Toilet/Gross-Out Humor
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Toilet/Gross-Out Humor is a type of humor that revolves around normal bodily functions such as urinating (peeing), defecating (pooping), flatulence (farting), belching (burping), vomiting, and wet/soiled diapers (if it’s done with an infant character). As well things that are not bodily functions but just things that are disgusting in nature such as spoiled food, gore, and body horror.
Media That Uses This Humor
- Teen Titans Go!
- Family Guy (Especially in the later seasons)
- Craig of the Creek (the episode, Alone Quest heavily relied on this humor)
- Tankmen (the first episode of the web series contains a scene where Steve urinates on a brick wall while he sings the nursery rhyme, “I’m a Little Teapot”. The scene can be viewed here)
- SpongeBob SquarePants (the worst seasons of the show contains these, the most infamous example being "Squid Baby")
- Loud House (Done with Lily Loud’s soiled diapers and Luan’s farts)
- Annoying Orange (especially after 2014, many videos contain jokes with Orange farting, Baby Orange farting and soiling his diaper, and sometimes other characters vomiting)
- Caillou (the show uses gross-out humor sometimes, such as in the episode "Big Brother Caillou" when Boris changes Rosie's diaper; while diaper changing is natural, it's not really something that you would show in a cartoon aimed at young children)
- Fanboy & Chum Chum ("Pick a Nose" and "Fanboy Stinks" are the worst offenders of this, with a bunch of girls being attracted to Fanboy's odor, Fanboy sneezing into his surgical mask and when he is disguised as a nurse, Chum Chum having a foot with a bad odor rubbed on his face, Kyle attempting to pull Fanboy's finger and Fanboy farting on him when he refuses, Fanboy and Chum Chum hiding in a waste container and Fanboy getting his head stuck in a toilet)
- Sesame Street (mostly from Oscar the Grouch)
- Elmo's World (the segment "Feet" contains this, not to mention the cartoon about a girl who loves her feet and a literal foot named Bigfoot visitng Elmo).
- Abby's Flying Fairy School (one segment has Blögg's stinky sock come to life and turn everything that it touches dirty and stinky)
- Elmo the Musical (in the segment "Prince Elmo the Musical", a dragon spreads his bad breath everywhere and Elmo defeats him with his breath by gulping down some garlic and Limburger cheese wedges)
- Elmo's Potty Time (a potty training video based on the show that is littered with multiple scenes of Baby Elmo and some kids using the potty, a King Kong-esque segment where a giant gorilla needs to pee and chases a giant toilet, a sketch where kids shout synonyms for pee and poop, Baby Bear saying "wee-wee" and "woo-woo" when helping Curly Bear use the potty and a weird ending where the characters sing "You'll Use the Potty").
- An episode revolves around Maria and Grover babysitting Baby Natasha, there’s a diaper change scene at one point.
- The Brothers Grunt
- The Lion Guard (Kion, Fuli and Bunga are notorious for this)
- Fish Hooks
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
- Bear in the Big Blue House ("When You've Got to Go" is littered with toilet humor)
- The Wacky World of Tex Avery
- My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (examples include Fluttershy picking her nose while being controlled by Rarity in "Green Isn't Your Color", Discord wearing peanut butter jars on his feet in "What About Discord?" and the Cake Twins pooping their diapers in "Baby Cakes")
- Drawn Together
- South Park (Earlier seasons had this as their main source of humor. After they were criticized for this, this led to Trey Parker and Matt Stone coming up with the show-within-a-show that poked fun of these criticisms called Terrance and Phillip, which is filled with an abundance of fart jokes)
- Postal series (in Postal 4: No Regerts, for example, your task is to wash away piles of turds to prevent the Mexicans from using them for their tacos)
- Ed, Edd n Eddy (usually involving Ed, with "Thick as an Ed" being the absolute WORST example)
- Invader Zim (aside from some gross-out humor (including the infamous toilet scene in "Gaz, Taster of Pork"), the show sometimes contains gore in some episodes (such as "Bestest Friend", "Attack of the Saucer Morons", and "Bloaty's Pizza Hog")
- The Ren & Stimpy Show (especially Adult Party Cartoon)
- Mega Babies (hands down the very worst example in Western cartoon history)
- Pig Goat Banana Cricket
- WarioWare series (many of its minigames contain gross imagery such as nose-picking, snot, poop, and farting, especially in some microgames involving Wario, as well as some of Mona's microgames)
- Bluey (Several episodes contain a joke about Bingo doing a "bush wee", urinating behind a bush for an unrealistic amount of time, the infamous scene of the horse pooping on-screen in "Markets" (which was thankfully cut out in the international releases of the episode), and the scene where Bandit changes Bluey’s diaper when she was a baby in "Baby Race")
- Battle for Dream Island (Mainly done with the character, Rocky, with his barfs being his sole character trait and gag.)
- SML (Infamously done by the character, Jeffy, where he would defecate his pants. While later videos would tone this down, earlier videos would do this more often)
- Nina Needs to Go! (The entire premise of the show revolves around the titular character having to use the bathroom.)
- Skibidi Toilet
- Total Drama
- Digimon (contains poop imagery, such as Koromon pooping twice in the Digimon Adventure segment of Digimon: The Movie, Numemons attacking by throwing turds, and one of the series' monsters, Sukamon (and its variants) resembling a mound of poop)
- Earthworm Jim (the level "Intestinal Distress" that takes place in the guts of some grotesque)
- Boogerman (the whole game itself. Enough said!)
