History Main / HatesBaths

->'''Tommy:''' Maybe a bad word is a word that people don't want to hear.
->'''Phil:''' Well then, I know a really bad word: bath.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', none of the dwarfs were inclined to washing up until she insisted on it...Grumpy was still un-inclined.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTrampIIScampsAdventure'', Scamp hates taking baths. [[spoiler: To his chagrin, he's forced to take one in the final scene]].

-->'''Charlotte:''' And wash your hair, young lady!
-->'''Dolores:''' I ''did'' wash it!
-->'''Charlotte:''' When.
-->'''Dolores:''' Couple of months ago.

* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' Jerin's younger sisters are very unhappy when he announces it's bath day. Could be partly due to the fact that they have no running water and have to carry it to the tub in buckets.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

* ''Literature/TheFamousFive'': The gypsy child Jo in ''Five Fall into Adventure'', until Joan runs after her with a carpet beater, threatening to beat the dust and dirt out of her if she does not bath; in the end, she enjoys it.
* ''Literature/{{Shogun}}''. Blackthorne was afraid of baths at the begining of the story. Notably, Blackthorne is an adult, but comes from 17th-century England where a bath a month was considered overdoing things.
* RunningGag with the Dibbuns (baby animals) and vermin (AlwaysChaoticEvil species) in ''Literature/{{Redwall}}''. The vermin actually have a comic song about how dangerous bathing is, about a young ferret who washed himself entirely out of existence.

* Johanna Mason in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' is afraid of baths, because the capital tortured her by soaking her and shocking her electrically while they were holding her prisoner.
* Piglet in ''Literature/WinnieThePooh''. When he gets washed by Kanga, the first thing he does is look for a puddle to roll around in.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. TomboyPrincess Arya Stark [[PrincessInRags while travelling incognito in the Riverlands]] complains when she stops at a holdfast and the women force her to take a bath (and [[SheCleansUpNicely wear a dress]]) because she had one a couple of weeks ago.

* Farmer Bean in ''Literature/FantasticMrFox'' never took a bath. ("He never even washed," says the narration.) As a result, he's hard of hearing due to his ears being clogged with dirt and other residue. (The other two villains are probably unhygienic too; Mr. Fox says in one scene that the reason they can never get the jump on him is because ''they stink''.)
* At the beginning of the classic children's book ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_the_Dirty_Dog Harry the Dirty Dog]]'' by Gene Zion, the titular canine, upon hearing the bathtub running, takes the scrub brush and ''buries it in the backyard'' to avoid taking a bath.

* Max of ''Literature/MaxAndRuby'' doesn't like baths in the book ''Max's Bath'' and its AnimatedAdaptation; he struggles when Ruby tries to bathe him. HilarityEnsues when Max takes his orange sherbet and grape juice with him into the tub.

* ''Literature/WhenTheRobbersCameToCardamomTown'': The robbers hates bathing, so when aunt Sophie forces them to wash, they are not happy.

* In one of the early strips of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Charlie Brown tries to stall taking a bath using tactics that would later be imitated by Calvin. However, this aspect to his character never got the same level of attention as Calvin got, it being awkward when no adult can appear or speak to force the issue, and was eventually forgotten. Presumably he grew out of it.

* ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' shows some of the cats ''really'' hate baths. The most notable offenders are TT, Lala and Dodo, who are notorious for their loud, shrill meows while Claire bathes them. In Dodo's case, it was a practice bath, where he only got a little wet, but his meows were so loud and pitiful, both TT and Lala felt sorry for him and waited outside the bathroom to see if he was alright.

This trope was a bit harsher in RealLife before roughly 1950s-60s when the modern bath soaps were invented. Before bubble baths and scented soap, they involved hard gray soap that didn't lather and rigorous scrubbing with a bristle brush. As well, if you go further back, baths were done sitting a small tin tub, which is a functional cleaning process that is less relaxing than lying down in a modern full-length tub.

This trope was a bit harsher in RealLife before roughly 1950s-60s when the modern bath detergents were invented. Before bubble bath, they involved gray soap and rigorous scrubbing.

* The 1996 incarnation of [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace]] entitled ''Dennis and Gnasher'' had a whole episode about him avoiding bathnight and even building a secret escape tunnel from his treehouse to get out of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': A running theme is "TAZ HATE WATER!!!!" This applied to any thing that involved getting wet. Baths just made it ten times worse.

* As has been mentioned in the comic section Dennis of ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'' hates bathing, but the 1996 animated adaptation took this to the extreme. In one episode "Bathnight Club" it is revealed the Ministry of Defense wants to keep him from bathing as his smelly socks are an effective biological weapon, however when the rest of the world declares world peace to avoid said weapon it becomes a military exercise to get him to bathe. Eventually [[spoiler:the Queen sends him a large swimming pool waterslide bath which he is actually happy to embrace]]. In another episode it is revealed the dirty bath water he does leave behind on the occasions he does bathe is easily confused for ''crude oil''!

* Lana Loud from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is shown to dislike baths, as seen in "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS4E19SisterActHouseFlip Sister Act]]". In the same episode, she [[TwinSwitch gets Lola to pretend to be her]] so she can take the bath for her. At the end of the episode, when Lola and Lana decide to stop switching places with each other after the former [[SickEpisode catches the flu from avoiding a doctor's appointment]] and the latter [[TheToothHurts gets an abscessed tooth from avoiding a dentist appointment]] and get [[GrowingUpSucks scolded for their irresponsibility as a result]], Lana takes a bath for real, and finds a couple of things to like about it, such as how brown the water gets from her getting cleaned up and the hairball in the drain.