History Main / ToiletTrainingPlot

* Three incarnations of Baby Alive, Talking Baby Alive Baby Alive Learns To Potty, and Potty Dance Baby focused on potty training.

* Two incarnations of Baby Alive, Talking Baby Alive and Baby Alive Learns To Potty, focused on potty-traning.

[[caption-width-right:350:Make sure ''all'' the [[{{Pun}} P]] gets in the potty.]]

* One of the segments in the DirectToVideo ''Cinnamoroll'' anime DVD ''Cinnamoroll's At-Home Challenge'' [[note]] "Cinnamon no Ouchi de Charenji" in Japanese [[/note]], "Can You Use The Toilet?" [[note]] "Toire dekirukana?" in Japanese [[/note]] by Creator/{{Sanrio}}, involves the characters teaching a baby rabbit how to use the bathroom with a song that goes through all the steps. The live-action segment following this, "Come And Meet Toilet-Kun" [[note]] "Ainikitte Toirekun" in Japanese[[/note]] involves a group of kids, their mom and Cinnamoroll playing RockPaperScissors and being interrupted by the titular character after they notice Cinnamoroll is having a PottyEmergency. His song goes through the steps of using the toilet.
* The ''Anime/PanpakaPants'' character began life as an anime short that had a downplayed version of this trope. The pigs in the short are learning how to wear underwear after being trained, but seem to not know how to wear them properly at first. There are also two ''Toilet Time'' shorts featuring the main character, Panpaka, learning how to pee and poop in the toilet.
* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' episode 1355, "It's Time For Toilet-Training", is about the Noharas trying to toilet-train Himawari by using a potty. However, she mistakes it for a toy instead of using it for its' intended purpose.
* ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' has multiple picture books relating to the topic of using the toilet and segments in {{Edutainment}} {{OVA}}s that cover the topic as well, though they're downplayed as many of them simply regard using the toilet in time or before going out.

* ''FanFic/PoundAndPumpkinCakesAdventuresAndMisadventuresInPottyTraining'' is a fanfic set a year after the events of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' that revolves around the Cake twins being potty trained. Pumpkin Cake is eager to learn, but Pound Cake isn't.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12179850/1/Rainbow-Dash-vs-The-Toilet Rainbow Dash vs the Toilet]]'' focuses on Princess Luna, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie (and Big Macintosh but he's not the main focus) as young foals trying to learn to use the toilet.
* ''Fanfic/TommyPicklesTheTerribleTwos'' is a fanfic set a year after ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats|1991}}'' and the first few chapters focus on Tommy being potty-trained.
* Speaking of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats|1991}}'' fanfiction, the first chapter of ''Fanfic/TheJoysAndSorrowsOfYoungCharlesFinster'' is a WholePlotReference to "Chuckie vs. the Potty," this time with Chas [[GenerationXerox getting potty-trained at the age of two]]. Not only is this stated to be Chas' first memory; he says his first word, [[spoiler: a BigYes]], upon successfully using the potty on his own.

* One segment of ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath,'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmMebE0pIg "T IS FOR TOILET,"]] concerns a young boy trying to move on to a proper toilet. Given the title of the film it's part of, [[{{Gorn}} things don't end well]].

* In the Hope Vestergaard book ''Potty Animals: What to Know When You've Got to Go'', some preschooler-aged FunnyAnimal children named [[ThePigPen Wilbur]] the hedgehog, [[NosyNeighbor Wilma]] the pig, [[AcademicAthlete Arnold]] the crocodile, [[LovableCoward Freddie]] the rabbit, [[BookWorm Helga]] the duck, [[TheBigGuy Benji]] the lemur, [[TheLoad Roxanne]] the hippo, [[TakeAThirdOption Stanley]] the tiger, [[CloudCuckooLander Sukey]] the raccoon, [[ThePigPen Georgie]] the bear, [[ChildrenAreInnocent Farley]] the anteater, [[NiceMice Agnes]] the mouse, and [[NeatFreak Ziggy]] learn {{Aesop}}s like "go to the bathroom before bed" and "do up your zipper after going to the bathroom". It's sort of a DownplayedTrope because the kids are already out of diapers, but still need to learn things about the bathroom that adults wouldn't know.

* ''Potty Palooza: a Step-by-Step Guide to Using a Potty''.
* ''Potty Train Your Dragon'' by Steve Herman.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 Muppet Babies]]'' books:
** "Bye-Bye Diapers" focuses on Baby Piggy's desire to be potty-trained when she finds wearing diapers to be too uncomfortable for her to handle.
** "I Can Go Potty" focuses on Baby Kermit being potty-trained.
* ''Literature/TimeTo'': "Time to Pee!" is about learning what to do if you need to pee.
* The ''Literature/LittleCritter'' book The New Potty is about the titular character's younger sister being potty trained.

