History Main / PottyEmergency

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* The [[WidgetSeries Japanese indie]] UsefulNotes/RPGMaker game ''[[https://aokurage.booth.pm/items/49439 Sokoumi]]'' features two:

* ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13764733/1/Gotta-GO-GO-GO Gotta GO GO GO]]'' has Barbara Gordon running all around Metropolis to find a bathroom after winning a Dr Pepper drinking contest against Selina Kyle. [[spoiler: In addition to seeing an oppurtunity at every turn,she's unable to use her friend's bathrooms because Karen Beecher has a repairman unclogging her toilet, Zee Zatara casts a spell on her toilet to repel intruders, Barbara's own toilet is too filthy, Diane Prince & Tatsu Yamashiro are having a ShowerOfLove, the same can be said for Jessica Cruz's two mothers & Kara Danvers refuses to let her use her toilet. In the end, Selina Kyle lets Barbara use her bathroom]].

->''[[BrickJoke ".........OKAY NEVER MIND"]]''

* This is the main plot of the 2018 game ''VideoGame/NekomewsPottyTrouble''. A four-year-old kitten named Nekomew has to sneak into the bathroom late at night to take a leak after waking up from his nightmares; the only problem is that the bathroom is a long way ahead of his own bedroom, with the nightmare monsters attempting to stall him on his way. Once the bladder meter is full, Nekomew [[PottyFailure does it all over himself]] and it's GameOver.

->''"YOU GUYS!! I HAVE TO PEE '''SO BAD!!''' I'M GONNA PEE '''RIGHT HERE!!!'''"''[[note]]''.........OKAY NEVER MIND''[[/note]]

Ahh! [[BrickJoke Finally found one!]]

** The FramingDevice for Wario-Man's stage in ''VideoGame/WarioWareDIY Showcase'' is Wario-Man coming across a series of people trying to get into restrooms, only for the shoddy door handles to keep them from easily getting the door open. Your goal: complete a microgame to have Wario-Man successfully pull the door open for them.

* The FramingDevice for Wario-Man's stage in ''[[VideoGame/{{WarioWare}} WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase]]'' is Wario-Man coming across a series of people trying to get into restrooms, only for the shoddy door handles to keep them from easily getting the door open. Your goal: complete a microgame to have Wario-Man successfully pull the door open for them.
** ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'' has this as the plot's punchline -- [[spoiler:the vase Wario stole at the beginning of the game was that town's only toilet, and [[PunnyName Lulu]] claimed everyone has been holding it in since. [[ShaggyDogStory Her quest turns out to be completely unnecessary]] because they got a modern toilet in her absence]].

* In ''VideoGame/SpyFox in: Dry Cereal'', Sal, the sailor on the S.S. Deadweight won't let you look at the map in the control room. During his conversation, he mentions that he needs to use the restroom as the result of drinking 17 bottles of prune pop, but he can't leave his post until his shift ends and his replacement arrives. You have to change the time on the time clock according to the time Bea Bear tells you, then show up in a sailor hat in order to get Sal to leave.

A comedy routine which involves a character ''really'' having to go to the bathroom, and being prevented from doing so by various plot contrivances. This often climaxes in a frenetic scene where the character darts desperately from location to location, [[PottyDance clutching their groin]], searching for someplace, ''anyplace'' where they can empty their bladder. The search will usually prove unfruitful -- and the visited places [[FromBadToWorse progressively more embarrassing]] -- as the routine wears on.

* Level 5 of ''VideoGame/PaRappaTheRapper'' has the hero getting one of these as a result from eating too much cake. Unfortunately, he winds up encountering a queue to use the restroom. He engages the other characters in a rap contest so that they will let him jump the queue. Actual lyrics include "In the rain or in the snow, I got the funky flow, but now I really gotta go."
** Directly afterwards: "The toilet over there, will bring you luck, so give up, I've got no time to spare!" Who knew hobo frogs wanted to pee too. Plus, when you do 'BAD', it starts raining, when you do 'AWFUL', loud claps of thunder that could scare you, and when you fail, he soils himself.

Sometimes a variant has the character(s) looking for a place to perform some non-potty-related but similarly private activity such as changing clothes, making out, or [[ADateWithRosiePalms whatever]]. If this trope happens to a character who had been woken up and/or freed after an ''incredibly'' long time, it's RipVanTinkle. A video game that can potentially force players into one of these by denying them a chance to stop for a breather in the middle of some very long task expects them to have a BladderOfSteel.

