"To whoever took the 'L' from the 'MOTOR POOL' sign, haha, we are all very amused."
— Ms. Packard, Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Simply put, toilet humour comprises jokes about urine, feces (human or otherwise), bums, fannies, willies, other naughty bits, fluids, farts and the immolation of them, boogers, bodily functions, and various other yucky stuff. It is very popular with young children, but as they grow up, they tend to find greater amusement in more witty jokes (at least, most of them do), and toilet humour is generally regarded with great dislike from the eyes of the mature audience. On the other hand, when toilet humour is mixed with Slapstick, the result is generally viewed as humourous. People falling into manure is good for a laugh across all age groups.
Toilet humour is related to Vulgar Humor. You could say it is the "cleaner counterpart". e.g What did the Pirate find in the ship toilet? The Captain's Log.note
Toilet humour is common on grossout shows and shows with large amounts of Black Comedy, but is not restricted to them. In a show which rarely relies on toilet humour, such instances tend to be lampshaded ("Oh, just what this episode needs - a fart joke"). Often toilet humour is used as filler, which results in a Bottom of the Barrel Joke.
Almost guaranteed in anything with babies in it.
Before anyone tells you humor was cleaner back in the old days, this trope is Older Than Dirt. A Sumerian proverb, dating to 1900 BC goes "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."
I Ate WHAT?! is the trope when eating is involved. Characters that are Gassholes and most instances of Fartillery are also usually meant for comedic purposes. Compare Tinkle in the Eye, Nose Nuggets, Road Apples, Urine Trouble, Revolting Rescue, Ludicrously Unwashed Object, and Joke of the Butt. Can be played very lightly via Calling Your Bathroom Breaks. Humor that involves an actual toilet is often involved in a Potty Emergency (but this Trope often applies there too). You can have some toilet humour without having anything gross actually happen by employing a Grossout Fakeout.
Not to be confused with Toilet Horror, though the two can overlap in Horror Comedy or in a moment of Mood Whiplash in other works.
Subtropes:
- All-Natural Fire Extinguisher: Someone puts out a fire by peeing on it.
- Bathhouse Blitz: Attacking, kidnapping, or killing someone in a public bathhouse or sauna.
- Bathroom Brawl: A fight that happens in a bathroom.
- Bathroom Break-Out: Someone uses a bathroom break to cover an escape attempt.
- Bathroom Control: Denial of bathroom access as punishment.
- Bathroom Search Excuse: Using "looking for the bathroom" as an excuse to snoop around an area, or to get out of dealing with something.
- Bathroom Stall Graffiti: Notes people leave on bathroom stalls.
- Bathroom Stall of Angst: Characters crying alone in a bathroom stall.
- Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults: A character overhears other characters insulting them from a lavatory stall.
- Baths Are Fun: Taking a bath is enjoyable.
- Bladder of Steel: Video game feats or achievements that require all but supernatural bladder control.
- Bottomless Bladder: A video game character never goes to the bathroom even though you've been in complete control of them for 72 straight hours.
- Bring My Brown Pants: Wetting or soiling oneself out of fear.
- Calling Your Bathroom Breaks: A character cannot resist announcing their need to use the restroom.
- Camping a Crapper: Someone wanting to kill someone waits for their target to go to the bathroom before making their move.
- The Can Kicked Him: Some poor soul is attacked or even killed with a toilet.
- Cartoon Suction Cups: A cartoon character uses stock, red-colored toilet plungers as improvised weapons or ammunition.
- The Diaper Change: The inevitable moment in any comedy involving a baby where someone gets more than they bargained for and has to change the baby's diaper.
- Disgusting Public Toilet: A public bathroom, usually at a gas station or on a bus, that is so foul that a dog wouldn't even crap on the floor.
- Dogs Love Fire Hydrants: Dogs pee on fire hydrants, which are stereotypically red.
- Dramatic Incontinence: Unable to hold it in due to medical or other dramatic circumstances outside of fear or comedy.
- The Dreaded Toilet Duty: Cleaning bathrooms is the worst.
