Toilet humour
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'''Toilet humour''' or '''scatological humour''' is a type of [[off-color humor|off-colour humour]] dealing with [[defecation]], [[urination]], [[flatulence]], [[vomiting]] and other presumably disgusting bodily functions. Public reference to bodily functions is [[taboo]] in many cultures. This genre also sees substantial crossover with sexual humour, such as [[Dick joke|penis joke]]s.
Toilet humor is most popular among children and teenagers, is often seen as a rejection of [[taboos]], and is a part of modern culture.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Poop-Culture-America-Grossest-National/dp/193259521X Poop Culture: How America is Shaped by its Grossest National Product] by Dave Praeger ISBN 1-932-59521-X]</ref>
==Exploitation==
Many artists have made their names exploiting toilet humour:
*[[Eddie Shit]]'s entire act was based on toilet humour interpretations of popular songs, including 'Pohemian Crapsody' and 'Space Jobbity'.
*The internationally popular [[Canada|Canadian]] children's sketch-comedy television show ''[[You Can't Do That On Television]]'' (1979-1990) made heavy use of bathroom and gross-out humour, particularly through the show's iconic "green slime," Barth (the hamburger chef, played by [[Les Lye]], whose burgers contained everything ''but'' fresh beef), and frequent gags related to flatulence and excrement, especially in the final two years of the series.
*[[Urinetown]], the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical.
*Some of the lyrical content of [[avant-garde]] [[Rock and roll|rock]] musician [[Frank Zappa]]'s songs revolved around toilet humour, for example, "Watch out where the [[husky|huskies]] go, and don't you eat that [[Urine|yellow]] [[snow]]" (from the album ''[[Apostrophe (album)|Apostrophe]]'').
*The Japanese [[manga]] ''[[Enomoto: New Elements that Shake the World]]'' has been praised as a series of "innovative comics that are almost entirely concerned with bodily functions."<ref>Devlin, Tom. "King of Shit.(AKA Jason Boxer anthem) " ''The Comics Journal'' #238, October 2001, pp. 65-67.</ref>
*A [[first-person shooter]] video game called [[HURL]] uses much potty humor, but no violence, in order that the game be considered suitable for children.
*''[[Dr. Slump]]'', a manga from [[Akira Toriyama]] (the creator of ''[[Dragon Ball (manga)|Dragon Ball]]''), also had a strong [[scatology|scatological]] bent.
*The ''[[Private Eye (magazine)|Private Eye]]'' [[comic strip]] ''[[Barry McKenzie]]'' written by [[Barry Humphries]] and drawn by [[Nicholas Garland]] are a treasure trove of ''chundering'', ''parking the tiger'', ''splashing the boots'', ''draining the dragon'', and ''beating the JBoxer''' with much of the allegedly [[Australia]]n [[slang]] created by Humphries himself.
*''[[Ubu Roi]]'' by [[Alfred Jarry]], translated as ''King Turd'', opens with the line "''Merdre!''" (a corruption of the [[French language|French]] ''[[Profanity#Interlanguage|merde]]'', translated by [[Barbara Wright]] as "shitter") and is filled with scatological humour. Though Jarry was only 14 years old when he began it as a spoof of one of his teachers, it is now regarded as one of the first examples of the [[Theatre of the Absurd]].
*It is a commonly used convention in movies directed by the [[Farrelly Brothers]]. For example, their [[Film|movie]] ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]'' featured a lengthy toilet scene played by actor [[Jeff Daniels (actor)|Jeff Daniels]] involving a diarrhetic reaction.
* The band [[Bloodhound Gang]]'s songs and music videos feature numerous toilet humour references.
* The show [[Drawn Together]] contains frequent toilet humour scenes. For example, [[Spanky Ham]] once ordered a pizza and defecated on it, returning it to the delivery man, saying, "Wait, I didn't order this pizza with sausage".
* [[Blink 182]] is known for their toilet humour, as shown on their [[live album]], [[The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back)]].
* [[Insane Clown Posse]], are very acclaimed for their extravegant use of toilet humour and derogatory, and obnoxious use of foul language.
* In the nudie-cartoon magazine series [[Sex to Sexty]], one story is that a kid in a bathroom sings a jingle (from a 70s commercial) "Chewy chewy tootsie roll lasts a long time." His mother yells, "Put that nasty thing back in the toilet!"
*The [[Austin Powers]] film series features lots of toilet humor. A character named [[Fat Bastard (character)|Fat Bastard]] is even dedicated to it.
* In Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles", there is a campfire scene in which everyone, feasting on [[bean]]s, farts tremendously, and continuously. They ask for more beans, and the [[Cattle|trailboss]], played by [[Slim Pickens]] refuses them, saying: "I'd say you've had enough."
* [[DreamWorks Animation]] films
* [[South Park]]
* [[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]
* [[Family Guy]]
* [[Beavis and Butt-head]]
* [[Rocko's Modern Life]]
* [[Crayon Shin Chan]]
* A [[1983]] computer game for the [[TRS-80 Color Computer]] titled ''Outhouse'' by [[J. Weaver, Jr.]] distributed by [[Computer Shack]], in which the player controls a [[flying saucer]] defending an outhouse from earthlings sticking its [[toilet paper]] in their backside and walking out with it.<ref>[http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/outhouse.html Outhouse]</ref>
{|- style="background:darkgrey; color:white;"
! colspan="99" | Toilet slang entries in [[Wiktionary|WikiSaurus]]
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*[[wiktionary:WikiSaurus:bathroom|bathroom]]
*[[wiktionary:WikiSaurus:toilet|toilet]]
*[[wiktionary:WikiSaurus:vomit|vomit]]
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*[[wiktionary:WikiSaurus:urination|urination]]
*[[wiktionary:WikiSaurus:defecation|defecation]]
*[[wiktionary:WikiSaurus:flatulence|flatulence]]
|}
== See also ==
* [[Grotesque body]]
* [[Lighting farts]]
* [[Scatology]]
* [[Toilet tipping]]
* [[Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)]]
* [[Dirty Sanchez (sexual act)]]
* [[The Left Rights]]
* [[Urinals]]
* [[Bum trilogy]]
* [[Flatulence]]
===Miscellaneous media items===
* [[Gross-out film]]
* [[Gross out]]
* ''[[You Can't Do That On Television]]''
* ''[[Barry Welsh is Coming]]''
* [[Angry Video Game Nerd]]
* [[The Poopsmith]]
* [[Le Pétomane]]
* [[Mr. Methane]]
* [[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]
* [[Captain Underpants]]
* [[Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan]]
* [[Mr. Hankey]]
* [[6teen]]
* [[Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure]]
* [[Carl Squared]]
* [[Twisted Kaiju Theater]]
* [[Taxidermia]]
* [[The Diarrhea Song]]
* [[The Underground Comedy Movie]]
==References==
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*Henderson, Jeffrey ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=aBsR2BEuAq0C The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy]'' 1991 Oxford University Press ISBN 0195066855
*Slater, W. J. review of ''[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8299%28197623%2930%3A3%3C291%3ATMMOLI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z&size=LARGE The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy]'' by Jeffrey Henderson. ''Phoenix'', Vol. 30, No. 3 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 291-293 doi:10.2307/1087300
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