History Main / RoadApples

* In ''Film/NannyMcPhee'', the sequel has Cyril call the farm "The Land of Poo" upon noticing all the manure on the ground.

** These have actually appeared as useless items since VideoGame/DragonQuestIV. In the NES version of that game they were actually ''called'' Road Apples, although this was mainly due to Nintendo's censorship policies that prevented them from calling them anything else.
** In VideoGame/DragonQuestIX, you can throw a "cowpat" on some poor guy's fire. Needless to say, he doesn't appreciate it.

** One variation is "Scooby-dooby-Doo, took a poo, Shaggy [[IAteWhat thought it was chocolate]]. Shaggy took a bite and turned all white. That's the end of Shaggy." Another version has Shaggy [[SparedByTheAdaptation survive]], but another version has [[KillEmAll the whole gang accidentally eat the poop and die]].

* ''All three'' of the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' films have at least one scene where a member of the Tannen family ends up covered with manure. (It was a RunningGag for the franchise.)

* A similar story tells of an American zoo visitor who, hoping to prove the effectiveness of Crazy Glue to some [[JapaneseTourist Japanese Tourists]], covered his hands in the stuff and placed them on the rear end of a rhinoceros. Guess what happened next?

* ''VideoGame/DinosaurKing'' has dinosaur feces (yes, it's called that in game) as something you can dig up. [[VendorTrash They sell for a very high price]].

* ''VideoGame/FossilFighters'' also has fossilized droppings, but they're so worthless they barely even qualify as VendorTrash.

* In the ''Literature/BerenstainBears'' book "The Trouble with Pets", when Lady the dog is being house-trained, her poop is referred to by the UnusualEuphemism "calling cards".

* ''VideoGame/Postal2'': In the ''Lost Paradise'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]], a member of an AnimalWrongsGroup frees an elephant from an animal detention center, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished it "thanks" her by taking a huge dump on her, burying her in a mountain of excrement and attacking the rest of the group]].

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has the Griffins visiting the Amish. Meg, who is behind a horse and is distracted by talking to one of the Amish, gets crapped on by a horse offscreen while the Amish man comments on it. Meg screams as the horse keeps shitting on her and it's implied she's completely completely submerged in horse crap when she stops screaming, which has the Amish man suggest to her that she should close her mouth.

** As seen in the image atop this page, the first film heaped a great big steaming pile of shit at the protagonists. Dr. Ellie Sattler went elbow-deep in it, too. The trike's excrement isn't really played for laughs, however -- the animal's gastrointestinal distress is due to the poisonous plants and berries placed around its paddock, and is one of the first (of many) signs that the Park wasn't as well-designed as its creators thought.

* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': There are a good number of gags involving Onizuka and his depositions. Once a teacher tried to punch him and Onizuka used like shield a cardboard box where he carried a sample of his feces to a medical examination. Cue the unfortunate teacher needing urgently a bath.

* In the movie ''Film/{{K-9}}'', Jim Belushi's character decides to teach the dog who's boss by locking him in a walk-in pantry overnight. Fast forward to the next morning, and it is discovered that the dog has [[ChewbaccaDefense won the argument in its own way.]]

* The same director ripped off his own movie in his next one, ''Film/{{Hop}}''. The difference is that it's the Easter Bunny, he defecates jelly beans and a human eats the droppings (as nature intended).

* [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E60 One episode]] of ''[[Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket Lupin III]]'' focuses on the villain Basala trying to find the location where Lupin has hidden some hidden diamonds. As the episode goes on, Basala thinks he has found the treasure, but it turns out to be a trunk full of cow dung. Complicating things, Basala's suicide ray has hit Lupin and the master thief is attempting to kill himself. In an effort to stop him from biting his tongue and bleeding to death, Jigen and Goemon stuff Lupin's mouth with the dung, and inadvertantly end up curing him. Ironically, the discarded dung turns out to be important; [[spoiler: it hints to Lupin's hiding spot for the diamonds: inside the guts of a herd of sacred cows Lupin is sending overseas.]]

* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Safe" sees the crew smuggling a "cunningly concealed herd of cattle" to another planet, with Simon stepping in a cow patty on his way out of the ship. Later, Mal mutters as he is stepping around the cow patties, "This is the last time... last time with cows..."

* In one episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'', Ralph purchases a racehorse. His mistress, Valentina La Paz, tricks him into stepping into horse manure; partly as a prank to make her and the others laugh and partly because according to superstition, accidentally stepping in horse dung is a sign of good luck.

If ''eating'' said Road Apples or cow pies (a euphemism for cow manure) is involved, then the trope is IAteWhat. If someone [[{{Slapstick}} falls into]] the poop, it's SlippingIntoStink.

* In a PSA called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Nu5csQvdU Be a Considerate Pet Owner]]", a man steps in dog poop as part of his run of animal-related bad luck.

* Done frequently with Kiki in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', and [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=090504 occasionally with Bun-Bun]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Now ''that'' is one big pile of shit."]]

The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] is a euphemism for horse manure.