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* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', The Fleach family, who runs a failing, local amusement park are forced to bathe in the recycled water they use to cook hot dogs in order to save money. This causes the daughter, Marcie, to be given the nickname by her classmates, "Hot Dog Water", due to her distinct odor.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', The Fleach family, who runs a failing, local amusement park are forced to bathe in the recycled water they use to cook hot dogs in order to save money. This causes the daughter, Marcie, to be given the nickname by her classmates, "Hot Dog Water", due to her distinct odor.
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* TruthInTelevision: during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.
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* TruthInTelevision: during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.procedure.
* 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. Whole families tended to go togegther on the same night, seeing it as a family night out. 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.
* 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. Whole families tended to go togegther on the same night, seeing it as a family night out. 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.
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* A downplayed example pops up in ''Film/{{Quadrophenia}}'', when we see the protagonist going to a public bath-house to rent a tub instead of bathing at home. This was common for working-class families in Britain until well into the 1970s.
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* ''Film/K20LegendOfTheMask'': When Duchess Yoko is bathing in Genji and Kikuko's home, she keeps asking if they have a shower and shampoo, the sort of thing that the poor circus performers are not be able to afford. They don't even know what shampoo ''is''.
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* In the ''Literature/PhryneFisher'' novels, Phryne loves luxuriating in long hot baths. She is beacuse in her poverty-stricken childhood, she often had to take what she refers to as 'cat baths': standing a basin and wiping herself down with damp flannel.
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* In the ''Literature/PhryneFisher'' novels, Phryne loves luxuriating in long hot baths. She is beacuse in her poverty-stricken childhood, she often had to take what she refers to as 'cat baths': standing a basin and wiping herself down with damp flannel.
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* People without time or access to a full shower will sometimes wet a towel and wipe down their most pertinent areas, such as "pits, tits and naughty bits." This is sometimes called a "whore's bath" on the assumption that prostitutes will only take a few moments to freshen up before seeking their next customer.
* TruthInTelevision: during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.
* People without time or access to a full shower will sometimes wet a towel and wipe down their most pertinent areas, such as "pits, tits and naughty bits." This is sometimes called a "whore's bath" on the assumption that prostitutes will only take a few moments to freshen up before seeking their next customer.
* TruthInTelevision: during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.
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* People without time or access to a full shower will sometimes wet a towel and wipe down their most pertinent areas, such as "pits, tits and naughty bits." This is sometimes called a "whore's bath" on the assumption that prostitutes will only take a few moments to freshen up before seeking their next customer.
* TruthInTelevision: during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.
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* People without time or access to a full shower will sometimes wet a towel and wipe down their most pertinent areas, such as "pits, tits and naughty bits." This is sometimes called a "whore's bath" on the assumption that prostitutes will only take a few moments to freshen up before seeking their next customer.
* TruthInTelevision: during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.
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* An urban legend: A poor man's shower is done by homeless people using a sink to wash their hands, feet and face.
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* An urban legend: A poor man's People without time or access to a full shower is done by homeless people using will sometimes wet a sink to wash towel and wipe down their hands, feet most pertinent areas, such as "pits, tits and face.naughty bits." This is sometimes called a "whore's bath" on the assumption that prostitutes will only take a few moments to freshen up before seeking their next customer.
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Most apartments on TV or in movies a are more or less the same size; it's often hard to tell the difference between a messy apartment and a rundown one. Showing that the shower or bath doesn't work or the water is cold is an easy way to make the setting more rundown and give it a more "rustic" feel to it.
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--> '''Max:''' Dave, its a shower bud, its not that hard. Let the water run for six seconds, jump in, you got at least thirty seconds of decent temperate water, quarter turn yourself to avoid the initial rust blast, go back in for another thirty seconds. Its like he never showered before.
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** TruthInTelevision: during UsefulNotes/WW2, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.
