What things in tv dramas give away they are not real?

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Make up in full after operations

I've been impressed with Maddie Bosch and Timothy Turner who are both the same actors as played them as children (don't burst my bubble, please!).
Maddie started as a teenager and though she's hard nosed and unemotional it suits her character. Timothy is a bit wooden but has spent most of the time being a gangly teenager so that seems fair.

They do do this in Outnumbered, to be fair!

Some great examples in this thread. The one that gets me most is people being questioned informally by the police and then deciding they have to get on with clearing the empty glasses (pub), ‘have another appointment’, are otherwise basically too busy to continue talking to the police about a murder case. (Midsomer Murders!)

Outnumbered wasn't scripted, that's why!

So true about being interviewed by police. The one and only time that I was questioned (as a possible witness) by police was when a serious crime happened on our street, and they were going door to door asking for information. I can assure you that I was focused like a laser on the officer and really concentrating on remembering details they might find helpful. I think that's true for most people. In real life, people don't carry on with folding laundry, watering plants, or whatever while talking to police.

I have known the same thing happen, but the action switched between two different towns 20-odd miles apart, both of which I know quite well.😂

How tidy ordinary people’s houses always are. The only time you see mess - dirty dishes, laundry airing etc - is if somebody is in crisis.

Whenever I've had insider knowledge of something that appears in a newspaper, local or national, there have been massive inaccuracies in the story including, on one occasion, a 'quote' from me which was entirely invented by the journalist who interviewed me and bore no relation to what I'd actually said. I pulled them up on that one.

Leaving the restaurant after having a small bite of their starter. Or often before that even

Sci Fi films where everyone is wearing tight onesies.

Humans must have evolved to have a massive increase in bladder/bowel capacity

Nah, they’ve just developed superb invisible zips.

Beds are always nicely made for sex scenes even if the leading character has been working long hours for a murder investigation.

People being invited to stay for dinner at the drop of a hat. We only cook enough for what we have generally.

While sipping my morning mug of instant coffee I looked up the invention of the zip fastener. My day should progress in some way but I'm feeling somewhat superior in the knowledge that my fellow passengers on the bus at 10 am will know one thing less than me.

Okidoki back to thread topic........🤪

Much the same as you don't inhale a drink when you use a straw.

People climb into the saddle -then are seen galloping off from behind

I live in Cardiff - I spend every episode of Casualty muttering about this! There was one scene where a character was stuck in heavy traffic racing to collect her son and she drove past the same very distinctive bike shop about nine times and then turned a corner and arrived at a sports centre car park about four miles away, even though there's an actual sports centre car park about 50 yards from the bike shop.

I live in Cardiff - I spend every episode of Casualty muttering about this!

Casualty set my teeth on edge before I ever saw an episode. Holby is supposedly in SW England. No it isn't - you won't find a -by place name SW of the A5.

Also, it's set in the fictional county of Wyvern. Anyone else remember that this was also the setting for the Z-Cars spinoff Softly Softly? Don't suppose Stratford Johns or Frank Windsor ever made a guest appearance, did they?

This reminded me (bit irrelevant sorry) - but I love it when fictional stuff pops up in different shows. E.g. Morley cigarettes (not a real brand) have featured in numerous American shows - I've seen them in the X Files, Lost, and spotted the other day in The Walking Dead, among others.

"You've hardly touched your food."
"To be honest, I'm not hungry."

WHYTF DID YOU PAY FOR A MEAL TO BE COOKED AND BROUGHT TO YOU THEN?

Sorry - but I always shout at the screen when this happens...🙄😄

This reminded me (bit irrelevant sorry) - but I love it when fictional stuff pops up in different shows.

When they did the air crash storyline in Emmerdale, a character in Brookside was reading a newspaper which had it as the front page story.

I live in the south-west and I'm an amateur local historian but I've never realised that! Thank you for the kind of nerdy detail that I live for! 🤓😂

I live in the south-west and I'm an amateur local historian but I've never realised that! Thank you for the kind of nerdy detail that I live for!

It's because Alfred and Guthrum established the Roman Watling Street (the A5) as the boundary of the Danelaw. Settlements with Danish/Norse names - bys, thorpes, thwaites and other Scandinavian elements - are found within the Danelaw, to the N & E of the road.

Nobody ever has anything more than a flimsy Yale latch on their front door even in London.

And straight after that, not jumping into the shower, but jumping straight into the car, and off to the office! 😁

There’s a Kirby-le-Soken and a Thorpe-le-Soken in Essex - I don’t know how they by these apparently mongrel names!

I don’t know how they by these apparently mongrel names!

Bit of English, bit of Norse or Danish, bit of Norman French. Sometimes even a bit of Latin or Ancient British (Welsh). And not forgetting Cornish.

Essex was in the Danelaw - the River Lea was the boundary there - but there was very little Danish settlement there compared to East Anglia and the East Midlands.