Things you hate about TV shows

OneArt

It drives me spastic when a character lights a cigarette, takes one or two pulls, and then puts it out in the ashtray.

WTF? If you were a proper smoker you'd want to finish that and you wouldn't be so wasteful.

mikemac1

You can walk into any bar and tell the barman "beer"

He will always know your brand, you never have to say


Poor Yanks, they need some more choice

westendgirlie

They all go to launderette. Have the producers not heard of hotpoint?

krudler

one thing that did bug me was characters never wore the same clothes, The Big Bang Theory actually has them wearing the same tshirts a lot, its a nice change.

mikemac1

Vicious murderer in your house?

First make sure you are in skimpy underwear
Next back up to a bedroom or some room you can't get out off
Now most importantly, never ever look behind you

Owryan

How TV shows seem to be dumbing down history ,even worse is how the majority of modern "historical" documentarys seem to be trying to rehabilitate historical "villans" .

Or those "exclusive" documentarys about the discovery of a long lost city or revealing an ancient mystery and then do no such thing .

Jester252

2 broke girls has some of the worst writing in the history of T.V.
but its not as bad as all the mucking TV show about some of the scummiest people in the world

kumate_champ07

You never see them at a computer typing away on a keyboard or at the cinema/gigs. Tho I remember in fair city Kay had a computer in the room above the bar, it never had any scenes with Malachy lookin at porn or on priest chat websites

Mr.Biscuits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUTEmCaFGdg

languagenerd

That whenever someone has to look anything up online, they just open their laptop and it's already on and loaded! No turning it on, no password, no waiting a few minutes to load and connect to the Internet, nope, I'll just open it up and the website I want will already be open on it!

If I close over my laptop while it's still on, it automatically goes into standby. Where can I get one of these magical TV ones? :P

Smidge

Didn't read whole thread but when they stop a series that you have been watching ie "Dirty Sexy Money" and that feckin one that I was getting that had Joseph Fiennes in "Flash Forward":mad:

Shankly Gates

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Oh, also - the way CCTV footage can always be 'analysed' to the point where you can practically read the time on someone's watch.

Grr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

juan.kerr

supernova84 wrote: »

lack of felching

Disgusting OP

MrVoracious

It's so easy for them to talk normally in a night club... I always have to shout and even then theres a massive chance nobody will hear me!

Jesus Wept

Just to recap, this thread is about all those things that annoy you about TV shows...

And we'll have more to come shortly.

Shifty11

In soaps, every Christmas someone get brutally killed. EVERY CHRISTMAS.

All those people in "Lost" spent six years on a deserted island, but no one ever grew a beard, so much as looked as if they needed a hot shower, or lost any weight.

No one has a caller ID on their mobile phones and has no idea who's calling them until after they answer. And when they do answer, inevitably they know the caller.

Eight(?) years of "Desperate Housewives" and despite childbirth, divorce, murder, alcoholism, unemployment, and whatever else, none of these middle aged women has a collective gray hair.

I've been to New York but I've never seen an apartment in Manhattan as big as anything in "Friends". And I've definitely never met anyone who never seems to work and spends all day in some cafe be able to afford the rent on pads like like that were they to even exist in the first place.

You can own and run an oil company in "Dallas" from an office with absolutely nothing in it except a couch, a liquor cabinet, and an empty desk that holds nothing other than a telephone and a pen. The telephone in turn leads nowhere other than a secretary who also sits in an office containing an empty desk with a telephone, and nothing else.

If you spent the same amount of time in the pub as the cast of "Eastenders" you wouldn't be able to afford a stick of furniture for your house. Yet there they all are getting tanked in the middle of the afternoon, and no employers asking "WTF were you all day? You stink of stale beer and fags." And of course no one's ever jarred.

Cops calling to your house to investigate a murder? No problem. Just offer them a drink. Everyone's home, out of bed, and fully dressed at 09.00a.m, so why not kick off the day by passing a nice big glass of whiskey to the two fully armed members of "The Sweeney" who just called to your door.

Every single final of every single TV talent show for every single season contains the best ever line up of finalists. Ever. And they all deserve to win everything.

