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

Leaving a pub/restaurant only having had a few sips of the drink you just bought. In reality, someone would say, "shall we go to town now?" and everyone else would take that as a cue to sup up.

Hot drinks - garrrgghhh! How hard is it to pretend that there is liquid in there? And that it is too hot to be holding immediately after pouring, if you have your hand round the cup.

Food - talking with a mouthful for emphasis - no, just finish your mouthful first!

If you are in a soap you will always have a job within the same street. Only exception is nurses and doctors, otherwise you all work in the knicker factory/launderette/car dealer/pawn shop/corner shop on the same street/square. Never see anyone just going to/from town to work. Well, not since 1980's Eastenders when Debs used to go to work at the bank but she got run over IIRC so maybe that's a punishment for not working on the Square!

Crime mysteries: when the detectives are personally threatened by the perps. WTAF?

American Cop shows: somebody (nice but troubled rather than true bad guy) points a gun at somebody else. Cop rocks up & points own gun at nice-but-troubled. And then proceeds to talk to them about putting the gun down. ??? Real American cops are trained to always shoot first & ask questions later in that situation. They follow the real protocol if the perp is true bad guy according to the story.

Why doesn't anyone have a washing machine in Eastenders?

Any scene in an airport with luggage you can see is empty. Stuff some jumpers in it to make it look realistic!
Also hate it when a character is in a bar and orders "2 beers" and the bartender knows which beer to bring them.
Top secret documents are always marked "top secret/confidential" in big letters on the front.
Computer hackers are always young men in ugly tee shirts who work in the middle of the night.
Bad guys always have an accent.

When the local GP is always at the hospital when one of the locals is admitted. Local GP is also surgeon/oncologist/obstetrician/cardiologist/geriatrician/paediatrician/insert all other ologisits and icians here.

People living in impoverished areas with menial jobs yet affording fulltime nannies/childminders and managing to eat their breakfast and lunch in cafes and their evening meal in restaurants and always having new clothes, and living in small terraced houses but somehow managing to house 4/6/10 people whenever someone wants to move in coronation street

GP appointments on TV always seem to involve a bit of a chat and counselling. They can get an appointment same day for non-emergencies too!

When I am at work, if I am talking to someone I finish up by saying "bye, or thanks, see you later" or whatever. I have noticed that in workplaces on TV, especially in American programmes and every single scene in ER, everyone just walks off nobody is very friendly at all.

Sorry I posted that too soon. I should have said "thanks, bye"

I mean like a doctor will be in looking at an X-Ray and shows it to the expert, the expert says "tumour" and frowns, the doctor just nods and walks out. Nobody says thanks or says goodbye.

Maybe workplaces are really like this though and I do too much small talking.

Have you seen the trailer for that sitcom Vicious (I think?) with Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen? When he presses "stop" on the treadmill and falls off backwards???? Arrrgh! If you suddenly press stop on a treadmill you fall off forwards you idiots!

When a NYC taxi cab stops to pick up a fare within seconds of the person hailing a taxi.

This is quite a minor thing, but it happens a lot and it bugs me. When a character has had a shock, or is ill, or guilty or whatever, and someone else sees them and goes "You look pale / awful!" with a face. No! No they don't! They look exactly the same as they always do - and if it's an American show, 9/10 they look a zillion times better than you or I could aspire to look on our best day ever
It's just, like, come on, show - you have a make-up department. If character X is meant to look pale or haggard, bloody well make them look it! Commit to your dialogue! Show, don't tell! Aaaargh!

Also: women in action roles who wear heels and have long swingy hair worn loose. TIE IT BACK. YOU ARE FIGHTING. You need to be able to see properly and not provide extra things for your opponent to grab you by.

Scenes where a woman reaches a majestic, roaring, mind blowing orgasm a few seconds after a man has penetrated her...... Yeah, because that reflects real life and all the accompanying squeaking and squealing.

Female romantic leads always have a nice job like owning a bakery yet you never see them getting up at 5am to start work like you really do if you work in that industry or always have a job like pet shop owner which somehow affords them a huge apartment and nice clothes.

I watched "Noah" last night. Hermione Grainger gave birth to twins at one point who were born in about ten minutes without umbilical cords and all nice and clean which was fine if slightly movie mad.

Minutes later she appeared to have managed to climb up a ladder carrying both babies and had a long chat with Noah.

At no point did her placenta plop out and land in a bloody puddle on the floor.

When the Christmas tree lights blow the fuses. Every bloody Christmas. Every bloody sitcom.

YY to the empty suitcases and coffee cups.

Also financial transactions where the price is never mentioned, Coronation St is especially guilty of this, people buy houses and businesses from each other and shake on it without ever discussing the price. Ditto arrangements to meet up later without ever saying what time and yet they manage to be in the same place at the same time!

Keira Knightley, Love Actually, 'I look almost pwetty, don't I?' makes me want to chuck something through the screen, and is powerfully irritating enough to render the entire film virally unwatchable.

On a general note, the standard scene where the rough-round-the-edges-but-basically-good-guy is shown bitterly and sadly downing a drink in a strip club, studiously ignoring the naked women around him, before making his mind up and shoving his chair back before casting a world-weary, glance at the sleaze. Why go to the strip club then? Why not a naice wine bar? Why the bloody strip joint, eh?

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Sex scenes where the female keeps her bra on throughout and the males all have a penis with a homing device.

Trice....that's hilarious!!

In friends where they say "can I talk to you in the kitchen?" Which is attached to the living room. They then proceed to whisper about someone 3ft away, who is naturally oblivious.

Just saw milliemoons post

Shawshank Redemption: The scene where the prison warder comes to Andy's cell and discovers he has escaped through the tunnel he has dug.

When he escaped, Andy hid the entrance to the tunnel by putting a poster over it. How did he get the poster tight over the tunnel entrance from the inside of the tunnel?

BikeRunSki I have always complained to DH about that!