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* Harry Dresden of the ''Literature/DresdenFiles'' isn't ''that'' poor -- most of the time anyways -- but he can't have a water heater because of [[WalkingTechbane his problem with electricity]], so he has to make do with cold showers. He's grown used to this, but he occasionally really misses them. [[spoiler: When she's living in his head, one of the things Lash does is manipulate his senses so he feels hot water.]]
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* In an ''Comicbook/ArchieComics'' story set in ancient Egypt we see Queen Veronica taking a luxurious bath with slaves assisting her; we then cut to plebean Betty washing herself in a water puddle having to shoo out miscellaneous fauna.
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* In an ''Comicbook/ArchieComics'' ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' story set in ancient Egypt we see Queen Veronica taking a luxurious bath with slaves assisting her; we then cut to plebean Betty washing herself in a water puddle having to shoo out miscellaneous fauna.
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* ''Film/WithnailAndI'' has an extended establishing scene of the two [[StarvingArtist Starving Out-of-work Actor]] main characters talking casually, while one is bathing and attempting to shave in a tiny, stained and cracked bathtub in the middle of the floor. In addition to being a horrible and nonfunctional piece of bathroom furniture, it establishes that they don't even own a bathroom.
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* ''CryBaby'' - when the title character's scroungy but good-hearted rockabilly family's home is visited, paterfamilias Iggy Pop is seen bathing in a little metal tub in the yard.
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* Near the end of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Asuka, who suffered a mental breakdown after being MindRaped by an Angel and ceased being able to pilot her Eva, is found by Nerv personnel in a destroyed house sitting in a tub filled with nasty brown water. ([[{{Squick}} Please let that have been rust]]...) Things just keep getting worse for her from there.
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* Near the end of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Asuka, who suffered a mental breakdown after being MindRaped by an Angel and ceased being able to pilot her Eva, is found by Nerv personnel in a destroyed house sitting in a tub filled with nasty brown water. ([[{{Squick}} Please let that have been rust]]...) Things just keep getting worse for her from there.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence's first shower scene is outdoors in a scrap metal stall, with Helix pouring a bucket of water over her. She resolves to fix the ship's plumbing next.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence's [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00204.htm first shower scene scene]] is outdoors in a scrap metal stall, with Helix pouring a bucket of water over her. She resolves to fix the ship's plumbing next.
-->''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00204.htm Helix: '''Helix:''' The correct order is "lather, rinse, remove leeches, repeat".]]''
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* On ''MyNameIsEarl'', when Earl and Randy move into the trailer, they live in the kitchen. They are told that they have a "half bath" in the form of the sink. Not only that, but Frank uses the rinse hose on the sink to shower after working out by running in place, because the shower is broken and he doesn't even have the money to buy a real treadmill, let alone get the shower fixed.
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* In Near the end of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Asuka, who suffered a mental breakdown after being MindRaped by an Angel and ceased being able to pilot her Eva, is found by Nerv personnel in a destroyed house sitting in a tub filled with nasty brown water. ([[{{Squick}} Please let that have been rust]]...) Things just keep getting worse for her from there.
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** In "Shower Wars", Frank Barone does a bodged job of repairing Ray and Debra's shower and makes the problem ten times worse. That it ends up with Ray drenching Debra's top with directed shower water is probably incidental {{Fanservice}}.
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** In "Shower Wars", Frank Barone does a bodged botches the job of repairing Ray and Debra's shower and makes the problem ten times worse. That it ends up with Ray drenching Debra's top with directed shower water is probably incidental {{Fanservice}}.
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** TruthInTelevision: during WW2, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.
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** TruthInTelevision: during WW2, UsefulNotes/WW2, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.
