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What is your biggest TV pet peeve / trope that bothers you?

Posted by Salt-Valuable-469

I have a few, but I’d love to know yours! \- When actors are supposed to get interrupted in the script, but they don’t even try to make it sound like they were about to say the entire sentence. ‘I can’t believe that you-‘ \*pause\* \- When the entire narrative is focused on the character being broke, but they live in a 4 bedroom house in central London / downtown New York. \- When a 5ft 2, 110lb woman fights off 8 bad guys with fly kicks, and each of the bad guys stands around in a brace position and just waits for their turn to get hit \- When an entire issue or situation is easily solved by someone just TALKING to each other. Oh no, he’s on his way to propose but she doesn’t know and she’s getting on the plane but she loves him. Girl just TEXT him that you’re at the airport? He can’t say ‘hey, on the way to talk to you’? \- No wait times in hospitals, just immediate doctors and nurses and ambulances running to their aid. What city do you live in?? \- The big speeches that solve everything. ‘I always loved you, it was always you’ and now we’re married and we live happily ever after. He killed your dad and burnt your house down, why are you kissing him
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andypro77 5 days ago +165
How about this one - when a character needs to smash a window to break into a car, they always smash the driver's side front window. Now they have to sit in broken glass while driving. Why not just take an extra second to break the back seat window and then unlock the door from there and sit in your stolen car free from the dreaded butt glass.
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Desertbro 5 days ago +37
Very annoying - the only time a car I owned was vandalized it was the driver's side window. They didn't take my c**** radio. They didn't take my toolbox. They didn't take the change I had in a cup. In fact, they took \~NOTHING\~ The worst part is that it was unneccessary - I had a Geo Tracker with a soft top and only a plastic zippered rear window. It was a 1990 model, and they didn't even have a door lock on the back hatch.
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RobGrogNerd 5 days ago +8
someone broke into my wife's car once, stole the 1day old stereo I just had installed for her birthday. free tip from Uncle Grog: if a stereo has a removable faceplate, take the faceplate with you. they jacked the lock. as much as we paid to have that fixed, I'd rather have replaced the window.
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zaftpunk 5 days ago +6
And I’d do it again!
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libra00 5 days ago +8
Shit, as a non-driver I never even thought about that, but that's a great point. Now that's gonna bother me too.
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stonewallace17 5 days ago +169
Characters who have at least some established relationship having zero text history with each other before the plot relevant text just sent/received
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crane_origin 5 days ago +47
Yes! Or they open the thread and it’s just that one dramatic blue bubble. At least fake a few “k”s and memes for realism, writers.
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Funandgeeky 5 days ago +33
This is what I love about Ted Lasso. When we see the characters texting we see their previous conversations. Sometimes even the ones they had in prior episodes. 
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Boggie135 5 days ago +10
As someone who automatically deletes texts, most of mine look like that
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bros402 5 days ago +22
who hurt you
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Boggie135 5 days ago +7
Lol 64gig phone
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andypro77 5 days ago +244
This is really specific, but I've always hated this one: Whenever someone needs to cut themselves to make a blood pact or they have to let blood drip to activate something magical or something like that, they always cut the palm of their hand. Now, for the next week or so, everytime they pick something up or try to hold something it's gonna sting or maybe reopen the wound. Why not just take the knife and cut the back of your forearm, or somewhere else where you're not gonna be reminded of it for a week or so.
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alehansolo21 5 days ago +102
In Supernatural there’s a scene where Dean has to prove he’s human and cuts himself on the bicep. Always thought that was a smart touch
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Yee_gamer 5 days ago +43
I could’ve sworn they still did the palm cut a lot, rewatching rn lol still very early.
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Loqol 5 days ago +13
So. Many. Times.
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Repossessedbatmobile 5 days ago +39
Supernatural was one of the few shows that actually put thought into how the characters would get injuries and still be able to fight. The directors also made good use of set design by having the characters utilize common objects that would naturally be in the environment as weapons when necessary.
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whazzah 5 days ago +22
The one trope Supernatural did rely on was their weapons being lost every time they got knocked out of their hands and sent flying. Q They even comment on it later 'maybe we should tie it to our hands or something...'
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M4tt1k5 5 days ago +7
One character, I think during the Supernatural convention episode, mentions putting it on a bungie cord.
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Red_Rabbit_1978 5 days ago +23
Because a blood pact involves blood from the hand in a "handshake"?
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EdieBooberryBeale 5 days ago +16
I was thinking of this during Ready Or Not. A character got shot through her hand, and the wound was so bad that the camera did that thing where they look through it, but somehow it's bandaged and the character still has use of the hand later. Like, the tendons are gone, how are you using your fingers??
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Raistlarn 5 days ago +3
Not everyone knows that all the muscles that control your fingers are not actually located in your fingers. Heck I didn't even know that fact until earlier this year.
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CosmicOwl47 5 days ago +50
I’ve heard that this is a practical thing, because it’s really easy for an actor to squeeze a packet of fake blood hidden in their hand.
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ScyllaOfTheDepths 5 days ago +16
It's such a trope that I just saw a show where the actor did this without even having a blood pack in his hand. It's just such established visual shorthand at this point that making the motion of a knife across your palm means blood sacrifice.
