The Food Poisoning Incident: Difference between revisions

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[[File:mmmexpiredham_1003.jpg|link=The Simpsons|frame|Sorry 'bout the salmonella.]]

[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]].

[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

Pretty simple, really:

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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 & Skinner, on which the episode was focused. (They even acknowledged that it made no sense that Lisa got ill but they just [[Handwaved]] it.) The vegetables make the whole family sick so Lisa started her singing career.

Compare [[Water Source Tampering]] and [[Tampering ~~With~~ Food and Drink]].

Compare [[Water Source Tampering]] and [[Tampering with Food and Drink]].

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=== '''Examples:''' ===

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== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Monty ~~Pythons~~ ~~the~~ Meaning of Life]]'': The dinner party guests. [[Did Not Eat the Mousse|All of them.]]

* ''[[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]'': The dinner party guests. [[Did Not Eat the Mousse|All of them.]]

* ''[[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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* ''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)|Supernatural]]'' where one of Dean's deaths is from a bad Taco.

* 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 ''[[MASH]]'': 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.

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* 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}}

* In an episode of ''[[Sex and ~~The~~ City]]'' ("The Ick Factor"), Charlotte and Harry go out for a romantic dinner, but they both end up sick shortly thereafter. Rather than being played for laughs, the incident is really sweet, as it shows the two of them accepting and comforting each other in their distress.

* In an episode of ''[[Sex and the City]]'' ("The Ick Factor"), Charlotte and Harry go out for a romantic dinner, but they both end up sick shortly thereafter. Rather than being played for laughs, the incident is really sweet, as it shows the two of them accepting and comforting each other in their distress.

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

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** Then there's the time he brought home some six feet of leftover party sub and continued to eat it for weeks afterward, well past its edible state.

** One episode has the entire town sick after eating vegetarian Krustyburgers made with contaminated barley from nearby Ogdenville. This is just a [[Lead In]] for the main plot, about Ogdenvillians migrating into Springfield.

*** A similar incident appears in a Halloween episode spoofing ''[[~~Twenty Eight~~ Days Later]]'', with "Double Meat" Krustyburgers turning people into "Munchers".

*** A similar incident appears in a Halloween episode spoofing ''[[28 Days Later]]'', with "Double Meat" Krustyburgers turning people into "Munchers".

* In one episode of ''[[Sixteen]]'', an accidentally unplugged fridge results in a [[Vomit Chain Reaction]] that wreaks havoc through the entire shopping mall.

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic ~~(Animation)~~|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', "Applebuck Season", a sleep-deprived Applejack tries to help Pinkie Pie with baking muffins, but gets the ingredients ridiculously wrong, replacing chocolate chips with potato chips, baking soda with soda pop, a cup of flour with "a cup of sour" (lemon juice), and wheat germ with "wheat worms" (earthworms from a mud puddle out back).

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', "Applebuck Season", a sleep-deprived Applejack tries to help Pinkie Pie with baking muffins, but gets the ingredients ridiculously wrong, replacing chocolate chips with potato chips, baking soda with soda pop, a cup of flour with "a cup of sour" (lemon juice), and wheat germ with "wheat worms" (earthworms from a mud puddle out back).

* Inverted in an episode of ''[[~~Spongebob~~ SquarePants]]'' - the titular sponge is thought to have unknowingly eaten a deadly pie, which will end his life at sunset. Squidward, responsible for bringing a pie-shaped bomb to Spongebob, feels guilty enough to spend the rest of the day doing anything Spongebob wants. {{spoiler|It's eventually revealed that Spongebob never ate the bomb-pie, but rather a different pie. He saved the bomb, which he promptly trips and thus throws into Squidward's face, producing a nuclear blast.}}

* Inverted in an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' - the titular sponge is thought to have unknowingly eaten a deadly pie, which will end his life at sunset. Squidward, responsible for bringing a pie-shaped bomb to Spongebob, feels guilty enough to spend the rest of the day doing anything Spongebob wants. {{spoiler|It's eventually revealed that Spongebob never ate the bomb-pie, but rather a different pie. He saved the bomb, which he promptly trips and thus throws into Squidward's face, producing a nuclear blast.}}

** A more straightforward example is when Mr. Krabs sells spoiled Krabby Patties that have turned yellow and spongy as an attempt to cash in on SpongeBob's popularity.

** Then there's "The Nasty Patty", in which Krabs and SpongeBob make the titular patty for what the think is a fake health inspector. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when they think the patty killed him.