What scenes annoy you in TV shows/films?

[Cheesymonster]

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

Some of these have had me in stitches!

Whenever someone has big , important, possibly life changing and upsetting news to tell someone else but seconds before they actually spit the words out the phone rings/baby cries/doorbell goes. Or the person about to receive the bad news totally misses all the blatantly obvious clues ("I've got something important to tell you"/very concerned look on face) and butts in to say "ooh I simply must tell you my wonderful news first blah blah". In reality you'd just want to slap the sh!t out of anyone who was that rude and self absorbed, and just bloody tell them instead of keeping it to yourself til the end of time!

Also, why oh why does someone always die or some other huge catastrophe on the same day as a wedding in Soapland?? I know the producers want to boost ratings, but every time ?! Just let them have their moment of happiness ffs!

When a character is carrying a suitcase that's supposed to be heavy but you can immediately see by the way they pick it up and carry it that it's empty

Man gets shot or otherwise injured but carries on fighting, yet when pretty woman gently dabs at it to clean it up, there's much wincing and agony

FoodFood straight from the hob or oven but no steam or heat obvious.

Cops spot the crim(s) and from yards away, yell "hey you, stop" thus enabling the crim to run away and provide the obligatory chase scene.
The cop buddy might run around the block and always manages to meet up in exactly the right place to intercept the crim.

CPR on TV involves doing 2 breaths of mouth to mouth, bashing on the chest for about 5 seconds screaming no!no! Don't die! Then someone drags them off saying 'she's gone' and everyone stands around and weeps.
Maybe if you carried on with the CPR until the ambulance arrived the love of your life might not actually be dead? The last episode of spooks is particularly annoying for this!

When they're drinking tea and its blindingly obvious that there's nothing in the cup.

When the geeky girl takes off her glasses in some kind of makeover scene, and is suddenly stunning. Sure, those awful specs didn't suit her, but now she CAN'T FUCKING SEE. They never show them getting contacts or any alternative.

Why don't they just put some bloody water in the cup and then they don't have to pretend that they are drinking? So infuriating.

Oh and CSI - they can check the entire DNA database in seconds and solve crimes within 3 days (or sometimes one shift).

The other night they had a CCTV recording of two people talking and there wasn't any sound but they managed to focus in on a plant in the background that was vibrating due to the noise of the two people speaking. They managed to extrapolate the voices from the vibrations of a plant and they managed to do this within a day.

It really irritates me when I see people randomly bashing away at a keyboard, with fingers all over the place, clearly typing any old shite, or worse still, when someone gently places their fingers on the keyboard, gently patting the keys with their finger tips. Puts me right off and reminds me that I'm watching a film and ruins the moment completely.

Also, when someone hacks into a PC/laptop in seconds without a hard crack device.

Also, none of the cupboards in offices are ever locked even when they contain important shit (that is normally kept under lock and key in a solicitor's vault).

Yes really, Mermaid DH and I both looked at each other like

"Yes your honour, I call the rubber plant to the witness stand"

Another irritant is faux-fighting. I know you can't actually punch someone in a fist fight but at least make it look realistic. I noticed this in the sixth and seventh series of Sons of Anarchy (when they were all probably knackered and jaded and wanted to get it over with). So much leaning away from the punch that was clearly nowhere near their face and the awful, hammy 'punch' sound that's dubbed over it. Horrible. Plus, no matter how brutal the fight, you very rarely see any broken jaws, cheek bones, noses or teeth flying out as you would in a normal fight. Except for 'Spartacus - Blood & Sand' / Gods of the Arena etc. that was brutal and gory.

koala i've no doubt they massively oversimplified it in CSI, but it is in theory possible to get "sound" from a silent video - saw A TED video on it recently

multi-functional scientists like Abi in NCIS - in real life people specialise, they are not experts in DNA, fingerprints, IT forensics, plants, soil, mass spectrometry, handwriting AND cars etc etc etc!

One last thing. That thing people do when they've had an argument, received bad news or just feel bad ... lean on wall/door and then slowly slide down it and slump on the floor...

I've never seen anyone in real life do that. Ever. Why would you when there's a perfectly good sofa/bed/chair to sit and mope on. Why sit on a dirty floor (and get fluff on your clothes).

Ooh the mowed lawns in The Walking Dead and that you can predict who is going to die next from who they bring into the show. They must have a set quota. It really ruined the last series for me.

The drink driving that goes on. Go out in a bar and then drive home.

Yy to lots of these!

Plus that last image of 24 where Jack is looking directly at a satellite, during the day, which happens to be directly focused on him - that chloe is watching. Idiotic.

5hell I just knew someone would come on and say it was possible! it was the whole premise of it that was ridiculous. The CCTV was grainy (if it was that clear they could have just lip read what the 'perp' was saying) they managed to extrapolate the voices perfectly in under a day and they had the right kit to do it in the lab ^and% the lab technician knew exactly how to do it!

very film that ever has a teenager has them either as a rude, silent fuck glued to headphones while the parents just sigh ineffectually. Or the teenager is wise beyond their years, filled with life truths given out in witty sound bite as the parent ruffles their hair because they are, you know, so smart.

Lessons in US high school dramas where the teacher has just asked a really searching question and the bell rings. Do they not plan lessons?!

Lessons (esp in English) that are thinly-disguised sophomoric meditations on the nature of emotion and psychology. Especially bloody Dead Poets Society and fucking Dawson's Creek.

Scenes at Oxford in Lewis where all the students are wearing gowns and sitting in gorgeous wood-panelled rooms, but seem mysteriously to either be studying something 90 years out of date or at GCSE level.

Teachers who care deeply about their students, to a stalkerishly intrusive level, outside classes. Cf. doctors and patients.

People who drive without looking at the road for long, emotionally charged moments. Makes me shout at the screen.

And - pet one - WHY does no one on TV ever use condoms? Ever? I would say roughly 80% of pregnancies come as pleasant surprises, totally unexpected (and the other 20% involve angsty TTC and problems). I don't think I have ever met someone in RL who has said 'yes, I had a one-night stand, and it was unprotected, and yes, I am a brilliant medic, but I have no idea what might happen in a few months time. La la la ...'

It's not normal, is it? I'm a disorganised idiot and even I can usually get it together enough to buy a pack of condoms when I shag someone I'm not actively TTC with.

The 'never has trouble finding a parking spot' one is bang on.

Any woman in any action movie will at some stage be called 'the girl' and talked about as if she isn't present
'I'll stay her. You get the girl and head out there for help'

YY to all of those Jeanne esp the bell ringing in what seems like the middle of the lesson.

A huge yes to the magic parking spaces especially in cities like London or New York.

Also the way they buy houses, businesses, etc., without discussing prices or doing any legal paperwork whatsoever and the purchase happens within an hour or less.

The elastic houses in soapland - the UK housing crisis would be solved overnight!

The fact they never tell the truth or impart the vital information at the right time.

Another 24 one - when it's an ad break and he's racing across a city - end of ad break and he's reached his destination. No traffic jams/lights/diversions. Lucky him.