What's you favourite tv cliche...

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Any woman visibly pregnant will give birth - probably in a very public place such as a taxi while having complications and getting stuck in traffic on the way to hospital and panting lots.

People hardly ever have the same first names, that would never happen in real communities. Surely there would have been more than one Tracy in Weatherfield or Sharon in Albert Square??

On TV there is none of the uncertain obsessing that we get on the TTC threads - "one nipple feels slightly sore, I have gone off onions... could I be pregnant?"

When women fall pregnant in TV land they wake up and bolt to the toliet to vomit violently.

Always the morning sickness!

if anyone loses their home or job there's always someone to help them out.

bubblerock, Corrie is the exception where Elizabeth is the favourite name - Betty, Liz, Bet...

No one can stay married, all teenagers get married and have children (especially in Australia where they don't even have to have a ceremony, they can just decide they're going to be married now like 5 year olds in the playground!)

Ahh, you're right Tink! Never thought of that.

Is it just me or does everyone on T.V have a fantastic breakfast (bacon eggs,pancakes,toast,juice,cereal)which they always run off and leave!...that would piss me right off!

and half the things said to someones face in soaps in RL would get them slapped!...

there is always a french loaf in the shopping!

There's always loads of really noisy stuff to crash into when someone gets punched in the face. They never just fall on their arse, on the pavement.

Oh! And if there's a countdowm to something, like a bomb exploding, the numbers tick down from 10-zero, but it actually takes about 2 mintes before it goes off. (I always count the actual seconds, saddo)

ROFL about the French loaf - in American TV movies, have you noticed those brown paper grocery bags, brought in and carefully placed on the kitchen counter, ALWAYS containing something green and leafy poking out of the top? Never a mega bottle of Fanta and some toilet duck?

DSM, I think you've hit upon the answer. If people in LA (land of telly-making) don't say goodbye when hanging up the phone, perhaps that's why all Americans are portrayed as twats with no manners!

Can't speak for every single person of course, but I worked in a call centre for a while and called all over the U.S., and saying 'goodbye' seemed quite universal.

I do love how computer use is portrayed on telly. No one ever has their laptop plugged in, presumably they all have waaaaay better battery life than me. And the graphics are always OTT for simple things like copying files. And no one ever 'safely' removes a memory stick--they just yank it out and go running out of the room/vaulting out of the window.

Journalists are always evil and will twist your words.
Local councillors are always corrupt.
No-one is standing outside the Vic having a fag.
No-one goes to a supermarket, they can buy everything they need at the shop.
They always go to the Caff for a cup of tea, when they could quite easily nip home, unless they need to hide from someone.

When someone falls in the river the person who jumps in to rescue them (usually a policeman or woman, always takes off their jacket before jumping in!

Everyone in soap pubs drinks the same thing every time they go in. And it's always nameless beer or non-branded spirits (I know that's an anti-advertising thing, but it's still weird).

They do it on American tv too - 'I'll have a beer'. The barman never asks what kind.

If I go into a pub I might drink G&T, or wine, or one of a number of different types of beer.

Elderly women always make jams/chutneys/cakes and have competitions about it. Happens weekly on Emmerdale.

Many people who have left soaps have gone to live in Scotland.

Not Edinburgh, or Perth, or Auchtermuchty. No, just Scotland.

If you can do any kind of science you can do all of it. If you are a doctor you can easily do any kind of biology that might be required (let's just do a DNA analysis on this alien phlegm shall we?).

That's like Scully in the X files "Stand back. I'm a medical Doctor"

When there is a known murderer/psychopath on the run and there is a noise outside in the dark, people will always go out to look, not phone the police or run upstairs and hide under the duvet.

If they do go to bed they will always leave the windows open even in the middle of a spooky thunderstorm when the wind will blow the whiter than white lacy curtains about.

No one ever goes to the toilet in Soaps you never hear Phill Mitchel go 'hang on a sec mum i need a slash' ever............

No one ever gets caught right away for a crime there is always some huge investigation and someone will get arrested wrongly ect ect..........

Everyone just leaves thier businesses with a customer to dash off leaving them with the money and everything............

My pet peeve is the "English" accent! It's not regional, it's not "BBC", it's just English.

Another one, sticking with accents, is the way American programmes seem to lump all Europeans together so you will get things like Patrick Stewart playing a French man. Of course no one is going to notice, it's all Europe after all (and Canada is part of the US of A!)

Girls always go to bed in cute little cami and shorts combos or floaty nightgowns. Just in case a vampire is in love with them anyone sees them. Not scabby old tracksuit bottoms and a stretched-out t-shirt.

If they do go to the toilet it's a vital piece of storyline.

Yeah that is so true Trillian

Everyone who has a baby goes into spontanious labour when they are with thier worst enemy/ex husband/mass murderer never thier own partner or friend.......

I laughed in Hollyoaks when the teens all sudenly started taking Heroin, theu didn't drink or smoke or take anything else ut they all suddenly became addicts but its ok becuase they got clean in like 2 days.........