History Main / NauseaDissonance

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': When the crew come across a derelict ship whose crew had been mutilated by Reavers, most of the crew, even the hardened warriors, are noticeably disturbed. Simon volunteers to... clean up the dead and prepare them for a BurialInSpace, specifically saying that bodies don't bother him (he was a trauma surgeon before coming to ''Serenity''). Shepherd Book also volunteers to help, and say some funeral rites over them. He too doesn't seem too disturbed, another hint that he was involved in sinister things in his past.

* In ''RurouniKenshin'', when Aoshi exhumes [[spoiler:Kaoru's]] grave to make sure that it's ''really not'' her, he reaches inside the cadaver and pull out the puppet-string mechanism. The other characters are nauseated by it, but Aoshi is A-OK.

* In the WarrenEllis comic ''{{Fell}}'', the coroner presents a rotten corpse to Detective Fell while eating a sandwich. After taking a bite, a piece of tomato falls into corpse's chest cavity. The coroner reaches in.

* In the ''MarriedWithChildren'' episode "Hot off the Grill," everyone at Al's cookout reacts with disgust when they learn that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kelly added the ashes of Marcy's dead aunt to Al's grill.]] Everyone, that is, except Steve, who hated said aunt...and starts grinning as he eats his "Bundy-burger" with even more enthusiasm.

* ''{{Dirty Jobs}}'' has this happen ''all the time''. There was an episode where a cameraman literally stood under a shower of condensed raw sewage and didn't even flinch.

* ''{{Cheers}}'': Parodied. Woody is unperturbed by Carla's graphic description of how varicose veins are removed - while eating ''spaghetti'' no less! - but is disgusted when Frasier loudly exclaims about an article about psychological distress full of technical jargon, unable to eat anymore.

** A similar rule applies to biologists, particularly those who work with dissections, parasites or decomposition.

* In the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' movie ''Film/MagnumForce'', Harry is called to the scene of a murder with his partner. One of the cops there comments on how the inside the victim's car is just filled with all kinds of brain parts (the audience doesn't see this) and generally goes into the most gross bodies he's seen. Harry is unaffected but his partner looks at the body and then turns to go puke.
** Even the first ''Film/DirtyHarry'' movie involves Harry telling someone who is [[InterruptedSuicide considering jumping off a building]] that he wants the guy's name, because the mess of a splattered body often makes people hard to identify. The guy says he thinks he's gonna puke, and Harry, who doesn't seem nauseated at all, says "[[CrossesTheLineTwice don't do that, not with all those people down there looking up]]."

* In the ''KingOfTheHill'' episode "My Own Private Rodeo", when Dale recounts how he caught his father, [[CampGay Bug]], kissing his wife Nancy on their wedding day, his story starts off catching Bill puking in the bathroom, and afterwards, nonchalantly heading straight to the kitchen, where he caught Bug in the act.
* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Parasites Lost", after learning there are worms inside Fry's body:

* In the ''DirtyHarry'' movie ''MagnumForce'', Harry is called to the scene of a murder with his partner. One of the cops there comments on how the inside the victim's car is just filled with all kinds of brain parts (the audience doesn't see this) and generally goes into the most gross bodies he's seen. Harry is unaffected but his partner looks at the body and then turns to go puke.

* In ''NationalLampoonsVacation'', after the Griswolds discover their dog had peed on their sandwiches, everyone starts spitting their sandwich out except Aunt Edna, who just keeps eating.

* In ''NationalLampoonsVacation'', after the Griswolds discover their dog had peed on their sandwiches, everyone starts spitting their sandwich out except Grandma Griswold, who just keeps eating.

* This comes up from time to time on ''{{Bones}}'', where Brennan and the other squints at the Jeffersonian are unfazed by decaying corpses and whatnot while other characters get squicked to varying degrees, including having to vomit.

* On the American version of ''TheXFactor'', the first act of one episode featured a flasher who got on stage just to expose himself to the judges. While 3 of them were totally fine, Paula went to the bathroom to vomit for about 15 minutes.
* Kari Byron, of ''{{Mythbusters}}'' fame, would gag and choke at the sight of the pig corpses the team would use for ballistic analogues while the boys were happy to carve and lift it with bare hands. She's gotten better about it, though.
* An episode of ''{{CSI}}'' has Catherine send the rookie officer escorting her out because of this trope (she doesn't want vomit contaminating her crime-scene). The suspect turns out to have been hiding, and attacks her.

* Both played straight and subverted on ''{{The X-Files}}'' with Mulder and Scully. They run across some pretty gross uknown stuff in their cases, including one case in which a mutant made a home entirely out of newspaper and bile. Scully is grossed out. Mulder sticks his fingers in it to see what it is. Meanwhile, in autopsy...Scully is the calm pathologist, while Mulder tends to look a little green around the gills (unless said corpse is rumored to be an extraterrestrial...)

See also AutopsySnackTime.

* In ''TheHuntForRedOctober'', Jack Ryan is aboard a very turbulent plane to the USS ''Enterprise''. Jack hates flying due to turbulence, but the navigator [[TooMuchInformation goes into excrutiating detail]] about a past mission:

* Medical personnel build up a resistance pretty quickly. AutopsySnackTime is, after all, TruthInTelevision.

:: [[CrossesTheLineTwice He eats the tomato anyway]].

* In ''RurouniKenshin'', when Aoshi exhumes [[spoiler:Kaori's]] grave to make sure that it's ''really not'' her, he reaches inside the cadaver and pull out the puppet-string mechanism. The other characters are nauseated by it, but Aoshi is A-OK.

* Happens a lot in ''{{Superjail}}'', where disgusting and violent deaths are commonplace.

* In the ''DirtyHarry'' movie ''Magnum Force'', Harry is called to the scene of a murder with his partner. One of the cops there comments on how the inside the victim's car is just filled with all kinds of brain parts (the audience doesn't see this) and generally goes into the most gross bodies he's seen. Harry is unaffected but his partner looks at the body and then turns to go puke.
** Even the first ''DirtyHarry'' movie involves Harry telling someone who is [[InterruptedSuicide considering jumping off a building]] that he wants the guy's name, because the mess of a splattered body often makes people hard to identify. The guy says he thinks he's gonna puke, and Harry, who doesn't seem nauseated at all, says "[[CrossesTheLineTwice don't do that, not with all those people down there looking up]]."

* Medical personnel build up a resistance to nuseating scenarios pretty quickly. AutopsySnackTime is, after all, TruthInTelevision.

* Compulsive hoarders, particularly animal hoarders, are often oblivious to how foul-smelling and unsanitary their homes have become.

** If I remember correctly, [[CrossesTheLineTwice he eats the tomato anyway]].

* In the ''MarriedWithChildren'' episode "Hot off the Grill," everyone at Al's cookout reacts with disgust when they learn that [ItMakesSenseInContex Kelly added the ashes of Marcy's dead aunt to Al's grill.]] Everyone, that is, except Steve, who hated said aunt...and starts grinning as he eats his "Bundy-burger" with even more enthusiasm.

Often leads to a VomitDiscretionShot or VomitIndescretionShot.

Often leads to a VomitDiscretionShot or VomitIndescritionShot.