- Dropped in the Toilet: Personal possessions accidentally getting dropped in a toilet.
- Embarrassing Damp Sheets: Wetting your bed.
- Excrement Statement: A character relieves themself on someone or something as insult.
- Fancy Toilet Awe: A character is in awe (or confused) by a fancy or hi-tech toilet/bathroom.
- First Period Panic: A preteen/teen girl panics over menarche. In extreme cases she doesn't know blood appearing on her underwear is normal.
- Flushing-Edge Interactivity: Toilets in video games that can be flushed, but not used or cleaned.
- Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower: If you flush the toilet or turn the tap on, someone in the shower will scream.
- Flush the Evidence: Flushing things (such as drugs) down the toilet as a last resort.
- Forced Bath: Someone is forced by several people to take a bath.
- Foul Ball Pit: Ball pits contain urine, feces, and vomit.
- Fun with Flushing: Flushing something down the toilet that isn't meant to be flushed.
- Gassy Gastronomy: Foods and drinks stereotypically portrayed as causing farting or burping.
- Giant's Droplet, Human's Shower: When a giant pees, someone's bound to get wet.
- Goodies in the Toilets: Toilets are the new crates and barrels.
- Go to the Euphemism: Saying indirectly that one has to use the toilet.
- Hates Baths: A character hates taking a bath.
- Hogging the Bathroom: Someone annoys others by taking too long to use the bathroom.
- Jar Potty: Using a portable container as an improvised toilet.
- Laxative Prank: One character drugs another secretly with laxatives. In a wacky comedy, hijinks ensue. In a deconstructive drama, severe dehydration and criminal charges ensue.
- Locked in the Bathroom: A character locks themselves in the bathroom when they're upset/evading a persuer.
- Male Restroom Etiquette: The strict unwritten code of conduct of the men's room.
- Mistaken for Toilet: Something is mistaken for a toilet or bathroom.
- Nature Tinkling: Using the outside world as a toilet.
- Next Stall Shenanigans: Weird shit's happening in the next stall while you're trying to do your business.
- Nighttime Bathroom Phobia: A character fears using the bathroom at night.
- No Periods, Period: A female character's period doesn't impact the story, even when it probably should.
- Nobody Poops: A work flat out ignores that living creatures excrete waste in any way.
- Only Useful as Toilet Paper: When literary writing is seen as such poor quality that it's only fit to be used as toilet paper (or similar undignified uses).
- Overturned Outhouse: Outhouses or port-a-potties getting tipped over or destroyed, usually while someone is using it.
- Plumber's Crack: What you might see as your bathroom fixtures are being repaired. When the upper part of somebody's buttcrack protrudes above the top of their lower clothing as they bend over, stereotypically associated with plumbers.
- Pooping Where You Shouldn't: A character starts defecating in a place where they shouldn't.
- Potty Dance: When a character (especially a young child) needs to go very badly, they will jump around a little bit.
- Potty Discretion Shot: A character relieves themself, but it's not fully shown onscreen.
- Potty Emergency: A character needs the toilet now.
- Potty Failure: The inevitable result of a Potty Emergency that goes unresolved for too long.
- Potty Procrastination: Someone puts off going to the bathroom in favor of doing something else.
- Putting the Pee in Pool: Did this water just get warmer? If it did, maybe someone peed in it.
- Real Men Pee Standing Up: Sitting to urinate as a man, or standing to urinate as a woman, is weird or embarrassing.
- Rip Van Tinkle: After prolonged inactivity, someone needs a bathroom right now!
- Searching the Stalls: Hunting for someone hiding in a bathroom stall.
- Shared Toothbrush Squick: Someone brushes their teeth with another person’s toothbrush.
- Shy Bladder: A character just can't use the restroom because someone might be watching or overhearing them
- Swirlie: A character sticks another character's head into the toilet. Flushing is optional. Also known as bog washing.
- Tinkle in the Eye: When a human baby pees on somebody.
- Toilet-Drinking Dog Gag: Jokes about dogs drinking from toilets.
