Unrealistic things in movies and tv shows that drive you crazy

[Anonymous]

I watch everything with the subtitles on, even if I speak the language. I hardly even notice it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Our family, too, but we are white people from the mid atlantic. All our family does this.

[Anonymous]

Streets always look wet, like it just rained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A few things in The Office (U.S. version).

I’ll take a stab at it since it attempts to be historically and geographically accurate.

The visible palm trees, for one. Someone (I forget who) taking a train to Philly; there is no train IRL to there or to NYC. Also, it takes at least 2.5 hours to drive from there to NYC, not including parking. That would be a PITA to do a few times a month like Michael did. It would be impossible to drive into Lake Scranton, which is a man-made reservoir. People do boat on Lake Wallenpaupack, and I think it even does “lake tours” via boat. It would be a tad far at about 50 minutes for a company event. There is no Chilis or Hooters near where DM would be located.

Flaws aside, I enjoyed the show!

I liked the show too, but yes so much was unrealistic. The supposed PBS documentary crew is using way too many cameras, to capture every conversation of too many staffers, not just at the office, but in their cars, at restaurants and stores, weddings, hospitals even! And they continue this for 9 years!

[Anonymous]

in period shows, no one is wearing coke-bottle glasses. and yes, all beautiful teeth, no dentures, bad skin, menstrual stains, etc

[Anonymous]

1. I live outside DC and yup, take shoes off at my front door.
2. Women who take 10 bites to eat a cracker or actually anything they're holding in their hand--am I supposed to eat like that? Because I'm hoovering pretzel chips when I'm hungry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Same. A family member with a sports injury.

That's how they found my FIL's lung cancer. Fell off a roof and cracked a rib, found the cancer via the x-ray of ribs.

It actually makes sense, because the bone often breaks because of the cancer. Had the cancer not been there, they probably wouldn't have ended up in the ER in the first place... even though they can't know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. I live outside DC and yup, take shoes off at my front door.
2. Women who take 10 bites to eat a cracker or actually anything they're holding in their hand--am I supposed to eat like that? Because I'm hoovering pretzel chips when I'm hungry.

So do I, but I still understand that it’s not unrealistic to have people wear shoes in a house on TV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few things in The Office (U.S. version).

I’ll take a stab at it since it attempts to be historically and geographically accurate.

The visible palm trees, for one. Someone (I forget who) taking a train to Philly; there is no train IRL to there or to NYC. Also, it takes at least 2.5 hours to drive from there to NYC, not including parking. That would be a PITA to do a few times a month like Michael did. It would be impossible to drive into Lake Scranton, which is a man-made reservoir. People do boat on Lake Wallenpaupack, and I think it even does “lake tours” via boat. It would be a tad far at about 50 minutes for a company event. There is no Chilis or Hooters near where DM would be located.

Flaws aside, I enjoyed the show!

I liked the show too, but yes so much was unrealistic. The supposed PBS documentary crew is using way too many cameras, to capture every conversation of too many staffers, not just at the office, but in their cars, at restaurants and stores, weddings, hospitals even! And they continue this for 9 years!

NP. I'm not even that big a fan of The Office and I get that it's a comedy so of course it's unrealistic. Naturally they kept the format that worked for their particular comedy, like the documentary crew being everywhere all the time--in fact, after a certain point, did anyone viewing really care any more that the show was supposedly a "documentary"? No one cared that it didn't adhere to realistic documentary rules as long as it was funny to them. It's like how on Friends everyone is impossibly living in great places in NYC on what seem to be airy-nothing salaries; it's unrealistic and it's also a sitcom, and sitcoms do whatever works, however unrealistic it is to locals watching it. If a drama purporting to be set in Scranton, PA, got local details wrong and had weird filming? That would bug me. But comedies can get away with more. (Full disclosure, I can't make it through even a single episode of Friends, so maybe it's highly realistic and I don't know it )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. I live outside DC and yup, take shoes off at my front door.
2. Women who take 10 bites to eat a cracker or actually anything they're holding in their hand--am I supposed to eat like that? Because I'm hoovering pretzel chips when I'm hungry.

So do I, but I still understand that it’s not unrealistic to have people wear shoes in a house on TV.

All the debates on DCUM about shoes on/shoes off should tell people that there is a big divide on the issue and it's realistic to have a TV family do either one. Shoot, there was an episode of Sex and the City about the perils of visiting a shoes-off house unprepared.

But while households can be either shoes-on or shoes-optional, I don't know anyone who is OK with shoes on furniture, and yet TV shows that all the time. Get your shoes off the furniture, you clod!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. I live outside DC and yup, take shoes off at my front door.
2. Women who take 10 bites to eat a cracker or actually anything they're holding in their hand--am I supposed to eat like that? Because I'm hoovering pretzel chips when I'm hungry.

So do I, but I still understand that it’s not unrealistic to have people wear shoes in a house on TV.

All the debates on DCUM about shoes on/shoes off should tell people that there is a big divide on the issue and it's realistic to have a TV family do either one. Shoot, there was an episode of Sex and the City about the perils of visiting a shoes-off house unprepared.

But while households can be either shoes-on or shoes-optional, I don't know anyone who is OK with shoes on furniture, and yet TV shows that all the time. Get your shoes off the furniture, you clod!

I have a HUGE thing about shoes on the bed. And when I see that on tv shows, I CANNOT pay attention to anything else.

As for the shoe thing, I assume that in real life most households are 50/50 on house wearing or not. But 100% of the Asians I know, even if the adult kids are part another race, always take their shoes off. And I stop watching any shoe where an Asian does not take their shoes off when entering their home.

[Anonymous]

Haven’t read all responses but I hate- hate- everyone who is in a bed is propped up to sleep on stiff pillows so their face is seen but that’s how no one sleeps.

[Anonymous]

When bachelor/bachelorette parties are the night before the wedding. Who would be dumb enough to do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

I saw repeat outfits on Friends the first season (just did a rewatch) and on many 80s shows. I don’t think it happens now because everyone gets the clothes gifted or whatever so there is no need to save money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. I live outside DC and yup, take shoes off at my front door.
2. Women who take 10 bites to eat a cracker or actually anything they're holding in their hand--am I supposed to eat like that? Because I'm hoovering pretzel chips when I'm hungry.

So do I, but I still understand that it’s not unrealistic to have people wear shoes in a house on TV.

All the debates on DCUM about shoes on/shoes off should tell people that there is a big divide on the issue and it's realistic to have a TV family do either one. Shoot, there was an episode of Sex and the City about the perils of visiting a shoes-off house unprepared.

But while households can be either shoes-on or shoes-optional, I don't know anyone who is OK with shoes on furniture, and yet TV shows that all the time. Get your shoes off the furniture, you clod!

I have a HUGE thing about shoes on the bed. And when I see that on tv shows, I CANNOT pay attention to anything else.

As for the shoe thing, I assume that in real life most households are 50/50 on house wearing or not. But 100% of the Asians I know, even if the adult kids are part another race, always take their shoes off. And I stop watching any shoe where an Asian does not take their shoes off when entering their home.

I am the OP of the kdrama The Gloru

Even when the poor girl is practically homeless and living in what looks like a shipping container, she takes her shoes off. (Her bullies tormented her about that too)