Basic Trope: Things that aren't toilet paper used as toilet paper.
- Straight: While backpacking in the wilderness, Alice relieves herself behind a bush and then uses leaves as toilet paper.
- Exaggerated: Alice somehow manages to use a tree as toilet paper.
- Downplayed: Alice uses something that somewhat resembles toilet paper as toilet paper.
- Justified:
- Alice is following Leave No Trace principles, which say that you should do this rather than leave toilet paper lying around.
- Alice didn't have any toilet paper with her for whatever reason.
- Toilet paper wasn't invented yet.
- It's all it's good for.
- Alice still needs to shower after going to the toilet… so why waste time/energy on wiping when the shower will take care of that just as if not easier?
- Inverted: Alice uses toilet paper for something other than the usual (kindling, writing material, bandage, etc.).
- Subverted: Alice's stomach rumbles and she starts picking leaves off a bush. Bob realizes what she needs them for and offers her a toilet roll instead.
- Double Subverted: But she declines to use it, because it's not eco-friendly.
- Parodied: Alice uses Bob as toilet paper.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody Poops or if they do, they have no trouble finding toilet paper.
- Enforced: The creators want to include Toilet Humor, but the show is set in a time and/or place where actual toilets are rare.
- Lampshaded:Alice: "Dang it, I'm out of toilet paper! Looks like I'm going to use something else..."
- Invoked: Alice asks Bob for a blank page from his journal to use as toilet paper, but she actually wants to use it to get a Writing Indentation Clue about what he's up to.
- Exploited: Alice is a spy going through the enemy's latrines, knowing that they're low on toilet paper and may be using classified documents instead.
- Defied: Alice carries a huge supply of toilet paper with her to make sure she never runs out.
- Discussed: "Hey, what is Alice using right now?"
- Conversed: "I bet Alice is going to have to use something else as toilet paper at this point."
- Implied: Alice walks out of the bushes buttoning her pants, and at the same time Bob complains that the last page of the book he's reading is missing.
- Deconstructed: Alice uses poison ivy leaves as toilet paper. It doesn't end well.
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