History Main / PottyDance

* A segment of Episode 36 of ''Atashin'chi'' is dedicated to how [[PottyEmergency you shouldn't wait to go]] because you won't be able to hide it anyway because of this inevitable trope.

* In the VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}} PC Pack game, all the Tamagotchi except for Kuchipatchi and Ichigotchi do this when you say the command "Use the bathroom" through the microphone.

* Eris does the dress-grab variant in Chapter 7 of the manga of ''LightNovel/MushokuTensei''.

** In Episode 12, Meiko jumps around like crazy while trying to get her CatSuit zipper unstuck during a PottyEmergency.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11540013/32/Benefits-of-old-laws Benefits of Old Laws]]'' Harry does the sitting-down version after Cormac [=McLaggen=] slips a [[LaxativePrank dangerously-large amount of laxative]] into his morning pumpkin juice.

* ''Anime/BombermanJetters'': In episode 5 - "Underground, Go! Go! Go!", Shirobon does this throughout the episode during his PottyEmergency.

* ''Manhua/ShuangshengLingtan'': Xiaoyu does a shirt-pull variant at the start of the first episode.

* Honoka does the legs-together sitting-down variant in Episode 18 of ''LightNovel/TheThirdTheGirlWithTheBlueEye''.

* ''Anime/YokaiWatch'': The {{Youkai}} Fidgephant causes people (and other Youkai) to do this by giving them [[PottyEmergency Potty Emergencies]]. Fidgefant himself constantly is doing a variant of this, but by [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything holding his trunk, which is full of water]].

* In Season 3's Episode 10 of ''Anime/YuruYuri'', Akari does a hands-free version of this while visiting a house.

* A young prince does this in the children's book ''Prince Farfenugen and the Potty Dance''.

* In Episode 6 of the South Korean TV show ''Series/TheCityHall'', the extremely cute but thoroughly obnoxious councilwoman Min Joo-hwa does this during her PottyEmergency, since she has foolishly [[TooDumbToLive repeatedly insulted the owner of the only toilet in the area, who is a lot bigger than she is and is holding the key out of reach]]. Despite her utmost efforts to hold her pee, she eventually suffers a humiliating PottyFailure when Shin Mi-rae smacks her hard on the bottom, and she wets her smart yellow skirt in front of journalists.

* Wakko during the, well, PottyEmergency TropeNamer ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' cartoon.

* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'': Sunil does this in "Sweet (Truck) Ride", and Zoe does this in "The Very Littlest Pet Shop".

* WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}} does this in "Pingu's Lavatory Story".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Mikey, after T.J. makes him drink water from a hosepipe.

* Chuckie does this at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "A Dose of Dil", and again at the beginning of "Potty-Training Spike".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' episode "The Secret Serum", the whole gang fakes a Potty Emergency and decides to make it more convincing by Potty Dancing. [[note]] The person might wonder why they were fine five seconds ago and it's urgent now [[/note]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'', [[ThePrankster Andy]] has a PottyEmergency and lampshades his Potty Dancing by saying and daydreaming "Hold it in, do a dance, that's the way to keep dry pants".

* ''LightNovel/HereComesTheThreeAngels'': Jun does a hands-free (and eventually a pants grabbing) version of this in Episode 5.

* ''Sucre Portable'': Sayoko does a [[HoldingHands one-handed]] version of this, while out on a walk with Sou.

%% * ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'':
%% ** Cub Panda does this in "Potty Time".
%% ** Grizzly does this in "Planet Bears".

%% * ''Manga/HighRiseInvasion'': Yuri does a squirmy sitting-down variant in Chapter 14.
%% * In Episode 12 of ''LightNovel/HybridXHeartMagiasAcademyAtaraxia'', Aine does this.

%% * Mikan often end up doing this in ''Let's Go Quintuplets!''. [[PottyFailure She never makes it...]]

%% * ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'':
%% ** In the "Kerosene" segment in Episode 23, Osomatsu does this.
%% ** In the "Super Detergent" segment in Season 2's Episode 2, Iyami briefly does this.

%% * ''LightNovel/ListenToMeGirlsIAmYourFather'':
%% ** Miu does this in Episodes 1, 12 (standing), and 10 (sitting).
%% ** Sora does a wriggly SeizaSquirm version of this in Episode 3.
%% * In Episode 1 of ''Petopeto-san'', the titular character does the SeizaSquirm variant of this.

