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8	->'''Tommy:''' Everybody who's anybody is potty-trained.\
9	'''Chuckie:''' Yup, and I'm an anybody now.
10	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'', the last two lines of the episode "Chuckie vs the Potty"
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12	This is basically a plot which revolves around a child character being toilet trained. There are two reasons the writers might want to play this trope: one is if they want to teach or encourage child viewers/readers/whatever to use the toilet, and the other is just to throw in some ToiletHumour.
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14	The child being toilet trained will either be stubborn and want to stay in diapers forever or will be eager to learn to use the toilet and be a "big kid". They might start off not knowing what the toilet or potty chair is for and do silly things like wear their potty chair as a hat or flush a lot of stuff down the toilet. Expect a PottyEmergency to happen a lot in these types of episodes.
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16	If it's made to encourage children to use the toilet, expect the toilet training process to be amped up as really cool and amazing, with parties for going to the toilet or characters getting all excited and the child being treated as very grown up. Also expect the line "Everyone goes potty, even X" with X being a certain group of people (adults, superheroes, firefighters etc.) and AnAesop about how PottyFailure is [[MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld acceptable]]. In addition, the kid may get a MonikerAsEnticement.
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18	They will also often put emphasis, especially when it's supposed to be educational, on going to the bathroom immediately when you feel you have to, even when you are having fun, a common phrase for this process being "listening to one's body". This is probably due to the fact that real toddlers often put off going to the toilet if they don't want to but end up wetting their pants because they overestimate how long they can wait and have small bladders so they can't hold their pee as much as older people. However, they will often having a hard time describing what having to pee feels like (after all, it is pretty hard to describe), so they will often talk about "a feeling in your tummy" which sounds more like they're describing apprehension or nausea or even just a "funny feeling" which is too general.
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21	!!Examples:
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25	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
26	* ''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.
27	* Early on in the original ''Manga/ChisSweetHome'', both Youhei and Chi are learning not to miss their respective bathrooms, and both have at least one accident before finally getting it.
28	* 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.
29	* ''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.
30	* ''Franchise/HelloKitty'', like Shimajiro, had two toilet training episodes. The first, "Going To The Toilet Alone"[[note]]''Hitori de Toire'' in Japanese[[/note]] involved Hello Kitty being afraid of a toilet monster and refusing to use the bathroom unless Mama is with her. In the second one, "Going To The Bathroom,"[[note]]''Toire ni ikeruyo'' in Japanese[[/note]] Hello Kitty learns to listen to her body and go when she needs to.
31	* The ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi Naisho'' episode "Someone Who Knows The Sorrow ~Pop and Hana's Secret~" is about how Pop thinks she can potty-train Hana-chan by having them switch bodies. After a series of troublesome events, Pop learns that it's best for people to take their time to learn how to go.
32	* 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.
33	* ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'' has quite a few episodes on this topic:
34	** The first was "If You Can Use The Toilet, You're A Pantsman", about Shimajiro learning how to use the toilet. This particular segment became a MemeticMutation. It also got a remake in 2009.
35	** In "Any Toilet Can Be A Piece of Cake!", Shimajiro learns how to use a squat toilet while at the mall. There was a remake of this in 2015, but it was different from the original, which also featured a segment similar to the third example.
36	** A "Do it by yourself!" segment introduces a character called the Pee Bucket, who teaches Shimajiro to go to the bathroom before his bladder is full on a car trip.
37	** A much later episode involving this taught viewers how to make using the toilet after having dinner fun by imagining that you're someplace else.
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40	[[folder:Fan Works]]
41	* ''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 FlashForward that showed Stewie as a teenager ''still not potty trained'', it's clear [[DownerEnding Lois failed]].
42	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LincolnsMemories'': "Lincoln's Potty Training" is about Lincoln learning to use his potty and eventually the proper toilet.
43	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
44	** ''FanFic/PoundAndPumpkinCakesAdventuresAndMisadventuresInPottyTraining'' is a fanfic set a year after the events of the series that revolves around the Cake twins being potty trained. Pumpkin Cake is eager to learn, but Pound Cake isn't.
45	** ''[[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.
46	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12179862/1/Scootaloo-vs-The-Toilet Scootaloo vs. the Toilet]]'', a younger Scootaloo tries to teach herself how to use the toilet during a playdate.
