Unrealistic things in movies and tv shows that drive you crazy

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Anonymous wrote:Any time a girl throws up, she's pregnant. 100% of the time.

or faints

Related: anytime someone has a cough, they have cancer.

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Car chases in DC, never a cop or Fed security in sight - complete with car crashes and gunshots - in Downtown, daylight DC; yeah good luck with that.

Barrage of gun shots that never hit innocent bystanders;

No one is tired, ever; even after all the running, and dashing hither and tither.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone wears shoes in the house: drives me nuts (we’re a shoes off house)
seconding the full sit down breakfast before school and work: who does that???
never repeating outfits: grrrr, at least reuse, remix items! such waste and really reinforces the desire for fast fashion
bedrooms are HUGE: The only bedroom that seemed a normal size was the Brady boys, made total sense for Greg to move to the attic


Wow, never realized how many pet peeves I have, lol!

Shoes in the house isn’t unrealistic, though…you just don’t do it at your house.

It is unrealistic that everyone wears shoes all the time. Most families I interact with are shoes off in the house houses.

You need to get out of your UMC DMV bubble. No one in the rest of the country takes their shoes off the minute they walk in the door.

We did in the Midwest. Parents were super neat. Most families I knew did, too, although everyone was pretty tidy. I’m sure I’m not remembering those who must have worn shoes in the house. There might have been some.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read everything but when they never deal with the mess after sex.

What mess are you referring to?

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read everything but when they never deal with the mess after sex.

Do you…really want to see that?

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Anonymous wrote:Forced diversity in recent shows/movies. They always have to have that one character that is gay or trans and it’s too obvious and on the nose. (Example: Bros)

I miss 20 years ago when a gay character just existed and wasn’t heavily stereotyped and over the top.

Genuinely curious what show/movie you are thinking of when you say this. I can't think of any examples.

Monroe on Too Close for Comfort way back in the 80s.

Nobody even addressed his sexuality directly. And he was the real star of the show.

I think that was more because it wasn't proper to have an out gay character. Homosexuality was depicted as something you didn't talk about. The characters could behave like stereotypical "gay" people, but baby boomer moms could believe they were just charming bachelors. Charles Nelson Riley, Paul Lynde, etc.

Disagree.

Three’s Company joked about it.

Wilson Cruz and Scott Thompson played countless gay characters seamlessly.

The joke for the viewer was that Jack was pretending to be gay, but clearly wasn't.

Not exactly an openly gay character.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that.

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Anonymous wrote:People walk in from a day out and head to the kitchen to eat or cook and never wash their hands.

This has bothered me since I was a young kid. The first thing we do is wash our hands when we come home.

I don’t actually think this is unrealistic. That’s definitely not the first thing everyone does.

It's unrealistic for me. It's was the norm for me, my parents, and their parents. It's also what I have taught my children. Maybe it's culture (we are Black) or regional (parents are from the south), but all my friends and family wash their hands when they come home and before eating or cooking.

I do realize that others don't do this. Its one of the reasons I will never eat at an office potluck.

+1000

Ditto. Another Black person from the South.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate how people can instantly log into any random computer and the passwords and they instantly can find whatever information they are trying to steal. Five seconds, they are in and they find exactly the files and boom they are off before the gunmen storm the room.

I never saw a computer that was that quick.

I swear my husband thinks life should be that way. In the car he'll be like "what exit do I take?" I google the place, pull up the map, get myself oriented and before I even see where we are, he's annoyed, saying "where do we turn? I thought you were looking it up!"

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Anonymous wrote:Drives me insane when characters don’t wear hats when in bitterly cold environments. Can’t tell you how many times I was yelling at the screen watching Game of Thrones!

When Asian families don’t take their shoes off. I had to stop watching Beauty and the Beast (2012 TV show) because the Asian main character didn’t take her shoes off when she walked into the house.

