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ToiletPaperTrail. Compare and contrast with {{Egging}}.
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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarAnimation:'' Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and the Cheat frequently spend their Halloweens TP-ing various locations. In particular, in [[Recap/HomestarRunner3TimesHalloweenFunjob "3 Times Halloween Funjob"]] they hit The Stick, then try to get Marzipan's house. The latter doesn't quite work because Strong Mad doesn't ''get'' TP-ing--[[ComicallyMissingThePoint he just hits the house's wall with a whole roll of toilet paper]], over and over.
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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarAnimation:'' Strong Bad, Strong Mad, and the Cheat frequently spend their Halloweens TP-ing various locations. In particular, in [[Recap/HomestarRunner3TimesHalloweenFunjob "3 Times Halloween Funjob"]] they hit The Stick, then try to get Marzipan's house. The latter doesn't quite work because Strong Mad doesn't ''get'' TP-ing--[[ComicallyMissingThePoint he just hits the house's wall with a whole roll of toilet paper]], over and over.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was all about this. In typical fashion, it was treated as a FelonyMisdemeanor.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was all about this. In typical fashion, it was treated as a FelonyMisdemeanor.FelonyMisdemeanor as if the boys committed a murder together. [[GuiltRiddenAccomplice Kyle was even haunted by nightmares of their "crime"]], so Cartman decided that Kyle needed to be killed to keep it a secret.
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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin remarks on his dad's enjoyment of Halloween. It turns out he likes to "sit in the bushes with the hose and drench potential tp'ers."
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* One scene in ''Ride/TheCatInTheHat'' ride at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] has Thing 1 and Thing 2 spreading toilet paper all over the bathroom walls.
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* On the day ''Ride/StitchsGreatEscape'' opened at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks The Magic Kingdom]], Cinderella Castle was TP'd and graffitied, obviously the work of Stitch.
* On the day ''Ride/StitchsGreatEscape'' opened at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks The Magic Kingdom]], Cinderella Castle was TP'd and graffitied, obviously the work of Stitch.
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* One scene in ''Ride/TheCatInTheHat'' ride at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] has Thing 1 and Thing 2 spreading toilet paper all over the bathroom walls.
* One scene in ''Ride/TheCatInTheHat'' ride at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] has Thing 1 and Thing 2 spreading toilet paper all over the bathroom walls.
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* The boys pull this on the girls'dorm at the beginning op "Prank Week" in ''{{Zoey 101}}''.
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* Llewellyn of ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'' was in the habit of TP'ing his ''own'' lawn as a way of annoying the neighborhood association.
* Llewellyn of ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'' was in the habit of TP'ing his ''own'' lawn as a way of annoying the neighborhood association.
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* ''TheSmashingPumpkins'': Just after the party in the "1979" video, the kids throw toilet paper at a tree. At one point, we see a close up of one of the flying rolls.
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* ''TheSmashingPumpkins'': ''Music/TheSmashingPumpkins'': Just after the party in the "1979" video, the kids throw toilet paper at a tree. At one point, we see a close up of one of the flying rolls.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E15ScareMaster Scare Master]]", the Cutie Mark Crusaders TP things as part of the night's festivities. At least they're considerate enough to TP only the tree next to Carousel Boutique instead of the boutique itself.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': In "Late Afternoon of the Living Gitch", Buttsquat attempts to wrap Lakebottom in toilet paper. However, he ends up wrapped in toilet paper and hanging from a tree.
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* In the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' fanfic ''True Hero'', Needles does this to Doc's house every year. He presumably gets away with it because of Doc's bad reputation.
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* In ''Series/{{Monk}}, Monk remembers one of his college classmates toilet-papering an area on "Mischief Night."
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* In ''Videogame/KingdomOfLoathing'', you can prank other players by toilet-papering their campsite.
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* In ''Videogame/KingdomOfLoathing'', you can prank other players by toilet-papering their campsite. Do it enough and the victim can salvage some for his or her own use when it's cleaned up.
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* On ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', Andy gets even with Dennis Feinstein for [[spoiler:buying J.J.'s Diner]] by toilet papering his office.
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* The Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' has Stewart planning to T.P. something despite the hesitation of his friends. Before he can do anything, Beavis shows up in his Cornholio persona, demanding T.P. as usual. Stewart drops it and runs away. A music video segment also has the two discussing this, and they question why it'd be considered a bad thing since you'd get a bunch of free toilet paper.
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* One puzzle in episode 3 of ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'' involves getting Strong Bad to TP local landmark the Stick and blame it on Coach Z.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was all about this. In typical fashion, it was treated as SeriousBusiness.
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literally watched the commercial a second ago, paid attention to get the name right.
