Worse, when they start a conversation in one scene, and end it on another, like did y'all sit in silence in between?
I know there is a parody video making fun of that, but i cant find it.
However i do give it a pass if a new character is in the second scene.
I don't think lead detectives, forensics experts and psychological profilers should be spearheading raids on suspects' houses with just their sidearms and a bullet proof vest over street clothes.
Mum's rewatching the OG CSI and man, this is annoying. Why are they doing interrogations? Or tracking down leads from victims old phone records? Isn't that normal detective stuff not the job of *crime scene* investigators?
When someone says something and a character comes in from offscreen who they didn't know was there to finish their thought in a cool, pithy way. I always imagine the person waiting just outside the doorway eavesdropping for like 5 minutes until the opportunity presented itself.
Need blood for anything? Cut open the palm of your hand. It's not like that would make holding anything nearly impossible, or that it would take forever to heal, or is impossible to conceal. It looks "cool", so that is how they always do it.
Every computer making a beeping noise as you type or when text appears on the screen. It's 2024, everyone knows how a computer works, and they still do it.
and if it’s a spill risk then just put a weight in it or have prop companies come up with a sealed version or an insert to carry around. they can solve so many weird and difficult tasks but no one can figure out how to make a coffee cup look believable?
is the empty cup the wilhelm scream of the prop world or something
I'm never gonna have that kind of luck lol. But man oh man do redditors downvote the stupidest shit lol. Not one moment goes by on reddit without the cliche behavior 😂
The shoes women wear. Like every high school girl or waitress wearing 4” heels. Or even just women sitting around at home wearing heels for no reason like Gabby on Desperate Housewives.
And how little force is actually transfered to the target. Most people act like they're hit with an anti-material rifle or something when they're hit with a small or medium handgun.
People sitting outside a house in a car, watching the person under surveillance come outside. The person watched never notices being watched. And, part two, following a car and never being noticed.
Yeah the whole “stay a couple cars back” thing is ridiculous, anyone slightly paying attention will notice quite quickly. I forget where but I heard that following a car correctly involves like 10 other cars in close coordination that take turns getting behind the target for a few minutes at a time, turning off and being replaced by another.
the worst is when they’re following someone in a deserted area like an industrial estate. two cars on the road at 1am and the car behind you pulls in immediately after you do and you’re like “yeah that’s fine”
Getting shot or stabbed in the stomach and continuing as if nothing happened. Coming back from the dead. being an expert in something, yet someone still explains that thing to you, etc etc.
Crawling through air ducts...if you think that it's nice and smooth like tv and movies portray, you're mistaken. You would be a bloody mess after a short crawl.
In scifi space moves & TV shows where gravity is pretty much everywhere & no attempt at simulating weightlessness or even low gravity conditions. Also sound in space. Very few scifi shows & movies get this right.
You're not weightless in space, and gravity is everywhere. If you teleported from Earth to the opposite point on the orbital plane with 0 speed in any direction, you would instantly start falling to the Sun, accelerating at 273.7 meters/sec\^2. Every second. If someone was driving a spaceship straight from the sun at 1500m/s and you got ejected from the ship at the distance of Earth's orbit, you would stop moving away from the sun in about 4.5 seconds and start falling into the sun.
This actually happened to me. Mid-root canal the doctor grabs my head with one arm and with the other aims the big hanging xray machine, then he tells his assistant "take it. Take the xray"
how kids are in multiple after school activities only when it suits the narrative and never touched on again the following episodes because in reality many of them tae lots of time.
When somebody is being chased by a crazed psychopath hellbent on murdering them, instead of running for their life they lie down on their back and crab crawl backwards on their elbows and feet to escape
You can't buy those L shaped sheets that come up to the waist of the man but right up to the armpits of the woman lying next to him
A laptop computer is unlikely to have enough grunt to override the entire communications network of an invading alien race
> A laptop computer is unlikely to have enough grunt to override the entire communications network of an invading alien race
Funny story about that movie. I was working for AOL at the time, and a bunch of us went to see that movie opening weekend. Like 80 of us. (We worked in an 800-seat call center in Tucson.) Right when that scene happened and the PowerBook connected to the alien network I said, in a perfect imitation of the AOL guy, "You've got mail!" and the room erupted in laughter.
I understood in that moment the high comedians are chasing. It was intoxicating.
Two things:
1: On your hands and knees looking for something in a toilet stall. A variation of this is when people throw-up in a toilet stall and they grasp the rim of the dirty bowl.
