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When [[Potty Emergency]] strikes, one is forced to find a place to go, fast. Looking around, you notice a public toilet. You sigh of relief, until you open the door...
This place is littered with [[Bathroom Stall Graffiti]], spare bits of toilet paper and paper towels, liquids and solids of undetermined origin (or rather, [[Too Much Information|origins you
Part of the reason this trope exists is a form of the [[GIFT]]. While ''clearly'' not on the internet; the idea that anonymity and lack of consequences/responsibility leads to [[Jerkass|complete asshattery]] is still demonstrated. People naturally expect privacy in the restroom, and public toilets are ''not'' cleaned by them, so they feel less guilty for trashing them, scrawling insults on the wall, or [[Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults|insulting their peers]].
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== Advertising ==
* There's this commercial where a drag queen has to make a stop at a truck stop toilet, which is naturally horrible - then she brings out the product advertised and turns it all sparkling.
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the [[The Lord of the Rings]] [[Fanfic]] ''Don't Panic'', the Prancing Pony restroom is one of these. Obligatory comparison to the bathroom from ''Trainspotting'' ensues.
== [[Film]] ==
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* [[Dave Barry]] described places like this as either "not having been cleaned since Rome fell" or "containing the skeletons of Health Inspectors who died trying to examine it". A column about summer camp referred to it having the sort of latrine where you wonder how it could get so disgusting when nobody ever has the courage to use it.
* Referenced in the first ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' - apparently, mountain trolls smell like a cross between old socks and "the kind of public toilet no-one seems to clean."
* [[Jeff Foxworthy]]: "If you wonder how service stations keep their restrooms so clean, you just might be a redneck."
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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== [[Music]] ==
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "One More Minute" details all of the disgusting, painful, and generally unpleasant things the protagonist would rather do than spend one more minute with the girl who has just dumped him. One of these things is cleaning all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with his tongue.
* [[The Frantics|The Frantics']] song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRD_94rmNNk "Gas Station Washroom"] explores this trope as though it were the centerpiece of a horror movie.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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** Actually, they fear using a public toilet ''at all'', even if it's clean.
* In ''[[Hector: Badge of Carnage]]'' Hector starts the game by having to fish out something out of a toilet in the prison cell of a police station which while not 'public' fits the trope completely. After many other disgusting bathroom jokes and puzzles, episode 3 has you interacting with the portable public toilet at an outdoor festival.
* The original ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'' has a disgusting toilet in Lefty's bar {{spoiler|which floods and drowns the main character if flushed}}.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''San Antonio Rock City'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20140213204105/http://www.mitchclem.com/rockcity/index.php?comic=56 "Autobiography II"]
* In ''[[Daisy Owl]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205143755/http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-08-11 the Rest Stop bathroom described by Mr. Owl] is a humorously extreme example.
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* Subverted in [http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-10-20 this] ''[[El Goonish Shive]].'' Someone really takes pride in keeping that gas station bathroom clean.
* In [http://www.mascotcomic.com/index.php?strip_id=1109 this] ''[[I'm My Own Mascot]]'' comic, this leads to the destruction of the Earth.
* An old sub-comic hosted on ''[[Bob and George]]'', Jailhouse Blues, featured Nasty Toilet Man, the multiple failed attempts at defeating became a running gag of sorts. He was finally beaten with More Ammunition Than God and a microwave.
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510141755/http://deathandmaiden.com/2009/05/18/inside-the-outhouse-2/ this] ''[[Death and The Maiden]]'' comic, the protagonists try to loose one of Deah's 'accidental' corpses in a public bathroom stall, getting second thoughts when seeing the stall. Nobody, they reason, would sit there - not even to die.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The website ''[[Retail Hell Underground]]'' has an entire section dedicated to this. Let's just say...people do some ''really'' disturbingly gross things in public bathrooms, and sometimes even ''worse'', when people don't even make it ''to'' the toilet, or when they mistake the ''fitting rooms'' for a Bathroom Stall.
** The book ''[[Retail Hell]]'' by Freeman Hall, one of the founders of Retail Hell Underground, describes a story in which he walks into the bathroom and finds that someone had taken a massive dump in the urinal, and nobody could use the men's room for the rest of the day. He also describes a very disturbing incident involving a fitting room disaster...Let's ''not'' go there. [[Too Much Information]]. Really, let's ''NOT''.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104055217/http://www.cracked.com/funny-4928-public-restrooms/ topic page on public restrooms] has a normal, decent restroom gradually becomes one.
* In ''[http://www.eastpark.hu/index2.html East Park 3.]'' the toilet bathroom has [[Alien|Xenomorph]] eggs in it.
* There's an [[SCP Foundation|SCP]] called The Worst Place/Thing In The World which is located inside a porta-potty. It's driven all who have seen it, even over a video feed, insane. So do most SCPs really, but this one does a really good job of it.
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