Things I Don't Understand

[scottishduffy]

Alright, I was watching the epdisode of Heroes I had Tivo'ed yesterday.

Apparently the Heroes were heavily sedated and being kept unconscious in some ward. Someone comes in, removes a small tube from the nose and the heroes eyes suddenly pop open and they are 100% aware and ready to go.

#1 The tube in the nose went to nowehere, it cut off right after the nostril

#2 I am not aware of any drug i can sedate you with that can be absorbed through your nostril. Even if it did exist.... that just sounds mean to do to someone.

#3 that drug must have the shortest flippin half-life in existence if the second some tube comes out your nose you jump up like someone just rubbed their socks on shag carpet and shocked your butt.

I love picking medical type shows apart. Like comatose people on soap operas who are comatose, they have a ventilator in the room with the bellow going up on down..... then all they are wearing is a little nasal cannula. That must be the most impressive little cannula ever.

 

[Nancy]

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

Oh I hate that...a woman an never run away from someone without falling...and no matter how far away he bad guy was he is on her before she an even get up because after she falls she lays there all in a panic grabbing her ankle..me if I fell, some maniac is chasing me..I don't care if bones are sticking out, I'm getting right back up and hopping away as fast as I can

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?

And WHY when you walk into a room with he noise do you not turn on lights?

For that matter, in horror movies no one ever turns on the lights when they walk into their house. They will walk through the entire house! And if it is a bad horror movie the hot blond starlet will also e taking off their clothes and then walking around a dark house in the undies..because we all know that is what everyone does

How about when someone get out of the water and they are completely dry in seconds.

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.

And it was always empty too! OR the person on it was just the person they needed to see.

 

[maelstrom]

I kind of always thought that the set of stairs in the kitchen of the Full House house came out upstairs at the opposite end of the hallway from the other set of stairs, so right by Danny's room. Does anyone know/remember where the stairs were from one of the main floors of the house up to the attic/Jesse & Becky's apartment?

 

[PlainJane]

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!

Yeah, I always want to yell at the screen when the others are just standing there. I always want to scream "if you're that stupid, you deserve to lose".

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, actually, do that on a regular basis. It's always after a falling dream. I either wake up with my body curling into a tucked position or I'll wake up while my body is moving into the sitting position. I never scream or anything, like in the movies, but I'm always a little spooked for a minute.

 

[bananda]

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.

my hair is usually pretty perfect when i wake up.

i love how in some movies everyone has the same car and all the houses look the same

 

[autumnpalm]

One that bugs me is when a character in a movie/television show is driving on a straight road... and yet, they are just kind of randomly turning the steering wheel back and forth as they drive.

 

[themarquis]

oh yeah, phone stuff in movies

I don't know if someone posted this already, but in the movies, two people are always talking on the phone: blah, blah blah, okay, let's have lunch on Tuesday and then they just hang up!

No "bye", no "talk to you later", no arrangement of WHERE and WHEN to have lunch on tuesday or whatever, just "let's have lunch", crash, slam down the receiver.

Wha???

 

[themarquis]

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.

Lol! GF has been a huge fan of the Golden Girls since she was a kid - seen every episode several times. She figured out at some point that the layout of the golden girls' house was impossible. Something like there was a door off the kitchen that was supposed to lead outside, but actually it would have led into one of the bedrooms in reality Of course, that caused her no end of troubles when trying to make the Golden Girls' house in the Sims

Oh, and you and others mentioned that people (well, mostly women) wake up totally makeup'ed and beautiful first thing in the morning. Well how 'bout how on TV/movies they wake up like that after anasthesia in the HOSPITAL or when they're DYING of some horrible disgusting illness or when they've just given birth to TRIPLETS

 

[alexandria674]

I don't like that whenever a couple sleep together in the morning and wake up to look at each other, they talk or whisper. Whenever my fiance rolls over to talk to me, I find myself covering my nose and giving him an evil look.

I was watching an old movie recently and a woman just gave birth in her room. When the husband rushed over to his wife, her hair and make up were PERFECT, she was laying in a silk bed and wore a lacy nightgown. I don't even look that good waking up and this chick just gave birth on silk sheets and manages to have her hair perfect? C'mon! So, I thought that this was the only movie, only to come to notice another movie do the same thing.


When someone has a bad dream and they are uncontrollably rolling around in bed until they spring up and yell "WHA-?" then the spouse wakes up and says "What is it honey?" Somehow this does not make sense.

Whenever someone is visiting an amusment park in a movie, there are NO lines and little crowds.


Why is it that whenever there is a "ugly" girl in the movie, all she has to do is put down her hair, take off her glasses and puts on make up. The girl then wears a tight dress and then the next day instead of wearing her geeky clothes again, she has a new wardrobe! When did that happen? The prom was last night and you are dressed nice in the morning, where did you get that outfit from after prom?
I am being nitpicky, sorry.

 

[Philagoofy]

I love picking medical type shows apart. Like comatose people on soap operas who are comatose, they have a ventilator in the room with the bellow going up on down..... then all they are wearing is a little nasal cannula. That must be the most impressive little cannula ever.

Oh, you would love House then. His whole staff, all of 4 people (6 if you count the original 2 who are in it for about 5 seconds every week now or 3 people if you watch the old episodes) can do all of the medical procedures themselves. They run all tests on the patient & the patient's blood etc, perform operations from removing appendix to brain surgery, oh and not only that, they always break into the patient's home, which by the way, never has an alarm, good locks, an animal that attacks or escapes or anyone else living there at the time they break in, to see what could possibly be causing the patient's problem.

