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

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Make up in full after operations

Financial inconsistency- one episode, they are gonna lose the house, six episodes later, no one has a job and they have had another kid but they have stopped worrying about money!

That someone can do a major transaction on an impossible day. Like the Carters taking over the Queen Vic (Eastenders) on Xmas Day.

When someone is about to reveal something truly important or tell another of their suspicions, they always leave the door open 🙄 so of course are overheard.

Or they get interrupted and then just never tell them the super important thing at all

When people working in low/ mid paying jobs have huge houses. This is especially true when the show is set in London. Unless Bridget Jones was earning over £150k there’s no way she had that flat all to herself in central London.

Large families existing entirely on food bought either from a small neighbourhood grocery shop or local takeaways, and NEVER using supermarkets or have deliveries from them. Yes I am looking at you, Eastenders!

The culprit of a crime having no plausible motive because they’ve deliberately gone with a script that sees the least likely person commit the crime

(Whispers) that’s because it was filmed in September 😏

That anyone who needs a bit of extra cash will immediately be offered a few hours behind the bar, in the corner shop or indeed any local business in their street.

Everyone immaculately dressed in the latest fashions but no one ever seems to go shopping. Spotless houses but no cleaning ever...ditto gardens. No one ever needs to toilet e.g my kids the minute we are ready to leave or I've out them to bed etc.

Never finishing a drink at a bar that’s just been paid for or cleaning up after sex

The episode was meant to be Christmas Day though.

Even Ebenezer Scrooge had no one to do business with on Christmas Day. That was Kermit's argument for closing the office for the day.......

Never looking up phone numbers

If the person with key knowledge of the crime defers sharing till tomorrow, they're definitely getting killed tonight.

Noone sneezes, farts or goes to the loo.
Noone forgets what they were saying half way through saying it or loses their car key in the way out.

People emigrating with one suitcase and a small rucksack, even though they had been living in a huge house full of stuff.

And they always seem to be able to arrange plane tickets, somewhere to stay, and often new jobs, in the space of an evening too!

Knitting a crochet object.

I'm fed up with characters announcing they are off to live in a country they have never before visited or even mentioned. On top of that they are always leaving the same day they announce their plans.

Going from zero to baby in two minutes

In the old days before remote locking no one ever locked a car door

No one ever gets tangled up in seat belts

No one ever stumbles over their words or mangles a sentence, unless its a comedy/joke character

A single person who lives alone comes home from a 12 hour shift at the hospital or police station - there are 15 table lamps already turned in in the house - 13 of them are on tables in the middle of rooms nowhere near where there would be an electrical socket.

The elaborate breakfast buffets with the busiest person playfully snatching toast from another’s plate - then they all pile out of the door to work and school without bothering to brush teeth or tidy up - by dinner time when they all come home the whole house is immaculate.

Everyone has a 70yo female neighbour who is happy to come and babysit at a moments notice. They are wearing a sensible pair of slacks and an indoor scarf and a full face of makeup when they are unexpectedly asked round to mind a sleeping child at 10pm.

Landlords who tell tenants to vacate by the weekend because they want their property back or the rent is a few days late.

Lip fillers on actresses in period dramas.

The ability to noisily foil an assassin with the contents of a kitchen (smashing plates on their heads etc) but without breaking a sweat, smudging make up or waking the sleeping family upstairs.