What scenes annoy you in TV shows/films?

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For me it's when the police or FBI screech up to the "perp's" house, sometimes in a hostage situation, with sirens and lights blaring thereby announcing their arrival to the bad guy. Criminal Minds does this every week.

And when characters speaking on the phone hang up without saying bye

Hospital dramas - who's actually looking after the patients while the staff are holding the coma patients hand for three days, getting involved in private family dramas or bonking in the on call room?

When people get shot in a limb and instead of passing out from pain/loss of blood, carry on fighting

It's really easy to steal cares... just hot wire them. no worries.

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People who can just walk out of, or not turn up to, work, for the slimmest of reasons. There is a scene in a sitcom where a character, who is a primary school teacher, hears that a friend has been involved in accident. Her reaction? To simply walk out of school, leaving her class unattended.

Putwittty was that how I met your mother? Everytime I watch that episode it annoys me.

Yes, Oswin, it was! I want to know how an architect, a teacher, a lawyer, a newsreader and whatever the hell Barney is always seem to have so much free time to spend at the bar.

Also, there is no way a trainee lawyer and a teacher with a shopping addiction could have afforded that apartment...

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Especially the smooth-underarms of females on desert islands.

Whenever anyone does CPR on TV it always seems to be so incredibly slowly. All the first aid training I've ever had (lots!) has said to do it at the brisk pace of "Nelly the Elephant".

When the police come to question someone at work and have to march alongside them down corridors, asking questions. If the police came to question me about something, I would take it very seriously and at least offer them a seat and some eye contact!

If anyone has ever seen Notting Hill, the fake drinking of liquid out of the cups is EXCRUCIATING to watch. Not only that, they then have to do a fake swallow.

After the fake swallow, they then swing around their take-away coffee cups without considering the molton hot liquid inside.

Oh it grates, it so grates.

It has to be said - pregnant women who immediately go into end stage labour at the first contraction and SECONDS after their waters break.

Most of us faff round on MN for a couple of hours asking if 'this is it' yet

No-one has the 'packing your labour bag' discussion either.

I didn't think that Friends was too bad actually with the absent child thing - rachel always mentioned that Emma was asleep and carried a baby monitor or said that she was with her mum. And Ross used to mention going to pick up / drop off ben at carol and Susan's

YY to the empty coffee cup drinking snowball . I am watching Pretty Little Liars and they don't even bother to do a fake swallow.

I always used to worry that Rachel's baby monitor wouldn't work through two closed apartment doors, a corridor and a bedroom door

When two characters want to talk in private so they assume by going into the kitchen they won't be heard! In Friends, there isn't even a wall separating the kitchen and living room in both apartments!

Oh and the female police officers in Stalker do a lot of running in 4 inch heels.

DH is a police officer so I hear a lot of "that would never happen" muttering.

Why don't the baddies just kill the hero when they first capture him/her, instead of telling Hero all the plans and allowing hero time to escape/be rescued?
Why when people find a body they just stand around saying 'he/she's dead'. No one call emergency services or tries to resuscitate?
When CPR IS attempted either the 'dead' person immediately recovers completely, or they stop the CPR after a few compressions.
Why to computer downloads take seconds, no waiting for ages to boot up, get wrong webpage, up-dates downloading or all the other annoying delays that normal people get from computers?
The bomb always stops/is stopped at 1 second on the conveniently placed timer?

Hello everyone,

With the kind permission of the OP, we are going to sweep this one over to films in a tick.

Terminators fighting each other or any other equally matched opponents in a long drawn out fight scene - Yawn.

Everyone in historical dramas has perfect, white, even teeth.

Women have no grey hair until they are over 60 in films or TV programmes unless they are baddies. Even the female servants in Downton Abbey haven't any grey hair when middle aged!

I never noticed that about grey hair but you are absolutely right!

The parking space thing - no matter where the character is headed, they can always pull up right outside their destination - restaurant, pub, doctor's office, friend's house, you name it. In fact it is so bad that DH and I have a name for it: Hollywood Parking. If we ever get a spot right outside our house (or wherever) it gets commented on

"Ooooooh, Hollywood parking!!!"

When the babies are born the are perfectly clean, look about 2-4 weeks old and have no umbilical cord...

Rachel calling her baby Emma.
It's too similar to Emily.
Both would be called Em for short.

Why would the producers do that. Why?
it's always bothered me

When people recover from traumatic events in a day without any need for counselling

Yy to babies being born two months old, or even worse, weightless dolls being used, one very dramatic film with Russell Crowe was hilarious for that.
And yes, sex scenes always go very "smoothly", don't they!