History Main / PottyFailure

* ''Literature/LittlePrincess'': At the end of "I Want My Potty", the Princess wets her pants.

** "[[Recap/SouthParkS15E10BassToMouth Bass to Mouth]]" combines this with LaxativePrank. The school staff tells Cartman they want him to ensure Pete Melman won't kill himself like a previous student did after being ridiculed for crapping his pants. His solution is to give Jenny Simon a laxative-laced cupcake; Cartman figures this will guarantee that attention is diverted from Melman, but now Jenny ends up attempting suicide. Cartman decides to fix everything by having all the students eat pizza with laxatives so no one gets singled out.

* ''Manga/FutokuNoGuild'': In episode 8 or chapter 15 after Tokishikko ends up having a [[PottyEmergency potty emergency ]] after drinking too many mana potions, and dressed in only panties and pantyhose after all her other clothes got burned off in a fight, she ends up trying to ignore her urge to pee & seduce Kikuru, this didnt end so well since the urge came back but it was too much for her and she ends up peeing in her panties on top of him

* In the [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom]] fanfic ''[[Fanfic/AdoptionNightmare]]'', Brina implies she was once a bed-wetter much to Danny's disgust when the two are discussing Brina's [[PowerIncontinence]].

* Twice in ''{{Series/Degrassi}}'''s tenth season. The first by Jenna, who's been abusing diet pills; the second, by Holly J., who ignores what she believes to be DefinitelyJustACold. It isn't definitely just a cold.

* ''Series/KyleXY'': In the Pilot episode of , Kyle gets sent to a juvenile detention centre after being caught being naked in public. While there, he gets challenged to a fight. Meanwhile, he feels a powerful pressure from his bladder but is unable to identify it[[spoiler:(as he is still technically a newborn)]].

* Deliberately invoked (on his rival's shoes!) by Creator/JackNicholson in ''Film/{{Wolf}}''.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': In ''[[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/425-the-bad-seeds The Bad Seeds]]'', possibly happens to Hua Chu Lan, when her mantra against a PottyEmergency stops:

* On ''Series/{{Succession}}'', AddledAddict Kendall shits his bed after a night of substance abuse.

** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaAPoleLotOfTrouble A Pole Lot Of Trouble]]", it's revealed that Chase made a pee puddle after having a large drink at the movies. He used ''Emma'''s jacket to cover it so she wouldn't step in it.

* The {{Ecchi}} anime ''Manga/ChargerGirl'' has become noted mainly for its heroine wetting herself frequently, usually when scared or struck.

* Early on in ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'', Kanna Kizuchi ends up wetting herself. Understandable, considering that she had just witnessed ''[[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath a man get his head burned off.]]]]''

** In "[[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/12/07 PSI]]", Tycho gets literally scared shitless by the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'' VR demo.

* Played for drama in ''Film/TheFallout2022''; high school student Vada goes to the bathroom in the middle of class after her younger sister Amelia calls her when she has her first period. While in the bathroom, a school shooting happens. When Vada returns to school, she's too afraid to re-enter the bathroom she hid in and holds her bladder all day; after school ends, she heads down the school steps and accidentally steps on a soda can, the sound of which causes her to wet her pants in fear, which she gets angry at herself over.

** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaAPoleLotOfTrouble A Pole Lot Of Trouble]], it's revealed that Chase made a pee puddle after having a large drink at the movies. He used ''Emma'''s jacket to cover it so she wouldn't step in it.

* Parallel Paradise:

* ''Anime/SevenMortalSins'': In the second episode Maria had her body under control by Leviathan in an elevator and to humiliate Maria, Leviathan made Maria wet herself in front of a stranger in a elevator who later turned out to be Lucifer in disguise

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12672275/1/A-daughter-and-a-legend A daughter and a legend]]'': [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Nursery Rhyme]] defeats [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD Raynare]] by ''completely'' erasing her memories, leaving her mentally an infant. Shortly before Raynare is killed, she soils herself because infants have no control over their bladders and bowels.

* ''Film/NationalLampoon's Film/VanWilder'', when Gwen Pearson puts "Colon Blow" into Richard Bagg's drink. Though technically its not quite a failure. He ends up using a trash can, in front of his professor and (not likely after this) future boss.

* Manny intentionally does this to avoid being dropped off at a kiddie play area where the requirement is all the kids have to be potty trained.

Essentially, Potty Failure is when a character wets themself, soils themself or both and the act is PlayedForLaughs. This is a common type of ToiletHumour.