- Toilet Horror: Bathrooms as a setting for horror.
- Toilet Humour: Disgusting bodily functions played for comedy.
- Toilet Training Plot: A plot that focuses on someone being toilet trained.
- Toilet Paper Substitute: No paper? How about $100 bills?
- Toilet Paper Trail: Somebody leaves the bathroom and a sheet of toilet paper is stuck to their foot.
- Toilet Teleportation: Flushing yourself down the toilet to escape to somewhere.
- Toilet Throne: Sitting on the toilet without actually using it.
- Urine Trouble: A character/object is urinated on by an animal, usually for comedic purposes.
- Warm Water Whiz: Sticking a sleeping person's hand in warm water makes them wet their pants.
- Water Equals Whizzing: Water either aggravates an urge to pee, or is used to symbolise urine.
- "Which Restroom?" Dilemma: A character can't tell the men's and ladies' rooms apart.
- Wondrous Ladies Room: In fiction, the ladies' room takes on a kind of mystique.
- Wrong Bathroom Incident: A character (intentionally or not) finds themself in the opposite gender's restroom or dressing room.
- Yellow Snow: The result of urine combined with snow. Someone may or may not end up eating it.
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Advertising
- Apparently, this commercial for baby diapers
is a real Australian ad. Let's just say that the mother will be cleaning out her car for a while, and hope we never learn what a number four is...
- There are a couple of somewhat popular ads that got uploaded to YouTube and other video sharing sites countless times. For example:
- This Smart Beep ad, in which a woman farts in the car when she thinks she's alone, only to discover she was on a double date and the other couple was in the backseat.
- This Simon TV commercial where a woman pranks her boyfriend with her fart. After he gets grossed out by it, she apologizes and promises not to do it again... only to fart on him after shaking his hand.
- This ad for Jamocha's restaurant pulls a hilarious bait-and-switch.
- This Smart Beep ad,
- A campaign against secondhand smoke used the phrase "passing gas" instead of smoking in reference to the gases expelled from smoking cigarettes. The ads usually involved one character mentioning he or she needed to pass gas and the others would tell them to go to another room or do it outside as a narrator explained the dangers of "passing gas" in the presence of others.
- The "Bleachable Moments" ad campaign for Clorox had a few instances of this. In one ad, a little boy proudly informs his mother that he used the potty. The mother goes to the bathroom, looks at the training toilet, and with a confused expression says, "Where is it?" Then her gaze drifts over to a nearby vase...
- One ad that tells people to get checked for kidney disease features a song called "Everybody Pees", which is about people peeing in all sorts of crazy ways and stating that everybody pees.
- "Tinkle, tinkle, Little Claire, sitting on your potty chair..."◊
- Claude the Cat:
- If gas is mentioned, there's usually a fart joke.
- One video begins with Claude digging then saying, "So much for privacy" implying he wanted to go number two.
- In one video, Claude describes the beach as a litter box.
- The Energy Sheets commercial. The people in the commercial are saying stuff like "I take a sheet in the pool" and such, referring to where they take the product.
- The Charmin bears: the toilet paper company has an entire international advertising campaign based around taking the phrase "Does a bear shit in the woods?" to its logical extreme. (Apparently, the answer is "Yes, and they use Charmin toilet tissue to clean up afterwards.")
- Lampshaded in one episode of Saturday Night Live (not verbatim): "An ad for Dancing with the Stars was banned from airing due to a woman showing too much cleavage, yet the lewd commercials with bears showing off their asses still manage to air."
- A German toilet paper company proceeded to make a parody. "Scheißt ein Bär in den Wald?" is the German version and means exactly the same.
- And the German version of the initial Charmin bear advert is even more explicit than the American one (then again, they can get by with more shit on German television...).
- One wonders how this ad for Luvs Diapers got past the radar. Yes, you saw it correctly. Those babies are having a competition for...who can be the most "heavy duty".
- This advertisement for the Intercity 125 shows the train stopping "to spend a penny", followed by a flock of disturbed birds fleeing from offscreen, next to a sign labelled "inconveniences".