But they never seem to come up with the correct diagnosis. That's up to House. Just as the patient has minutes to live; their kidneys failing, part of their brain was taken out, total dehydration and a lousy hospital breakfast, the patient is then given a pill or surgery is performed (again) and they walk out of the hospital the next day looking like they've never been sick a day in their life.

 

[MarksMom2006]

Lol! GF has been a huge fan of the Golden Girls since she was a kid - seen every episode several times. She figured out at some point that the layout of the golden girls' house was impossible. Something like there was a door off the kitchen that was supposed to lead outside, but actually it would have led into one of the bedrooms in reality

HAHA I have pointed this out to my DH several times! It is irritating. And for the size of that house, how do they each have bedrooms that are equivalant to the size of a deluxe room at Disney? Then they each have a bathroom off of that. Your GF is right, if they actually turn down the hallway to go into "Sophias" room, they should be in the kitchen. AND why don't they ever eat? During the next episode you watch, if they are eating...they don't eat. And if they elude to it, it takes Blanche forever to eat an oreo! And then don't get me started on the all over the place story lines. Rose never graduated high school, then she did as valedictorian. (Also please note that any side characters, ie the murder mystery episode, are named Gloria and Michael.) WHY??? Don't get me wrong, I love the show! LOL...

 

[ckay87]

Oh, you would love House then. His whole staff, all of 4 people (6 if you count the original 2 who are in it for about 5 seconds every week now or 3 people if you watch the old episodes) can do all of the medical procedures themselves. They run all tests on the patient & the patient's blood etc, perform operations from removing appendix to brain surgery, oh and not only that, they always break into the patient's home, which by the way, never has an alarm, good locks, an animal that attacks or escapes or anyone else living there at the time they break in, to see what could possibly be causing the patient's problem.

But they never seem to come up with the correct diagnosis. That's up to House. Just as the patient has minutes to live; their kidneys failing, part of their brain was taken out, total dehydration and a lousy hospital breakfast, the patient is then given a pill or surgery is performed (again) and they walk out of the hospital the next day looking like they've never been sick a day in their life.

ha ha ha, love it!
House is the most ridiculously over-the-top medical show of all time. And yea, what I always get hung up on is how the doctors do e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. I don't think there are even nurses are there? I think the docs change bedpans as well as doing cat scans, draw blood, and perform surgery. Amazing.

 

[maelstrom]

ha ha ha, love it!
House is the most ridiculously over-the-top medical show of all time. And yea, what I always get hung up on is how the doctors do e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. I don't think there are even nurses are there? I think the docs change bedpans as well as doing cat scans, draw blood, and perform surgery. Amazing.

Hugh Laurie is so delicious, though. Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer, and Jennifer Morrison are quite yummy as well. It's so worth it.

 

[spacemountain]

House is so unrealistic. But I love the show so much anyways.

One thing that always bothered me on Everybody Loves Raymond is that Ray and Debra's house is across the street from Marie and Frank's house from the front of each house, yet they usually entered through each other's kitchens. It seemed like an unnecessary walk, especially since none of their doors were ever locked.

Finally, always in movies and books when a character was bleeding they would put their hand on their head or wherever and then look at their hand and be shocked that there was blood on it. I mean come on, you just got hurt. I never understood this until one time in a dark hotel room right before we were all going to sleep someone's head bumped into my nose really hard. I put my hand on my nose and I felt a warm liquid but I didn't think I was bleeding until I actually made my way over to the bathroom, turned the light on, and saw blood running down my face. So I guess that is accurate

 

[spacemountain]

Hugh Laurie is so delicious, though. Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer, and Jennifer Morrison are quite yummy as well. It's so worth it.

They are definitely one of the best-looking casts on TV. Case in point:
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0cD5ay16IwbAn/610x.jpg

 

[jen0610]

Now see the thing that gets under the skin in our family, is when there is a fire arm being used.

This started with DH, and he has passed it onto me and the kids. When someone is firing a gun we all count the number of shots and you had better only have heard 6 shots, if the person is holding a revolver.

And god forbid if the special effects person doesn't match up the correct gun to what is written into the script. If the actor says something about his Sig/Walter/Berretta or the caliber of their gun, what they are showing on screen had better match.

 

[dis-happy]

Oh, you would love House then. His whole staff, all of 4 people (6 if you count the original 2 who are in it for about 5 seconds every week now or 3 people if you watch the old episodes) can do all of the medical procedures themselves. They run all tests on the patient & the patient's blood etc, perform operations from removing appendix to brain surgery, oh and not only that, they always break into the patient's home, which by the way, never has an alarm, good locks, an animal that attacks or escapes or anyone else living there at the time they break in, to see what could possibly be causing the patient's problem.

But they never seem to come up with the correct diagnosis. That's up to House. Just as the patient has minutes to live; their kidneys failing, part of their brain was taken out, total dehydration and a lousy hospital breakfast, the patient is then given a pill or surgery is performed (again) and they walk out of the hospital the next day looking like they've never been sick a day in their life.

 

[mill4023]

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.

Reminds me of James Bond movies.
You'd think that after Bond had caused these guys so much trouble, once the bad guy had him, they'd wait about 3 seconds before shooting him and being done with it. But no, they prefer to kill them with laser beams that are very slowly moving towards him or letting him hang over a shark tank on a platform that is being slowly lowered toward the water or whatever.

 

[jen0610]

double post.

 

[KristaTX]

Reminds me of James Bond movies.
You'd think that after Bond had caused these guys so much trouble, once the bad guy had him, they'd wait about 3 seconds before shooting him and being done with it.

Same thing with Jack Bauer on 24. The bad guys don't just shoot him when they get the chance. They talk to him and hold him hostage for a while, and then he gets away and saves the day. And right now they have Tony Almeida and haven't killed him, either. But I still love the show just like I love most James Bond movies .