A Bathroom Built for Two was conceived as a safety net. While preparing Transit Trouble for class at the Academy of Art University, Daryl began second-guessing whether its deliberately crude humor would go over well. Nate Blonkenfeld suggested writing something simpler and more conventional as a backup, just in case. The result was A Bathroom Built for Two, a light student short built quickly and with very little enthusiasm behind it. Compared with the stranger, more committed ideas the group usually gravitated toward, the project felt cautious from the beginning.

In the end, Daryl showed Transit Trouble instead. The film was received far better than he expected, leaving A Bathroom Built for Two as a kind of alternate path that never needed to be taken. Looking back, Daryl does not fault the cast or the work that went into it. What makes the short uncomfortable for him is what it represents: a rare moment when fear of how an audience might react almost pushed him toward something safer and less personal.

That may be the most useful thing the film ever became. Not a failure, exactly, but a reminder of what happens when caution starts making creative decisions.