Unrealistic things in movies and tv shows that drive you crazy

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Anonymous wrote:It always bothers me when the exterior of a TV home is impossible given the interior set. For example, The Cosby Show brownstone has a shared wall with the house next door, and yet you see a window on the interior behind the stair, right where their neighbor's house should be. The Brady Bunch house exterior shows a triangular window over the front door, but the interior shows a rectangular window over the door. It's like they didn't even try.

Yes! The Golden Girls' house is completely nonsensical too. There are supposed to be 4 bedrooms down that hallway, which is next to the kitchen. But in the kitchen, there's a door out to the garage to the left, which is where the bedrooms would be.

I was rewatching Who's the Boss with my kids during the height of the pandemic, and this drove me crazy. In one episode, they were having a skylight put in the kitchen. But the exterior shot of the house is clearly the type of traditional colonial you'd see in suburban Connecticut, NOT a house where the kitchen is in the back with nothing above it.

And in one episode, they actually showed the dining room (I don't think it was ever shown again) which was positioned in front of the kitchen - making it even more awkward that the kitchen would be in the back. In no way would that be the layout of the house! But they needed a handyman in the house to move the plot along so made sense for him to be working on a skylight I guess.

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New Top Gun movie where Maverick reached Mach 10 and still managed to bail out.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m annoyed by shows and movies that never show people’s extended family members, except for whoever is part of the show. K-dramas are particularly bad at this. Like, there will be a bunch of trauma, drama and tragedy but you never see any characters parents show up to see them, no cousins/aunts-uncles/grandparents. You don’t even see extra friends show up! That’s so unrealistic.

This happens at every TV funeral. The only people in attendance are the spouse (if the deceased had one) and his or her co-workers. And whoever killed them, of course.

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Anonymous wrote:When someone has an emotional scene or argument in a public restroom (there are so many scenes like this) and they plop their bag down on the floor by the sink and start crying or whatever. It makes my skin crawl and I can almost see the microbes.

Along the same vein, when somebody runs to the bathroom to vomit they kneel down on the floor and get really, really close to the toilet and it looks like they're practically drinking out of it. Gross! Nobody would ever do that.

When you're violently sick you do kneel and rest your arms on the toilet. If you're hovering the vomit would go on the bathroom walls and floor (we all recently had some awful enterovirus). I keep my home bathroom pretty clean. When my kids are sick, I clean the bathroom nonstop.

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Anonymous wrote:When someone has an emotional scene or argument in a public restroom (there are so many scenes like this) and they plop their bag down on the floor by the sink and start crying or whatever. It makes my skin crawl and I can almost see the microbes.

Along the same vein, when somebody runs to the bathroom to vomit they kneel down on the floor and get really, really close to the toilet and it looks like they're practically drinking out of it. Gross! Nobody would ever do that.

When you're violently sick you do kneel and rest your arms on the toilet. If you're hovering the vomit would go on the bathroom walls and floor (we all recently had some awful enterovirus). I keep my home bathroom pretty clean. When my kids are sick, I clean the bathroom nonstop.

+1 had noravirus recently and this is exactly my position

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When someone has an emotional scene or argument in a public restroom (there are so many scenes like this) and they plop their bag down on the floor by the sink and start crying or whatever. It makes my skin crawl and I can almost see the microbes.

Along the same vein, when somebody runs to the bathroom to vomit they kneel down on the floor and get really, really close to the toilet and it looks like they're practically drinking out of it. Gross! Nobody would ever do that.

When you're violently sick you do kneel and rest your arms on the toilet. If you're hovering the vomit would go on the bathroom walls and floor (we all recently had some awful enterovirus). I keep my home bathroom pretty clean. When my kids are sick, I clean the bathroom nonstop.

When I'm sick I never kneel on the floor and stick my face down into the toilet bowl like in movies. I will lean over the toilet, but no I don't stick my face down into it. It doesn't matter how clean your toilet is or if you clean it after every use, it's gross.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When someone has an emotional scene or argument in a public restroom (there are so many scenes like this) and they plop their bag down on the floor by the sink and start crying or whatever. It makes my skin crawl and I can almost see the microbes.

