Wondrous Ladies' Room/Playing With

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Basic Trope: The ladies' bathroom is a beautiful, wondrously well-appointed paradise.

  • Straight: During a Potty Emergency, Andy runs into the ladies' room. He is stunned to see trickling fountains, blooming flowers, sunlight streaming through a large skylight while a harpist plays in the corner.
  • Exaggerated: The ladies' room is a Crystal Spires and Togas mini-Utopia.
  • Downplayed: Sofas! Framed artwork! It doesn't smell of pee!
  • Justified: Bob's boss is a Straw Feminist who invests much more money keeping her female employees happy.
  • Inverted: The ladies' room is pretty grotty. The gents' is a palace; each cubicle a personal throne room with a bookshelf and TV screen, the urinals a babbling water feature, besuited butlers by the gilded sinks offering fluffy towels to the patrons.
  • Subverted: Charlie and Bob muse at length about how Alice and Donna can spend so much time in there, their theories getting more wildly extravagant by the minute. When they decide to sneak in to see for themselves, they discover that Alice and Donna are suffering from terrible diarrhea.
  • Double Subverted: ...yeah, this bathroom's so awesome it has a nausea-inducing holographic smokescreen specifically to keep men out.
  • Parodied: The ladies' room is a Lotus Eater Machine. No-one who goes in ever wants to leave.
  • Enforced: The plot requires the guys to be in the girls' bathroom, without making them look like Peeping Toms.
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