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* A case of ''[[Detective Conan]]'''s featured Conan, Detective Takagi, and the kids trying to prove the innocence of a man who was handcuffed with Sato in an abandoned building. When the case is solved and Sato freed, the first thing she does upon free is desperately ask for a toilet. The irony of the situation is Sato and her suspect were cuffed to a (non-functioning) toilet the entire time.

* Kanata spends most of ''[[Sora no Woto]]'''s eighth episode waiting by the phone in case it rings. Even when she has to go to the bathroom. She lasts almost the entire episode. [[Potty Failure|Almost.]] Had it not been for Noel sleeping in the bathroom.

* In a chapter of the ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'' manga, Rally Vincent finds herself in this situation while stowed away in Bean Bandit's car. She even considers allowing a [[Potty Failure]],despite the fact that it'll give her away. {{spoiler|Luckily, Bean stops at a diner, allowing Rally to visit the ladie's room.}}

* An episode of ''[[Those Who Hunt Elves]]'' has a variation on this, as Junpei refuses to go #2 until he finds some toilet paper. The animators threw in a stress meter to show just how bad the situation was getting.

== Comic Books ==

* A ''Meanwhile'' strip in an issue of ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' had a guy on a date with Devi desperately trying to hold back an attack of diarrhea. His final line, "Somebody put s*** in my pants!", has since become synonymous with the series.

* Brittany Diggers undergoes one of these while in a submarine in the first issue of the full color version of ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]''. She spots her sister's favorite thermos, and stares at it as her sister and Ryan unknowingly make more and more innuendos involving needing to pee. The joke is shortly dropped in rather anticlimactic fashion, though since it's heavily implied that, yes, exactly what you would expect did happen, maybe it's best that they didn't show [[Squick|the obvious "hilarity ensuing" of that]].

* Poor Mace in ''[[Dreamkeepers]]'' has a mild case when running waters reminds him that he needs to go. When he seeks seclusion, he is prevented from relieving himself by the Nightmare that was following the group. He even had his pants down, flashing the Nightmare and Wisp.

== Commercials ==

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** The ''Xanth'' novels feature another aversion/inversion in the form of the Centaurs, who are not the least bit embarrassed by such bodily functions (such being, after all, only natural). They will thus not hesitate to make their business out in the open in front of everyone, which sometimes mortifies those around them.

* If you can believe it, ''[[Don Quixote]]'' features one such joke as this.

* Peter in ''Superfudge'' briefly has one of these when his kid brother Fudge is taking his time on the only available toilet. Peter's tempted to lift the little boy off the can, but has been told to encourage the imperfectly toilet-trained Fudge to use it, so doesn't dare; he gets so desperate that he considers weeing on a large potted houseplant. Luckily, Fudge finishes in time, and is duly impressed by how copiously his big brother can urinate.

** In ''Blubber'', two girls caught TP-ing a neighbor's yard are punished by having to rake his huge backyard. Both badly need to pee before they're finished, and both opt to water the man's trees rather than humiliate themselves by begging permission to use his bathroom.

** Another non-potty version comes in the [[Batman: The Movie|feature-film version]] of the '60s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'': "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!"

** And the first episode of ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' sees George dashing through the woods desperately seeking a place to transform into a werewolf and encountering civilian after civilian. {{spoiler|He ends up going back home instead.}}

** After Kelso comes out of the bathroom and marvels at Donna and Eric's "wicked burn," [[Too Dumb to Live|he eats another brownie.]]

* When Joey gets an audition with a famous Broadway actor/director in ''[[Friends]]'', he goes along having just had a drink and needing to pee. This, evidently, makes him a better actor (since he plays a nervous man with lines like "I could go right now!") He has an even worse potty emergency when he goes for the call back, due to trying to need to pee for the audition. This unfortunate circumstance leads to him having [[Potty Failure]] whilst said famous director is hugging him...

* At one point in an ''[[NCIS]]'' episode "Family" , Abby hastily excuses herself to the bathroom. This likely shut up a lot of the fans who wondered how she can manage to drink so many large cups during the day without need to go to the restroom.

** In another episode, Tony and Ziva get locked in a dockyard shipping container for most of a day. When they're set free, Ziva's first action is to head directly for the ladies' room, an intention she explains in tones that promise mayhem for anyone who gets in her way.

* A ''self-inflicted'' [[Potty Emergency]] is implied on Britcom ''[[The Good Life]]'', when the couple decide that they've gotten too hung up on money. The husband demonstrates his renewed commitment to anti-materialism by symbolically discarding their last penny ... only to be asked for said penny by his wife, who needs to use the streetside pay toilet.