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skyturnedred 5 days ago +9
Also, squeezing blood out of your forearm would look a bit silly.
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Varekai79 5 days ago +6
Star Trek: DS9 uses this trope as well but they have medical technology that instantly heals cuts.
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BobTheContrarian 5 days ago +5
Dude, I have this very thought every time I see this! it just happened in Season 2 of Hijack and I was screaming: "Whyyyyyy?"
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libra00 5 days ago +7
Cutting your arm requires a fair bit more setup and props than cutting your hand, cause it's a lot easier for an actor to hide a packet of fake blood in their hand than on their forearm or wherever.
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AcrylicPickle 5 days ago +3
This irked me regularly in Gen V
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komarktoze 5 days ago +213
I know there's a reason they do it, but I do hate when characters are talking to each other in such an unnatural way just to convey information to us. "Hello mother in law, whose daughter I married three years ago, how are you?"
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PJFohsw97a 5 days ago +95
This is only going to get worse. Shows are being made knowing that most of the audience will be on their phones while watching.
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CryoClone 5 days ago +34
I am a teacher and had to stop showing Schindler's List because even though the kids don't have phones, they have been conditioned to having a movie hold their hand through the plot. I tell them "this movie doesn't tell you what happens. A lot of it has to be inferred from what you see." They have almost no clue what's going on most of the time.
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The_Unknown_Dude 5 days ago +10
They ask too many questions or seem utterly confused every 5 minutes ?
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beemojee 5 days ago +9
What you really need is a designated classroom "older brother" whose job it is, when the questions start, to yell out, "Shut up and watch the movie!" Older brothers are great at instilling an attention span in their younger sibs.
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osopeludo 5 days ago +14
Isn't media literacy part of what you'd be teaching in that scenario? In other news, I really should get around to watching that and make sure the girlfriend isn't around trying to make out.
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FakeRealGirl 5 days ago +7
yeah, good luck trying to watch Schindler's List without turning your girlfriend on
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Vestalmin 5 days ago +12
My favorite is in Big Hero 6 “What would mom and dad say?” “I don’t know, they’re gone. They died when I was three, remember?” Subtle.
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Underwater_Karma 5 days ago +11
Once you realize that ham-fisted exposition annoys you, it's basically over. You start seeing it everywhere, and it immediately jerks you out of immersion in the story.
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sciencevolforlife 5 days ago +25
American dad pokes fun at this. “I’ve called you bro before, that’s wha we are, we’re half brothers! Well I don’t care how they say it in new glarus Wisconsin where you live on and lake and have nothing in common with me”
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Huggable_Hork-Bajir 5 days ago +17
"What? I've never called you Sis before? You're right. It *does* sound weirdly clunky and expositional. I mean, I know you're my sister, so who am I saying it for? Weird."
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CinemaSideBySides 5 days ago +7
I loved this bit because I have NEVER heard a single person in real life call their sister "sis," yet it's constant in TV and movies
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Old_Employment_1090 5 days ago +221
When a character's playing a video game and mashing all the buttons while moving their hands wildly. Or when they say "Ahh I can't beat this level!" and then the TV shows they're playing something like GTA.
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minnick27 5 days ago +79
I've seen actors talk about this. Actual gaming is tiny movements so it looks like they are doing nothing. They are actually told to mash buttons to show action
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RobGrogNerd 5 days ago +18
i don't know if I mash buttons because I suck, or I suck because I mash buttons, but it's probably a lot of both.
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libra00 5 days ago +13
You suck because you mash buttons. There's a game I played years ago, the original Star Wars Battlefront II, it had a mode where you played hero (jedi/sith/etc) characters that fought. It really rewarded button-mashing early on, but if you slowed down and got patient with the game and started making moves intentionally you could get a *lot* better, to the point where you could just destroy those button-mashers almost with the energy of their own attacks. If you want to get better, you need to take the time to learn what the game is teaching you and apply it intentionally, to move and act with purpose. But I mean if you're having fun who gives a shit?
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cabalus 5 days ago +5
One of my favourite little tidbits from when Alphastar (same Ai that beat the grandmaster chess and go players) beat the Starcraft pros is how its APM was often lower than that the pros For a long time actions per minute was a pretty good indicator of how efficient you were being but what Alphastar revealed is just how many of those clicks were pointless busywork If you zoom in and analyse some of these commands you'll notice players will often move a unit somewhere and then go off do something else then return and move the unit back to where it was again, and these are tiny adjustments Now APM really does matter when you're actually micro managing a fight and in those cases Alphastar did spike to superhuman numbers but in the general play it was comparatively very laid back...while absolutely smoking the competition
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libra00 5 days ago +3
Oh yeah, I was never into the pro scene, but I played a lot of the original Starcraft and know all about APM. Interesting, hadn't heard about that. I mean the theory behind APM is that you're responding rapidly to every change in conditions, but it kind of became a metric people selected for so it kind of just became 'have high APM', not 'respond rapidly to changing conditions'. You got a link to that game? I'd like to watch it.
