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* Subverted in the manga of ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'', where Tsubasa's dad Koudai actually ''got out'' of the bathroom when Tsubasa scored a goal and his match was being televised.

* In episode 67 of ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', the heroes get trapped in a forcefield. Ichiya begs their captors to let him relieve himself, but they won't.

'''Lucy''': Don't you dare! }}

 

* ''Busting'', the first story of ''Just Stupid!'' has this as the plot. Andy is running around the shopping mall trying to find somewhere to pee, and being stopped by idiots, authority figures, cleaning signs and a deadly escalator. He finally manages to find somewhere to pee - a huge fire overtaking the shopping mall (which Andy himself started, getting his untied shoelaces caught in the escalator). {{spoiler|Only it turns out he was dreaming, and has now just wet the bed.}}

* ''[[Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister]]'': Clara has to desperately pee while ice skating with Iris. She is finally able to in an abandoned windmill, and this is accompanied by a descriptive sentence:

* Played for drama in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]''; Bev has to go but can't because she's trapped in the Losers' clubhouse with [[Ax Crazy|Henry Bowers]] on the loose.

* In ''[[Junie B. Jones]] and the Stupid Smelly Bus'', the title character goes through this during the climax when she tries to open several bathroom doors at school, only to find them locked. Thus, she rushes to the nurse's office and calls 911 on the phone. When she finally runs out the school exit, [[Epic Fail|a green fire truck, white police car and red ambulance drive up to the parking lot on purpose]]. Then the janitor<ref>or "the man with the can" as she calls him in the book</ref> stops her when this happens, but Junie B. convinces him that she's having an emergency, so he unlocks a girls' bathroom door for her.

* [[Benny Hill]] used the joke version (see Other below) in his song "Anna Marie".

* [[Weird Al]] touched upon this trope in his song "Traffic Jam":

I shouldn't have had that [[Oh Crap|bag of bran muffins]]<br />

An hour and a half ago }}

 

* In the literal video version of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", the "Bonnie Tyler" character has to go to the bathroom during the bridge, and one of the gymnasts kicks the door open for her. Only it's not the bathroom; she ends up in a room with a bunch of "blind possessed choir boys".

* In the long-lost ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon "Jumping Jack Contest" (which can be viewed [http://www.hrwiki.org/mirror/jumpinjacks2.html here]), The Cheat makes Homestar drink lots and lots of Melonade so that he will have to pee. He, obviously, has to pee after drinking all that, so then he relieves himself in a jar supplied by the Poopsmith.

** At the end of the Strong Bad E-mail "Extra Plug", Strong Bad tells everyone not to move, and then Homestar and Strong Sad start singing about how badly they have to pee.

* [[wikipedia:Viz (comic)|Viz Comic]] did an animated spoof of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', aptly titled [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahysN2sIIw "Doctor Poo"]. In this, the TARDIS clearly doesn't have a toilet, and the Doctor travels through space and time looking for somewhere to defecate.

* A joke: Two guys are going to the theater (that sort with the stage, not with the flicks). Shortly before the play begins, one of the guys feels he has to pee, so he starts looking for the bathroom, but can't find it and gets more and more desperate. Finally, behind a door he finds an empty, badly-lit room, pees into a vase and goes back to his seat. Being arrived there, he asks his friend: "Did I miss something?" The friend answers...

2. "Hey, you should know. ''You'' were at the stage after all." }}

* A joke book title: ''1000 Yards To The Outhouse'', by Willie Makeit. The actual distance may vary, but isn't really the point of the joke. (It may also be edited or illustrated by Betty Dont, with an introduction by Doris Locked.)