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* The song "No More" from ''TickTickBoom'' has Jon and Michael listing things Michael doesn't have to put up with now that he's no longer poor and has moved into a nicer apartment:
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** TruthInTelevision: during WW2, British civilians were restricted to one bath per week in no more than five inches of water. This appalled American servicemen. Soldiers in North Africa had it worse: they were issued with three pints of water ''per day'' for all purposes. In order to conserve as much as possible for drinking, new recruits were taught that it was possible to have an all-over wash using a face flannel and a single mess-tin full of water - which was then collected and pooled and used to wash socks and underwear. This is still taught to recruit soldiers today - at least in some training barracks - as part of the softening-up procedure.
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* In an ''Comicbook/ArchieComics'' story set in ancient Egypt we see Queen Veronica taking a luxurious bath with slaves assisting her; we then cut to plebean Betty washing herself in a water puddle having to shoo out miscellaneous fauna.
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* An urban legend: A poor man's shower is done by homeless people using a sink to wash their hands, feet and face.
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* Inverted in ''Series/RobinHood'' when Much is temporarily made an Earl he gets to have a bath smelling of flowers.
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Most apartments on TV or in movies a more or less the same size; it's often hard to tell the difference between a messy apartment and a rundown one. Showing that the shower or bath doesn't work or the water is cold is an easy way to make the setting more rundown.
It's also used to lampshade American perceptions that anywhere outside the USA, all you will get are third world standards of hygiene.
A way to avoid {{Informed Poverty}}.
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* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'', Asuka, who suffered a mental breakdown after being MindRaped by an Angel and ceased being able to pilot her Eva, is found by Nerv personnel in a destroyed house sitting in a tub filled with nasty brown water. ([[{{Squick}} Please let that have been rust]]...) Things just keep getting worse for her from there.
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A way to avoid {{Informed Poverty}}.
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rundown.
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hygiene.
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* In ''Film/KungFuHustle'', the slum that most of the movie takes place in has a communal fountain that some residents have to use to clean themselves... when the water's even turned on, as the landlady is prone to turning it off on a whim.
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* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' at the Capitol there is a panel with more than a hundred options in the shower in comparison to what Katniss is used to: a bucket of water warmed up on the stove.
* In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey divulges that she doesn't have the space or money for a shower or bath in her tiny house, and must wash in the kitchen with a pot of water and a sponge.
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* ''Series/HappyEndings''. The apartment is big but the shower alternates between hot, cold, and brown water.
* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''
** The episode where the Barone family go to spend time with relatives in Italy: Raymond's growing frustration with Italian plumbing and the unpredictable trickle of water coming out of the showerhead is a running joke.
** In "Shower Wars", Frank Barone does a bodged job of repairing Ray and Debra's shower and makes the problem ten times worse. That it ends up with Ray drenching Debra's top with directed shower water is probably incidental {{Fanservice}}.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' In the episode "The Shower Head", low flow shower heads are installed to save money on water, driving Jerry and Kramer crazy.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': To highlight Lily's utterly abysmal apartment, the most notable part of the apartment was that the stove, oven, sink, and refrigerator (or "stovenkerator") were all one piece of furniture... and located next to the toilet and bathtub.
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* In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey divulges that she doesn't have the space or money for a shower or bath in her tiny house, and must wash in the kitchen with a pot of water and a sponge.
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* ''Series/HappyEndings''. The apartment is big but the shower alternates between hot, cold, and brown water.
* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''
** The episode where the Barone family go to spend time with relatives in Italy: Raymond's growing frustration with Italian plumbing and the unpredictable trickle of water coming out of the showerhead is a running joke.
** In "Shower Wars", Frank Barone does a bodged job of repairing Ray and Debra's shower and makes the problem ten times worse. That it ends up with Ray drenching Debra's top with directed shower water is probably incidental {{Fanservice}}.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' In the episode "The Shower Head", low flow shower heads are installed to save money on water, driving Jerry and Kramer crazy.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': To highlight Lily's utterly abysmal apartment, the most notable part of the apartment was that the stove, oven, sink, and refrigerator (or "stovenkerator") were all one piece of furniture... and located next to the toilet and bathtub.
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whim.
