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?

Oh and why do characters often have phones that are miles out of date??? Supposedly high flying executives still fannying on with a BlackBerry in a series set in the last 2-3 years. Is it a product placement thing or something?

Yy to whoever said about people doing housework when being questioned as part of a murder investigation.

And the family being really hostile to the police right off the bat when asking perfectly normal questions about what might have happened to the victim

In film/tv sex the man can put his penis straight into a vagina while his hands are holding her hands above her head/ taking her bra off. He never needs to find the actual entrance with his fingers, or poke the tip in or anything, he goes straight from knickers down to deep thrust ( which immediately makes her nearly orgasm).

Women waking up with perfect makeup on. I know that the actress is going to be wearing some makeup, but when there's obvious eyeliner and lipstick it's annoying. Go to sleep with that on and it'll be a mess in the morning.

Ha Bagel I just came on to say no one ever does their lab coat up! An open lab coat only protects your back...

Also in Lewis every destination is reached via the Radcliffe Camera.

Where they have sex and then just roll apart and lay talking for a bit. Where's the clean up?!?!

Parents not following safe sleep guidelines.

For example, babies being placed at the top or middle of a cot with teddies / loose bedding everywhere and parents sleeping on sofas with young babies.

NorthStar I'd never noticed it until she pointed it out. She's just finished A Level Sciences so it really bugs her.

MsAdorabelle I live in suburbs 20 mikes S of London and we have loads of foxes around. See them nearly every day at dusk. It's very unusual not to hear foxes screaming at night.

Sex scenes in general.

No foreplay.
No, "Oh sorry, I'm still dry, pass me the lube"
No "Yeah, I don't climax from PIV and usually take 20 mins of oral, if I'm lucky"
No premature finish from him
No erectile dysfunction (except in Rita, Sue and Bob, too)
No "Sorry I'm on and don't want to"
No "Let me just have a wee"
No bathroom duck waddle run with hand cupped between legs
No "pass me the tissues"

It just always to be instant wet, no foreplay, full speed dry entry, three thrusts, then two immaculately timed spontaneous orgasms.

God luck with that.

If I went on about my Eastenders gripes I'd give myself a coronary, but the biggest..

' Going away' - they always leave that night , or within hours.
'I'm emigrating to America - the flights's tonight'
'We need a boys weekend Kush, I've booked it, get packed, we leave in ten'

Convenient friends who the main character appears to be really close to for one episode then they're never seen again. Sex and the City did this a lot, especially in the first couple of seasons. Carrie would have lunch with / be an important part of the wedding of / stay at the house of her "good friend" X, but X was never mentioned before or after that episode.

On a similar point, 27 Dresses... despite being bridesmaid to 27 women, Katherine Heigl's character is never seen socialising with any of them during the film. Surely she would still be good friends with at least some of them?!

Another that I bloody hate is when shows add 'comic relief' type characters, or turn existing characters into paradies of themselves, when it doesn't fit in with the genre of the show.

I stopped watching Suits because of it. Really wound me up that in with all the drama storylines, a character had been turned into a pitiful clown with carry-on type storylines despite supposedly being a highly intelligent lawyer.

I have not watched the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm for ages but in that the solution to every problem seemed to be to “go away for a few days”. Don’t know how they managed it with their jobs, then again people seemed to be employed but rarely actually working.

Apparently their only friends are their work colleagues. Only ever socialise with work colleagues.

Fat woman is there for comic relief/plot point. Every single person otherwise is a size 6.

Has anyone read Men Women and Chainsaws? t's a book about gender in horror films and the writer points out that the "final girl" will often have a male name, basically because by taking action and not being a victim, she's a pseudo-man I always notice it now (Laurie in Halloween, Sidney in Scream, Jay in It Follows) and it's slightly ruined horror films for me. Also it pissed me off that in Gravity, a film with a minimal amount of dialogie, they still managed to get in "So why are you called Ryan?" "Oh, my dad wanted a boy." WHY? She could have just been called Susan, no need to imply that only women who were brought up like boys choose to be astronauts

Continuing on the feminist theme, in thrillers women (either the villain or the hero) will always have been raped at some point in their past and this is what made them the way they are today...

