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Any comedy featuring animals, especially pets, is required amongst the typical gags to make at least one [[Toilet Humor|poop joke]], regardless of how lame, or poor, or tasteless, or yes, ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|shitty]]'' it might be.
 
The [[Trope Namer]] is a euphemism for horse manure.
 
If ''eating'' said [['''Road Apples]]''' is involved, then the trope is [[I Ate What?]]
 
Often a subset of [[Refuge in Vulgarity]].
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Shows up at least three or four times in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', complete with raunchy noises taken out of the English dub (Digi-Sludge!).
* Even ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' cannot resist: One first-season episode involving a fossil dig has [[The Rival|Gary]] discover a fossilised Pokemon dropping.
* In ''Kamikaze Girls'', Momoko's daydreaming is cruelly interrupted by the realization that she just stepped in some cow poop.
* In ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'', Osaka goes to Yukari to ask a question, which Yukari initially assumes will be about exams, but it turns out to be about what would happen if all the members of an American family stepped in dog poop and got all the way home without realizing it, since there's no universal American protocol regarding wearing shoes inside one's own home. That'll teach Yukari to tell Osaka, "Ask me anything!"
* In ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]'' Manji's sister [[Cloudcuckoolander|Machi]] finds a 'bean cake' on the ground and gives it to him. It is (of course) horse shit. A few panels later Manji [[Squick|absentmindedly takes a bite out of it]], but being the titular [[Healing Factor|immortal]] it doesn't seem to do him any lasting harm.
* If there's a steaming pile on the ground, ''[[Naruto]]'' will step on it.
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** Sid enters [[Too Dumb to Live]] territory by not only attempting to wipe his feet on their lunch, but also conversationally telling the rhinos that, as a species, they have very small brains. Oh, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|he eats the last dandelion.]]
* In the movie ''K-9'', Jim Belushi's character decides to teach the dog who's boss by locking him in a walk-in pantry overnight. Fast forward to the next morning, and it is discovered that the dog has [[Chewbacca Defense|won the argument in its own way.]]
* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' heaped a great big steaming pile of shit at the protagonists. Dr. Ellie Sattler went elbow-deep in it, too. The trike's excrement isn't really played for laughs, however--thehowever—the animal's gastrointestinal distress is due to the poisonous plants and berries placed around its paddock, and is one of the first (of many) signs that the Park wasn't as well-designed as its creators thought.
{{quote| '''Malcolm''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}-JFfN5pKzFU That is one big pile of shit.]}}
** The third movie has the protagonists going after a cellphone in a pile of dino dung.
*** Which at the start of the movie was on one of the pilots that had gotten eaten.
* The chipmunk Pip in ''[[Enchanted]]'' lets one out when he sees the villain's henchman at a bar, although this is more of a literal "Oh shit" moment.
* ''[[Problem Child]] 2'' has Nippy, Big Ben's dog, being snapped out of Junior's botched trance by a brand new dog food known as Chow Down. Its main side effect is Nippy leaving behind a ''very'' big turd afterwards.
* ''[[American Wedding]]'' has Stifler following a dog, picking up some turds, pretending they're truffles, and eating them to cover the fact he lost the wedding ring.
** Thaaanks, I'd managed to [[Brain Bleach|forget seeing that]].
* In ''[[Sleeper (Filmfilm)|Sleeper]]'', an electronically rehabilitated Woody Allen is oriented to his new futuristic home, including a robotic Scottie dog ("Woof, woof! Hello, I'm Rags!"). Allen asks "Is he housebroken, or is he going to leave little batteries all over?"
* The chimps Phil and Mason on ''[[Madagascar]]'' talk about going to Lincoln Center to fling poo at Tom Wolfe.
* In ''[[Joe Dirt]]'' Joe describes to a DJ host about his travels where at one point he found what he thought was a meteor that had crashed near him. He pulls it along his travels, even eating off it at one point before taking it to an astronomer to confirm itsit's real. Unfortunately for him he finds out itsit's not a meteor but a big turd ball from an airplane that froze during is waste descent.
* ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' has a scene where the supporting characters are searching for rocks that Andy can carve. One brings one up and asks what kind of stone it is, only to be told it's petrified horse dung.
* ''[[Pink Flamingos]]'' ends with a notable example of this. [[Nausea Fuel|Using real dog feces.]]
* In ''[[Fiddler Onon the Roof]]'', Tevye steps in something in the barn at the end of his dance for "If I Were A Rich Man". He casts a reproachful look at the heavens, presumably thinking that [[God]] decided to take him down a peg.
* In ''[[The Smurfs (Filmfilm)|The Smurfs]]'', Grouchy lands in a candy dish full of blue M&Ms which he thinks are "Smurf droppings" before he eats them.
* Jar -Jar Binks steps into "icky-icky goo" when arriving to Mos Espa in ''[[Star Wars]]'' ''[[The Phantom Menace|Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]''.
* In ''[[Caveman (Film)|Caveman]]'' {{spoiler|[[Gold Digger]] Lana is dumped by [[Dogged Nice Guy]] Atouk into a big pile of Dinosaur crap}} at the end.
* In one scene in ''[[Willow]]'' , the protagonist and Madmartigan are arguing, until the latter steps in what looks like dog doo. Cue an [[Oh Crap]] expression from both of them, as they know it's not from a dog, but from a ''troll'', which means those dangerous monsters are probably around. And it just goes downhill from there...
 