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* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' at the Capitol there is a panel with more than a hundred options in the shower in comparison to what Katniss is used to: a bucket of water warmed up on thestove.
stove.
* In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey divulges that she doesn't have the space or money for a shower or bath in her tiny house, and must wash in the kitchen with a pot of water and asponge.
sponge.
[[AC: Live ActionTV]]
TV]]
* ''Series/HappyEndings''. The apartment is big but the shower alternates between hot, cold, and brownwater.
water.
*''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''
''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''
** The episode where the Barone family go to spend time with relatives in Italy: Raymond's growing frustration with Italian plumbing and the unpredictable trickle of water coming out of the showerhead is a runningjoke.
joke.
** In "Shower Wars", Frank Barone does a bodged job of repairing Ray and Debra's shower and makes the problem ten times worse. That it ends up with Ray drenching Debra's top with directed shower water is probably incidental{{Fanservice}}.
{{Fanservice}}.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' In the episode "The Shower Head", low flow shower heads are installed to save money on water, driving Jerry and Kramercrazy.
crazy.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': To highlight Lily's utterly abysmal apartment, the most notable part of the apartment was that the stove, oven, sink, and refrigerator (or "stovenkerator") were all one piece of furniture... and located next to the toilet andbathtub. bathtub.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' at the Capitol there is a panel with more than a hundred options in the shower in comparison to what Katniss is used to: a bucket of water warmed up on the
* In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey divulges that she doesn't have the space or money for a shower or bath in her tiny house, and must wash in the kitchen with a pot of water and a
[[AC: Live Action
* ''Series/HappyEndings''. The apartment is big but the shower alternates between hot, cold, and brown
*
** The episode where the Barone family go to spend time with relatives in Italy: Raymond's growing frustration with Italian plumbing and the unpredictable trickle of water coming out of the showerhead is a running
** In "Shower Wars", Frank Barone does a bodged job of repairing Ray and Debra's shower and makes the problem ten times worse. That it ends up with Ray drenching Debra's top with directed shower water is probably incidental
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' In the episode "The Shower Head", low flow shower heads are installed to save money on water, driving Jerry and Kramer
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': To highlight Lily's utterly abysmal apartment, the most notable part of the apartment was that the stove, oven, sink, and refrigerator (or "stovenkerator") were all one piece of furniture... and located next to the toilet and
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* The song "No More" from ''TickTickBoom'' has Jon and Michael listing things Michael doesn't have to put up with now that he's no longer poor and has moved into a nicer apartment:
--> ''No more taking a shower in the kitchen''
--> ''While your roommate's eating breakfast''
--> ''And you're getting water on his cornflakes!''
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'', the cheapest shower will sometimes lose heat partway through use, resulting in a "cold shower" negative moodlet.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence's first shower scene is outdoors in a scrap metal stall, with Helix pouring a bucket of water over her. She resolves to fix the ship's plumbing next.
--> ''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00204.htm Helix: The correct order is "lather, rinse, remove leeches, repeat".]]''
[[AC:Real Life]]
* An urban legend A poor man's shower is done by homeless people using a sink to wash their hands feet and face.
--> ''No more taking a shower in the kitchen''
--> ''While your roommate's eating breakfast''
--> ''And you're getting water on his cornflakes!''
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'', the cheapest shower will sometimes lose heat partway through use, resulting in a "cold shower" negative moodlet.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence's first shower scene is outdoors in a scrap metal stall, with Helix pouring a bucket of water over her. She resolves to fix the ship's plumbing next.
--> ''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00204.htm Helix: The correct order is "lather, rinse, remove leeches, repeat".]]''
[[AC:Real Life]]
* An urban legend A poor man's shower is done by homeless people using a sink to wash their hands feet and face.
to:
* The song "No More" from ''TickTickBoom'' has Jon and Michael listing things Michael doesn't have to put up with now that he's no longer poor and has moved into a nicer apartment:
apartment:
--> ''No more taking a shower in thekitchen''
kitchen''
--> ''While your roommate's eatingbreakfast''
breakfast''
--> ''And you're getting water on hiscornflakes!''
cornflakes!''
