Minor things that piss you off in TV shows and films

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I'm watching season 2 of Delicious with Dawn French, she plays a really high brow chef in it, in a super dooper swanky pants fully-booked-for-52-years kind of restaurant. She makes a huge saucepan full of sauce, scoops some out with a spoon to taste, then shoves the spoon back in, then her daughter comes along and she gets another scoop and gets her daughter to taste it 😱😱😱 it doesn't end there!! The sexy new chef bounces up and Dawn once again sticks the double dipped spoon back into the pan and asks him to taste it!

I've worked in restaurants, from equally swanky pants to 3 courses for £6 type places, and this just would never happen. Even if the chef doesn't intend to serve it to customers, they would never spread the love in that kind of way. I'm afraid to say it's ruined the entire show for me 😂 what kind of thing annoy you in TV/film?

Grown women calling their fathers Daddy.

Fathers being weirdly protective of their grown daughters. Like Freudian weird.

Villains having British accents in American films and tv shows.

Being asked to identify with newly divorced mothers who are struggling to find love. They’re always gorgeous and slim, have amazing houses and meteoric rises in their careers which makes them somewhat hard to empathise with.

When families sit squashed together round one side of a round dining table and the near side is empty.

People ending phone calls without saying anything like "goodbye."

Nobody ever nips to the loo on the telly.

Always in American shows they go to a bar after work, they're seen drinking and then drive home. Is drink driving not a thing in the US or is it really hard to get a taxi?? It bothers me every time I see it!

That everyone in Casualty can get the same time off to attend their colleagues wedding. Said colleagues have no relatives at the wedding.

New born babies that come out clean (and the size of a 3 month old) and with no umbilical cord.

People leaving doors open esp front doors
People flicking food around their plate rather than eating it
When bags, suitcases and teacups are obviously empty
People ordering “ a pint”
Suspect she being interviewed without a solicitor and who cough up everything ( Unforgotten!)
Finding a parking spot right outside wherever you want to go
Knowing everyone’s telephone number

Generic baby sounds. Same baby cry on every TV show or movie. I hate it so much and I don't know why.

Can’t believe I forgot my main one.....hate it when police do a search and just lift up one or two items and then declare “ Nothing here boss”

When a scene is set in a kitchen with an AGA type cooker and they are not cooking but the lids are up.
AGA owners never do that because it lets all the heat escape and then you can't cook on them. Lids only go up if you are actually using that hob.

On American shows they never say goodbye on the phone
Empty cups posing as full
In sex scenes nobody has crease marks on them from jeans or bras or whatever
In a quiet scene nobody gets a rumble tummy

When the police arrive at a house to question a suspect and the suspect carries on ironing/washing the car/cooking while they are being questioned.

Surely you'd stop what you were doing while you were talking.

When someone orders a drink or food then when it arrives some minor drama happens and they leave it

Making a tel call and they start talking immediately when it hasn't rung even once

Sorry about the lack of punctuation!

On American programmes, if someone is cooking dinner, they have mountains of colourful fruit and vegetables - and often carrots with the tops still on (though maybe American stores sell them that way - anyone know).

I hate it when in a show or film the character steps out of the car and then seconds later the door is shut when they never shut it.

I did study media for a bit so those things niggle me!

Cars that have been supposedly driven for a while that, when you see the shot of them pulling in at their destination or driving along a road, etc, still show the vapour/steam/exhaust 'smoke' that cars have when they've just started up. So obvious they've just had the engine started seconds before for that shot.

When a meal is dished up there never appears to be any heat rising from it, same with hot drinks and cooking.

When couples are in bed and wake up and immediately start kissing or talking right into each other's face and they haven't cleaned their teeth!
YUUUUK!

Knives and words making a kerr-shiing metal-on-metal noise whenever anyone moves them or, frankly goes anywhere near them.

Horses whinnying not just when they need to call other horses but all the time, even more often than knives and swords go kerr-shiing.

People nattering and looking away from the road for ages when they are driving a car.

Very few people seem to watch any tv.
Half an inch of tea poured into a cup, if that, which takes an age to pretend to drink.
DNA results are found within minutes.
Any gift given is quite often in a box with a lid, presumably to save the bother of having to have lots of wrapped bits to hand if a re-take is necessary.
Few characters share a first name with anybody else in the programme/film - none of the ‘which Chris d’you mean?’ that happens in real life.

Couple fight so man sleeps on couch. Yet 12 visitors can stay over as THERES AT LEAST ONE SPARE ROOM as has been shown in previous episodes!

Anyone driving anywhere instantly finding a parking spot, and never having to drive round the block/parallel park into a really tight spot etc.

Incorrect science/lab technique also bugs the hell out of me. And don’t get me started on breaking the laws of physics.