History Main / InappropriateHunger

* In the first season of ''{{Literature/Slayers}}'', Dilgear's eulogy for a fallen fishman is marred by the rest of his men eating the body. When he finishes the eulogy he gets upset because they didn't leave any for him.

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* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Koema is often scolded for chowing down whilst Yusuke fights for his life.
* In the first season of ''{{Literature/Slayers}}'', Dilgear's eulogy for a fallen fishman is marred by the rest of his men eating the body. When he finishes the eulogy he gets upset because they didn't leave any for him.

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* Deliberately inverted and averted in ''Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream.'' The car designer makes a point of serving ultra-rare red meat at a conference during which he shows grisly photos of accident victims. Gradually, the men at the table stop eating and start looking sick.
* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', looking at a zombie chowing down on a corpse makes Columbus sick and sad. But it makes [[CrazyIsCool Tallahassee]] hungry.
* In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', after [[spoiler:Thor has been banished and Loki is put on the throne]], the Warriors Three's discussion on what to do starts with Fandral calling [[BigEater Volstagg]] out for chowing down. Volstagg shouts back that Fandral should not "mistake [his] appetite for apathy."
* In ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'', the BigEater Man-at-Arms mentions that he's feeling a little hungry while ducking behind cover before a firefight.
* In ''Film/RoboCop2'', the doctor that removes Cain's brain to become [[EvilCounterpart RoboCop 2]] remarks that he's hungry immediately afterward.

* In ''Film/DenOfThieves'', O'Brien is introduced stealing a donut from a blood-spattered box at a crime scene.

* In the opening of ''Series/BlueCollarComedy Tour Rides Again'', Creator/LarryTheCableGuy is hungry after coming out of a restroom someone had recently sat down and gone in, while the others had all reacted with disgust to the smell.

* In ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Vetinari has called Moist to his office in the early morning, is eating a hard-boiled egg, and keeps offering food to Moist. He makes an offhand comment that a hanging always makes one hungry. Moist is not inclined to agree, as he's only been hanged once, and he didn't feel like eating anything.
* Mops, during ''Literature/JanitorsOfThePostapocalypse'', is aggravated when dealing with a deceased Krakau officer whose body has been exposed to a heat-based sterilization procedure. Her mind feels grief for this long-term superior officer who she was fond of, while her body smells [[OctopoidAliens roast squid]] and drools. It's especially annoying for her because she hasn't eaten anything by mouth in twelve years, this reflex is just built in.

* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': Walter Bishop is well known for this, to the point of it being a RunningGag. Somewhat {{justified|Trope}}, in that he'd been in a mental institution with terrible food for 17 years straight.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'':
** An ad for the show shows Shawn snacking on a donut that he took from the corpse at the crime scene he's investigating. It ends with him licking something red off his finger and nonchalantly saying "That wasn't a jelly donut."
** In one episode, Gus goes really far beyond the line of common decency when he starts talking about how he could use some waffles with strawberries and syrup ''while at a crime scene of a near-mythical serial killer''. Of course, he's doing it to [[spoiler: help keep Shawn from freaking out]], but even ''Shawn'' says that it's getting really weird.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E12BadBlood Bad Blood]]", Scully's autopsy of a victim reveals his last meal was pizza. Scully thinks that sounds pretty good, and orders one when she goes back to the hotel.
* One episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' had him ordering his team to get a stool sample (with [[{{Squick}} unnecessarily graphic detail]]), then muttering "That reminds me, I want a bagel..."