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* A TV commercial shows a woman inspecting some TP'd trees. She is absolutely elated by how soft the paper is. Two boys, apparently the perpetrators, are hiding behind some other trees; the woman asks one of them what brand of TP his mother buys, and he answers, "Quilted Northern Ultra". The last scene has her excitedly taking armfuls of the paper home.
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* A TV commercial shows a woman inspecting some TP'd trees. She is absolutely elated by how soft the paper is. Two boys, apparently the perpetrators, are hiding behind some other trees; the woman asks one of them what brand of TP his mother buys, and he answers, "Quilted Northern Ultra".Ultra Plush". The last scene has her excitedly taking armfuls of the paper home.
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* A TV commercial shows a woman inspecting some TP'd trees. She is absolutely elated by how soft the paper is. Two boys, apparently the perpetrators, are hiding behind some other trees; the woman asks one of them what brand of TP his mother buys, and he answers, "Cottonelle Ultra Comfort"."Quilted Northern Ultra". The last scene has her excitedly taking armfuls of the paper home.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'' has Lee in need of a distraction to divert the attention of a mall employee, so he calls the skaters, who ride by the store and chuck toilet paper rolls inside to get the store worker to chase them.
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It's childish. It's wasteful. Yet it happens anyway. Every so often someone will wrap a tree or other structure in toilet paper. This tends to happen most often around Halloween, but that's no guarantee some mischievous prankster won't pull it some other time of year.
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It's childish. It's wasteful. Yet it happens anyway. Every so often someone will wrap a tree or other structure in toilet paper. This tends to happen most often around Halloween, but that's no guarantee some mischievous prankster won't pull it some other time of year.
year. It's done in part because it's easy to drape items in toilet paper, traditionally done by throwing the roll up and over, but the toilet paper is difficult to remove, particularly if it gets wet, as the individual sheets shred and separate.
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* In ''Film/OffTheBlack'', a young boy gets caught doing this, among other acts of vandalization, kicking off the plot.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SuperBestFriendsForever'', Supergirl wants to use Wonder Woman's invisible jet to TP Lex Luthor's mansion.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SuperBestFriendsForever'', Supergirl wants to use Wonder Woman's invisible jet to TP Lex Luthor's mansion.mansion.
* On ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'', Ginger and her class are tormented by a sadistic substitute teacher, leading them to vandalize her house with TP and eggs. Ginger bails on their plan after hearing about using the latter, causing her to shield the sub from the eggs thrown at her. The sub doesn't care about what the kids think of her either way.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'', Ginger and her class are tormented by a sadistic substitute teacher, leading them to vandalize her house with TP and eggs. Ginger bails on their plan after hearing about using the latter, causing her to shield the sub from the eggs thrown at her. The sub doesn't care about what the kids think of her either way.
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* One ''{{Series/AdamTwelve}}'' episode has the officers called to one that leads later to a bigger fight...and a stabbing.
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* Near the beginning of ''Film/DonnieDarko'', Donnie\'s mother asks him if he toilet-papered a neighbour's house the night before, and he angrily exclaims that he'd stopped doing that in the sixth grade.
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It's childish. It's wasteful. Yet it happens anyway. Every so often someone will wrap a tree or other structure in toilet paper. This tends to happen most often around Halloween, but that's no guarantee some mischievous prankster won't pull it some other time of year.
This trope is most often done by children, although it could be pulled by a ManChild as well. In any case, it's associated with immaturity.
This is a PracticalJoke trope. Compare ThereWillBeToiletPaper and ToiletPaperTrail.
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* A TV commercial shows a woman inspecting some TP'd trees. She is absolutely elated by how soft the paper is. Two boys, apparently the perpetrators, are hiding behind some other trees; the woman asks one of them what brand of TP his mother buys, and he answers, "Cottonelle Ultra Comfort". The last scene has her excitedly taking armfuls of the paper home.
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* In the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' fanfic ''True Hero'', Needles does this to Doc's house every year. He presumably gets away with it because of Doc's bad reputation.
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* Near the beginning of ''Film/DonnieDarko'', Donnie\'s mother asks him if he toilet-papered a neighbour's house the night before, and he angrily exclaims that he'd stopped doing that in the sixth grade.
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* In the ''Babymouse'' Halloween story, Babymouse gets peer-pressured into covering a neighbor's tree in toilet paper by the popular girls. She's the only one who gets caught.
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* In one episode of ''Series/CougarTown'', Jules yells at some skateboarders, and the next day she finds her car TP'ed to look like a shark. To get even, she goes to what she thinks is the skater's house and TP's it. [[spoiler: The house was actually one of the homes Jules was selling. It was all a ruse to get a romantic proposal from Grayson.]]
* In one episode of ''Series/HannahMontana'', Miley's father mentions that the house is going to be papered because all the candy was eaten and he has no "treats" to stop the "tricks."
