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?

Medical stuff are the ones that wind me up the most.

As others have said, shocking unshockable rhythms. I think entertainment media have really done the public a disservice by giving the impression that a defib is always an appropriate course of action.

The miraculous cure rate of CPR.

Many, many Grey's Anatomy storylines. Particular focus on the major medical catastrophes of the main characters with almost a complete absence of any conclusion that isn't a full speedy recovery or death.

In a recent season, a highly trained surgeon helped a patient they were chatting to by holding an oxygen mask over their face for all of 7 seconds. It wasn't attached to anything. Was just a mask.

And perhaps the one that pisses me off the most...

Doctors being portrayed as some odd mix of doctor and nurse. Always being at the bedside, doing post op care, administering meds, always there when a patient deteriorates. What do the nurses in these hospitals do if the doctors are doing both sides of things?!

Remember in baywatch how no one ever died, 5 chest compressions , 3 breaths and they’d come round spurring water from their mouth and nose.

The way people stare at each other before kissing....that has never happened. Clothes come off super easy no one ever has that top or dress that is a nightmare to get off!

Seriously, as said upthread, these depictions of CPR, defib etc. have really given people a very unrealistic view of how effective these interventions are. It’s rare to get a successful outcome, or certainly a long-term one but unfortunately, patients relatives have seen miracles on ER or Casualty and believe this to be the reality. You only have to read threads on here regarding DNAR decisions to see how people think.

I hate it when a group is round the dinner table and all their wine glasses are exactly half full to make it look like they’ve been there a while. Everyone drinks at different rates. Some people will not like red wine and some will not be on any alcohol at all.

And yes yes to whoever said about unrealistic sex with regard to clean up and I've been watching a show recently were the two main blokes can apparently go at it for hours with their girlfriends and nobody is too sore to carry on or having problems with UTI/chafing 👀

They can also withdraw quite suddenly because their phone rings and this isn't painful for anyone and their erection is magically gone, the girls hair and makeup is magically in place.

DH always picks up in police interviews. “That wouldn’t happen.” Or “You’re not allowed to shout in their face/slap the table/threaten them/all sorts of other dramatic shit as you might jeopardise the case.” The surveillance scenes are really bad, even I can see that. A car sits under a stree light across the road from the suspect they’re following, apparently invisible to the suspect. Big massive binoculars. Also when they follow on foot they sometimes hold their collar up to talk (and hide ) their very visible ear piece and microphone. Absolute tosh.

I did see a sex scene ones where a couple were having an affair and met up one afternoon to have a major shagging session. She stood up to leave and then paused and looked sad and guilty. “Ehat’s the matter?” he asked. “I’m leaking” she said then went into the bathroom.

I was only about 16 and a bit embarrassed watching it with my parents but thinking about it, this was a really impressive scene! Very realistic, and also added to the feeling of terrible guilt and secrecy that the programme-makers wanted to convey.

Women wearing heels always seem to take them off by bending the knee and lifting their foot whilst using their hand to remove said shoe. WHO DOES THIS? Do any of you? I just kick them off or slide my foot out!
I really noticed it alot in House of Cards.

Yy to whoever said clean new born babies and yy to mars noting the This is us house size vs bedroom number.
To the poster who noticed the sister counts 2 extra people in Home Alone...wow that is a good spot!

That sounds familiar @CurlyhairedAssassin can you remember the actors or the name of the show?

With respect to House Of Cards :

When Claire Underwood was running and her Apple headphones didn't fall out ONCE never mind constantly like the rest of us mortals

Those American PD shows where there's a big shoot-out but the cops never get shot and they always shoot the criminals in the leg.

Those American PD shows where there's a big shoot-out but the cops never get shot and they always shoot the criminals in the leg.

MrStark: I’m afraid I can’t rememer, I was hoping someone else might!

Oh this one really bugs me, in long running series like soaps though Greys Anatomy is a good example of this too :

Two or more characters will be established as "best friends"

Or

Unusually close mother/daughter

Or

Very close neighbour etc

They will be best men or bridesmaids, deliver children etc

Then the actor leaves

People marry, their own sister doesn't come
People die, their spouse is suffering, but their BFF for life doesn't show

I understand it, but it really winds me up.

Schools - the bell goes and the kids just up and leave, while the teacher shouts ‘read chapter 12 for homework’ after them. Like they’ll remember!

Also, there’s only about 12 kids in the class.

Telly labours. The expectant mother always leapfrogs over early labour, established labour and transition and goes straight from nothing to doubled over in agony to crowning in five seconds flat. Rachel from Friends had the only realistic labour I've ever seen on telly.

