There are A LOT & You don't have to name name all of them. Just a couple & let's keep it going till, I don't know, the end of time maybe. lol
I'm gonna start us off...
When a character has a gun & clearly has the upper hand over the other person but takes out the bullets & throws away the gun so they can fight hand to hand. It's so stupid & happens WAY too often
Keep it going...
The FRUIT or VEGGIE STAND that you know is there because it's going to be RUN OVER or KNOCKED DOWN by an automobile.
shareThe hooker with the heart of gold. Or PhD smart. Or both.
share> The hooker [who is] PhD smart
Sometimes it happens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandi_Britton
Wow.
shareWhenever a pregnant woman has a miscarriage it's always because of a fall, and whenever a pregnant woman falls it always results in a miscarriage.
All racists are white Southerners, and all white Southerners are racists.
This one is more from TV and doesn't get used so much anymore but was common when I was growing up. All American men are car enthusiasts, with encyclopedic knowledge of every make and model ever to come out of Detroit. A cop would ask a witness, "Did you see the getaway car?" He would respond, "Yeah, it was a dark green 1962 Mustang, but it had the newer hood ornament Ford started using in 1971."
I'll try to think of others.
There are so many on tv as well. Can't let 'em slide as well.
I'm just gonna edit my post real quick to include tv shows
In terms of tv shows, I absolutely hate the 'will they or won't they' cliche. Especially when it's dragged for multiple seasons. It's just annoying.
Also, when someone makes a huge breakfast but the characters only eat like a bit & leave. Cause they're always late somehow. Don't know why that bothers me so much but it happens way too often in way too many shows.
Finally, the genius character getting away with saying or doing anything because he or she is a genius. They're basically an A-Hole character but they get a pass cause they're a genius.
Probably many others too...
> In terms of tv shows, I absolutely hate the 'will they or won't they' cliche. Especially when it's dragged for multiple seasons. It's just annoying.
Agreed. Although sometimes the show goes downhill once the couple finally gets together. "Wings" and "Cheers" both suffered from that IMO.
This one goes way back, to before the time when TV shows did story arcs and every episode was a total reset. What do you do when the character is a single man, you need him to stay single, but you also want to show that he has normal, healthy relationships? That's easy enough -- on "Bonanza," it sometimes seemed that when a woman fell in love with a Cartwright it was a death sentence.
> Also, when someone makes a huge breakfast but the characters only eat like a bit & leave. Cause they're always late somehow.
I get why they do it, they've got to do multiple takes, so the actors can only nibble. You've got me wondering about an old show, "All In The Family." They did quite a few dinner scenes with long, single camera shots, and I'm wondering if the actors ate more than in other shows. Can't remember. But there was one thing about those scenes I always found comical, for all the wrong reasons. Doing a meal scene with long takes from the same angle meant all the actors had to sit on the same side of the table to be seen. How realistic is that?
There's a life insurance commercial I see all the time, and what caught my eye was this guy grabs a cookie and is about to bite into it until he hears sudden news, so he stops. Then twice more in the commercial he's about the take a bite but doesn't. It's like the director said, whatever you do don't bite into that cookie, and it's a very simple commercial.
shareI've seen that in sitcoms, too. There must be a name for this trope, but I can't find one. It's almost the opposite of a "spit take."
share"Also, when someone makes a huge breakfast but the characters only eat like a bit & leave. Cause they're always late somehow. Don't know why that bothers me so much but it happens way too often in way too many shows."
Agree. The food look so yummy sometimes and I just want to grab it and eat myself. The last time I seen such a scene was in Mulholland Dr.
It's happen usually with cops in TV and Movies, they almost never eat the whole meal, no surprise we seen them many times eat donuts/hamburger in the car.
In terms of tv shows, I absolutely hate the 'will they or won't they' cliche. Especially when it's dragged for multiple seasons. It's just annoying.
Especially when they like each other.
Every one thinks the Pam and Jim build up is so romantic.
