Given the amazing quantity of bathroom humor since AITF debuted, I’m hard pressed to think of a show that does not have a bathroom. I remember them on Golden Girls, The Cosby Show, and Roseanne, which had two different sets for two different bathrooms.
If you’re wanting the flush sound effect, try cartoons. Animaniacs had its “Potty Emergency” and Tiny Toons had one segment where Plucky flushed most of the Universe, including himself. You just have to be know when to look.
Well, all bull (and other) shit aside, it makes sense that it SHOULD be the case. If the replicators work like they say, which is to reconfigure matter into what they need, then it needs matter to reconfigure. Meaning it needs ‘fuel’ so to speak, or a source of protons and electrons. People will always need to eat. Which means you’ll always have a steady stream (HAH!) of iron- and carbon-rich raw matter for the replicators.
Besides, once you get past your squeamishness and accept the age-old proverb that “one man’s dinner was another man’s dinner yesterday”, you’ll realize that the only reason it’s gross is its current configuration. Once it’s broken down to subatomics and recombined, then it ceases to be fertilizer and becomes whatever you made it into.
Shit. I was going to try and squeeze out more fecal puns from this post, but I think I’m mentally constipated.