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.

Sorry if this has been covered as I have not read every post but one of my gripes with soaps is that each street or village has an idiot! Why do the writers do this?
Think Sam in Emmerdale/Kirk(y) in Corrie etc. Anyone old enough to remember hilarious Crossroads will know who Bennie was too! I currently do not watch any other soaps (hope I am not contradicting myself above so anyone who follows the rest of them may be able to add "idiots"

They always get a private room in hospital and if it's a woman, the makeup is perfect. They can have any number of visitors in lockdown.

People put their feet on the bed in hotel rooms with their shoes on AAARRGGHHH

They have millions of long lost cousins,who turn up.And they welcome them with open arms.

And they move into their Tardis of a house and get a job in the pub/market/cafe

@ultragroupie

People put their feet on the bed in hotel rooms with their shoes on AAARRGGHHH

...and in their own houses!! I remember noticing Monica doing this in Friends! Surely if she was that much of a clean freak she wouldn't wear shoes in the house, let alone put them on her bed!

Has anybody mentioned that people are bereaved and grieve for roughly a month before moving on with their next partner. The previous partner is never so much as mentioned again !

That is also grim!!

Prison visiting - they just stroll in the same day. Also female detectives/coppers wearing heels.

They listen to each other succinctly express themselves, without interrupting.

No cousins call by, no-one phones wanting them to do school run.

Mostly the characters live in a vacuum.

I love big budget shows set in New York. The characters live in impossibly expensive and stylish apartments, are never running late, never do laundry or grocery shopping or so much as make a bed/make a piece of toast.

Justice is swift. DNA results come through within the hour.

Characters cope with multiple traumas without so much as gasping.

People always seem to live close to the hospital and just drop in to visit at any time.

People who work in cities can still eat breakfast and dinner at home with their families and never seem to have long commutes.

Teenagers always hide things in their underwear drawer.

Only women do laundry or cleaning.

Constantly asking others to mind their shop/stall/bar/whatever for them while they dash off to attend some crisis or other.

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.

That birth was SO implausible, it's stuck out in my mind for that very reason. It was like she winced a couple of times, indigestion-style, and then did one massive push and the baby was there. (Exaggerating slightly, but not that much!)

All babies are born three months old, clean and with no placenta. Labour only lasts 2 hours, for everyone.

Also female detectives/coppers wearing heels showing my age but in 'Dempsey and Makepeace' you could always tell if there was going to be a chase by the clothes Makepeace wore.

Whenever police interview someone at their work place they just carry on working, even if they are a mechanic and actually under a car.

X rays - in any hospital setting there is a chest X-ray, lit up, on the wall. It doesn't matter if the patient has a broken foot or concussion, there will be a chest X-ray.

@user7778

Always keep their bra on during sex

I was saying this the other day. I'm sure most blokes, when getting down to it with a woman for the first time, would get that bra off ASAP!

All babies are born three months old, clean and with no placenta.

Some look ready to start school.

Everything in EastEnders at the moment. It's like a Sliding Doors moment at the point they came out of lockdown 🙄

@FestiveFruitloop

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.

That birth was SO implausible, it's stuck out in my mind for that very reason. It was like she winced a couple of times, indigestion-style, and then did one massive push and the baby was there. (Exaggerating slightly, but not that much!)

Exactly. And nobody threw a sheet or a rug over the sofa. She just neatly gave birth and away with her. And it was as if nothing had happened in the room.

Wake up looking human, fresh and bright. Nobody sits puffy faced and shivering their way through the first cup of tea until they feel like a person.

Give birth in 5 minutes has to be the worst!
Leave uneaten food because they suddenly decide they have to go somewhere urgently.

Children are neatly packed away until needed.

On Eastenders recently, a guy committed murder, and put the body in the boot of the car, all while his small children were presumably supposed to be in the house. He and the victim had a massive row also, just before he killed her.

Were the children glued to CBeebies or something, throughout!

Sleep 'prettily'. I look like Lindow Man when I'm asleep.

If anybody complains of indigestion it always turns out to be a heart attack.

If anyone thinks they are having a heart attack it always turns out to be indigestion.

Those pain pills people take (usually without water) that seem to work in seconds.

The glamorous, always immaculate women always have a scruffy tracksuit on hand for when they are going through a tough time.
They are certainly not what these women would ever go out and buy. I always wonder how they come to own them.

Those pain pills people take (usually without water) that seem to work in seconds.

Yes why do (mainly) American characters dry swallow their meds?