47	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
48	** ''Fanfic/TommyPicklesTheTerribleTwos'' is a fanfic set a year after the show and the first few chapters focus on Tommy being potty-trained.
49	** 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 [[BabysFirstWords first word]], [[spoiler: a BigYes]], upon successfully using the potty on his own.
50	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12027481/1/Kimi-s-Potty-Training Kimi's Potty Training]]'' focuses on how Kimi got potty trained.
51	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11987871/1/The-Potty-Training-Experience The Potty Training Experience]]'' shows how Zack, an OriginalCharacter, potty trained himself.
52	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10478145/1/No-More-Diapies No More Diapies]]'', Tommy, now two, is being toilet trained, but he keeps wetting himself when he tries to go on adventures, so he worries he'll have to give it up.
53	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9351653/1/The-Two-Year-Old-Angelica-Stories The Two-Year-Old Angelica Stories]]'', the chapter "Potty Training Antics" focuses on Drew and Charlotte trying to potty train Angelica. Unfortunately, Drew tries a LaxativePrank.
54	* ''Fanfic/UsAndThem'': The side story "Right Lesson, Wrong Time" has this as a minor point, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Aeris and Sephiroth's]] son Sam needs to use the potty, but most of the story is spent trying to convince his older brother to let him in the bathroom. After finally being let into the bathroom, Sam [[PottyFailure misses the potty]].
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57	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
58	* 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]].
59	* The 1991 film, ''Film/ItsPottyTime'' focuses on learning to use the toilet during Bobby's fourth birthday. Bobby's younger sister, Katy, tries to use the toilet near the beginning, Bobby's friend Lizzie uses the toilet before she goes to Bobby's birthday party, and Bobby and several of his friends have a PottyEmergency during the party, with a clown escorting them to the bathroom.
60	* ''Film/LookWhosTalking Too'' had a subplot where Mikey got toilet trained, during which, at one point, a talking toilet shows up.
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63	[[folder:Literature]]
64	* ''Literature/DashLearnsLifeSkills'':
65	** In "Dash Decides Going Potty is Awesome", Dash learns not to procrastinate with using the bathroom.
66	** In "Dash's Potty Accidents", his mother helps him through a regression in his potty training.
67	* ''Diapers are Not Forever'' is part of a series of preschool books, all titled a variation on "X is/are Not For Y", and it explains about how children don't wear diapers forever.
68	* In ''Don't Go There!'', a little girl gets a visit from a baby Martian, but since there are no toilets on Mars, he poops and pees everywhere. The girl teaches him how to go to the toilet with a song.
69	* There's a children's book called ''Duck Goes Potty'', which focuses on a duck learning to use the toilet.
70	* ''Goldilocks and the Three Potties'' is about Goldilocks from ''Literature/GoldilocksAndTheThreeBears'' as a toddler during her potty training.
71	* ''How to Pee'' actually has two versions: one for boys and one for girls, and is meant to teach the reader various ways to pee, including "freestyle" (NatureTinkling) and "mommy style" (boys peeing sitting down while impersonating their moms).
72	* ''How to Potty Train Your Monster'' offers numerous funny reversals on this part (i.e. a regular sized toilet being ''too small'' for the monster).
73	* In ''How to Potty Train Your Porcupine'', two kids adopt a pet porcupine, but their mother refuses to let them keep her unless she's housebroken. Since she's [[ShyBladder too shy to go outside]], diapers don't work because of her spikes, the cat won't let her use the litterbox, and she wants to read the newspaper instead of pooping or peeing on it, the kids decide to potty train her.
74	* ''[=KoKo=] Bear's New Potty'' is about an [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic]] polar bear named [=KoKo=] learning to use a potty chair and eventually the toilet.
75	* The ''Literature/LittleCritter'' book "The New Potty" is about the titular character's younger sister being potty trained.
76	* ''Literature/LittlePrincess'': "I Want My Potty" focuses on the Princess learning to use her potty chair.
77	* ''[[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 Muppet Babies]]'' books:
78	** "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.
79	** "I Can Go Potty" focuses on Baby Kermit being potty-trained.
