Television vs real life
POSTED BY: SerenityValley
UPDATED: Saturday, October 25, 2003 04:07
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Originally posted by SerenityValley:
Thanks everybody! That was really helpful. I'm going to start working on the story this morning. I also remembered: Computers always make a beeping noise when you type on them in TV shows.
Computers!!! How could I have forgotten:
You don't turn a computer on by pressing the keyboard, and they don't take 2 seconds to start.
Most of the things you see on computer screens on TV are not real computer programs and they don't have the right look for real operating systems.
You rarely see anyone use a mouse (or even have one), even when the program is graphical.
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Sorry I got to this thread late. It seems like you got almost all of them. I do have three more:
People on TV rarely end their telephone conversations with "goodybe," they just hang up.
Visitors to someone's house will almost immediately take several giant steps into the living room the moment the door is opened.
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When entering a room, almost no one shuts a door behind them(unless it's the front door).
History repeats the old conceits
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Visitors to someone's house will almost immediately take several giant steps into the living room the moment the door is opened.
Gorramit doors!!!!! Another obvious one I forgot.
People rarely lock their doors on TV. Or knock before opening the door.
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Originally posted by CaptBaggytrousers:
People on TV rarely end their telephone conversations with "goodybe," they just hang up.
Ah, you beat me to that one, Cappy. Well, here's another:
TV people often park facing the wrong direction and rarely park across the street from the house.
Instead of pulling over to the right (in America) or making a 3-point turn to change direction, they illegally drive their cars across the opposite direction of traffic to park facing the wrong direction. (Of course, there are some real people who do this, too.)
I guess directors prefer to see the car moving into frame from left to right from right of frame and parking directly in front of the house.
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Sorry for the triple post. I thought my Pop-Up blocker was overdoing it again. But I guess the site is just a little slow right now.
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Sorry.
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This one is a stretch,
Animals talk and people understand them.
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People get knocked out too easily.
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You can hit a no named actor once and they're down for the count, but the baddie needs to be beaten to a pulp before he's out of the picture.
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