How many of these 23 unrealistic film and TV tropes really get your goat?
Are you one of those people who can’t enjoy a TV show or film because of the many unrealistic tropes?
It could be that you can accept that Batman keeps a muscle car in his secret high-tech cave, but not that the entire citizenship of Gotham can’t recognise the local billionaire by his chin.
Perhaps you’re fine with the concept of blind aliens that will kill you if you speak, but turn A Quiet Place off in disgust because nobody is snatched away after letting out a massive fart.
The very funny GlennyRodge spotted this film and TV trope.
Hello. I am a person in a film or television drama. I never use the toilet.
— GlennyRodge (@GlennyRodge) June 5, 2024
It got people thinking of the ones they’d noticed, and we really enjoyed these. How many do you agree with?
1.
Hi. I'm everyone who gets drunk in a film. I instantly sober up after one coffee.
— Mr Crow (@crowbloke) June 5, 2024
2.
Hello. I am a person in a film or television drama. I can always find a parking spot directly outside where I need to be then proceed to not lock my car and leave the window open no matter how crime ridden the area is in which I've just conveniently parked.
— The (not so) Secret Customs Broker (@JudetheObscene) June 6, 2024
3.
Hello. I am a person in a film or television drama. All my friends and contacts have unique first names.
— fourfoot (@fourfoot) June 6, 2024
4.
I’m a nurse in tv or film.
I’m perfectly happy leaving an unconscious patient unobserved , lying flat on his back , with a trickle of nasal oxygen— Kevin Caswell-Jones (@poshkev1963) June 6, 2024
5.
I sit in a car 10 yards from the house I am secretly observing. There are no other cars on the street. Nobody notices me.
— Poons. MD ANT ️ (@nickopoons) June 5, 2024
6.
Hello. I am a person in a film or television show. I always drink a cup of tea or coffee from a very obviously empty mug. https://t.co/1kW6tZbKP4
— Tashy McTashface (@TashP351) June 6, 2024
7.
I'm a young and inexperienced police detective and after being shot I go from being barely able to murmer a cryptic one-word clue to sitting up in bed eating a full dinner in about an hour.
— Martyn Brunt (@MartynBrunt) June 5, 2024
8.
Hello. I am a cameraman for a news crew in a film. I just throw the camera up on my shoulder and press record in the middle of a report, maybe let it slump towards the ground, finish filming before anyone says cut etc. Later on, you’ll see this footage and it will be perfect.
— Gerry McBride (@GerryMcBride) June 6, 2024
9.
I am a person in a film. I explain away the complicated back story that got me here in a single, poorly placed sentence, to keep viewers up to date.
— BumHead (@BongoBumHead) June 6, 2024
10.
Hello, I am a teacher in a sitcom or light drama. I say one basic thing about To Kill a Mockingbird that mirrors the situation of one of my students. Then the bell rings and I remind you to read chapter three. https://t.co/OFDys7l33K
— Chrissy Derbyshire (@ChrissyD_Comedy) June 6, 2024
11.
I get called out on a job halfway through shaving. Exactly half my face is covered in foam while the other half is baby-smooth. I remove the foam easily with a dry towel as I hurry out of the door. None of my colleagues at the crime scene seems to notice https://t.co/el9npdV97X
— Keith Miller (@funesdamemorius) June 6, 2024
12.
Hello. I am a scientist in a film or television series. I never button up my lab coat, so it flaps around like Batman’s cape. https://t.co/PV26bDVcKW
— David Strathdee (@David_Strathdee) June 6, 2024
