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??

Me too! It literally is almost everything I watch these days. Maybe it’s because we eat our dinner in front of the tv because we are common.

It does, by Father Christmas, no less! In the Raymond Briggs cartoon. (Although it’s probably edited out of modern broadcasts, likewise him mooning at the audience after his bath.)

It’s so frequently used when people have had a shock or are experiencing extreme negative emotion. It’s a cheap indicator for that and it would be better if people just learned to act as I’m fairly sure it’s a very rare reaction in real life. I very much doubt women who’ve found their husbands have been cheating react by vomiting. Discovering a properly gruesome murder, perhaps, though even there, I suspect feeling faint might be more common.

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Very true. I’m sure if Emma Thompson had graphically hurled up some stollen in Love Actually, rather than tearfully straightening the bed cover, it would be less impactful.

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You're right!! I say this to my husband ALL the time!! Now we are both aware of it you realise it's in SO many things and it's disgusting! As someone who doesn't vomit much I have a bit of a fear of it so I'm more aware of it!

It’s been noted elsewhere as a trend tbf: the Guardian explains that as it’s seen as aggressive, it’s a means of “disrupting femininity” apparently:

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/13/gut-reaction-cinemas-new-wave-of-projectile-vomiting

Yep lots of throwing up and the noise is disgusting too.
Dont see the point to it either.

Even the random Netflix film I watched on Saturday night had a kid throwing up.. (it wouldn’t normally register, but now you’ve brought it up - ahem - so to speak..)

Just don't watch the companion programme, The Great Pottery Throw Up!

I wouldn't say vomiting is everywhere, but it is common, and when I do see it, it seems to be more graphic than it used to be. I'm not squeamish but I do find it horrible and unnecessary. Most people only vomit when ill.

Don't watch Fargo season 3.

Yes it's much more common than it used to be. I really hate it and often we will watch tv with DH holding the remote and the second someone starts to vomit or looks like they will he changes channel.

It's completely unnecessary and actually pretty vile

Constant graphic sex scenes are unnecessary titillation. This is just disgusting and vile. What's happened to TV and film?

Thinking about it, there was one instance in what I watched last night when someone vomited. But there were also 6 murders and a terror attack.

Dramatic effect attracts viewers. Would you like everything to show Mavis getting the bus to work? It would make very dull viewing.

I admit I don’t like watching sex scenes either. It’s awkward with wider family members!! And unnecessary.

I don’t mind the odd murder - you understand you are going to see that in a crime drama etc. But buttocks and cold vegetable soup hardly add to the suspense.

I see your vomiting OP and (without wanting to derail)
I raise you Smashed up Teeth 😣
Happens surprisingly often, not always in drama...I'm amazed how many people in comedy shows fall over and smash their face/teeth.
Makes me dizzy everytime!

I will keep an eye out for teeth!

Never watch HOUSE OP. It's an excellent programme but at least one person throws up (often blood) in pretty much every single episode.
At least that programme has the excuse that these people ARE ill in hospital I suppose. 🤷‍♀️

Thanks for the warning, I won't bother with One Day now

A lot of people have a phobia of vomiting though so to have so many people throwing up is not necessary.

Me and DH watch lots of dramas with murders (we love a good subtitled show) and so we expect murders and, quite likely, some violence but not vomiting.

What annoys me and also makes me laugh is that before so many shows we get the announcement of "this show contains, sex scenes, violence, swearing, nudity, domestic abuse" and often more things that I can't remember now. Never ever though do they mention vomiting

It's for everything now in dramas. Someone is ill and they throw up, someone gets a shock and they throw up, someone gets some bad news and they throw up, someone stubs their toe and they throw up. Someone has had a bad day and they throw up.

It's all so unnecessary and graphic.

It’s n out something I’ve really noticed, but come to think of it, I watched one day on Netflix yesterday, and he was throwing up in that.

It doesn’t really bother me though, (nothing puts me off my food! 😁) but can see if you have a phobia of vomiting you would notice it!

When my OCD was fully blown I was physically unable to go out of my home because I was anxious I will be exposed to sick and sick people. So maybe I am too prone to noticing those things...but

I see it too. In the past it was urination - men talking over urinals, men randomly pissing on things. Now we have sex scenes and vomiting.
WITHOUT ANY F REASON.

I see it too. In the past it was urination - men talking over urinals, men randomly pissing on things. Now we have sex scenes and vomiting.
WITHOUT ANY F REASON.

Vomiting, smashed teeth, urinating... I'd add realistic injections. I think it may have started with all the real injections on TV during COVID, but since then there have been loads of realistic ones in dramas. Doesn't bother me, but DH almost faints when he sees one. Poor delicate little lamb