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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 (film)|Lost in Translation]]'', [[Take That|nothing happens. At all]].''|''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]''}}
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* Lampshaded in The Second [[Foundation]], where a girl sneaks aboard a ship and hides there, like she read and saw a lot in popular culture. Then she realizes that the books failed to mention some things, and she cannot remain in her hiding place for long...
* Both averted and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in Donaya Haymond's ''[[Legends of Laconia]]'' series. In ''Waking Echoes'', the prison cell Ty spends three days in has a toilet, and in ''Bite Me'' Matthew asks Dianne if her [[Our Vampires Are Different|father]] goes to the bathroom, saying he's always wondered about those in his [[Unusual Euphemism|condition]].
* One of the later [[1632]] books -- ''1635: The Eastern Front''
{{quote|'''Long:''' If it's urgent business, he may be occupied for a while yet.
'''Stearns:''' He should be finishing up any second now. [[Lampshade Hanging|It's the sort of pressing business that never makes its way into fiction.]] }}
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== Radio ==
* Lampshaded in the new radio series of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. The teleportation devices in Slartibartfast's [[It Runs on 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 ==
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* [[Once Per Episode|Every single game]] in the ''[[Tom Clancy's Splinter 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
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