And finally, when a child is scared their parents will always grab their face, stare at them eyeball to eyeball and say "Look at me! LOOOOOK AT MEEEE!" I have never seen anyone do this when their child is panicky and I can't imagine it would be very soothing if they did

In murder mysteries when a character phones a detective saying they know who the killer is but refuses to explain over the phone and insists on meeting to tell them. They always get murdered before that happens. Why can't they just tell them on the phone?!

Science lab techs working with their lab coats open and their hair hanging down. Wouldn't happen. Lab coats are there to protect your clothes so they must be buttoned up to the top. Hair should never be down as it can go in your work or flames.

Detectives wearing high heels on duty. Would they really? I would've though flats would be far more practical, especially for the running after villains scenes.

Period dramas involving horses, where it seems only about 3 horses are used for every scene, and you start recognising them. Oh look, that chestnut pulling that cart is round again.

When the characters talk so quietly they're almost whispering when there is no reason for them to be doing so, eg in Cardinal.

When the lead male character is considerably older and/or less physically attractive than the lead female, eg Cardinal (although he's gorgeous), 13 Commandments, and Inspector Borowski.

Driving and talking whilst looking over a lot at the passenger. Makes me feel really uncomfortable when they don't keep their eyes on the road.

The lack of bad morning breath. Oh sure, just wake up, turn over and talk right in each other's faces. Euw!

When men get upset or annoyed about something they have to stick their face in a sink and pouring running water over themselves. This is followed by the obligatory staring at themselves in the mirror immediately afterwards. Why?

Oh yes, that one. Notice how they never seem to care about getting water on their clothes either. I'd be rolling my sleeves up so my cuffs don't get wet at the very least.

When a character has a dog that is meant to be theirs, but it doesn ‘t go beserk/make a fuss when they get home, or keep trying to lick them or sit on them.

The toilets are never used for peeing or pooping - only for someone to overhear a life changing conversation

In American films when they live in huge mansions and some one comes to stay for a night and they put them on the sofa.

All of the Real Housewives never wear their seat belts when being driven.

Whenever someone has a bath it is full of enough bubbles to completely cover them except their head, I’d like to know what brand of bubble bath they are using.

Empty coffee cups - Pretty Little Liars was terrible for this.

Women stranded on desert island - perfect brows and smooth armpits.

Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers -
stranded in space with only one other person for the rest of her life but still bothered to use a fucking curling wand every day.

People not saying bye when ending phone call.

Loud kissy noises.

Product placement - so distracting!

Female detective in sky high stilettos running after criminal. At least Deb in Dexter dressed practically.

No one fumbles with their mobile when it rings like I always do! No they just reach a hand into huge tote bag, find phone instantly, slide to unlock, done!

Couple in bed DTD when it's obvious there is a sheet between them.

Finding a parking space outside building in middle of busy city with no difficulty.

And who the FUCK is mowing all the lawns in the Walking Dead?!

Actors who are clearly not different enough in age to be playing the other person's parent.

Horses in period dramas decked out in modern saddlery.

Detectives who are always able to find a parking space right outside the exact address they need. Unless, of course, they are conducting surveillance, in which case they can find somewhere to park in such a way that they have a perfect view, whilst remaining completely unseen by the villains.

Fake snow that has clearly only been used on the trees and bushes in the actual shot, because you can see summer trees and flowers in the distant background.

Talking of the weather, how come thunderstorms are always at night rather than during the day?

Bustling hospitals. Who are all those hundreds of people marching about with clipboards?

Actors playing policemen always have slightly too big caps- so they rest on their ears, though this is the sidekicks and not the main character policemen.
Sheiks always have their headgear slightly amdram looking - why? Can't the costumers pull up a pic of a real sheik and just copy it?
Correct outfits for their time is important. Jeremy Thorpe with Hugh Grant in lead was great, hairstyle, clothing, furnishings all great but the police were shortarses. - Nono o at that time they were all 6 ft. Grrrrr

A technical one - when explosions are so loud you have to turn the volume down and then the dialogue immediately afterwards is whispered / mumbled so quietly you have to turn the volume up / add subtitles.