Obviously empty suitcases and coffee mugs.

People arranging to meet without making any actual arrangements whatsoever.

People marching round having constant confrontations with each other. EastEnders is terrible for this. It's like a whole postcode has social and personality disorders, either that or they're constantly pissed. Who routinely bellows at other people in the co-op on a Monday morning, fgs?

American shows always have people drink driving or driving while on the phone.

The babies I can understand; theres a particular contract that you have yo have to use babies/children and they can only work certain hours. Like 2 hours max. So it's difficult to work around because of the age you can use them at.

What bugs me is the wearing shoes in a house. I find it really disrespectful but only because that's how I've grown up. DH leaves them on in the house and it winds me up no end because dirt.

Any medical related that is either completely unrealistic or just plain wrong. Long suffering DH gets sick of me muttering about a variety of inaccuracies such as taking blood pressure incorrectly, bad injection techniques and sexy flirty nurse / doctor stereotypes. It surely can’t cost a production company a lot of money to hire a medical or nursing advisor to ensure at least a shred of accuracy?

DH and I often shout "empty cup acting" at the telly. Lucie Lu is particularly bad at this in Sherlock.

Women whose first clue that they are pregnant is throwing up. Most women are 6 weeks pregnant by then. They can't all have such irregular periods that they don't notice they have skipped a whole month.

When people like Carrie Bradshaw live in a massive apartment in some awesome part of London or New York, when in reality on their wages they'd be sharing a room in a flea pit.

When a show is set in the 60s or 70s and the vehicles are that era but are rusty......shits me every time!!

Taking the headrests off car seats for filming purposes. Even when it’s 2 actors sitting in the front of the car being filmed from the front. No headrests. Makes me fume

Person 1 - "I need to talk to you"
Person 2 - "OK but first I have to tell you..."
Person 1 - "No this is really important"
Person 2 - "Yeah but insert exciting news"
Person 2 - "What did you want to tell me?"
Person 1 - "Oh it's nothing never mind"
Person 2 - "Oh ok"

As if they wouldn't even be curious about what the other person had to say and just accepts it was nothing

Two characters discussing another character who is standing in the same room about 2 metres away.

A scene ends just as one character begins to tell another character a story. Pans back to that scene a while later and the character who's just been told the story repeats it "Timmy and Lucy stole the money and ran away to Spain leaving Jessie at home carrying Timmy's baby?!?!". I know it's just to confirm to the viewers they've been told the story but it still annoys me as in real life the reaction would just be "OMG I can't believe that".

I remember when Sienna in Hollyoaks had her premature twins they were massive and took up the full incubator rolling on to their sides goo goo gahing. I ranted everytime they came on screen

Police see suspect down the road. Instead of walking up and grabbing them they yell from half a street away. Suspect looks round, sees police, and runs like hell.

Everyone in Eastenders appears to have everyone else's mobile number on their phone. Everyone hates Phil yet still have his number.

Yes, to the obviously empty cups. Yes, to the wasted food and drink because they order and walk out.

CSI when they go to the crime scene in heels, tiny tee shirts and skin tight jeans. Then go round looking at everything by the light of a tiny torch. I can't see!! Give me the British ones who wear the white boiler suits and show up with those really bright lights.

Eastenders, when a character decides they're leaving at breakfast time and have packed everything, given up their job and home and are in a taxi to the airport by lunchtime.

In soaps, the front door almost always opens from the street directly into the living room. And usually the staircase as well. And nobody ever complains about the draughts (drafts? Which is it for air currents?) or letting the heat out. In a regular living room, not some fancy modern open plan living concept.

And the obligatory wife's voice trilling "who is it?" floating down the stairs seconds after the cheating spouse opens the door to the enraged mistress or whatever.

In medical stuff beautifully placed scars, one over right eye, small neat scar on left cheek - no one ever has just one side of their face damaged even if they have been punched once on the chin.

Also facial scars/stitches that just move when the actor talks, no 'ouch' or trying to not hurt.

Calls to other medical people

Laryngoscope in the right hand.

Chest X-rays always on display lit up. Who's X-ray is it?

House - walking stick in the wrong hand.

Jugs of milk on the table at breakfast, who has time to put the milk in a jug for breakfast?

On a different note Medium, the totally unrealistic psychic solves crime series they actually load the dishwasher, any episode they are at home in the evening they do the dishes - never seen dishes done on any other show unless it is part of the plot.