* One episode of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' has Dexter explaining his forensic analysis of a bloody crime scene, with details on exactly how the victims were killed, then gleefully announcing that he's going to lunch.
-->'''Uniform on scene:''' What now?\\
'''Dexter:''' Now I ''eat!''
* On ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', after a mild breakdown during the season finale, Simon relaxes in a deserted backroom, eating pizza while gazing at the frozen corpse of [[spoiler: Sally the probation worker]].
* In an early episode of ''Series/BabylonFive'', [[NumberTwo Lieutenant Commander Ivanova]] finds [[DaChief Micheal Garibaldi]] at a restaurant "eating like a man starved" after he had found a missing passenger transport that had been destroyed by [[SpacePirates Raiders]]. [[DiscussedTrope He explains]] that seeing death makes him hungry, he figures that it is his way of reminding himself that he is still alive. Given [[TheAlcoholic other details we know of Garibaldi]], it's also possible that he gorges himself on food as an [[AddictionDisplacement alternative]] to [[INeedAFreakingDrink falling back into the bottle.]]
* Provenza of ''Series/TheCloser'', is usually seen snacking even in the presence of rotting corpses.
* Happens once on ''Series/HouseOfAnubis''.
-->'''Amber:''' Alfie, how could you possibly be eating at a time like this?\\
'''Alfie:''' I always eat when I'm scared. Or nervous. Or... happy, come to think of it.\\
'''Amber:''' Or any day with a 'y' in it...

* In ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', a young Sameen Shaw once reacted to learning that her father had just died in the car accident they were both in by asking the rescue workers for a sandwich. Some years later, her habit of snacking while discussing the prognosis of terminal patients with their families destroyed her medical career. This behavior of hers seems to be based in her limited capacity for emotion and logic: The fact that someone is dead/dying means that there's nothing more that can be done there. But the fact that she's hungry can still be remedied. So she eats something.
* In ''{{Series/Firefly}}'', Jayne mentions to Shepard Book that seeing dead people gives him an urge to just ''do something'', whether it work out, or get into a fight, or try to get laid. [[ThatCameOutWrong Not that seeing dead people makes him flush]]... Book reasons that it's natural to want to feel alive after witnessing death.
* In a flashback in ''Series/DarkMatter2015'', Three is shown eating dinner, completely unfazed by Two fighting (and killing) their crewmates Shrike and Jasper right in front of him. Even when Shrike tries to strangle Two on the mess table, and Two shoots Jasper who is lying on the floor right behind Three.

* On ''Series/{{Passions}}'', heart-recepient Charity is in a coma fighting for her life. While her doctors, loving family and boyfriend Miguel are holding a vigil over her, her disinterested cousin and rival for Miguel's affections, Kay, eats some doughnuts in the lobby just outside of her room in the intensive care unit, which her best friend Simone calls her out on.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'':
** During the Omega Quarantine Zone mission, you come across a pile of diseased bodies being burned in the street. If you brought Grunt along, he'll comment "Anyone else hungry?" Depending on who you have in your party, he'll be called out on this.
** Becomes a RunningGag for him, [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Zaeed at least once.
--->'''Zaeed''': Is there any smell that ''doesn't'' make you hungry?\\
'''Grunt''': I don't know yet.
** It's well-established that krogan will eat just about anything (the better to survive when hungry on a battlefield)... except, apparently, ramen noodles.
--->'''Grunt''': Looks like worms. ''Dead'' worms. This is a human thing?
* Coach from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' '''is''' this trope.
-->"Man, if I find a [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Burger]] Tank in this place, Im'a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse!"
-->"I could roll up a whole pizza right now and eat it sub style!"
-->"Elephant ears... corn dogs... this is bringing back some memories!"
-->"Ah, cotton candy. The wise pharaoh of food, sittin' atop the food pyramid, passing judgment on all the lesser foods."
* In one of the early missions of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', Big Smoke quietly eats his and his friends' takeout meals in the backseat while the rest are caught in a drive-by shootout with a Balla gangcar. [[spoiler: This is actually a hint that Smoke is now working for the Ballas.]]
-->"If you can eat your food, while everybody's losing theirs and blaming you, you straight, homie!"

* Unaccountably Peckish is one of the menaces of ''VideoGame/FallenLondon''. Among other situations, it can potentially increase from visiting a butcher's shop full of disorganized meat and gory bits that came from... we don't really get to know what sort of creature, but probably something [[EldritchAbomination eldritch]].

* In ''Videogame/VisceraCleanupDetail: [[VideoGame/ShadowWarrior2013 Shadow Warrior]]'', chucking body parts in an incinerator will occasionally make the janitor think "Is it weird how that smell makes me hungry?"

