Things they don't do on telly or in films

[Dillygaf]

Appreciating that it is impossible to represent every nuance of everyday life on the screen, what annoying things don't happen on screen that do happen IRL?
For me, it's not adjusting car seats. How is a 5'4" person suddenly able to hop in a car that's just been driven by someone of 6' 2" without spending several minutes moving up/down/forwards/backwards. etc.
Also (mainly American) no-one says goodbye at the end of a phone call and most family meals are comprised of mashed potato - does anyone eat a roastie or a Dauphinoise?!

Ah but they do watch tv, it’s always on the correct channel in a pub or a shop, just in time for them to hear about a kidnapping and realising it’s their wife etc or a photo of the wanted man comes on just as the shop worker is serving them.

This one gets me, they just put the phone down. Who does that!?

Maintaining continuity in eating scenes in film and TV is an absolute bugger. The final scene is usually shots stitched together from multiple takes and if the actors are actually eating/drinking it's almost impossible to avoid continuity fails. Hence it's easier all round to have the actors just not touch the food. It might not be edible anyway. Real food often doesn't look good or fare well under studio lighting.

I’ve just watched the TV programme Foundation on Apple TV. It’s a sci fi show spanning multiple universes and different timescales. And apart i think from one particular set of characters, nobody in any of the fictional worlds ate anything. They’d just go from battle to battle or crisis to crisis without food and then even go into hyper sleep for 100 years without ever having to have food. I know it’s not always interesting to show people eating but in this particular show, I do think showing how the inhabitants fed themselves and kept alive would be pretty integral to some of the storylines.

@DreadPirateRobots plus have you seen the size of most of the actors? They're all so short and skinny they probably only eat salad! 🤣

They don't Google anything. If they show a character searching the internet they always use some fake crappy looking website called 'WebSearcher' or something.

I thought about editing to add "and a lot of actors probably also avoid eating anyway" 😁

I do this!

See the Marvellous Mrs Maisel for how this is done.
😀

@noblegiraffe in Coronation Street, they use 'Voggle.' 😂

The Good Wife had ChumHum, with accompanying 'funny' cartoon chipmunk or similar creature.

Agreed, no one ever goes to the toilet unless it's a cover for something else

In the glory days of Dallas, they always had sumptious breakfasts out on the ranch patio, served by Butlers and maids.
Boiled/scrambled eggs served on silver platters. Black coffee, orange juice, toast.
Nobody ever ate a bite and S'wellen would roll up hungover from the night before and shakily sit down to be berated by Jr.

It was bloody brilliant 😁

J.R

Drinking and driving! Stressed detective stops at a bar and pounds a few whiskeys straight up, then gets a call that a body has been found. Sighs, chucks a few notes on the bar and drives off to the crime scene!

See also, business women having cocktails at lunch.

Everyone has wine with dinner, do they do this every night? It's a mid-week meal, and on thus subject why is there always a huge bowl of salad and bread rolls for 2 people?

In American shows they just leave cash on the bar usually without knowing how much the bill is.

A lot of films / TV don't show all the mundane acts or drudgery very well like scraping the bits of food out of the sink, moping up the bin juice, pulling fluff out the hoover etc. You often see people eating huge meals and there's none of the chaos of cooking it, dealing with all the recycling, washing up putting away again. Or when you see high flying professionals you never see them dashing out to shop for new tights or knickers. Or discovering their favourite bra has gone baggy or shrunk or changed colour in the wash. Just glamorous perfection.

Sneeze or cough unless in a scene when they are Ill in bed. No one does a random sneeze

In Eastenders all babies are always premature and yet are the size of a 3 month old.

HRTFT... never get pulled for not having a rear view mirror...

No but there was more than one character and they weren't always all together, so I assumed they went when it was showing one of the other characters.

I always think of the friends episode when Rachel gave birth. She was in labour for about 2 days, they all stayed for the labour/birth/afterwards (they were in same outfits) yet Monica and chandler had "done it" in the closet to start "trying" for a baby, so in theory she was walking around with cummy pants for the next day or so 😱😆

About eating-and back to Starsky&Hutch again. They ate -a lot. And junk food. One of the actors said in an interview that they had a bucket to spit food into because there were so many takes they would have been enormous if they had actually eaten it all.

They never get locked out of a computer for getting password wrong too many times. Just guess and they are in 1st or 2nd go. (OK, there are some exceptions but few)

🤣🤣🤣 so true

In American shows they just leave cash on the bar usually without knowing how much the bill is.

Bartenders get tipped in the US and a lot of bars have flat rates for drinks, so they're rounding up and leaving a tip.