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

Did we get to the bottom of Andy's poster on the wall r.e. Shawshank Redemption? It's on of my favourite films and it never even occurred to me.

Mine is from a particular film but suppose it could apply to others. If there is a psychopath murder intent on killing you and your family, you probably shouldn't take them to an island in the middle of nowhere and isolate yourselves on a boat where said psychopath could easily find you, kill you and there'd never be a trace of you.

Some of these are hilarious!

When a man asks a woman out on a date without agreeing a time or venue or even swapping numbers.

YY Pagwatch On a similar note, mentioned by pps a man can withstand being shot, punched and beaten to within an inch of his life but the second a woman comes along with a wet cloth to clean his bruises he appears to be in total agony.

Also, however instrumental women are in achieving the overall goal, they always fall into stereotypical categories, e.g the clever geeky type, the ravishing beauty...

When there is a psychopath/murder/crazy in your house why do they always run upstairs?? Would the front or back door not be more appropriate?!

Also only baddies smoke, you can normally guess the murder due to the ciggie hanging out of his mouth!

When the police never wait for back up.

No one ever, during days of hostage situations of kidnap or zombie apocalypse, starts their period or really needs the loo.

Oh yes Cadle the Police never wait for back up, it's always lone hero into the fray, usually a dark building and he has no torch or weapon!

The behaviour in court of Judges and Barristers, especially when something completely out of the blue is introduced into evidence - obviously they've never heard of the rules of full disclosure of evidence prior to the trial. Most cases portrayed on the TV would either never make it to court or would be thrown out within 5 minutes.

There was a recent episode of Silent Witness where a policeman who was suspended went to see a witness whilst suspended - he would have lost his job! Then to compound the stupidity of that episode they interviewed a minor without an appropriate adult and there were two policeman in the interview and the pathologist, because pathologists always attend the interviews of suspects aagh! Anything pertaining to that interview would have been dismissed and all concerned would have been up on Disciplinary charges, it's so far fetched I refuse to watch that crap anymore.

when witnesses come dashing into the middle of a trial to impart new evidence

Two words Mermaid. George Carman. Gillian Taylforth and Jonathan Aitken being prime examples of late arrival of evidence in the middle of the trial. It does happen. But Silk was a particularly eggregious example of "that would NEVER happen" - barristers went fishing for evidence themselves.

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

Koala - the down side of this is that it has a serious real life effect. The public are so used to TV-serious-crime-solved-in-a-hour that it puts the police under massive and unrealistic pressure in high profile cases. I really think that's at the root of lots of miscarriages of justice or mishaps of justice (eg. Chris Jefferies).

I bet he does Mermaid, I have family members throughout all the criminal justice system and they all get livid at the unreality of how their profession is portrayed.

Broadchurch was dire in that regard, especially when the family of the victim were able to choose the Prosecuting Barrister!

Whoop yes, it must make it bloody difficult!

People turning up late for weddings and, other than tutting at their watch, it all goes ahead. And they launch straight into it - what about the pre-wedding interview? I did a summer job as a registration officer - if a couple was late, chances are we would have another ceremony to get to. And you seldom see the second official there - there are always two, one conducts the ceremony while the other records in in the register. Guess they can't afford the £100 for a second extra!

FWIW, with the whole sliding down a wall thing - it does happen. I had some bad news recently (no one died or was ill, just was out of the blue bad news) and I kept things together for half an hour after the phone call just dishing up kids' meals etc, then went up to my room and I think I did the slide down the wall thing. I certainly was sat on the floor for a while just holding my phone and staring into space.

When Poirot finally figures it out, and calls everyone connected to the case including the murderer together so that he can reveal the murderer's identity.
The guilty party turns up every time, and just sits there patiently as Poirot explains to everyone how it was done.
When they're finally outed, the murderer goes nuts as if it's the last thing they had expected to happen, and tries to escape.

EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

Also yy to the school bell. At my school you'd have been bollocked for jumping up and fucking off as the bell went. You'd be straight back down in your seat, listening meekly to the homework instructions, with 'THE BELL IS FOR ME, NOT FOR YOU!' ringing in your ears.

When someone goes into labour and they immediately panic and rush to the hospital. That never happens in real life and always seems to annoy me!

I just read parts of this thread to DS, who was sufficiently motivated by the baguette-in-bag to look it up on TV Tropes. Apparently it is a thing, it's called ISO Standard Grocery Package There's even a rule about when the bag contains oranges (ie they will always be loose, so that when the bag is inevitably dropped the oranges will roll away).

This thread is so true. I was watching Sons of Anarchy yesterday and a guy was beaten brutally about the head...all fine. He gets praised for his bravery and playfully punched by his friends...again, all fine. His girlfriend dabs at his forehead with some cotton wool...GRIMACE/OUCH/FLINCH etc