* In one HalloweenEpisode of ''Series/TheMiddle'', Frankie leaves her elderly aunts to hand out candy while she and the family go out. The aunts forget to hand candy, and when Frankie returns, the whole house is covered in toilet paper.
* In a Halloween episode of ''Series/StepByStep'', the nerdy Mark gets caught doing this by a police officer and brought home to his parents to face the music. When he comments he'd rather go to jail, the officer replies that's exactly why they bring the kids home instead.
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* WeirdAlYankovic has this part of "Young, Dumb, and Ugly":
-->We were born to be bad. You'd better not make us mad.
-->Or we just might toilet paper your lawn
* ''TheSmashingPumpkins'': Just after the party in the "1979" video, the kids throw toilet paper at a tree. At one point, we see a close up of one of the flying rolls.
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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin remarks on his dad's enjoyment of Halloween. It turns out he likes to "sit in the bushes with the hose and drench potential tp'ers."
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', when Adam West (as his superhero alter-ego Catman) wishes to be a kid again, he decides to skip school and T.P. Mr. Crocker's house. He mentions that he doesn't mind wasting paper because he uses a litter box.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': After Grunkle Stan fails to scare two jaded kids on "Summerween", they toilet-paper the Mystery Shack and then go inside to look for candy.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' had the gang TP a property on Mischief Night. They're forced to wear matching pumpkin Halloween costumes in public the next day as CoolAndUnusualPunishment for it.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was all about this. In typical fashion, it was treated as SeriousBusiness.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SuperBestFriendsForever'', Supergirl wants to use Wonder Woman's invisible jet to TP Lex Luthor's mansion.
This trope is most often done by children, although it could be pulled by a ManChild as well. In any case, it's associated with immaturity.
This is a PracticalJoke trope. Compare ThereWillBeToiletPaper and ToiletPaperTrail.
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* A TV commercial shows a woman inspecting some TP'd trees. She is absolutely elated by how soft the paper is. Two boys, apparently the perpetrators, are hiding behind some other trees; the woman asks one of them what brand of TP his mother buys, and he answers, "Cottonelle Ultra Comfort". The last scene has her excitedly taking armfuls of the paper home.
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* In the ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' fanfic ''True Hero'', Needles does this to Doc's house every year. He presumably gets away with it because of Doc's bad reputation.
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* Near the beginning of ''Film/DonnieDarko'', Donnie\'s mother asks him if he toilet-papered a neighbour's house the night before, and he angrily exclaims that he'd stopped doing that in the sixth grade.
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* In the ''Babymouse'' Halloween story, Babymouse gets peer-pressured into covering a neighbor's tree in toilet paper by the popular girls. She's the only one who gets caught.
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* In one episode of ''Series/CougarTown'', Jules yells at some skateboarders, and the next day she finds her car TP'ed to look like a shark. To get even, she goes to what she thinks is the skater's house and TP's it. [[spoiler: The house was actually one of the homes Jules was selling. It was all a ruse to get a romantic proposal from Grayson.]]
* In one episode of ''Series/HannahMontana'', Miley's father mentions that the house is going to be papered because all the candy was eaten and he has no "treats" to stop the "tricks."
* In one HalloweenEpisode of ''Series/TheMiddle'', Frankie leaves her elderly aunts to hand out candy while she and the family go out. The aunts forget to hand candy, and when Frankie returns, the whole house is covered in toilet paper.
* In a Halloween episode of ''Series/StepByStep'', the nerdy Mark gets caught doing this by a police officer and brought home to his parents to face the music. When he comments he'd rather go to jail, the officer replies that's exactly why they bring the kids home instead.
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* WeirdAlYankovic has this part of "Young, Dumb, and Ugly":
-->We were born to be bad. You'd better not make us mad.
-->Or we just might toilet paper your lawn
* ''TheSmashingPumpkins'': Just after the party in the "1979" video, the kids throw toilet paper at a tree. At one point, we see a close up of one of the flying rolls.
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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin remarks on his dad's enjoyment of Halloween. It turns out he likes to "sit in the bushes with the hose and drench potential tp'ers."
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', when Adam West (as his superhero alter-ego Catman) wishes to be a kid again, he decides to skip school and T.P. Mr. Crocker's house. He mentions that he doesn't mind wasting paper because he uses a litter box.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': After Grunkle Stan fails to scare two jaded kids on "Summerween", they toilet-paper the Mystery Shack and then go inside to look for candy.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' had the gang TP a property on Mischief Night. They're forced to wear matching pumpkin Halloween costumes in public the next day as CoolAndUnusualPunishment for it.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was all about this. In typical fashion, it was treated as SeriousBusiness.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SuperBestFriendsForever'', Supergirl wants to use Wonder Woman's invisible jet to TP Lex Luthor's mansion.
