It seems as though I can’t watch a drama TV show or movie without seeing someone hurl. When did this start and why did this become the act de jure?
Preach it. I can’t speak for TV or answer your question about when and why it started, but I can attest that hurling is rampant in film. I see a LOT of movies (and when I say a lot, I mean that by the end of the year I’ll have seen at least 200 movies, which is light for me since last year I saw over 300 movies). Almost all of them feature a hurling scene and it’s driving me crazy. Even movies I wouldn’t expect to have one, like By The Sea and Brooklyn, have puking scenes. I’m so very tired of it.
I know there’s a web page that keeps track of movies that have hurling scenes, for people who have puke phobias. I almost want to start a web site that keeps track of movies that DON’T feature puking, since they seem very rare now. Of course I can’t remember any recent ones. Tomorrow I’m seeing The Peanuts Movie and, to make it my weirdest double-feature in recent memory, Chi-Raq. I kinda don’t expect that TPM will have a puking scene. I’m interested in seeing if Spike Lee will refrain.
Ugh!
When I was a tween in the late 1970s, I was at Girl Scout camp, and we stopped talking about boys long enough to have a conversation about throwing up. One of my tentmates, who was later valedictorian of our HS class :dubious:, said, “I wonder if anyone has ever barfed on television!”
I replied, “That is completely impossible. It would never happen. Nobody would ever do that. And if it ever happened, they would turn the camera off immediately.”
Google Bob Kempainen for proof that it is not completely impossible. I recently found out that it has finally found its way onto You Tube. TL : DR - If you were the #1 ranked marathon runner in the history of the United States, what would you be willing to do for $100,000 and a spot on the 1996 U.S. Olympic team? If you thought the answer was “vomiting all over yourself on live national television”, you are correct. :eek: During the actual Olympic marathon, it cut to a clip of the incident, and then Dr. Kempainen (yep, he’s a physician) explained the physiology of this bodily function while standing next to a chalkboard upon which he wrote a couple dozen slang terms for it.
It gets better.
Pete Sampras did the same thing during the U.S. Open just a few months later. Wouldn’t you know, Dave Barry was in the audience :eek: and wrote a column about it that you wouldn’t want to read over breakfast.
Even more incredible is that both men won their respective events.
On top of it all, someone from Runner’s World magazine took a picture of Kempainen “in action”. That’s the only time I’ve ever shrieked out loud in a public library. :o I told one of my friends about that after her daughter did that in a crowded Pizza Hut (and hadn’t even eaten yet) and she LOL’d and said, “No way! Let’s all go print up some t-shirts!”
“Jackass” used to show vomit scenes all the time, and those were NOT simulated.
I’m glad they don’t do those “TV Movie of the Week” shows any more. I’d hate to see one about the Ebola epidemic.
p.s. Not posting the You Tube link, even with a spoiler link, was a deliberate act.
FWIW, the first movie I can think of in which somebody hurled is ***Town without Pity ***(1961), where Kirk Douglas puked at the end. The next one is ***American Graffiti ***(1973), where Terry the Tiger barfs up the liquor he drank in a parking lot (“Looks just like a dog down there on all fours, doesn’t he?”)
Three words: “Stand By Me”.
Nosebleeds are what make me get the vapors, and these days it’s not will there be a nosebleed, it’s when, and how many. I was watching some sweet family movie and even there they found a way to sneak in a nosebleed.
Yeah, obligatory barf scene is really getting old, and it’s in just about every dramatic show on TV, it seems. Enough, already.
Team America: World Police pokes fun at this trope (specifically the “look how drunk I am” variant) with the “Gary pukes forever” scene.
Search YouTube at your peril.
I don’t think there’s been a movie comedy in the past 20 years that hasn’t had a fart joke.
I’ve never once understood why so many films/TV show men using the urinal — not even once.
Nor why this should be self-congratulatory considered gritty and real. Épater la bourgeoisie is pretty feeble in the first place, but there are many ordinary everyday usages no-one craves to see.
This is a huge peeve of mine and I started this thread about it a few months ago. It used to really freak me out and now, while I don’t have quite the same reaction, I will avoid a movie that I know contains one. It’s the one thing I hated about my favorite show, Mad Men. There was at least one pukey scene per season and every week I’d think to myself “is this going to be the episode?” Just before the final (half) season they were advertising the marathon of reruns a lot and would feature the scene at Roger’s mother’s funeral where Don pukes while some snotty biddy is giving a eulogy. Okay, that one was slightly funny but they didn’t have to actually *show *it. As I’ve asked before, is it really that common for people to throw up in response to fear, sadness or shock? Aside from gastrointestinal distress, do adults vomit as frequently as movies and tv would have us think? If they’re not trying to mimic reality (as I suspect, or at least not the world I live in) is it supposed to be shocking? Comic relief? Enough already.
Brian pukes forever after realizing he slept with Quagmire’s dad. Watching the animated puke puddle get bigger and bigger is oddly hypnotic.
I seem to be ok with puking (just saw one last night - a scene from this past week’s “The Knick”) but what I really can’t stand is peeing. Men peeing has been around too long and now the thing is - thanks to “Girls” - is women sitting on the pot. I do not like this, men or women. Especially with sound effects.
Adds nothing to the movie/show. Ever.
I must be watching the wrong shows, or I’m so jaded that I don’t notice anymore. Other than the Jensen Family Christmas Special, I can’t recall the last time I saw a puke scene outside of a current ER series binge.
Please don’t see To the Ends of the Earth.
I did not know this was a thing. I’ve not seen Girls but it sounds like it happens a lot in whatever shows and movies you watch (?) The last film I can think of that had a woman on the toilet was Indecent Proposalwith Demi Moore and I thought it was kind of weird but also kind of sweet in that it was an unusual way of illustraing how close she and Woody were. Anyway, I think that movie is 20+ years old, so I don’t know how I’ve missed this trend. On the other hand, it might not stick out in my mind as it doesn’t bother me. Well, okay, sound effects would bother me a little. I was just rewatching Along Came Polly, which I had seen several times before and I did not remember there being any sound effects when Ben Stiller is on the toilet after the spicy meal the shared, yet it was a whole fart-a-palooza. I can’t say it bothered me, I guess because it was for comedic effect, but I was kind of surprised at I didn’t remember it and also because it was on regular TV and god forbid anything even remotely offensive not get censored.
Didn’t BJ Honeycutt barf on his first episode of MAS*H back in the mid 1970’s? When Hawkeye, Radar, and BJ were driving back to camp and they saw some casualties on the side of the road.
I remember when Rowella’s husband puked in the original*** Poldark***, after seeing her in bed with that fat turd Osborne Whitworth. It was a great moment in television! :o
I know I must have seen this as it was a favorite of my mother’s and mine. And I would have been really squeamish at this type of thing at that age. Hmmmm, I must have blocked it out. Or was it not graphic but merely hinted at?Because I wouldn’t have had a problem with that.
Oh, and the first *graphic *vomit scene on tv I can remember off hand was on ER. Best I can recall was a young boy who spewed all over Anthony Edward’s character. It was a promising series and I would have continued watching it but I thought “if that’s the kind of thing I have to look forward to, no thanks”.