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cabalus 5 days ago +4
There's a whole series! What's even more interesting is this is the company that google purchased that later became google gemini, so essentially it's early versions of gemini fighting the starcraft pros all the way in 2019 Analysing APM in human play is still more complicated than just ''you don't need to be doing as much'' because while yes...in theory with perfect play your APM is lower, you probably achieve the same result by being in that heightened state and it's better to be doing that, overcompensating, than to be lax about it and hoping every single click is perfect It's a fascinating discussion! The truth is somewhere in the middle, it's definitely true that players do a ton of pointless inputs that in theory could be energy spent elsewhere - another huge culprit is issuing orders to a unit that's already doing the thing, happens all the time Anyway here's the demonstration, it's 10 games and Alphastar clean sweeps though one or two of the games are pretty close! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTMhmVh1qs&t=145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTMhmVh1qs&t=145s)
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libra00 5 days ago +3
Fair enough, there's definitely some nuance in there. And yeah, that's one of the things I really noticed is that sending the same unit on the same attack-move to the same location 40 times over the space of a few seconds isn't really gaining you anything. Like in situations where your units are fighting and micro wins the day, yeah, absolutely that matters, but it seems like a habit they do in all situations (you never see one click, it's like 5-8 in rapid succession for the same thing) just to keep their APM high. Also thanks for the link, I'll check it out!
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BladesMan235 5 days ago +44
Or when the PS5 or Xbox controller light isn’t even on
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Barf_The_Mawg 5 days ago +35
My favorite was always the Gameboy without a cartridge in it.
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sexandliquor 5 days ago +16
Modern console being played because the actors have PlayStation or Xbox controllers in their hands, but the sound you’re hearing from the game they’re playing is often some old Atari ass sound effects
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itsallgoodintheend 5 days ago +25
Videogames in general are almost always terrible in movies and TV. I remember seeing Charlie's Angels as a teen and seeing two kids each holding a controller and playing Final Fantasy VIII of all things. It wasn't until Final Fantasy IX that you could split the party per controller.
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Carlzzone 5 days ago +10
IIRC on Bosch, they were playing League of Legends on console
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Dlorn 5 days ago +5
FFVI had this ability.
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libra00 5 days ago +7
My theory is that the actor isn't playing a damned thing, they just add the game in post, and the people who do it clearly dunno a thing about it.
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MisterBarten 5 days ago +6
Even worse when they are shown playing a game and the sound is some beeps and boops that would have been in an Atari game 40+ years ago.
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AlphaTangoFoxtrt 5 days ago +4
> "Ahh I can't beat this level!" and then the TV shows they're playing something like GTA. Counterpoint: The f****** RC plane missions in San Andreas.
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knightfirelorde 5 days ago +56
Okay so mine is super specific, and the best way to describe it is with an example. In power rangers time force there's an episode where I think it's the green ranger? Sees a knight riding around on a horse a couple times and disappears into a portal. The other rangers dismiss him, for some reason, until they see the knight themselves. LIKE GUYS, YOU ARE TIME TRAVELING POLICE WHO TRANSFORM INTO SUPER HUMANS (and alien) HOW IS A KNIGHT IN MODERN DAY HARD TO BELIEVE. Like, I guess the trope is something like "this fantastical thing doesnt exist, now let's do this equally fantastical thing?"
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Desertbro 5 days ago +11
heh - heh - heh - I laughed when this happened in ***Primeval.*** The task force is literally fighting dinosaurs and other beasts from ancient and future Earth, but when a person shows up from Medieval England, it's "too far-fetched" like they'd never figure out how to walk into time portals, too.
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ZiCUnlivdbirch 5 days ago +5
To be fair, you're right now holding a device that can produce any image by using the inherit energy that binds our universe together. One fantastical concept existing doesn't suddenly mean that all others do as well. If we found out that the Christian God exists inrefutability, then that doesn't mean we should suddenly believe when someone says the Greek gods exist as well.
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ThouBear8 5 days ago +88
* Character encounters another person in what looks to be a compromising position or hears about something they did that sounds bad. * "How could you do this to me?!" "I can explain" * first character runs off dramatically without even attempting to hear an explanation * Then 20-30 minutes later, when they stop long enough to hear them out, they realize it was all just a misunderstanding. Any time an entire story depends on people having unrealistic, frustrating miscommunication just to drag out a conflict, it's just lazy writing.
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EdieBooberryBeale 5 days ago +17
Related, but this situation and all the compromised character says is, "Wait! I can explain! Just listen! Will you just listen?" but never actually gives the explanation despite multiple chances to do so.
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big-daddio 5 days ago +10
This is the w***** of most annoying tropes.
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Boggie135 5 days ago +5
Romantic comedies were built on this
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ToLiveInIt 5 days ago +4
A relationship with that little trust isn’t even worth saving.
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andypro77 5 days ago +8
Yea, I think this is the most common trope. They really need to let real people watch their shows and point this stuff out before they air them.
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WhichEmailWasIt 5 days ago +3
> Any time an entire story depends on people having unrealistic The only part of this that looks unrealistic is the running away part. However it's very common imo for people to shut their ears off when they're upset and need to cool off before they're able to listen. 
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hopple_popple 5 days ago +71
When they turn off the TV or radio after hearing a fraction of some news that's important to the story. Like how do they know there wasn't more to hear? Also when they're holding a coffee cup or other object that clearly weighs nothing.
