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--> '''Dudley''': They flush people's heads down the toilet first day at Stonewall. Want to practice?
--> '''Harry''': No thanks. The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head in it -- it might be sick.
--> ''Narration'': At which point Harry ran away before Dudley could figure out what Harry had said.

[[caption-width-right:Because even the blind can't resist such a prank sometimes.]]

* In the third season of the television series ''QueerAsFolk'', one of the main characters gives a swirly to his little nephew, who not only tried to take cash from his wallet, but was also spouting homophobic slurs taught to him (Or so th main character infers) by their grandmother.

* One episode of ''{{MyNameIsEarl}}'' begins with Earl allowing Randy to give him a swirly in the Crabshack bathroom to make up for having done the same to Randy when he was five. When Earl thanks Darnell for cleaning the toilet first, Darnell explains that the last person who was given a swirly in one of those toilets ended up with a strange bat-disease.

* In the third season of the television series ''{{QueerAsFolk}}'', one of the main characters gives a swirly to his little nephew, who not only tried to take cash from his wallet, but was also spouting homophobic slurs taught to him (Or so th main character infers) by their grandmother.

* One episode of ''MyNameIsEarl'' begins with Earl allowing Randy to give him a swirly in the Crabshack bathroom to make up for having done the same to Randy when he was five. When Earl thanks Darnell for cleaning the toilet first, Darnell explains that the last person who was given a swirly in one of those toilets ended up with a strange bat-disease.

* ''SinCity'' - "The Great Big Kill": the {{Jerkass}} Jackie-Boy gets his head shoved into the toilet by Dwight [=McCarthy=] as payback and humiliation for abusing his ex, Shellie. This is part of what kicks off the main plot, as Jackie-Boy doesn't take humiliation well and seeks to take it out on a woman, leading his boys to Old Town.

* ''SinCity'' - "The Great Big Kill": the {{Jerkass}} Jackie-Boy getting a Toilet Swirlie is part of what kicks off the plot.
-->'''Dwight [=McCarthy=]:''' Yeah? Well, you already made a big mistake yourself. You didn't flush.

* ''SinCity'' - "The Great Big Kill": the JerkAss Jackie getting a Toilet Swirlie is part of what kicks off the plot.

* In the ''{{Animorph}} series, Tobias mentions that he became friends with Jake because the latter once saved him from a couple of bullies that were about to give him a swirlie.

--> ''Narrition'' : At which point Harry ran away before Dudley could figure out what Harry had said.

* ''SinCity'' - "The Great Big Kill": the JerkAss [[spoiler:Cop]] Jackie getting a Toilet Swirlie is part of what kicks off the plot.

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** This could also be considered one of the book's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny crowning moments of funny]]

* ''PantyAndStocking'': Panty and Scanty give one to each other as they're fighting.

* An even squickier example in ''IchiTheKiller'': in a flashback, a bunch of bullies shove the title character's face in a toilet already full of poop, trying to force him to eat it.

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A type of abuse bullies inflict on others. The swirlie is portrayed half the time as a real shot of some poor kid getting his head stuck in the toilet, and the other half as a bully simply mentioning the word "swirly" to the cringing dismay of all the bully victims in earshot.

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