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<p>On TV they never…seem to keep track of their kids. They can disappear for months at a time. For example, on Friends, we saw Ben for a while. Then what happened to him? The little boys on Dick Van Dyke and I Love Lucy spent A LOT of time playing in their rooms.</p>

<p>It also drives me crazy in TV and movies when people are dressed for different seasons…one character is sleeveless and another is wearing a jacket. </p>

<p>Nrdsb4, I think about that, too. There was a movie where a character was throwing up…then next thing, she and the cute guy are romping off to bed. ICK.</p>

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<p>I’ve noticed a lot of seatbelt wearing in movies. It’s funny when it’s an action movie. In Mission Impossible 4, Cruise makes it obvious that he’s putting his seatbelt on, then proceeds to travel at high speeds. And in Safe (just came out with Jason Statham), he is rescuing a young girl and they are being shot at, but the scene kind of stops as he puts his own seatbelt on and the girl’s.</p>

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<p>We own the complete original Star Trek series and just love that there is no type of seatbelt or harness on the bridge. When they are being attacked, they just brace themselves and often fall down or out of their chairs.</p>

<p>Characters in TV shows and movies can pack for very long trip with just a tiny suitcase. Even in period moves where one dress would take up a fairly large suitcase, the character just has one very small suitcase.</p>

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One of my kids pointed out that the baby (twins, actually) who played Little Ricky actually seemed terrified of Lucy. He fussed, cried, turned away, etc. whenever she held him. She was usually taking him briskly out of the room in service of the plot. He played in his room a lot, as missypie said, and would have to have been narcoleptic to need that many naps.</p>

<p>Things changed when Little Ricky grew up some and was played by a talented little charmer who was one of the cutest kids ever on TV.</p>

<p>Has someone mentioned yet how tidy everyone’s house on TV is despite the fact that no one ever seems to clean them?</p>

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<p>Even when my house is clean, we still have all those piles of mail, correspondence from the kids’ schools, etc. You rarely see clutter on TV shows.</p>

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<p>never seem to have pms or pass gas. </p>

<p>When people are dying they always have oxygen on but never a breathing tube.</p>

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<p>On TV, grocery bags are never heavy. Neither are suitcases or big boxes. They are always light as a feather.</p>

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<p>This is why I like shows like The Middle or Roseanne because they show houses that are often in disarray and therefore, more realistic.</p>

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<p>On reality TV shows, when someone commits an obvious felony, the police never show up.</p>

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<p>They can eat out or eat things that are expensive to make every night without ever gaining weight or worrying about finances. This always was interesting to me on Gilmore Girls in particular (one of my favorite shows of all time), especially since the show was supposed to be about a single mother who was struggling to put her daughter through private school as well as start her own business. (To be fair, the grandparents paid tuition for school and she did worry quite a bit about finances. Still.)</p>

<p>The car never breaks down unless it is raining or otherwise convenient to the plot.</p>

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<p>Women wear makeup in bed, and on tv commercials, they wear makeup in the shower. (Generally women are only seen showering in soap or shampoo commercials. During regular programming, bathing is far too dangerous – women who bathe are invariably attacked by an intruder in their homes).</p>

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<p>Snow is always pretty and fluffy, it is never slushy and dirty. Unless it is a comedy, no one’s glasses get fogged up and cars parked outside never need defrosting or even need the snow brushed off.</p>

<p>Weddings always end with the happy couple running out under a storm of rice into their car as no one hangs around for pictures.</p>

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<p>One thing I notice all the time is the type of house/apartment in which the family is living. The Full House house would have cost millions. As would the* Hannah Montana *beach house.</p>

<p>Of course, *The Honeymooner’s *flat was realistic, and I find that terribly depressing. </p>

<p>The I Love Lucy apartment was also realistic.</p>

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<p>Everyone eats Chinese food directly out of the take-out cartons.</p>

<p>Nobody ever tears open a gift-wrapped present. The lids of the boxes seem to be wrapped separately from the boxes, and are gently lifted off.</p>

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<p>Usually one person gets mad and walks away from the dinner table.
Usually the kids skip breakfast to go to school.
The bells usually ring when the teachers have not spoken more than 20 seconds.</p>

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<p>They never dial or receive a call from an area that is NOT 555! :)</p>

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<p>They have to do that by law, I think. If they gave a made-up regular phone number, people will try to call it to see if anyone answers. Those of you of a certain age may remember a song - “867-5309 (Jenni)”? People all over the place called that number.</p>

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<p>Yet you can often hear the sound of the ventilator even though the patient is only wearing a nasal cannula.</p>

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<p>When they show the outside of a house, and then the inside…they never match up. The windows and doors on the exterior are not consistent with those on the interior. (Not sure why this drives me crazy…but it does.)</p>

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<p>The women never wear comfortable shoes to work. I find it especially ridiculous to see police detectives and coroners teeteering around in 5 inch spike heels while trying to do their job.</p>