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?

Also in light of this thread, I read a post on reddit by a boy who spoke English as a second language and had moved to the US and when he ended a phone call he never said goodbye as this is how it's portrayed on tv. Took a while before someone explained!

Car issues again ... why does a bleep sound when the actor locks the car with the remote?
They haven't bleeped for years!!

So many mentioned here that have annoyed me so much.
My most recent is how come the children who fall in love in The Greatest Showman are the same age and then when they grow up he is twenty years older than her?

the episode in ER when the helicopter falls on Romano, yet he was staring at it for a minute before it hit him, I always think move the fuck out the way... I’ve seen a similar in several other programmes, surely they don’t all have to have stupid character.

bagelbaby I’m in America at the moment and cars do beep when you double lock them. It’s annoying because at home my car beeps if there’s a door not shut properly. I keep thinking there’s something wrong.

In American tv shows men always seem to be eating and talking with their mouth full. I have to mute the tv.
I love love love Sex and the City but I always look away in eating scenes because Miranda talks with her mouth wide open when full of food and it's disgusting 🤢

And in films - when the hero FINALLY fends off the armed bad guy, usually by something non-fatal like a crack to the head, and they walk off leaving the fucking gun lying on the floor!!!! IRL if someone spent all day trying to shoot you and you knocked them out, why would you leave a deadly weapon right next to them to wake up to, even angrier, to find you?!

Some of the things complained about on this thread are perfectly normal and accurate, and some are a case of posters not having understood the thing they are complaining about!

In Love Actually everyone worked and lived in London but NO ONE took the tube anywhere.

WTAF.

It wasn’t even a passing “oh he’s got off the tube/come out the station”

It’s already been said. A man only hAs to put his penis in the general direction of a woman & shes writhing in orgasmic bliss.. men &!their magic penisis

On casualty when staff just leave the ED to “help” a patient. Staff who leave or take holiday with no notice! Not possible. Every bloody minute is logged you can’t go rogue to “help” you can’t leave the blinking department.

The person wearing glasses is always the brainy one

People have "private conversations" in the most public places.
or have conversations at the top of their voices with someone sitting feet away and think they can't hear them
No one ever has to sign on.
Not minor but people often come back from the dead and no one turns a hair.
Again not minor but People can be paralysed and a few days later they're walking around like nothings happened.

Fathers being weirdly protective of their daughters.

Until his death i had to text or phone my dad to let him know where I was and when I was home after a night out.
My dad's argument was I don't care if you're 142. I want to know you're home safe.

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Which are the normal and accurate ones and please could you explain the misunderstandings?

Nobody standing around just gets out a gun and shoots the implausible hero, with the sole exception of Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

And that was only because he had back problems.

When people want to have a private conversation and ask everyone else to leave the room. It's incredibly rude.

In American films college professors are always hunks and all their female students are after them.

Probably right with the runs. Something like that.

An old film, but, 3 men and a little lady, which is set in England, all night scenes were accompanied by the chirruping of cicadas. That annoyed me so much at the time.
The long Russian version of war and peace (7 or 8 hour film). During a cavalry charge I was suprised to see horses with orange rubber reins.
I also notice the use of two or three horses only in period dramas, like a pp. Often the driver is the same as well, just in a different costume.

Again not minor but People can be paralysed and a few days later they're walking around like nothings happened

This really bothered me in Downton Abbey with Matthew, it's like they couldn't be arsed having the bother of a character in a wheelchair any more - even though it was made clear he'd never walk again - so they wrapped it up in one episode and before you know it he's dancing with Mary in the ballroom like Fred and fucking Ginger. Then it's never mentioned again

Nobody standing around just gets out a gun and shoots the implausible hero, with the sole exception of Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark

Or when they do, the mass murdering villain shoots them in the chest rather than the head. Surely if you 100% wanted to kill someone you'd shoot them in the head? Unless there's a reason I'm missing why they do this

Soapland is the worst. Coronation Street - everyone lives and works on the same damn street. No commute to work, no aspiration for a job elsewhere in the world. Just more a less a case of "Underworld might go bust, we could all lose us jobs. Better see if there's any extra shifts going at Prima Donna or maybe Roy's Rolls". And the fact that it's a tiny street full of terraced houses yet there is a shit load of business on it.

Don't get me started on Hollyoaks, it's ridiculous in it's own right. The wooden acting, the scripts, the story lines, the constant bed-hopping, the murder, more murder, the attempts at being edgy and inclusive (however if you're not a pretty size 8-10 young female you can't be on the show).

PP have mentioned morning breath. I remember an episode of Scrubs where JD and his gf Alex woke up in the morning and they turned to talk to each other and she mentioned his morning breath smelling like eggs or something. He got all embarrassed and then she said something like 'I like eggs'

The way everyone wears their shoes indoors,all the time. Worse still,putting their shoe-clad feet up on the sofa,or horrors,on the bed!

People who are driving,constantly taking their eyes off the road to look at the person in the passenger seat,or even worse,in the back seat. If people did that in real life,cars would be running off he road,left,right and centre!

No one ever looks to see who is knocking at the front door, but always flings the door open,regardless of what time of the day or night it is.

And something that seems prevalent in certain soaps. If someone is unemployed,they still seem to have the money to go in the pub drinking every night! On 70 odd quid a week JSA,I don't think that would happen in RL.

Dontgointothatlonggrass - the baby cry always reminds me of Adam & the Ants! “ Uh huh, eh huh” lol!!