Unrealistic things in movies and tv shows that drive you crazy

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I used to get angry about all those Disney movies with the divorced parents and the kids getting shuttled between expensive homes in top of the line cars. There is a movie with Steve Carnell where he ends up in a nondescript beige apartment with no view after the divorce and it is much more realistic,

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Anonymous wrote:“School nurse” is often in a white uniform. Hadn’t been this way in decades.

Emergency Room scenes: entire families waltz into the ER desk staffed by a white uniformed nurse and immediately get detailed updates and access to patient’s room! Mary’s been admitted! She’s doing fine after being in that terrible car crash! And, she had a baby boy! He was deleivered in the ambulance! She’s in Room 1-B talking with Dr. Smith! Yes, you may all race to her bedside with your helium balloons and gift baskets that you’ve somehow obtained en route to the hospital.

And speaking of medical dramas: when someone is brought into the ER after falling off a ladder or something, and during the x-ray it's discovered they have ... KNEE CANCER! That spill saved their life. The patient is immediately sent to surgery and when they wake up, all the ER staff is there because they care about the patient so much. And one is probably going to date the knee cancer survivor because, hotness.

this happened to a son of my friends. Broke his ankle or leg and found cancer.

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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.

Well I wear MY shoes ALL the time. Just because you don't doesn't mean there aren't people who do. Btw, I don't care if you think it is disgusting. You are not living in my house so I don't give a fig.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your biggest pet peeve?

Here’s mine: When two characters from the same foreign country speak to each other in broken, heavily accented English rather than their mother tongue. That never EVER happens in real life. It’s baffling to me why directors always do this. I mean, directors: If you can’t find two American actors who speak fluent German, then just hire a couple of German actors and use subtitles for their scenes. It will make the movie feel more authentic and the audience will appreciate that you respect their intelligence.

Maybe someone posted this already and I missed it but: This is indeed irksome, but it's also dying out in today's shows and films. My DD loved the series "1899" in which characters spoke in multiple languages throughout. Viewers had options to stream a subtitled version or (I think) a dubbed version. But the whole "everyone speaks in accented English" thing was not present. DD, who watches a ton of excellent shows and is really into details of production, says this is increasingly common, too. So your pet peeve is, let's hope, going to die out pretty quickly -- probably thanks largely to international shows on streaming, and production of shows aimed at international audiences who won't tolerate the "accented English" thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Sex - zero foreplay. The man just jams it in and the woman is screaming in pleasure.

Usually up against a wall. Sorry but no guy is hot enough that I can't manage to get to the bedroom.

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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.

And yet all the flannels on Roseanne are from ll bean. (Most of Becky’s clothing in the new series is from nordstrom—yes, nordstrom sells bedazzled rose embroidered jeans) So unrealistic!

The most realistic clothing were the suits on the office, so ill fitting, it captured the average American office worker style so well

LL Bean flannels last forever so it makes sense to have a handful for life.

DP. Maybe the family bought those long-lasting LL BEan flannels at a secondhand store, too....

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Anonymous wrote:The easy ability to park on the street directly in front of any place you're going.

Yes! But it doesn't really drive me crazy; I just find it hilarious. The worst offender for us was "White Collar," where the leads drive all over Manhattan and always swan up to a spot right in front of, or maybe (gasp) down the block from, where they're going. But this magical parking fit into that show's overall alternate-reality New York, where the streets were so perfect that our family dubbed the setting "Clean-hattan." Like someone had scrubbed the city every night! Kind of a nice fantasy.

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Anonymous wrote:“School nurse” is often in a white uniform. Hadn’t been this way in decades.

Emergency Room scenes: entire families waltz into the ER desk staffed by a white uniformed nurse and immediately get detailed updates and access to patient’s room! Mary’s been admitted! She’s doing fine after being in that terrible car crash! And, she had a baby boy! He was deleivered in the ambulance! She’s in Room 1-B talking with Dr. Smith! Yes, you may all race to her bedside with your helium balloons and gift baskets that you’ve somehow obtained en route to the hospital.

And speaking of medical dramas: when someone is brought into the ER after falling off a ladder or something, and during the x-ray it's discovered they have ... KNEE CANCER! That spill saved their life. The patient is immediately sent to surgery and when they wake up, all the ER staff is there because they care about the patient so much. And one is probably going to date the knee cancer survivor because, hotness.

this happened to a son of my friends. Broke his ankle or leg and found cancer.

I know someone this happened to, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Sex - zero foreplay. The man just jams it in and the woman is screaming in pleasure.

Usually up against a wall. Sorry but no guy is hot enough that I can't manage to get to the bedroom.

And like that is going to give her an O, too.

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Cops living in swanky apartments or stand alone houses in the cities where they work. IRL, most police (and firefighters) live in some far-flung suburb due to their salaries.

'Southland' was pretty realistic in this way. Many of the officers lived in Castaic, about an hour outside Los Angeles, and were neighbors who'd go to each other's kids birthday parties and so forth.

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My pet peeve with anything set before the mid-20th-century is when someone is shown writing fluidly with their left hand and nobody smacks the back of that hand and .says "RIGHT hand only!"

OK, not that extreme, though my late grandmother got swatted a lot for that reason.

But before the later 20th century, children (at least in the US and UK) were always taught to write right-handed even if they were naturally left-handed. Some teachers and parents would tie a kid's left hand behind the kid's back or use other methods to force right-handedness. Especially when I see some historical setting where someone's blithely scribbling away left-handed, it takes me out of the reality of the setting. I'm sure there were adults who, later in their lives, wrote left-handed as they pleased, but overall it's just not true to many periods and places to see it on screen.

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Do any of you regularly keep your bra on during sex? I remember first noticing that in SATC, now it's constant. I suppose it lets actresses do sex scenes without being nude, but it's odd.

That's the only way the girls will stand at attention and point in the right direction

It’s also the only way they could get SJP in the show because she wouldn’t do nudity. I want to visit the alternate universe where SATC gets made with a different actress who does do nudity, because it’s completely unrealistic without it, and who doesn’t become an executive producer halfway into the run proceeding to mess up the whole premise of the show.

That’s pretty much Girls. I had to cover my eyes at some of Lena Dunhams sex scenes with Adam Driver. I think you only need to watch the first episode.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your biggest pet peeve?

Here’s mine: When two characters from the same foreign country speak to each other in broken, heavily accented English rather than their mother tongue. That never EVER happens in real life. It’s baffling to me why directors always do this. I mean, directors: If you can’t find two American actors who speak fluent German, then just hire a couple of German actors and use subtitles for their scenes. It will make the movie feel more authentic and the audience will appreciate that you respect their intelligence.

A ton of people won’t watch subtitled movies. It’s just a business decision.

Source: my husband, who works in film.

What about where the films are dubbed into English, but the spoken English words don't match the English subtitles.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Also, sneaking out in the middle of the night to see their love interest, who happens to live next-door.

He was three doors up the street, not next door, but I totally did that as a teen.

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Anonymous wrote:A diagnosis on House always includes Lupus.

Doctors do all the procedures on House and NOT THE NURSES.

They all drank on Dallas and NOBODY ever had to pee. Ever.

And they know how to do every kind of scan on House.