Television Cliiches

Taxi drivers sit quite patiently in their cabs when their passenger makes long, long goodbyes to half their family. If they then decide not to take the taxi the cabbie drives off without any argument or asking for any call out charge.

If someone is late home for a meal their partner tips the whole plateful into the bin, even if it is salad. Do these people not own clingfilm?

Anyone taking money out of a cash machine is invariably mugged.

Most lottery tickets bought are winners.
 
Policemen vomiting at the scene of a crime. I remember reading some Detective's article about tv cops in the Radio Times and he said in all of his years in the force , he'd never seen a policeman vomit. Not sure how true it is but i'd like to ban such cliched scenes please , ok?!


London being seen from the sky.

Old male presenter with younger female presenter.


Any News story about children being accompanied by kiRAB playing in parks or painting in school.


Any others?!
 
In soaps when a guy for instance is cheating on a girl and he is about to tell her that its over the girl will precisely at that moment tell the guy how much she loves him and couldnt go on without him or announces shes pregnant and the guy will always back down and they will hug and the camera will zoom in on his face and show his nervous/guilty expression.
 
The old diffusing a bomb or bombs and there's 2 wires left to cut.
Is it the red wire or the blue wire?
As it happens, the bomb has been made by the person that is telling them how to diffuse the bomb!
He tells them to cut the blue wire.
Just as they are about to cut the blue wire, they stop and cut the red wire and it diffuses the bomb

The old "they've just had sex" scene, but she's got the sheets tightly around her.
 
The weekend away at "the cabin in the mountains" always gets me. I don't know anyone with a cabin in the mountains and nobody in a TV show ever seems to actually own one either, but someone (boss, parent, friend) is always letting them use one for the weekend.

If I did have a cabin in the mountains I certainly wouldn't let some accident prone glib idiots use it for the weekend (and invariably burn it down or suffer some other disaster), but that's just me.
 
This sounRAB a bit gross but the man never ..er..drips:o Would people want to see realistic sex scenes on televison though? Real life is messy at times.
Couples always argue over big issues and never about mundane stuff.

I don't say "bye" if talking to people I know on the phone , I have issues!

All northern women over 50 are battleaxes.
 
Every news story has to be accompanied by a reporter standing outside the building, or at the location. They still only read out the press statement, but the news people think that somehow this gives the report more authority from "being there".
People in "real life" soaps never spend any time doing what we do most in "real life": watching TV - it would probably be a soap they'd watch, too.
It's impossible for any programme to have a passage with no sound. The producers are genetically programmed to fill any gap with a commentary, or music no matter how inane or obvious or intrusive it is. Silence is deadly.
 
Sorry if this has already been said, but when a criminal is being chased by the police they always run up stairs, never down the street, until they get to the roof where they jump, fall or are pushed off.
 
The thing that gets me about Casualty is that the cubicle curtains are perfectly soundproof. Whenever two of the staff want to have a private conversation (usually about their sex-lives rather than about a patient) they draw the curtains, and nobody can even tell they're in there, let alone hear what they are saying.
 
"TV Parking"

This is the phenomenon where a TV character (normally a cop) will be able to drive to some place and find ample free parking right outside where they need to be.

You never never see them cruising around the backstreets with the radio turned down leaning forward and looking for a free space
 
Most women appear to go to bed with full make up on and wake up with it completely intact

No one has dog breath, especially smokers
 
They said on QI the other week that no British court has one of those hammer things for the judge yet pretty much every crime drama features one!
 
If someone is carrying their shopping & for whatever reason they drop the shopping,It's usually Oranges that roll out from 1 of the bags.It never seems to any other kind of fruit.
 
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