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?

All the kids in the care home in Tracey beaker are middle class.

When the film changes stuff from the book with no good reason. This is why I stopped watching the Harry Potter films after Azkaban.

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

I can answer this one I learned from Reacher books! Always better to aim for centre mass as you're more likely to hit them and will do a lot of damage.

My personal bugbear is when the whole story hinges on a misunderstanding, which would easily be sorted out by a text or call or even an honest to goodness conversation. Which of course most normal people would do. Drives me potty.

I'm glad Medium has been name-checked - I love it, not for the woo (which is fun and all) but because I love their home life. Totally in love with Joe

Soap homes are always freshly decorated with up to date furniture. Even if the owner/occupier is doing a minimum wage job or on benefits.

People move countries without ever needing a visa or vast sums of money. Housing that in no way matches the job the characters do. Women who has sex with bras on. Yeah, right.

People are told their wife/husband/child is dead, if there is a body immediately cut to scene of whomever being ‘held back’ but within two minutes the character is then able to hold in-depth conversations / be interviewed with not a tear in sight and no snot at all. Sometimes a tissue is given to dab (at mostly dry eyes) but there is never snot 😄

In Corrie there's an endless procession of mouthy, rough women who change completely after living on t'Street for a week and are suddenly neat, tidy and mannerly and probably working in Roy's Rolls only to make room for the next one (currently Sean's homeless friend).

My DH says trains are never, ever, ever right, not even on documentaries. They're usually stock shots of something that's the wrong year, or the wrong country, or the wrong part of the rail network.

A PP mentioned how quickly characters in soaps seem to recover from a horrendous bereavement. I used to notice in Neighbours how a quick chat and some platitudes like 'she'd have wanted you to stay strong for the kids' seemed to resolve things. Maybe they all knew Whatsername wasn't really dead and would soon come waltzing back in because it was a dream or she'd faked her death

Diana love your Reacher reference. Love the books, refuse to see the TC films - travesty!

Telly Addicts thread on new BBC drama Bodyguard - apparently a few OHs felt the need to point out the old fashioned trains 😬

Yeah Gallicos but in Disney all they need is a song and they're over it.

No one seems to own a pair of slippers when they are in their home 😂

Sone one mentioned that if you wear specs you are brainy.

I would go one further and add - when aforementioned brainy person loses their glasses in an exciting incident and it makes no difference at all. an example being the latest Jurassic World movie. Very whiny guy with glasses (IT nerd, of course) who loses them doesn't even mention the inconvenience (he complains about everything else) and can still do everything completely normally, in fact possibly even slightly better than before.

If I lost my glasses i'd be useless and wouldn't notice a bloody t-Rex until I was in its gob.

not that I have seen Eastenders for years, but when anyone married every last guest turned up in an outfit that matched from head to toe, pastel hat, dress, jacket, shoes, bag ...that also coordinated with every other guest in a matching pastel outfit

and similar to the Morse Oxford geography nonsense, when things go on in London, and they hop on the tube to go two stops. that are not even on the same line never mind next to on another..I think one of the Thor movies does this
and once in Primeval, some time travelling crocodile dinosaur critter slithered out the back of the British museum, right into the thames, and next thing they are all running along the southbank trying to track it down

accents....back to ancient Eastenders when someone's girlfriend had run away from home...overbearing Edinburgh vicar for a father, she had the most godawful glaswegian accent, why did the actor not just say she was Glaswegian ...it's not like it was relevant to the plot where her unseen estranged father was from.

This guy on twitter corrected the Thor script where he gets the tube from Charing Cross to Greenwich. Lots of arguing in the comments about the best route.

twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/985951561925971974?s=20

No one seems to own a pair of slippers when they are in their home 😂

We never wear slippers. The first thing I do when I get home is take my footwear off.

1. Always running UP the stairs to escape mad psychopathic murderer, instead of DOWN, where there's more chance of actually getting out of the bloody building!

1. Variation of the above, when there's two or more of you trying to escape crazy killer/zombie apocalypse/tidal wave (insert whatever approaching disaster is about to strike!). Characters are struggling to escape...death is IMMINENT...but they have a chance if they are bloody quick...but no, they choose THIS MOMENT to instead stop and have a) a blazing row or b) a loved up 'moment'...I want to slap them!!! And tell the director that NO, this DOES NOT create tension, it just makes me want to throw the remote! This wouldn't happen in real life if you were being chased by zombies! You wouldn't choose this moment to dredge up old grudges about leaving up the toilet seat! And declarations of undying love would be way down on your list of priorities 🙄

When people come home and raid the fridge there’s an endless supply of single sized bottled waters in the fridge. What a terrible waste! Their households must get through hundreds of those bottles a month.

On American TV, whenever someone is cooking they’re at a huge kitchen island with masses of fresh veg and bundles of herbs. They’re always chopping a pepper too. No matter what they’re cooking, it apparently begins with a red pepper.

This is more kids tv but in blaze and the monster machines they're running away from a lava stream and Blaze stops and ask the viewers a multiple choice question. Always winds me up. He should be dead.

Unnecessary display of women in adverts
Unnecessary display of half naked woman in anything
Unnecessary display of woman's thigh or curve of breast
Women being used as part of entertainment in male sports eg Cheerleaders, women carrying signs for wrestling matches, women decorating men and leading them into the boxing ring.
Women giving the foreword in skimpy outfits in all computer games. Why?

Sorry turned into a rant there.

re the empty coffee cup thing that's already been mentioned a zillion times. It always makes me mad when somebody makes a cuppa, passes it to another character and they BOTH have their hands wrapped around the mugs. What do they think handles are for?

Just made myself a mug of tea, checked that I wasn't imagining things - no, I was right. It's bloody hot and ok for about 5 seconds before you need to put the mug down.

On the plus side, I do like the lovely chaotic house in Outnumbered.

Any drive into London will manage to pass either Wembley or the O2, but all of Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, St Paul's, a double-decker bus, a black cab and a red phone box. And this will only take 45 min from Oxford to the Strand (Bond).
The Tube will always be about 60% full.

Men never go down on women when they finally get to bed.

And the coloured liquids and lab coats - my big boss hot filmed by the BBC and other companies, and they used my lab as his looked too shabby. We usually had hair tied back but wore jeans and T-shirts, but they made us all wear lab coats and they put their own bottles of coloured liquid on my shelves, so I'm pipetting in the background trying not to laugh.

People not looking at the road when they are driving, carrying on protracted conversations while looking at their interlocutor and not the road. I know it's not real but it still gives me the heebie-jeebies. I often wonder if a car crash is meant to be part of the story line.

Doctors who touch the neck of someone who’s collapsed and announce, “He’s gone!” No, it takes a bit more than that to decide someone’s dead.

Men never go down on women when they finally get to bed.

You're watching the wrong shows.

Totally in love with Joe

Never watch the last episode, never.