[[AC:VideoGames]]
Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'', the cheapest shower will sometimes lose heat partway through use, resulting in a "cold shower" negativemoodlet.
moodlet.
[[AC:Webcomics]]
Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence's first shower scene is outdoors in a scrap metal stall, with Helix pouring a bucket of water over her. She resolves to fix the ship's plumbingnext.
next.
--> ''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00204.htm Helix: The correct order is "lather, rinse, remove leeches, repeat".]]''
]]''
[[AC:RealLife]]
Life]]
* An urbanlegend legend: A poor man's shower is done by homeless people using a sink to wash their hands hands, feet and face.
--> ''No more taking a shower in the
--> ''While your roommate's eating
--> ''And you're getting water on his
[[AC:Video
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'', the cheapest shower will sometimes lose heat partway through use, resulting in a "cold shower" negative
[[AC:
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence's first shower scene is outdoors in a scrap metal stall, with Helix pouring a bucket of water over her. She resolves to fix the ship's plumbing
--> ''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00204.htm Helix: The correct order is "lather, rinse, remove leeches, repeat".
[[AC:Real
* An urban
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* ''Film/{{Holes}}'' shows a cold open shower with the water shutting off halfway through.
to:
* ''Film/{{Holes}}'' The film of the book ''{{Literature/Holes}}'' shows a cold open shower with the water shutting off halfway through. The context being that Stanley is at a juvenile detention camp in a desert, so the water only flows for 4 minutes. (In the midquel survival guide, it gets reduced to 3 minutes after a backfiring suggestion intended to make the showers last longer.)
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* The song "No More" from ''TickTickBoom'' has Jon and Michael listing things Michael doesn't have to put up with now that he's no longer poor and has moved into a nicer apartment:
to:
* The song "No More" from ''TickTickBoom'' has Jon and Michael listing things Michael doesn't have to put up with now that he's no longer poor and has moved into a nicer apartment:apartment:
--> ''No more taking a shower in the kitchen''
--> ''While your roommate's eating breakfast''
--> ''And you're getting water on his cornflakes!''
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'', the cheapest shower will sometimes lose heat partway through use, resulting in a "cold shower" negative moodlet.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence's first shower scene is outdoors in a scrap metal stall, with Helix pouring a bucket of water over her. She resolves to fix the ship's plumbing next.
--> ''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00204.htm Helix: The correct order is "lather, rinse, remove leeches, repeat".]]''
[[AC:Real Life]]
* An urban legend A poor man's shower is done by homeless people using a sink to wash their hands feet and face.
--> ''No more taking a shower in the kitchen''
--> ''While your roommate's eating breakfast''
--> ''And you're getting water on his cornflakes!''
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'', the cheapest shower will sometimes lose heat partway through use, resulting in a "cold shower" negative moodlet.
[[AC: Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence's first shower scene is outdoors in a scrap metal stall, with Helix pouring a bucket of water over her. She resolves to fix the ship's plumbing next.
--> ''[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00204.htm Helix: The correct order is "lather, rinse, remove leeches, repeat".]]''
[[AC:Real Life]]
* An urban legend A poor man's shower is done by homeless people using a sink to wash their hands feet and face.
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Most apartments on TV or in movies a more or less the same size; it's often hard to tell the difference between a messy apartment and a rundown one. Showing that the shower or bath doesn't work or the water is cold is an easy way to make the setting more rundown.
It's also used to lampshade American perceptions that anywhere outside the USA, all you will get are third world standards of hygiene.
A way to avoid {{Informed Poverty}}.
Subtrope of ShowerScene.