* ''Series/InaiInaiBaa'' has three songs about this, which are sung by U-Tan and her toilet and potty seat friends Benki and Omarun:
** The first, "Toire ni Ittoire", was used in the Fuuka-chan era and was about how refreshing it is to poop in the toilet.
** The second, "Toire de su~", is about peeing in the toilet. It began being used in the Koto-chan era and still airs as a regular segment to this day.
** The third is "Toire yoitoko yottoire", involves Benki and Omarun singing about the job they have, with U-Tan coming in soon afterward to use the bathroom. It only appeared during the Yuuna-chan and Yuki-chan eras.
** Before U-Tan came around, the puppet character Kuu also had two animated segments about potty training: "Gattan Omaru no Densha", where Kuu imagines [[StealthPun a potty as a train]], and "Chii Shichao", a song about peeing.
* ''Series/OkaasanToIssho'' had a series of animated shorts that aired on the program in the early 2000's called ''Pants Pankuro'' which covered a variety of subjects related to toilet-training, such as how to use different styles of toilets, [[PottyFailure having accidents]] and [[EmbarrassingDampSheets bedwetting.]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{Cocomelon}}'': “Cocomelon Sing-Along Kids’ Favorites” has a song in it that mentions using the potty. It references what to do when you get a “funny feeling way down low”. In this short episode J.J. learns from his older brother how to use the potty and J.J. gets a pair of underwear at the end of the episode.

* In the last episode of ''WebVideo/Par9'', Rodney and Berry try to teach Noah how to properly use a urinal, though they give conflicting advice.

* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'': Downplayed in "Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty" and "Daniel Goes to the Potty". Prince Wednesday and Daniel are already potty-trained but they still learn the show's {{Aesop}}, which is "don't wait until your need to go to the bathroom becomes a PottyEmergency, or it might progress to PottyFailure."

* The DirectToVideo cartoon adaptation of Alona Franken's famous potty training book: ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAPotty''.

* ''Website/FamilyGuyFanon'': "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Play_on_Turds A Play on Turds]]"' B-Plot is centered on Lois trying to potty train Stewie after public taunting with Stewie shoving his diaper in Lois' face. By the end, Lois attempts defeat and puts Stewie back in diapers after Stewie has terrifying nightmare about toilets and wakes up in a drenched bed and then had an accident on the floor. Lois hopes he'll be ready one day, but judging by the FlashFoward that showed Stewie as a teenager ''still not potty trained'', it's clear [[DownerEnding Lois failed]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePeople'' has an episode called "Potty Ahoy!" which is a downplayed example. In it, Jack needs to use the potty while waiting to hear the whale's song, but doesn't want to miss out on hearing it. He later realizes that it's difficult for him to learn when to go to the bathroom.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode, "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS5E1Schooled Schooled!]]", Lily gets kicked out of preschool for pooping her pants, so Lynn Sr. and Rita try unsuccessfully to get her fully potty-trained. [[spoiler:Near the end of the special, it is revealed that Lily knows well how to use the potty, but deliberately pooped her pants because she wasn't ready to go to preschool, and wanted to stay home with her parents. She changes her mind when Leni shows her the fun things preschool has to offer, like finger-painting and trampolines.]]

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', the last two lines of the episode "Chuckie vs the Potty"

* ''Fanfic/TommyPicklesTheTerribleTwos'' is a fanfic set a year after ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and the first few chapters focus on Tommy being potty-trained.
* Speaking of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' fanfiction, the first chapter of ''Fanfic/TheJoysAndSorrowsOfYoungCharlesFinster'' is a WholePlotReference to "Chuckie vs. the Potty," this time with Chas [[GenerationXerox getting potty-trained at the age of two]]. Not only is this stated to be Chas' first memory; he says his first word, [[spoiler: a BigYes]], upon successfully using the potty on his own.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':

* ''Cocomelon'': “Cocomelon Sing-Along Kids’ Favorites” has a song in it that mentions using the potty. It references what to do when you get a “funny feeling way down low”. In this short episode J.J. learns from his older brother how to use the potty and J.J. gets a pair of underwear at the end of the episode.

* ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' has multiple picture books relating to the topic of using the toilet and segments in edutainment OVAs that cover the topic as well, though they're downplayed as many of them simply regard using the toilet in time or before going out.

* ''Wonkidos'': "Going Potty".

* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePeople'' has an episode called "Potty Ahoy!" which is another downplayed example. In it, Jack needs to use the potty while waiting to hear the whale's song, but doesn't want to miss out on hearing it. He later realizes that it's difficult for him to learn when to go to the bathroom.

* ‘’Cocomelon’’: “Cocomelon Sing-Along Kids’ Favorites” has a song in it that mentions using the potty. It references what to do when you get a “funny feeling way down low”. In this short episode J.J. learns from his older brother how to use the potty and J.J. gets a pair of underwear at the end of the episode.

* ‘’Cocomelon’’: Cocomelon Sing-Along Kids’ Favorites has a song in it that mentions using the potty. It references what to do when you get a “funny feeling way down low”. In this short episode J.J. learns from his older brother how to use the potty and J.J. gets a pair of underwear at the end of the episode.