jiffy97

Let me preface this by saying I know this isn't a great show. Just enjoyable drek.

On the show "Two and a Half Men", Charlie is supposed to be the "cool" guy. Makes good money. Cool house on the beach. Always scoring with hot women. Has a casual/cool wardrobe; generally cargo shorts and bowling style shirts.

But he often wears loafers with high white tube socks. I am not a fashion maven by any stretch, but have been told I have a nice style. Loafers and high tube socks? And he scores plenty of tail???? It is such a stupid thing, but it pulls me out of the show every time I see it.

Any other weird quirks from TV that just scream "No way in hell! That wouldn't happen!!!"?

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CPA-ESQ.

I see your point - but as girls get older, they take what they can get.

and I guess $ + good looking > tube socks (they can change that later)

Jadzia

My bugaboo is when a TV show has a family eating breakfast, there is always a big pitcher of milk on the kitchen table. I have never known anyone to pour milk from a carton into a pitcher to serve it. Maybe if you were having a fancy brunch with company, but when it is just a regular weekday morning?

Randy Miller III

Only two come to mind:

1. Brushing teeth with no toothpaste.
2. Eating Chinese food with chopsticks.

rfduncan

Sometimes when I see people "drinking" something like soda or coffee it looks TOTALLY like they have nothing in the container/cup. I have noticed this on Scrubs a lot. Can't they just put water in there to give the container some weight?

Groucho

It drives me nuts in sitcoms where the family just leaves their door unlocked and characters stroll in unannounced. Family Ties was particularly guilty of this...its a wonder the Keatons had time to ever to conceive any children!

Unclejosh

Hmmmm, I guess am not a fashion maven either as I totally see no issue with this, nor would I ever even notice what kind of shoes or socks some one is wearing.

atlantamoi

This can go for movies as well, but I hate when people set up a time to meet each other and then never mention the actual time. Ya can't take one more second in the script to say, "8:00pm"?

Palaver

"Enhancing" a badly pixelated digital photo to show a crystal clear shot of something.

Groucho

Selective amnesia, particularly in genre shows. For example, on Buffy the murder/disappearance rate in Sunnydale must be sky-high. Yet people walk around at night without a care in the world.

Or in Star Trek. Every time they encounter an alien with the cloaking device, they devise a new way to work around it. How about writing down the first thing you did and making it Starfleet procedure?

And speaking of the cloaking device, it seems like this would be a handy thing for the Enterprise to have. Yet they only engaged it for one episode, and then it was forgotten about.

Red Dog

Annoying to no end in the crime procedurals. The worst of this was in a CSI Miami where they were able to enhance the video image off a reflection from the knife the killer used.

stingermck

Bells ringing in class room scenes. Everyone jumps up like they didn't know it was time to go, teacher scrambling to finish, etc.

Drives me crazy!

Palaver

I thought the Federation had signed some sort of peace agreement saying they wouldn't use cloaking technology.

Doc MacGyver

555-Anything

The post-coital armpit tuck women do with the comforter (They NEVER do that)

No one every saying, "Bye" when ending a phone conversation.


-Doc

FantasticVSDoom

Or that they were never murdered in their sleep...

das Monkey

Josh-da-man

What bugs me is when, in a sitcom, one character pulls another character aside to tell them something they don't want a third party to be privy to. They generally only move about five feet away and speak in normal voices.

"Oh, my God, Monica! I slept with Dave last week and he doesn't even remember me! I hope Ross doesn't find out!" (And Ross is standing something like three feet away.)

MrE

Close-ups of couples "kissing" when they are obviously not. Ewww...

Red Dog

Another one with the CSIs - that they are able to run a barrage of tests in a single day, immediately after the murder, and crack the case.

Bobby Shalom

Really? You never use chopsticks?

Charlie Goose

Sitcom weddings that rarely take place in a church. It's usually the living room, or the backyard, etc.

Always getting the same table or booth in a restaurant.

wishbone

Or that the entire department or group is working on one case at a given time, i.e. CSI, Navy NCIS, Criminal Minds, etc.

Doc MacGyver

I can see these being issues, but they wouldn't stand out for me. Very few of my friends have been married in a church and we always get the same booth at our local haunt.


-Doc

UAIOE

Lets be honest here, "CSI: Miami" is just a fairy tale with some realistic elements.

GradVT06

I thought it was just a long commercial paid by the city to highlight hot chicks, beaches, and waterfront mansions.