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?

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

Thats you though. I don't feel the same. Don't believe that somehow what you do is a standard and anyone who doesn't is wrong.

When they have an animal in one scene, then change it for a different one and we're not supposed to notice. Or its wearing different tackle.

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Something that (ridiculously irrationally) annoys me is a scene in Thor: The Dark World, when Loki is imprisoned. Okay, so he’s imprisoned on Asgard and the culture may be entirely different but... he has no toilet! Regardless of whether he was going to use the damn thing, it’s hardly a prison cell without a toilet, right? That just makes it... a room!

Every time I see those scenes it just irrationally bugs me I s’pose if he’s non human he doesn’t have to use a toilet at all, but...

Loki's cell has a sliding wall in the back that contains a bathroom.

Nobody ever uses the bathroom unless it's a plot/conversation point

Nobody ever uses the bathroom unless it's a plot/conversation point

Of course they don't, Why would any film or tv show randomly show people taking shits for absolutely no reason?

Here's a tip, nobody ever does anything in any film or tv show unless its for plot purposes, because the entire thing is fiction and the plot is what the show is about.

But is that not the point of this thread?!

It took them 50 years to mention the TARDIS had a bathroom.

Recently it’s females in superhero films having to pair off with team members. Maybe it’s a Marvel thing, but Gamora had to pair off with Chris Pratt even though he was annoying, Black Widow fell for sodding Hulk and Scarlet Witch went for the robot. Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye get to have nice normal girlfriends, but a superhero girl can’t have a normal boyfriend?

No, the point of this thread is about things that don't make sense in films. Not randomly showing people in the bog for no reason makes perfect sense!

Maybe it’s a Marvel thing, but Gamora had to pair off with Chris Pratt even though he was annoying, Black Widow fell for sodding Hulk and Scarlet Witch went for the robot. Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye get to have nice normal girlfriends, but a superhero girl can’t have a normal boyfriend?

Gamora travelled around in a spaceship for years, living intergalactically. Where was she going to get a boyfriend from other than on the ship? And Starlord was normal in that he was a normal human (until they found out he wasn't, but that was after). Black Widow and Hulk were never in a relationship as such, and Scarlet Witch fell for Vision (not a robot) basically at work, which is the same as Iron Man did, and Thor was dating the human astrophysicist who found him (and I doubt she'd appreciate the nice/normal attribution, as would Pepper Potts).
The only one there that has any kind of standard set up is Hawkeye.

and what about AntMan and Wasp?

Characters who finish a cigarette,flick it away and then kiss someone.The idea of that is ugh

People get the chance to tell someone something important but don’t.

Example: in hollyoakes harry finally gets to see james to tell him that kyle is alive (potentially allowing him to be free from prison) but he doesn’t. As he is escorted away he shouts that he needs to tell james something, why doesn’t he just blurt it out instead of saying he has something to say?

In US shows especially, when characters order from a bartender, take the drink, drink it and order another... without paying.

Ditto when people leave restaurant meals without settling the bill first.

@accidentallandlord Annoyingly that is exactly how many bars in USA operate. You often don't pay until you leave. Which is a huge pain when you are used to doing rounds or when not every person in your group arrives and leaves at the same time. In busy places, they do ask to swipe your credit card at the start of the evening to prevent walk-outs I guess.

Agree with you on the restaurants though! Or how on TV they throw a random wad of bills down to pay for the meal without checking either the total of the bill, or the amount of cash in their fist.

I've thought of another - when talking about serious amounts of money, they always write it down or whisper it instead of just saying it. Just tell us, is it 50 grand or 50 million?!

Cellars never have a light switch at the top of the stairs, the house owner has to negotiate the stairs by whatever light comes in from the room above.

Personally I couldn’t live in a house with a cellar or basement, they creep me out.

People doing CPR wrongly.

And nearly everyone survives after a resuscitation attempt (Not true in reality!).

People buy cake or whatever and take one bite and leave it. I can't imagine doing that!

Doorbell or phone neatly ringing just after someone finishes a sentence - nobody is ever interrupted by the phone or doorbell, as in real life. Ditto bells in schools.

There's an episode of the Vicar of Dibley where "perfectly timed doorbell syndrome" happens about six times!

Doorbell or phone neatly ringing just after someone finishes a sentence - nobody is ever interrupted by the phone or doorbell, as in real life. Ditto bells in schools.

That and kids never hanging out of them when talking.
Kids going to bed as soon as they are asked and not coming down a million times wihtin the hour,

I know it's been mentioned already but I was watching Eastenders tonight. There are, currently, Kat, Nan, Jean, Tiffany, Whitney, Hayley, Martin and Stacey plus their three kids ..... Jesus. That's. A. Squeeze. 11 people. In one 3/4 bed semi?

Feels like I've missed people off that list too!

People in American bars rarely pay for drinks as they buy them, presumably settling when they leave. Just how do bar staff keep tabs (no pun intended) on all those people - they never seem to write anything down. Annoying!

It’s always pissing down when they go to see the body at an outside murder scene. It’s never sunny.
Hospital dramas [obviously] never capture the tedium of much of hospital life: waiting for images, writing up notes, ordering scans, and the staff are too attractive on average, particularly surgeons of both sexes and the women.

Personally I couldn’t live in a house with a cellar or basement, they creep me out. Me too.

I do like the idea of building a kind of den for the children in a cellar with sofas and a TV etc. Would keep the rest of the house much tidier I reckon.