80	* A variation in the kids' book ''No More Diapers for Ducky'': the book focuses on two FunnyAnimal children Ducky and Piggy. Ducky visits Piggy and finds him sitting on the potty and thinks it looks cool so she just potty-trains ''herself'' by deciding "No more diapers for ducky", taking off her diaper and using the potty chair.
81	* The 1975 book ''Literature/OnceUponAPotty'' by Alona Frankel focuses on Joshua (for boys) and Prudence (for girls) learning to use their potties. An animated DirectToVideo [[WesternAnimation/OnceUponAPotty adaptation of the book]] was released in 1990.
82	* ''Literature/PeekABooPoo'': The plot of the book is that Alfie's parents are trying to get him to use his kiddie potty, and in the next book, they're trying to do the same with Heidi.
83	* In a kids' book named ''Potty'', a little boy is learning to use his potty chair but he doesn't want to. Eventually, he does.
84	* 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, [[NatureTinkling 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 would know.
85	* There are two books called ''The Potty Book for Girls'' and ''The Potty Book for Boys'', which focus on two children named Henry (the boy) and Hannah (the girl) learning to use their potty chairs.
86	%%* ''Potty Palooza: a Step-by-Step Guide to Using a Potty''.
87	* The children's book ''Potty, Poo-Poo, Wee-Wee'' focuses on a young dinosaur named Littlesaurus who is being potty trained but won't use his potty chair for its intended purpose (he uses it in other ways instead) and won't stop singing ToiletHumour songs in public. [[spoiler:He does use his potty at the end though.]]
88	%%* ''Potty Train Your Dragon'' by Steve Herman.
89	* ''The Princess and the Potty'' focuses on a royal couple trying to potty train their stubborn daughter.
90	* ''Series/SesameStreet'' books:
91	** "Too Big for Diapers" focuses on Ernie as a child when he was being potty trained.
92	** In "No More Diapers!", Betty Lou tells her doll the story of what happened when she started using the potty and wearing underpants.
93	** In "Potty Time with Elmo", Elmo teaches his doll, Baby David, how to use the potty.
94	** "Potty Time With Abby" focuses on Abby Cadabby learning to use the potty. Since Abby's a young fairy, the book includes Abby's trademark mistake of turning things into pumpkins (in this case, the toilet) in addition to the usual mistake of not always making it to the potty in time.
95	* ''Literature/TimeTo'': "Time to Pee!" is about learning what to do if you need to pee.
96	* ''You Can Go to the Potty'' is a kids' book which teaches how to use the bathroom in steps.
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99	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
100	* ''Series/FullHouse'' had an episode called "Jingle Hell", in which the B-plot involved Danny trying to potty-train Michelle after believing she was interested in the toilet after saying, "poo-poo".
101	* In the ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' episode "Let's Potty", Amy attempts to potty-train Charlie to get her into a good preschool and the only way to get Charlie to use the bathroom is if she watches a ShowWithinAShow called "The Glurgles". Charlie then flushes her bath toys down the toilet, causing it to clog and Bob to cause a blackout in his attempt to fix it.
102	* ''Series/InaiInaiBaa'' has three songs about this, which are sung by U-Tan and her toilet and potty seat friends Benki and Omarun:
103	** The first, "Toire ni Ittoire", was used in the Fuuka-chan era and was about how refreshing it is to poop in the toilet.
104	** 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.
105	** 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.
106	** 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.
107	* The first half of one 1998 episode of ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' had Mister Rogers read a book to the audience that he wrote about using the potty, and then shows them the difference between a potty and a toilet. While he is in the bathroom, he remembers a game he used to play with coins while waiting on the toilet, and concludes the segment by singing "You Can Never Go Down The Drain".
108	* ''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.]]
109	* ''Series/{{Supernanny}}'':
110	** In "The Van Acker Family", Jo helps Jessica and Kevin potty-train 3-year-old Dylan, who does everything in his power to avoid using the potty and wearing big-boy underwear.
111	** In "The Evans Family", Jo helps Gary potty-train 3-year-old Dylan. It is revealed in that episode that Gary's wife, Jennifer, had potty-trained Michael and Sean before she died, and because Gary was not a part of their potty-training, he isn't sure how to potty-train Dylan.