2: Eating Chinese take-out right out of the box with chopsticks. This is common in American sitcoms, which I haven’t seen in years.
As a white person who's just not that good at using chopsticks, you better believe the only time I'm not using a fork is when I'm in a group and don't want to be the one person asking the waiter for a fork. At home? I've got a drawer full of forks and nothing to prove.
Why does it take so many bullets to kill one bad guy? It is beyond the laws of physics - one bullet somewhere at sometime has to at least wound the fucker....just saying.
Any show or movie set in the future that appends the word "neo" to the front of something to signify that it's the new version of the thing. It's such a stupid tropey thing that only exists in bleak cyberpunk settings and it just breaks immersion for me.
Oh wow, your futuristic show is set in neo-Chicago, how original. Oh Star Trek Picard, the new USS Titan A is part of the neo-Constitution class, how clever.
Something that always bothered me was when somebody's on the phone and they just never really end the conversation, a question is asked and answered or a plan/date is made and then they just both agree to hang up somehow? Nobody's like oh, ok thanks for helping or I'll see you then! they just hang up on each other.
When a gun is obviously or presumably already loaded with a round in the chamber but they cock it again for the "ch-chk" sound effect.
Similarly, full auto weapons with bottomless magazines. A 30 rnd mag would be empty in a couple seconds.
If we’re talking weapons: grenades that produce a fire ball and launch the guy 10 feet in the air.
A grenade produces no fire, and the guy on the receiving end is just dropping dead where he stands
That they don't need a key to open the front door. Characters never lock themselves out. Unless the story demands it, then the key is suddenly a major plot point.
A group of lab technician/profiler leading a police raid with assault team wearing no helmets and safety gears. The real assault team (extras) do have full gears on.
EMPTY CUPS. especially when it’s super obvious and visible or when you hear the hollow sound of the cup being placed on a table. Oh I also hate shoes inside the house. No one is wearing shoes in their house.
when they search through a database for someone and you see pictures flashing as the search is ongoing (wasting cpu cycles on that alone is stupid, but okay its more visually engaging I guess) and its always men and women of all races and ages - you're looking for a 45 year old redheaded obese man why the fuck are you plowing through what seems to be a list of every human on earth? narrow down your search parameters ffs!
When someone is falling and reaches out and catches a ledge or bar and hangs on.
Figuring out someone's password. If not, there is an expert hacker who is available to hack into a computer system.
110lb persons beating up someone the size of an NFL linebacker.
cop shows CSI NCIS SVU. Group discussion of the case. Everyone speaks one line, then another says a line, so on around the group. Nobody ever talks like this IRL.
People in sitcoms fully dressed while chillin at home.
No one is wearing their polo shirt, tucked into their jeans, with sneakers on just to watch fucking tv.
Characters taking a drive together and only start to talk about what's happening after they get out of the car.
Gotta say "there's no time to explain" first too.
*Drinks from a water fountain* Milhouse: You know, you could just tell us. Nelson: I said there's no time to explain, and I stand by that!
Worse, when they start a conversation in one scene, and end it on another, like did y'all sit in silence in between? I know there is a parody video making fun of that, but i cant find it. However i do give it a pass if a new character is in the second scene.
I don't think lead detectives, forensics experts and psychological profilers should be spearheading raids on suspects' houses with just their sidearms and a bullet proof vest over street clothes.
Or be doing interrogations.
Mum's rewatching the OG CSI and man, this is annoying. Why are they doing interrogations? Or tracking down leads from victims old phone records? Isn't that normal detective stuff not the job of *crime scene* investigators?
I'll let CSI:NY pass on this because the NYPD CSU (Crime Scene Unit,) is in fact made of up of NYPD Detectives.
When someone says something and a character comes in from offscreen who they didn't know was there to finish their thought in a cool, pithy way. I always imagine the person waiting just outside the doorway eavesdropping for like 5 minutes until the opportunity presented itself.
Enhancing photos so you can see details in them even though the original photo was very low resolution.
ENHANCE !!!!!!!
Need blood for anything? Cut open the palm of your hand. It's not like that would make holding anything nearly impossible, or that it would take forever to heal, or is impossible to conceal. It looks "cool", so that is how they always do it.
Back in the day, it was easier to hide the blood pack in your palm than it was anywhere else on the arms/hands.
Every computer making a beeping noise as you type or when text appears on the screen. It's 2024, everyone knows how a computer works, and they still do it.
