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== Film ==
* Subverted in one scene in ''[[A League of Their Own]]'', wherein not only does Tom Hanks' character take a leak, his all-female baseball team (whom he doesn't notice or doesn't care are there) actually time how long he pees.
** Come to think of it, Tom Hanks does this a lot. Mental_Floss has a whole "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120115043615/http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4531 quiz]" on it.
* In ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'', the consistency of a character's urine becomes a major plot point.
* Played with in ''[[Pleasantville]]''. When the main characters are sucked into an idyllic 1950s, black and white TV world, they quickly find the bathrooms have no stalls or urinals.
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* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'': "While the adventurers don't need to eat, the monsters do. They eat adventurers."
** In the ''Hordes of the Underdark'' Expansion, the Protagonist's kobold companion Deekin will narrate your progress through certain areas. Often these are lampshades of this Trope, mentioning how sore his feet are and how he wishes that 'the Boss' would let him stop for a bathroom break.
* In the browser-based [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', food and booze are how a player acquires more turns, or 'adventures'. This is limited - a player can only eat so much before they become too full to eat any more, and can only drink so much alcohol before they become too drunk to adventure. These limits are reset once per day. Also, "Pastamancers" are more adept at creating food than the other character classes, and likewise "Disco Bandits" are masters of the art of cocktailcrafting.
** ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' also lampshades the bladder variant, in a small, random adventure:
{{quote|After travelling for a while, you discover a need to go to the bathroom (which rarely happens in these games, but hey, you've gotta go sometime, right?)}}
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]'' Photoplasty advertises undergarments and supplements that make this possible in "Ads for Products That Must Exist in Video Games": [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005152300/http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games_p26/#20 #20] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005152300/http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games_p26/#4 #4].
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