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?

The Big Bang Theory. Nearly all the scenes are set around meals. Piles of food on the plates except no body is eating it, it just gets endlessly pushed around. I can't watch it now without getting annoyed - and the waste!

When someone answers the phone with the persons name. e.g. Susan goes missing and the phone rings "Susan? - oh it's you" wouldn't Susan's name flash up on a mobile?

Similar happened in Classic Corrie. Rita in the house after Alan Bradley is on the loose after being released from prison. Midnight knock on the door - "Jenny?..." as she staggers off to answer it.

The gritty crime dramas like Hinterland. The first person they interview is always the local who is a known loner. They drive 20 miles to get to the small farm they live on and the local is always wielding heavy machinery. "Did you know Joe Bloggs?"
"No" starts off chainsaw again. They drive off but will return next day to say "you were seen with him."

I hate how people lose their wife / husband / partner and are heartbroken for all of a month before moving on with a new one. Soaps are partucularly bad for this .

Every time somebody goes outside at night in the country a fox barks somewhere. I have never heard that many foxes and I live out in the sticks.

The OC was another show where they lived in a 2-bedroom mansion. Poor Ryan had to bunk in with Seth when Kirsten’s sister came to stay.

Loads in The Walking Dead. Sometimes they instantly change into zombies, sometimes it takes hours. There’s no consistency. Just depends on the plot. They always manage to shoot zombies right in the forehead even when running. Where are the pets? Surely the countryside would be full of roaming packs of wild dogs?

Say they're going to visit someone in prison. They've driven two hours out of Philadelphia to get there, gone through the search and are nervously sat waiting to see their friend. They talk for literally two minutes and then the guard comes storming in and says right times up off you fuck. In reality you'd be shouting "are you serious? Two minutes visiting time? Isn't it meant to be an hour?!"

OP I know the production team for Delicious so I shall pass in your concerns! FWIW I think that’s rank - double dipping always makes me

Also, I agree with others that Meredith Grey has an amazingly understanding nanny.

Obviously gym toned bodies in period dramas. Especially female upper arms.

The OC was another show where they lived in a 2-bedroom mansion. Poor Ryan had to bunk in with Seth when Kirsten’s sister came to stay.

Was literally just about to say this exact example! That house is minimum 4 or 5 bedroom, it's huge.

Lights. One switch, fifteen lamps and ambient sidelights. NO

Being sick. Lots of coughing? Eh I don’t think I have ever coughed when I have thrown up. Just that chundering heave from the guys and whoosh.

The Walking Dead, the grass around homes supposedly abandoned for years has always been cut fairly recently. No flies around dead bodies. (In anything not just TWD)
British soaps where someone can decide to emigrate to New Zealand on a minimum wage job without organising a visa and be gone by the same evening.
Unless it's Call The Midwife, placentas don't exist and babies take about five minutes to be born from start to finish.
Drug addictions can be gotten over in a matter of days and usually by locking someone in their bedroom.

Lololol at the family up-thread who shout "Empty cup acting!" at the telly when they spot that offence.

When I was a small child and Thunderbirds was still on the telly, we all used to shout "REAL HANDS!" in disgust when there was a close-up of one of the characters doing something fiddly like defusing a bomb and it was clearly not the real puppet but a human stand-in.

Obviously gym toned bodies in period dramas. Especially female upper arms.

Yes to this. And the way female characters can quickly undress themselves for illicit bedroom activity, and get dressed and presentable again just as quickly, without the help of a maid.

being dressed after sex, men and women still having their underwear on
where are the children?
never ever closing the curtains, in America particularly. How do they sleep?

In soaps, characters that have left never then turn up for subsequent weddings and funerals. I know it’s because the actors hve left the job, but it’s just unconvincing that, say, a brother wouldn’t be there for a sister’s funeral without at least some nod to why from the scriptwriters.

The worst was Dean Wicks’ trial for attempted rape in Eastenders which was held months after the actor had left, so even though it was a massive storyline which was integral to the lives of several characters, you never saw any of it!

In crime drama when the police search the crime scene with loose hair, no gloves, and no shoe protection. Why aren't they dressed like real scene of crime police? Cross contamination??
All villains being British.
Villains who confess everything with only circumstantial evidence. Yes, Jessica Fletcher, I'm writing about you!

Oh, God, Our Girl. Never mind Michelle Keegan’s flawless appearance throughout her tours, it’s the fact that she hasn’t been court-martialled for using the army to pursue whatever do-gooder mission she’s set her heart on. And the way she is involved in every discussion that her superiors have. Why is the medic so crucial to everything that a tactical, strategic decision can’t be made without her?

In Lewis, Endeavour etc it annoys me when they walk down a street in Oxford and come out somewhere completely different to the real street. I wouldn't mind if the place was supposed to be fictional.

I used to get frustrated at An American Werewolf in London, when the guy gets killed at Tottenham Court Road tube. He is at the foot of the escalator to the exit when the chase begins! You see him running towards the Northern Line, then towards the Central line, none of it makes sense. If I watched it now I'd be fine with it as I don't know the station well any more.

In horror films, no-one has painted their basement white and put strip lighting in to make it a useful space.

Sex scenes. Running away from zombies/police/criminals whatever and ripping clothes off a body with a night and days worth of secretions and dribbles and getting right in there. BO and balls of bog roll stuck to the pubes? Mmmmm shexy

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

theonly DH gets so mad watching Our Girl, he says it's so unrealistic and she would have been kicked out several times over. Also she is a jinx, she always ends up getting her team into trouble.

But the Morse continuity errors gave rise to the drinking game. Morse drives the wrong way down a one-way street? Have a drink! Morse and Lewis are running down Turl Street and turn into Jesus but in the next shot they’re inside Wadham? Have a drink! Extra points for every don offed, and every time Wadham front quad appeared playing a different college. On a good episode, you could be ratarsed by about five minutes in.

Anyway, would you really want to watch a tv drama which consisted of characters driving round and round looking for a parking place so they could confront the villain, spent ages trying to decide where to meet for a drink (while the viewer shouts ‘Just go to the Rovers Return!’), or had an important dinnertime conversation where they kept having to chew large mouthfuls lengthily before revealing key information?

DP and I started watching Taken (tv series) on Amazon yesterday and it's meant to to a prequel to the film so before he has a teen daughter etc. The guy have a bloody iPhone! I would have thought it would have been the 80s or early 90s but it's set in today's time which makes no sense at all.

Yy to the unrealistic births and the big bang theory food poking. Also why are Howard and bernadette always put with the others - where are the dc?

Baby hats - always hats on in the house

People having private conversations in open plan rooms and supposedly noone can hear in the other side of the room. Home and away used to be terrible for this

If someone is leaving a show they make a decision and then next day it's all tearful goodbyes. No looking for jobs, houses, cheaper flights, packing etc