History Main / RipVanTinkle

->'''Fry''': Hey, I was frozen! I know what people want to hear when they wake up.
->[''Walks up to a newly unfrozen HumanPopsicle'']
->'''Fry''': Bathroom's that way. [''Guy gives a grateful look and runs off'']

A much more mundane version of this trope would be PottyEmergency.

-->'''Sokka:''' Like I seriously have to use the bathroom! *runs off*

* The 1997 Hallmark and DisneyChannel MadeForTVMovie, ''Under Wraps'' does this once the mummy wakes up.

* The 1997 {{Hallmark}} and DisneyChannel MadeForTVMovie, ''UnderWraps'' does this once the mummy wakes up.
-->Gilbert: (hearing the Mummy urinating in the bathroom) Wow, he had to go!

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had a variation: This trope isn't mentioned or implied when a "statue" of a Walt Disney expy turns out to be the actual man, frozen. But when he refreezes himself at the end, he realizes at the last second that he forgot to go to the bathroom. The new "statue" is holding its crotch in agony, implying that this trope will come into play if he is ever unfrozen again.

* In ''Minimum'', when [[spoiler:the mini data girl]], an ArtificialHuman, was first brought into the real world, one of the first things that she did was empty her full bladder.

* In ''Minimum'', when [[spoiler:the mini data girl]], an ArtificialHuman, was first brought into the human world, one of the first things that she did was empty her full bladder.

One of the first actions most people undertake upon awakening is to relieve themselves. If your bladder is full after a night's sleep, just think how much worse it would be after [[RipVanWinkle a sleep of hundreds or thousands of years.]] Writers will sometimes milk this for comic potential by having a character be awoken from, say, a magical sleep lasting a hundred years, or [[BackFromTheDead even being dead]], be in desperate need of a bathroom.

It doesn't have to be that; suppose you weren't asleep at all, but just incapacitated/trapped somehow. Conscious or semi-conscious, the results still feel the same.

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* In ''Minimum'', when [[spoiler: the mini data girl,]] an ArtificialHuman, was first brought into the human world, one of the first things that she did was empty her full bladder.

* In ''Minimum'', when [[spoiler: the [[ArtificialHuman mini data girl]]]] was first brought into the human world, one of the first things that she did was empty her bladder.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': One case (Episode 156-157) featured Conan, Detective Takagi, and the kids trying to prove the innocence of a man who was handcuffed with Sato in an abandoned building ready to be demolished. When the case is solved and Sato is freed, the first thing she does upon free is desperately ask for a toilet (she was cuffed for an afternoon, overnight, and morning). How ironic! Sato and her suspect were cuffed to a (non-functioning) toilet the entire time.

->*Walks up to a newly unfrozen HumanPopsicle*
->'''Fry''': Bathroom's that way. *Guy gives a grateful look and runs off*

[[quoteright:350:[[Manga/DetectiveConan http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/capture_98.PNG]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Well, 24 hours certainly ''is'' a long time...]]

* {{Downplayed}} example in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': One case (Episode 156-157) featured Conan, Detective Takagi, and the kids trying to prove the innocence of a man who was handcuffed with Sato in an abandoned building ready to be demolished. When the case is solved and Sato is freed, the first thing she does upon free is desperately ask for a toilet (she was cuffed for an afternoon, overnight, and morning). How ironic! Sato and her suspect were cuffed to a (non-functioning) toilet the entire time.

* {{Downplayed}} example in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' (pictured above): One case (Episode 156-157) featured Conan, Detective Takagi, and the kids trying to prove the innocence of a man who was handcuffed with Sato in an abandoned building ready to be demolished. When the case is solved and Sato is freed, the first thing she does upon free is desperately ask for a toilet (she was cuffed for an evening, overnight, and morning). How ironic! Sato and her suspect were cuffed to a (non-functioning) toilet the entire time.

* In ''Minimum'', when [[spoiler: the [[ArtificialHuman mini data girl]]]] was first brought into the human world, one of the first things that she did was urinate for about 3 whole pages.

* In ''{{Minimum}}'', when [[spoiler: the [[ArtificialHuman mini data girl]]]] was first brought into the human world, one of the first things that she did was empty her full bladder.

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is cocooned in Duct Tape by other Marvel Heroes to keep him out of the picture, he quickly comments that he needs to pee. Upon being freed he goes to the bathroom for a whole page.

* In ''Minimum'', when [[spoiler: the [[ArtificialHuman mini data girl]]]] was first brought into the human world, one of the first things that she did was empty her full bladder.

* ''{{Tutenstein}}'': Tut's first act after being brought back from the dead is to run to the bathroom.

One of the first actions most people undertake upon awakening is to relieve themselves. If your bladder is full after a night's sleep, just think how much worse it would be after a sleep of hundreds or thousands of years. Writers will sometimes milk this for comic potential by having a character be awoken from, say, a magical sleep lasting a hundred years, or [[BackFromTheDead even being dead]], be in desperate need of a bathroom.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/capture_98.PNG]]

* {{Downplayed}} example in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': One case (Episode 156-157) featured Conan, Detective Takagi, and the kids trying to prove the innocence of a man who was handcuffed with Sato in an abandoned building ready to be demolished. When the case is solved and Sato is freed, [[http://www.chia-anime.tv/manga/read/detective-conan/233/16 the first thing she does upon free is desperately ask for a toilet]] (she was cuffed for an evening, overnight, and morning). How ironic! Sato and her suspect were cuffed to a (non-functioning) toilet the entire time.

-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In "Boxed In", Tony and Ziva get locked in a dockyard shipping container for most of a day/24 hours. When they're set free, Ziva's first action is to head directly for the ladies' room, an intention she explains in tones that promise mayhem for anyone who gets in her way.

* {{Downplayed}} in ''Series/NCIS''; in "Boxed In", Tony and Ziva get locked in a dockyard shipping container for most of a day/24 hours. When they're set free, Ziva's first action is to head directly for the ladies' room, an intention she explains in tones that promise mayhem for anyone who gets in her way.

* Related but squicky example in ''WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged''. After spending a month on a spaceship with [[MsFanservice Bulma]] walking around in her underwear the entire time, Krillin has had no opportunity to... [[ADateWithRosiePalms relieve himself]], especially because [[ItMakesSenseInContext the toilet keeps screaming at him]]. Once they finally land on Namek, Krillin excuses himself and heads into a nearby cave to "take care of business", then leaves with Gohan. Then Bulma goes into the same cave to set up camp and... "OH GOD, IT'S EVERYWHERE!"

* When ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' plays the gargle pipes loudly enough to wake the GodOfEvil Washmir, Washmir temporarily pauses in the middle of his declaration of destruction to say he needs to use the restroom because he's been holding it in for thousands of years.

* {{Downplayed}} example in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': One case featured Conan, Detective Takagi, and the kids trying to prove the innocence of a man who was handcuffed with Sato in an abandoned building ready to be demolished. When the case is solved and Sato is freed, the first thing she does upon free is desperately ask for a toilet (she was cuffed for an evening, overnight, and morning). How ironic! Sato and her suspect were cuffed to a (non-functioning) toilet the entire time.

* A slightly more realistic example, but similar-''Manga/DetectiveConan'': One case featured Conan, Detective Takagi, and the kids trying to prove the innocence of a man who was handcuffed with Sato in an abandoned building ready to be demolished. When the case is solved and Sato is freed, the first thing she does upon free is desperately ask for a toilet (she was cuffed for an evening, overnight, and morning). How ironic! Sato and her suspect were cuffed to a (non-functioning) toilet the entire time.