To think there is too much vomiting on tv/films?

[WishIMite]

Honestly, nearly ever programme has someone vomiting. I find it vile - especially when eating!

AIBU to think vomiting is used far too often in tv/films??

I watched Perfect Pitch at the weekend, vomiting was used as a comedy thing, DD and I agreed that it was really not at all funny not sure who would have laughed at that.

Neither can I.

Do NOT watch triangle of sadness OP

YANBU, I watched Knives Out yesterday and (semi-spoiler)

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there was one graphic scene including vomiting that I had to squint my eyes for because the level of detail was so hideous!

That being said, I know I'm sensitive to vomit so maybe I'm extra aware of when it's being shown/depicted on media.

No idea never thought of it before but i presume as people do it in real life it would be shown on the screen

I hate when it does happen. Watching series 4 of The Crown at the mo and very graphic scenes of a character with bulimia making themselves sick 🤢

Yep most things seem to have it. Used to have a phobia but now it’s just unnecessary but I still notice it!

Notable by it's absence in The Great Pottery Throwdown tonight, although I'm watching on catch up and there's a good half hour to go yet.

YES I was going to start a thread exactly about this. It’s in just about every drama or film. I’m surprised people are saying they haven’t noticed it.

YES!!!! It's literally in every film/TV series. It's disgusting and doesn't add anything to any story.

I think you really only notice things that bother you.

i haven't noticed any vomiting either, but im
not sensitive to it.

@WishIMite boarders seems a particularly stupid program for an emet to watch.

It is in everything we seem to watch, apart from pottery throw ups I mean downs.

We call it just before it happens every time.

No idea why they do it. Perhaps to show feelings and sensitivity of the characters' depth.

Sadly unappreciated post.

And, spoiler alert,it didn't happen in the last half hour.

As an emetophiliac could you point me in the direction of all these vomity TV shows?

Just watched Death and other Details and the main characters vomits into a bin and the other lead discusses what he can smell in her vomit! Gross.

I’ve noticed this. Recently watched One Day and Borders and both had horrible dragged out vomiting scenes. It’s horrible.

I think since comedy isn’t comedy anymore then this must be an alternative

personally a lot of tv and films needs censorships

I’m emetaphobic and this website helps a lot!

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/

I'm not remotely emetophobic and never have been, and I completely agree, OP.

You don't have to be emetophobic to find vomit disgusting — it's normal and natural. It can also be a perfectly normal, healthy psychological reaction to feel sick when you see and hear someone else puking.

But every couple of weeks or so, I'll be watching something on TV, and without warning there's retchy, chunky, splashy sounds of vomiting, puke-splattered surfaces, wiping of spew-speckled mouths, or occasionally, if you're really lucky, a whole simulated on-screen vom. I'm not a fan.

To me, it's not much different to being sat down watching some drama, and suddenly I'm getting the full aural experience of someone else having a shit, complete with farty bubble sounds and plopping of lumps into water and maybe a bit of sloppy toilet-bowl pebbledash, accompanied by the odd grunt or groan, and with a glistening close-up anus-wipe to finish. Maybe even some simulated shit.

Except it's worse than shit in some ways, because while shit is disgusting, seeing someone else shit doesn't usually induce physical feelings of needing a shit (or nausea), whereas someone else throwing up is a common and entirely normal trigger for nausea.

It's only the absolute grossest of gross-out comedy, the kind where you know exactly what you're getting into, or the very grittiest of gritty 'orrible dramas, that will have that level of portrayal of someone shitting, or having a particularly bad time while shitting. There are ways of showing it without showing it, if you need to show that someone's doing/done that, and the media seems to have decided that's generally the way to go, with shit. The consensus seems to be that unlike maybe sex, violence, nudity, or swearing, there's not really much appetite for loosened boundaries or more explicit portrayal of shitting, except in the very limited types of circumstances I mentioned.

But vomit is apparently something we need to see and/or hear in plenty of detail

I'm not scared of vomit or vomiting, and most of the time a TV puke won't actually make me feel queasy, but it's not exactly nice. Especially if you're eating your dinner. And it's hardly ever adding anything significant to the experience.

Why? Who do you think should decide what I, an adult, should be allowed or not allowed to watch?

Or by 'personally' did you just mean you want somebody to whizz through things before you see them (which is fair enough if you can get somebody to do it)?

Totally agree OP. It's constantly used to show shock, fear, etc when irl it's rare to throw up for those reasons. And it's always noisy projectile vomiting these days, usually in the street, and both unnecessary and unrealistic.

All these actors with cold vegetable soup in their mouths all day 😖

Good point about graphical shitting! That never happens - despite the fact that I shit every day, but vomit maybe once every ten years?!?

So why is vomiting so entertaining but not shitting?

Great pottery throwdown and bake off the professionals, mews at 10 and question time have all been vomit free this week 👍

Yes, obviously I’m referring to dramas. 🙄I’m not suggesting Fiona Bruce can’t make it through the Antiques Roadshow without hurling on someone’s grandpa’s medals.

Have you watched some old episodes of Little Britain? Remember the vomiting ladies, who projectile-vomited over everyone that was not white and British?

The commentary for that one says it's cartoon vomit, which deliberately looks unrealistic, so that it's "funny". This happens with a lot of things played for shock: see also the vile little dog in A Fish Called Wanda, which is obviously a fake dog.