And of course no one on TV ever actually watches TV themselves.

Paulie Gualtieri

the way horatio kane (csi miami) takes off his shades just as he comes out with a cheesy line , like " don't worry little tommy we'll find your little tom cat before he finds us " pppuuukkkeee !

ChopShop

Homogeneity. It's not the existence of 'reality' TV so much as its absolute proliferation.

AeoNGriM

westendgirlie wrote: »

Ads are a pain in the arse

Nothing to do with tv shows. Totally the channel's doing.

BraziliaNZ

Biggins wrote: »

Just on that...

They go to bed - have sex (or at least its clearly hinted that what is just about to happen), then they wake up and they are wearing their underwear again...

WTF?

Who strips off, makes love to a partner, gets out, part-dresses again and gets back into bed?

Some peopl aren't comfortable sleeping without underwear and put it back on, from my experience!

foxyboxer

Having to invest time to watch them.

TV Shows are so drawn out, that each episode is not self contained and in order to watch, say episode 5, you had better have already seen the preceding episodes because you will have absolutely no idea what's going on.

ChopShop

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Oh, also - the way CCTV footage can always be 'analysed' to the point where you can practically read the time on someone's watch.

Grr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjuV7kRpFQ

AeoNGriM

BattleCorp wrote: »

Nobody in Home and Away or Neighbours or pretty much any other soap ever ever had to take a sh1t or a p1ss.

I've never heard "Hang on, I'm in the jacks".

There are sites where you can see people taking a dump if that's your thing. Normal people just want to watch really bad acting when they watch soaps.

IrishKev

The way they answer phonecalls -
''Hello?... No, I don't want to buy any life insurance, thank you''
Who the hell repeats the question in the answer???

Damokc

My problem is more with the people that watch shows like Two and a half Men, Mike and Molly etc. and think that they are funny.

If you need a fake audience to let you know where the funny bit is, there's something wrong.

Damokc

IrishKev wrote: »

The way they answer phonecalls -
''Hello?... No, I don't want to buy any life insurance, thank you''
Who the hell repeats the question in the answer???

Leaving Cert students!

swimming in a sea

Just thinking of Eastenders here, but no one works, shops, goes for a night out or gets a partner from outside Albert SQ, its the most self-sufficient place in the UK.

Also not one of the hundreds down the years who have worked and then being sacked from the Queen Vic have asked for notice, holiday pay, P60 or P45

dmcronin

Not a soap watcher as such, more a flicker-though....why are they such MISERABLE b*stards on Eastenders???

At least there's some light relief on Corrie, Emmerdale etc etc.

Wo do you lot fink?

foxyboxer

Expert explains a random concept or theory to Richard Hammond.

Richard Hammond parrots back the information in a "Let's be sure that I understand this" way.

Very annoying.

link_2007

This annoyed me so much I needed a sit down.

Duggy747

Nobody says goodbye, they just hang up the phone.

I dunno about them, but I'd be a bit pissed if someone just hung up the phone on me.

I hate when shows advertise products blatantly and shamelessly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrPV9o8HXvs

Nothingbetter2d

when discovery channel make a documentry and make a big drama out of nothing.

the guy breaks a tool and the job needs to be done by 6pm today... will they get it done on time? then an ad break then back to the documentry and the job is done with hours to spare :rolleyes:

juan.kerr

AeoNGriM wrote: »

There are sites where you can see people taking a dump if that's your thing.

Hang on a second, why has no one told me about these sites? Which are yout favorites?

pickarooney

Biggins wrote: »

Just on that...

They go to bed - have sex (or at least its clearly hinted that what is just about to happen), then they wake up and they are wearing their underwear again...

WTF?

Who strips off, makes love to a partner, gets out, part-dresses again and gets back into bed?

People with kids and no en-suite bathroom maybe?

Jester252

Hate it when a show has one hell of a cop-out ending where every thing is back to normal

Aglomerado

Deleted User wrote: »

And of course no one on TV ever actually watches TV themselves.

Except the Royle Family. And that's got plenty of belching, farting and sh!tting for that added 'realism'. Love that series.

