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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.

That’s great. It’s still not unrealistic for people to wear shoes in their homes.

When Rory and Lorelei exclusively eat burgers and pancakes and don't exercise and remain super super skinny.

When high schoolers talk with incredible intelligence and vocabulary (ie Dawson's creek)

When time to travel from one coast or state to another just doesn't compute (ie This is Us)

When babies sort of disappear when they are not needed (ie Emma in Friends)

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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.

but the family on roseanne is trapped in a cycle of generational poverty, they can't afford to pay their mortgages, they certainly aren't investing in "quality" clothing

Here's an unrealistic aspect of the conners--I am confused by the high school son's "trying to get a scholarship so he can go to college" plotline. Presumably the family is very poor, so wouldn't they qualify for the Illinois Commitment at a place like UIUC where he'd gt free tuition and fees for four years because his family earns less than 67k a year? https://osfa.illinois.edu/illinois-commitment/

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.

Yes! Paul Walker in “Into the Blue”. Totally ridiculous.

Anonymous wrote:High school kids in tv shows always go to the best colleges.

On full scholarship, even if characters are UMC.

Adding the 555 phone exchange (I know why they do it but it still irks me) and wives having long conversations with husbands while lotioning their arms before bed.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:Literally anything in any medical drama. I just cannot. I stopped watching Greys Anatomy when they closed the emergency room to host a prom, and during this prom Izzy went upstairs to visit her boyfriend/ husband with the heart issue and he has just died in bed, with no nurses or doctors or code blues, because they were all downstairs at prom apparently . In the CLOSED EMERGENCY ROOMz

Hahaha to this I will add anything legal, though I guess it probably goes for any profession. Like how in the West Wing the same 5 people do all the jobs, including giving themselves legal advice. (I guess that presaged the Jared Kushner era fairly accurately, but it's bizarre for any other real administration.)

THIS - also with anything that has to do with teachers and schools.

I give abbot credit for at least mentioning that classes need coverage.

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Anonymous wrote:Literally anything in any medical drama. I just cannot. I stopped watching Greys Anatomy when they closed the emergency room to host a prom, and during this prom Izzy went upstairs to visit her boyfriend/ husband with the heart issue and he has just died in bed, with no nurses or doctors or code blues, because they were all downstairs at prom apparently . In the CLOSED EMERGENCY ROOMz

Hahaha to this I will add anything legal, though I guess it probably goes for any profession. Like how in the West Wing the same 5 people do all the jobs, including giving themselves legal advice. (I guess that presaged the Jared Kushner era fairly accurately, but it's bizarre for any other real administration.)

THIS - also with anything that has to do with teachers and schools.

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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.

I write my best code like that

Glad that method works for you but if I tried it my neck and back would be in excruciating, unbearable pain in about 10 minutes.

Heh but that doesn't mean it's unrealistic, it just doesn't work for you.

I find it unrealistic that people work SO MUCH on TV - don't any of them have stuff outside of work they want to do? Don't any of them have pets to take care of? They're just always working! Looks terrible.

The size of the apartments

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.

Doesn’t really bother me, but I’ve seen shows where young kids are like props in the background. Toddlers never require any checking on, they just sit quietly while the main characters focus on whatever they’re doing.

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!

Like PP said, the shockingly short amount of time it takes to get around the DC region (including back and forth to NYC). Also, when the season doesn’t match the storyline: green leaves on the trees right before/after the general election. And then little things like a SOTU in an inaugural year. And overly simplified policy solutions to the world’s problems that apparently everyone just agrees with.