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?

Actually, I just wanted to say that not opening/closing curtains in the states is pretty common. Houses are spread out enough that there isn't much issue with other people seeing in. Curtains are more for decoration than function and in student flats we never bothered putting any up.

Drove my ex potty when I moved here and wouldn't close curtains.

They never ever lock their car door!

Gratuitous sex or groping scenes that add absolutely nothing to the plot but merely serve (it seems) as a cynical attempt to boost ratings.

When loads of bad guys surround a good guy then attack one at a time - that would never happen in real life. Puts me right off a show or film!

Oh, actually taking shoes off in the house is much less common in the states as well. My parents couldn't understand why my kids were forever taking their shoes off.

So many women, and it is women, have to clutch a cushion to them when sitting having a conversation.

American families who make huge breakfasts and nobody eats it.

Characters who leave full or almost full drinks at the bar. If I'm going to storm out, it'll be after downing that £8 cocktail mate.

Alexa that's usually because the actress is pregnant 😂

That doctors/nurses can let anyone who has turned up at the hospital or rings up know all the details of the patients illness / surgery etc
Police are also the same always telling all r he details of the investigation, whose been arrested etc

Winter scenes filmed in summer with fake snow on quite obviously leafy deciduous trees. Made for TV Christmas films are the worst for this (doesn't stop me watching them all )

Characters in legal-type dramas work late (at their computer and its dark outside) and then go for a drink with colleagues...
Then have to take a file home to work on with the obligatory noodles in cardboard take-away boxes while calling colleagues or even dropping round to their apartments when they've made a breakthrough on a case and need o talk about it.... ?? it must be about 3 in the morning at that point - how long ARE your evenings? They still seem to manage to get up at 6am the next morning to do it all over again.

British characters who are clearly written by Americans m.

I'm watching a film which is set in England with only one American character and I've heard the English delivery man refer to himself as the owner of the grocery store about 3 times mention that he collected the mail. A true Brit would own the shop and collect the post.

Nobody ever locks their doors when they leave the house or turn off the lights.... Leccy bills must be fucking huge... And if they do have to turn on a light in a dark room it lights up main light and all the lamps etc with one switch?

To be fair, a lot of Brits who live in the US start to use American English as it’s easier to be understood. I live abroad and I tend to say soccer rather than football.

My peeve is when they cast people to speak a foreign language or do an accent and the person really can’t speak that language or do the accent at all. In Breaking Bad, some of the Spanish was really terrible and the Irish accents in Sons of Anarchy were really really bad.

It doesn't piss me off, but off the top of my head... there is never a delay when someone calls someone on tele. They always answer the phone instantly. Which makes it seem much less believable.

I have a few:

1. in American scary programmes, when there is a thunderstorm outsideat night, no-one closes the bloody windows and curtains. Instead it leaves a perfect scenario for sodden soft furnishings- plus easy access for axe murderer.

2)Goody is just about to stop villain who plans to blow up the world/kill millions at least, when villian grabs girl, and goody backs down. Seriously- one person you met 10 mins ago versus the world. Sorry love in my version, you would be collateral damage and I would save the world.

3. when it is dark and creepy in a house, just flick the lights on- they are there for a reason. Use them and allow killer to be seen by everyone.

4. CSI- they ALWAYS find something which is so rare it is only found in ONE place in the world and therefore the solution is found easily. Why do they never find a bog standard piece of grass found in every country in the world?

and one more- the second you hear an English accent amongst the sea of American accents- you have the villain

Lots of baby bottles scattered around in the background ... God Forbid they might actually breastfeed the baby 😱

Coronation Street. I haven’t watched it in a couple of years so maybe this isn’t current, but, why has Tyrone never turned to Fizz and said “we need a big tin of white emulsion, this room is giving me a migraine.” Or even the other way round. I could not stand all those different patterns in that wee room.

Just watch Anne with an E and they often just give up on anything like 19th century English. Last episode I watched Gilbert said ' I'm underwhelmed '. Also the little supposedly French Canadian boy who has no french accent at all but occasionally says Merci.

Lots already mentioned: coffee cups, giant houses with no spare bedrooms, driving and looking at passenger most of the time. Also any film (usually action) where women (often solitary one woman) are bearly clad when the men are covered: skimpy short and vest top, and tee shirt and combats possibly an open checked shirt also.

American shows that centre around a family all too often have young, slim and attractive wife with older overweight less attractive husband (and not always just for the main family). Weight and age aside, couples are usually similarly attractive. The difference is not a ‘thing’ either, when it is, nearly always due to the man being rich, then the age is hugely different and she’ll be a second (or more) wife.

Re the women in high heels, that used to crack me up in Moonlighting, one minute she's wearing heels that perfectly match those infernal coloured silk getups she wore, the next she's wearing a pair of big white 80's trainers and they made no effort to hide them!

Stripy I read an American review of a US family sitcom that had Mark Addy in it (just after the Full Monty) and described it as “a fattie with a hottie”

Americans do have huge houses with no, or maybe only one which is an office, spare bedrooms. I spose it limits the numbers of hangers on who can invite themselves to stay. Or if you work a 6 day week, 9 hour day, with 1 week off a year you don't have the time to bother inviting guests.