Toilet humour
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Toilet humour or potty humour (humor in American English) is a type of humour dealing with bodily toilet functions. Public reference to bodily functions is taboo in many cultures. This genre also sees substantial crossover with the genre of sexual humour, most likely because of the multiple-function nature of the body parts involved in both genres as well as the sexual fetishism involved with certain toilet functions.
Many artists have made their names promulgating toilet humour:
- Some of the lyrical content of avant-garde rock musician Frank Zappa's songs revolved around toilet humour, for example, "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow" (from the album Apostrophe).
- In addition to social satire, the animated series South Park also uses a lot of toilet humour, even going so far as to have a talking poo called Mr. Hankey as a recurring character.
- Dr. Slump, a manga from Akira Toriyama (the creator of Dragon Ball), also had a strong scatological bent.
- The 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, and draining the dragon, with much of the allegedly Australian slang created by Humphries himself.
- Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, translated as King Turd, opens with the line "Merdre!" (a corruption of the French merde, translated by Barbara Wright as "shittr") 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.
- The adult comic magazine Viz has, over 25 years, built a publishing empire from toilet humour.
- The movie Dumb and Dumber featured a lengthy toilet scene played by actor Jeff Daniels.
- Paska (Finnish for "shit") is a Finnish one man band. It was once disbanded because of internal disagreements.
- Doodie.com, a site created by cartoonist Tom Winkler, has most of its content based upon feces. Winkler has even created a feces-themed superhero, respectfully named "Doodieman".
- In The Simpsons, Bart flushed a cherry bomb down the boys' toilet, and the subsequent force of the explosion in the pipes caused Agnes Skinner to be blown off the girls' toilet by the sudden gush.
- In Ultimate Muscle, Kid Muscle, King Muscle, Monsieur Cheeks are known to use gas attack during a match. In addition, there are wrestlers modelled after lavatory and urinal.
- In the second level of the Zipper Interactive game SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs if the player blows up a outhouse using C4 Jester humerously comments "I guess I'll have to hold it, right Sir?"
- The band Bloodhound Gang's songs and music videos feature numerous toiler humour refences.
Toilet humour also refers to jokes around modesty, such as if one is seen naked or in his/her undergarments. It can also refer to jokes revolving around the incontinence of infants and young children or the aged or infirm. Jokes about wedgies and tighty-whitey underpants also fall in this category.
Constipation is another source of toilet humour. Screamin' Jay Hawkins recorded his "Constipation Blues" with his trademark yells after his first bout with blockage and the Bonzo Dog Band recorded "The Strain" on the same topic and with many of the same sound effects.
Toilet humour is discussed on many different levels. One of the most well-maintained and definitive resources online is PoopReport.com. This web site is devoted to "the intellectual appreciation of poop humor," and contains hundreds of articles and stories both of a serious and humorous nature, on this and related subjects.
Toilet slang
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A form of toilet humour is toilet slang, in which bodily functions and parts are replaced by euphemisms and witticisms.
See also
- Gross-out film
- Le Pétomane
- Lighting farts
- Mr. Hanky
- South Park
- The Ren and Stimpy Show
- Scatology
- The Poopsmith
- Sexual slang
- Portable toilet tipping
- The Diarrhea Song
- Lonely Swedish
- Dirty Sanchez
External links
- Scat collection - a repository on Newgrounds for toilet humour.
- PoopReport.com - Dedicated to the intellectual appreciation of toilet humour.
- DidYouJustPoop.com - Take a load off; express your poop with 3-line poems.