History Main / AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub

* It's not unusual for luxury skyscraper hotels to have the bathtub placed next to a floor-to-ceiling window or on a balcony so their guests can enjoy the view (of course, this only works if the view isn't of a neighboring building). Likewise getaway hotels, glamping or rental cottages that are surrounded by countryside with no other houses may have an outdoor tub or hot pool.

->''"*sigh* A hot bath is just the thing I need to clear my head.\\
''(takes bath)''\\
Ahh... ({{Beat}}) Wait... I don't own a bathtub!"''

* In ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' Priscilla Asagiri lives in a semi-truck trailer that has a clawfoot bathtub in it which is weirdly placed right next to a TV and right underneath a speaker which looks to be an [[ElectrifiedBathtub Electrical Hazard]].
* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Laura Stuart has a room with a ridiculous number of bathtubs in it. Anyone can enter the room to talk to her while she is bathing.

* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' features one in the Occult Research Club's clubroom. At least it has a shower curtain.

* In the Literature/{{Boojumverse}} story ''Boojum'', the SpacePirate Captain Song has a bathtub on the bridge of her ship the ''Lavinia Whateley''. Black Alice is envious, as she hasn't even seen a bathtub in seven years. Given that the rest of her crew is having a drunken orgy to celebrate their latest prize, she doesn't stand out.

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward finds a bathtub waiting for him in his room when he returns there. He is delighted, thanks his servant for it, and carries on a conversation with him while in the bathtub. Justified in that it's a medieval fantasy setting; they wouldn't have a bathroom.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' does it in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'' by accident. Ridcully is bathing in a tub up in his room when a freak magical storm blows it out of the window into the courtyard, where he continues to bathe for a bit while half of the city watch are running about the campus. After which he demands someone bring him his hat.
* ''Literature/MonsterGirlDoctor'' provides a [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example. A slime girl whom Dr. Glenn Litbeit treated needs to stay submerged in a special bio-liquid for a few days, so she gets around by putting the bathtub on wheels and is carted around by a servant.

* In the Literature/{{Boojumverse}} story ''Boojum'', the SpacePirate Captain Song has a bathtub on the bridge of her ship the ''Lavinia Whateley''. Given that the rest of her crew is having a drunken orgy to celebrate their latest prize, she doesn't stand out.

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* When Taggart's men are whipping up the "Old Number 6" on the town of Rock Ridge in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', one of the things they do is knock over a public bath that was situated outside one of the buildings. Unfortunately, it was in use at the time. Fortunately, there were ''lots'' of soap suds.

* ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'': The god of knowledge in the Bas-Lag Verse is worshiped equally by humans and the aquatic vodyanoi, so is traditionally depicted as a fat man or skinny vodyanoi lying in a bathtub regardless of circumstances.[[note]]Possibly a nod to Archimedes, although the legend there is that he didn't ''stay'' in the bathtub when he had his EurekaMoment...[[/note]]

* In ''Series/McLeodsDaughters'', while the main house of Drover's Run has a perfectly good bathroom, there's also a clawfoot tub in the middle of one of the paddocks. Several characters have bubble baths in it as a way of getting some private time - justified as there's no one around for several kilometers. One of the most iconic examples is Tess and baby Charlotte posing in the bubble bath for a charity calendar.

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* In the very first episode of ''Series/SesameStreet'', Ernie is taking a bath in a tub located right in the middle of the living room, during which he matter-of-factly chats with Bert. Granted, the layout of Ernie and Bert's place had not really been established yet. Later episodes had the tub relocated to an implied separate bathroom, including the classic Rubber Duckie sequence.
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* In an episode of ''Series/GeorgeAndMildred'', the water in the bathroom is off due to plumbing work. Rather than lug water upstairs to take a bath, George decides to bathe in an old tin bath in the living room. Mildred brings the women from her keep-fit class home and George attempts to hide by ducking under the surface of the soapy water. HilarityEnsues.

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' features one in the Occult Research Club's clubroom. At least it has a shower curtain.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Laura Stuart has a room with a ridiculous number of bathtubs in it. Anyone can enter the room to talk to her while she is bathing.

* In ''LightNovel/AmagiBrilliantPark'', BathingBeauty Isuzu Sento's apartment doesn't have a bathroom so she had put a clawfoot bathtub in her kitchen that is filled by a hose connected to the sink so she can easily keep up with her 3 baths a day that keep her alive.

Ahh... ({{Beat}}) Wait...I don't own a bathtub!"''
-->-- '''Shantae''', ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}} and the Pirate's Curse''

* Done for humorous effect in ''[[VideoGame/{{Shantae}} Shantae and the Pirate's Curse]]'', where Shantae takes a relaxing bath immediately after the opening battle, using a bathtub located immediately opposite the front door of her home. It isn't until she's in the bath that she finally remembers ''she doesn't even own a bathtub'', and the tub is in fact an elaborate mechanical trap laid by Risky Boots.

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* A ''Webcomic/CycleOfLuv'' strip had a conversation between Maxx & Shawn where the latter (somehow) manages to drag the former's bathtub into their kitchen

* The captain of the Golgafrincham B Ark in ''[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]]'' has his bathtub in the middle of the bridge, and hasn't left it in several years.

* As mentioned above in the Literature section, the Captain of the Golgafrincham B Ark in ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' never leaves his bathtub, which is on the bridge of the space ship. In the TV series, he remains in his bath even after the crash, from which he chairs (rocks?) planning meetings.

