Bathroom Singing - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• There is a track "Bathroom Singer" on Arno Hintjens' 1988 album, Charlatan
• The song "Singin' in the Bathtub" first appeared in the 1929 film The Show of Shows. It was sung in numerous Looney Tunes animated shorts by characters such as Tweety Bird and Bugs Bunny, and has more recently been performed by R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders and John Lithgow.
• A collectible: 1961 Barbie Vintage Fashion: "Singing In The Shower" robe
• Reviewers of the 1991 film The Adjuster mention that "the film also pays fairly serious attention to the question why people sing in the shower."
• One episode of The Flintstones ("Flintstone Canaries") features Barney Rubble being able to sing quite well in the shower (even hitting a note that only dogs could hear). Fred Flintstone convinces him to try out for a talent show, only to learn that outside the shower Barney has no singing ability whatsoever.
• In an episode of the animated television series Recess, it was discovered that Mikey had an awe-inspiring singing voice, but he could only sing in the school bathroom. A substitute teacher helped him find the courage to sing in front of an audience, which led to his performance at a school function.
• In an episode of The Simpsons ("Homer's Barbershop Quartet"), Barney Gumble is found singing traditional Irish music on the floor of the men's room at Moe's Tavern. He is quickly chosen as a replacement for Chief Wiggum, whom their agent, Nigel, thought was "too Village People."
• In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Kevin McCallister records his uncle singing in the shower with his Talkboy, along with some threats when his uncle sees him. He then uses the tape later in the film to trick the hotel staff into thinking that his uncle is present in the shower of his hotel room and consequently scare away the hotel staff.
• In the pilot episode of Glee, Finn Hudson is discovered when singing "Can't Fight This Feeling" in the locker room shower.
• Sahara TV channel in India has started a reality show for singers named Bathroomsinger.
• In The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen began a Bathroom Concert Series where guests on the show would come into one of the studio's bathrooms to sing a song with her, usually accompanied with the guest bringing their own instruments to play.
• Bathroom Divas: So You Want to Be an Opera Star? is a television show of Bravo! Canada.
• Shower (film) features bathroom singing.
• To Rome with Love (film) features bathroom singing.