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! Examples
[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'', Asuka, who suffered a mental breakdown after being MindRaped by an Angel and ceased being able to pilot her Eva, is found by Nerv personnel in a destroyed house sitting in a tub filled with nasty brown water. ([[{{Squick}} Please let that have been rust]]...) Things just keep getting worse for her from there.
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Film/{{Holes}}'' shows a cold open shower with the water shutting off halfway through.
* In ''Film/KungFuHustle'', the slum that most of the movie takes place in has a communal fountain that some residents have to use to clean themselves... when the water's even turned on, as the landlady is prone to turning it off on a whim.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' at the Capitol there is a panel with more than a hundred options in the shower in comparison to what Katniss is used to: a bucket of water warmed up on the stove.
* In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey divulges that she doesn't have the space or money for a shower or bath in her tiny house, and must wash in the kitchen with a pot of water and a sponge.
[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/HappyEndings''. The apartment is big but the shower alternates between hot, cold, and brown water.
* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''
** The episode where the Barone family go to spend time with relatives in Italy: Raymond's growing frustration with Italian plumbing and the unpredictable trickle of water coming out of the showerhead is a running joke.
** In "Shower Wars", Frank Barone does a bodged job of repairing Ray and Debra's shower and makes the problem ten times worse. That it ends up with Ray drenching Debra's top with directed shower water is probably incidental {{Fanservice}}.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' In the episode "The Shower Head", low flow shower heads are installed to save money on water, driving Jerry and Kramer crazy.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': To highlight Lily's utterly abysmal apartment, the most notable part of the apartment was that the stove, oven, sink, and refrigerator (or "stovenkerator") were all one piece of furniture... and located next to the toilet and bathtub.
[[AC:Theater]]
* The song "No More" from ''TickTickBoom'' has Jon and Michael listing things Michael doesn't have to put up with now that he's no longer poor and has moved into a nicer apartment:
It's also used to lampshade American perceptions that anywhere outside the USA, all you will get are third world standards of hygiene.
A way to avoid {{Informed Poverty}}.
Subtrope of ShowerScene.
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! Examples
[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]'', Asuka, who suffered a mental breakdown after being MindRaped by an Angel and ceased being able to pilot her Eva, is found by Nerv personnel in a destroyed house sitting in a tub filled with nasty brown water. ([[{{Squick}} Please let that have been rust]]...) Things just keep getting worse for her from there.
[[AC:Film]]
* ''Film/{{Holes}}'' shows a cold open shower with the water shutting off halfway through.
* In ''Film/KungFuHustle'', the slum that most of the movie takes place in has a communal fountain that some residents have to use to clean themselves... when the water's even turned on, as the landlady is prone to turning it off on a whim.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' at the Capitol there is a panel with more than a hundred options in the shower in comparison to what Katniss is used to: a bucket of water warmed up on the stove.
* In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey divulges that she doesn't have the space or money for a shower or bath in her tiny house, and must wash in the kitchen with a pot of water and a sponge.
[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/HappyEndings''. The apartment is big but the shower alternates between hot, cold, and brown water.
* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''
** The episode where the Barone family go to spend time with relatives in Italy: Raymond's growing frustration with Italian plumbing and the unpredictable trickle of water coming out of the showerhead is a running joke.
** In "Shower Wars", Frank Barone does a bodged job of repairing Ray and Debra's shower and makes the problem ten times worse. That it ends up with Ray drenching Debra's top with directed shower water is probably incidental {{Fanservice}}.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' In the episode "The Shower Head", low flow shower heads are installed to save money on water, driving Jerry and Kramer crazy.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': To highlight Lily's utterly abysmal apartment, the most notable part of the apartment was that the stove, oven, sink, and refrigerator (or "stovenkerator") were all one piece of furniture... and located next to the toilet and bathtub.
[[AC:Theater]]
* The song "No More" from ''TickTickBoom'' has Jon and Michael listing things Michael doesn't have to put up with now that he's no longer poor and has moved into a nicer apartment:
