Things on TV shows that bug you....

[FlightlessDuck]

Harry Morgan played General Steele in an episode prior

Two different actors to play the Doctor on Doctor Who had other roles on Doctor Who previously. One of the actors to play a companion also had a role on the show previously.

Nicholas Lea, who played Alex Krycek on The X-Files, was in an earlier episode of The X-Files as a different character who ended up getting killed.

 

[tzolkin]

When they don't wear seatbelts when driving.

And when they look at the passenger way too long while having a conversation. It makes me anxious and I just want to yell at them “look at the **** road!”

 

[kaytieeldr]

Several days' events taking place in 23 or 46 minutes.

1. Little House....why couldn't Michael Landon get a couple violin lessons and learn to fake it better?

2. Blue Bloods....Tom Selleck and Len Cariou (the character that plays his father) are only five years apart in real life.

3. MASH...Harry Morgan played General Steele in an episode prior to coming on the show full time as Colonel Potter. MASH was and is one of my favorite shows, but there were lots of inconsistencies from the beginning to the end.

Feel free to add...

1. But where would Pa have taken violin lessons?
2. Not uncommon at all. Frequently it's a matter of chemistry. Or making yourself look much much older than you really are (cough) Estelle Getty (cough) for an audition https://www.rottentomatoes.com/gall...-age-to-their-tv-children/editorial-10266294/ Movies, too http://scribol.com/pop-culture/film...nt-child-character-age-differences-in-movies/
3. Ditto on chemistry, for permanent roles. Or just the right persona. Couple of others off the top of my head: Diane Neal played a murderer on an episode of Law and Order:SVU. Couple of years later she came back in a different regular role. Isabel Gillies was a murderer in a Law & Order episode, then went on to a recurring role as Stabler's wife on L&O:SVU.

Subtitles. Ok I get it that you want us to realize some of the people in the show are from another country, but can't you just establish that and not have them continue to speak in another language and force us to try and read subtitles, often against a background that makes them very difficult to read?

Fresh Off the Boat, right?

 

[firefly_ris]

Subtitles don't bother me in the slightest, but then I've watched a lot of foreign movies and anime.

I don't like it when (mostly on sitcoms) a character either enters or exits the house through the door and leaves it wide open behind them. I don't know anyone that walks into their home or leaves and leaves their door flung open.

 

[luvsJack]

Several days' events taking place in 23 or 46 minutes.


1. But where would Pa have taken violin lessons?
2. Not uncommon at all. Frequently it's a matter of chemistry. Or making yourself look much much older than you really are (cough) Estelle Getty (cough) for an audition https://www.rottentomatoes.com/gall...-age-to-their-tv-children/editorial-10266294/ Movies, too http://scribol.com/pop-culture/film...nt-child-character-age-differences-in-movies/
3. Ditto on chemistry, for permanent roles. Or just the right persona. Couple of others off the top of my head: Diane Neal played a murderer on an episode of Law and Order:SVU. Couple of years later she came back in a different regular role. Isabel Gillies was a murderer in a Law & Order episode, then went on to a recurring role as Stabler's wife on L&O:SVU.

Fresh Off the Boat, right?

Law and Order and Law and Order SVU is a great example of people coming back in different roles. They use so many guest stars and they come back in other roles all the time.

I do have to say I LOVE Harry Morgan in both of those roles on MASH.

Someone mentioned the driver looking away from the road for long periods of time. That is the only thing I can think of that really bugs me. For some reason it was very apparent to me when watching Vampire Diaries. I used to almost yell "Damon look at the darn road!!". And dd would remind me--what difference does it make, they are vampires, it won't kill them. LOL Yeah, I guess she was right.

 

[soccerdad72]

All TV shows set in NYC where folks making next to nothing live in really nice apartments that you know there's no chance they could afford (e.g. Friends, Seinfeld, etc.)

 

[mamamary]

All TV shows set in NYC where folks making next to nothing live in really nice apartments that you know there's no chance they could afford (e.g. Friends, Seinfeld, etc.)

Thought of one more. In NYC when they are driving a car and can just pull right up to where they are going and there is a parking spot right there.

 

[Mirielle]

I used to grit my teeth years ago when I'd watch General Hospital. They would frequently have a scene where people gathered in someone's kitchen for a chat and coffee before work. Before work! They were nurses and doctors. I'm a nurse and know that nurses on day shift (at that time) had to be clocked in by 6:45 and doctors were making rounds about that time, too. How could they have possibly sat and chatted and sipped coffee *leisurely* each morning before work?

 

[TeresaBelle]

Roseanne- when David first showed up, his name was Kevin.. lol

 

[RedAngie]

Interior floor plans of houses that obviously don't match the depicting exterior shot.

 

[disneychrista]

This is mostly a soap opera thing but convenient kids. People have kids but then are hardly ever taking care of them and rarely even mentioned.

 

[MIGrandma]

When they get political (for either side). I recently stopped watching "Superior Donuts" because of all their political jabs. Just not necessary.

Also, this is more an annoyance of the TV station rather than the particular show, when they put something on the side or at the bottom to let us all know what show is coming up next. Like we can't pull up the guide and see for ourselves what's coming up next. Last night I wasn't able to sleep so I was watching an episode of "Golden Girls" (not even sure what channel it was on, on DirecTV) and they were advertising something in the bottom right corner surrounded by red hearts. Really? Red hearts all around it? Again, not necessary and it annoyed me enough that I changed the channel.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Little House....why couldn't Michael Landon get a couple violin lessons and learn to fake it better?

Blue Bloods....Tom Selleck and Len Cariou (the character that plays his father) are only five years apart in real life.

MASH...Harry Morgan played General Steele in an episode prior to coming on the show full time as Colonel Potter. MASH was and is one of my favorite shows, but there were lots of inconsistencies from the beginning to the end.

Feel free to add...

Also in MASH, Potter in one episode claims to be from Nebraska, but in all others is from Missouri. Worse, in one early episode, Hawkeye claims to be from Vermont rather than Maine.

 

[TheFloatingBear]

I have been binge watching Perry Mason on FETV the last few weeks. The show was on for 9 years, but they are not running them in sequence, so some of the guest stars are in shows back to back.
The best are when they are are a homicide victim in one episode, and the next one they are alive again and playing a police detective, or suspect, or some other role.
Or actors familiar from other roles turn up.
My favorites, when the guest star Neil Hamilton confessed to murder. You might recognize him as Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV Series.
Or when Bernard Fox confessed to murder. You might recognize him as Dr. Bombay on Bewitched.
And Richard Anderson is a police investigator....you might recognize him as Oscar Goldman from the Bionic Man/Bionic Woman shows.
Or William Schallert. I think that guy was on every show at some point. Murderer, father, Smurf, cop, minister.....often a repeat guest in a different role.

One of my all-time favorite shows, "Law & Order", used to do that all the time! They used to call them "repeat offenders!" I think maybe because they used a lot of Broadway actors since I think they did a lot of filming in New York. My favorite was that they had Jerry Orbach play a lawyer early in the series, then he came back as a detective soon after! One of the DAs later in the series was a stripper and murder suspect earlier in the series too, lol!

 

[L&Lfan]

Couples deep kissing upon waking up. Does anyone ever really do this in real life?

 

[DLgal]

People waking up in the morning in full face makeup.

 

[Micca]

Laugh tracks, I no longer watch any current shows with laugh tracks. I also DVR all of the shows I watch so I can fast forward through the commercials.

 

[MamaBelle4]

Couples deep kissing upon waking up. Does anyone ever really do this in real life?

Yes.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Peoppose who just meet and agree to call one another without ever exchanging numbers.

 

[neverlandsky]

Food scene editing. A sandwich bite, then almost gone, and then the sandwich magically reappears back again.