112	* In the ''Series/YesDear'' episode "Who's On First?", Jimmy and Christine potty-train their son Logan through NatureTinkling, which inspires Greg and Kim to start potty-training Sammy in a more civilized way. After several unsuccessful attempts while Logan is potty-trained in three days, Greg decides to potty-train Sammy with Jimmy and Christine's method behind Kim's back.
113	* Implied/discussed in ''Series/YoungSheldon'' S1 E7, where Sheldon says that Georgie was still struggling with potty training at 6 or 7 years old, to the point where Connie called him "Mr. Soggy Pants".
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116	[[folder:Music]]
117	* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMitc2fnVX4 Potty Song Blues]] focuses on a child who's being potty trained and wonders why NatureTinkling is not allowed.
118	* The Auntie Poo CD "Potty Animals" is about potty training and covers topics like worrying about using the toilet to poop and pee and even what can and can't be flushed down the toilet.
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121	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
122	* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': Downplayed in the episode ''When You've Got To Go!''. Tutter, Treelo and Ojo are already sort of potty-trained but they have questions about the bathroom and Ojo still has accidents.
123	* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'': In "[[Recap/DinosaursS03E01NatureCalls Nature Calls]]", Earl Sinclair tries unsuccessfully to potty-train Baby to get out of having to change diapers.
124	* ''Series/SesameStreet'': The DirectToVideo special "Elmo's Potty Time" focuses on Curly Bear being potty trained, and Elmo and Prairie Dawn are shown potty-training in {{Flashback}}s.
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127	[[folder:Theatre]]
128	* In ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel'', Draco Malfoy gets a subplot of learning to use the potty.
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131	[[folder:Toys]]
132	* A doll by Playmates, Amazing Amanda, had potty training as one of the things you could do with the doll.
133	* Three incarnations of Baby Alive (Talking Baby Alive, Baby Alive Learns To Potty, and Potty Dance Baby) focused on potty training.
134	* Playmates' Potty Dotty doll was a toy that taught kids to use the bathroom that came with cat-shaped accessories.
135	* [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Ready For Potty Baby Dora]] was basically a gender-flipped version of Potty Elmo, with the only difference being that she did not have accidents at all.
136	* [[Series/SesameStreet Potty Elmo]], a doll depicting a baby Elmo from Sesame Street, is a toy that gets re-made every 5 years and has magnet sensors that detect his sippy cup and potty, which trigger drinking noises and success and accident songs, respectively.
137	* Potty Monkey is a potty-training aid that's a hybrid of a plush doll and a timer for toilet-training. He's also the mascot for the company who made him, [=PottyMD=], who turned the toy into a series of three online shorts in 2018 on [=YouTube=]. One of them, "Monkey Learns To Potty", got nearly two million views in the span of a year.
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140	[[folder:Video Games]]
141	* The app ''Learning With the Animals'' focuses on a boy and a girl learning to use the toilet and several animals learning to use their equivalent of toilets (the cat uses the litter box etc).
142	* One app has the animated story ''Potty, Potty'' about a boy named Tommy getting over his fear of the toilet so he can potty train.
143	* ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' and ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' feature the toddler life stage. Toddlers need to be toilet trained, not only for practical reasons, but because it's required if you want to control which traits your toddler gets when he or she ages up and becomes a child.
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146	[[folder:Web Animation]]
147	* ''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.
148	* ''WebAnimation/BadArnie'' has a song called "Potty Dance" which teaches the monkey where not to pee.
149	* In the ''[[WebAnimation/ShutUpCartoons Smosh Babies]]'' episode, "Potty Training", Anthony starts using the toilet. When Ian and his friends find out, they exile him to the playground. Towards the end of the episode, Anthony [[PottyFailure wets his pants]] in front of Penny, [[TerribleTrio Lenny, Bruce, and Melvin]] and [[StatusQuoIsGod goes back to wearing diapers]].
150	* The online animated story ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri5RHQ58RcM Tom's Toilet Triumph]]'' is about a boy named Tom learning to use the toilet.
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153	[[folder:Web Original]]
154	* ''Website/FlowGo'' has several animations of babies singing. In one of them, a demanding baby is being potty-trained (despite looking too young) and sings a parody of "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To". In another, a baby has an accident and sings about it to the tune of "Mama Mia".
155	* ''Website/ParentingDotCom'' (along with ''Website/AhaParenting'' and other parenting websites) has several articles relating to potty training.
