Cry With Onions

𝑳𝑨𝒀𝑬𝑹𝑺

When the emotion in a scene is so tacked on that the audience need onions to make them even come close to crying. This may be caused by amateur writers, rushed writing, or a simply trashy moment in the story. Cry With Onions is the sad cousin of Laugh With Feathers, an UnTrash in which a joke is so unfunny that the audience would seemingly need to be tickled with feathers to laugh at it. Story flaws that trigger Cry With Onions have the tenancy to dampen the mood and make it hard to feel bad for whoever is involved. The SOB, for one, is challenging to shed a tear for when they get their comeuppance. Their ill-mannered behavior can be a major turn-off for the audience, and their suffering is more a moment of victory than downfall. Anybody else who is Too Bad To Be Likable won't be convincing the ones watching them to show sympathy. This UnTrash cannot apply if the drama is fully between the characters themselves. If the audience isn't meant to be moved, Cry With Onions will not play.