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A cough means blood in the napkin. Blood means cancer. If a character coughs, they die.
by watt 5y ago
A cough means blood in the napkin. Blood means cancer. If a character coughs, they die.
- quietbritishjim 5y agoThis is thoroughly ridiculed in A Series of Unfortunate Events (the Netflix TV series and presumably also the books that they're based on). (Mild spoiler alert) The bank manager has a noticeable cough the whole way through. If anything it gets worse and other characters comment on it, and it seems for sure that it will be a plot point. Of course, it ultimately comes to nothing.
- 1986 5y agoMitchell & Webb did this even quicker with "A Man who has a Cough and it's just a Cough and he's Fine": > A woman, called Kylie, repeatedly exits a train, as a man greets her, who has a cough. The cough gets worse, until one time Kylie leaves the train to find no-one there. She believes he has died of TB, but he walks up behind her, stating "No, it was just a cough."