The thing that bothers me more than anything else is the extremely high % of TV characters that are independently wealthy or money is used as a solution for everything. I don't want people talking about their financial troubles; I just feel "the character is rich" is used as a lazy shortcut to explain how things can happen.

or when people are fighting right behind them. knocking over chairs, breaking lamps but the people dont hear a thing.

Fixed.

I can't stand that either. I think only once did they actually show something after the commercial was over. It's usually, "More 30 Rock When we come back." followed by "Go on the computer and go to NBC.com so you can e-mail the cast members" or something like that, followed by the commercials--- than credits w/previews of other shows/sometimes the preview for next weeks episode of Earl, 30 Rock, The Office or Scrubs.

That woman's voice is indeed annoying as hell! :hairpull:

"Will TV shows ever stop using narrators? If so, will Jonnyguest be pleased? Will I care? Will jonnyguest finally realize that most shows these days don't use narrators? Does Zach Braff's voice over on Scrubs annoy the hell out of Jonnyguest?", "These questions -and many others- will be answered in the next episode."

"Are you sure they can't see me?"

Something every character says when they're behind a one-way mirror trying to identify a crook in a line-up.

I love Seinfeld but this always bothered me with Jerry and Kramer. Neither worked (well, Jerry worked occasionally) and both had money coming out of their ears...




Cop or lawyer shows that spend the first 55 minutes showing the main characters going from crime scene to crime scene, witness to witness, only to have the murderer tearfully confess to everything with very little persuasion in the last 5 minutes.

Main character: "So, you didn't like your stepmother."

Murderer: [Begins crying]"That's right. I hated the way she treated me and my father so I killed her. I walked right up behind her and stabbed her!"

In the sitcom world, when men compete against wimmen, the wimmen always win. It doesn't matter if it's checkers or tackle football.

'Deal or no Deal' is notorious for this ....

what a tease ... If I could club to death that perky little bitch

My biggest pet peeve is reality shows that have a preview of what's coming up on the show before every commerical break. "Coming up after the break..." NBC and Bravo shows are the worst for this. The worst ones repeatedly tease at something that doesn't happen until the end of the show. It's so annoying to see the same piece of footage 5 times in the same show.

I also hate when *any* show promotes an episode as featuring something "shocking" or a twist of some sort, or when they say something like "You won't believe what happens in the last 5 minutes!!!" or "Someone dies!!!" It deflates the impact of the surprise if you're waiting for it, and you spend the entire episode trying to guess the surprise. This goes double for promoting something like "The most shocking tribal council/boardroom/etc. yet!!!"

Game shows on Fox also seem to give away alot on the 'upcoming scenes'

'E.R' - every episode seems to one up itself.. with some sort of over dramatic turn of events/character development.

I hate it when reality shows repeat about 30 seconds to a minute of what already happened before the commercial break, when they come come back from the break. The Biggest Loser is notorious for this. Like they will show someone go up to the scale for the weigh-in and the host will say what they need to lose to stay safe in the game, then it will cut to commercial, then when they come back they repeat the same footage.

The only way to watch those shows is with a DVR.

Someone already mentioned it, but I'm really sick of these episodes opening with one of the final scenes and then flashing back 24 hours earlier. Last week's Grey's Anatomy did it, but there was absolutely no reason for it.

Another thing I'm sick of is a show taking years to pair up two characters romantically only to break them up in the next few episodes. There are rare exceptions(the Angel/Buffy aftermath is what made that show), but it's really becoming tired. Doesn't any couple on a TV series end up living happily ever after the first time around?

guest actors that do a couple of shows then just fall off the face of the earth, like Marc's flash in the pan boyfriend Cliff in 'Ugly Betty'

It's even more amusing when you watch something like that on DVD.

You know what I really find annoying? When someone spells convention with an "s" iso a "t".

You know what I find really annoying? When someone uses odd abbreviations instead of spelling out a word.

Saturday Night Live has been doing this for like 5 years. Half way from the commercial break, they show like a 5 second clip of the next set. Oh how do I hate that. I don't want to know what skit on is next. Plus, it throws me off when I am fast forwarding through the commercials.

The Bitchy wife who always put down the Husband.

The Stupid Husband.

The Neighbors/Friends who don't knock before entering the house.

I just came in to strongly disagree about The Wire's montages being bad. They're great ways to end the season.

What bugs me is these days after commercial breaks, the shows repeat the last 10 seconds of what happened verbatim. Not just reality shows, Heroes does this as well. We're not stupid, get on with the program and stop wasting time.

Scrubs, Arrested Development, Heroes and Sports Night would like a word with you. :)

You know what I find annoying? People that have nothing better too do, so they pick on someone's spelling mistake.

It's spelled wrong, so what? is it the end of the fricken' world?!

funny... I thought it was F-R-I-C-K-I-N'

;)

I have to that say I'm completely sick of the moron husband with the impossibly attractive, ****y wife sitcom.

We saw Jerry working almost every episode (until the later seasons). Those stand-up bits? That was Jerry working.

I was never a big fan of Roseanne either.

Outside of Jeremy writing to his sister, did Sports Night ever use a narrator?