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{{quote|''Come on! Toilets [[Rule of Funny|are always funny!]]''|'''The Octopus''', ''[[The Spirit (film)|The Spirit]]''}}

 

Simply put, toilet humour comprises jokes about weewees, poopoos, bums, fannies, willies, boobies, other naughty bits, fluids, farts and the [[Farts on Fire|immolation of them]], boogers, bodily functions, and various other yucky stuff. It is very popular with young children, but as they grow up, they tend to find greater amusement in more witty jokes (at least, most of them do), and toilet humour is generally regarded with [[Humour Dissonance|great dislike]] from the eyes of the mature audience.

 

[[I Ate What?]] is the trope when eating is involved. Characters that are [[Gasshole]]s and most instances of [[Fartillery]] are also usually meant for comedic purposes. Compare [[Nose Nuggets]]. Can be played very lightly via [[Calling Your Bathroom Breaks]].

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== Advertising ==

* Apparently, [http://jalopnik.com/5402277/poop-explosion-coats-holden-interior-in-aussie-diaper-ad this commercial for baby diapers] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK0SobQovME working link here] is a real Australian ad. Let's just say that the mother will be cleaning out her car for a while, and hope we never learn what a number four is...

* Kuromi from ''[[Onegai My Melody]]'' loves bathroom jokes.

* ''[[Gintama]]'', oh, god, ''[[Gintama]]''.

* ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'' loves doing this. Especially when Takamura is involved.

* [[Akira Toriyama]] is a master of this, with it forming a lot of the basis for ''[[Dr. Slump]]'', and to a lesser degree the early years of ''[[Dragon Ball]]''.

* One of [[Shonen Jump]]'s most popular gag series of the 70's was the appropriatelly titled ''Professor Toilet''.

* There isn't a single kind of human waste that didn't make it into ''Super Radical Gag Family''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* There's quite a bit in ''[[Scary Movie]]'', possibly to the point of overuse.

** Of course, when you realize [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] were two of the writers it makes sense.

{{quote|'''Pelican's Friend:''' Nice. }}

* ''[[The Lion King]]'' somehow managed to do toilet humour tastefully.

** ''The Lion King 1 1/2'' has the hot tub scene...in which the bubbles stop as soon as Pumba leaves the hot tub.

* ''[[Drop Dead Fred]]'' includes a scene where he tracks dog poop on the carpet with his shoes.

* ''[[Star Wars]]: Episode I'' had a creature on Tatooine fart in [[Alien Scrappy]] Jar Jar's face. Makes me feel unclean just thinking about it.

{{quote|'''Jar Jar''': Ohh! Icky, icky goo!}}

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs epic campfire scene] in ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' features a crew of cowboys eating beans and delivering a storm of farts and belches. The scene was actually considered edgy in its day.

* The trailer for ''[[The Change Up]]'' is filled with it, most notably a baby shitting on [[Jason Bateman]]'s face (with an added pause of it happening).

* In ''[[George of the Jungle (film)|George of the Jungle]]'', the villain does an utterly gratuitous faceplant in a heap of elephant dung. The movie then epically redeems itself:

'''All''': AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! }}

* In a very unlikely place to find this trope, ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' has a scene where Floyd is reading a long, detailed list of instructions on how to use the Zero Gravity Toilet.

* ''[[Shark Tale]]'', one of many lesser Dreamworks movies that had gone for [[Gross-Out Show|gross-out humor]]. One of the jellyfish had made a wee-wee joke and to what they had called [[This Loser Is You|Oscar]].

* ''[[Delgo]]'', being somewhat schizophrenic in its attempts to decide exactly which demographic it was trying to appeal to, naturally stooped to a bit of this. In particular is a scene in which an animal that, though it previously averted [[All Animals Are Dogs]], proceeded to lift its leg in dog-like fashion to pee on a man, which was apparently included for no other reason than to appeal to small children and the hard of thinking.

* Disney's ''[[The Wild]]'' had lots of poop jokes, when they weren't focusing on slapstick humor.

* A very mild form of this trope: At one point in ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', Ray the firefly yells, "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Don't make me light my butt]]!" at the [[Living Shadow|shadow]] [[Familiar|demons]]. [[Dude, Not Funny|Not funny]].

* In ''[[The Party]]'', Bakshi ([[Peter Sellers]]) has to take a leak, but can't find an unoccupied bathroom. Getting increasingly desperate, he starts to cross a room when the girl he's sweet on starts singing for a crowd - he stops out of politeness and writhes in smiling agony for the duration. After he finally relieves himself in the master bathroom the toilet won't stop running, and in his attempt to fix it, he breaks the tank lid on the floor, drops a watercolor painting into the tank, and floods the room.

* In ''[[Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator]]'', in response to the grandparents taking too much Wonka-Vite, the Oompa-Loompas perform a song telling the sad tale of a little girl who foolishly helped herself to the tastiest-looking stuff in her grandma's medicine cabinet — which turned out to be chocolate-flavored laxatives... It takes up [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|several pages]].

* Another [[Roald Dahl]] example is in ''[[The BFG]]'', where the titular Big Friendly Giant explains how he hates human soda, which has rising bubbles, thus causing the drinker to burp. Burping is phenomenally rude to giants, so instead they drink frobscottle, which has bubbles that sink, thus causing the drinker to... well... [[Unusual Euphemism|whizzpopper]]!

* ''[[Uncle John's Bathroom Reader]]'' zig-zags this. One page will have a fart joke, the next will have a scientific article on ''why'' we pass gas, and the third will have an article about something crazy like a gold-plated toilet.

