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One of the first actions most people undertake upon awakening is to relieve themselves, largely because the kidneys are still hard at work even during sleep, and despite the fact that you can't exactly hydrate in your sleep, you're still gonna end up with ''something'' to get rid of. If your bladder is full after a night's sleep, just think how much worse it would be after being AsleepForDays, or [[RipVanWinkle asleep for 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. But don't worry; this trope rarely ever ends in a PottyFailure.

* A slight variant in Miyazaki Maya's ''Minimum''; when [[spoiler:[[ArtificialHuman Haru]], the mini data girl]] was introduced to the real 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 being AsleepForDays, or [[RipVanWinkle asleep for 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. But don't worry; this trope rarely ever ends in a PottyFailure.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': In "Timetagger", Ladybug and Cat Noir free Bunnyx from a statue in which she has been sealed since ancient Egypt. She starts to explain what is going on, realises their is something she needs to do, and the next cut has her continuing her explanation from inside the ladies' room.

* When ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is cocooned in Duct Tape for a few days 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 about 9 panels.

* This happens to Link in [[https://www.deviantart.com/hail-nekoyasha/art/Wakey-Wakey-17628942 this fancomic]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In "Boxed In", Tony and Ziva get locked in a dockyard shipping container for most of a day. 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.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': After Kevyn's body is reconstructed from the neck down over the course of several days he mentions that he needs to pee like a racehorse.

* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'': In "Pipe Down", when Dave plays the gargle pipes loudly enough to wake the GodOfEvil [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Quozmir]], Quozmir 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 ("Since 8,000 B.C!").

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': In "Timetagger", Ladybug and Cat Noir free Bunnyx from a statue in which she has been sealed since ancient Egypt. She starts to explain what is going on, realises their is something she needs to do, and the next cut has her continuing her explanation from inside the ladies room.

-->'''Luxor''': Well, 3,000 years certainly ''is'' a long time, Cleo.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tutenstein}}'': Tut's first act after being brought back from the dead is to run to the bathroom.
-->'''Luxor''': Well, 3,000 years certainly ''is'' a long time, Cleo.
* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', after Fry, Leela and Bender are fired from Planet Express and Fry goes to work at Applied Cryogenics (where he was frozen and where Leela worked in the pilot). See the quote at the top of the page.

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': The episode "The Demon Behind" ends with Finn rushing to a restroom now that he's free. He wasn't unconscious, but he did have a sentient Japanese mask fused to his rear end that was controlling his body the whole episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had a variation: This trope isn't mentioned or implied when a "statue" of a MrAltDisney 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.

* A slight variant in Miyazaki Maya's ''Minimum''; when [[spoiler:Haru, the mini data girl]] who happens to be an ArtificialHuman, was introduced to the real world, one of the first things that she did was empty her full bladder.

* This happens to Link in [[https://www.deviantart.com/hail-nekoyasha/art/Wakey-Wakey-17628942 this fancomic]] of ''VideoGames/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.

* This happens to [[spoiler:Eclipsa]] in [[http://moringmark.tumblr.com/post/167049830098/priority this parody]] of ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''.
* This happens to Link in [[https://www.deviantart.com/hail-nekoyasha/art/Wakey-Wakey-17628942 this fancomic]] of ''VideoGames/LegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.

->'''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 slight variant in Miyazaki Maya's ''Minimum''; when [[spoiler:Haru, the mini data girl]] who happens to be an ArtificialHuman, was first brought into the real world, one of the first things that she did was empty her full bladder.

* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': At the end of the short "Frozen Ice", Ice Bear excuses himself after the ice cube he was stuck in finally melts.

* When ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' plays the gargle pipes loudly enough to wake the GodOfEvil [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Quozmir]], Quozmir 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 ("Since 8,000 B.C!").

* This happens to [[spoiler:Eclipsa]] in [[http://ifuckinglovedragons.tumblr.com/post/167050315919/moringmark-priority this parody]] of ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''.

* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': Ice Bear at the end of "Frozen Ice", after the ice cube he was stuck in melts.

* A slight variant in Miyazaki Maya's ''Minimum''; when [[spoiler:Haru 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.

* A slight variant in Miyazaki Maya's ''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.

* ''Film/OverTheHedge'': After waking up from hibernation, the first thing Hammy the Squirrel does is go wee-wee.

* When ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' plays the gargle pipes loudly enough to wake the GodOfEvil Quozmir, Quozmir 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 ("Since 8,000 B.C!").

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 being AsleepForDays, or [[RipVanWinkle asleep 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. But don't worry; this trope rarely ever ends in a PottyFailure.

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. But don't worry; this trope rarely ever ends in a PottyFailure.

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* ''Film/OverTheHedge'': After waking up from hibernation, the first thing Hammy the Squirrel does is go wee-wee.

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