* This is the main plot of the 2018 game ''Nekomew's Potty Trouble''. A four-year-old kitten named Nekomew has to sneak into the bathroom late at night to take a leak after waking up from his nightmares; the only problem is that the bathroom is a long way ahead of his own bedroom, with the nightmare monsters attempting to stall him on his way. Once the bladder meter is full, Nekomew [[PottyFailure does it all over himself]] and it's GameOver.

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/AllenTheAlien''. Allen comments that he needs to use the restroom, but he finds one really quickly.

* In ''WebAnimation/TalkingTomShorts'', Tom, Ben, Ginger and Hank have one in "We Destroyed the Toilet!". [[PottyFailure They ultimately end up peeing in the pool at the end.]]

* In ''WebAnimation/TalkingTomShorts'', Tom, Ben, Ginger and Hank have one in "We Destroyed the Toilet!".

* ''Film/BuffaloSixtySix'' begins with Billy getting out of prison and asking the guards to let him back in so he can use the bathroom. They refuse. The next twenty minutes or so revolve around his attempts to find somewhere to pee, during which time he also kidnaps Layla and persuades her to pose as his wife in front of his parents.

* Right as the alien ships' light-and-music display is building up in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'', a lone worker can be seen ''racing'' to one of the port-a-potties lined up near the edge of the site. It's unclear if he's been holding it in so he won't miss anything, and can't avoid dashing for the can any longer, or if he's simply so overwhelmed by the magnitude of the situation that it's a BringMeMyBrownPants situation.

* Happens to Film/ForrestGump, simply saying "I gotta pee!" as he meets [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy President Kennedy]]. Drinking a dozen Dr. Peppers will do that to you.

* This is the main plot of the 2018 game ''Nekomew's Potty Trouble''. A four-year-old kitten named Nekomew has to sneak into the bathroom late at night to take a leak after waking up from his nightmares; the only problem is that the bathroom is a long way ahead of his own bedroom, with the nightmare monsters attempting to stall him on his way. Once the bladder meter is full, Nekomew does it all over himself and it's GameOver.

* This is the main plot of the 2017 game ''Nekomew's Potty Trouble''. A four-year-old kitten named Nekomew has to sneak into the bathroom late at night to take a leak after waking up from his nightmares; the only problem is that the bathroom is a long way ahead of his own bedroom, with the nightmare monsters attempting to stall him on his way. Once the bladder meter is full, Nekomew does it all over himself and it's GameOver.

* One Website/YouTube user made a parody of ''Call Me Maybe'' about how the urinary system works from the point of view of someone who needs to pee. A similar Website/YouTube parody was based on ''Is it Too Late Now to Say Sorry?" called "Is It Too Late Now to Go Potty?". It was also about how the urinary system works from the point of view of someone who has to pee.

* One Website/YouTube user made a parody of ''Music/CallMeMaybe'' about how the urinary system works from the point of view of someone who needs to pee. A similar Website/YouTube parody was based on ''Is it Too Late Now to Say Sorry?" called "Is It Too Late Now to Go Potty?". It was also about how the urinary system works from the point of view of someone who has to pee.

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* ''Music/TheDillards'': Referenced obliquely in the intro for "Old Blue"; Mitch explains why their version of "Old Blue" is less sentimental than Music/JoanBaez's. Namely, dogs in the Ozarks are likely to hole up in your privy after running out of steam and growl you out regardless of how desperately you need to go.
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* The 1968 comedy ''Film/TheParty'' has a long sequence involving this. The hero (Creator/PeterSellers) cannot find a single unoccupied bathroom on the ground floor of the mansion where the titular soiree is being held. Then the young starlet he has a crush on is to perform a song for the other guests, and out of politeness and interest, he puts his search on hold for ''several minutes'' as she sings - literally painful though it is for him to do so. Once she's done he sneaks upstairs and uses the fancy bathroom there, and with that taken care of, soon he's facing a whole different set of problems...

* At the beginning of ''Machinima/AGranaryAdventureTheUnderdogStory'', there is a brief scene where BLU Scout has to pee, but Heavy won't let him into the bathroom.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': Hammy, the squirrel has one at the beginning of the movie when he (and the other animals of the forest) [[RipVanTinkle wake up from hibernation.]] [[TheLeader Verne]] warns him to not pee in the lake that they [[Squick drink from.]]