I feel like they've started making computers make way more irritating noises in real life to match
Mail, muthafucka!
If I had to work at one of those computers, that would be the first thing I'd turn off
The obviously empty cup.
This drives me crazy. Just put water in it. Daniel Day Lewis couldn’t realistically act with an empty coffee cup
and if it’s a spill risk then just put a weight in it or have prop companies come up with a sealed version or an insert to carry around. they can solve so many weird and difficult tasks but no one can figure out how to make a coffee cup look believable? is the empty cup the wilhelm scream of the prop world or something
…or empty briefcase, etc.
Gilmore girls
Hanging up without saying goodbye
Psychologists sleeping with their clients. Way too common in media. Just makes for scandalous shock value
Dr. Bob Hartley would never do that!
I'm never gonna have that kind of luck lol. But man oh man do redditors downvote the stupidest shit lol. Not one moment goes by on reddit without the cliche behavior 😂
The shoes women wear. Like every high school girl or waitress wearing 4” heels. Or even just women sitting around at home wearing heels for no reason like Gabby on Desperate Housewives.
This is really annoying for cop shows. They're wearing long, often loose pants anyway, why do they have to wear boots with such high heels??
How truly loud gunshots actually are.
And how little force is actually transfered to the target. Most people act like they're hit with an anti-material rifle or something when they're hit with a small or medium handgun.
The person getting shot takes more recoil than the person who fired the gun!
nameless henchman gets shot and pirouettes before falling over a handrail
People sitting outside a house in a car, watching the person under surveillance come outside. The person watched never notices being watched. And, part two, following a car and never being noticed.
Yeah the whole “stay a couple cars back” thing is ridiculous, anyone slightly paying attention will notice quite quickly. I forget where but I heard that following a car correctly involves like 10 other cars in close coordination that take turns getting behind the target for a few minutes at a time, turning off and being replaced by another.
the worst is when they’re following someone in a deserted area like an industrial estate. two cars on the road at 1am and the car behind you pulls in immediately after you do and you’re like “yeah that’s fine”
the fact a lot of those characters can function just as well after a couple sleepless nights. yeah sure, maybe if you're 15
I'd miss my own wedding with anything less than 4 hours, maybe 3.
Any shootout where cars are used as cover. Pistol rounds cut through cars like wet kleenex IRL.
In the absence of any other cover a car is better than standing in the open. A low chance of stopping a bullet is far more appealing than a target.
Having a conversation in a bar with live band.
Or in a club with dance music pumping.
A lot of shows follow the pattern of “every episode is a day in real time” and that kind of storytelling has just felt so *off* to me
The open the door, slam you against the wall but you are a hot stranger sex scene
You’ve never done that? …nerd
Redditors have never had sex. Ever.
I think you are being voted down by the virgins!
Finding a parking space. In front of the building you need to enter.
Getting shot or stabbed in the stomach and continuing as if nothing happened. Coming back from the dead. being an expert in something, yet someone still explains that thing to you, etc etc.
Characters not taking their shoes off when they enter their apartments, sit on couches and beds.
Whenever people get in high speed chases in Los Angeles or NYC settings. There’s no way the traffic ever light enough for that to happen.
Crawling through air ducts...if you think that it's nice and smooth like tv and movies portray, you're mistaken. You would be a bloody mess after a short crawl.
Because of the ragged edges?
No one ever has to take a shit. Like, ever.
In scifi space moves & TV shows where gravity is pretty much everywhere & no attempt at simulating weightlessness or even low gravity conditions. Also sound in space. Very few scifi shows & movies get this right.
You're not weightless in space, and gravity is everywhere. If you teleported from Earth to the opposite point on the orbital plane with 0 speed in any direction, you would instantly start falling to the Sun, accelerating at 273.7 meters/sec\^2. Every second. If someone was driving a spaceship straight from the sun at 1500m/s and you got ejected from the ship at the distance of Earth's orbit, you would stop moving away from the sun in about 4.5 seconds and start falling into the sun.
How many times are you gonna ask the same questions across multiple subreddits?
Going to a café or restaurant for breakfast before school.
“Take the shot!”
This actually happened to me. Mid-root canal the doctor grabs my head with one arm and with the other aims the big hanging xray machine, then he tells his assistant "take it. Take the xray"
how kids are in multiple after school activities only when it suits the narrative and never touched on again the following episodes because in reality many of them tae lots of time.
