Our contacts in Hollywood keep sending us promotional material and all kinds of bribes, so we decided to make another "It's the Arts!", thus making millions for ourselves and the movie corporations.
It's the Arts! 22.1:
The Movies
Zack and Miri make a Porno
We expected a lot more WCs in this film, given that the adolescent comedy genre is one of the genres with the highest percentage of WC appearances. We were, however, greatly disappointed. This may not be such a bad thing, though, as the way WCs are portrayed in this kind of films is rather silly and one-dimentional. Cheap laughs galore for the brainless crowds. The only WC appearance in the film is the one we can see above, where Zack has to use toilet water to wash Miri's hair after the water is shut off in their apartment. Instead of silly toilet jokes, the film satisfies its target population by using the word "fuck" a lot.
Ariel
The finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki makes excellent films about people who find themselves in less than ideal conditions in life, depressing in a very funny way. Here's a scene from Ariel (1988) where Taisto Kasurinen is preparing to break out from jail. Behind him, the prison WC with Taisto's Birthday cake on it.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The lady needs to call her little son because the world is about to come to an end, and cellphone coverage will likely be harder to find. Untill then, what better place to say good bye than inside a WC cubicle?
Step Brothers
Sword fight between Ferrell and Reilly
On this picture, the lady takes a whizz after having sex in the men's roomStep Brothers is another one of those films you rent only because it's likely to show a lot of WCs, but in the end it did not have a lot of them. Shame on the filmmakers.
The Cottage
Close-up picture of blond girl with big tits tied up and sitting on the toilet with her pants on her knees. That description should get a lot of our googling, fellow human beings to visit our blog.
In "Role Models", they intend to make us laugh by implying that it's possible to urinate a green liquid if you drink too much of a green energy drink. According to the algoritmical IWCRP scientific standards measuring the objective funniness of WC related jokes, this is a cheap joke.
In
Rendition, Jake Gyllenhaal is a CIA agent whose task is to spy on middle eastern women in the bathroom. Of course, it all goes wrong and he ends up fleeing the country with a mentally unstable man.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
The young lady depicted above has an accident during her visit to a bus station WC, and has to do the Trainspotting Trick in order to retrieve her cellphone and her chewing gum.
Milk
It's well known that public bathrooms is a favourite concept amongst homosexual men. In Milk, Sean Penn's character visits a WC with no less than three urinals placed within arms length of each other.
Martyrs
Yet another film with sadistic torture as its main ingredient. We're used to watching torture now and want to see interesting WCs instead.
Martyrs goes wild with the torture, but the basic idea of the film (why all these people are being mistreated) is just so damn silly that when you find out, it feels more terrible and disturbing than having to watch 99 minutes of meaningless violence.
Das Leben der Anderen
A great film, this one, despite its bizarre lack of WCs. The IWCRP board of filmexperts finds it exceedingly hard to believe a story involving only one not very visible WC for 137 minutes.
La Zona
A good Mexican film with Mexican themes like social segregation, corruption and WCs.
Gone Baby Gone
The title refers to this scene, where the man is playing hide and seek in the dark with his WC. As we can observe, both the man and the WC are practically invisible; they appear to be "gone". Clever.
Fatso
This scene from the Norwegian film
Fatso shows a lovely decorated Norwegian bathroom and a man who, judging by the outfit, appears to be this great nation's king.
Evan Almighty
Despite some slightly funny scenes and a WC, this film is just way too eager to please stupid children and their easily offended religious parents. God is portrayed as a friendly old man who does not mind dancing a silly dance with Steve Carrell, who for some reason dances the silly dance a million times throughout the film, the problem is that it's not funny silly, it's stupid and annoying silly. The film is just another boring, moralistic family values flick, and leaves the comic potential of a man talking to god completely untouched. If you want a seriously good film based on biblical references, The Life of Brian is still number one. Amen.
Dear Zachary
Incredibly sad and enfuriating documentary of a death foretold. A filmmaker decides to memorialize a murdered friend when his friend's ex-girlfriend announces she is expecting his son. From there on, everything goes to hell, big time.
