History Main / FlushTheEvidence

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': A variation happens in "Ancient History"; Hollyhock still has bad memories of [[spoiler:being drugged by Beatrice]], causing her to dump [=BoJack=]'s painkillers down the sink.

* ''Film/SmileyFace'': after offering to sell her precious government weed to the pro-cop casting director, Jane hides in a stall, and mistaking a cleaner for the police, flushes the weed down the toilet.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Love, Springfieldian Style", Lisa as Nancy Spuggen and Nelson as Sid Vicious get hooked on chocolate [[GRatedDrug as if it were cocaine or heroin]]. Their chocolate spree involves them snorting lines, cooking (melting chocolate powder on spoons), and flushing chocolate bars down the toilet when the police come a-knocking.

* Attempted but subverted (hilariously) in ''Film/AngelsMission''; when the police raids a night club where a drug dealing is happening, one of the dealers escapes to the toilets with packets and packets of heroin with him, being pursued by the police, where he then locks himself in one of the stalls and begins emptying the drugs into the toilet while shouting at the cops outside, taunting them that they are helpless from stopping him from disposing the evidence... [[FailedASpotCheck oblivious to a sign outside the stall]] that says [[EpicFail "Toilet is Currently Out of Water. Apologies for Any Inconveniences Caused"]].

--> '''Irene''': I shan't bother with it. In fact I put it down the toilet. I don't know who you write to about doctors.

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': A variation happens in "Ancient History"; Hollyhock still has bad memories of [[spoiler:being drugged by Beatrice]], causing her to dump [=BoJack=]'s painkillers down the sink.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Some drug dealers in "[[Recap/CSINYS08E17 Unwrapped]]" force their neighbor to hold a kilo of cocaine for them when they hear cops entering their building. Terrified when the officers reach their floor and start knocking on doors, she races to her bathroom and flushes the whole thing.

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* ''Series/24'': Helen Singer flushes her son Kyle's cocaine when CTU agents arrive. Thankfully, this powder turned out to be totally harmless and not cocaine or something much worse.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Love, Springfieldian Style", Lisa as Nancy Spuggen and Nelson as Sid Vicious get hooked on chocolate [[GRatedDrug as if it were cocaine or heroin]]. Their chocolate spree involves them snorting lines, cooking (melting chocolate powder on spoons), and flushing chocolate bars down the toilet.

You want to get rid of evidence that could be really hazardous your and/or others' health and/or reputation, but how and where possibly? A fire would be way too destructive, so how about the last place where people would be willing to look--down the toilet!

An example being when the police search a criminal's house, they generally look in every nook and cranny they can find. So, the criminal may try to just flush the evidence (typically illegal drugs, but can be other things depending on the RuleOfFunny) down the toilet.

* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'': [[spoiler:Henry]] is furious and suffers a breakdown after his wife tells him she flushed sixty-thousand dollars worth of drugs down the toilet while the police raided his house with a search warrant.

* ''Series/{{Life}}'': Detective Charlie Crews advises a murder victim's father to flush his stash of marijuana before the police search the house so that he can avoid a drugs charge and instead be present to support his family.

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': A variation happens in "Ancient History"; Hollyhock still has bad memories of [[spoiler:being drugged by Beatrice]], causing her to dump Bojack's painkillers down the sink.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'', the Islamic Republic's [[TheTeetotaler anti-alcohol]] vice squad comes to the Satrapi house when they're drinking wine. Marjane and her mom flush all the wine down the toilet while her father tries to stall the young man at the door. In the end, he's able to talk him into leaving them alone, and as soon as the danger is gone, says INeedAFreakingDrink.