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* In the [[Isaac Asimov]] novel ''[[The Caves of Steel]]'', the people of the overcrowded, quasi-socialist 47th century use communal bathroom-shower-laundry facilities called "Personals". [[Truth in Television|While men are instructed from childhood that it is]] ''[[Truth in Television|never]]'' [[Truth in Television|permissible to speak in the Personal, women often socialize in their Personals and this fact is an object of fascination and confusion for men.]]
* In Louis Sachar's ''There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom'', Bradley assumes the girls' room is nicer than the boys', with colored water in the toilets and fountains, perhaps. When he does hide in one, he finds it's pretty much like the boys'.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
* In ''[[The Vampire Files|Blood On The Water]]'', Jack overhears two gangsters searching a ladies' restroom for intruders. One of them voices surprise that the toilets look no different from those in men's rooms.
* Aluded to in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'': Since ghosts can only go to places they visited in life, Alther cannot spy on the evil cabal's innermost workings since they meet in a converted former lady's room.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a sketch wherein the ladies room was a Greek garden with a eunuch lyrist who sang softly to them while slave boys fed them fruit and wrapped them in silk.
* ''[[Farscape]]'' took this to the extreme in the episode "A Human Reaction", where a world is created out of John's memories. As a result, everything is something directly taken from his memory - every random person on the street is someone he's met, none of the magazines and newspapers are from later than when he disappeared from Earth, and so on. So when John figures this out, he opens the door to the women's bathroom (because he's never been in one) and behind it is -- {{spoiler|a giant, swirling vortex of orange-brown energy}}. As [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420094556/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/farscape/a_human_reaction.php?page=23 elaborated on] at [[Television Without Pity]], this veers headlong into [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]].
* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' had this, where Larry, feeling disoriented, passes out on the couch in the women's bathroom. When he comes to he wants to know why the women have a couch in their bathroom (and subsequently why the men do not). Drew asks him "If there was, would you want to lay on it?"
* A running gag in the high school years of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' was boys becoming indignant on seeing that the girls had a couch.
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** That's what Sarah thought Tedd was thinking...
** [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-02-19 Perpetual pillow fight]
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'', while talking about ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'', [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/12/ oddly enough]:
{{quote|'''Gabe''': I really wanna know what they ''do'' in there.
'''Tycho''': They '''''pee'''''. }}
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** In [[Real Life]] often times there are side rooms to the bathrooms in more high end places (Nordstrom comes to mind) so that mothers can breast feed their babies without men ogling or [[Moral Guardians]] chewing their butts off.
** Once upon a time, diaper changing tables were only available in women's restrooms. Fortunately, this seems to be changing..
** Unfortunately, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141130053856/http://www.popgadget.net/images/lady%20loo%20female%20urinal.jpg herinals] haven't caught on yet.
* Go to the Restroom on the top floor of the Hancock Building in Chicago. The ladies' room has the best view of the city skyline ever. The men's room... doesn't.
* At [[Studio Ghibli]], the women's restrooms were designed by Hayao Miyzaki to be bigger and nicer than the men's.
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