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that time in a movie when...
do you know when your wathcing a movie, and they start hard core making out, and the girls like, "i have to go the the bathroom, i'll be right back" that ALWAYS happens. why are they going to the bathroom? it happens in almost every movie, what are they doing?
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It's a plot device ususally used in horror movies to isolate two characters from one another so that one goes away for a moment so that the other gets attacked when left alone. This is usually when you see this cliched make-out sequence written into a teen movie.
There are other times it's used as well. Sometimes the scene is scripted so that the character has a few lines to set something up that is about to happen or will happen in the film. When the writer has no more use for him/her they send the character to the bathroom never to return.
A famous instance where this happened in TV is with Happy Days. Ron Howard's character had a brother one season and the character wasn't working so to write him out seamlessly the writers sent him upstairs to the bathroom. He never came down. It's an easy way of disposing of a character that is non-essential.
Characters are also sent to the bathroom a lot on TV if for instance it's kids who get replaced by older kids at the end of a season to show that the story moved forward and there's no need to explain he/she is now 7 or 8.
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