One thing that bothers me is: When a couple have an argument, one partner goes to sleep on the couch. Even if they appear to live in a giant house; surely they have a spare room?????

Nothingbetter2d

Aglomerado wrote: »

Except the Royle Family. And that's got plenty of belching, farting and sh!tting for that added 'realism'. Love that series.

i hated that show.. boring as hell watching the same storyline being used over n over. terrible show

Damokc

Damokc wrote: »

My problem is more with the people that watch shows like Two and a half Men, Mike and Molly etc. and think that they are funny.

If you need a fake audience to let you know where the funny bit is, there's something wrong.

Father Ted had a fake audience

Nothingbetter2d

AeoNGriM wrote: »

There are sites where you can see people taking a dump if that's your thing. Normal people just want to watch really bad acting when they watch soaps.

fair city has to the top honours for bad acting.

inforfun

Crap series with too many seasons.
Briliiant series with too few.

Ads dont bother me anymore, the were the only reason i started "borrowing" tv series from the internet.

If a serie is worth it, i ll buy it on DVD.

Sgt Hartman

In soaps the kids almost always grow up to be teen parents with dead-end jobs.

Also in TV ads it seems that about 99.9% of the country's population work in an office.

LylaElise

How tv characters are able to afford lifestyles that in the real world their wages wouldn't afford them the luxury to. One of my fav shows is Castle, and Beckett has a different designer coat in every episode ( some worth up to 3 grand a piece) and she's supposed to be on a New York cops wage? Also she chases after criminals in towering 5 inch boots!!...please.

Also in some shows how they never seem to have to reload their gun...the magic never ending round of bullets.

airsofter.adam

when theres a classic show and its ruined by a stupid sub for the main character . eg two and a half men , its not the same :mad:

Mairzydoats

I'm looking up something online that I don't want my partner to see. He/she walks in to the room. What should I do? How about I just close down my laptop without shutting down my browser and proceed to walk shiftily out of the room?

Sleepy

How so many good shows (e.g. Firefly, Space Above & Beyond) get canned whilst ****e like Coronation Street or Eastenders can run decades...

Cee-Jay-Cee

The way in Coronation street when it blew up about Nick, Kylie and 'Yer Wan with the Big Títs' it was completely over acted, Nick never once said 'hang on a fúcking minute thats not the way it happened' but just stood there and allowed big tits to pour a drink over him in front of his customers without so much as raising his hand to cover himself or simply stepping back and then allowed everyone to do and say what they want without offering any explanation despite the fact that he had plenty of time to do so...its just not the way anyone involved in a similar situation would behave.

rgmmg

CJC999 wrote: »

The way in Coronation street when it blew up about Nick, Kylie and 'Yer Wan with the Big Títs' it was completely over acted, Nick never once said 'hang on a fúcking minute thats not the way it happened' but just stood there and allowed big tits to pour a drink over him in front of his customers without so much as raising his hand to cover himself or simply stepping back and then allowed everyone to do and say what they want without offering any explanation despite the fact that he had plenty of time to do so...its just not the way anyone involved in a similar situation would behave.

We called her "Yer Wan who makes the Hot Pots" in our house

cesc77

CJC999 wrote: »

The way in Coronation street when it blew up about Nick, Kylie and 'Yer Wan with the Big Títs' it was completely over acted, Nick never once said 'hang on a fúcking minute thats not the way it happened' but just stood there and allowed big tits to pour a drink over him in front of his customers without so much as raising his hand to cover himself or simply stepping back and then allowed everyone to do and say what they want without offering any explanation despite the fact that he had plenty of time to do so...its just not the way anyone involved in a similar situation would behave.

Nick,is he the one who indirectly caused the tram crash through negligence,some people died and half the street was destroyed?

Ahhh....good old Nick.Do the job properly next time:D

Oh and Nicky boy,good job evading any sort of prosecution or public flogging.

Tis just like real life.:pac:

Pupito

"Let's have a heated conversation about a third party who happens to be standing right beside us".

"Okay, we'll just move two steps to the side. And be sure to point at the person whilst we're talking about them, sure they'll be oblivious anyway".