Biggest suspension of disbelief in TV shows

[Warpaint]

Drinking and driving. Whether they've been at someones house, driving to and from a bar/restaurant, especially US shows/movies - they always seem to drive to and from bars etc? I've always found it very strange.

The huge breakfast scenes - imagine walking downstairs every morning and there are jugs of fresh orange juice, pancakes, big fruit salads etc..you'd be lucky to get a cup of tea and bowl of frosties the way we rush around here lol

Also reminds me that characters will go on a hard drinking session the night before then be fine the next day. A shower, quick meaningful look in the mirror and some over the counter pills and they're ready to go. And nobody will expect them to turn up to some event and suddenly they pop up fresh as a daisy

 

[SarcasticEllis]

Labour! Waters go, contractions start, baby’s out (in the back of a car or whatever) in about 10 minutes!!

 

[esoes]

Labour! Waters go, contractions start, baby’s out (in the back of a car or whatever) in about 10 minutes!!

With perfect hair and make up intact!

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

Eastenders, the number of people squashed into the houses. The Slater house at one stage had: Charlie, Big Mo, Lynne, Gary Hobbs, Kat, Zoe, Little Mo. I remember being perplexed as it surely only had 3 bedrooms and no one appeared to be on the sofa. Presumably Lynne and Gary had their own room, as did Charlie. Similar situation with the Queen Vic at one stage when the Mitchells were there.

 

[HockyRorror]

That nobody can see that the "ugly duckling" is clearly an extremely pretty girl until she removes the thick glasses and sorts out the lank/frizzy hair.

Mine is when an “evil” character (like Janine from Eastenders) does something and frames another Walford resident who has always been well liked, but the other residents automatically believe Janine and shun the well liked character even though Janine always lies and they are aware of this?

People not talking about their problems. 95% of plot conflicts are because characters just don't flipping address any problems with each other, ever.

Except when they are trying not to be caught out! Most normal people would say “don’t mention what I told you earlier, ok?” Abut soap characters are like “don’t mention what I told you earlier about sleeping with blah blah” and blah blah’s partner happens to be listening behind the door.

When characters claim to be skint but are constantly eating in the cafe and buying cups of tea even though they own a kettle and fridge literally a street away. Same for drinking in the pub constantly. Oh, and when someone is an alcoholic but recovers, they are still constantly in the pub but only order orange juice (ALWAYS orange juice).

Characters (usually barmaids) can scream and shout and even slap customers and throw drinks on them as much as they want and the owner doesn’t even bat an eye, let alone reprimand them.

Characters just “deciding” to move to another country. You can’t just “decide” to rock up in the USA or Australia and automatically live there but this happens all the time in soaps. And when they leave they only have one suitcase.

When a character is pregnant by a man who is not her partner, or say if a character had a note or letter they didn’t want their partner to find out, they will place it very delicately near the top of the bin so the person they didn’t want to find out, finds out, instead of burying it right at the bottom of the bin or ripping the note into tiny pieces so people can’t read it.

 

[Gingercream]

Eastenders, the number of people squashed into the houses. The Slater house at one stage had: Charlie, Big Mo, Lynne, Gary Hobbs, Kat, Zoe, Little Mo. I remember being perplexed as it surely only had 3 bedrooms and no one appeared to be on the sofa. Presumably Lynne and Gary had their own room, as did Charlie. Similar situation with the Queen Vic at one stage when the Mitchells were there.

Maybe they have rooms with multiple bunk beds like a youth hostel

 

[capriallie]

This is more linked to fantasy/ sci movie /book tropes but whenever the main character gets powers or is “the chosen one” theyre always the MOST powerful, MOST beautiful, special, amazing, strongest, stunning person ever. It’s so overdone. Why can’t they ever just be “average!” Thinking of Twilight in particular but there’s so many examples and it really irritates me!

 

[Slothgang]

When someone says 'we need to talk later I have something I need to tell you' and the other person just says 'ok.' In real life I'm like tell me NOOooooooWW.

 

[MitziAdele]

They all work in the local pub/factory/shop.