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{{trope}}
Uh-oh, [[Potty Emergency]]! But for one reason or another, a toilet isn't available. Perhaps they're on a wacky road trip, perhaps they're locked in a room. Whatever the reason, a proper trip to a bathroom is not available. Instead, some other container, usually a jar, is offered. Usually, the person will protest and say they'll hold it.
If the person does use the
This trope is almost always [[Played for Laughs]].
{{noreallife|All The Tropes does not care to [[squick]] its readers.}}
{{examples
== Comic Books ==
* Referenced in an issue of ''[[The Maze Agency]]''. When Gabe complains about how uncomfortable long stake-outs are, Jen says that he is lucky as he can at least pee into a tennis ball container.
* In a minor [[Grendel]] comic story arc, a criminal terrified of the first Grendel locks himself in his apartment with a lot of guns. Paranoid about being poisoned through his plumbing, he plugs up his toilet and uses buckets and jars.
* In ''[[The Aviator]]'', part of Howard Hughes' descent into madness includes bottling his urine while he locks himself in a room. The line of bottles gets longer and longer, showing just how long he's been in there.
▲== Film ==
* In ''[[
* Happens in ''[[Monster House]]'' when the two kids have to monitor the haunted house across the street.
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▲* Happens in ''[[Monster House]]'' when the two kids have to monitor the haunted house across the street.
▲{{quote| '''DJ''': We haven't left this room once! Not even to go to the bathroom. (Points to bottle filled with something) Don't drink that! }}
* In ''Problem Child 2'', Junior takes a whiz in order to refill a pitcher of lemonade for a pair of snobbish sisters that he wants to get back at. Big Ben Healy is the one who ends up taking a sample of Junior's little concoction.
* In ''[[Stranger Than Fiction]]'', Harold is told not to do anything for a day. He takes that to mean that he shouldn't even go to the bathroom. He wakes up on the couch and uses an empty bottle.
* In Shea and Wilson's ''[[Illuminatus]]'', hapless magazine editor Joe Malik desperately needs a piss but is alone in Illuminati HQ's boardroom. So he comments on the need for ultimate power expressed by a powerful occult secret society by emptying his bladder into their boardroom wastepaper bin.
▲== Literature ==
* In ''Callahan's Legacy'', one of the [[
▲* In Shea and Wilson's ''[[Illuminatus]]'', hapless magazine editor Joe Malik desperately needs a piss but is alone in Illuminati HQ's boardroom. So he comments on the need for ultimate power expressed by a powerful occult secret society by emptying his bladder into their boardroom wastepaper bin.
▲* In ''Callahan's Legacy'', one of the [[Callahans Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]] novels, Jake is using a beer stein to transport a sample from his very pregnant wife to the hospital. He collides with a woman standing on his door step and the contents of the stein end up all over her.
* In the ''[[Ender's Game]]'' sequel "Ender's Shadow," Bean mentions that the children used these during the increasingly long battles (and comments that he was never sure what the one girl used).
* ''[[I'm in The Band]]'': During the band tour, a coffee can was used as a potty. At some point, this coffee can gets knocked over.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Jessie]]'': Jessie falls over into a window washer's bucket. Recalling something he said earlier, she asks him where he does go to the bathroom when he's on the rig.
▲* ''[[I'm in The Band]]'': During the band tour, a coffee can was used as a potty. At some point, this coffee can gets knocked over.
* ''[[
▲* ''[[Jessie]]'': Jessie falls over into a window washer's bucket. Recalling something he said earlier, she asks him where he does go to the bathroom when he's on the rig.
▲* ''[[Black Adder]] II'' subverts the trope. As a part of their failed attempt to round the Cape of Good Hope, Blackadder and Co. have run out of water and are reduced to drinking their own urine, so they piss into cups for the purpose. Then just before Blackadder takes a sip they reach land.
* One episode of ''[[Person of Interest]]'' involves Reese and Finch going on a stakeout, and Reese recommends bringing an empty bottle along.
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* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]:'' When Drew was depressed and refusing to leave his bed, he used a 'pee bottle', much to Kate's disgust.
* Showed up in a first-season ''[[
* The "Meet the Sniper" trailer for ''[[
▲== Video Games ==
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▲* The "Meet the Sniper" trailer for ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' shows him doing this, and in-game you can unlock his pee jars as a secondary weapon (called "Jarate").
▲{{quote| "Boy! Those Saxton Hale Jarate Pills TRIPLED the size of my kidneys! And thanks to my Saxton Hale Pain Tonic, I can barely even FEEL my internal organs shutting down! He thought of everything!"}}
* ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness'' has a quest in Episode 1 in which you must bring a scale model ferris wheel to a "Urinologist" so he can pee on it, and give you a jar of pee in return. You will need the jar of pee to fully upgrade Gabe's fists.
* In the ''[[Spacetrawler]]'' universe, this situation apparently arises often enough that an entire line of robots was designed for the primary function of allowing pilots to relieve themselves without leaving the cockpit (and a secondary function of converting waste into food and water). Humor is derived from how ''frighteningly eager'' the resident pottybot is to perform his job.
== Web Original ==
* The final scene of "A Night at the Inn, a Day at the Racists" from the ''[[Binder of Shame]]'' has it revealed that El Disgusto has stashed a whole collection of bottles of Mountain Dew under the stairs, except it's not Mountain Dew in the
▲== Web Original ==
▲* The final scene of "A Night at the Inn, a Day at the Racists" from the ''[[Binder of Shame]]'' has it revealed that El Disgusto has stashed a whole collection of bottles of Mountain Dew under the stairs, except it's not Mountain Dew in the bottles -- as he explains, he doesn't like to go upstairs to the bathroom when he's watching TV, so he just goes in the bottles with the intention of throwing them away later. He hasn't thrown away a single one -- some of them are crusted with age and other substances. And yes, this is exactly as disgusting as it sounds, such that the fact that it capped off a truly nasty bit of gaming was the "rock bottom" moment for Ab3.
* In the early ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' short "Jumping Jack Contest", The Cheat tricks Homestar into drinking lots of melonade so that he will have to use the bathroom. After drinking all the melonade, he has to pee, but he doesn't want to leave the stage, so Pom-Pom comes up with a plan. It then cuts to Homestar sighing in relief as The Poopsmith walks away carrying a large jar of urine.
* ''[[Fish Hooks]]'': In "Doris Flores Gorgeous", Oscar claims he needed to go the bathroom. Milo hands him a jar and tells him to use that.
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Bart and Homer have been attached to each other for punishment. They're in the living room, watching TV.
{{quote|'''Bart''': Come on, Dad. I got to go to the bathroom.
▲* ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Bart and Homer have been attached to each other for punishment. They're in the living room, watching TV.
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▲'''Bart''': Mom! <br />
▲'''Marge''': Aw geez, Homer, just take him to the bathroom. <br />
'''Homer''': Fine! I don't know why we even have a bottle! Somebody tell me! }}
** In another example, Homer is caught short during union negotiations at Mr Burns' mansion and ends up using a priceless antique vase.
* In a Halloween episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' a brat kid uses a jack-o-lantern for this.
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