History Main / Swirlie

A less-malevolent form of WaterTorture. See also TheCanKickedHim for more serious injuries.

* ''WesternAnimation/PrincessNatasha'': One of the flashback screens that explain why Oleg didn't stay in Spy Academy long enough for Lubek to be able to recognize him shows some bullies subjecting him to a toilet.

* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': In Episode 6, Panty and Scanty try to each other in the toilets in the boy's room as they're fighting.

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

See also TheCanKickedHim for more serious injuries.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: F.O.U.N.T.A.I.N.", the [[TheDragon Delightful Children]] tried to get information from a student named Leona; she wouldn't talk initially, so since they happened to be in the school girls' room, they told their henchman [[DumbMuscle Lunk]] to [[DiscussedTrope "introduce her to Mr. Swirlie"]]. After he did, they threatened to show her "Mr. Swirlie's downtown office" (which meant a rather filthy toilet) at which point she talked. (This leads to a BrickJoke much later in the episode, where [[spoiler:the heroes find Leona and the villains at the Fountain of Youth; after a fight sequence, the Delightful Children are dumped in it, reducing them to infancy, and Leona calls it "Mr. Swirlie's corporate office".)]]

* The show ''Series/{{Shameless}}'' has Episode 7 beginning with a pair of thugs, (implied to be loan sharks) dunking the main character's head in an already-used toilet. The leader says they would've flushed first if he hadn't tried to run away.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Joker's Millions", Batman tortures the newly wealthy Joker's accountant into divulging the clown's whereabouts by sticking the guy's head in an Iceberg Lounge toilet and flushing. Repeatedly.

* ''[[Film/TheAssignment1997 The Assignment]]'' (1997). The protagonist is interrogated by a terrorist who shoves his head in a toilet bowl while whacking his kidneys with his pistol. Fortunately his handler saw him get taken in there and follows, leading to [[CampingACrapper another trope]].

* In the ''WesternAnimaton/TheLoudHouse'' episode "one of the boys", Luke (Luna's male counterpart from a GenderBender dimension) does this to Lincoln.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has Said ordered by Big Gino to give Arnold the swirlie, which Sid is hesitant to comply to as he deliberately ignores Big Gino's call until the latter finally loses his patience and orders his goons to take Arnold in the restroom and have Sid do the job under his orders. When Sid finally refuses, he ends up swirlied instead and receives a picture of it as punishment for disobeying Gino's order.

* One episode of''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has Said ordered by Big Gino to give Arnold the swirlie, which Sid is hesitant to comply to as he deliberately ignores Big Gino's call until the latter finally loses his patience and orders his goons to take Arnold in the restroom and have Sid do the job under his orders. When Sid finally refuses, he ends up swirlied instead and receives a picture of it as punishment for disobeying Gino's order.

* ''Film/ForcedVengeance''. Creator/ChuckNorris tries to do this to a GiantMook only to [[TheCanKickedHim get the entire toilet thrown at him]].

* In the wrestling story, ''Hello Again'', Wrestling/MollyHolly gives one to Wrestling/{{Natalya}} during their WrestleMania hardcore match in the finale.

* The movie ''CharlieBartlett'' depicts two bathroom bullies dunking him into a dirty toilet about ten minutes in, until a teacher walks in and reprimands them.

* In ''The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict'', a prequel book to the ''Literature/TheMysteriousBenedictSociety'' books focused on, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Nicholas Benedict]], upon his arrival at his latest OrphanageOfFear, Benedict is warned by a kindly boy named John Cole that there's a GangOfBullies called "The Spiders" who have already heard of his arrival and are planning to subject him an "initiation," to be held in one of the orphanage's bathrooms. He figures out pretty quickly that this initiation is this trope or something like it, and being a ChildProdigy several orders of magnitude smarter than any gang of bullies, comes up with a plan on the fly to avoid it. When the bullies encounter him alone in an upstairs hallway, he manages to convince them that the orphanage director is on his way back, but he's already heard about the initiation and he's very excited about it. He tells them he'll be waiting for them at the bathroom the next day, with cookies. Of course, he makes enemies of them, since he most certainly does ''not'' arrive with cookies the next day, but as he explains to John, he felt it was worth it because he'd already been the butt of bullying at several past orphanages and wanted to take a stand.