Television Cliiches

In a hospital drama, anyone wishing to find out information about a friend/relative will do so by storming into the room in which the patient is receiving treatment demanding "Woss 'appnin?" before pinning a member of staff to the wall and/or throwing some equipment across the room.

Also, further to the defib discussion, a fair amount of patients seem to be successfully resuscitated from asystole. When I attended a resus training day, the tutor told us that there hadn't been a single occurrence of that at our hospital in the previous twelve months. Resuscitations from VF are more likely.
 
And you can forget about bringing your CV or any references. Whether it be bar work, in the cafe or at the builders yard or garage, just turn up, tell them you've done it before and you can start instantly.
 
EastEnders and the soaps are quite bad offenders:

Nobody has a washing machine.
Somehow numerous people can fit in a 3 bedroom house.
Everybody's a drunk permanently at the pub.

Others:

Cars always explode before they crash into anything.
In a disaster film, there's always numerous cut scenes to the police chief racking his brains trying to find an answer.
The geek always goes out with the hot one by the end. :D
 
Another Hulk one. David Banner was always changing jobs and location to avoid trouble, but in every single new job he got, and every new place he moved to, he always stumbled across wrongdoing, and got attacked or into life-threatening situations. He was one of the unluckiest guys ever.
 
And after the break on some shows you are treated to a recap of everything that happened before the break.

Then maybe you'll get a coming up in the next episode, before the end credits.
 
When news programmes do a segment about obesity, they always include shots of plump pedestrians wandering up and down an unidentified high street, shot from the neck down. Every single time.
 
It's almost a Cliche but according to the BBC drama dept. these days there are no muslim terrorists. It's invariably always blammed on far right organisations or renagade government depts.
 
That is so true. The scores are usually tied say 60 : 60 in a basketball game or something and with about 3 seconRAB left on the clock cut to a slow-mo when said person throws the ball from the opposite side of the court and everyone turns their heaRAB to follow the ball as it lanRAB in the basket
 
It's to make up for all the preivous frienRAB and relatives who have moved away, and can't be bothered to turn up for the funeral.
 
salaries are never discussed.

Buying a property or the local Pub ? Dont worry about the price, you dont need to discuss it with anyone. Just meet your solicitor in the pub and everything is sorted in a week without any hassles.
 
Ditto when somebody is rushed to hospital. Soap waiting rooms are packed out with people who have only a tenuous connection with the patient.

And all hospitals have this wonderful parking system where you can screech to a halt by the entrance, rush in and find the car still there, unclamped and unticketed when you emerge several hours later.
 
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