Sick to my Stomach

Heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes -- all top priority health problems in our country.  But if you watch TV or movies it appears that Americans have gigantic gastrointestinal issues as well.  Why else is there an abundance of vomiting on the big and small screen?

Who, I ask, finds this in any way funny except perhaps teenage boys?  I suppose there's a few million utterly immature men to be added as well, but let's save that for another time.  Throw in a few flatulence and boob jokes and you've got a hit.

Who, I ask, creates this stuff?  Guys who recently were teenage boys and, again, those utterly immature men? Gee, no one's barfed in this episode yet. Let's write it in.

Look sick, hold your belly, run to the bathroom  -- period.  Most viewers are quite capable of  filling in the blank here, including sound effects, since we've all been there, done that, got the proverbial t-shirt.  No need to overdue it with attempted realism.

It's so typically Hollywood. Watch the BBC and you won't see the Brits with their heads in the loo.

BUT  WAIT!  NOOOOO!  I wrote this on Saturday but was made a liar Sunday evening when the BBC actor says he's not feeling well and....well you can take if from there.  I stand corrected and horribly upset at that last bastion of  class.

Does Hamlet throw up?  Does Othello upchuck?  Even Ophelia, with all her herbs and flitting about, doesn't get nauseated.  Shakespeare wrote something like 36 plays and I don't recall one puking scene among them -- comedies or tragedies.  

Of course TV and most movies aren't fine art, but do they have to be so tasteless?  The whole trend makes me sick to my stomach.