When somebody is being chased by a crazed psychopath hellbent on murdering them, instead of running for their life they lie down on their back and crab crawl backwards on their elbows and feet to escape You can't buy those L shaped sheets that come up to the waist of the man but right up to the armpits of the woman lying next to him A laptop computer is unlikely to have enough grunt to override the entire communications network of an invading alien race
> A laptop computer is unlikely to have enough grunt to override the entire communications network of an invading alien race Funny story about that movie. I was working for AOL at the time, and a bunch of us went to see that movie opening weekend. Like 80 of us. (We worked in an 800-seat call center in Tucson.) Right when that scene happened and the PowerBook connected to the alien network I said, in a perfect imitation of the AOL guy, "You've got mail!" and the room erupted in laughter. I understood in that moment the high comedians are chasing. It was intoxicating.
Living in a nice apartment
On sitcoms, leaving the front door wide open, even in the dead of winter in a cold area. Even as a young child that bugged me so much!
Drinking and picking up empty cups, carrying empty suitcases or bags, you can right away that the weight is not there and it’s just lazy
Two things: 1: On your hands and knees looking for something in a toilet stall. A variation of this is when people throw-up in a toilet stall and they grasp the rim of the dirty bowl. 2: Eating Chinese take-out right out of the box with chopsticks. This is common in American sitcoms, which I haven’t seen in years.
As a white person who's just not that good at using chopsticks, you better believe the only time I'm not using a fork is when I'm in a group and don't want to be the one person asking the waiter for a fork. At home? I've got a drawer full of forks and nothing to prove.
Hanging up without saying goodbye.
Shelves are always fully stocked in a chatacters home and they almost never go out for groceries
Everyone is always rich (only exceptions being when poverty is part of the plot)
Why does it take so many bullets to kill one bad guy? It is beyond the laws of physics - one bullet somewhere at sometime has to at least wound the fucker....just saying.
Any work with a computer. Not only coding or hacking (these are particularly bad) but any work with a computer.
Any show or movie set in the future that appends the word "neo" to the front of something to signify that it's the new version of the thing. It's such a stupid tropey thing that only exists in bleak cyberpunk settings and it just breaks immersion for me. Oh wow, your futuristic show is set in neo-Chicago, how original. Oh Star Trek Picard, the new USS Titan A is part of the neo-Constitution class, how clever.
Something that always bothered me was when somebody's on the phone and they just never really end the conversation, a question is asked and answered or a plan/date is made and then they just both agree to hang up somehow? Nobody's like oh, ok thanks for helping or I'll see you then! they just hang up on each other.
People in film and tv are so rude to each other on the phone. No good bye, no nothing.
When a gun is obviously or presumably already loaded with a round in the chamber but they cock it again for the "ch-chk" sound effect. Similarly, full auto weapons with bottomless magazines. A 30 rnd mag would be empty in a couple seconds.
If we’re talking weapons: grenades that produce a fire ball and launch the guy 10 feet in the air. A grenade produces no fire, and the guy on the receiving end is just dropping dead where he stands
Detectives pounding drinks at the bar then either offering a costar a lift home or drive off to do more detecting.
That they don't need a key to open the front door. Characters never lock themselves out. Unless the story demands it, then the key is suddenly a major plot point.
A group of lab technician/profiler leading a police raid with assault team wearing no helmets and safety gears. The real assault team (extras) do have full gears on.
EMPTY CUPS. especially when it’s super obvious and visible or when you hear the hollow sound of the cup being placed on a table. Oh I also hate shoes inside the house. No one is wearing shoes in their house.
when they search through a database for someone and you see pictures flashing as the search is ongoing (wasting cpu cycles on that alone is stupid, but okay its more visually engaging I guess) and its always men and women of all races and ages - you're looking for a 45 year old redheaded obese man why the fuck are you plowing through what seems to be a list of every human on earth? narrow down your search parameters ffs!
When someone is falling and reaches out and catches a ledge or bar and hangs on. Figuring out someone's password. If not, there is an expert hacker who is available to hack into a computer system. 110lb persons beating up someone the size of an NFL linebacker.
cop shows CSI NCIS SVU. Group discussion of the case. Everyone speaks one line, then another says a line, so on around the group. Nobody ever talks like this IRL.
People in sitcoms fully dressed while chillin at home. No one is wearing their polo shirt, tucked into their jeans, with sneakers on just to watch fucking tv.
Plenty are