156	* The website ''Pull-Ups.com'' has advice on how to teach kids to use the bathroom and splits them into personality types named after animals: puppy (energetic, positive, and focused), squirrel (energetic and positive but easily distracted), owl (analytical), turtle (shy) and bear cub (positive but a bit apathetic).
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159	[[folder:Web Videos]]
160	* 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.
161	* In the video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLwGZERpkm0 Superhero Basics: Potty Training,]]'' ''Franchise/TheAvengers'' teach kids how to use the toilet.
162	* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'':
163	** In "Bowser Junior Gets Potty Trained!", Junior [[EmbarrassingDampSheets wets his bed]] and is unable to properly use the toilet so Bowser forces him to wear diapers. Joseph and Cody tease Junior for wearing diapers, but Toad actually thinks he's cool for wearing them and teaches him to use the toilet with a rap song.
164	** In "Jeffy Gets Potty Trained!", Mario is sick of changing Jeffy's diapers (especially since he's way past the normal potty-training age) and so he and Rosaline try unsuccessfully to potty-train him. Jeffy doesn't poop in the toilet but does poop in the sink and the bathtub. Eventually, Mario and Rosaline train Jeffy to use the litter box.
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167	[[folder:Western Animation]]
168	* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'':
169	** 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."
170	** Six years later, another pair of episodes played about how even if you don't need to go to the bathroom, you should try to go anyway.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
172	** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E4BrianInLove Brian in Love]]", Peter tries to toilet train Stewie after he thought he'd peed on the rug when it was actually Brian. In the same episode, there's a gag where Charles Lindbergh tries to potty-train his six-month-old son but the baby gets flushed down the toilet, so Charles lies that the boy was kidnapped.
173	** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E13BillAndPetersBogusJourney Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey]]", there's a B-plot where Lois is sick of stepping in Brian's poop so she tries to teach him to use the toilet like the others. Stewie unsuccessfully tries to potty train him with a video and when he tries to poop in the yard, Lois forces him to wear diapers. At the end, it looks like Brian is fully potty-trained but instead he's been pooping in the mayor's yard.
174	* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePeopleEgmont'' 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.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "[[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.]]
176	* ''The Magic Bowl'', a children's animated movie, featured three toddlers named Jennifer, Cindy and Sammy Jo getting potty-trained. In this story, the toilets and diapers [[AnimateInanimateObject can]] [[ToiletHumour talk]].
177	* The DirectToVideo cartoon adaptation of Alona Franken's famous potty training book: ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAPotty''.
178	* A variation in the ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'' episode "The Potty Problem", where they try to potty train an alien called Big Mouth, who needs to be potty trained because on his planet, they don't have toilets.
179	* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' has an episode called "Potty Training", in which George learns to use the potty.
180	* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':
181	** In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E2ChuckieVsThePottyTogetherAtLast Chuckie vs the Potty]]", Chuckie gets potty trained.
182	** In "[[Recap/RugratsS4E11PottyTrainingSpikeTheArtFair Potty Training Spike]]", Chuckie moves from the potty chair to the proper toilet. The babies try unsuccessfully to toilet-train Spike the dog when they get told NatureTinkling is unacceptable.
183	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS2E9HennyYoungmanDay Henny Youngman Day]]" the segment "The Potty Years" has a FlashBack of a young Plucky Duck learning to use the toilet but he's more interested in [[FunWithFlushing flushing various items down it]]. Interestingly, this short was [[WriteWhatYouKnow based off Tom Reuegger's experience toilet-training his son]], where the exact same thing happened in a hotel room they stayed in on vacation.
184	* ''WesternAnimation/WinstonsPottyChair'' is an animated short from 1990, focusing on [[MrImagination an imaginative little boy]] named Winston and his friend Molly as they learn to use their potties.
185	* ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'': "Save The Puppy!" is a pet variant of this; a puppy, with a PottyEmergency, is described as ready to go outside, "like a big dog".
186	* ''Wonkidos'': "Going Potty" focuses on teaching kids (and Evan) how to use the toilet.
187	* ''WesternAnimation/WordParty'' has "Hey, Have You Heard? It's The Word Potty!", in which the babies potty-train Franny and teach her words related to the toilet-training process.
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