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?

At evening meal times in American shows, they always have Christmas dinner style meals with food on serving trays on the table. Despite everyone having food on their plates, there is still lots left on the serving trays.

Despite spending literally all of their time with the same people, characters will introduce a new friend or relative that is really close to one of the characters, despite never being mentioned before. Then within a matter of episodes, is totally integrated into the group.

Ice cream is taken out of the freezer and is immediately soft enough to eat straight out of the tub with a spoon - this never happens in real life, a good ten mins softening time is usually necessary 😂

Aussie soaps mostly.Oeople come in from working and do roasts, stews.Food that takes ages to cook.

They work in a diner theres no way I'd be in the humour for that.

I've not read all the replies yet... Has anyone mentioned the following:

Fictitious country names (Irokia - oh piss off, call it Iraq)

Obscured branding (we all know that news journalist is wearing a North Face jacket, the sticky tape is only drawing more attention to it)

Faked branding (take that stupid pear off the back of the phone on kids TV - they all know it's a fucking Apple)

Unlimited ammo in guns

People sprinting as fast as they can to get somewhere, or to someone, and then talking as if they've just got off the couch

lucy

Not if you're clutching that Ben & Jerry's tub like it's a form of life support.

I would imagine

Though I agree the Pear thing really annoys me - it's down to advertising and sponsorship law.

The fake CPR thing - well they can't really shock a living healthy person can they ?

I agree with the someone having something vital to say and being cut off by trivial concerns - overdone.

@LemonRedwood ahhh of course 😂

People being shot or stabbed or having their leg shredded, then limping for a bit and then going for a masterful fight against the villain that they win. You might see them wince a bit when they look in the mirror.
If it’s a series, then next episode the limp/stab wound/whatever is gone and they are back to full fitness, even if the episode picks up where the last one left off.

A soap character, played by an actress who looks at least in her late forties, has a teenage son/daughter.

Absolutely fine till soap character claims to have had said offspring very young, at age eighteen or nineteen.

No, I don't think so.

I hope this isn't going to sound awful, but anything that seems like PC box ticking. For example in a recent BBC drama where the firearms officer in charge is young and female and black and physically attractive. I can't help thinking what the chances of someone ticking all those boxes in that role in real life would be. More likely to be white, male, older, and far less attractive I bet, so straight away it removes the realism from the programme for me.

The fake CPR comment wasn't about defibrillation though.

It was about people using bent arms and wrong rate of compressions.

Aussie soaps as well - actors way too old for their characters. 30yo's playing schoolchildren

People waking up entirely lucid after vent support is removed. My BIL had a heart attack last Autumn at the age of 50. His 22-year-old daughter did CPR until the ambulance arrived and he had to be defibbed twice, where, despite his size (he's a big build man who is 6ft. 5in, 4 ribs were broken). He was on a vent for a week and he'd aspirated vomit when he took the attack so had pneumonia, too. It was a while before he was cognisant enough to even be told where he was. He doesn't remember a thing and when the doctors told his wife to tell him what happened he replied, 'Holy shit!'