Even cartoon characters have to use the bathroom every now and then. Of course, when they do, they use really bizarre ones.

Patton’s Toilet

Hank Hill spent a lot of King of the Hill dealing with Cotton, his cantankerous father. When Cotton dies in a 2009 episode, Hank mist fulfill his father’s list of crazy final wishes, including having his cremains flushed down a toilet once owned by World War II general George S. Patton. Hank and his friends eventually manage to track down the toilet and fulfill Cotton¹s unusual request. Wish granted.

O.T.: The Outside Toilet

In a 2013 episode of Fox’s Bob Burgers, Gene, the hapless middle Belcher child, discovers a high-tech, futuristic toilet in the woods near his home, that apparently fell off a truck. He befriends the HAL-like toilet, which talks (with a voice provided by Mad Men’s Jon Hamm), and he keeps it supplied, or fed, with plenty of bottled water. When Gene learns that a mysterious “toilet hunter” is determined to take away his newfound buddy, he teams up with his sisters and a few friends to keep it safe, all in a toilet-centric parody of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.

The Toilet Safety Administration

In a 2012 episode of South Park, an organization called the Toilet Safety Administration (or TSA) enacts a series of excessive regulations on every commode in America after a fatal accident leads to the death of a character. The new rules force everyone on the show to use safety harnesses while on the toilet and even install security cameras in their bathrooms. The episode culminates in the spectral appearance by the ghost of John Harrington, inventor of the flush toilet, who tells everyone they’ve been using their toilets wrong.

The Clockwise Toilet

In the 1994 The Simpsons episode “Bart vs. Australia,” the family visits Australia. At the American Embassy, Homer discovers a sophisticated toilet capable of reversing the Coriolis Effect, the misconception that says that water in toilets in the Southern Hemisphere flush counter-clockwise, unlike in the Northern Hemisphere). Physics must work differently in the fictional world of The Simpsons, though. After watching the toilet in action, Homer sings “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” while wiping a tear from his eye.