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?

In the soaps nobody seems to have a proper commute to work.

Really obvious details to make things clear for the thicko audience.

E.g. just watched Keeping Faith and she downloaded a file - the computer came up in really big letters 'transferring from ARTHUR'S PHONE to FAITH'S USB'
As if anyone renames a USB.

Plus the computer never gets the donut of doom circling for ages. Click. Straight in there.

Coffee cups are always empty. Why don’t they just put water in to make it heavy? I can always tell that the cup is too light and must be empty.

Oooh loads..

When the characters make arrangements to 'meet tonight' but don't say a time.

When they order food but walk out and don't eat it.

Any drama set around a school when the parent drives kids right to the gate. That never happens!

Women who wake up with a full face of perfect make up.

Kids playing quietly in a corner while adults have deep and meaningful conversations.

Kids going straight to bed when asked.

First pregnancy; expectant mother has one contraction, cries "the baby's coming!" and everybody panics and rushes her to hospital. Calm down dear, you're not even in established labour yet.

Hospital doctors knowing patients' names and being on the wards all the time, not just during rounds.

Inappropriate cars in period dramas. Either cars that did not exist until after the show is meant to be set, or cars that particular characters would not have used. 1929 Le Mans Bentleys turn up in the strangest of places, when they would not have been driven outside of a competition context.

Also in period dramas: women tottering about in spindly heels at all times, regardless of historical accuracy. A 1920s flapper would have never worn stiletto sandals. Women in the '50s wore "stout walking shoes" when out and about in the countryside, as smart shoes were expensive and they didn't want to ruin them. Victorian and Georgian ladies often had quite sensible boots on under their long skirts.

Person blowing into a balloon then it floats up into the air as if it has helium in it.

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Fridge doors staying open for too long. DH and I both flinch when this happens, it's one of the reasons I love him.

Leaping out of cars and racing into buildings without locking car doors.

Clunky product placement. I saw an episode of bones once where they all casually chatted about uploading and sharing files via some Microsoft cloud product. And how great the new surface tablets were. It was dire.

Also, where do the children go? The pregnancy and birth is a big drama, but then they are hardly seen. Back to crime or what ever job, and a token comment from time to time. Childcare? Feeding? You know, talking about them?

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That generic baby laugh sets my teeth on edge.

Surely there must be a different recording somewhere!

People starting every sentence with SO.
Or
YA KNOW repeatedly.
Happens more on the radio for some reason.

When someone gets a visitor at night when they are not expecting anyone and they open the door wide without putting the chain on.

As mentioned above the way no one ever has to look up a phone number.

When someone has just spent the night with someone and they are too coy to just get up and walk into the bathroom so they perform an elaborate ritual of wrapping the bedclothes round themselves.

Houses Cars and Lifestyles that can't possibly match the income of their job even in Eastenders this is noticeable - you have people who flog cheap tat on a shit market in a multimillion pound townhouse that shares a postcode with the O2 Arena that they apparently own outright.

Invisible childcare in both TV and film including walking out of the house in the middle of the night with children under 5 asleep

The 555 number they use on American shows it's a fake number and everyone knows it, really punctures the suspension of disbelief.

A girl will go from being considered ugly to the prettiest in school by taking off her glasses and learning to walk in heels.

Home Alone is full of these:

• The McCallisters aren't able to call Kevin from Paris, but he is able to order a pizza. There is a logical explanation - that the main trunk line to the area was damaged, but local calls still worked. That doesn't explain why they were able to call other houses in the neighbourhood from Paris.
• When Heather was counting everyone in front of the van, she counted two more people than there actually were. First she counted the Murphy kid in the van, then she counted herself (for the second time). I don't understand how this wasn't noticed.
• The plane that they take off in is different to the one that they land in.
• When Kate uses a payphone at Paris Orly, she uses coins. At the time, all payphones in France required phone cards.
• The police are definitely incompetent.
• How can they afford a house like that and a trip to Paris for so many people?

(It's still an amazing film.)

The empty cups and empty tea pot annoy me but what annoys me the most is when in legal dramas people ask for "their brief" or the police ask "do you want to phone your brief?". I worked as a legal secretary for 30 years and never ever even once heard anyone use that word except for when Brief to Counsel was mentioned

Hubby still gets furious in the scene in Skyfall when Q plugs the laptop into the encrypted system...it was bad enough that he sat in the cinema bouncing his leg, grinding his teeth and mumbling about it, but any mention gets him into a rage!
He is the most calm, level headed individual who doesn't get cross at much, but this puts him over the top...he is an IT guy and knows you should never do this.

When someone dies and they shock them even though they are in a non shockable rythm (usually a flat line) winds me up every time. Oh and they still use paddles rather than sticky definitely pads.

Can you tell I used to work in Cardiac

Knowing phone nos off by heart.

People who don't say bye on the phone.

Blatantly empty suitcases.

People talking to each other and looking across too much in a car. I always feel nervous there'll be an accident.

The aga lid thing mentioned upthread happened in the last series of cold feet lots in Jenny's kitchen!

The way most people don't blether on like real life...no ums and ams, no forgetting things unless it's integral to the plot like getting dementia.

When you can tell the scene has been rehearsed loads by the particular tyre tracks in a field or something.

When characters switch on the tv and straightaway see a news item relevant to the plot, watch for 10 seconds in which the key information is imparted, then switch off the tv / leave the room.

It's a specific one but it annoys the shit out of me.

In This is Us when William goes to stay at Randall & Beth's house; he sleeps in one of the daughter's bedrooms so the 2 girls then share. And when Kevin comes to stay he sleeps in Beth's office for a bit, before moving downstairs to the basement.

The house is fucking MASSIVE! Like Home Alone / Father of the Bride style massive. Are we really expected to believe there are only 2 bedrooms?

When a character knows that they are being targeted by the serial killer or stalker but has all the lights on in their house at night without closing any curtains or blinds. People ten miles away can probably see exactly where they are.

And another vote for the lazy stereotype of having a villain with an English accent in American films and TV. As soon as they open their mouth you can guess straightaway that they'll turn out to be the killer.

And women who announce, "The baby's coming!" when they've only had one contraction.

Look at it FFS!

Continuity errors drive me mad.
Like in Wizard of Oz when Dorothy's hair keeps changing lengths
I think so sloppy and so common...

The morning after, the woman wakes wearing her bra and knickers. At no point during second did she remove her underwear?

And they always match...