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zaftpunk 5 days ago +27
They always turn the news on at the perfect moment too. One time I wanna see them turn it on and have to wait for the weatherman or whatever.
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RegularGuy815 5 days ago +16
Arrested Development did this joke once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjqbiMFonR8
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Jackbuddy78 5 days ago +6
It's not even that but they hear some crazy shit and are like "Wow the news is kind of wild today" and then ignore it. Don't get me wrong people can be very complacent. However a disease outbreak with people attacking each other randomly would 100% terrify a normal person. That would not be dismissed as unimportant. 
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TalynRahl 5 days ago +88
Agree on the talking part. Any problem that stretches more than 5 minutes, but could have been solved by a 30 second talk can get fucked. My least favourite trope: Plot hinges upon information/themes from a well known nerd property. But one character, usually the “cool” guy, has never engaged with said media. Nerd guy: wait, you never read LotR/Dune/whatever in college? Cool guy: no… I had sex in college. It’s 2026. Please stop making this joke.
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geodebug 5 days ago +10
Well, given that young adults today are having less sex maybe the joke is more apt in 2026.
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TW_JD 5 days ago +24
I know the stereotype of dnd not having sex is popular but damn you ever been around nerdy dnd or goth girls? They want it as much as the nerd guys do. It's really not the hard to get laid especially when you share the same niche interests, it's almost guaranteed.
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TalynRahl 5 days ago +18
For real. Anyone that thinks nerds don’t f*** needs to go to a convention. Late night parties at a con are basically a meat market.
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Oxygene13 5 days ago +15
I fear my insular nerd life has missed an important bit of knowledge that could have been useful when I was younger...
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TalynRahl 5 days ago +7
Depends on your definition or younger. Most of the more… mature activities were generally kept to the more adult attendees. Like 20s+
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Oxygene13 5 days ago +6
I'm over 40 so any time in the last 20 years would have been nice lol
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thatshygirl06 5 days ago +3
What show in 2026 made this joke?? I haven't seen this in years
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Jarita12 5 days ago +29
A thing I thought would die out by now - when they have a couple that you cannot wait to get together, finally, like four, five season, they arleady drag it and they JUST want to keep the big thing for the finale. So they bring, out of nowhere, an ex partner who he or she has a history with or some "Charming stranger" to just keep delaying. Not sure if it is now as prominent as it used to be, I haven´t really watched much of shows with long seasons and gazillion episodes for a while but it was really, really annoying in Castle or Chuck, where it dragged and dragged. Not to mention to create a fake relationship drama when they are finally together. People WANT to see them together, let them solve all issues together and make them even stronger
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joelene1892 5 days ago +13
I really hate the need to break couples up too. Like I’m not saying no couple can ever break up, but even when there’s a couple that’s clearly endgame they so often break up over something stupid just to keep adding dramatics. This bothers me the most in shows that don’t focus on the relationships, basically non-sitcoms. Like, did Angela and Hodgins really need to break up for seasons in Bones? Just let them be happy, goddammit.
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Funandgeeky 5 days ago +17
This is why I like that on Friends, Matthew Perry put his foot down about Chandler not cheating on Monica. I liked that once they got together they stayed together. 
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joelene1892 5 days ago +6
Yeah, same thing happened with Jim and Pam on the office! John Krasinski refused to cheat on her. Thank goodness.
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Carrie_8638 5 days ago +8
This sounds so much like House😢
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spiritual28 5 days ago +4
Yeah, four seasons to get together, a couple of episodes where they are together and then some big thing gets in the way and you barely see them together until the show gets cancelled. Get some payoff for all that tension, goddammit. Couples can be interesting even if they are happy 
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Desertbro 5 days ago +29
TBH, the financial inconsistencies are what bug me the most. I've lived middle-class my whole life. I've never gone a night starving or a long time without a car, or had a lack of clothing. But outside of necessities there are a ton of things that just have to wait for a tax return check, a raise, emergency replacement that increases my debt or some such. And these so-called struggling characters never seem to need as much as a hair-cut or wear old clothes, or have a home with a scarcity of chairs, closet space, food in the cabinet, or even need some new shoes. It immediately takes me out of the situation.
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Salt-Valuable-469 5 days ago +11
I was poor for most of my childhood and early adulthood, and it’s so so clear that none of the writers have ever even spoken to a poor person before they decide to write one as a main character. *Character sighs at the empty fridge … it’s a top of the line restaurant-quality smart fridge* *Character has to ride the bus… back to their three storey home* *Character just gets fired… buys three bottles of top shelf wine and orders takeout in self despair*
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JohannYellowdog 5 days ago +28
Character A has just arrived at a new location where he will be spending a lot of time (new job, new school, sentenced to prison, etc). Character B is the boss / warden / principal, sitting behind his desk reading Character A’s file, and of course he reads it *out loud* to him. “Graduated from Princeton 1995… top of your class… hired straight out of college by the NSA… fired for mishandling classified information… served ten years in federal prison…” It has to be one of the laziest, most unrealistic ways to get through an exposition dump.
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ThroatSecretary 5 days ago +112
The giant breakfast spread that is left untouched as people dart out the door in the morning. Also, any child present is always told "You're going to be late!" and shooed out the door.
