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A [[Comedy Tropes|Comedy Trope]] that also functions as a sort of Tension Breaker, in which a character is so shocked or surprised that [[Bring My Brown Pants|they lose complete control of their bowels]]. Of course we don't actually see this happen, we instead get [[Stock Visual Metaphors|a quirky little visual metaphor]] to let us know what they mean. It's a subtle way of ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|wait for it]]) [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
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Related to [[Potty Emergency]] (and especially its subtrope, [[Potty Failure]]), [[Drop What You Are Doing]] [[Fridge Logic|...]] [[Squick|Ewww...]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* In a rare non-comedy example, during ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'' episode 2, "Escape From The Dead", a student in the infirmary drops a push-broom in this manner when one of the victims they are tending to starts to reawaken as a zombie.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2'': Mr. Potato Head's rear compartment pops open spilling his accessories after seeing the luggage conveyor belt.
* ''[[Finding Nemo]]'': Nemo's classmate, Pearl the octopus, "inks" [[Book Ends|on two occasions]].
** [[Justified Trope|This is actually the default reaction for ink-producing mollusks when faced with a dangerous or stressful situation - they do this to use the ink as cover/an irritant and swim away.]]
* In ''[[Shrek]] the Third'', Gingy deposits a little gumdrop when he faces the palace guards.
** And on ''Shrek Forever After'', a goose spooked by Shrek lays an egg.
* Rover springs an oil leak when intimidated by General Grawl in ''[[
* In ''[[
** Or maybe she means something else by laying an egg...
* In ''[[Robots]]'', Fender lays an egg after facing a huge array of robots that want to recycle him/her. He looks in surprise, as s/he didn't know s/he could do that, since s/he only had the female legs for a short time.
* In ''[[Ice Pirates]]'', the robots are being sent into battle. One of them drops oil and some included nuts and bolts before being shoved into the fray.
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: [[At Worlds End]]'', Pintel and Ragetti each grab a cannonball, planning to drop them on the bodies floating in the water while escaping Davey Jones' Locker. As they're about to, they see Tia Dalma standing there. The camera cuts to their lower bodies, as they drop the cannonballs in a way that resembles this trope.
* In ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'': After nearly being discovered by Randall in the bathroom, we see a huge splash in the stall Sully, Mike, and Boo are hiding in. Boo sums it up best.
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** Subverted in the next scene, when we see an up-close shot of Mike's legs completely soaked, implying that he slipped and fell in, with Boo still understanding how gross that was.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Referenced in ''1635: The Cannon Law'', one of the books in the ''[[
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
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'''Kevyn''': I can see that, but where'd the virtual bricks come from?
'''Narrator''': [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Goodnight]], [[Animaniacs
** In [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-06-10 another strip], in a conversation with King Xinchub in his bathroom:
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'''Petey''': You look like you're thinking maybe the plumbing in here needs to accommodate flushed bricks. }}
* In ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' a half-spider Daemon Princess [http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2014-06-29/comic/tangled-web/gotta-go-fast/ mentioned] that Harold (who was quietly freaking out from the moment he noticed her due to his deep arachnophobia) "looks like he's about to excrete a cinderblock".
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Transformers|Optimus Prime]] lost a considerable deal of oil after seeing The Terminators of ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'' in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRhCOSseP6Y this review].
* Despite being typically vulgar on his show, The Nostalgia Critic invokes this after watching a scary scene of the [[Care Bears]] movie.
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** Also mentioned in ''Top 11 Scariest Nostalgic Moments'' about the scene in [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]] where Judge Doom {{spoiler|reveals that he's a Toon}}.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* As pictured in ''[[
** Or when he eats chips with Olestra in them.
** The writers got quite a bit of <s>shit</s> bricks [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|past the radar]] in ''Lethal Inspection'' when Bender suggested everyone get [[The Alcoholic|brickfaced]].
* ''[[
* In one episod of ''[[
** [[It Got Worse]]. Later he get so angry, he loses hold of the egg and it lands on his head. That's sort of a [[Fridge Logic]] way of [[Crosses the Line Twice|Crossing the line twice.]]
* An obscene storyboard drawn as a joke by ''[[
** [http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/337/3/5/Rats_by_FwankyHouse.jpg Behold.]{{Dead link}}
** Oh my God... the last [[Squick|the last two panels!]] [[Brain Bleach|Oh my God!]]
* In one episode of ''[[The Fairly
* At the beginning of one episode of ''[[Big Guy and Rusty
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Several times during ''[[
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[[Category:Stock Visual Metaphors]]
[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
[[Category:Nothing Butt an Index]]
[[Category:Bathroom Tropes]]
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