Unrealistic things in movies and tv shows that drive you crazy

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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.

I grew up in a house where we not only wore shoes inside but if we dared take them off my dad yelled at us for undressing and said if we were tired we should go to bed.

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Anonymous wrote:Gilmore Girls.

Everything about it.

They aren’t underweight

Their bodies seem incompatible with their diets and exercise levels.

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Anonymous wrote:Always a parking spot out front even in Manhattan

This and also when people carry luggage. You can tell it’s empty.

I was just watching a show with a delivery man carrying a stack of boxes. A woman says “you can drop them here,” and he says “they’re really heavy, I’ll put them where you need them.” And when they get to the right spot and he sets them down, they are obviously completely empty. He lets them go a few inches early, and they drift to the ground like feathers.

I recently learned that people sweeping in movies (or similar jobs) don’t put the broom against the ground because the sound would cause problems on the microphones. Now it’s really fun to spot people sweeping in the background with a broom an inch or two above the ground.

Or waving around coffee cups!! They would totally spill if the cups actually contained coffee.

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Anonymous wrote:Always a parking spot out front even in Manhattan

This and also when people carry luggage. You can tell it’s empty.

I was just watching a show with a delivery man carrying a stack of boxes. A woman says “you can drop them here,” and he says “they’re really heavy, I’ll put them where you need them.” And when they get to the right spot and he sets them down, they are obviously completely empty. He lets them go a few inches early, and they drift to the ground like feathers.

I recently learned that people sweeping in movies (or similar jobs) don’t put the broom against the ground because the sound would cause problems on the microphones. Now it’s really fun to spot people sweeping in the background with a broom an inch or two above the ground.

Off topic, but -- the bold above is a fun fact. It stood out to me because I recently learned (on a podcast for a show I watch) that when you see someone in a show and they're carrying brown paper grocery bags, those bags are made from a type of brown burlap, because actual brown paper bags make far too much noise and mics pick it up!

Why are potato chip bags on tv always perfectly opened as if by a guillotine, not a crunched up mess like when I open them?

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Anonymous wrote:In movies, people underwater can see with their open eyes. I swam for years and can only see underwater with googles.

They also hold their breath for an unreasonable length of time.

I watched the new Luther movie yesterday where this happens in one scene

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Anonymous wrote:My husband always asks “Doesn’t anybody potty?”. He says that during every movie or series.

I just don’t understand. A movie is like 2 hours long and you want them to stop the action so someone can take a piss? A lot of the things people are complaining about are just boring. No one wants to watch people take off shoes, use the toilet, or say goodbye.

This is true. It's why phone conversations in movies/television are almost always weird. A real phone conversation is boring AF. Ringing, then identifying yourself, stating the reason for your call, people repeating themselves, then goodbyes from both parties, sometimes multiple goodbyes ("ok see you next week" "yes, looking forward to it" "ok bye" "bye"). I do not want to experience that in life, much less watch it on screen. Which is why phone calls in movies often have no greetings, no identification, no goodbyes -- just the key info and hang up. It might not be realistic but it's much better storytelling.

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Every single scene in La Brea - how can something so bad not be good?

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The weird Indian accent in Hollywood on Indian characters. NO ONE talks like that IRL. The weird mix of south Indian and North Indian accent which passes for an Indian accent. There is nothing called an Indian accent. You have only regional accent - Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi etc. Also, how is that they do not have any knowledgable Indians on set who can give proper names to Indian characters instead of Parminder Khan and Ramarao Singh. Uff!

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Anonymous wrote:My #1 thought was the breakfasts in the sunny kitchens every morning. I’m at work before the sun even rises.

I remember as a kid some grown up would say "I was up at the crack of dawn to tend to the chickens when I was your age!" And I always thought " I'm up BEFORE dawn just to go to school," no farm animals needed.

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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.

I grew up in a house where we not only wore shoes inside but if we dared take them off my dad yelled at us for undressing and said if we were tired we should go to bed.

This is much closer to my experience than shoes off all the time. My dad came home from work, loosened his tie, and changed from oxfords into docksiders. Like Mr. Rogers.

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Anonymous wrote:Families that have elaborate breakfasts on school days in sun lit kitchens, discussing their days as though they have all the time in the world. Is anyone’s morning with school aged kids like this? Try: still dark out, everyone eating cereal and some fruit at different times, rushing out the door.

People with kids who spend a lot of time hanging out with friends. Especially if they have babies, very young kids. Most parents of infants are not hanging out at bars and coffee shops with friends regularly, and if they go, they’re like “omg this is amazing I never do this, also I have to leave by 9pm sharp to feed/pump/relieve sitter.” It’s just not a carefree time of life with lots of easy socializing.

When everyone in a family’s life knows each other. Neighbors, friends, extended family, coworkers. They all get together and are friends. Whose life is like this? I’ve never met like 90% of my DH’s coworkers. My friends don’t know my family well at all. My neighbors only know a couple of my friends. And so on. When we host big parties a lot of the guests must be introduced to each other.

People with lifestyles that don’t match their careers at all. In a lot of shows everyone lives like a BigLaw partner even if they are, like, teachers and therapists and journalists.

Breakfast issue: showing my age, but I remember the very first episode of Roseanne for doing this realistically. Roseanne grabbed a box of cereal, slammed it on the table, and shouted “breakfast!” It stick with me all these years because it was far more like my experience than what they usually showed on tv.

Lifestyles not matching: my mother complained about that back in the 80s. Said we would all buy cheap stuff and/or go I to debt if we tried to emulate what we saw on tv.

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When people “warm up” baby bottles for a minute in the microwave. That milk is molten lava, your baby will get third degree burns from your dumb a** popcorn-setting bottle nonsense.

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My pet peeve is every single period drama that claims to be hIStoricALLY ACcuraTe yet features nary a toothless actress. Before modern dentistry people lost most of their crooked teeth well before their old age, why does Hollywood give their medieval princesses perfectly white, straight rows of pearly smiles?

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Also apocalyptic sci-fi thrillers wherein humanity is on the brink of total collapse via famine yet the women have smoothly shaved legs and feminine glossy lips, long lashes and freshly shampooed hair.

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Anything related to healthcare in tv shows. DH HATES watching medical dramas with me.

- healthcare professional