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Shancv1988 5 days ago +22
It's so unnecessary, that's what annoys me most. Just... don't have that much food on display?
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AcrylicPickle 5 days ago +17
Was rewatching No Way Home and Ned leaves a donut with one small bite taken and his coffee on the counter and just leaves. He doesn't finish it. He doesn't take it with him. He doesn't even clean up after himself in his BFF's workplace! I couldn't get over that scene.
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RegularGuy815 5 days ago +10
It's always one little bite of toast and out the door they go.
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Flyin_Bryan 5 days ago +7
Related - when people leave a restaurant abruptly without paying the check. Either they order, but leave before the food gets there or they throw down their fork mid-meal and storm off.
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BrightLuchr 5 days ago +3
Or actors just playing with their food and not actually eating. Once you notice it, you can't not notice it.
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Broad-Half3135 5 days ago +50
Driving scenes where the person driving looks at the road for 1 second and looks at the passenger for 30 seconds
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ohdearitsrichardiii 5 days ago +21
Shows like CSI with scientist who presumably are educated and trained and have worked together in that lab for years but explain to each other what the machines do A to B: "I'm gonna put the blood sample in this machine which will give us a DNA profile. Since everyone has different DNA we can compare that to any suspect and identify the killer!" And then next episode B explains the same thing to A
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cj350z 5 days ago +16
I think what's worse about CSI is when they are in a lab without any PPE on, and all the lights are off.
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joelene1892 5 days ago +11
lol there’s an episode of Bones where the “intern” (who is actually an established scientist) makes a big deal about the PPE (I think a mask in this case?) and they all sort of stare at him and then he’s like “alright, fine” because it’s clear they don’t wear it.
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farnsmootys 5 days ago +57
Not saying “thanks” or “bye”. So often they just end the conversation with silence. 
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Pcm979 5 days ago +13
And they don't ask who it is, or check the screen for caller ID. It's just \*Pick up\* "Yes?" \*Pause\* "I see." \*Hang up\*
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davekva 5 days ago +9
They never say "bye" at the end of a phone call
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Few-Hair-5382 5 days ago +56
In segments supposedly set in real time, nobody ever runs off to take a piss. Over 8 seasons of 24, never once did Jack say "I'll get those terrorists later or my kidneys will explode before their bomb does."
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Stewkirk51 5 days ago +58
The Pitt had this as a plot device in the first season. One character really needed to pee and kept getting pulled into different tasks
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fotodevil 5 days ago +11
I just started watching The Pitt and watched this episode last night. I thought it was well done and I got so frustrated for him.
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geek_of_nature 5 days ago +20
This is why the Pitt is so great. There was this whole running gag about Robby trying to take a piss but getting interrupted by another problem every time. I think it took him about two episodes to finally take that piss.
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hanzou9754 5 days ago +5
You notice how the timer skips a few minutes in the show, because they had to fit 60 minutes into 40 minutes run time? That's when Jack ran off to the bushes.
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aaryg 5 days ago +18
The wedding episode where everything goes wrong.
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DrGlennWellnessMD 5 days ago +9
I hate the wedding episode scenes where characters are having full conversations while walking down the aisle. Everyone would hear you! 
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BrickPig 5 days ago +18
I get really tired of every cop/detective/private eye having some kind of deep, dark secret or trauma that drives them. Can't a few of them be reasonably normal people who just happen to be really good at doing investigative work?
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Salt-Valuable-469 5 days ago +9
No, they have to avenge a dead family member. It’s part of the hiring process
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CinemaSideBySides 5 days ago +3
I keep waiting for the "how did you become a cop" backstory to be "I needed a job and there was a job opening"
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Tenwaystospoildinner 5 days ago +3
I'd love a character with something traumatic in their backstory, but they're already healed. I want a conversation where the detective says, "Yeah, my best friend died in my arms, but on every case I see people going through the worst experiences of their lives. It's my job to help them get past the way I did."
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edgeplot 5 days ago +36
I'm surprised these haven't appeared yet: Any blade moving through the air makes a shing sound. Moving or picking up a gun makes a cocking sound. People get up after being right next to an enormous explosion without any injuries or being deafened. People get choked out or hit over the head to knock them unconscious without any repercussions. Etc.
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Oxygene13 5 days ago +11
And that sound of a blade on metal when someone takes a sword out of a leather sheath :p
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RobGrogNerd 5 days ago +7
Wayne & Garth call that "SCHWING!"
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catylg 5 days ago +5
People get shot and spring right back up and keep fighting. Or they are rushed to the hospital, undergo major life-saving surgery, and are back on the job fully functional the next day.
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Underwater_Karma 5 days ago +3
The movie " Exodus gods and kings" has an early scene with a character wiping his sword with a cloth, every wipe is accompanied with the classic " shing ... shing" sound. The movie was already bad so that was the point where I turned it off I have no idea if it got worse or not.
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Mr_lovebucket 5 days ago +13
When actors carry a suitcase or box which is actually empty as no one will notice, yeah right
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SoCentralRainImSorry 5 days ago +11
Or they’re carelessly handling a cup of what is supposed to be hot coffee. If it actually had coffee in it, it would be sloshing everywhere and hurting people.
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monsieurxander 5 days ago +7
The empty cup thing is so goofy. Why not put water in there? Or even just make it a fake prop with more weight.