%% * In volume 2 of Tokyopop's ''Manga/WarcraftLegends'' manga, a little girl does this in the story "Family Values."

%% * ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} does this in Issue #31 of ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'' for a few pages.

%% * ''Sucre Portable'': Sayoko does a [[HoldingHands one-handed]] version of this.

%% * In in first chapter of ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'', [[http://shiniez.deviantart.com/art/how-ally-got-her-mojo-back-273376726 Lisa does this.]]

%% * An unnamed Water Tribe boy does this in the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.

%% * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
%% ** Lincoln does this in "Bathroom Break!" and "In Tents Debate", both times at his house.
%% ** Leni does this in "Kick The Bucket List" while at the park.

%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'':
%% ** Caitlin does this in "Boo, Dude!", "Fish And Make Up", and "Cheapskates".
%% ** Jonesy does this in the beginning of "Over Exposed".

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan:'' Conan fakes a PottyEmergency during a case this way (in order to PullTheThread on the suspect).

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11540013/32/Benefits-of-old-laws Benefits of Old Laws]]'' Harry does the sitting-down version after Cormac [=McLaggen=] slips a dangerously-large amount of laxative into his morning pumpkin juice.

* [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Jon]] really needs to hurry up on cleaning that litterbox, judging by how energetic [[https://garfield.com/comic/1999/05/20 Garfield's dance is getting]].

-->'''Rudy:''' Ojou-sama... if you need to use the bathroom, it's over there.
-->'''Eris:''' ''I know where it is!!''

* The main {{Ojousama}}, Shizuka, does this in Chapter 2 of ''Ojousama wa Nigedashita!'' while waiting for Tooru to get out of the bathroom.

%% * ''Manga/TenkuuShinpan'': Yuri does a squirmy sitting-down variant in Chapter 14.

* Bronson Pinchot does this in a film called ''Second Sight'', except it's an extremely elaborate dance they call the peepee dance. He plays a psychic who is channeling someone else who has to pee.

* Mentioned in ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''; Kermit, Fozzie and Gonzo are developing pictures to catch a jewel thief, but they do it in the Happiness Hotel's only restroom. As Pops says, "Catch him in another room! We got people dancin' up an' down on one leg out here!". This unfortunately leads to an InconvenientDarkroomIllumination that ruins the trio's evidence.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}: Yosuke dances around because he has to go to the bathroom when the protagonist gets himself stuck inside a TV in the beginning.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[=SpongeBob=] vs. The Patty Gadget", Patrick is not celebrating [=SpongeBob's=] victory over the Patty Gadget because he has to go to the bathroom, and is visibly doing a potty dance.%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'': Emma does this in "Fast Times when the Rip Tide's High".

* In "Accidents Can Happen" from ''Series/ThePajanimals'', Cowbella instructs the other Pajanimals that "Cowbella says dance like crazy," during her Cowbella Says game. Squacky points out that he only dances like Cowbella is doing when he has to go to the potty, but she insists that she just likes dancing that way and that it's party of the game. Almost immediately afterwards, she has a PottyFailure.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[=SpongeBob=] vs. The Patty Gadget'' Patrick is not celebrating [=SpongeBob's=] victory over the Patty Gadget because he has to go to the bathroom, and is visibly doing a potty dance.%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'': Emma does this in "Fast Times when the Rip Tide's High".

* ''Literature/TimeTo'': In "Time to Pee!", two girls and one boy are seen with their knees together while a boy is seen with his knees together and his hands on his crotch.

%% * SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} does this in Issue #31 of ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'' for a few pages.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[=SpongeBob=] vs. The Patty Gadget'' Patrick is not celebrating [=SpongeBob's=] victory over the Patty Gadget because he has to go to the bathroom, and is visibly doing a potty dance.
%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'': Emma does this in "Fast Times when the Rip Tide's High".

** The episode "Serious Business" from the spin off ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has a '''whole musical number''' about this, as quoted and linked to above. It's ''that'' kind of show.

* A How-to Website/YouTube channel maker has a video called "How to Do the Need to Pee Dance", which has two professional dancers called Adrianne and Zach relaying the scientific theories on why some humans do this and doing a version that would be the most effective to this theory. They then combined the theories to create the "Ultimate Need to Pee Dance". It really looked like a dance!