Anyone else get annoyed when actors don't act out reality?

[Dawsonforehead]

I'm talking about the small things in TV programmes or film. My main 2 annoyances:

When they are drinking a presumably hot drink out of a mug but forget to act it out as being full or heavy and wave the mug around.

When there is a driving scene and they spend about 10 seconds looking at the passenger during their conversation, oblivious to the road.

When the police officer or whoever knocks on the front door, the person in the house opens it so quickly they must have been standing right behind the door. Happens every time.

I get that in a 45 minute episode there isn't time to waste while the character comes downstairs, or turns off the gas and walks from the kitchen, but giving it just a few seconds before the door is opened would be a little more realistic.

Or when a character gets caught in a downpour and is doing their best drowned rat impression, yet in the next scene, which takes place a short time later, and they're still wearing the same clothes, they're not even slightly damp.

Its always the same Police officer.
I feel like I'm watching Noddy half the time with PC Plod

Women wearing full make up in bed, and men waking up after a night's sleep clean-shaven.

YY about doors being opened the second someone turns up and knocks/rings. Also the way that, if it doesn't happen, the caller starts getting impatient and leaning on the doorbell. Apparently no-one on telly is ever in the loo when the doorbell goes.

Apparently no-one on telly is ever in the loo when the doorbell goes

Unless they are taking a pregnancy test or have violent diarrhoea. The only time that actors visit the toilet.

Agree totally with the hot drink. They always manage to wrap their hands around the (freshly filled with boiling water) cup immediately!

Also the door knocking. One knock, if not answered in 10 seconds, leads to manic battering on the door.
Both drive me mad.

@Apparently no-one on telly is ever in the loo when the doorbell goes
Except for comic effect. Example: in Blackadder (first series), Rowan Atkinson is relieving himself behind a tree when Richard III sneaks up and tries to take his horse. I know, not exactly ringing the doorbell, but still. Having said that, in the many scenes when Blackadder is imprisoned, there's never a slop bucket (although one is mentioned: "that depends if you want the slop bucket over your head or not").

As for the Apprentices being dressed to the nines in nine minutes flat: on Jeremy Kyle, I've heard the opposite is true. To make sure the people look suitably scruffy, the producers lie to them about the pick up time. They then storm into their hotel several hours before, perhaps at 6am, saying "change of plan, we have to start recording NOW", so they have to go quickly put the Ugg boots on and go as they are.

If you think actors don't spend enough time in the toilet: you need to see the play "Stags and Hens" by Willy Russell: the entire play is in the toilets of a nightclub. When my university staged this play once, the stage crew "had a bone to pick with Willy Russell": where were they going to find toilets to put on the stage? They had to ask demolition firms for them, and then carry them through the town, as nobody had a car!

Yes, women wearing full make up in bed . It drives me mad.

When they get out of the car and walk off WITHOUT LOCKING IT!!

YY about doors being opened the second someone turns up and knocks/rings

You can tell that writers don’t know about MNer who refuse to open the door.

Based on viewing figures, surely at least 3 characters on Eastenders should frequently watch Coronation Street and vice versa?

driving whilst doing anything but drive
never closing curtains
babies who live in car seats
car seats on tables/worktops/dangerous high place in shot
children who go to bed and stay there asleep quietly
children who never interrupt
ridiculous houses with no "stuff" lying about anywhere
extremely bad art everywhere
ridiculous amounts of food like fresh fruit etc in bowls/fridge
dinner for two with 10 serving dishes and no effort
constant alcohol drinking (then driving/court/work meeting etc)
foreplay free sex/male gaze sex/standing sex/shower sex
dogs that never crap and need picked up after
people who eat junk all day and look like athlete models
women in ridiculously high heels for everything
everyone knows all bar/restaurant staff on a first name basis
nobody ever gets hit for being a smarmy rude know it all

Not the baby’s fault I know but scenes of childbirth where the baby comes out perfectly clean and dry.

Never any mention of condoms for sex scenes.
Actors and actresses playing parents, whose on-screen or on-stage children are in real-life only about ten years younger than them.

I actually thought earlier, Phoebe Buffay was a masseuse and at one point worked in a call centre. How did she afford to rent a whole apartment in Manhattan?

Also agree with the whole spontaneous sex thing. As if you'd just shag someone on the spot without checking the list first:

1. Contraception covered?
2. Legs smooth?
3. Time of month?
4. Fanny shaved?

Where do they cook pub meals in Eastenders and Coronation Street?

dinner for two with 10 serving dishes and no effort

Or mess in the kitchen.

When a group of people are having a meal around a table- they all cram around one end. I get that it makes it easier to film but it's lazy. I always judge the quality of a TV show/ film based on whether they make the effort to film a mealtime realistically!

One person asks the other out on a date and the second person says yes. So the first one says, "Great, I'll pick you up at eight", even though person 1 has never been to person 2's house and has no idea where they live.

The CPR scenes where the patient coughs vaguely and comes round after three minutes or sits up with a huge intake of breath.

Or doing mouth to mouth when it's not always necessary.

Using a defibrillator for everything heart related.

Ah reminds me of more!

Using thumb to take someone's pulse
All drowning incident recoveries are unharmed
Gunshot victims drop silently instead of screaming abdabs
Escaping fire/burglar story victims follow a convoluted high risk exit instead of diving out the nearest window/door
All bereaved parents are demented child snatchers

If something good happens in a restaurant all the other diners stop to clap, and if there is an argument all the other diners stop to listen. The weirdest part being that the people arguing don't think it's odd that everyone else stopped eating to watch them.