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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 2, 2020 8:50:22 GMT -5
The amount of dead bodies that can show up in towns and cities that are just forgotten about a week later. Smallville was bad about this. At least one person would be murdered a week in this small rural farming community (with a population of 50,000 people ), yet you saw no sign of them looking to expand the police force, set new rules for security, seek outside state or local help, or even the idea that people are leaving the town out of fear for their safety. Gotham was even worse. The police force would see weekly casualty reports worse then what the US military gets, yet people still sign up to be cops in that city. They must have one hell of a 401k.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 2, 2020 10:02:49 GMT -5
How Happy Days mutated into a 70s-80s/50s hybrid.
In general, fictional characters are very durable, taking injury and such that would kill a normal person. Soap characters for instance are known for cheating death in that manner, even after falls from high places such as windows or cliffs.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jan 2, 2020 10:12:37 GMT -5
Doctor Who -- the world has had no end of alien invasions, a giant spider thing on Big Ben and f*** knows what else, but in one episode during, i think, Tennant's run, a guy claims there's aliens and he's dismissed as a crank.
Also Buffy--bodies keep turning up, drained of blood, fang marks in their throat, there's empty graves at the cemetery every night and nobody thinks "maybe Vampires". I mean, do they think the butler did it?
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jan 2, 2020 10:26:09 GMT -5
I don't see why the yuppie bankers Steve and Marcy lived next to the broke-ass Bundys.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Jan 2, 2020 10:47:17 GMT -5
House parties that have hundreds of people.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 2, 2020 11:00:16 GMT -5
Also Buffy--bodies keep turning up, drained of blood, fang marks in their throat, there's empty graves at the cemetery every night and nobody thinks "maybe Vampires". I mean, do they think the butler did it? After the high school was destroyed by the mayor-turned-kaiju and dozens of students slaughtered in the battle surrounding it I'm fairly certain the entire population just went "Okay, we know this goes on all the time, we're just not gonna talk about it and maybe it'll go away."
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 2, 2020 11:06:15 GMT -5
Also Buffy--bodies keep turning up, drained of blood, fang marks in their throat, there's empty graves at the cemetery every night and nobody thinks "maybe Vampires". I mean, do they think the butler did it? After the high school was destroyed by the mayor-turned-kaiju and dozens of students slaughtered in the battle surrounding it I'm fairly certain the entire population just went "Okay, we know this goes on all the time, we're just not gonna talk about it and maybe it'll go away."
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Post by BRV on Jan 2, 2020 11:37:13 GMT -5
Whenever someone saddles up to a bar and tells the bartender "I'll have a beer." I mean, I get that you can't specifically say a brand name of beer on television unless you have some sort of advertising deal or unless the company is seeking out some subliminal advertising, but if you tried that at a real bar, the bartender would be like, "Cool. We've got like 40 different kinds of beer. Can you be more specific?"
Another one is more recent, and is happening ALL THE TIME in the Netflix series "Messiah." Nobody says "goodbye" or anything of the sort when they hang up the phone. They just hang up. That's how the phone call ends every single time. I get that it's a serious thriller, but how do you know for sure that your father/boss/colleague doesn't have any more to say?
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 2, 2020 11:44:29 GMT -5
Doctor Who -- the world has had no end of alien invasions, a giant spider thing on Big Ben and f*** knows what else, but in one episode during, i think, Tennant's run, a guy claims there's aliens and he's dismissed as a crank They literally just did this.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 2, 2020 11:47:11 GMT -5
The amount of dead bodies that can show up in towns and cities that are just forgotten about a week later. Smallville was bad about this. At least one person would be murdered a week in this small rural farming community (with a population of 50,000 people ), yet you saw no sign of them looking to expand the police force, set new rules for security, seek outside state or local help, or even the idea that people are leaving the town out of fear for their safety. Gotham was even worse. The police force would see weekly casualty reports worse then what the US military gets, yet people still sign up to be cops in that city. They must have one hell of a 401k. Midsomer from midsomer murders... at least 2 people died there like every week... How anyone still lives there is the real mystery.
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Post by chrom on Jan 2, 2020 11:50:21 GMT -5
Family Sitcom has a teenage son who spends almost every episode scheming and planning on getting laid. Often with women older than him.
