Unrealistic things people do in TV dramas that you don't really see in life.

[Lockdowner35]

I will start

When two people are having a conversation , sometimes there is someone always listening in on the conversation from round to corner , never happens in real life.

In police dramas one of them says ‘somethings up!’ and they all drive somewhere to see what it is and then they don’t talk about it at all in the car so that they have a shock when they see it.
The police never discuss a strategy, they all just know what each other will do.

In soaps when there is a wedding no relatives turn up who are not in the soap but all the neighbours / shop owner / cleaner / street sweeper and pets turn up.

Specific to Buffy the vampire slayer - a huge number of winter coats - you live in Southern California you can't need 1500 coats.

Sticking with Buffy and Angel - how can a vampire bleed and bruise? their blood doesn't flow.

And the same for smoking. As for drinking, Spike can get drunk but Angel can't.

ECGs - in particular New Amsterdam, you actually explained what a tamponade is (normal ECG but no cardiac output because the 'sac' the heart sits in is so full of fluid) they remove the fluid the ECG suddenly changes - for no reason and then you see the dotted line that means the electrodes are not connected.

Food shopping, no one ever does food shopping unless they are going to be mugged in the car park.

People can hack passwords really easily, because the password is always something meaningful.

No one ever has a string of random characters as their password - it's always 'I'll try Ibiza because that was where we met, and the year of our wedding - bingo !'

@shade78

Get in a taxi and shout Follow that car!

To be fair I did once get the opportunity to do just that - I was on a weekend away with some mates and half of us were in the second taxi, we realised a second too late that we only had the name of the restaurant and no street or even area of the city. When I tried the "follow that taxi" line on our driver he just said "No, this isn't a film love."

In soaps they just rotate partners in the same street/village, they’ve all been with each other. Every person in the street/village seems to have been in prison too!

Well, since people are talking about horses whinnying, here's one that I never normally mention for fear of being ridiculed..... not all dogs have the same bark!!

There'll be lots of woofing going on, and it's so obvious (to me!) that it's a GSD bark. Dog comes into shot, and it's a Lab, or a Collie - totally different bark!

When a woman finds out she is pregnant she will be sick once and realise 'oh I'm pregnant' and go about her life as normal after when in real life you just hide away being sick at any smell or food for weeks if not months

Work in the local corner ship but own a four story house in central london with seemingly unlimited bedrooms...

@ShopTattsyrup that reminds me I once got in a taxi and shouted "GO GO GO!!!" We did feel like we were in a movie! A bad one we were running from a weirdo..... at night, leaving a tube station....

People putting the phone down without saying bye, how do you know the conversation has ended damnit! I’d sit there on the phone like a lemon waiting for the other person to say something.......

Moan about Brexit.

Rarely take the bins out
Light bulbs never need changing, nor smoke alarm batteries bleeping at you

Never get hiccups.
Never talk about tv/news/politics.
Never kill their house plants.
Never have abortions.
Never discuss contraception.
Never have kids draw on the walls unless they are they ‘the dysfunctional ones’.
Never have bo/bad breath.
Never get toothache.
Never skid in the ice unless they crash and someone dies.
Never have a box dye go wrong.
Never plunge the toilet.
Never get nits.

I've never done half of those.

Enough salad in a bowl (with wooden utensils) to feed an army - and they usually only ever cook pasta.

@JellyBabiesSaveLives

Every scientist knows everything about every branch of science.

In birth scenes the placenta just doesn’t exist

Every lawyer, same.

Walk around the bathroom or bedroom brushing their teeth and holding a conversation without spewing drool down their face

Never wearing clothes that are a bit shabby. Amazing houses but don't seem to have jobs that could pay for them. They never seem to hang laundry outside. Kids go to schools without uniforms and get perfect grades despite never studdying. People aeem to always be popping into their neighbours.

They always have deep friendships with work colleagues.

Are always free to go for a drink after work.

Policemen patrolling only one street. (Yes looking at you Craig.)

They always have deep friendships with work colleagues.

To be fair, most of my friends are work colleagues.

Only women trying to hide a pregnancy suffer from morning sickness.

The investigation of almost any crime will require a visit to a strip club.

People being interrupted the nanosecond before they kiss.

If anyone is shown to cough, they will be dead within a couple of episodes.

'Hiding" positive pregnancy tests on top of the bin.'

Number one rule in all soaps, always leave a pregnancy test in your household bin where someone else will find it. And will have no qualms about picking it up either.

Kylie in Corrie gave birth on the sofa in the front room, was brought away to hospital, and people were able to sit on the sofa, straightaway, because it was immaculate.

Putting make up on at the kitchen table.

Uncomfortable living room - Ken Barlow

Multiple shifts of occupants so no one fighting for tiny sofa.

When leaving, no luggage or forwarding post.

No stufff left in wardrobes from dc leaving. In real life there is so much stuff left

Police officers solving crimes by accident. Vera in particular, she drives miles across the moors, asks someone a couple of questions while they carry on with some random task, says 'thankyou luv' , then as she's nearly through the door they pass an unrelated comment that solves the case.

If she moved faster she'd never solve anything.