< Potty Dance

Potty Dance/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character holds his/her crotch to hold the pee.

  • Straight: Alice, during a Potty Emergency, dances trying to hold it in.
  • Exaggerated: Alice does a rapid tap dance while trying to hold her pee in.
  • Inverted: Alice dances untils she has to pee and stops.
  • Justified: Alice drinks too much water.
  • Subverted: She is doing something resembling a Potty Dance for a talent show. She does not really need to use the bathroom.
  • Double Subverted: Eventually she does, though, and she does a genuine Potty Dance.
  • Parodied: Characters break into a dance segment seeing her "dance," and create a Dance Sensation.
  • Deconstructed: Someone video tapes her "dance" and uploads it to YouTube. It becomes an internet meme in an instant.
  • Reconstruced: After her friends see the video, they decide not to talk about it.
  • Lampshaded: Alice exclaims she is embarrassed doing her "dance."
  • Averted: Alice does not do a dance, as it would embarrass her.
  • Enforced: The show wants to include Toilet Humor.
  • Invoked: Alice drinks a lot of water.
  • Defied: Alice decides not to do a dance.
  • Discussed: "Are you doing the bathroom dance?"
  • Conversed: "Why do characters dance when they have to go?"
  • Played For Laughs: It usually is.
  • Played For Drama: Alice becomes a laughing stock after friend see the "dance" she is doing.
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