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* The early "Literature/{{Arthur}}" book ''Arthur's Eyes'' had a subversion; Arthur knows which restroom he needs, but when he figures he doesn't need glasses after being teased about them, he can't tell the two restrooms apart and attempts to go into the right one from memory. He doesn't succeed and causes chaos when going into the girls' room.

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* The early "Literature/{{Arthur}}" ''Literature/{{Arthur}}'' book ''Arthur's Eyes'' had a subversion; Arthur knows which restroom he needs, but when he figures he doesn't need glasses after being teased about them, he can't tell the two restrooms apart and attempts to go into the right one from memory. He doesn't succeed and causes chaos when going into the girls' room.
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* Steph [=McGovern=] had confusing toilet signs as one of her pet hates on ''Series/Room101''. "Am I an upward facing triangle or a downward facing triangle?"
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* In ''Film/HolidayOnTheBuses'', after breaking her glasses, Olive spots a ManInAKilt and mistakes him for a lady, leading her to accidentally follow him into the gents' toilet.

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* In ''Film/HolidayOnTheBuses'', after breaking her glasses, Olive spots a ManInAKilt and mistakes him for a lady, leading her to accidentally follow him into the gents' toilet.kitchen which she thinks is a toilet. Luckily, Blakey quickly catches her and escorts her to the right spot.
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* An episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' has Cookie suffer from this. After he succeeds in getting Lisa to tell him what she wants a guy to do for her, he's unsure which restroom he should go in to change back to normal.

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* An episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' has Cookie suffer from this. After he succeeds in getting Lisa to tell him what she wants a guy to do for her, her by disguising himself as a woman, he's unsure which restroom he should go in to change back to normal.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um5nBSFYb30 "Hip Bathroom Signs Are The Worst"]] ''WebSite/CollegeHumor'' skit. There are just two white circles on black door.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um5nBSFYb30 "Hip Bathroom Signs Are The Worst"]] ''WebSite/CollegeHumor'' skit. There are just two white circles on black door.doors. The punchline? [[spoiler:After the main characters (a man and a woman) each pick a door, they turn out to lead to the same place.]]
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* In ''Film/HolidayOnTheBuses'', after breaking her glasses, Olive spots a ManInAKilt and mistakes him for a lady, leading her to accidentally follow him into the gents' toilet.
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/LeatherGoddessesOfPhobos''. The player's choice of restroom is simply the way he or she selects the gender of his or her character.
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* ''Literature/NiceLittleGirls'': On the first day at her new school, Jackie, who has short hair and wears overalls, is [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a boy]] by her teacher, Mrs. James, and [[TheFreelanceShameSquad the whole class laughs at Jackie]]. On top of that, when Jackie volunteers to build a box, Mrs. James tells her that it's "a boy's job". Jackie hates being teased by her classmates for looking like a boy, and she doesn't want to be a "nice little girl" if it means she can't build boxes, so she [[SweetPollyOliver pretends to be a boy]]. But when she excuses herself to use the bathroom, she is unsure which bathroom to go into. She peeks into the boys' room, one she knows she isn't supposed to be in, and gets scared by the urinals. She runs to the girls' room, thinking that everything is a mess.

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* ''Literature/NiceLittleGirls'': On the her first day at her new school, Jackie, who has short hair and wears overalls, is [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a boy]] by her teacher, Mrs. James, and [[TheFreelanceShameSquad the whole class laughs at Jackie]]. On top of that, when Jackie volunteers to build a box, Mrs. James tells her that it's "a boy's job". Jackie hates being teased by decides she may as well pretend to be a boy, since everyone thinks she looks like one anyway. But the other kids just call her classmates for looking weird, and Mrs. James tells her, "It's time you started acting like a boy, and she nice little girl." Jackie doesn't want to be a "nice little girl" if it means she can't build boxes, so she [[SweetPollyOliver pretends boxes. Needing a chance to be a boy]]. But when think, she excuses herself to use the bathroom, she bathroom but then is unsure which bathroom one to go into. She peeks into the boys' room, one she knows she isn't supposed to be in, and gets scared by the urinals. She runs to the girls' room, thinking that everything is a mess.
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* ''Literature/NiceLittleGirls'': On her first day of school, Jackie, who has short hair and wears overalls, is [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a boy]] by her teacher, Mrs. James, and [[TheFreelanceShameSquad the whole class laughs at Jackie]]. On top of that, when Jackie volunteers to build a box, Mrs. James tells her that it's "a boy's job". Jackie hates being teased by her classmates for looking like a boy, and she doesn't want to be a "nice little girl" if it means she can't build boxes, so she [[SweetPollyOliver pretends to be a boy]]. But when she excuses herself to use the bathroom, she is unsure which bathroom to go into. She peeks into the boys' room, one she knows she isn't supposed to be in, and gets scared by the urinals. She runs to the girls' room, thinking that everything is a mess.

