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?

People with fake regional accents. Because no actors actually come from anywhere except London, so they can't possibly get someone with a Yorkshire/Mancunian/Cornish accent.

People "playing an instrument" (miming) and their fingers aren't anywhere near the right notes but miraculously it all sounds great

When American shows do regional accents it can go really wrong:

I liked how Daphne’s family in Frasier all seemed to be from different parts of the UK!

That's awful. My cousins are geordies and don't sound anything like that.

just looked that up MapleLeafRag - it's called Still Standing. Yes that's what I mean and it's not alone with this coupling of actors.

Came on to say about CPR

It gives families of the elderly/sick unreal expectations, I'm amazed how very few people have DNR's in place.

Over elaborate hair do's and make up! Once you spot this it will really bug you. Everyone from a random "mum of victim" to the police chief/dinner lady will have a hairdo that has obviously been done by a hairdresser, often complicated updo's drives me potty, so unrealistic!

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.

Kind of like with Camille, the black female sidekick in Death in Paradise who was always wearing skimpy shorts whilst her 3 male co workers wore full on uniform / suits.

And when she left, guess what she was replaced by another black female sidekick who swapped her uniform for skimpy shorts. What a surprise!

The only female detective in DIP who did cover up turned out to be a murderer. And the only time they had a female come in to solve the crime she got it wrong.

And more generall the male lead is often a loveable disorganised/antisocial genius. The woman sidekick a bossy humourless shrew.

Stripy, I thought the review was unkind to Mark Addy, after all it is the producers who choose the actors for the show.

I think he is a great actor by the way!

“a fattie with a hottie”

Isn't that because men tend to put on weight after marriage?
When I married exH he was slim. He got overweight over the years. I didn't at all. Such couples do exist. As do the opposite.

People taking a carton of milk or orange from the fridge and drinking it from the carton. Especially when there is more than one person in the house. In real life I have a friend who does this and gets offended when I won't have a drink from the carton (she gets cold sores). Yeucch! Also people that don't dole out an amount of ice cream but eat some out of the carton. I have seen that on loads of programmes.

It also bothers me when people order food but leave without eating it!! Also if they pour a drink and don't drink it!

People who get up and get dressed without washing. Seen quite often in films.

When people say. We'll meet later. Well where, when. In Liverpool were I'm.from Later could mean anything from say 1 hour to 5 years.

Oh and heaven forbid they should venture any further than the Vic or the Cafe. They'll fall off the edge of the Galaxy.

it is unkind to him @MapleLeafRag being described as a fattie is mean. He's an excellent actor, hardly realised it was him in Game of Thrones!

Though I suppose I really mean is the wife is attractive , young and just about always thin. the husband isn't. Yes people put on weight after marriage but on tv it seems exclusively the husband. That aside as I said before levels of attractiveness is pretty much always matched in real life (not effected by age and weight) but in sitcom family the wife will be very attractive and the husband not on the same level.

Darkness. Dark hospitals, especially. Like ER and House.

Obvious baby safety issues, like when babies are shown wearing winter coats strapped into their car seats, or cot bumpers/loads of loose bedding when putting the baby to sleep. I wouldn't mind so much, but one of the shows I saw this in was 'In the Club', about a group of women who'd just had babies! Also, much as I love Friends, they are almost never at work, especially Monica who is a chef, a lot of chefs work notoriously long/antisocial hours. Not her though.

People who get up and get dressed without washing

Especially after having sex

I am often shouting at the screen about why does no/one do any work.

This is a bit obscure but it has annoyed me in films and tv since childhood.

When one character needs to tell the other something important but the second character is having a rant about something so they just don't say anything...

Then later on, Character 2 finds out the thing Character 1 wanted to tell them and says 'why didn't you tell me?' - Character 1 then replies 'I couldn't, you were going on about X' - surely they could have just interrupted them/shouted over them if it was that important?!

People who get up and get dressed without washing. Seen quite often in films.

Yes.Yes.Yes! I noticed this the other night (though it regularly annoys me) in an advert where a couple race to get ready in the morning and don't wash!

So uh... when I get up in the morning I don’t wash (I brush my teeth and may if I’m feeling in need of refreshing splash some water on my face) and of course if I go to the loo which I usually do I’ll wash my hands after, but I don’t have a shower or anything. I just chuck my clothes on and start the day.

Am I being told that’s unusual? Even disgusting? Do “normal people” have a shower every morning or something?

Characters who wander around the bathroom and bedroom having a conversation while cleaning their teeth - where's the toothpaste drool?

I occasionally do this in IRL. The "trick" is not to wet the toothpaste first. You're welcome

Oh fgs don't start the 'how often should I shower' debate.

I always wake up sweaty. I would feel very dirty if I didn’t at least wash my pits, bits and feet.

Loose long hair (I suspect that only annoys me)

Normally it doesn't annoy me but it wound me up badly in Pearl Harbor when all the nurses had their hair long and loose.