- Cryptoland: When Christopher asks Connie where he gets his ideas, Connie looks at a public restroom labeled "Shitcoin". The camera zooms in on 1-dollar bills labeled "Wipe paperrr".
- Connie: Iiii'm not gonna tell you where.
- There's a series of commercials for Kellogg's cereals that star William Shatner as "Will Shat" bringing fiber to the masses. The joke is that "shat" is a past-tense form of "shit", and guess what the fiber is supposed to help you do.
"Will Shat on a car!"
Arts
- Drinking Bacchus: Bacchus pissing while drinking is Played for Laughs and as An Aesop for the consequences of hedonistic drinking.
- Rembrandt van Rijn: This artistic genius also made some drawings of an obese woman urinating and him and his wife having sex in bed.
- Marcel Duchamp: His dadaist sculpture Fountain is literally a urinal turned on its side.
Asian Animation
- Aachi & Ssipak has an entire plot that revolves around a future where feces is the main source of power and the main characters are protecting a hooker who has very... *ahem* generous bowels.
- Bread Barbershop: In "The Barber of Bakery Town", during a competition with a rival, Bread designs his cupcake person's frosting to look like poop, complete with texture. He goes back on it, turning it into a golden dragon instead.
- Happy Friends: Season 8 episode 11 is about Big M. being stuck floating in the air. He gets tired of not being able to control where he floats and finds a solution - propel himself in the direction he wants by farting. He then runs into an aerial traffic cop who fines him for polluting the air with his gas.
- Noonbory and the Super 7: The second season episode "Blast Party" is about the characters getting gas from yams and farting uncontrollably.
Comedy
- George Carlin defines a fart in its simplest context: "Shit without the mess."
- Billy Connolly's early material featured an abundance of toilet and body function jokes. The most famous example is one where he speaks at length about being trapped in an airplane toilet with the previous visitor's "jobby" still floating in it, not flushing away and being unable to leave because he'd never be able to convince anyone that he didn't do it himself. He's no stranger to jokes about willies and bums either (a joke about the latter pretty much kickstarted his career outside Scotland).
- Bill Cosby's famous standup act, Bill Cosby: Himself featured a rant about how fathers are the most fun family members because they're the only ones allowed to have gas. He also discussed how his father used to blame his farts on invisible animals.
- Larry the Cable Guy is notorious for overusing this.
- Eddie Murphy has a bit in Delirious that starts off with farting in the bath tub and ends with a turd, a cracked skull and his brother with a G.I. Joe up his butt.
- Oh, Bob Saget. The comedy special That Ain't Right features lighting farts, an examination of the potential literal meaning of the phrase "fuck that shit", a man from Spain getting his head stuck up an elephant's ass, and that time where Bob got garlic diarrhea after eating at The Stinking Rose and then used it to kill a vampire.
Comic Strips
- Gary Larson liked putting outhouse jokes into The Far Side, though he did have a problem getting them past his editors in the early years.
- One of his favorites was one featuring a boy in the foreground practicing his sousaphone behind an outhouse; in the background, beyond the outhouse, stand a cluster of awed onlookers.
- Garfield has had a few examples here and there over the years.
- Marvin...just the entire run of Marvin, a strip that seems obsessed with a diaper-wearing toddler's fecal production and his apparent willingness to sit smugly stewing in it indefinitely. (This behavior and the strip's unswerving focus on it is one of the bêtes noir of The Comics Curmudgeon.)
- BabyBlues: Frequently used as a running gag and is commonly used on Wren. Another running gag has Wren constantly eat prunes and the after-math always has her pooping herself. In one comic, Wren gets diarrhea after eating a whole bag of prunes and stinks up the van, leaving Darryl with a empty diaper bag and a trip the store to get pull-ups.
- In the January 10, 2016 Pearls Before Swine strip, when Pig tries to impress a woman with his travel, he tries to prove he does know whether or not he's in North America by proclaiming "I'M IN CONTINENT!!"