* In [[Derek Robinson]]'s novel of the Battle of Britain, we first learn ''why'' Air Commodore Bletchley is nick-named "Baggy". Then his death is described in excruciating detail - he becomes trapped in a portable chemical toilet when the air-raid siren goes. Deciding to cross his fingers and sit it out - well, squat it out - he chooses wrongly and the whole lavatory is seen bowling across the airstrip, propelled by a hail of cannon and machine-gun fire from a strafing German plane.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Blackadder]] Goes Forth'' has a joke ''[[Lampshade Hanging|about]]'' this trope:

{{quote|'''The Red Baron:''' "How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item. For you, the basis of an entire culture!"}}

* ''[[Farscape]]'' takes toilet humour and runs with it, especially with regard to Rigel's digestive system which has at various points produced exploding poop, toxic farts, and incendiary urine. There's a reason for the show's [[Fan Nickname]] of "Fartscape".

* Even ''[[Seinfeld]]'' used this, most often with pee. One episode had a plot that involved George being banned from a local gym for getting caught peeing in the shower. Another episode featured a [[Potty Emergency]] with Jerry, resulting in him getting a ticket for public urination. In one episode, Kramer was supposed to be taking Susan's parents on a ride in a horse drawn carriage, but since the horses were gassy, they had to stop the ride early because they couldn't stand the smell. One episode also had a plot involving Jerry refusing to eat at a restaurant because he caught the chef using the bathroom without washing his hands. In the episode, "The Couch," Poppie pees on Jerry's couch.

** It was aired in Australia. That's just how we roll.

* In that vein, ''[[Beakman's World]]'' had quite a few fart jokes in its last season...but saved its segment on flatulence for the very last show. (Hey, you can't cancel us twice, right? [[Uncanceled|Well...]])

* Rob Balder's [[Filk Song]] "[http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=1090 Ars Musica - It Had to Be You]" <ref>Quick note - you'll have to check a box that says you want to hear it.</ref> is basically a [[Hurricane of Euphemisms|Hurricane of Fart Jokes]]. Slightly [[squick]]y, in the artist's words.

* [[Spinal Tap]] likes a bit of the fart humor - their first live album was ''Silent But Deadly'', while their 1992 reunion album was ''Break Like The Wind''. The connotations of certain Tap song titles such as "Nice 'n' Stinky" probably aren't worth considering.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

** Really, what can you say when the best boss in the game is called the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBxSMnYCPjw Great Mighty Poo]?

** Another Rareware example is Banjo-Kazooie. Sure, it's not to the point of Conker's Bad Fur Day, but the game still contained a lot of toilet humor. One level involves going into a sewer and has burps and farts as a part of the background music. Captain Blubber's speech sound was him burping numerous times and one mini game involves getting into an eating contest with a crocodile that burps every time it eats something. Judging by the sound effects, Kazooie also seems to fart out her eggs rather than laying them. Also, one of the random facts about Gruntilda the player can learn is that her party trick is "blowing up balloons with her butt."

* ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' makes it pretty clear that Pey'j's jet boots are fart-powered, without actually saying so. Specifically, they're "fueled by a pocket of natural methane" [cue closeup on his rear end] "--just flex your abdominal muscles!"

* The [[TurboGrafx-16]] game ''Toilet Kids'' is like ''[[Xevious]]'' if it were full of toilet humour. Enemies range from turtles with poop shells to toilets that shoot dungballs at you.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzeMwGlYyGk Tools of Destruction demonstrates.]

* This is common in games of the [[Shrek]] franchise. Of course, given the nature of the movies they're based on...

* [[Ōkami|Okami]] allows you to piss and shit on enemies.

* The [[Duke Nukem]] series has a few instances:

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[VG Cats]]'' loves this. There's quite a number of strips whose punchlines depend on the idea that bodily fluids are automatically funny.

* [[Walkyverse]] has quite a bit of this particularly by Walky (and more so in the free parts of Joyce and Walky).

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* There's enough toilet humor in ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'' to go around.

* ''[[Rugrats]]'': Of course, given the age of the main characters, it's expected in each episode.

* Many of the jokes in ''[[Drawn Together]]'' rely on this. It was even used as a plot point on at least one occasion when Spanky left the show because critics thought his fart jokes detracted from the show.

* [[CatDog]]

* [[Yin Yang Yo!|Yin Yang Yo]]

* [[Johnny Test]]

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has made several references to this particular biological function: in "Winter Wrap Up", when Twilight Sparkle fails to make a decent bird's nest, Rarity tries to sugarcoat it by suggesting the birds can use it for something else - and Spike suggests, "An outhouse?"; in "Sweet and Elite", one of Rarity's excuses to [[Two-Timer Date|switch parties]] is that she has to "use the little filly's room"; and most notably, "Baby Cakes" has diaper changing among the many responsibilities of babysitting... and judging from the stench lines, it's for ''that'' reason.

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: Flatuists, A.K.A. professional farters, are people paid to fart on command. The earliest known flatuist was mentioned by St. Augustine of Hippo in his book, "City of God", which was written in the 5th Century A.D.

* "[[wikipedia:Fart Proudly|Fart Proudly]]" was the title of an essay by [[Benjamin Franklin]]. You read that right.

* The Maasai people of Tanzania, a nomadic tribe known for wearing toga-like wraps instead of Western apparel, refer to Westerners as ''iloredaa enjekat'', or "those who hold their farts in with trousers".

* [[Leslie Nielsen]]'s [http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/nielsen.asp gravestone] reads "Let 'er rip."

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