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.

I'm thinking Corrie's Carla and EastEnder's Sharon.

Brushing teeth without foamy spit going everywhere

@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.

I have actually done this before and maybe more than once! 🙈😆

Everyone falls in and out of love very easily, especially in soaps.

Oh and everyone has been engaged / married / divorced multiple times, and still does it again with someone they’ve known for 5 minutes, and no one bats an eyelid. (I mean, I’ve been married twice, but I’m certainly not in a hurry to do it again, and I don’t know anyone who’s been married 3/4/5 times). And their divorces come through really quickly too.

Give birth in 5 minutes has to be the worst!

It does occasionally happen in real life, but nothing like on the TV. One of the ladies who does my nails 'caught' a baby in the car park of a hospital.

Alexi Ashe and Seth Myers also have experience of quick births. Seth tells it much better than I can.

I've noticed that when someone is widowed, they don't grieve for long, particularly in soaps. They fall apart at the start generally, but then it's like a magic wand is waved and they often fall in love again really quickly. They never show the side where you forget your own name sometimes, or you lose the thread of your own conversation part way through, or the random sobbing at a Sainsburys advert.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners

Eating. Esp kids shows. DS, 5 keeps pointing out he doesn't like eating anymore. Sonic doesn't eat. The PJ Masks don't eat. He has food issues and is partly tube fed, I struggle to feel rational when he says this stuff. I need Sonic to sit down and eat his god damn dinner

Own room in hospital, no nurses. Esp bad at this with poorly babies. Remember being in with DS when Charity had her boy who was poorly. In an incubator in a largely empty room and no nurse. But no one is ever on a ward

@JustDanceAddict

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

Alcohol too.

Order a round, walk off because something non urgent. In reality you'd neck it

Never have abortions.

Except if they're evil and tricking a good guy into marriage because he feels guilty even though he's in love with a nice girl and it was an ill advised one night stand.

But 99% of the time they plan to have one, go to the clinic and then decide against it at the last moment.

Oh, and after sex there's never a wet spot or a scrunched up tissue

Doctors and nurses in soaps never seem to have a specialty. One day they are performing brain surgery, next, in charge of the labour ward. Also the same staff are always on duty, they have no qualms about looking after close friends sand relatives, and confidentiality is non existent.
There are only 2 outcomes from surgery - a very rapid, complete and painfree recovery or death during the operation. Likewise soap people recovering from comas go from deeply unconscious to totally lucid in a matter of seconds.
Nobody ever has routine trips to the opticians, dentists etc or goes to the supermarket to do a big shop - they buy everything from the corner shop or eat in the pub or caff all the time. Nor do they ever put fuel in their cars or shop for mundane stuff like school uniforms. But then as most soap children are invisible for the majority of the time, maybe they don't need many clothes?

And if someone is very ill, randomers manage to make their way into the hospital, and attempt to turn off the life support machines.

It's the never having morning breath that gets me.

Teachers being heavily involved with their students lives

When searching any database but especially one with images of suspects the system will flash each photo on the screen in quick succession before fixing on one and 100% match confirmed. It's never just a little spinning circle or a percentage bar stuck at 73%.
Any police/govt IT person is able to access any sort of database and software and confidently take you through the design schematic of a nuclear bunker showing where all the air vents are whilst also doing the search through CCTV for a whole city to find when the suspect in his pulled down cap briefly looked right at the camera before getting into his car which has number plates handily in focus.

Coronation Street - Children are always picked up and carried however big and old they are! Often well into junior school it seems!

People always know where their work colleagues live and it’s always very close by so they can drop by for doorstep chats.

Only women know how to cook, men rarely seen in the kitchen.

People can afford lovely homes and flash cars on average salaries.

There's a great thread on this topic on Digital Spy.

Doctors making ad hoc drop-in visits on patients because they didn't turn up for their appointment, or just because they're a bit worried about them.
Empty doctors' waiting rooms and only one person on reception.
Doctors having the time to pursue exotic hobbies and run B&Bs and micro-breweries in their spare time.

(Yep, I'm looking at you, 'Doctors'.)

They don't use the toilet and they never agree on a time or a place to meet. They don't get stuck in traffic jams or do a big shop in the supermarket

People leave soaps, and return with completely different heads but everyone recognises them instantly.

Yes! Totally agree about doctors / nurses getting involved with their patients personal lives. Or chasing them up just cos they’re worried about them.