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': When the boys visit a farm and see all the baby cows in constrictive pens because they're destined to become veal, everyone is {{Squick}}ed except Cartman, who says they all look delicious.

* One of the ''[[ChristmasSpecial Twelve Tiny Christmas Tales]]'' is described as "too scary" by the grandmother reading to her grandchildren. The children ask for it anyway, and it turns out to be a version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" that ends with the true love and his lady killing and eating all the birds. This ending makes two of the children burst into tears, but the third licks his lips and declares, "I'm hungry!"
* In a first season episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', the band gets hungry while watching a pack of wolves eat their evil therapist's arms.
* After jamming a man in a coffin and dumping him into bubbling acid, [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The Joker]] has one thought on his mind:

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Homer and Bart, and later Lisa, watching a show called "When Surgeries Go Wrong". After the show is over, Homer says that watching the stomach surgery made him hungry.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': {{Downplayed}} example in "Watermelon Steven"; when holding Baby Melon's watermelon slice (not mashed pulp) remains just like a fruit bowl, Steven takes a bite out his juicy flesh. The Crystal Gems are understandably disgusted.

* In the first season of ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'', Dilgear's eulogy for a fallen fishman is marred by the rest of his men eating the body. When he finishes the eulogy he gets upset because they didn't leave any for him.

* In a flashback in ''Series/DarkMatter'', Three is shown eating dinner, completely unfazed by Two fighting (and killing) their crewmates Shrike and Jasper right in front of him. Even when Shrike tries to strangle Two on the mess table, and Two shoots Jasper who is lying on the floor right behind Three.

Compare ObsessedWithFood, OneTrackMindedHunger, and TheSnackIsMoreInteresting. Contrast LostMyAppetite, VomitingCop. May overlap with ImpromptuCampfireCookout. See also AutopsySnackTime. The FatComicRelief is prone to this sort of moment.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': Walter Bishop is well known for this, to the point of it being a RunningGag. Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]], in that he'd been in a mental institution with terrible food for 17 years straight.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': An ad for this show shows Shawn snacking on a donut that he took from the corpse at the crime scene he's investigating. It ends with him licking something red off his finger and nonchalantly saying "That wasn't a jelly donut."

* During an episode of ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Doctor feels he wants a hotdog. While running from [[BodyHorror Cybermen]].
** In the Third Doctor serial "The Sea Devils", the Doctor steals the Master's sandwich... in the middle of a sword fight with the guy.
** In "The Return of Dr. Mysterio," the 2016 Christmas Special, a Lois Lane expy is hiding in the bad guy's office when she notices The Doctor, standing next to her eating sushi because he is now "bringing snacks to these sort of things."
* In the ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]'' episode "Bad Blood", Scully's autopsy of a victim reveals his last meal was pizza. Scully thinks that sounds pretty good, and orders one when she goes back to the hotel.

* Series/{{Eureka}}: While watching an autopsy on a mystery body found burned and fused into a metal door, Allison comments that she's "craving rib meat...beef jerky". Even though her weird cravings might be justified by her pregnancy, it's still enough to make Jack want to throw up.

-->'''Amber''': Alfie, how could you possibly be eating at a time like this?\\
'''Alfie''': I always eat when I'm scared. Or nervous. Or...happy, come to think of it.\\
'''Amber''': Or any day with a 'y' in it...

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''[[Webcomic/FifteenMinds Blue Moon Blossom]]'', a few villagers were still stuffing their faces as they turned to stone, surrounded by their fellow villagers taking up swords against the snake-demons, crying, running in terror, praying in desperation, or clutching their terrified children.
* One of the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Jagermonsters]] in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' gets hungry ''[[{{Squick}} while traipsing through a sewer.]]''

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* Emily Grasile of [[WebVideo/TheBrainScoop The Brain Scoop]] frequently talks about being hungry or what she wants for lunch while dissecting and preparing specimens in the lab, despite complaining of the horrific stench.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''Podcast/TheFlopHouse'': In one episode, Dan references the classic character of the "sandwich-eating coroner." Elliot confirms that the last time he wrote a coroner into a scene, he had to decide whether the character would be eating a sandwich because "all of them do."
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