No it wasn't. It was just pathetic.
- Handguns with unlimited ammunition.
- The bad guy is dead.... or is he?
- Two people are in a standoff, but some random noise distracts one of them making themselves vulnerable for an attack.
- A fight on the floor. Hey look, a random object conventiently within arm's reach suddenly became an option.
- Bad guys with ridiculously bad shooting accuracy.
Unlimited Ammmooooo! 😅
But seriously though, that's one of the reasons why I love the John Wick films. Guns run out of ammo after firing a certain number of bullets. The main character constantly switches weapons or Actually reloads his guns
Like empty mags in an action movie? Inconceivable!
One of the myriad of reasons I love Archer, is that when he is in a gun fight, he is always counting the bullets that have been fired. I love that the writers maintain that trait. With an animated series you could be forgiven for going overboard with things like that. Puts a lot of live action series to shame
shareYesss! I absolutely love that about Archer. It really does put a lot of action shows to shame in that department.
And it looks cool to see a character reload.
shareThe bad guy is dead.... or is he?
Mandatory in horror/slasher films.
And where did that sudden jolt of energy come from? They were dead two seconds ago, but now they can rise and attack the person within mere seconds.
shareThat's the rule in horror/slasher movies. If the main baddie hasn't been shot in the head or beheaded, they're still alive.
Even if they've been thrown from a great height, set on fire, drowned, or stabbed multiple times.
Thanos was right, you should always go for the head
Eh, I shot him twice, that seems enough!
Let's go skinny dipping babe, the State Police are two hours out and the horror is over!
I really enjoy the old Gunsmoke show, but so many bad guys are dispatched with one shot from a pistol at any distance while if Matt or a good-guy guest star gets hit, they are merely injured (but sometimes perilously). And for better or worse, it's all mostly bloodless.
shareIt's a typical western trope. The whole "quick draw" with a perfecr target hit is common.
shareThe bad guy dies from the one shot that's fired at him, while the good guy gets a nick on the upper arm 99.999999% of the time.
That's why I love the Maverick episode where they poke fun at Gunsmoke and Marshall Dooley.
shareThe only two people to survive any dangerous situations will be an attractive heterosexual man and woman, the woman considerably younger than the man.
shareA character turns a television on, and exactly the right thing immediately comes on.
Characters in a bar who order beer without specifying a brand.
Master computer hackers who can break into anything with just a few keystrokes.
Pregnant woman's water breaks, she's calm but her husband is panicked.
If a character in a movie coughs, it's near certain a terminal illness will happen.
If you're on a certain futuristic spaceship, wearing a red shirt is a very bad idea.
A character turns a television on, and exactly the right thing immediately comes on.
P.S. If you dislike the whole, ''If a character coughs, it's something terminal" thing , you're absolutely gonna love this sketch from the series, "That Mitchell & Webb Look"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGqIkeJCzAM
LOL -- Thanks. I'd never heard of that show. I've got a Britbox subscription and it might be on there; once I get my PC repaired I'll have a look.
share * Someone makes a bet that they'll have sex with an attractive but unbearable person, and the enforced togetherness makes them fall in love.
* A guy pursues a woman who's totally out of his league, and keeps pursuing her and violating her privacy and pulling ridiculous stunts to get her attention, and instead of filing a restraining order she falls in love with him.
* Any heterosexual man and woman who become friends will fall in love.
* Interrupting someone's wedding at the "does anyone have any objections" moment will result in everyone present living happily ever after.
I swear to God, anyone who believes in what they see in romance movies will find themselves completely unable to cope with real-life relationships! Even friendships.
* A guy pursues a woman who's totally out of his league, and keeps pursuing her and violating her privacy and pulling ridiculous stunts to get her attention, and instead of filing a restraining order she falls in love with him
* Interrupting someone's wedding at the "does anyone have any objections" moment will result in everyone present living happily ever after.
I'd like to re-watch The Graduate sometime.
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