- Spy vs. Spy: In addition to the Ludicrous Gibs, Kuper's run often has the spies expiring in a bathroom in a very literal sense. White Spy, particularly, falls victim to booby-trapped toilets.
Eastern European Animation
- Lavatory-Lovestory: This is a cartoon in which a lovelorn men's room attendant falls in love. In one scene all the men in the stalls are unnerved when the woman starts peeking underneath them in an effort to find her admirer. Later, she accidentally whacks a man in the face with her bouquet, causing him to fall into the toilet.
Pinball
- The "Joe's Diner" mode from The Flintstones (Williams) ends with a large pterodactyl flying overhead and releasing a giant dropping on the diner.
- Capcom Pinball's Flipper Football includes belches, farts, and burps in its repertoire of sound effects — particularly if Adult Mode is turned on.
- WhizBang Pinball's Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons has a horse that's seen shooting a melon out of its posterior. Another part of the play field shows it farting onto a lit match, which launches a fireball (that doubles as a score light).
- The "13-UTT" dimension in Rick and Morty (Spooky Pinball) causes fart sounds to play whenever the ball hits anything.
Professional Wrestling
- The 1987 Slammy Awards: In a literal case, one of the nominees for the "Best Personal Hygiene" award was King Kong Bundy, who is seen using the toilet to defecate himself ... and it is implied he held it all in (and we mean ALL in) until his bowels finally gave way.
- John Cena occasionally pulls this out for the kids.
- Who can forget the time Eddie Guerrero gave The Big Show a tainted burrito, giving him diarrhea in the middle of a match, and then stealing all the toilet paper from the toilet stalls before he got in? And the next week, Eddie Guerrero sprayed The Big Show down with a hose connected to a septic truck.
Puppet Shows
- The Bear in the Big Blue House installment "Potty Time with Bear" pretty much operated on this when it wasn't offering practical information on children's potty training.
- On Dinosaurs, Baby often makes mention of having dirty diapers with comical reactions from Earl. Some prominent examples include the lyrics, "I take every chance to make a poop in my pants" in the "I'm the Baby (Gotta Love Me)" music video, and the entire plot of "Nature Calls" dealt with Earl's unsuccessful attempts to potty-train Baby.
- The Muppet Show:
- In "Episode 106: Jim Nabors", Kermit introduces Fozzie as "the man who thinks that Elton John is a singing bathroom".
- In "Episode 310: Marisa Berenson", a wig trainer tells Louis Kazagger that he doesn't use "sham"-poo for his wigs, only real poo.
- In "Episode 504: Shirley Bassey", Statler and Waldorf share the following exchange after the guest star's first number:
Waldorf: "Fire Down Below", great number.
Statler: Thanks.
Waldorf: Thanks? You didn't write "Fire Down Below".
Statler: No, but the guy who did had just had a bowl of my chili. - Muppets Tonight: The Seinfeld Babies sketch from "Episode 107: Sandra Bullock" parodies the Seinfeld epsiode, "The Contest" by having Baby Jerry say that whoever can go the longest without soiling their diaper wins the contest. Baby Kramer proceeds to do his business and declares, "I'm out".
- Sesame Street: "Elmo's Potty Time" is mainly educational, but there are a few joke moments, like a giant primate needing to pee and chasing a giant toilet, jokes during a song about toilet paper being made (such as when a large toilet roll is being seen in the manufacturing process, asking, "If the roll ran out, would we hire a truck?!") and kids shouting synonyms for pee and poop, the peeing part ending in a shout of "I REALLY NEED TO URINATE!"
Mythology & Religion
- Turns out that Toilet humor is Older Than Dirt, such as in the case of The Bible. Yes, the holy one (but only in certain translations - the original Hebrew is somewhat euphemistic, and no one wants to make a poop joke in the middle of one of the Lord's awesome feats).
- In 1 Kings 18, Elijah goes up against the prophets of Baal to determine whose God is true. When Baal fails to answer, Elijah begins taunting the other prophets, suggesting that perhaps Baal is simply busy, turned aside to do his business on the side of the road, and if they'll just shout a little louder, perhaps he'll answer them (naturally, he doesn't).