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ShadowWriter28 5 days ago +13
The not talking to each other drives me absolutely insane! -When they keep ordering food and no one ever eats it, puts it away or even mentions it. -When they find objects they need and will clearly come in handy later but they leave them behind. -When they ditch laptops and expensive tech but get more later on. Is everyone secretely a millionaire? -When they spend multiple episodes in the same clothes, sometimes covered in blood but never mention feeling uncomfortable and no one ever points it out.
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Cherries1526 5 days ago +11
My biggest for TV and Movies! It's Safe Deposit Box NOT Safety Deposit Box.
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Saneless 5 days ago +10
Not a trope but I hate when they use a shot from the back of someone and it's very clear the dialogue and how their mouth is moving isn't even close to matching
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Salt-Valuable-469 5 days ago +3
Or when it’s so clear it’s a body double from behind? Like at least match their hair colour properly
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Verystrange129 5 days ago +27
When they order pizza and it arrives and they never eat it.
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revolvingpresoak9640 5 days ago +23
Well if you watched the end of the p**** you’d see they do in fact eat the pizza.
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andypro77 5 days ago +21
I watched this p**** once where the delivery guy brought the pizza and the lady answering the door didn't have any cash on her and said, "Maybe there's another way I can pay". I was getting all excited because I was pretty sure there was gonna be sex stuff, but the dude just got out his phone and accepted her Venmo. Turns out it wasn't a p****, just a Dominos commercial.
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InspectorMendel 5 days ago +6
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey
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Verystrange129 5 days ago +3
The pizza would be stone cold by the end of the p****, same applies.
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BobTheContrarian 5 days ago +6
My ultra-specific movie pizza pet peeve: The plain cheese pizza is the first to run out in *Home Alone*. No adult is going to eat plain cheese pizza and Mrs. McAllister would know if all the kids only liked cheese pizza and would order accordingly. edit: I see I'm in r/television... 😔
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WretchedMotorcade 5 days ago +25
Its mainly an anime trope but I fuckin' hate how someone can have a 100 percent fight winning super move thats effective for 1 episode and the never used again. Looking at you Bleach. I also hate (mainly an anime trope) characters staring at each other while an internal monolouge explains their tactics or special moves. Its just two characters staring at each other for 5 fuckin' minutes while nothing happens. Still looking right fuckin' at you Bleach.
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skippiington 5 days ago +3
They do this in Cobra Kai. Daniel learns a pressure point, and then just never uses it again? All the fights could end so fast if he just used it more consistently
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JacobRAllen 5 days ago +3
Scrubs… JD’s ridiculously long internal monologues while everyone stands there.
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Nobody_Super_Famous 5 days ago +21
They never have to look for parking, or wait for an elevator.
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Barry_Mundy 5 days ago +11
I love dramatic in-elevator confrontations. No one else ever gets in the elevator apart from the two leads; it doesn't stop at any other floor; the ride takes minutes rather than seconds; the ride completes and the elevator doors open at the exact same moment one person dishes out a zinger so they can make a perfect exit.
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rayword45 5 days ago +3
Somewhat similar: how the f*** does everyone have a car in sitcoms that take place in NYC? You'll have a character like George Costanza be depicted as an underemployed, unattractive loser with severe mommy issues and he has a nice ass car he drives everywhere in NYC? The way public transportation usually gets depicted is utterly baffling to me because only the wealthiest, most privileged m*********** alive is able to NOT rely on the subway in this city.
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skadoof 5 days ago +9
when a character is about to spill one of the biggest secrets to another then they change their mind mid convo
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Jackbuddy78 5 days ago +3
"We will talk about this later"...doesn't get the chance and dies.
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MerryBandOfPirates 5 days ago +18
I don’t mind the women beating up a ton of guys. I constantly see guys beating up on aliens twice their size, it’s just the fun of it. But for me the not saying “I Love You”, either in return, or because of some past trauma. Even if the couple has been dating for years, or even living together. I just don’t buy it. Also, casting big name actors in small roles. Especially in mysteries, you know they’re the murderer then.
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TW_JD 5 days ago +6
Your last point happened on Murder She Wrote more often than not. Oh yeah that famous person is a cameo? Well they're either going to die or be the murderer. Oh look it's a character never before introduced, guess who they'll end up being?
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Blekanly 5 days ago +16
Iirc she hired former big names who were struggling later in their careers and lives so they could keep SAG membership so they could keep all benefits like healthcare I think.
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TW_JD 5 days ago +6
Interesting I never knew that!
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RobGrogNerd 5 days ago +5
Elsbeth keeps this trope on life support.
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Oxygene13 5 days ago +5
Hah yeah this always annoyed me. Any procedural 'problem / murder / mystery of the week' show, if I recognised someone it would kill the episode for me because no matter how unlikely it is they are the culprit, I know it will always circle back to them by the end.
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thatshygirl06 5 days ago +3
>I don’t mind the women beating up a ton of guys. I constantly see guys beating up on aliens twice their size, it’s just the fun of it. This!!! People like op have no problem when men do insane feats but as soon as it's a woman, suddenly it's a problem. Like, it's fantasy, fictional, it's not supposed to be 100% realistic and no one watching is expecting it to be.
