Things I Don't Understand

[BabyTigger99]

People walking into a home and never shutting the door! I don't get that one!

 

[Philagoofy]

Another thing in horror movies, everyone always runs upstairs, why not down & out? And while creepy stuff is going on, maybe someone was already murdered, you know there's that one hot chick who just has to stop & take a slow, steamy shower with the killer lurking close by.

The bathroom breaks, yes, I wondered about those also. I don't watch it but my dh watches "24", they must have great bladder control.

 

[DancingBear]

Yep. My wife gets mad at those wimpy women.
She's like "COME ON, they are wrestling around on the floor and the woman can't hit the bad guy in the back of the head with a lamp or something?"

At least pick up the gun that's lying there on the floor because it was knocked out of one of the guys' hands!!!

 

[ckay87]

Why is it that in all sitcoms....all of them....every room has only 3 walls?

Coming into the Brady's home. Ever see the wall to the left?

Roseanne's house...come in the door, never saw the wall to the right.

Think about Happy Days....at Al's when Fonzie comes out of the bathroom. Have you ever seen the wall that would have been to his left? NO. And there was that booth in the middle of the floor and nobody ever used the one side of it. Someone always had to get up to let the other guy in. Nobody ever said "go around!!"

Name a sitcom home that has 4 walls

 

[Fintastic]

It bugs me when there is one hero and about a hundred bad guys, but the bad guys all attack the hero one at a time while the others stand there watching!

Also, people in movies and TV always bolt upright in bed after having a nightmare. I've never done that in my whole life.

 

[MarksMom2006]

Along the same lines, what drives my wife batty is when the hero is fighting with the villain, and the lady who the hero is trying to save just sits there whimpering, instead of trying to do something to help fight the bad guy.

Im another one who hates this! I think if they are just going to sit there and cry and whimper then they get what they deserve.

 

[Philagoofy]

When someone stuffs a balled up rag into someones mouth so that they don't scream, why can't they just push it out with their tongue? I actually tried it once just to see & I could push it out.

When the killer has someone tied up & they are ready to kill them, they take the time to explain everything, thereby giving the person time to undo the ropes or they leave them with a ticking time bomb or some other type of impending death that won't come for an hour, again, giving them time to get out of it or be saved by someone.

 

[lovesmurfs]

When the killer has someone tied up & they are ready to kill them, they take the time to explain everything, thereby giving the person time to undo the ropes or they leave them with a ticking time bomb or some other type of impending death that won't come for an hour, again, giving them time to get out of it or be saved by someone.

I love the part in The Incredibles that talks about "monologuing"!

Lucius: [Bob and Lucius are sitting in a parked car, reminiscing] So now I'm in deep trouble. I mean, one more jolt of this death ray and I'm an epitaph. Somehow I manage to find cover and what does Baron von Ruthless do?
Bob: [laughing] He starts monologuing.
Lucius: He starts monologuing! He starts like, this prepared speech about how *feeble* I am compared to him, how *inevitable* my defeat is, how *the world* *will soon* *be his*, yadda yadda yadda.
Bob: Yammering.
Lucius: Yammering! I mean, the guy has me on a platter and he won't shut up!

Mr. Incredible: I was wrong to treat you that way. I'm sorry...
Syndrome: See? Now you respect me, because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are lots of people, whole countries, that want respect, and will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons, and now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it...
[Mr. Incredible throws a log at Syndrome, who dodges it and traps Mr. Incredible with his zero-point energy ray]
Syndrome: Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it...

 

[anna08]

Oh and I could go on and on about horror movies. People don't even like to watch horror movies with me. Basically....you KNOW something/someone is out to get you, you hear something that you KNOW is related to the something/someone out to get you. Why in the name of God are you going to look for the source of that sound? Why are you not just hiding in a closet?

This has always bothered me too!!!! If I heard a person walking around downstairs or glass break or my camping buddy scream bloody murder, I would be running as fast as I could the other way while dialing 911. Definitely not gonna do a Jamie Lee Curtis and hunt down the noise.

 

[~disneydiva~]

LOL!! ALL of these have bugged the heck out of me!!

Being from NY I NEVER understood how ANYONE could open a door without asking "who is it?" They just discuss how SO and SO is out to kill them, KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK and they just FLING open the door! WHAT THE....

Another one that REALLY bothers me... so much I wrote a paper on it in my woman's studies class back in college... is the inevitable "woman running from horrible thing and FALLING!!!" ugh... I have ALWAYS hated that!!!!!

http://horror.about.com/od/horrorthemelists/ig/Horror-Movie-Cliches/Tripped.htm

And what about the fact that they never lock the door?!?!?!?!?

 

[bumbershoot]

Also, people in movies and TV always bolt upright in bed after having a nightmare. I've never done that in my whole life.

I've done it once, as my mom died across the country from me. I was totally asleep, then HEARD her say my name...I sat straight up in bed, saying "hello? mom? What?" No one was there, I was in WA she was in VA...I went back to sleep, and 15 minutes later my stepdad called me to tell me she was in an ambulance, they were doing chest compressions, it didn't look good.