- In the New Testament, even Jesus Himself indulged in this: in Mark 7, after yet another debate with the Pharisees, the disciples asked what Jesus meant by "There is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile." Jesus responds with, "Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?" (NRSVA). Again, many translations try to hide this, but the original Greek text clearly states "goes out into the sewer/latrine" as part of His response.
- Journey to the West. Famously, Sun Wukong ends up taking a leak at one of the five pillars at the edge of existence, only to then discover those were the Buddha's fingers he had just peed on.
- Later on, we also get Wukong tricking a trio of demons disguised as Taoist mystics into drinking his urine (after also referring to the toilet as "the room of rice reincarnation:"), and one entire chapter sees Wukong having to acquire dragon urine to craft a medicine for a sick monarch.
Radio
- Howard Stern and his superhero, Fartman.
- Opie & Anthony: "Fart Equals Funny" is one of their basic tenets.
- Listeners are spared listening Giles Wemmbley-Hogg's bout of amoebic dysentery during his trip to Thailand, except to be told afterward about it...
...spending the night, squatting over a hole, spraying pint after pint of red-hot magma down the back of [his] legs.
- The Stephanie Miller Show describes itself as "a Mensa meeting with fart jokes!"
- Martin/Molloy featured lots of this, which the hosts acknowledged and frequently mocked themselves for. The "Blimpy, the Lactose Intolerant Cat" sketches were built entirely around it.
Tabletop Games
- Crappy Birthday: Plenty of cards involve bathroom-related jokes, from strange toilet replacements to having to place a Manneken Pis replica in your yard.
Toys
- Crazy Aaron's: Among the many dinosaur-themed putties is Dino Poop. Naturally, it's brown.
Theatre
- In 1776, at one point, RI delegate Stephen Hopkins is out using the latrine when his time to vote is called; the Congressional secretary marks this as "Rhode Island passes," sending the rest of Congress into a fit of laughter. Later, Benjamin Franklin is discussing his thoughts about not truly being an Englishman since he doesn't have the rights of one.
Franklin: But to call me one without those rights is like calling an ox a bull; he's thankful for the honor but would much rather have restored what's rightfully his.
Dickinson: When did you first notice they were missing, sir? - The Clouds: At one point, Strepsiades is speaking to one of the students at the Thinkery, surrounded by kneeling students. When he's told that they are studying the reaches of Hell, he's quick to point out that their "third eyes" are facing the sky.
- The Comedy of Errors: The Ephesian Antipholus starts slinging insults with the Dromio keeping him out of his house and descends into threatening to fart in his face.
- In Disney Hercules, Pain and Panic giggle over saying "duty" cause it sounds like "doody." After they kidnap Hercules, Panic says Earth stinks, only to realize it's the baby's diaper.
- In Hercules: The Muse-ical, Phil's original actor is seasick by the time he needs to go on and is praying to the greatest god of all... the porcelain one.
- Matilda the Musical: Mr Wormwood's hair is green due to a mistake and claims it's to celebrate the green things like "lettuce and snot".
- Urinetown is a Black Comedy musical about a dystopian future where, due to a drought, people have to pay to pee.
- "Haus of Holbein" from Six features this line...
For blonder hair, you just add a
Magical ingredient from your bladder.
Web Video
- American High Digital:
- The main emotion (for lack of a better term) shown in "Realistic Mood Ring" is "didn't wipe good". Grace doesn't want the ring back after seeing that result.
- One of the things that results from Hyde going off the deep end in "Student With Senioritis" is casually shitting himself.
- The janitor in "Teacher That Hates Summer School" is so desperate for something to clean that she's been clogging the toilets herself. Laxatives are involved.
- Two of Julia's... intense ideas in "Picking A Bid Day Theme" involve large amounts of feces.
- The first problem in the "reality" section of "Expectation Vs. Reality: Meeting Under The Bleachers" is Aidan and Tina getting interrupted by someone casually engaging in public urination.
