Bowel-Breaking Bricks: Difference between revisions

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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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* 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 the Last Crusade]]'': {{spoiler|Near the end of the climactic tank fight sequence, almost everyone, including Donovan, Ilsa, Brody, Henry Jones, Sr., and (probably) a handful of Nazi's have abandoned the tank, which is now careening towards the edge of a very, ''very'' steep cliff. The only two people who are still oblivious to this fact are Indy and SS Colonel Vogel, who are locked in a rather vicious, back-and-forth fistfight. When they do manage to realize it (with seconds to spare), Indy's trademark fedora is whipped off the back of his head by a strong and sudden gust of wind as the camera focuses on his [[Oh Crap]] face}}.

* ''[[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.]]

 

== [[Literature]] ==

{{quote|'''Don Francisco Nasi:''' ... I think State will be responsible for the brick that will be found, come the morning, in the privy of Gustavus Adolphus."}}

 

* As pictured in ''[[Futurama]]'' this happens whenever Bender is frightened and he literally shits bricks. Something of a [[Running Gag]].

** Or when he eats chips with Olestra in them.

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': "Chocolate With Nuts" After being cornered by "The Chocolate Maniac," who reveals that he wants to buy all their chocolate. A pile of chocolate bars fall out of Patrick's pants and is crowned by a tiny chocolate kiss.

* In one episod of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', (The Fortuneteller) a scared Platypus-bear spontaneously lays an egg. [[Squick|Then a hungry Sokka picks it up and sniffs it.]]

** [[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 ''[[Rugrats]]'' artists shows Tommy flapping around on the floor and dropping "malt balls" after Stu hits his wife, verbally abuses Tommy and takes his juice, demanding tribute as the "Alpha Male."

** Oh my God... the last [[Squick|the last two panels!]] [[Brain Bleach|Oh my God!]]

* At the beginning of one episode of ''[[Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (animation)|Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot]]'', a trigger-happy hick in a mech was about to vandalize the Lincoln Memorial, until Big Guy showed him his "Mag Popper." The pilot then surrendered and ejected out of his mech's rear end.

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': When [[Cloudcuckoolander|Pinkie Pie]] (wearing a chicken costume) is frightened by Princess Luna in "Luna Eclipsed," she bolts, [[Rule of Funny|leaving behind an egg]].

 

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[[Category:Stock Visual Metaphors]]

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Nothing Butt an Index]]

[[Category:Bathroom Tropes]]