Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub: Difference between revisions

** The webcomic ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' parodied this commercial by having Rudy coming across a saltwater lobster and a freshwater fish in separate tubs. The fish even said, "No, this isn't a commercial."

 

* Colonel Felme of ''[[Zoids]] Genesis'' (pictured above) has been in this situation where she is taking a bubble bath in a bathtub that is on a table in the middle of a throne room while talking to someone.

* ''[[One Piece]]''

* In ''[[Banana no Nana]]'', [[Making a Splash|Mizukami Haruko]] goes around in a bathtub with wheels, pushed by servants. Justified in that she [[Conditional Powers|must spend twenty hours a day soaking in water to keep her powers.]]

 

* Chief Vitalstatix of ''[[Asterix]]'' often happens to take a bath when an important visitor (up to and including Julius Caesar himself) shows up. He always meets them either inside or even in front of his hut while still bathing. In the latter case, his carriers carry the tub with the Chief inside out through the door like they would usually carry him standing on his shield. At most, it's slightly inconvenient for him.

** A Roman centurion wanting to impress the Gauls by "following their customs" subsequently receives envoys from the village in a bathtub (but still wearing his helmet, as Vitalstatix was doing).

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* ''[[Diva]]'': Philosopher-crook Gorodish relaxes with a cigar in the tub, out in the middle of his dark, cavernous loft, as girlfriend Alba rollerskates through the place.

* ''[[El Dorado]]'': [[The Sheriff|J.P. Harrah]] is taking a much-needed bath. However, he can't leave the jailhouse for various reasons, and ends up having to bathe in the middle of his office. To make things worse, most of the cast finds some reason to walk in and out of the office through the course of the scene, [[Running Gag|each one offering him another bar of soap.]]

 

== Literature ==

* An inversion in the children's book "King Bidgood's in the Bathtub and He Won't Get Out!", in which the bathtub is in a perfectly reasonable place, but the activities taking place ''in'' the bathtub (such as a military exercise, a fox hunt, a banquet, and a masquerade ball) are entirely unreasonable. (The rest of the court is trying to come up with good reasons why King Bidgood needs to stop bathing, and he always responds by dragging the protestor into the tub with him.)

* The god of knowledge in the [[Perdido Street Station|Bas-Lag]] Verse is worshiped equally by humans and the aquatic vodyanoi, so is traditionally depicted as a fat man or skinny vodyanoi lying in a bathtub regardless of circumstances.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Happens to Lily Aldrin of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' when she breaks up with Marshall and moves out of the appartment she shared with Marshall and Ted into a tiny, filthy appartment.

* ''[[Father Ted]]'' has a semi-aversion. The bath in the Craggy Island parochial house is, logically enough, in the bathroom - except that it's right next to the toilet, which proves inconvenient for Ted when the visiting Father Stone needs to take a dump while Ted is in the bath.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* One of the sourcebooks for the time-travelling role-playing game [[Continuum]] gives players tips about visiting a prosperous Meso-American town in 5000 B.C. -- the bathing area is in the common room, so that guests can wash before they enter the bedchambers. It's perfectly OK for the bather to use a curtain for privacy, but they are still considered "in the room" and are expected to contribute to the conversation.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* For no readily-apparent reason, there's a bathtub inside a workshop in ''Surface'', a hidden object adventure game.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had an [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-10 unfortunate incident] when Jevee Ceeta found a bathtub on the ship map, tried to take bath in the dark (which makes sense for a "[[Human Subspecies|purp]]", as she explains on the next page) without checking it first - and stepped right [[Blob Monster|into]] resting Schlock.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'': The episode, "Zoobotnick" had Dr. Robotnik's tub in his palace room.

* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' episode "Bright Lights, Dean City" depicts Dean's apartment in Manhattan as having a bathtub right in the middle of the living quarters. [[Red Herring|Goes completely unmentioned through the entire episode, save for one instance where Dean tries to catch some sleep in it during his father's visit.]] Possibly a reference to the urban legend discussed below in Real Life.

 

== Real Life ==