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 way that women in American shows always wear make up and have styled hair. Even of they're trapped on a desert island. Even if they're in a post apocalyptic world, struggling for survival. Even if they're in the distant past and makeup hasn't been invented. It rages me SO HARD. British tv is much better about realistic appearance and one of the reasons I prefer it over American stuff.

American shows, the evil overlords always drinking whiskey out of a decanter, neat. They're always doing that no matter what time of day it is.

2 dimensional characters that never smile because the show is serious, they are serious 24/7

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

Precisely! Where’s the penis beaker and/or sex towel?

Screaming women at the first sign of labour. It's always waters breaking followed by her collapsing and screaming in hysterics.
Suddenly this very capable tv character has deteriorated into a passive and helpless child and needs to be dominated and controlled by any old man who is suddenly a qualified midwife and needs to mansplain the pregnant woman through her own labour.

And no one can ever have a straight forward uncomplicated birth. It always has to be massively dramatic or precipitous birth by a lake with leggings on

The lack of people with disabilities in rolls for disabilities and when there is a rule about somebody with a disability, usually it's very stereo typical. Blind people are either made to look helpless or have superpowers.

Lifts in films and tv don’t have audible warnings (doors opening, going up, etc) or floor number announcements.

If someone’s parked in a multi storey you never see them pay before leaving.

Serendipity, I just had a thought but I think it might depend on which country is making the film or the TV show. Different places do things differently. You mentioned about the lifts, but that's really a British thing. I'm just thinking of Greece, Italy, France were those old fashion lifts are still in place a lot of the time. The ones that have the door that you have to open yourself and then shut it before the lift door opens and shuts.

When theyre sitting round and all the lamps are on as well as the big light. They do this in Friday Night Dinner every episode.

When in the midst of a tense situation a character will launch into an uninterrupted and eloquent anecdote along the lines of 'when I was a child....'

And everyone, adversies included patiently listen until they've finished.

Would never happen in real life

Actors standing much closer to each other that people would do in RL. Just makes them look unhinged.

Was just about to post what AngelsAckiz said - one twinge and they are instantly unable to walk and have to be blue lighted to hospital.

Also has anyone mentioned people leaving the fridge door open! They go to the fridge and stand there talking or take something out and go to the worktop - leaving the fridge open the whole time! Makes me feel all twitchy

Labs that only have tiny desk lamps or spotlights, not fluorescent strip lights. They're always too tidy as well - labs are functional spaces with work going on all the time. All the equipment works and is never out of action being calibrated or serviced. Even things like scanning microscopes and spectrometers that have to have down time because they overheat.

Similar to the horse comments - anything involving greyhound tracks or kennels will be accompanied by constant background barking. Greyhounds rarely bark.

People who find out who the killer is.Rings the police and wont tell them over the phone.They insist on meeting down some dark alley.

And of course the killer overhears the conversation and kills the person.

Big, big fight scenes where all the baddies stand to the side and then fight the hero/ine one at a time instead of all piling in at once.

Oh how could I forget this one as I saw it quite recently it felt tired in a normally good show.

Good cop is good.
Bent cop is bent.
Bent cop stitches up good cop
Good cop has to act outside of the rules to prove they are the good cop
Bent cop is exposed at the last second via a twist

Actors standing much closer to each other that people would do in RL. Just makes them look unhinged.

I noticed this when catching up on Holby City yesterday! Gaskell was standing so close to one of the female characters - just to have a normal conversation (or what passes for normal in that character's head) - he wasn't trying to be threatening or intimidating or anything. I thought, "Mate, unless you back away a couple of steps, you are a lawsuit waiting to happen".

The fact that no-one has ever simply walked into a room and shot James Bond. There's always hours of villainous gloating about how clever said villain is, or the planned death is so convoluted, giving Bond oodles of time to come up with his escape plan/signal his plan to his associates with his eyebrows.

Serendipity, I just had a thought but I think it might depend on which country is making the film or the TV show. Different places do things differently. You mentioned about the lifts, but that's really a British thing. I'm just thinking of Greece, Italy, France were those old fashion lifts are still in place a lot of the time. The ones that have the door that you have to open yourself and then shut it before the lift door opens and shuts.

Yes you’re right. Been in lots of lifts in those countries which would be a health and safety officer’s nightmare.

When Jackie Chan, or Tom Cruise, Jason Statham or anyone fights with a gang of seven guys they all wait their turn to attack him and then he kills each one dead in turn. It always has us in stitches here at the belfry.

Nobody standing around just gets out a gun and shoots the implausible hero, with the sole exception of Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Yep kids who fight, occasionally get into trouble, people who do occasional housework, it is clever.

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

In Dempsy and Makepeace, for anyone old enough to remember it, Makepeace usually wore high heels, unless she was going to be chasing someone later in the episode.

You knew in 5 mins whether there would be a chase.

When a charter leaves and is replaced by another they are often alsmost the same.

Waking the dead, female Dr leaves, replaced by female Dr. Female detective is killed, replaced by another female.

Hustle, black actor not in a series, bring in another black male actor who is no where near as good looking as Adrian Leicester.

Death in Paradise, apart from the aforementioned substituting the character this is a Caribbean island with a black majority population 90% of victims are white and British and for the first 2 series all victims were white.

Ooo thought of another one. At the end of rom-coms or after characters get married they full on kiss in front of their family and friends who just stand there smiling and clapping. Makes me cringe as I couldn't imagine kissing my partner like that infront of my parents!

No continuity with leaves on trees - in The Woman in White, they'd have one scene when all the trees were in leaf, and then the next when they were all bare.

People always push their food around or order a meal and then leave it all.

Children aren't bothered when their parents go away - I suppose this is hard as the child actors don't know their screen parents. Pregnant women always have morning sickness, then have one contraction and need to rush to hospital to have the baby five minutes later - no-one has a long, drawn-out labour. They also buy loads of pregnancy tests, and not the cheap ones from Poundland.

No-one, not even if they're in the CIA, seems to have a PIN number or fingerprint ID on their phone.

I'd also like to see a new James Bond film in which he is subject to a #MeToo campaign to arrest him for historical harassment.

In American tv shows men always seem to be eating and talking with their mouth full. I have to mute the tv.