Onion Tears: Difference between revisions

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** Good actors can make the -audience- cry on command. Being able to make -yourself- cry isn't necessary, especially in stage acting.

* In Mme LePrince de Beaumont's ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', Beauty's sisters use Onion Tears to emotionally blackmail her into staying home, making this at least [[Older Than Radio]].

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer ~~40000~~]] [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''Blood Pact'', Criid blames her tearfulness on the onions. Given that she had just commented that grief last a long time. . . .

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''Blood Pact'', Criid blames her tearfulness on the onions. Given that she had just commented that grief last a long time. . . .

* Remember Oliver North (American politics, 1980s)? [[Dave Barry]] joked of him that "his eyes moist, he gestured patriotically with his hand and knocked over his bottle of Revlon Eye Moistener."

* In ''[[The Kite Runner]]'', the narrator (Amir) writes a story about a man whose tears turn into pearls when he sheds them into a magic cup—when the man discovers this power of his, he kills his wife so that he can cry over her death and become rich with pearls. When Amir's friend Hassan reads the story, he asks Amir, "Why did he have to kill his wife? Why couldn't he have just smelled an onion?"

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'''Gareth''': No, it's me. }}

* In [[Solitary]], Val once assigned the guests in Season 2.0 to do this as a challenge. However, since merely peeling onions wouldn't have had the desired effect, Val took it [[Up to Eleven]] by having them ''grate'' several onions into pulp, releasing all the fumes. The effect was so severe that the guests experienced watering eyes, dripping noses, burning throats, and even ''stomach pains''. There was a good deal of curses of anger and expressions of pain, but no weeping. Several of them compared the experience to standing in tear gas, or having someone put a handful of chili powder in their eyes.

* A [[Saturday Night Live]] sketch had Kevin Nealon playing a tv interview show host whose sole purpose was to make the interviewee cry over an emotional admission - at one point he's interviewing Burt Reynolds (Norm Mac Donald) who remains stoic and straight-faced until Nealon waves an onion under his nose.

* Elliot Stabler from ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' sometimes brings pieces of onion into the interrogation room to feign sympathy with the perpetrators.

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== Oral Tradition ==

* A [[Dead Baby Comedy|dead baby joke]] runs thus: What's the difference between a baby and an onion? {{spoiler|You don't cry when you cut up a baby.}}

** I heard that joke with bagpipes.

*** I heard it with a viola.

*** I see your bagpipes and viola and raise you an accordion.

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== Web Comics ==

* [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2235/ This] ''[[Cyanide ~~and~~ Happiness]]'' comic either subverts the trope or plays it straight in an unusual way... with C&H you can never be too sure.

* [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2235/ This] ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' comic either subverts the trope or plays it straight in an unusual way... with C&H you can never be too sure.

* [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004674 This] page from ''[[Homestuck]]'' has Dave being pelted with onions while being cooked by crocodiles, with expected results.

* In [http://thinkbeforeyouthink.net/?comic=20100507-onions this] ''[[Think Before You Think]]'' comic, Julia tries to explain her tears by saying she was cutting up onions, which leads to a complex chain of lies.

** It happens later with Brian [http://thinkbeforeyouthink.net/?comic=20120113-invisible-onions here].

* Subverted in [http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2008/07/onions/ this] ''[[Amazing Super Powers]]'' comic.

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* In ''[[Shrek]] 4-D'' (the [[3D Movie]] that plays at [[Universal Studios]]), newlywed Fiona is crying because her carriage is an onion.

** It's also referenced in the original ''[[Shrek]]'' movie during the "ogres are like onions" scene—Donkey suggests, "They make you cry!" as one of the possible connections.

* One episode of ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~]]'' had Timmy's parents making friends with a (disguised) Cosmo and Wanda and running off on adventures every day, leaving him with his evil babysitter. Eventually, they decide that they can't keep neglecting Timmy, as proven by Timmy's tears... which are from Vicky forcing him to peel onions.

* One episode of ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' had Timmy's parents making friends with a (disguised) Cosmo and Wanda and running off on adventures every day, leaving him with his evil babysitter. Eventually, they decide that they can't keep neglecting Timmy, as proven by Timmy's tears... which are from Vicky forcing him to peel onions.

* Happens in ''[[Taz-Mania]]'' with Constance Koala and Mr.Thickley in the episode "Heartbreak Taz".

* A vintage [[Popeye]] cartoon has him and Bluto trying to cheer up a bawling Swee'Pea. Naturally it escalates into fighting, and while Bluto is pummeling Popeye like a speed bag, Popeye reaches for a can of spinach, and grabs a can of onions instead. Very soon, Popeye, Bluto, and Olive are all wailing loudly...which causes Swee'Pea to laugh uproariously.

** [[Did Not Do the Research]]—canned onions are cooked already and would be about as likely to make you cry as a Patton Oswalt routine.

** Another later cartoon had Bluto in court accusing Popeye of assault, and giving [[Unreliable Narrator|heavily one-sided examples.]] We then cut to Wimpy, the judge, who at first appears to be crying over Bluto's story, but it's quickly revealed that he's simply cutting an onion for his hamburger.

* In one of the old ''Harveytoons'' Little Audrey has to get spirits in the clouds to cry so it will rain. She starts out by singing a sad song, but produces several onions from nowhere to get the crying started.

* In one episode of ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'', the family becomes stranded in the desert without any water. Marianne becomes so desperate with thirst that she attempts to make herself cry with onions so she can drink her tears.

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== Real Life ==

* When the onion's cell walls are breached by cutting, the chemicals inside combine to form [[Eye Scream|sulfuric acid.]]

* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] if one runs an onion under water whilst cutting it. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] by cutting with the "grain" rather than through layers.

** Keeping them in the fridge helps, too.

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