* Roz on ''[[Frasier]]'' has a case of this in the beginning of the episode "Room Service" she holds up a sign asking Frasier to go to the bathroom but tells her to wait a moment, but she simply can't considering how Frasier's guest is talking about water.

* C.C. has a brief case of this in ''[[The Nanny]]'' during the episode "Schlepped Away" in which she desperately holds it in. She finally relives herself when she gets to Fran's parents house.

* A scene in ''[[Married... with Children]]'' (Field of Screams) where Al chains himself to his old high school football goal to prevent the stadium from being torn down, and is just about to give up since he has to pee, he tells Kelly to unlock him from the chains so he can take a leak but learns that the key doesn't fit and decides to take a leak while being chained up.

* During an episode of ''[[Monk]]'' in which Julie is dying to go to the bathroom however she eventually uses the bathroom in the band Korn's bus.

* In the ''[[Psych]]'' episode ''Ferry Tale'', Gus badly needs to use the restroom (to vomit) but when Shawn takes him to the bathroom, they are forced to wait while it's used by a large group of work release prisoners, and one little boy.

* Kisha and Jen were eliminated from Season 14 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' when, after reaching the location of the pit stop, Jen insisted on taking an urgently needed bathroom break. Jaime and Cara passed them and reached the pit stop first while Jen was in the port-a-potty.

* In one ''[[Royal Canadian Air Farce]]'' sketch, Mike from Canmore (John Morgan) walks into a MENSA membership office while trying to find a bathroom. The interviewer (Roger Abbott) proceeds to give him a water-related quiz. And it's raining outside. And the roof leaks.

== Professional Wrestling ==

*** He does make it there in time. We're treated to a shot outside the tower and hear Homer groaning happily for half a minute. (And coincidentally, the cop he was waiting for shows up ''as he's relieving himself'' and tickets the car again, much to his horror.)

** One episode involves Bart drinking about a dozen glasses of water in order to wake himself up early for Christmas. It works...after he's subjected to a dream involving rivers, garden hoses, various other forms of water imagery, and gigantic letter "P"s.

** Marge has a Potty Emergency at the beginning of "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D’Oh".

* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' has this as a tactic in his first encounter with Professor Calamitous. Realizing that Calamitous did not install a bathroom in his [[Humongous Mecha]], Jimmy leads him through various water scenarios until he can hold it no longer and has to stop to use the bathroom. Then Jimmy has a cop man the boy's restroom, leading Calamitous to briefly consider the girl's bathroom before taking off for home in defeat.

* Happens in an episode of ''[[Camp Lazlo]]''. Lazlo having unwittingly annoyed Edward (again) by beating him in a lemonade drinking contest soon has to go (bad). Edward takes advantage of this and repeatedly thwarts all of Lazlo's attempts to go (he eventually uses Lazlo's predicament to trick him into wearing a diaper, but it backfires of course). The potty emergency comes to it's peak when in the middle of it, Lazlo relieves himself in the lake, only to be reprimanded by a fish, forcing Lazlo to ''suck it back into himself.'' Ouch.

*** Even worse was that Cosmo and Wanda were already drinking lemonade at that point.

** ''[[A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!]]'' has Timmy wish that Crocker had "the atomic runs" early on.

* An episode of ''[[Arthur]]'' had an episode with the dream variety, when minor character Jenna is at a sleepover and is afraid that everyone will find out she is a bed-wetter. Upon waking, she turns on the TV as a distraction...and finds, among other things, men with Scottish accents talking about "wee lassies" and an episode of Sesame Street brought to you by the letter P.

* In the ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]'' episode "Bathroom Humor" during the middle of the night Big Dog has to pee he searches for a tree but only finds one starting to bud Little Dog stops him before he can go he tells him that "this is [their] home", so they go around looking for a place for Big Dog to relieve himself, they end up in Hollywood's house inside his bathroom but they can't find a tree and Big Dog is getting frustrated and they have a fight, they get inspiration by a photo of a little boy using the toilet so they dress him up like one and Big Dog doesn't feel comfortable so they get inspiration from a little girl on a toilet and dress him in girl's clothes and he still doesn't feel comfortable, finally Little Dog suggests a glass of warm milk while picking up the glass his fingers slip into the milk and he finally relieves himself.

* One episode of ''[[The Mighty B]]'' has Penny suffering one, and it could be [[Foreshadowing|foreshadowed]] as she was seen drink all of Bessie's water from her backpack.

* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E14 The Last Roundup|Last Roundup]]'' episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Pinkie gets off the train in Dodge Junction quite clearly in need of a toilet. She finds a public toilet and is about to use it until she realises that Applejack, whom they came to Dodge to find, just walked out of it. She runs back after she and the others have caught her.

* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining", Cartman experiences severe diarrhea as a result of the various fast food he ate before and the soda he drank during the tour.