Dogs and Toilets 1:
Gran Torino
Gran Torino is about this dog's search for a drink of water. As we can see in the background, his first choice of water source has a lid on it, so he looks into the bathtub and finds a naked, old and grumpy Clint Eastwood soaking in what is clearly unfit as drinking water.
Dogs and Toilets 2:
Bolt
Well made film with a more intelligent approach to WC related jokes than usual.
Appaloosa
Appaloosa was the wild west's
prequel to Lollapaloosa and other modern day music festivals, where there are no rules except that you have to piss where you stand in order not to lose your spot by the bar.It's the Arts! 22.2:
The Series
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad is one of our favourite series of all times, all the way up there with
the Sopranos. A very good script, excellent direction and actors and, most importantly, plenty of WCs. The toilets' function is similar to the one they had in Pulp Fiction; that of being an ominous sign. Nothing good ever happens near a WC in Breaking Bad, not as much as a healthy fart.
30 Rock
Tina Fey accurately portraying the WCs place in today's popular culture. Like the fake nose, the rubber chicken and the ugly suspenders, the WC is often used as something you can simply show people for a cheap laugh, no need for intelligent humour.
The Simpsons
A classic which needs no further comments.
Two and a Half Men
Although it's getting predictable and Jake's not cute any more, Two and a Half Men is still a decent way to waste half an hour on the couch.
It's the Arts! 22.3:Unknown SoldiersFor our 22nd edition of It's the Arts! we hired 273 japanese workaholics to see through as many films as possible for eight months in order to identify the unknown soldiers. Nevertheless, two pictures were returned unidentified. This, of course, is a great shame in japanese culture. We have sent 273 pencils and pencil sharpeners to Japan in order to show that there are no hard feelings despite their shameful failure.
As always, we'll give $10.000 to whoever manages to identify the films from which these pictures are taken.
Las Cañitas is a classic, one of the places where we learned to drink back in the 20th century. Although the bar is currently under a different administration, the atmosphere is much the same as always, its main ingredients consisting of heavy metal, a friendly clientele and bamboo walls. It's located about 700 m north of la municipalidad de Tres Rios, the sign says "Bar Villalobos".
"Let's paint the urinal fuchsia. Men love fuchsia."
The gentleman chucking down his beer on the left of the picture did not agree on the billed amount, as he claimed he could not possibly have had that 13th beer. Loud arguing was the result.
Classic decor
Bathroom detail
Ladies' room. Kudos to MJ for risking her life taking this picture.
According to the IWCRP counter statistics, a lot of people visit our blog after having googled phrases like "WC porn". Well, here it is: a naked lady in the bathroom. Pubes and all. Enjoy.
Erick's Copas, formerly known as la Araucana, is one of few decent options for the thirsty around the University of Costa Rica. Over the past couple of decades, large, noisy, crowded bars with a very young and silly clientele have taken over la calle de la amargura, where students traditionally went to seek inspiration.
Not much to say about El Rinconcito, it's one of those bars that simply appear in the right place at the right time for a little beer. Not a place we would actively look for again, nor one we would do anything to avoid.
Lovely decoration
Bar with mirrors, fruits and slutty looking, inefficient girls.
WC with a barrel of disinfectant on top
Classic chinchorro exterior
Classic chinchorro ladies' room, sealed off with a padlock. 
Classic chinchorrero. Friendly and not exceedingly sober.
From the outside, El Cruce appears to be a classic hole in the wall.
On the inside, El Cruce is not much more fun than visiting terminally ill elders in the hospital.
Archive photo, not taken at Oporto. WC at el Oporto is filthier.
We expected a lot more WCs in this film, given that the adolescent comedy genre is one of the genres with the highest percentage of WC appearances. We were, however, greatly disappointed. This may not be such a bad thing, though, as the way WCs are portrayed in this kind of films is rather silly and one-dimentional. Cheap laughs galore for the brainless crowds. The only WC appearance in the film is the one we can see above, where Zack has to use toilet water to wash Miri's hair after the water is shut off in their apartment. Instead of silly toilet jokes, the film satisfies its target population by using the word "fuck" a lot.
The finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki makes excellent films about people who find themselves in less than ideal conditions in life, depressing in a very funny way. Here's a scene from Ariel (1988) where Taisto Kasurinen is preparing to break out from jail. Behind him, the prison WC with Taisto's Birthday cake on it.
The lady needs to call her little son because the world is about to come to an end, and cellphone coverage will likely be harder to find. Untill then, what better place to say good bye than inside a WC cubicle?
Sword fight between Ferrell and Reilly
On this picture, the lady takes a whizz after having sex in the men's room
Close-up picture of blond girl with big tits tied up and sitting on the toilet with her pants on her knees. That description should get a lot of our googling, fellow human beings to visit our blog.
In "Role Models", they intend to make us laugh by implying that it's possible to urinate a green liquid if you drink too much of a green energy drink. According to the algoritmical IWCRP scientific standards measuring the objective funniness of WC related jokes, this is a cheap joke.
In Rendition, Jake Gyllenhaal is a CIA agent whose task is to spy on middle eastern women in the bathroom. Of course, it all goes wrong and he ends up fleeing the country with a mentally unstable man.
The young lady depicted above has an accident during her visit to a bus station WC, and has to do the Trainspotting Trick in order to retrieve her cellphone and her chewing gum.
It's well known that public bathrooms is a favourite concept amongst homosexual men. In Milk, Sean Penn's character visits a WC with no less than three urinals placed within arms length of each other.
Yet another film with sadistic torture as its main ingredient. We're used to watching torture now and want to see interesting WCs instead. Martyrs goes wild with the torture, but the basic idea of the film (why all these people are being mistreated) is just so damn silly that when you find out, it feels more terrible and disturbing than having to watch 99 minutes of meaningless violence.
A great film, this one, despite its bizarre lack of WCs. The IWCRP board of filmexperts finds it exceedingly hard to believe a story involving only one not very visible WC for 137 minutes.
A good Mexican film with Mexican themes like social segregation, corruption and WCs.
The title refers to this scene, where the man is playing hide and seek in the dark with his WC. As we can observe, both the man and the WC are practically invisible; they appear to be "gone". Clever.
This scene from the Norwegian film Fatso shows a lovely decorated Norwegian bathroom and a man who, judging by the outfit, appears to be this great nation's king.
Despite some slightly funny scenes and a WC, this film is just way too eager to please stupid children and their easily offended religious parents. God is portrayed as a friendly old man who does not mind dancing a silly dance with Steve Carrell, who for some reason dances the silly dance a million times throughout the film, the problem is that it's not funny silly, it's stupid and annoying silly. The film is just another boring, moralistic family values flick, and leaves the comic potential of a man talking to god completely untouched. If you want a seriously good film based on biblical references, The Life of Brian is still number one. Amen.
Incredibly sad and enfuriating documentary of a death foretold. A filmmaker decides to memorialize a murdered friend when his friend's ex-girlfriend announces she is expecting his son. From there on, everything goes to hell, big time.
Gran Torino is about this dog's search for a drink of water. As we can see in the background, his first choice of water source has a lid on it, so he looks into the bathtub and finds a naked, old and grumpy Clint Eastwood soaking in what is clearly unfit as drinking water.
Well made film with a more intelligent approach to WC related jokes than usual.
Appaloosa was the wild west's prequel to Lollapaloosa and other modern day music festivals, where there are no rules except that you have to piss where you stand in order not to lose your spot by the bar.
Breaking Bad is one of our favourite series of all times, all the way up there with the Sopranos. A very good script, excellent direction and actors and, most importantly, plenty of WCs. The toilets' function is similar to the one they had in Pulp Fiction; that of being an ominous sign. Nothing good ever happens near a WC in Breaking Bad, not as much as a healthy fart.
Tina Fey accurately portraying the WCs place in today's popular culture. Like the fake nose, the rubber chicken and the ugly suspenders, the WC is often used as something you can simply show people for a cheap laugh, no need for intelligent humour.
A classic which needs no further comments.
Although it's getting predictable and Jake's not cute any more, Two and a Half Men is still a decent way to waste half an hour on the couch.
