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{{quote|''Well, I feel that films -- the film industry -- has increasingly failed to reflect reality as people live it. No-one goes for a piss in ''[[Star Wars]]'', you can watch the whole of ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' and no-one brushes their teeth, and in ''[[Lost in Translation (Filmfilm)|Lost in Translation]]'', [[Take That|nothing happens. At all]].''|''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]''}}
 
{{quote|''And yet--And, yet... not ''one'' toilet on the entire ''[[Star Trek|Enterprise]]''... Not one! Do these people not poop?''|[[Voltaire (Musicband)|Voltaire]] (no, not [[Francois Marie ArouetVoltaire (Creator)|that]] one), ''Poopin' on the'' Enterprise}}
 
You know that children's book, ''Everyone Poops''? Well, they lied. Not everyone does.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Pleasantville]]'' makes a point of this - Jennifer enters the bathroom to discover that there are no toilets, because they aren't necessary.
* There was some [[Lampshade Hanging]] in ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'' (or in a deleted scene, at any rate) where one of the Thermians mentions to [[Alan Rickman]]'s character that Earth's "historical documents" (television programs) did not contain any information regarding waste facilities on the ship and "we extrapolated based on your anatomy" - revealing what looked to be the most horrendously painful toilet ever created.
* Grotesquely averted in ''[[Dreamcatcher (Literature)|Dreamcatcher]]'', but [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when they have a conversation about people in movies brushing their teeth.
* The lack of toilets in ''[[Star Trek]]'' is lampshaded in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'':
{{quote| '''Cochrane:''' I gotta take a leak.<br />
'''LaForge:''' Leak? I'm not detecting any leak.<br />
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** Moaning Myrtle does mention that people sometimes flush her into the lake through the toilet she haunts, but Harry's mind literally shies away from this topic before he can wonder about what happens to her beforehand.
** Related to that, out of all seven books, only Goblet of Fire features a scene in a bath (you know, to actually take a bath). It seems people in Hogwarts never shower as well, since we are never told where are the showers and are only shown a prefects' bathroom (also, we're not told if it's the only one or if there is one for each house).
* Lampshaded in [[Never Ending Story]]. Bastian has to [[Unusual Euphemism|deliver a fax]], and wonders why the characters in the books never seem to have that need. [[Can't Get Away Withwith Nuthin'|He got detention for pointing that out in class.]]
* Averted pretty solidly in [[Watership Down]], where the rabbits are mentioned to "pass ''hraka''" multiple times over the course of the book.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Babylon Five5]]'' had a scene in which Sinclair and Garibaldi are strolling through the station, chatting. At some point the two are side by side and only a low wall is visible in front of them. Turns out, they are in a lavatory. Conversation continues as they zip up, then proceed to wash their hands.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' occasionally has characters occupying stalls in the head for everything from overhearing conversations to romantic encounters. In one episode Gaius Baltar is shaving at a sink and turns to see Kara Thrace, sitting on a toilet, watching him (while peeing no less.)
* As a small historical note, the first time a toilet was shown on television was in an episode of ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'', and even then, the censors only allowed the tank to be shown: the bowl was considered taboo.
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== Radio ==
* Lampshaded in the new radio series of ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]''. The teleportation devices in Slartibartfast's [[It Runs Onon Nonsensoleum|Bistromatic Ship]] are in the bathroom cubicles. Just before they set off, Arthur says "You know, in all this time, I have never once [[Sound Effect Bleep|*flush* ]]."
 
== Video Games ==
* Lampshaded in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]] - Trials and Tribulations'': Phoenix believes that his "[[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Perfect Little Dollie]]" doesn't have such disgusting bodily functions.
* ''[[The Trail of Anguish (Video Game)|The Trail of Anguish]]'' informs you, "You don't need to use the bathroom right now. It's an adventure game, after all."
* In the first ''Dark Forces'' FPS game set in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe, there's a mission aboard a Corellian Corvette. It is possible to sneak up behind a stormtrooper in the head while he's relieving himself.
* In ''[[The Sims 3]]'', sims with the Steel Bladder lifetime reward no longer need to use the toilet. The same for Mummies and Plantsims.
* [[Once Per Episode|Every single game]] in the ''[[SplinterTom CellClancy's (VideoSplinter Game)Cell|Splinter Cell]]'' series has an occasion where Sam sneaks up on and interrogates a bad guy who was in the process of relieving himself in a corner.
* The [[Mass Effect]] series gets as close to subverting this trope as any it can in part 3. Shepard's quarters finally has its own bathroom with a toilet that can be flushed. In the previous games, the Normandy only had the common bathrooms on crew deck.
* While occasional outhouses dot the landscape in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', your player-character never, ever has to go to the bathroom. The only exception to this is an Alliance-side quest chain in Grizzly Hills, where you need to expel some amberseeds from your system that you accidentally ate -- and then you poop so hard you get experience points for doing it.
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== Webcomics ==
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshade-hung]] in ''[[Goblins]]'', where [http://www.goblinscomic.com/01202007/ a guard tells a tale of how his cousin was given roleplaying XP for... taking a crap.]
* Pip in ''[[Sequential Art (Webcomicwebcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' has an interesting [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=751 biological theory] of ''[[My Little Pony]]'' world.
 
 
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