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9	->'''Fry:''' Hey, I was frozen! I know what people want to hear when they wake up.\
10	''[walks up to a newly unfrozen HumanPopsicle]''\
11	'''Fry:''' Bathroom's that way. ''[guy gives a grateful look and runs off]''
12	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
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14	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. Despite the fact that you can't exactly hydrate in your sleep, you're still going to 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 at least decades.]] 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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16	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 to you.
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18	A much more mundane version of this trope would be simply PottyEmergency.
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20	!!Examples:
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24	[[folder:Abridged Series]]
25	* 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... 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... [[HilarityEnsues "OH GOD, IT'S EVERYWHERE!"]]
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28	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
29	* A slight variant in Miyazaki Maya's ''Manga/{{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.
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32	[[folder:Comic Books]]
33	* 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.
34	* ''ComicBook/{{Ironwood}}'' begins with Dave being rescued after spending three days hanging upside down in a snare with a boulder tied around his neck. His first act on being rescued is to dart into the bushes to empty his bladder.
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37	[[folder:Fan Works]]
38	* This happens to Link in [[https://www.deviantart.com/hail-nekoyasha/art/Wakey-Wakey-17628942 this fancomic]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. Rauru stands before him after he wakes up from his 7-year-long sleep and tries to explain his mission to him... only to begrudgingly cut himself off and point Link to the bathroom after noticing the boy's extremely strained face.
39	* This happens to Eclipsa in [[http://moringmark.tumblr.com/post/167049830098/priority this parody]] of ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''. After she breaks out of her crystal prison, she lunges forward, seemingly at Queen Moon. Moon throws up her arms to defend herself... only for Eclipsa to leap ''past'' her. Moon is surprised at first, before becoming annoyed upon realising Eclipsa was aiming for the public toilet ''next'' to her.
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42	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
43	* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': After waking up from hibernation, the first thing Hammy the Squirrel does is go wee-wee.
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46	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
47	* ''Film/AustinPowers''' [[OverlyLongGag epic urination]] after being awakened from cryo-sleep.
48	* In ''Film/DemolitionMan'', Spartan didn't have to use the bathroom immediately, but about an hour later, when he "fully thawed". This leads to the [[NoodleImplements three seashells]] gag.
49	* Averted in ''Film/TheGreenHornet''. When Britt [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally shoots himself in the face with his new gas gun,]] he wakes up 11 days later as it turns out Kato hadn't figured out the chemistry quite right. Knowing that this would happen eventually, Kato put diapers on Britt and regularly changed them until he regained consciousness.
50	* The 1997 Hallmark and Creator/DisneyChannel MadeForTVMovie, ''Film/{{Under Wraps\|1997}}'' does this once the mummy wakes up.
51	-->'''Gilbert:''' ''[hearing the Mummy urinating in the bathroom]'' Wow, he had to go!
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54	[[folder:Literature]]
55	* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', Crowley says that he slept through the entire nineteenth century and only woke up to use the bathroom.
56	* At one point in Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/Timeline191'' series, a severely sleep-deprived pilot is forcibly sidelined by the airbase Chief Medical Officer, who cons him into taking a sleeping pill. When he wakes up ([[AsleepForDays 48 hours later]]) he feels a hell of a lot better overall but ''really'' desperate for a piss.
57	* In ''Literature/EarlyRiser'', an AlternateHistory where humans hibernate for the winter, the protagonist Charlie accidentally falls asleep for four weeks. By the time they're woken up, they immediately have to run for the bathroom, and it feels like it's "burning a new way out".
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60	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
61	* ''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.
62	* In ''Series/SleepyHollow'', Lieutenant Abbie Mills [[DiscussedTrope asks]] if Ichabod ever needed to get up to pee during his ~250 year sleep. [[SubvertedTrope Apparently he did not]].
63	* In one segment of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' Ryan Stiles has to play a defrosting Neanderthal. The first thing he does after regaining full control of his body is to turn away from the camera, widen his stance, and make relieved-sounding groans... we know what he's doing. (Well, what he's pantomiming.)
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66	[[folder:Web Comics]]
67	* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' Upon awakening from a 300 year sleep, this is Lari the Ninja's first thought. When his siblings wonder if the strange modern world is the afterlife, he disagrees because "I don't think the dead pee."
68	* ''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.
69	* During an arc of ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'' where Doc is unconscious for days Sandy wonders out loud why he's at the hospital when the shop has an ICU now. Swampy asks if she's willing to change his bedpan and she gets the point.
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72	[[folder:Western Animation]]
73	* ''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.
74	* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' in the second half of the season one two-parter "Winter Solstice", after Aang rescues Sokka from the Spirit World.
75	-->'''Katara:''' You were trapped in the Spirit World for twenty-four hours! ... How do you feel?\
76	'''Sokka:''' Like I seriously have to use the bathroom! ''(runs off)''
77	* The ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'' episode "Fright at the Museum" involves Bunsen's uncle waking up after he is discovered to be an exhibit at the Muckledunk museum. Shortly after his awakening, he rushes to the bathroom due to holding it in for ten years.
78	* ''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!").
79	* ''WesternAnimation/DexHamiltonAlienEntomologist'': When the series BigBad Syrrus awakens from a centuries long hibernation, he ponders what his first act should be. After a few seconds thought, he decides it should be to find a bathroom.
80	* 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).
81	* ''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.
82	* ''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, realizes there is something she needs to do, and the next cut has her continuing her explanation from inside the ladies' room.
83	* ''WesternAnimation/NumbChucks'': In "Fan Boy", Dr. Sinister is freed after being frozen in wax as part of Buddy's collection. He advances menacingly on Buddy, vowing that he is about to do what he has been dreaming of doing for the last three weeks: which turns out to be finding a washroom.
84	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tutenstein}}'': Tut's first act after being brought back from the dead is to run to the bathroom.
85	-->'''Luxor:''' Well, 3,000 years certainly ''is'' a long time, Cleo.
86	* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': At the end of the short "Frozen Ice", Ice Bear excuses himself after the ice cube he was stuck in all day finally melts.
87	-->'''Ice Bear:''' Ice Bear had weird dream. Have to pee.
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90	[[folder:Real Life]]
91	* Sometimes people experience this when they wake up after major surgery. If they're expected to be incapacitated for a while, they'll usually be hooked up to a catheter.
92	[[/folder]]

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