History Main / TheFoodPoisoningIncident

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* Has happened to [[ManVsWild Bear Grylls]] on his show at least once. Not surprising, given [[ExtremeOmnivore all the dodgy stuff he eats]].

* In the ''FawltyTowers'' episode "Basil the Rat", one of the catastrophes Basil fawlty must deal with is the possibility that he has just served the health inspector a poisoned veal cutlet.
* In ''TheNanny'' 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, [[ItMakesSenseInContext disguised as a candy striper]], [[CrowningMomentOfFunny to shave Maxwell]]...
* ''WhatsHappening!!'' 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 ''SexAndTheCity'' ("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.

* Talking to Isabela near the docks in ''DragonAgeII'' results in her warning you never to eat the clams - she did and was sick for a whole ''week''. Hawke can also remark upon being offered a drink by Merrill that s/he wouldn't drink the water. (Considering the technological era of the setting, and that cholera is mentioned to be a problem, that's a wise decision. Though Merrill does boil it. Several times. [[{{Squick}} It wouldn't stop twitching.]])

* Talking to Isabela near the docks in ''DragonAgeII'' results in her warning you never to eat the clams - she did and was sick for a whole ''week''. Hawke can also remark upon being offered a drink by Merrill that s/he wouldn't drink the water. (Considering the TechnologyLevel of the setting, and that cholera is mentioned to be a problem, that's a wise decision. Though Merrill does boil it. Several times. [[Squick It wouldn't stop twitching.]])

* ''TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'': Little Pete pretends to get food poisoning from spoiled tapioca so he can play hooky.

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* 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.
* ''{{Airplane}}!''. Anyone who had fish for their in-flight dinner got a life-threatening case of food poisoning. Guess what the entire flight crew had.

* '' {{Seinfeld}}'': the woman who gets sick when the silica pack gets into the salsa placed out at Putamayo. By a typical turn of events, Jerry's number is on speed dial under "Poison Control".
* This is probably really obscure, but he mid-70s syndicated kids show {{Salty}} had an episode where they had to find someone who had eaten rancid food and didn't know it.

* ''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.

* A couple from ''Series/{{Mash}}'': In "The Yalu Brick Road", most of the camp gets samonella from some bad Thanksgiving turkeys that Klinger acquired. There is also an episode where Charles and Margaret eat a canned bird (pheasant?) and get ill.

* ''TheSimpsons'', "Homer and Apu". Apu marks down some expired ham. Homer eats it and gets sick. Upon Homer's complaint, Apu offers him ten pounds of "frozen" shrimp. Homer eats it and gets sick.

* In one episode of ''{{Sixteen}}'', an accidentally unplugged fridge results in a VomitChainReaction that wreaks havoc through the entire shopping mall.

* One version of ''The Pied Piper Of Hamlin'' subverts all of the magical aspects of the original story with natural explanations, including that the piper hid his anger at being cheated then deliberately gave the village children a mild case of food poisoning which also had a mildly hypnotic effect on them. Dancing helped the children to eliminate the poison faster, and the hypnotic effect meant that the children followed the piper. (The piper collapsed the end of the tunnel after all the children were through, and stated his intention of selling them into indentured servitude elsewhere to get the money he'd been cheated out of).

* One episode of ''Main/TheFairlyOddparents'' involved Timmy's classroom getting food poisoning from a cake that Tad and Chad made for the student body presidential election. The only ones unaffected were Timmy himself and Principal Waxelplax, who is frosting intolerant.

* One episode of ''BeavisAndButtHead'' had Beavis with a really nasty rash on his crotch, which he scratched frantically even while working at Burger World. Everyone in the resteraunt ends up collapsing, and a news reports states that the virus strain is one they've never seen before.

Compare WaterSourceTampering, TamperingWithFoodAndDrink and BestBeforeDecade which all can lead up to this trope.

* LivingInOblivion: In one of the sequences, the chief cinematographer is made violently ill from spoiled milk left out on the craft service table.

Compare WaterSourceTampering and TamperingWithFoodAndDrink.

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[[caption-width:300: Sorry 'bout the salmonella.]]

*** A similar incident appears in a Halloween episode spoofing ''TwentyEightDaysLater'', with "Double Meat" Krustyburgers turning people into "Munchers".

Compare to CowboyBebop: MushroomSamba.

* On the season 6 finale of ''HowIMetYourMother'', Lily gets sick after eating soup and Marshall, who had eaten the same soup, prepares for the inevitable effects to kick in, just as he's interviewing for his dream job. In the end [[spoiler:nothing happens to Marshall, and it turns out it wasn't the soup that made Lily sick; she was pregnant.]]

* A couple from ''{{Series/Mash}}'': In "The Yalu Brick Road", most of the camp gets samonella from some bad Thanksgiving turkeys that Klinger acquired. There is also an episode where Charles and Margaret eat a canned bird (pheasant?) and get ill.

* One {{WWE}} Smackdown skit in 2004 revolved around EddieGuerrero giving TheBigShow a tainted Burrito and then the lucky people in the audience got to watch Big Show plead for toilet paper while a fairly nasty fart recording was played.

* Inverted in an episode of ''SpongebobSquarepants'' - 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.]]

* ''KingOfTheHill'' has an episode where the supply of Alamo Beer delivered to Mexico has been tainted with some cleaning solution. Peggy finds out about it while taking on a temporary job as a call-center operator, and listens to complaints all day about vomiting and diarrhea caused by drinking the beer. Eventually she gets the executives at Alamo to admit their mistake and initiate a recall after sneaking some Mexican-market Alamo into a board meeting.

* ''Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree'' has her father-in-law's housewarming party disrupted by eleventh-hour food poisoning at the caterer's firm; the narrator enlist help from the community to come up with the food.

* ''KingOfTheHill'' has an episode where the supply of Alamo Beer delivered to Mexico has been tainted with some cleaning solution. Peggy finds out about it while taking on a temporary job as a call-center operator, and listens to complaints all day about vomiting and diarrhea caused by drinking the beer. Eventually she gets the executives at Alamo to admit their mistake and initiate a recall after sneaking some Mexican-market Alamo into a board meeting.

* 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.

* ''MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'': The dinner party guests. [[DidNotEatTheMousse All of them.]]

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* 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.

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** Homer becomes a victim of this trope again when he eats at a 66 cent discount store.

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* In ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "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).

* "The Groundhog Day" episode of ''{{Supernatural}}'' where one of Dean's deaths is from a bad Taco.

** A milder example is "Pretty Patties", in which [=SpongeBob=] sells colored patties. The people who eat them don't get sick exactly, but they do turn the same color as the patties they ate.