Miscellaneous: The 17 best peeing scenes in movie history

Everyone pees. It’s a fact of life that you can’t ignore. Because if you do, you’ll die a painful, salty death. But in the world of film, we rarely get to see characters use the bathroom.

Whether it’s because filmmakers feel that a trip to the toilet would slow down the narrative, or because they think it’s just plain gross is a mystery. Still, there are some true artists out there who include peeing scenes in movies.

 

And what a delight they are! Funny peeing scenes have long been a staple of sophomoric comedy films, but a few films have managed to make an art out of pee scenes. If you’re dying to know which films focus on number one, take a big drink of water and check out the best movies where someone pees.

Peeing scenes in films aren’t always comical. Sometimes they serve to let us know what kind of world we’re in. Do characters drink their own pee in this universe? Or are there robots that tell you that you need to change your diet because of your gross pee? Believe it or not, such scenes in A League of Their Own and Billy Madison are actually character building moments. If your interest is piqued, keep reading to learn all about the best pee scenes in the world of film.

1. A League of Their Own

This entire list could have been about Tom Hanks peeing in different places. But his hungover pee party in a women’s locker room full of ladies takes the (urinal) cake.

2. Dumb and Dumber

If you’re not screaming “NO! NO! PLEASE GOD NO!” during the scene in Dumb and Dumber where Lloyd pees in a series of open beer bottles — which are then drunk by Harland Williams — then you’re not a human being.

3. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

For a lot of preteen boys, this VERY LONG scene where Austin Powers wakes up from a deep freeze and pees into a government-sanctioned urinal was about as funny as it gets. What else would you do if you just woke up after 30 years?

4. Billy Madison

After returning to school in order to complete some weird McGuffin so he can take over his father’s business, Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) befriends a nerd who has an embarrassing accident on a school trip. Billy does the only thing he can and convinces the kids that it’s cool to pee your pants.

5. Holy Smoke!

Holy Smoke! is an interesting film (and something of a mess) about a a cult de-programmer who falls in love with a woman that he’s trying to save. In one of the strangest moments of the film, Kate Winslet’s Ruth tries to kiss Harvey Keitel and is rebuffed, so she pees herself. It’s only then that Keitel becomes attracted to her.

(The Bathroom links to this article in which actress Kate Winslet talks about the pee scene on a TV talk show.)

6. True Lies

In just one scene, Bill Paxton manages to steal the whole movie out from under Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Arnold. After the Governator discovers that Paxton has been pretending he’s a spy to flirt with is wife, Arnie does the only thing a man of his caliber can do: he takes Bill Paxton to the top of a building and points a gun in his face until he pees himself. And duh, it results in the best line of the movie: “Would a spy pee himself?”

7. The X-Files: Fight the Future

When you gotta go, you gotta go. Which is exactly what Fox Mulder does in the first X-Files film when he pops into an alley and sprays on a poster for that other alien franchise Independence Day.

8. Step Brothers

Almost every scene the 2008 comedy Step Brothers is chaotic nonsense. This bathroom scene manages to top the insanity of the rest of the movie by having Kathryn Hahn (playing John C. Reill’s step brother’s wife) move from threatening, to horny, to peeing in a urinal with her leg cocked up like an over zealous John Wayne impersonator.

9. Fight Club

When you first get to know the epitome of anarchy that is Tyler Durden, you quickly learn that he doesn’t adhere to any common rules of decency. The guy works in the kitchen of a hotel and pees in the soup! Take that, capitalism.

10. The World’s End

It’s rare that a scene where someone slips in pee is also a major turning point for a character. But somehow Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg turn a scene that could have just been dudes peeing into something funny, sad, and bad ass in just over two minutes.

11. Magnolia

Watching Stanley Spector’s appearance on What Do Kids Know? is like to being sent back to the most embarrassing moment of your childhood. When Stanley tells all of the adults around him that he needs to go to the bathroom during a commercial break, he’s ignored until the show comes back to air and he immediately pees his pants in front of the live studio audience.

12. Hot Fuzz

There’s no such thing as a wasted frame in an Edgar Wright film. This scene includes a shot of Martin Threlfall peeing on a fruit machine, and is full of foreshadowing, clues, and double entendres. Also you get to see Nick Frost stab himself in the eye.

13. Waterworld

Why does Kevin Costner look so comfortable peeing into a jug, pouring that pee into a purifier, and then drinking it? Hopefully this isn’t a case of method acting run amuck.

14. The Island

This shot of Ewan McGregor peeing is just a quick scene in the intro, but can we marvel at the toilet’s ability to tell that he’s had too much sodium? Forget hover boards, that’s the technology the world deserves.

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