* If one watches carefully during the scene in ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' where Hagrid introduces Buckbeak to Harry's "Care of Magical Creatures" class, it is possible see the hippogriff drop a long, large turd in its first few seconds on the screen.
 
== Literature ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[MASH|M* A* S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' has Colonel Potter's introduction to his horse end with a "tiptoe through the tulips".
* The ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Safe" sees the crew smuggling a "cunningly concealed herd of cattle" to another planet, with Simon stepping in a cow patty on his way out of the ship. Later, Mal, stepping around the cow patties, mutters, "This is the last time...last time with cows..."
** 'Hear there was an idea regarding beagles? They have smallish droppings?'
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*** "...about 6,000 people in the audience began to go... (mooing noises) 'Hey Garry, where's your cow?'"
* In one episode of [[The Sopranos]], Ralph purchases a racehorse. His mistress, Valentina La Paz, tricks him into stepping into horse manure; partly as a prank to make her and the others laugh and partly because according to superstition, accidentally stepping in horse dung is a sign of good luck.
* [[Mark Evanier]] relates a hilarious story of one day when, as a head writer for a comedy show, he realized that he could ask the producers for anything for a sketch and they would get it for him. So he went a bit crazy and asked for a live elephant. Long story short, the elephant did a little improvising during the taping, to general hilarity. Read it here: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731091358/http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL226.htm\]
* Even the sober-toned ''Planet Earth'' documentary series couldn't resist showing its cave episode's film crew, marveling at how they've just spent ''days'' filming the world's largest pile of bat poop.
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* It seems that Some are involved in the certain later levels in an Xbox360 Indie game ''Maid_San's Caving Adventure''
* ''[[Conkers Bad Fur Day (Video Game)|Conkers Bad Fur Day]]'' has more than a few jokes about animal feces, even if you don't count the Great Mighty Poo as an animal.
** One level has you turned into a vampire bat and you can only fight by pooping on things. It's described as the end result (heh) of all the antigravity chocolate you'd eaten previously.
* In ''[[Dragon Quest VIII (Video Game)|Dragon Quest VIII]]'', one of the items you can get is a 'cowpat'. When you 'use' the item, it says "Hero grips the cowpat tightly. Hero deeply regrets his decision."
** These have actually appeared as useless items since [[Dragon Quest IV (Video Game)|Dragon Quest IV]]. In the NES version of that game they were actually ''called'' [[Road Apples]], although this was mainly due to Nintendo's censorship policies that prevented them from calling them anything else.
** In [[Dragon Quest IX (Video Game)|Dragon Quest IX]], you can throw a "cowpat" on some poor guy's fire. Needless to say, he doesn't appreciate it.
* Similarly, in ''[[Animal Crossing]]'', fossils can be dug up, such as trilobites, the Peking Man, a dinosaur track, a dinosaur egg, and... dino droppings. So close...
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has a reference to the ''Gone in 60 Seconds'' bit above, where you have to lead a felhound around and kill demon pigs, then rummage through the...leftovers... to find the keys to a [[Powered Armor|shredder]].
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* ''Dinosaur King'' has dinosaur feaces (yes, it's called that in game) as something you can dig up. [[Vendor Trash|They sell for a very high price]].
** ''[[Fossil Fighters]]'' also has fossilized droppings, but they're so worthless they barely even qualify as [[Vendor Trash]].
* ''[[Breath of Fire]] IV'' actually has a variant of this as an integral part of a Game Plot fetch-quest chain.