This is annoying but also kinda funny. When shows have obviously not ever visited the DC area.
—the characters say “the 95”. In Ca they say ‘the 101’ when referencing highways. Here we just say ‘95’
—Bones, they always were driving towards the Capitol. Didn’t matter where they were going, the establishing shot was them driving toward the Capitol
—NCIS, always solving cases in Norfolk. Driving down in the morning, work on case and home by evening 🙄
—NCIS, chased suspect from Braddock Mall (off Braddock Rd in Ffx County) right into an Orange Grove
— Criminal Minds, Spencer gets of the Quantico metro station
— Criminal Minds, one of the female characters is in her condo that overlooks Memorial Bridge and Lincoln Memorial. (I was unaware that Arlington Cemetery has condos 🙄)

Omg! They announce “we’re headed to Georgetown!” While driving east on Independence. Made me bonkers!

Same for Homeland - she’s dropped off in “middle of nowhere “, flags down a passing car, borrows a cell phone, calls Langely and says “I’m east of Chantilly on Route 50!” DH turned to me and said “you mean the fair Oaks mall?”.

Check a map people!

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Anonymous wrote:A driving scene where the driver looks at the passenger while speaking, taking his/her/their (don't forget that!) eyes off the road for ridiculous amounts of time. They would have seriously run off the road!

The scene in Say Anything where she breaks up with him while he's driving. I've seen the movie several times but I keep expecting the car to crash.

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Teenagers always have tons of time to hang out with their friends and do other fun things on a school night. Granted a show where kids come home from school and do homework until bedtime would be super boring, but where do these TV kids find the time?

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Anonymous wrote:Drives me insane when characters don’t wear hats when in bitterly cold environments. Can’t tell you how many times I was yelling at the screen watching Game of Thrones!

When Asian families don’t take their shoes off. I had to stop watching Beauty and the Beast (2012 TV show) because the Asian main character didn’t take her shoes off when she walked into the house.

This is annoying but also kinda funny. When shows have obviously not ever visited the DC area.
—the characters say “the 95”. In Ca they say ‘the 101’ when referencing highways. Here we just say ‘95’
—Bones, they always were driving towards the Capitol. Didn’t matter where they were going, the establishing shot was them driving toward the Capitol
—NCIS, always solving cases in Norfolk. Driving down in the morning, work on case and home by evening 🙄
—NCIS, chased suspect from Braddock Mall (off Braddock Rd in Ffx County) right into an Orange Grove
— Criminal Minds, Spencer gets of the Quantico metro station
— Criminal Minds, one of the female characters is in her condo that overlooks Memorial Bridge and Lincoln Memorial. (I was unaware that Arlington Cemetery has condos 🙄)

Omg! They announce “we’re headed to Georgetown!” While driving east on Independence. Made me bonkers!

Same for Homeland - she’s dropped off in “middle of nowhere “, flags down a passing car, borrows a cell phone, calls Langely and says “I’m east of Chantilly on Route 50!” DH turned to me and said “you mean the fair Oaks mall?”.

Check a map people!

I loved The Americans but couldn't get over how obvious it was that it was not filmed in DC. Every time they were "in the city" it was so obviously New York. I'm from NYC but have been in DC proper 20 years and was wracking my brain trying to think of anywhere that looked like the locations they were at, but my gut was like, "THAT IS BROOKLYN. THAT HAS TO BE BROOKLYN!!"

It was Brooklyn. Why do they do this?

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Anonymous wrote:Also, miscarriage. It's always a rush of blood and a trip to the hospital. Maybe the mom-no-to-be passes out or similar. Wake up in a hospital bed.

Not saying that never happens in miscarriage, but it's not what usually happens.

Sort of related, but for characters that are pregnant and don't want a baby, there is endless hand-wringing about what to do and in 90% of them they end up skirting the abortion decision with a "lucky miscarriage." I get why they do it for viewers but it is not realistic that so many unplanned pregnancies by teens and twenty somethings result in miscarriage that allows them to go about their lives without having to make hard decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read everything but when they never deal with the mess after sex.

Do you…really want to see that?

Not explicitly, no, but in some movies they at least acknowledge that sex is messy.

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Anonymous wrote:They seemingly never repeat outfits. Ever.

Roseanne was perhaps the first and only show where people wore outfits more than once.

Mad Men did this also, at least for Peggy.