Things I Don't Understand

[browneyes106]

I love this thread. It is pretty funny. On Monday's episode of One Tree Hill one character was supposed to get a heart transplant and instead of being in the OR being prepped and sedated the character was walking in the hallway as the donor heart was being brought in.

 

[browneyes106]

I love how they can renovate these sitcom houses & make a mini-apartment out of the attic.

Me too lol. On Full House basically Jesse and Rebecca were living in a studio type apartment with a small room for their kids.

 

[~disneydiva~]

I love this thread. It is pretty funny. On Monday's episode of One Tree Hill one character was supposed to get a heart transplant and instead of being in the OR being prepped and sedated the character was walking in the hallway as the donor heart was being brought in.

And don't forget about the dog that was allowed in the hospital....

 

[browneyes106]

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

That link is pretty cool. Thanks for posting here some other similar lists

http://www.moviecliches.com/cliche1.html

http://www.moviecliches.com/cliche2.html

http://www.moviecliches.com/cliche3.html

 

[browneyes106]

And don't forget about the dog that was allowed in the hospital....

I forgot about that. Only seeing eye dogs would have been allowed in the hospital.

 

[DancingBear]

That link is pretty cool. Thanks for posting here some other similar lists

http://www.moviecliches.com/cliche1.html

That included one of my pet peeves:

Whenever someone looks through the binoculars, you see two joined circles instead of one.

 

[Liberty Belle]

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

Ugh. Me, too. And it infuriates me that they keep running when they're out of sight of the killer. Hide! Find a place to hide and stay there!

 

[Liberty Belle]

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?

Or, even worse, when they walk over to them to make sure they are dead! They should at least know to keep their ankles out of grabbing distance.

 

[~disneydiva~]

How about when a someone comes home and their front door is open, and they walk in anyway???

 

[Liberty Belle]

Prostitutes are usually drug free, intelligent, kindhearted people.

And they're usually hot little numbers. If you do a search online of women in your state who've been arrested for prostitution, that is NOT what you're going to find.

 

[DWGal210]

I am laughing OUT LOUD at some of this - great thread idea!!

My personal favorite is when the movie / TV character has a baby. I know there are rules that they can't use actual newborns but come on people?! Some of those "infants" are at least 6 months old! Also, mommy's tummy is back to pre-baby shape in about 15 minutes.

I am smiling at the Full House stories - that is a classic. A few years ago, my uncle took their sons to San Francisco to sight-ee, go to baseball games, etc, and the boys wanted their dad to take them to the house from Full House.

 

[Missy1961]

That link is pretty cool. Thanks for posting here some other similar lists

http://www.moviecliches.com/cliche1.html

http://www.moviecliches.com/cliche2.html

http://www.moviecliches.com/cliche3.html

These are great! LOL great!

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

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...

And, the "girls" can't eat together, there are only 3 chairs at that little round table. One is always standing or cooking.

Gloria and Michael, aren't those also the names of Dorothy's sister and son??

 

[lovetoscrap]

I love these! The only one we really had was DH and I used to joke that we ever showed up somewhere and saw Jessica Fletcher we were out of there! Cause either one of us would be dead or a suspect. That woman could travel everywhere and those bodies seemed to follow her. DH said maybe they should have investigated ole Jessica a litle more. . .


The funny thing is that if I were to ever actually see Angela Lansbury I would probably die laughing because of this!

 

[moon]

It's bugged me forever, too! And what about the linnai (probably totally butchered that spelling)? Should that not be the patio area you see from the living room, behind the fireplace and sitting area that is never used? How is it at the other end of the house? And the fact that there are only 3 chairs around the kitchen table, even though there are 4 of them.

Another one from the Golden Girls. They were always, always dressed for cold weather in Miami Beach!

 

[monkey68]

I am laughing OUT LOUD at some of this - great thread idea!!

My personal favorite is when the movie / TV character has a baby. I know there are rules that they can't use actual newborns but come on people?! Some of those "infants" are at least 6 months old! Also, mommy's tummy is back to pre-baby shape in about 15 minutes.

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About the baby thing, I love how they always come out so nice and clean, instead of covered in all sorts of nasties.

Actually, about babies and Full House, does anyone remember when Becky had the twins and Jesse had his appenidix out? Where did they find a hospital bed made for 2?

And for that matter with FH, why did Jesse's name change? First, he was Jesse Cochran, then became Greek and became Jesse Katsopolis. I think Cliff on the Cosby show also had a name change, wasn't he Clifford and then became Heathcliff or something like that?

While I'm going crazy on Full House, did Jesse graduate high school or not? Because I remember an episode where he went and got his GED and graduated on the subway. But in another episode, during his 10 yr reunion, he has a flashback with some girl and it's the day before graduation, and he was doing something, and says "What are they gonna do? Expel me? I'm graduating tomorrow". So are we to assume the school did expel him the night before graduation?

 

[Liberty Belle]

Another one from the Golden Girls. They were always, always dressed for cold weather in Miami Beach!

That one, at least for Sophia, was pretty accurate. You know how old ladies dress in the summer (like they're in Minnesota and a blizzard's coming).

 

[Poohlovr]

My DH counts the bullets, too.

One of the things that gets me always happens on those dirt road chases. You always hear the tires squealing, but, tires don't squeal on a dirt road.

 

[themarquis]

Did anybody mention the time on Friends where whats-her-name has triplets (yeah, okay, so I am not a huge Friends buff -- this episode just stuck in my mind for some reason) and not only do they come out looking fresh and sparkly clean as someone else mentioned, but they also delivered them vajajay-ly and they were completely full-term, normal-weight, healthy, etc. I don't even think there was anyone in there except maybe one doctor and one nurse.

Now if you know anything about multiple births -- NOT possible! Triplets are considered super high risk and usually they are really teeny, like 4 pounds or so. Hers were BIG! (another poster is right that they probably used 6 month old infants!) so she would have been carrying like 25 lbs of baby around, lol. Even if a person managed to have ginormous triplets, they'd still have tons of doctors and medical people in the room because it's a high risk birth.

 

[flying_babyb]

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.

I would be going downstairs.... With my gun.

"Where did they find a hospital bed made for 2?"
We have um, there not made for two there made for one extra large (very large) person.