That's the only time I've done it.

One of my favourites from my unversity days was in the soap "General Hospital". They had the magic elevator in the hospital. All you had to do was push the button and it would be there every time.

In Grey's Anatomy I remember that is the longest elevator I have ever seen in life!! It takes 5 mins to go up 1 floor!

Speaking of elevators, what about the one in NCIS where you can push the Stop button, but no alarms go off???? DS has pushed/pulled a few Stop buttons in the last 2 years and an alarm ALWAYS goes off. And that's just in apt buildings, not in high security top secret clearance gov't buildings!

 

[Lassie Lynne]

What really gets me is when they are supposedly in a certain city...and then they just butcher a landmark or state something that just does not make sense...like I watched a re-run of Frasier last night. They were going to the local Mall....Tacoma Mall....HELLO!!!!....there are closer malls to downtown Seattle than Tacoma Mall!!

 

[PhotobearSam]

Along the same lines, what drives my wife batty is when the hero is fighting with the villain, and the lady who the hero is trying to save just sits there whimpering, instead of trying to do something to help fight the bad guy.

And talk about running from a monster / bad guy. Why is that the person being chased is running as fast as they can, while the creep is walking, and yet the creep always manages to catch up to the one who is running?

Yup. I hate that too....

I always said I could run faster scared than you can angry...LOL

As for the fighting the bad guy...I would kick his butt if I could help my knight in shinning armor...I hate when the females are all weak.

 

[Octoberbride03]

I've done it once, as my mom died across the country from me. I was totally asleep, then HEARD her say my name...I sat straight up in bed, saying "hello? mom? What?" No one was there, I was in WA she was in VA...I went back to sleep, and 15 minutes later my stepdad called me to tell me she was in an ambulance, they were doing chest compressions, it didn't look good.

That's the only time I've done it.





Speaking of elevators, what about the one in NCIS where you can push the Stop button, but no alarms go off???? DS has pushed/pulled a few Stop buttons in the last 2 years and an alarm ALWAYS goes off. And that's just in apt buildings, not in high security top secret clearance gov't buildings!

Oh man NCIS kills me. Gibbs is awesome yet the man constantly lives in his basement building a big *** boat AND leaves the door to his house wide open so the whole world tromps on down to see the boat.

Which brings up 2 questions. How big is his basement that he can build a nice boat, and How the heck does he get them out when they're done?!

 

[Octoberbride03]

When someone stuffs a balled up rag into someones mouth so that they don't scream, why can't they just push it out with their tongue? I actually tried it once just to see & I could push it out.

When the killer has someone tied up & they are ready to kill them, they take the time to explain everything, thereby giving the person time to undo the ropes or they leave them with a ticking time bomb or some other type of impending death that won't come for an hour, again, giving them time to get out of it or be saved by someone.

This is 1 of my all time pet peeves. I about cannot watch shows if they're going to tie someone up cause they almost never do it right. The gags are so loose that they're nearly falling off the person or the ropes are so loose I'm yelling at the screen for the person to just walk away, cause they seriously could.

 

[monkey68]

I'll admit one that bugs me. For the longest time, I was trying to figure out the layout of the Full House house. They had a set of stairs from the kitchen, and stairs in the living room, but only one stairs on the second floor? Where did the other staircase lead to? I assume also the second floor but I didn't see how it could be possible, unless there was a staircase we never saw on the second floor. But then, no matter which stairs they went up, they always ended up on the same set of stairs on the second floor. Weirdness.

And I love how when they wake up in movies, there makeup is perfect, and they don't have any hair in their face or with one side sticking up in all sorts of directions. Or when it rains, they get soaked, even if it's just a little drizzle.

 

[Octoberbride03]

I'll admit one that bugs me. For the longest time, I was trying to figure out the layout of the Full House house. They had a set of stairs from the kitchen, and stairs in the living room, but only one stairs on the second floor? Where did the other staircase lead to? I assume also the second floor but I didn't see how it could be possible, unless there was a staircase we never saw on the second floor. But then, no matter which stairs they went up, they always ended up on the same set of stairs on the second floor. Weirdness.

And I love how when they wake up in movies, there makeup is perfect, and they don't have any hair in their face or with one side sticking up in all sorts of directions. Or when it rains, they get soaked, even if it's just a little drizzle.

Oh thats another standard in sticom houses. I spotted that on the Cosby Show 2

 

[KristaTX]

In a lot of old movies and shows, the driver gets into or out of the car on the passenger side. They just slide over instead of using the driver-side door :confused.

 

[TheGoofster]

In a lot of old movies and shows, the driver gets into or out of the car on the passenger side. They just slide over instead of using the driver-side door :confused.

From what I understand (after doing a little on-line search), this was done mainly to save money and time on the taping. It was easier, and more cost effective to keep the camera where it was, instead of having to reset it, just to show something as static or unimportant as someone getting out of a car. I don't know how true that is, but it sounds pretty good.

 

[KristaTX]

I figured it was something like that. But it's still kind of odd to see it so often .