* In the [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 second season]] of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', the female member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad Duo takes a bath in one of these, of the "On A Cliff" variety. Though as this is a kid's show, she's just soaking fully clothed. [[spoiler:But she's a Digimon disguised as a woman, so that oddly makes some sense. The bathing clothed part.]]
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' features one in the Occult Research Club's clubroom. At least it has a shower curtain.

* Chief Vitalstatix of ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' often happens to take a bath when an important visitor (up to and including Julius Caesar himself) shows up. He always meets them either inside or even in front of his hut while still bathing. In the latter case, his carriers carry the tub with the Chief inside out through the door like they would usually carry him standing on his shield. At most, it's slightly inconvenient for him.

* The god of knowledge in the [[Literature/PerdidoStreetStation Bas-Lag]] Verse is worshiped equally by humans and the aquatic vodyanoi, so is traditionally depicted as a fat man or skinny vodyanoi lying in a bathtub regardless of circumstances.[[note]]Possibly a nod to Archimedes, although the legend there is that he didn't ''stay'' in the bathtub when he had his EurekaMoment...[[/note]]

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' does it in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'' by accident. Ridcully was bathing in a tub up in his room when a freak magical storm blows it out of the window into the courtyard, where he continues to bathe for a bit while half of the city watch are running about the campus. After which he demands someone bring him his hat.

* ''Series/FatherTed'' has a semi-aversion. The bath in the Craggy Island parochial house is, logically enough, in the bathroom - except that it's right next to the toilet, which proves inconvenient for Ted when the visiting Father Stone needs to take a dump while Ted is in the bath.

* In the very first episode of ''Series/SesameStreet'', Ernie is taking a bath in a tub located right in the middle of the living room, during which he matter-of-factly chats with Bert. Granted, the layout of Ernie and Bert's place had not really been established yet. Later episodes had the tub relocated to an implied separate bathroom, including the classic Rubber Duckie sequence.

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* The (very serious) play (and later movie and opera) ''Theatre/LesFeluettes'' (''Lilies'') has one of these. For no apparent reason, the countess gives her son Vallier a bathtub, but sticks it out in the middle of the woods. Vallier's lover Simon appears and they have a night of passion ([[FanService memorably portrayed]])-- again, for no apparent reason, right there in the great outdoors in Quebec in 1912.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', the party is healed mainly through {{Healing Spring}}s. Especially in the second half of the game where the setting is more industrial, this inevitably leads to a few awkwardly-placed bathtubs. Possibly the weirdest locations are a laboratory building, a limousine, and a [[BreadEggsMilkSquick random room full of toys in a thunder-emitting tower]].

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'', Lucky Perkins of Riverview (an old-timey hobo-type character whose house is broken down and overgrown) has his bathtub in the front yard.
** A bathtub (which still evidently has the plumbing fully intact) is also found in the middle of The Great Pyramid in Al Simhara.
** Can apply to any game in [[VideoGame/TheSims the series]], if the player so chooses. Can double as a VideoGameCrueltyPotential depending on just ''where'' the awkward placement is.

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--> '''Maxx''': ''[[LampshadeHanging "How DID you drag my entire bathtub into the kitchen table?]]''

* The infamous kitchen-tub of NYC urban legend. A lot of New Yorkers claim that a friend of a friend once went to a party in a tiny apartment where the bathtub was in the kitchen. Fairly plausible -- most Manhattan apartments are small and many are strangely laid out, though it seems unlikely that there are hundreds of apartments with kitchentubs and they're all rented by people who like to throw house parties.
** Though in the days before hot running water, the kitchen was the only place one could conveniently fill a tub with warm water. (See the British example at the end of this section.) A really old building might have been built with this arrangement in mind, and the room built to accomodate the toilet may not have room to contain a bathtub.

* Right up until the 1950's and 1960's in Great Britain, many homes in industrial areas did not have bathrooms as they are known today. "Public Baths" were not just a place to swim. For a few pennies they'd provide a bath or a shower with guaranteed clean towels at an extra price. Working-class Brits in dirty jobs would visit once or twice a week for a thorough scrub. Bathers were segregated by sex, but the bath-tubs would have none or minimal screening from each other. Public baths, as such, declined in numbers and importance as living standards improved and bathrooms were built, as standard, into family homes. Some employers in really dirty jobs, such as iron foundries and coal mines, provided free bathing (communal) as a perk of the job.
** People who have to live for some time far from civilization (soldiers on campaign, loggers, oil rig workers) in warm climates have to use whatever bathing facilities available, from a pond or river to field-made contraptions like shower heads attached to a hose.

* Not quite the same thing, but UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill was notorious for taking meetings while in the tub and dictating to his secretary from the bathroom. He would also generally just hang out naked. While Churchill was visiting TheWhiteHouse in the winter of 1941-42, Roosevelt once wheeled into Churchill's room while the latter was taking a bath--at which point Churchill said, "Great men have nothing to hide from one another."
* A stereotype of [[OopNorth British Northerners]], presumably a DeadHorseTrope by now, has it that they bathe in a tin bath in the kitchen, while wearing a flat cap. This led to at least one cartoon of a Yorkshireman staying in a hotel for the first time, asking to be directed to the hotel kitchen so that he could have a wash.
** The first part of that stereotype was TruthInTelevision. In the days before indoor toilets or hot running water were a standard feature of working-class homes, the only way to heat up water for a bath was a kettle on the stove.

* Lisa Lisa of ''Manga/{{Jojos Bizarre Adventure}}'' has a bathtub on her balcony and even has a BathtubScene with it.