film/WinningLondon''.


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* ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm''. Larry attempts this when he's accidentally MistakenForAPedophile after putting a water bottle in his pants.
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* ''Film/TheDarkTower2017''. Jake Chambers notices there's [[UncannyValley something odd about the people]] who've come to take him to a special clinic. He goes to pack his bag and then goes to the toilet, making sure to leave his bag outside so it doesn't look like he's trying this trope. Of course that makes it easier to climb out the window onto the roof. The villains however quickly realise what he's up to and go after him.

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* ''Film/TheDarkTower2017''. Jake Chambers notices there's [[UncannyValley something odd about the people]] people who've come to take him to a special clinic. He goes to pack his bag and then goes to the toilet, making sure to leave his bag outside so it doesn't look like he's trying this trope. Of course that makes it easier to climb out the window onto the roof. The villains however quickly realise what he's up to and go after him.
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* ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. Inverted in "Greenback Jane" where the title character waits till one of her guards goes to the toilet, then locks him inside by tying up the door handle. She then breaks a computer over the head of the other guard.

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* ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Inverted in "Greenback Jane" where when the title character waits till one of her guards goes to the toilet, then locks him inside by tying up the door handle. She then breaks a computer over the head of the other guard.



* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandaloneComplex''. The Major does this during a training exercise, despite the fact that the toilet window is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome halfway up a skyscraper]].

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* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandaloneComplex''. ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The Major does this during a training exercise, despite the fact that the toilet window is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome halfway up a skyscraper]].



* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. Mafia boss Mario Bossi escapes Triela this way, [[SlippedTheRopes while the two are chained together as well]]. Triela, one of the more efficient and proud cyborgs, is highly embarrassed and has to run him down while still in agony from her period.

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* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': Mafia boss Mario Bossi escapes Triela this way, [[SlippedTheRopes while the two are chained together as well]]. Triela, one of the more efficient and proud cyborgs, is highly embarrassed and has to run him down while still in agony from her period.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei attempts this in her giant red panda form twice. The first time is in her own house's bathroom and fails with her getting no more than her face out the window but the second time succeeds since she escapes out a school bathroom window that's ''just'' big enough to fit through.
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* In ''Anime/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'', Black and White escape one of Mr Snake's henchmen by climbing out of a bathroom window.

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* In ''Anime/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'', ''Manga/{{Tekkonkinkreet}}'', Black and White escape one of Mr Snake's henchmen by climbing out of a bathroom window.
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* Attempted in ''Film/BlackCat'' when Catherine, in the ladies' room, gets stalked by an assassin. She somehow managed to squeeze her way out from under the cubicles, before braining her captor using a toilet cover.

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