Most annoying plot/writing devices?

1

military special forces team backs up beautiful scientist who has discovered something mysterious out in a remote scenic location ....

3 If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises while wearing their most revealing underwear.

14 On a police stake-out, the action will only ever take place when food is being consumed and scalding hot coffees are perched precariously on the dashboard.

15 All grocery shopping involves the purchase of French loaves which will be placed in open brown paper bags. When the bags break, only fruit will spill out.

16 Cars never need fuel unless they are involved in a pursuit.

17 If you are heavily outnumbered in a martial arts fight, your opponents will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around you in a threatening manner until you have defeated their predecessor.

18 If a microphone is turned on it will immediately feedback.

19 Guns are like disposable razors. If you run out of bullets, just throw the gun away, you will always find another one.

20 All single women have a cat.

21 Cars will explode instantly when struck by a single bullet.

22 No matter how savagely a spaceship is attacked, its internal gravity system is never damaged.

23 If being chased through a city you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.

24 The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. Nobody will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected.

25 You will survive any battle in any war unless you show someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

26 Prostitutes always look like Julia Roberts or Jamie Lee Curtis. They have expensive clothes and nice apartments but no pimps. They are friendly with the shopkeepers in their neighbourhood who don't mind at all what the girl does for a living.

27 A single match is usually sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.

28 It is not necessary to say "Hello" or "Goodbye" when having a telephone conversation. A disconnected call can always be restored by frantically beating the cradle and saying "Hello? Hello?" repeatedly.

29 One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at once - it is called Stallone's Law.

30 When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be visible, just slightly bluish.

31 Plain or even ugly girls can become movie star-pretty simply by removing their glasses and rearranging their hair.

32 Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their enemies with complicated devices incorporating fuses, pulleys, deadly gases, lasers and man- eating sharks.

33 All beds have special L-shaped sheets that reach to armpit level on a woman but only up to the waist of the man lying beside her.

34 Anyone can land a 747 as long as there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

35 During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

36 You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.

37 Most musical instruments, especially wind instruments and accordions, can be played without moving your fingers.