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

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Make up in full after operations

Chesney in Corrie would get £££ in benefits with his quads, yet they are struggling with him in the kebab shop and her a part time barmaid.
the only person to have ever claimed benefits was Heather in Eastenders

everyone knows everyone and they all have each others mobile numbers, no one is ever home having a cuppa - they all pop to the cafe

People supposedly knitting but the thing hanging from the needles is obviously crochet . Call the midwife is a culprit there

To be fair, that was how DS2 arrived.

I just thought I needed a shit.

Perfectly groomed brows and white teeth in period dramas

Christmas/birthday presents that are obviously wrapped empty boxes

Accents - if you watch a documentary from the 60s or 70s, the standard RP accent no longer exists today

People time travelling. Vampires. Zombies. Superheroes. Dead giveaway it’s not real for me.

Using crockery that wasn't available in the past eg using Royal Albert Country Roses china in period dramas (it was created in 1962).

Using a gavel in a UK Court even though we don't use them in this country.

One of my recent ones is the outside light being "wrong". So they'll go out for a lunchtime walk in November but you can tell by the quality of the light it's actually about 7am on an August morning and it's going to be a scorcher.

Not limited to tv dramas. I once read a novel in which the characters went for a walk before breakfast. In Scotland. In January.

See also war films

Oh yes. In the trenches of the Western Front, on the beaches at Dunkirk, they are always freshly shaven, their hair is neatly trimmed, their uniforms are spotless. (Honourable exception, video for Pipes of Peace. Paul has dirty fingernails!)

No-one yet mentioned giving birth with your tights on?

Doctors knowing nurses rotas
Doctors hiring and firing nurses
Holby for both of those

Shocking patients in cardiac arrest when they are in asystole (although that was a film - Flatliners)

Yes! That was infuriating in Call the Midwife. They all sat there knitting crochet granny squares. Look at your audience, they are the kind of people who will know.

Accents - if you watch a documentary from the 60s or 70s, the standard RP accent no longer exists today

Neither do a lot of local accents. Proper Cockney is dying out, among others.

When people wake up in the morning ,they are never desperate for a wee! They’ll be having a chat with their partner or wandering around and I always think, how come you don’t need a wee straight away.

No one ever just randomly sneezes, or needs a wee - both these things only happen if they are central to a plot. Really annoys me

In Shakespeare & Hathaway, which I love, they’re able to sit and spy on suspects undetected….in a bright red mini with personalised plates!

Pregnancy tests will always be taken and chucked in the bin in your friend/neighbours house for them to discover. Looking at you Friends.

The thing is that a lot of these things would just take up time.

‘Let’s go and interview the witness.’
‘Hang on I need a piss first’.

‘Do you want to come to dinner tomorrow night?’
‘Sounds great, I’ll just see if my mum can babysit. Oh she can only do after 7.’
‘I guess that’s ok. So what time will you get to mine then. And do you know the address?’

Boring. Real life is boring.

Waking up in the morning and immediately having sex. Aside from the morning breath, do these people not have bladders?

And at you, Ross Geller and Rachel Greene

In action films:
Clothes staying clean even after rolling around in rubble.
Hair is only ever stylishly dishevelled.
Women keep their heels on when running

Generally
No one stumbles over their words or have to ask people to repeat themselves
The family come down to a huge breakfast spread but only ever get a slice of toast as they are running out of the door and no one ever gets annoyed about it

Or do the waddle to the toilet after sex. Its all just cuddling up.

Receiving a text message in giant font so we can all read it. Same for any text on a pc.

How do actors not shiver when dressed for summer but filmed in a winter frost?? I've seen scenes where you can see their breath in the air when they speak but not a goose pimple I'm sight!

Pets as props .. no one ever chats to their pets, invades their personal space (or vice versa) or calls them ridiculous nicknames

@Comet33 in the behind the scenes shows, the actors are in dry robes until the last second

I get irrationally upset when it comes to props - such as when there's a change of sofa or washing machine for no good reason. There's a scene in One Foot In The Grave, where Margaret walks from the kitchen to the dining room, leaving behind a white cooker, and when she steps back into the kitchen just a second later, the cooker has changed to brown & cream - in fact it's the identical cooker to the one in Patrick & Pippa's kitchen next door.

Back in the 80s and 1990s, the whole of Ramesy Street shared the same vacuum cleaner. One was a wet & dry cylinder thing which did the rounds for years, the other was a Hoover upright which they all had a borrow of in the early 90s.

It never ceased to amaze me how many fitted kitchens June Medford got through in "Terry & June".

Anything -and I mean anything- to do with interiors of homes sets me off. I was once shown a picture of a street where leaves filled the gutter and yet there were no trees...it turned out they'd covered up double-yellow lines with the leaves as this was a period drama. The fact there were no trees totally passed me by, and I could have stared at the picture for a fortnight & still not noticed. But God help me if I see so much as a kettle that's been turned around while someone's back was turned, despite no one going near it.

When they are trying to stop the person they have just realised they are actually in love with catching a flight it's always at the gate, how do they get through security without a plane ticket/passport/boarding pass???

Everyone knows their neighbours really well and has a bank of neighbour friends that can help out at a moment's notice.
Police actually listen and investigate when something happens and call up to see how things are, when in reality they've no time to look into anything.
Romantic interests popping up everywhere.

(My first labour was waters broke, contractions straight way so it does happen!).

people wearing spectacles which are obviously just flat glass from the way the light reflects off them.

Someone has mentioned passwords - arghh. My own DH wouldn’t be able to guess any of my passwords, nor I his.