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Post by y4j1981 on Jan 2, 2020 11:51:39 GMT -5
Staying on the "Friends" thing, but can go for any show, since I have a close friend and she loves watching reruns of it, I hate when you have a core group of friends on a show and in later seasons they bring up something weird that they never knew bout each other BUT it's totally something that would had come up before.
Example, in later episode of Friends we find out Rachel is afraid of playgrounds! 🤨 Something to do with her childhood so she never goes....YET I know in earlier seasons she differently went, I believe with Ross' kid. And wasn't that Thanksgiving football episode early on they did in a playground type area?
But yea with Ross having a kid I am sure he would had taken him to one and he was dating Rachel at the time so it would had totally come up
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Post by agent817 on Jan 2, 2020 12:01:03 GMT -5
House parties that have hundreds of people. I went to a few when I was right out of high school, but some of the time, people would go outside in the backyard. There was even one when there was about 20-30 people. But I've never seen or went to one where the furniture gets destroyed or the cops were called, or have some uninvited guests come. The whole "wild teen party" thing felt like something made for TV and movies.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Jan 2, 2020 12:37:55 GMT -5
How infrequently, if ever, characters take the time to eliminate bodily waste products.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Jan 2, 2020 12:47:41 GMT -5
The amount of dead bodies that can show up in towns and cities that are just forgotten about a week later. Smallville was bad about this. At least one person would be murdered a week in this small rural farming community (with a population of 50,000 people ), yet you saw no sign of them looking to expand the police force, set new rules for security, seek outside state or local help, or even the idea that people are leaving the town out of fear for their safety. Gotham was even worse. The police force would see weekly casualty reports worse then what the US military gets, yet people still sign up to be cops in that city. They must have one hell of a 401k. Midsomer from midsomer murders... at least 2 people died their like every week... How anyone still lives there is the real mystery. British soaps are terrible too for death rates considering how localised it's all meant to be
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Jan 2, 2020 13:33:23 GMT -5
Doctor Who -- the world has had no end of alien invasions, a giant spider thing on Big Ben and f*** knows what else, but in one episode during, i think, Tennant's run, a guy claims there's aliens and he's dismissed as a crank. Power Rangers (IE The series where monsters attack the city every week.) did that too sometimes. The most egregious example was that Lost Galaxy/Light Speed Rescue crossover episode where an adult tells a little girl there is no such thing as monsters.
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Post by karl100589 on Jan 2, 2020 13:39:53 GMT -5
Staying on the "Friends" thing, but can go for any show, since I have a close friend and she loves watching reruns of it, I hate when you have a core group of friends on a show and in later seasons they bring up something weird that they never knew bout each other BUT it's totally something that would had come up before. Example, in later episode of Friends we find out Rachel is afraid of playgrounds! 🤨 Something to do with her childhood so she never goes....YET I know in earlier seasons she differently went, I believe with Ross' kid. And wasn't that Thanksgiving football episode early on they did in a playground type area? But yea with Ross having a kid I am sure he would had taken him to one and he was dating Rachel at the time so it would had totally come up
She was actually afraid of swings. She got her hair caught in the chain when she was younger and had to get it cut off.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 2, 2020 13:44:56 GMT -5
Breakfast. For every show that shows somebody eating a normal breakfast (like a slice of cold pizza or a bowl of cereal) there are a half dozen where there is a huge breakfast spread and people take 1 slice of toast then run out the door.
Neighbors and friends that walk into houses without knocking or being greeted. That's a good way to get shot.
The way WWE Wrestlers watch TV backstage. Total Divas at least shows us the TRUTH!
Grimm had a body count of like 5,000 people ripped to shreds, chopped up or gunned down in Portland and somehow the entire city didn't have the US Army marching down every street to keep the peace.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jan 2, 2020 13:52:03 GMT -5
Jack Bauer saved the universe multiple times, but every season, he would say something is about to happen and people wouldn't believe him.
Same with Mulder on the X-Files. Dude was right I think literally every episode.
"Scully, this man clearly died from a Wendigo attack!" "Come on, Mulder..."
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Post by Cyno on Jan 2, 2020 14:01:36 GMT -5
Sheldon Cooper surviving 12 years on the Big Bang Theory without being murdered or turning into a serial killer.
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