History Main / ShyBladder

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode about Chuckie moving from the potty to an adult toilet, he can't go because the adults always stay and watch him. He eventually is able to go when the other babies accompany him and then turn their backs.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Migration}}'': Gwen has a PottyEmergency while on her first migration with her family. Her mom tells her to do it in the sky since they're birds (mallards to be more specific), but Gwen is too nervous to do it. They end up landing and waiting for her to finish her business in the bushes where she's still worried about being watched.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Migration}}'': Gwen has a PottyEmergency while on her first migration with her family. Her mom tells her to do it in the sky since they're birds (mallards to be more specific), but Gwen is too nervous to do it. They end up landing and waiting for her to finish her business in the bushes where she's still nervous about being watched.

* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': In ''The Long Haul'', Greg and his impromptu pet pig (long story) both need to use the bathroom. Greg says "It was pretty awkward using the toilet with a farm animal sitting next to me, but I guess the pig was more embarrassed than ME, because when it was his turn to go, nothing happened."

* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': In ''The Long Haul'', Greg and his impromptu pet pig (long story) both need to use the bathroom. Greg says "It was pretty awkward using the toilet with a farm animal sitting next to me, but I guess the pig was more embarrassed than ME, because when it was his turn to go, nothing happened."

* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidTheLongHaul'', Greg and his impromptu pet pig (long story) both need to use the bathroom. Greg says "It was pretty awkward using the toilet with a farm animal sitting next to me, but I guess the pig was more embarrassed than ME, because when it was his turn to go, nothing happened."

In fiction this seems to be an affliction that tends to affect shy and/or neurotic people more than anyone else. It also seems to be something that tends to affect children. A common occurrence is for them to do a NoPeekingRequest, such as a character crying "I can't go with you looking at me!" (or "with you there" if the person is merely in earshot).

* In ''Manga/PrisonSchool'', Hana demands that Kiyoshi use the toilet while she watch as payback for Kiyoshi spotting her [[NatureTinkling urinating outside]]. Kiyoshi tells her he can't with her watching so she tries to physically force him only to end up slipping on the floor and Kiyoshi unintentionally relieving himself on her.

* Felicia has to pee into a radiator in ''Film/SexDrive'', because both of her friends (who are male) are too nervous to do so.

* ''Series/StillGame'' has this happen in the first Hogmanay special "The Party" when Winston, Jack, Victor, and Isa are all stuck in an elevator. Winston has drunk four cans of lager to pass the time and needs to pee, after much conflict from the other four he tries to do "half a pee" and initially can't because the other four are there. His soon does give way to it though.

* TruthInTelevision according to [[{{Website/Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]]. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paruresis Paruresis]] or "shy bladder syndrom" is a psychological condition that makes it difficult to use public bathroom or anywhere else that the person in question might not be able to pee in peace.
* Some Japanese women are very self-conscious of the noise they make during urination, so much so that there is a device called the Otohime which makes flushing noises when it is activated. It was invented to conserve water, since women would usually cover the noise with actual (and unnecessary) flushes.

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* ''Literature/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'': A rat called Nourishing is transferred out of Light Widdlers into Trap Disposal because she finds widdling on things in public too embarrassing. This is just one example of how the rats are gradually becoming less animal-like in their ideas and behaviour.
* ''Literature/AmericanGods'': Shadow suffers from shy bladder, as evidenced when he has to ask Sam to turn around when he steps out of the car for a leak.
* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidTheLongHaul'', Greg and his impromptu pet pig (long story) both need to use the bathroom. Greg says "It was pretty awkward using the toilet with a farm animal sitting next to me, but I guess the pig was more embarrassed than ME, because when it was his turn to go, nothing happened."
* In the Creator/StephenKing short story ''The Moving Finger'', protagonist Howard Mitla suffers from this. Hence why he has to pee outside when the titular, mysterious finger appears from the bathroom sink.
* In ''Literature/TheWorldOfPoo'', Plain Old Humphrey explains to Geoffrey that having a young boy standing outside the privy waiting for you is not conductive to your business, even if you can't see him. (The fact Geoffrey has just explained his idea for a poo collection, and is waiting ''with a bucket'' certainly didn't help.)
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* This was the childhood BerserkButton of Madara Uchiha from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' - he ''hated'' people standing behind him while he was peeing. He then grew up to be one of the most feared-slash-revered shinobi in history. This trope also serves as {{Foreshadowing}} for how he was defeated by Hashirama; he stabbed Madara from behind.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' - at a restaurant bathroom, Joey admits to being pee shy - it doesn't help to have Chandler hollering at him like a drill sergeant.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' - George admits to having privacy issues after getting a massage from a man, to where he can't use a urinal; he's a "stall guy". Kramer finds this funny.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' are on a "Scared Straight" field trip to prison. Butt-Head is straining nervously on the crapper surrounded by maliciously laughing convicts (and Beavis) - when they see one guy's Iron Maiden tattoo and they all bond over heavy metal, Butt-Head relaxes - audibly.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' - One of the uber-nerds Homer meets when he went back to college was so timid he couldn't use the bathroom after someone knocked on the door.

* In ''Film/AReasonToLiveAReasonToDie'', Eli pretends to suffer from this when he is caught snaeaking around the fort after dark. He then has to go through an elaborate charade of pretending to take a leak so the sentries don't get suspicous.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' mentioned the cases of people who use this excuse to evade drug tests. In real life, officers responsible for administering the test will turn around to give the person some semblance of privacy, but the officer is given a handmirror to discretely make sure that no cheating is going on.

* ''Series/StillGame'' has this happen in the first Hogmanay special "The Party" when Winston, Jack, Victor, and Isa are all stuck in an elevator. Winston has drunk four cans of lager to pass the time and needs to pee, after much conflict from the other four he tries to do "half a pee" and intially can't because the other four are there. His soon does give way to it though.

* In the Creator/StephenKing short story ''The Moving Finger'', protagonist Howard Mitla suffers from this. Hence why he has to pee outside when the titular, mysterious finger appears fom the bathroom sink.

* [[MaleRestroomEtiquette It's commonly accepted]] (well, in America, at least) that if you, a male, go into a bathroom and it's empty, you take the urinal farthest from the door or the stall. If another person comes in while you're still using the urinal, they take the one farthest from you or at least take a urinal that leaves a urinal between you. Talking or touching is not accepted, even if you're drunk; you must stare directly ahead and keep quiet. The rule is so strong that lineups sometimes form for urinals even when some are free because the free ones are between two occupied ones, though some bathrooms have mini-walls between the urinals to counteract this.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', the first time the group enters the TV world, Yosuke is in desperate need of a bathroom and resolves at one point to simply relieve himself upon the wall. He asks the other two to turn around, but in the end, he still can't bring himself to do it.

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* This was the childhood BerserkButton of Madara Uchiha from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' - he ''hated'' people standing behind him while he was peeing. He then grew up to be one of the most feared-slash-revered shinobi in history, and is currently an unstoppable undead killing machine.

* Elliot, from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' has an extremely ShyBladder. She can't go if someone speaks to her, or if they can hear her.

In fiction this seems to be an affliction that tends to affect shy and/or neurotic people more than anyone else. It also seems to be something that tends to affect children. A common cry of such a character is "I can't go with you looking at me!" (or "with you there" if the person is merely in earshot).