# Stop Showing me The Vomitus. Please. This is me begging. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 31, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406 "2008-07-31T20:31:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/1 "2008-07-31T20:31:41Z")
To Directors Of Television And Film: I like movies. I like intense, realistic movies. I like TV. I like realistic TV. I like violence, when it’s fun. Even when it’s not, if it serves the story. I have a very strong stomach and can tolerate many unpleasant images. With the advent of the Internet, I freely confess to having sought unpleasant images out, quite deliberately. I just have one little bitty request. It’s not much to ask, and I really don’t think anyone would be upset if you granted it. When characters, or even real people, disgorge the contents of their stomachs… please don’t show me the vomit actually exiting. Please. About the only time I can remember it being integral to the story was in _The Exorcist_. Outside of that, I got nuthin’. It’s deeply disgusting and it takes me right out of the experience. I always take a moment to recoil and ask myself: Now WHY did they have to do that? Really. What did it add? How does making me want to disgorge the contents of my OWN stomach increase my appreciation of this entertainment? Now, as far as television entertainments (or films like _Jackass_, ok, I’ll give you that. The barfing was part and parcel of the _Fear Factor_ experience. However… I must protest the featuring of the barfing in advertisements for these things. If I watch them, I have to expect it. But if I’m watching, say, _The Daily Show_, I really dont’ appreciate being assaulted by puke-centric promotions for upcoming shows. And I really don’t think I’m being unreasonable. So please… can you re-think the necessity of showing the vomitus at all, and at the very least save it for the show itself, not the ads? I’d be so grateful. Assholes. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/2 "2008-07-31T20:34:42Z")
Seconded. It’s bad enough when someone visibly gags and then races to the toilet where retching sounds are heard. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/3 "2008-07-31T20:45:41Z")
I can stand the sounds - barely - but why the hell do we have to _see_ it??? It adds nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/4 "2008-07-31T20:56:37Z")
No puke, please. Also no piss, puss, snot, shit or cum. The only substances I’m willing to see exit a human body onscreen are blood and spit, and those only in moderation ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/5 "2008-07-31T21:11:28Z")
I totally agree. Vomiting scenes have become more and more common, it seems, and I hate them. Often my husband will want to start a movie while we’re eating dinner, but I’m now scared to because there’s so much puking in movies. Seeing puking makes me want to puke, which I’m guessing is a pretty common reaction from a lot of people. So why do directors insist on showing it to us? Shock value? Well, when I’ve seen it a thousand times, it’s no longer shocking. It’s gotten so bad that I can almost always predict which movies are going to have vomiting scenes, and I will ask him, “Is there going to be vomit within the first half an hour?” (if we’re eating). He’ll say no, but 15 minutes into the movie someone just has to puke and I’m sitting there with my fork halfway to my lips and no longer wanting to eat my dinner. Fuck! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/6 "2008-07-31T21:10:53Z")
[QUOTE=Stoid] When characters, or even real people, disgorge the contents of their stomachs… please don’t show me the vomit actually exiting. Please. About the only time I can remember it being integral to the story was in _The Exorcist_. Outside of that, I got nuthin’. [/QUOTE] Maybe not “integral”, but sometimes absolutely essential (and very funny): [Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Bs1ZZ-7b8&feature=related). [Stand By Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttP0lAw6O-M&feature=related). [Team America](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1F-op635Cc&feature=related). :o :o :o :o :o ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/7 "2008-07-31T21:25:44Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] No puke, please. Also no piss, puss, snot, shit or cum. The only substances I’m willing to see exit a human body onscreen are blood and spit, and those only in moderation [/QUOTE] Whaddaya mean, no puss? Are you some kinda prude?? OH, you meant _pus_. Gotcha. Nevermind! _walks away whistling, hands in pockets_ ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/8 "2008-07-31T21:33:07Z")
Sorry, but the Sopranos episode where Adrianne disgorges corn and other veggies all over the conference table at the FBI office - priceless. Zit popping on television or the movies, though, would be utterly disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/9 "2008-07-31T21:36:11Z")