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* ''Literature/NiceLittleGirls'': On her the first day of at her new school, Jackie, who has short hair and wears overalls, is [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a boy]] by her teacher, Mrs. James, and [[TheFreelanceShameSquad the whole class laughs at Jackie]]. On top of that, when Jackie volunteers to build a box, Mrs. James tells her that it's "a boy's job". Jackie hates being teased by her classmates for looking like a boy, and she doesn't want to be a "nice little girl" if it means she can't build boxes, so she [[SweetPollyOliver pretends to be a boy]]. But when she excuses herself to use the bathroom, she is unsure which bathroom to go into. She peeks into the boys' room, one she knows she isn't supposed to be in, and gets scared by the urinals. She runs to the girls' room, thinking that everything is a mess.
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* ''Literature/NiceLittleGirls'': On her first day of school, Jackie, who has short hair and wears overalls, is [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a boy]] by her teacher, Mrs. James, and [[TheFreelanceShameSquad the whole class laughs at Jackie]]. On top of that, when Jackie volunteers to build a box, Mrs. James tells her that it's "a boy's job". Jackie hates being teased by her classmates for looking like a boy, and she doesn't want to be a "nice little girl" if it means she can't build boxes, so she [[SweetPollyOliver pretends to be a boy]]. But when she excuses herself to use the bathroom, she is unsure which bathroom to go into. She peeks into the boys' room, one she knows she isn't supposed to be in, and gets scared by the urinals. She runs to the girls' room, thinking that everything is a mess.
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Added Film.Bluffing It, as illiterate Jack Duggan can't tell Sailors from Mermaids, and has to guess.

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* The 1987 MadeForTV movie ''Film/BluffingIt'' has Jack Duggan be laid off from his auto plant job because he's illiterate. Trying to get by as a trucker, Jack finds himself at a seaside diner where the restrooms are labeled "Sailors" and "Mermaids." Stumped as to which is which, Jack goes by the "M" in mermaid as the same for "M" in men's. He learns quickly that this was a mistake.
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* Gabe from ''Literature/BeautifulMusicForUglyChildren'' is a closeted trans high schooler. When he and Paige go to another city, he uses the men's room because no one knows him there. Back in Maxfield, he uses the women's room at Perkins because the risk of being recognized in the men's room and ForcedOutOfTheCloset is too high. Because he's presenting as male, a girl jumps and says "Oh!" but then relaxes when she recognizes him as a "girl" she knows from school.
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* In ''VideoGame/WarioWare: Smooth Moves'', one of the challenges has you playing as a worker at a beach who must guide panicking patrons into the proper public restrooms. Apparently, they all need to go ''so bad'', they can't focus on the restroom signs, only at you.

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* In ''VideoGame/WarioWare: Smooth Moves'', one ''VideoGame/WarioWareSmoothMoves'': One of the challenges has you playing as a worker at a beach who must guide panicking patrons into the proper public restrooms. Apparently, they all need to go ''so bad'', they can't focus on the restroom signs, only at you.
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* ''Literature/BothCanBeTrue'': On genderfluid teen Ash's first day at Oakmont Middle, they can't decide whether to use the boys', girls', or gender-neutral bathroom. They're afraid that if they use the neutral bathroom the other kids will think they're a freak, and if they use either of the gendered bathrooms, everyone will think they're either Ashley or Asher forever. Ash is about to go into the neutral bathroom when they see their crush Daniel, who is straight. They go in the girls' room instead, even though they've been feeling more like a boy lately. Daniel spends most of the book thinking they're a girl.

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* ''Morris Goes to School'' is about a talking moose attending school. At one point Morris wonders which restroom to use.

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* ''Literature/MorrisTheMoose'': ''Morris Goes to School'' is about a talking moose attending school. At one point Morris wonders which restroom to use.


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* ''Literature/GracefullyGrayson'': As trans girl Grayson becomes more openly feminine, she considers going into the girls' room on several occasions. But since no one knows she's trans, she always uses the boys' room instead.

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