- Bern Grill - uomo contronatura: The series is rich in this kind of humor, mostly playing for laughs Bear Grylls' advice to drink urine if no other other safe liquids can be ingested. Bern Grill repeatedly ends up either drinking pee or eating poop. Even when it's not used as emergency food, Bern somehow ends up involved with pee or poop in some other way, like accidentally stepping on it.
- HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT?: Discussed in "HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT: wikiHow", where Salty reads multiple wikiHow articles about pooping. When Pastey complains, Salty insists that poop is funny, which Pastey disagrees with.
- Round Table Game Show: It's not a staple of anyone's humor, but such jokes do come up occasionally.
Tee: I blocked Whitney from calling me, once. She farted on the phone, I don't like to be gaslit.
Bev: If you take a dump in an elevator...is that taking shit to the next level?
Melo: My period spoke to me. Know what it said? "Bomboclot!" - Tales Unwritten:
- In Episode 3, after Wren makes a groaning noise that the group brushes off as him having stomach problems (in actuality, his Magically Binding Contract burning his arm), there are plenty of jokes made about how he just needs to go to the Hive's bathroom, which all have bidets, an invention of the pixies. The players and DM make several jokes about the luxury in using a bidet to wash one's self after taking a shit, including a random cut to the episode being sponsored by bidets. In Episode 4, Jack of Aces reveals he has a bidet in his private bathroom after Maud asks where a bidet is in the local restroom.
- A lot of poop jokes are made at Wren's expense by Maud in Episode 4, who tells him to shit his pants as a distraction, much to Wren's discomfort (one instance of Maud calling a bathroom break for Wren managing to give them a break from the Jack of Aces), and Maud not understanding why shitting his pants wouldn't help their situation as a distraction.
Real Life
- Older Than Dirt: The oldest known joke of any kind comes from a Sumerian tablet dated to c. 1900 BCE. It's a fart joke:
- "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial - a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."
- You...sulphurous bastard.
- Flatuists, A.K.A. professional farters, are people paid to fart on command. The earliest known flatuist was mentioned by St. Augustine of Hippo in his book, "City of God", which was written in the 5th Century A.D. One 12th-century Englishman by the name of Roland was given a feudal grant of 110 acres in Suffolk provided that every year he would, on Christmas Day, entertain the King by performing "altogether, and at once, a leap, a puff, and a fart." He and his descendants did so for 200 years.
- "Fart Proudly" was the title of an essay by Benjamin Franklin. You read that right.
- The Maasai people of Tanzania, a nomadic tribe known for wearing toga-like wraps instead of Western apparel, refer to Westerners as iloredaa enjekat, or "those who hold their farts in with trousers".
- Leslie Nielsen's gravestone reads "Let 'er rip." He was also known for carrying around a fart noisemaker with him at all times.
- Comedian Michael Bentine recalled his life as Intelligence Officer to an Australian bomber squadron during WW2. The Germans made a war crimes protest to Switzerland that had to be investigated at the highest levels and which led back to Bentine's squadron, who had been indenting for more than the usual amount of replacement chemical toilets, claiming the onboard lavatories had been damaged beyond repair by enemy flak. It turned out that every time the toilets got full, rather than have them drained and cleaned on return to base, the earthy Aussies had been ejecting them over German towns and cities as an additional, unofficial, weapon of war, hoping to splash the maximum possible number of Germans as a courtesy detail to go with the bombs. The Germans protested formally about noxious chemical warfare, the Swiss Red Cross formally investigated, and all RAF crews were officially forbidden to empty aircraft toilets over Germany....
- Most gift shops for any rural or semi-rural destination will have novelty items befitting this trope, such as toy animals that "defecate" at will, chocolate candies that resemble the droppings of local fauna, or T-shirts with illustrations and jokes along those lines.
- The "poop cake" story.
- Jack Kim, aka Mr Toilet, founder of the World Toilet Organisation, invokes this trope as a means of promoting better sanitation globally.
- A themed restaurant in Taiwan was infamous for having certain dishes served in a toilet-shaped bowl. The contents if you didn't know any better may as looked liked someone having a bad day on said bowl.