Basic Trope: Using a container to pee or poop in.
- Straight: Alice is going on a long drive, when she needs to pee. She decides to pee in a jar.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice pees so much that she fills ten jars.
- The entire cast all needs to pee at once, and every single one of them pees in a container.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is living in the Victorian age and uses a chamber pot.
- Alice is three years old and uses a potty.
- Justified:
- There were no bathrooms and if she stepped outside to pee, everyone would see her, which would be too embarrassing and might lead to legal trouble.
- Alice is on the motorway, where there are neither bathrooms nor suitable places outside to pee.
- Alice fears that if she peed on the grass, she'd kill it.
- The doctor needs it for analysis.
- Inverted:
- Alice stores things in an old toilet.
- Alice is carsick and uses the jar to throw up in.
- Subverted:
- Alice needs to pee while in the car and takes out a jar to pee in, but then she sees a bathroom.
- Alice is seen doing what looks like a Potty Dance and then whipping out a jar, but it turns out that she just had pins and needles and the jar was for keeping something she'd found in.
- Double Subverted:
- The bathroom is out of order, so she pees in the jar after all.
- While that may not have been the reason for her squirming, Alice does need to pee, so she takes out a separate jar to pee in.
- Parodied: Alice pees in a jar... and throws it at people.
- Zigzagged: Alice is having a Potty Emergency and considers various places to pee, some of which are containers.
- Averted:
- Alice just uses the bathroom.
- Alice pees outside.
- Nobody Poops.
- Enforced: Product Placement for a company that sells packing jars.
- Lampshaded: "I'd better label that jar so everyone else steers clear of it."
- Invoked: Bob, a doctor, asks Alice for a urine sample.
- Exploited: Bob analyses Alice's pee to find pathogens and/or drugs.
- Defied:
- Alice makes sure to use the bathroom whenever she can while on her drive.
- "Eww, I'm not relieving myself in a container! Either we find a rest stop soon or I go behind a rock or something."
- Discussed: "Is it ever OK to pee in a jar?"
- Conversed: "Eew, did that character just pee in a jar?!"
- Implied: Alice mentions needing to pee, and in the next scene, there's a jar of yellow liquid.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama:
- Played for Horror:
Back to Jar Potty.