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MostLikelyToNap 5 days ago +17
People putting milk out on the table while they’re eating. You put milk in your cereal then put it back in the fridge.
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Mission_Extreme_6325 5 days ago +8
The empty coffee cups. Ever since I found out that was a thing, I l notice it every single time.
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My_alias_is_too_lon 5 days ago +8
Doctors using defibrillators to shock asystole on medical dramas. Asystole means that the heart has no beat/rhythm at all (flat-line), and they literally treat those paddles like they're a resurrection machine. Most of them do this, and it drives me nuts, and I'm not even a doctor of any kind (but don't tell my friends/family). I mean, it's called a "Defibrillator," it's for fixing fibrillation. That's all it's for. You can't shock someone back to life with one; this isn't "Frankenstein." Another is when someone holds a smart phone up to their ear, but the screen stays on, despite that not having been a thing *ever* as far as I remember. The screen turns off when held to the ear and on a call, and I think it's always been that way, starting with the first iPhone. Bonus points when they're on a call, the screen stays on, and shows a home screen.
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Charming_Butterfly90 5 days ago +3
The phone thing is a setting. My screen doesn’t go dark when I am talking on it.
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Tourgott 5 days ago +36
When Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something?
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Funandgeeky 5 days ago +10
I hope someone got fired for that blunder. 
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mister-ferguson 5 days ago +6
Wizard did it
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timmmmmmmmmmmmm 5 days ago +7
When they catch up with someone and then the next scene they're still explaining the situation. What, while you moved from A to B, you were just walking in silence?
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Funandgeeky 5 days ago +7
[You’ll appreciate this.](https://youtu.be/r96KpNTcog4)
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A911owner 5 days ago +8
When someone is driving, they're constantly moving the steering wheel left and right a few inches. You would be ALL OVER the road if you did that in real life. Also, frequently the shifter car will obviously be in park while they're going down the road.
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Deadpool1205 5 days ago +7
Characters experiencing pregnancy only to 'learn' they actually always wanted to be a parent but just didn't realize it and then see the error in their 'childfree' ways. Ugh it's the worst.
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One_Mix8885 5 days ago +7
When people "whisper" in voices loud enough to be easily overheard, especially since the person they're talking about is approximately two feet away!
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rightsomeofthetime 5 days ago +5
Every time someone takes a necklace off, they yank it and snap it off. I can see how this looks better on screen than raising it over your head or reaching back to undo the clasp, but I've never understood why we all just suspend our disbelief and accept this.
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MidwestTroy92 5 days ago +6
When people have full emotional conversations while one of em is aggressively chopping vegetables. Nobody is dicing onions that hard just to deliver exposition lol
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fountainpopjunkie 5 days ago +5
When cops and/or crime scene investigators don't TURN ON the f****** lights.
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x6ftundx 5 days ago +5
Everyone died, including the main characters... 24 hours earlier... No one really died, just a big explosion, and they all lived
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derp2112 5 days ago +5
Painting a room. They roll the same spot over and over, and the lady is wearing an oversized button up shirt.
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DommePersphi 5 days ago +6
WEARING SHOES IN THE BED OR PUTTING THEIR SHOES ON THE COUCH!! 😡😡😡
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EggplantRelative5335 5 days ago +5
Definitely the lower income nice apartment one. Another is woman Detectives in shows in 6 inch needle heels. Be real.
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AGpgh 5 days ago +9
When person A has to tell person B big news and person B says something like “before you say anything, I just wanted to say…” and then they say something completely against what person A has to say. Always ends with “so what did you need to tell me?” “Nevermind, it’s not important”
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Salt-Valuable-469 5 days ago +5
I think I hate this even more than “wait, I can explain!”
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alisda05 5 days ago +4
When there's gasoline everywhere and someone lights a lighter and things don't go up in flames until the lighter hits the gasoline.
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skorpioo 5 days ago +5
The empty cups they pretend to drink from, especially paper cups that make a hollow sound clearly proving it is empty when they put it down on the table.
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Oxygene13 5 days ago +5
Traffic. Just once I would love to see a show where people dramatically rob a bank / store, jump in their cars, then are sat in bumper to bumper traffic unable to get away!
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TheFalconKid 5 days ago +4
The 26+ year olds playing high schoolers. I recently learned that in the Teen Wolf show, a couple of the main characters that are supposed to be high schoolers are older than the teacher.
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HairyHorseKnuckles 5 days ago +4
When a plot line could be resolved with a 15 second conversation but the characters refuse to communicate with each other
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Galausia 5 days ago +5
I've got a few: * There's food on the table, but nobody eats it * Bad phone etiquette, they just hang up * Empty coffee cups * The smart character is a jerk for no reason
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Bustin_Chiffarobes 5 days ago +3
Empty coffee cups. Whenever you see somebody drinking a coffee on TV, you know that that cup is empty and they're merely pretending to drink it. You can tell because the cup clearly has no weight and they're swinging it around. Once you notice this, you can't unsee it.
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MatthewHecht 5 days ago +9
Adults voicing children and not sounding like children.
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Jackbuddy78 5 days ago +3
I feel like this is specifically talking about A Fistful of Dollars lol
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MatthewHecht 5 days ago +6
It was The Lorax that made me realize this.