I agree, I do not need to see vomit, or people vomiting. It doesn’t make me laugh and as noted, rarely adds to a scene. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/10 "2008-07-31T21:37:39Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Zit popping on television or the movies, though, would be utterly disgusting. [/QUOTE] I dunno, with the people around here it might be epic! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/11 "2008-07-31T22:14:03Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Zit popping on television or the movies, though, would be utterly disgusting. [/QUOTE] They new HDTV experience. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/12 "2008-07-31T22:28:43Z")
I thought this thread would be about the scenes on _America’s Funniest Home Videos_ when people send in tape of their darling infants shitting, puking, snotting, farting, pissing and belching. It’s gotten so that as soon as I see footage of a baby, I change the channel. But I hear you on vomiting in movies. The worst was the astronaut hurling in zero-G in _Apollo 13_. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/13 "2008-07-31T22:33:36Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Zit popping on television or the movies, though, would be utterly disgusting. [/QUOTE] Two words: _Osmosis Jones_. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/14 "2008-07-31T23:05:06Z")
Yuckyuckyuck. I so agree. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/15 "2008-07-31T23:47:48Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Sorry, but the Sopranos episode where Adrianne disgorges corn and other veggies all over the conference table at the FBI office - priceless. Zit popping on television or the movies, though, would be utterly disgusting. [/QUOTE] Never see the IMAX film that shows with BodyWorlds III at USC, then, because not only zit-popping, but zit-popping at IMAX sizes. Eew. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/16 "2008-08-01T00:05:31Z")
Movie puking doesn’t bother me. Real puking does. When I’ve helped my six year old son vomit into the toilet, it’s all I can do to keep from retching myself. It’s not the sound nor sight of it, but the _smell_. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/17 "2008-08-01T00:30:49Z")
some people call you Maurice, 'cause you speak of the vomitus of love ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/18 "2008-08-01T00:31:59Z")
[QUOTE=FoieGrasIsEvil] Movie puking doesn’t bother me. Real puking does. When I’ve helped my six year old son vomit into the toilet, it’s all I can do to keep from retching myself. It’s not the sound nor sight of it, but the _smell_. [/QUOTE] Yeah, ditto this. Movie puking has never bothered me either, just real-life puking. In fact, I often find it funny in tv and movies. Remember when Dwight puked on his car on The Office? Man, that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/19 "2008-08-01T00:41:16Z")
Definitely agree with the OP. And, you fucking directors, you swine, you pathetic pieces of chopped up fish heads and egg-sacs, you evil-minded goddamn bastards who have shown yourselves completely incapable of making an enjoyable film despite millions upon millions of cocksucking dollars at your disposal and an entourage of helpers and underlings and toadies and slaves that would make Caligula get down on his knees and beat his head upon the marble floor of his palace out of existential despair - you unbearably slimy, sleazy, weaselly pieces of shit, who continually churn out utter garbage and then expect us to think it’s art - you fucking worthless afterbirths, you cocksuckers, who despite a history of ninety years of fine film-making behind you that ought to be providing inspiration and artistic direction, but which you are instead abjectly ignoring while you blaze your own ragged, winding, tedious, cum-stained path through cinema, soiling and spitting upon everything that came before you - do you think you could ease up on the male-ass scenes? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406/20 "2008-08-01T02:42:09Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] Definitely agree with the OP. And, you fucking directors, you swine, you pathetic pieces of chopped up fish heads and egg-sacs, you evil-minded goddamn bastards who have shown yourselves completely incapable of making an enjoyable film despite millions upon millions of cocksucking dollars at your disposal and an entourage of helpers and underlings and toadies and slaves that would make Caligula get down on his knees and beat his head upon the marble floor of his palace out of existential despair - you unbearably slimy, sleazy, weaselly pieces of shit, who continually churn out utter garbage and then expect us to think it’s art - you fucking worthless afterbirths, you cocksuckers, who despite a history of ninety years of fine film-making behind you that ought to be providing inspiration and artistic direction, but which you are instead abjectly ignoring while you blaze your own ragged, winding, tedious, cum-stained path through cinema, soiling and spitting upon everything that came before you - do you think you could ease up on the male-ass scenes? [/QUOTE] You have a descriptive gift that you are not realizing the potential of. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-showing-me-the-vomitus-please-this-is-me-begging/458406.md?page=2)