- Ratchet & Clank series (examples include Ratchet belching after drinking soda and one part of Planet Aquatos in Up Your Arsenal being a sewer)
- Rayman Origins (has references of toilet humor, such as boogers on a stick and farting beans)
- 2010s Sonic the Hedgehog games (sometimes, especially when Sonic calls Eggman "Baldy McNosehair")
- The Ripping Friends (is filled to the brim with gross moments. Examples include "The Indigestible Wad" and "Stinky Butt")
- The Neverhood series
- Boombots (it has a lot of toilet humor. Example: acronyms of organizations, which are the Feline Alien Research Troop (FART), the United Rat Infestation Nation (URIN), and the Boombots Underground Technology Team (BUTT))
- The Binding of Isaac and its prequel, The Legend of Bum-bo (filled to the brim with scatological imagery)
- Poopdie (same as above)
- Conker's Bad Fur Day and its Xbox remake, Conker: Live & Reloaded (aside from heavy use of obscenities and sex jokes, the game is filled with a lot of toilet humor. One of its boss characters, the Great Mighty Poo, is a perfect example of it)
- Chuck Rock (one of its early levels has a dinosaur pooping)
- Bulb Boy (some of the grossest examples of toilet humor in gaming history)
- Rugrats (not much in the way of toilet humor, but it does have some)
- Jackass (mostly involving Dave England in the film series)
- Santa, Inc.
- Banjo-Kazooie series (not as bad as Conker's Bad Fur Day, but it does have very gross moments such as the secret facts of its antagonist, Gruntilda in the first game)
- The Simpsons (one episode has Homer being pulled through dirty diapers)
- Mickey Mouse (2013) (sometimes has gross moments, with "Flipperboobootosis" being a notorious example)
- The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil (in fact, the show was cancelled by ABC due to the disgusting humor that John Kricfalusi (the creator of Ren & Stimpy and The Ripping Friends) had put in it)
- The BFG (the act of "whizzpopping" (which is done from drinking the "frobscottle") involves farting. This is especially common in the live-action remake)
- Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (a gruesome example of gore humor is in "Jobs", when an elderly Yellow Guy gets his hand graphically torn apart, resulting in the workers celebrating their first workplace accident in a darkly comical manner)
- Primal Rage (Chaos is infamous for this kind of nasty humor, with his attacks involve him puking, farting, and urinating on his enemies)
- Many, many Elsagate videos on YouTube
- The Cat in the Hat (2003) (the content and humor in the live-action film adaption was so gross and inappropriate that it's the final nail to the coffin for live-action adaptions of Dr. Seuss books, which is for the best)
- Happy Tree Friends (the show's gross-out humor involves extremely violent and gory dismemberments, disembowelments and deaths of various characters (even for black comedy standards), whether by accidents, Flippy's killing spree, or Lumpy's stupidity)
- My Little Pony: Pony Life
- J.J. & Jeff (its use of toilet humor is especially rampant in the Japanese version. Thankfully, most of it is censored in the North American version)
- Ōkami (some of Amaterasu's attacks involve urinating or explosive turds)
- Lucky Fred
- Codename: Kids Next Door
- Sheep in The Big City (sometimes)
- Time Squad (sometimes)
- Home Movies
- Mission Hill (sometimes)
- The Oblongs (sometimes)
- Baby Blues (2000 animated series; sometimes)
- Bob & Margaret
- The Three Friends and Jerry
- Diego and Glot
- Fly Tales
- Bunny Maloney
- Dooly the Little Dinosaur
- Pororo the Little Penguin
- Little Hero Super Z
- Pelswick
- Stressed Eric
- Slacker Cats
- Poochini's Yard
- 44 Cats (rarely sometimes)
- Zip Zip
- Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
- Unikitty!
- Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
- PB&J Otter ("The Thing That Almost Ate Hoohaw" has Flick getting a wedgie as a running gag, "Watchbird Alert" has a snot joke, and Opal says she has to change a dirty diaper in "Three's a Crowd".)
- Hey Arnold!
- Uncle Buck (1989 film)
- The Breakfast Club
- Ferris Bueller's Day-Off
- Cyborg Kuro-chan (sometimes)
- Kaiketsu Zorori/Motto! Majimeni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori (sometimes)
- Thomas and Friends: All Engines Go (2 examples of this is a skunk spraying Thomas and Diesel (which makes them nearly vomit) and that one scene where Percy twerks to ring his Lucky Bell (yes, in a preschool show...))
- Arthur (sometimes)
- Go! Cartoons (mostly happens in the two shorts "The Summoning" and "Welcome to Doozy")
- Johnny Test (2005) happens rarely, most notable example of this is when Johnny is in his superhero persona, Johnny X doing his "power poot" that allows him to fart fire.)
- Kid vs. Kat (occasionally)
- Primos (Done twice with the character, Baby Bud, who is Tater’s baby brother. The joke revolves around him soiling his diaper.)
Why It Usually Sucks
- This type of humor revolves around bodily function, and thus it becomes less funny and more disgusting.
- It provides some disturbing and cringeworthy imagery, such as this scene from The Golden Boy.
- It's typically used as a rather embarassing attempt at pandering towards children.
- By the 90's, it saw a major rise in popularity and has since been used in different forms of media, such as movies, video games, TV shows, Etc.
- Some long-running franchises have recently been milking this trope, either as a way to appeal younger audiences or to try and get some cheap laughs out of the audience, thus alienating long-time fans.
- Michael Bay's 2007 movie adaptation of the Transformers brand (despite being decent) was already pretty guilty of this type of comedy (with scenes like Bumblebee urinating lubricant on Agent Simmons), but this only got worse in the sequel.
- Power Rangers (Super) Ninja Steel often had Monty and Vick (the so-called "comedic" duo of the series) provide a serious overuse of fart jokes, thus creating awkward moments like this.
The Only Redeeming Quality
- Sometimes the Gross-out Humor can be done right
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