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BddyGrease 5 days ago +6
Character A says something offensive/politcally incorrect like “retarded” or “midget”. Character B responds “Hey, I don’t think you can say that anymore” I’ve seen this over a dozen times and It’s so annoying.
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HappyGilOHMYGOD 5 days ago +3
It wouldn't make for great tv but it does bother me that you never see anyone bored ever lol.
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Jericho-X 5 days ago +3
When they get in a coma, and we have to see 1-2 episodes take place entirely in the dreamworld. And when they wake up, they remember everything.
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DrGlennWellnessMD 5 days ago +5
But how else will we get the self-indulgent musical episode so the actors can show off their singing and dancing? 
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Grimslabben 5 days ago +3
The rattle sound addet to guns like they game many loose parts. That’s guns aren’t loud as shit, they shoot and are not effected at all. Even tho there ears who’d de ringing horribly.
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Technical-Effect-657 5 days ago +3
The authority figure who's obstructive for absolutely no good reason. You know, the police sergeant or whatever. It serves zero narrative purpose that I can tell except to pad runtime. The sergeant will complain and lecture the protagonists but you know they're not going to lose their job and they're just going to carry on doing whatever they want anyway. Except the proceedings are all delayed just so the sergeant can have a tantrum or throw up a roadblock that will be resolved almost immediately.
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libra00 5 days ago +3
All of those kiddie anime tropes, where the characters like flail about with a stupid simplified look on their face like 'OMG I'm SoOOOoOoOo excited!111!!', or they do that stupid cartoony romantic swoon and shit.. ugh. It's the worst. I have to be very selective about the anime I watch. I mean also because it's filled with teenage drama, and the longer it's been since I was a teenager the more annoying I find it; and let me tell you, it's been a *while*. But I fully realize this makes me a cranky old man.
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TheFalconKid 5 days ago +3
Back door pilot episodes for spinoff shows, especially when they place the episode right in a serious moment for the show. For those that don't know what I mean, a back door pilot episode is basically when the main show focuses on one or a group of side characters that the studio is trying to get a spinoff show made for, so they test out what that show would be like by centering it around a side story or the main characters are sidelined for the episode so they can see how these other characters are like on their own.
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Boggie135 5 days ago +3
1. Tyres screeching on every vehicle and every surface 2. Every car sounding like it has a V8 3. Getting shot at and hiding behind a sofa or (wooden) wall 4. The news talking about what the character needs to hear/know at the exact time they change the channel
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KiwiCuro 5 days ago +3
“I need to talk to you” takes three steps into the middle of a busy hallway where everyone can hear the private medical information they are discussing
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CinemaSideBySides 5 days ago +3
I liked when Family Guy made fun of this one "Lois, can I speak to you over here two steps away yet magically out of earshot from him?"
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trtwrtwrtwrwtrwtrwt 5 days ago +3
This is bit weird one and never personally seen others talk about: When character is dating lots of people OR on/off with someone for entire show and in the final episodes of the show they find someone or fix their issues and the show pretends they lived happily ever after. Examples: obviously Ross and Rachel(Friends), Pheobe(Charmed) and many others. I've seen this exact scenario play for 100 episodes. Why would this be any different ffs.
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Salt-Valuable-469 5 days ago +3
This is why I liked the office! People hated when Jim and Pam had marital issues near the end but I think it made it so realistic and not just a fantasy love story
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not_falling_down 5 days ago +3
The phone conversation in which an important piece of information is not revealed - "I'll tell you when we talk in person." You just know that the person is going to be killed before the info can be revealed.
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dr_dohh 5 days ago +3
anytime anyone says “we’ve got company”!when someone’s chasing them. also for movies
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Matlock0 5 days ago +3
Every fight having that sequence where villain is strangling someone, the victim finds a rock or something with their hand while being strangled and hits the villain in the face to get out of a full mount.
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Cum__Cookie 5 days ago +3
I am so, so tired of amnesia
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accio_coffee234 5 days ago +3
When they hang up the phone without saying bye!!
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Rattivarius 5 days ago +3
When a cop is searching for a miscreant, spies said miscreant down the block, calls out "hey miscreant, hold it", miscreant takes off, foot chase ensues. Any cop with a brain, even a TV cop, would sneak up on miscreant.
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CinemaSideBySides 5 days ago +3
The super-important baby/child who is half-human, half something else, yet somehow MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY OTHER "something else" THAT HAS EVER BEEN. Dragonball Z in my youth, Charmed, Supernatural...I'm sure I wouldn't have to dig hard to find more
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DrewDan96 5 days ago +3
in cop/medical procedurals, when there's several characters in the same room talking, say there's a case they're setting up, every character says like a sentence or two setting up the case (instead of just one person laying it out)
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iheartmycats820 5 days ago +3
When people turn on the friggin' bedside lamp when they answer the phone in the middle of the night. WHO DOES THAT???
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thoruen 5 days ago +2
the whole I don't have time to explain very quickly in just a few words what TF is happening as we run around gathering things to leave.
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Ishahn 5 days ago +2
Military/special forces guys with their elbows sticking put 90 degrees to the side while aiming. TUCK THOSE DAMN ELBOWS IN
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