** Specifically, you have to be knocked out, go to the dream world where the fairies live, run out monsters who have invaded their homes...for which you receive a fresh, steaming "[[Road Apples|Fairie Drop]]" as a reward (complete with aforementioned fairie ''relieving hirself in the bushes to give it to you'' and even saying at the end "Wow, that was a big one!" Ewww...) This is so that a broken sword can be reforged (the fairie poo is a magical component) and a party member can be sprung out of prison. (And yes, the [[Drunken Master]] of the party even explicitly ''states'' in horror that you're carrying around ''a piece of fairie shit''.)
* In the world of ''[[Grim Fandango]]'', racing on giant cats is a celebrated sport (much like horse racing), and the player gets to visit a cat race track in Rubacava...and discover the giant cat litterbox behind it.
* In [[Blue Dragon]], there is a race of enemies called the Poo Snake. Three guesses what they look like. A large one of them even uses a flatulence attack.
** There's a Mecha-Dinosaur boss that has a large one of these as a minion in the boss fight. If said poo snake dies, the dinosaur...umm...[[Squick|replaces it]].
** Enemies will also sometimes leave behind droppings when they are defeated, and the heroes can actually search through it to find treasure.
* ''[[Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]'' requires you to collect horse farts and pick up a cow patty. It's a [[Sierra]] game by [[Al Lowe]], what did you expect?
* In ''Okami'' you can drop a weaponized goddesspat.
* In ''[[Glitch (Video Game)|Glitch]]'', piggies and batterflys produce dung, though it's generally useful.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'' features the return of Guays, previously seen in ''Ocarina of Time'' and ''Majora's Mask''. However, in this game, instead of dive-bombing you to attack they... take craps on your head. Huh.
* Used in ''[[Dragon Age II (Video Game)|Dragon Age II]]'' [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] ''Mark of the Assassin''. During the Wyvern Hunt, Hawke can examine wyvern dung to aid in the quest.
{{quote| '''Fenris:''' Aww, Hawke stepped in the poopy.}}
* In ''[[Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon]]'', the first time Luigi catches the Polterpup, he seems to step in dog doo, given his expression as he looks at his shoe.
 
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Done frequently with Kiki in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150105050709/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090504 occasionally with Bun-Bun].
* How do you decide whose turn it is to clean the cat box? [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=81803 Trial by Combat!]
** Later, Lee III celebrates coming of age by accepting [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=202763 adult responsibilities.]
* An example featuring the Shetland Pony provides the page quote for [[Hark! aA Vagrant|Hark! A Vagrant!]]
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[My Gym PartnersPartner's a Monkey]]'' occasionally does poop jokes - not surprising, considering it's about a school for animals. Examples include Jake eating bat guano, Mr. Hornbill (a rhinoceros) offering the lunch lady a "rhino pie" he made himself, and the Animas Rock from the [[You Mean "Xmas"]] episode "Have a Joyous Little Animas".
* In Chuck Jones' ''[[Drip Along Daffy]]'', Western Hero Daffy ends up declaring "I told you I'd clean up this one-horse town!" and we see he's been made town street-cleaner - sidekick Porky (who's been made sheriff) tells us "Lucky for him it IS a one-horse town!". This last line gets cut from tv viewing nowadays.
* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'': the very polite and well-spoken chimp Mason is still keen to fling faeces at people in one episode, claiming it's "traditional". He also mentioned doing so in the original movie, ''Madagascar''.
 
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