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

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Make up in full after operations

The lights on in multiple rooms thing as mentioned above drives me nuts.
Also anything period/substantially in the past OR post apocalyptic where no one has rotten teeth or sometimes even filthy clothes, make up is perfect and hair not out of place - unless you are a prostitute who has a dirty hem on her dress or a ruffian who looks slovenly but no one ever has toothache or diahorrea from dirty water etc.
See also war films

😂 you’ve been very lucky, if you’ve gone through life and never met a man that thought FairPlay was the taxi ride home

Women sleeping in bra/t shirt. I’ve slept naked for nearly 50 years, why on earth are women these days so quick to jump into bed with a man but so coy as to wear clothes to bed?

and the 999 comment.

Also women never have underarm hair even post apocalypse.

In a busy club or pub and they can talk to each other easily

Obviously empty cups

Never eat - just push food around

Don’t use the the toilet unless used for humour or as a plot device

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On American TV they always do the deed with their underwear on.

On American TV the cops can always get the information they need within minutes

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UK TV no one ever goes to the toilet.

In police cells there is a blackout over the toilet!

Or… it’s Christmas Eve/Day in London so there’s lovely flakes of fresh snow that settle, though this probably happens once a decade, if that,

Reminds me of my elderly neighbour who always warned us to wear clean knickers in case we got hit by a bus.
Maybe we should start wearing matching lingerie sets and working out just in case we get murdered?

Also, never saying goodbye after a phone conversation

Being beaten to a pulp - but in the next scene sporting one small plaster above an eyebrow.

Extremely loud keyboards… and being able to guess someone’s password by gazing round the room and suddenly gaining inspiration from a random ornament on the desk.

Being beaten to a pulp - but in the next scene sporting one small plaster above an eyebrow

See also : being beaten to a pulp, but not having trouble walking or putting their clothes on the next day, nor yet finding it difficult to get in or out of vehicles.

No one ever sleeps with their curtains shut.

Also, everyone always puts the light out as soon as they get into bed.
No reading.
Weird.

People with children that never seem to actually spend any time with them. I’m looking at you Meredith Grey.

Kissing a woman whose lips clearly have about four coats of cherry-red lipstick but the man never, ever gets even a smidgen of it on his.

Having a deep conversation immediately upon waking up. None of the more realistic half an hour to come to or needing a coffee first.

I used to think the same until I had a birth that I describe to people as being “just like the ones you see on TV”!

People addressing police flawlessly by rank. 'more tea, detective inspector?'.

Funeral related:

• Carrying coffins that are clearly empty. You’d think they’d at least put some sandbags in to weigh them down a bit!

• After a burial, the headstone is in place the very next day 🙄

People 'relaxing' at home in supersmart clothes and high heeled shoes, not lounging around in joggers and slippers.

Men waking after a night's sleep totally smooth-shaven.

Car parking spaces always being available immediately outside the relevant character's destination.

TV reports of court cases which give an opinion as to how the trial is going and if the defendant is likely to be found guilty. Erm - no. That would cause the trial to collapse in the UK…

To be fair, that was more or less exactly how DD's birth went.

Cops who go haring off at high speed to the airport to stop the baddie leaving, which they manage just in the nick of time. Instead of staying put and phoning the airport police to stop them as soon as they check in.