History Main / VomitDiscretionShot

* When [[{{telepathy}} Haruka]] of ''Manga/KotouraSan'' [[spoiler:had a HeroicBSOD after knowing [[PokeInTheThirdEye what Hiyori thinks]] in Episode 2. She covers her mouth as the screen turns dark, and you hear a student exclaims in disgust that she threw up.]]

* ''TheXFiles'':
** In "Three of a Kind", Scully is doing an autopsy in front of Langley, and because she's none too happy about being called out to Las Vegas to work with the [[TheLoneGunmen "Three Stooges"]], Scully doesn't make it easy for him. Langley runs out of the room to throw up after she peels open the corpse's chest and asks him to bring her the Stryker saw.

* ''{{ER}}'': On a show that otherwise loved its Indiscretion Shots it also had several of the discreet variety, usually involving the medical staff. Notable examples include Carter's leaning over the ambulance-bay trash can in the pilot, and Weaver quietly excusing herself from a mass-casualty involving burned sweatshop workers.
* ''{{Firefly}}'': Simon and River take a drug that will make them appear dead so that they can be snuck into an Alliance hospital. When they're given the antidote and wake up, River just sits up gracefully, but Simon doesn't fare as well. The camera shows him hunched over on his stretcher, coughing violently, then moves up to show Jayne's face as he vomits. And as soon as Jayne comments that River seems to be doing fine, cue her violent off-screen retching and splashing.

* An episode of ''GoodLuckCharlie'' has Charlie get sick off bad fishsticks as Teddy uses her in a book report presentation to her class. Teddy's best friend likewise gets sick. The former is offscreen, but the latter is onscreen, just using a handy container to vomit into. This triggers a [[VomitChainReaction chain reaction]] of ''everybody in the class'' barfing into their backpack, hat, hood, etc.

* ''Zoey 101'': Disc Golf, at the first scene the kids are jogging laps, and one girl, Nicole, comes back on camera after throwing up. Zoey puts her finger on Nicole's shirt saying she spilled oatmeal on it, but Nicole responded by saying that it wasn't oatmeal, it was vomit. That joke is used two more times in that episode. Though the mess on Nicole's outfit would kinda count as a Vomit Indiscretion Shot.

* Happens constantly in ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', with Archer (who vomits pretty much whenever anyone mentions Malory's sex life) ducking out of camera range to throw up.

* In ''FawltyTowers'', the VomitDiscretionShot is so discreet it's confusing. In "Gourmet Night", Basil is asking inebriated chef Kurt how to prepare the mullet ("do we fry it? Just go 'ungh'"). We barely see Kurt's head move, the camera cuts to Sybil, while the audience howls with disgust. According to the director's DVD commentary, Kurt vomited on the plate, but the BBC wouldn't even let them show enough to properly suggest it.
* ''DowntonAbbey'' bizarrely combines this with a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, when Mary is caring for an injured, drugged, and distraught Matthew. He's shocked that the rather selfish Mary would want to be around him when he's "[[spoiler: crippled, impotent,]] and stinking of sick."
* On ''NightCourt'', Christine was so stressed out over whether she should accept a marriage proposal that she threw up in Dan's briefcase - we don't see it, but Bull figured out how to use his instant camera right then and captured it.

* ''MythBusters'': From a Q&A with Adam Savage, the show may have actually gone with this (instead of the far more common Indiscretion Shot) once. They were given two rules when they wanted to film part of the Moon Landing episode on the zero-G plane: 1) Do not refer to the plane as the "Vomit Comet" on camera, and 2) Do not show anyone vomiting during the flights. To quote Adam, "We didn't, and we didn't."

* ''Webcomic/OutAtHome'' subverts this somewhat in [[http://www.out-at-home.com/archives/438 this strip]], where the actual vomit is off-panel, yet the SOUND EFFECT is goopy and a sickening shade of green.

* Used in ''FanFic/ChessPiece'' after a particularly [[NightmareFuel frightning]] [[NightmareDreams dream]].

* Used in [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2010-02-17 this]] ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' with a drunken Missi.
* Whenever someone vomits in ''DominicDeegan'', the sounds of vomiting will be an onomatopoeia that takes up half the panel. But the vomiting person will either be bent over or otherwise not in frame.

* Even happens to White Bomberman in [[http://coyotemag.deviantart.com/art/Comic-4-Crystaljetters-Page-1-157326747 the art made by the editor's friend Maggie Nettles]], where he accidentally ran over the poison power-up. Another art of him was removed from deviantART.

* ''DungeonKeeper 2'': One of the cutscenes has a bile demon turning away from the camera to vomit after a fairy constantly flies around him.

* When [[{{telepathy}} Haruka]] of ''Manga/{{Kotoura-san}}'' [[spoiler:had a HeroicBSOD after knowing [[PokeInTheThirdEye what Hiyori thinks]] in Episode 2. She covers her mouth as the screen turns dark, and you hear a student exclaims in disgust that she threw up.]]

* Averted in ''Film/Serenity'', when, just after learning [[spoiler:the Federation was responsible for the creation of the Reavers,]] River vomits (albeit slightly) to the side. When her brother attends to her, she tells him [[spoiler:"I'm alright," and she means that, now the secret that she didn't even know she carried is out, her mind is finally able to deal with it.]]

* A variation is used in the anime of ItsNotMyFaultImNotPopular, episode 2. Tomoko is seen vomiting with a CensorBox used to cover it.

* Happens a few times during the course of FruitsBasket. Once while [[spoiler: Tohru is chasing after transformed Kyo, the smell of his monstrous flesh forcing her to vomit]], and another notable time in one of the last dozen or so chapters, where Kyo, on his way back from [[spoiler: talking to his crazy father]], he lets loose while coincidentally walking past Hiro and Kisa. He claims it's because he let so much out of the tank just a few minutes prior. The author plays with this, censoring out the area he would vomit in a BishieSparkle cloud and the words "Censored for the audience."

* In the anime of ItsNotMyFaultImNotPopular, episode 2, Tomoko is seen vomiting with a CensorBox used to cover it.

* ''{{MASH}}'': "Welcome To Korea," has Hawkeye, B.J. and Radar and a group of U.S. soldiers attacked by enemy fire. Hawkeye is doing what he can, but when B.J. turns a dead soldier over and sees his front, he does the Technicolor yawn. A judicious camera angle keeps us from seeing anything coming out.

Often done as a way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, although ironically the HaysCode that was in effect for Hollywood movies between 1934 and 1968 made no mention of vomiting or any other bodily functions. This was primarily because the censors took it for granted that filmmakers themselves found bodily fluids so disgusting that [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt they wouldn't]] ''[[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt want]]'' [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt to put them in their movies]]. Well, some of these filmmakers ''did'' want that...

* Happens constantly in ''{{Archer}}'', with Archer (who vomits pretty much whenever anyone mentions Malory's sex life) ducking out of camera range to throw up.

* Used in ''[[Manga/DragonBall Dragon Ball Z]]''. Gohan punches Cell in the stomach so hard that Cell literally vomits Android 18 out of his body. In the original Master Roshi vomits out the window offscreen when he finds out that he was watching a man undress through his spy camera.