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?

Another Casualty one - no-one ever has to work their notice period.

Women who wrap themselves in the bed sheet and walk around the bedroom when they've spent all night naked with a man. Why the sudden coyness?

Holby City

This must be the most underlit hospital in the world

Turn the lights on !!!!

Characters talking with food in their mouth

Characters unable to do the appropriate regional accent for the story. I’d rather they didn’t bother.

Normally well spoken actors trying to do ‘street talk’

Loose long hair (I suspect that only annoys me)

The constant takeaways on The Big Bang Theory annoys me and DH. They’re always surrounded by pizzas, Chinese etc. They should all be obese and on a statin.

CPR. - properly done it should have enough force to break ribs yet someone is always half heartedly doing it.

I love Code Black because it was the first time I saw a medical show say you can't shock a stopped heart. Plus it's really messy and crowded. However considering how busy they are they seem to have a lot of time to spare to act as life counsellors for their patients.

Yes to the 'my waters gone' and rush to hospital. Or one contraction and they're off to hospital.

The massive houses but someone has to sleep on the couch winds me up too. What do they use the rest of the house for?!

The way people who live on the same street walk in and out of each other's houses to have conversations and/or affairs . Don't they have phones? Jobs? Lives?? I don't know about you but most of my life occurs outside of my own street

Oooh how the female law enforcer wears her hair down all day yet arrives on scene to have it perfectly tied back but then for interrogation they've taken it down again and fluffed it out.

Or heroes whose costume consists of major makeup ie wig, eyelashes, lipstick (Arrow I'm looking at you) and they have time to do all that on the way to the emergency.

Loads of weird ones about sex and pregnancy.

That when they have sex contraception isn’t discussed or used, unless contraception is a specific part of the storyline.

That when they visit the abortion clinic it’s always an empty waiting room with just them in it- and usually she attends the appointment alone.

That miscarriage and labour both onset immediately from completely normal into frantic screaming panicking pain such that she falls over and can’t walk.

Huge American houses that only have 2 bedrooms. Kids share a room, parents another & guests sleep on the sofa, not a sofa bed, a sofa with a sheet on.
I rewatched Desperate Housewives & got far more annoyed by that than I should.

The end of the Brad Pitt movie Fury.

I won't say because of spoilers, but it hi es me the fury.

So much drinking and driving (Homeland I’m looking at you).

No one ever knocks on a door / rings a door bell and waits for a reasonable length of time before repeatedly knocking / ringing again. Would really fuck me off. Also, no one says goodbye on the phone. They just hang up.

Rude.

Nobody ever takes their shoes off.

I get that you migh not take your shoes off at someone else’s house, but you do in your own home, surely?! Even if you go for slippers rather than barefoot.

Oh, and friends just waltzing in to your house/apartment/whatever. Just knock!

Oh, and when two people make a date for “dinner” there is no discussion of what time this will be at.

People never say where to meet! Arranging a date:

'so how about you let me take you on a date?'
'yes ok'
'great, I'll see you at eight'
hangs up
WHERE??!!!

People getting jobs way above their experience/age/education.

People going into the bathroom to splash water on their face during a tense moment. Who does this? What difference does it make?

People brushing teeth never use toothpaste.

Women who take off a hat or motorbike helmet after hours of wearing and have perfect hair.

People who get fired on the spot, what about the disciplinary process?!

The amount of files all the staff carry about in Holby & Casualty.

DH & I play the file count game and it can get to 20 in the first 10 minutes, easily.

Although I did see a tablet in use in Casualty last night.

I work in IT within the NHS and a couple of weeks ago a Casualty production assistant contacted us as they wanted to do a cyber attack style plot line, wonder if they take the advice?

Autistic people are always portrayed as being male and are maths/science geniuses.

Resus on people. The success rate is around 0.2% in reality. People mistakenly believe defibbing someone is a lifestyle choice and always works and everyone can be brought back from the dead

People who are dying go from sitting up in bed talking to taking a couple of breaths then that’s it, dead. It never happens like this and, in reality, can take several days of unconsciousness and weeks of deterioration prior to that.

The thing where the characters are trying to solve a problem and Person A will say an everyday phrase like "well, it takes two to Tango" then Person B gets a faraway look in their eyes and dashes off because the phrase has just shown them what they need to do to solve the problem.

House and Suits are two shows that do this in most episodes, sometimes more than once!

sashh I completely agree about Medium - ludicrous supernatural plots, but set against the background of an actually believable and realistic family. I think it's really clever.

People’s kitchens are always immaculate even when they have just been cooking an elaborate meal.

My DD hates Lab scenes when they don't have their lab coats buttoned!

Agree with all the others 😬