Along the same vein, when somebody runs to the bathroom to vomit they kneel down on the floor and get really, really close to the toilet and it looks like they're practically drinking out of it. Gross! Nobody would ever do that.

When you're violently sick you do kneel and rest your arms on the toilet. If you're hovering the vomit would go on the bathroom walls and floor (we all recently had some awful enterovirus). I keep my home bathroom pretty clean. When my kids are sick, I clean the bathroom nonstop.

When I'm sick I never kneel on the floor and stick my face down into the toilet bowl like in movies. I will lean over the toilet, but no I don't stick my face down into it. It doesn't matter how clean your toilet is or if you clean it after every use, it's gross.

You stand while puking into the toilet? Huh. I've always knelt on the floor while puking into the toilet.

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Anonymous wrote:The sexy feds

I was on a jury in federal court in Alexandria one year, and the federal attorneys were extremely good looking. I remember thinking that they looked like they were right out of a TV show.

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

Uh, I did it. Admittedly many years ago, but yes I did it.
Pretty hungover the next day, too.

My dad had his bachelor party the night before my parents wedding, although he still tells stories of how this was not a wise decision.

My friend's husband to be did this, and broke his wrist. He wore a grey silk sling to his wedding where he looked green from pain.

My brother did this and my other brother (the best man) fainted in the middle of the ceremony. Hangover + 90 degree heat + no shade.

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Anonymous wrote:When someone has an emotional scene or argument in a public restroom (there are so many scenes like this) and they plop their bag down on the floor by the sink and start crying or whatever. It makes my skin crawl and I can almost see the microbes.

Where are you supposed to put your bag? What do you really think is on the floor? Do you know of anyone who has ever become ill from the bottom of their purse? I truly don't know how some people get through the day--life must be a series of terrifying obstacles for you.

The counter and faucets are dirtier than the floor. I'll never understand the people here and their obsession with dirty floors. Are people using their floors differently than I do. Its a place for the bottom of my feet.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When someone has an emotional scene or argument in a public restroom (there are so many scenes like this) and they plop their bag down on the floor by the sink and start crying or whatever. It makes my skin crawl and I can almost see the microbes.

Where are you supposed to put your bag? What do you really think is on the floor? Do you know of anyone who has ever become ill from the bottom of their purse? I truly don't know how some people get through the day--life must be a series of terrifying obstacles for you.

The counter and faucets are dirtier than the floor. I'll never understand the people here and their obsession with dirty floors. Are people using their floors differently than I do. Its a place for the bottom of my feet.

I put NOTHING down anywhere in bathrooms. I have held a jacket, a baby, a diaper bag and my purse while using the toilet. When I told my husband one day, he just nodded and said ""You could hold an entire Chinese family on a bicycle in a public bathroom."

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’ll add one more: When someone is teleworking on the couch with their feet comfortably propped up like they’re watching tv and the laptop balanced awkwardly on their lap. I mean, how can anyone work efficiently like this? I have to be at my desk in a real chair with a detached keyboard and an extra monitor to get anything done.

LOL! I’m doing this exact thing right now! Work like this every day actually!!

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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.

Like Will and Grace?

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Anonymous wrote:Lately, several shows/ movies have one black parent and one white parent with a mixed kid. Sure that happens in the real world, but it seems so forced in shows. Like have a black family or white or whatever. It seems like a way to increase audiences.

Or when a show has a mixed black kid portrayed by a non-mixed/fully black looking kid.

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Anonymous wrote:The sexy feds

I was on a jury in federal court in Alexandria one year, and the federal attorneys were extremely good looking. I remember thinking that they looked like they were right out of a TV show.

I've been at quite few agencies where the feds are dressed to the nines. Lots of trust fund babies at State Dept and Treasury. I remember when I was an intern there was a lot of people watching at my agency.