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It is suggested that this may be because the symptoms are usually of the distressing-cum-embarrassing sort (nausea, diarrhea, vomiting), and in part because of anxiety over E.Coli and the like. Either way, it's a pointed reminder of how much we rely upon our bodies. "For surely laughter masks a nervous soul."
Some shows seem to use this trope especially. It has been observed that ''[[The Simpsons]]'' use it to shift the Character Focus of the episode by eliminating not needed characters. Examples: the oysters eliminated everyone leaving only Bart
Compare [[Water Source Tampering]]
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]'': The dinner party guests. [[
* ''[[Please Give]]'': It remains ambiguous if the elderly woman {{spoiler|dies at the end from drinking tainted juice}}
* In ''[[Bridesmaids]]'' there's a really gross food poisoning scene, although the protagonist claims it's a virus, as she's the one who suggested the restaurant.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree]]'' has her father-in-law's housewarming party disrupted by eleventh-hour food poisoning at the caterer's firm; the narrator enlist help from the community to come up with the food.
* ''A Billion for Boris'': in this sequel to ''[[Freaky Friday]]'', the reveal that the kid brother is in possession of a TV that sees 24 hours into the future is based on his knowing that a certain brand of soup has been recalled before anyone else does.
== [[Live
* '' [[Seinfeld]]'': the woman who gets sick when the silica pack gets into the salsa placed out at Putamayo. By a typical turn of events, Jerry's number is on speed dial under "Poison Control".
* This is probably really obscure, but he mid-70s syndicated kids show [[Salty]] had an episode where they had to find someone who had eaten rancid food and didn't know it.
* ''[[All in The Family]]'': Archie may or may not have eaten toxic mushrooms after a recall due to botulism. He ends up going to the ER for a painful anti-toxin injection. Afterwards, Edith realizes that they weren't the recalled brand to begin with.
* On the season 6 finale of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Lily gets sick after eating soup and Marshall, who had eaten the same soup, prepares for the inevitable effects to kick in, just as he's interviewing for his dream job. In the end {{spoiler|nothing happens to Marshall, and it turns out it wasn't the soup that made Lily sick; she was pregnant.}}
* ''[[Happy Days]]'': Chachi's mother has Howard
* ''[[The Stockard Channing Show]]'': Susan's boss at the Consumer Affairs local tv show she works on gets ptomaine poisoning and thinks it's because of a bad fallafel he gets from a fast food joint. It turns out it's from a high priced fine dining restaurant.
* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'': Little Pete pretends to get food poisoning from spoiled tapioca so he can play hooky.
* The [[Groundhog Day Loop]] episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' where one of Dean's deaths is from a bad Taco.
* Has happened to [[Man vs. Wild|Bear Grylls]] on his show at least once. Not surprising, given [[Extreme Omnivore|all the dodgy stuff he eats]].
* A couple from ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'': Season 8, Episode 10, most of the camp has food poisoning. There is also an episode where Charles and Margaret eat a canned bird (pheasant?) and get ill.
* In the ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' episode "Basil the Rat", one of the catastrophes Basil
* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' episode "Close Shave", C.C. Babcock is attending a cooking class and gets Maxwell Sheffield to try some of her cooking. He reluctantly does so, and ends up going to the hospital with food poisoning. Due to the food poison, he needs an appendectomy, and in preparation for surgery, the surgeon asks Fran Fine, [[It Makes Sense in Context|disguised as a candy striper]], [[Crowning Moment of Funny|to shave Maxwell]]...
* ''[[What's Happening]]!!'' Rerun thinks he has gotten food poisoning from bad beef at Rob's. Dee explains later that {{spoiler|it is actually appendicitis, and that Rerun had to get surgery}}
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* One [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Smackdown skit in 2004 revolved around [[Eddie Guerrero]] giving [[The Big Show]] a tainted Burrito and then the lucky people in the audience got to watch Big Show plead for toilet paper while a fairly nasty fart recording was played.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* Alluded to by [[Bill Engvall]] in his original "Here's Your Sign" routine:
{{quote|If you bought a piece of stereo equipment, you know inside the box they put that little packet of drying agent. And on it in big bold letters, what does it say? Do not eat this! <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Beat]]] Y'all ever bought a piece of stereo equipment thinking there ''might'' be somethin' to eat in there? But you ''know'' somebody opened that box and went, "Well, look! I got a receiver and a pack of Chiclets. I got music and gum!"}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "Homer and Apu". Apu marks down some expired ham. Homer eats it and gets sick. Upon Homer's complaint, Apu offers him ten pounds of "frozen" shrimp. Homer eats it and gets sick.
** In another Simpsons everyone thinks Homer has eaten poison sushi and only has 24 hours to live.
** Also inverted by The Simpsons when everyone except Lisa gets food poisoning from eating only vegetables (because their bodies are only used to junk food).
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