What’s a common trope in movies that never happens in real life? This came from ROM Besk on threads and I love the comments on this. I love like movie tropes and movie cliches. Hey Savage Jones, I know you! Single women shopping at grocery stores that seem to specialize in extra long baguettes and unpackaged produce. Yep. Whenever someone is fired from their job, the next scene is them walking out into the streets of the white office documents box packed with a picture frame, desk lamp, and a potted plant. If I ever leave a job, I leave with just me eating Chinese takeout with chopsticks out of the white cardboard container. I use a fork. Because women who jump up onto a man and wrap their legs around his waist on their way to the bedroom. Someone ever does that to me, we’re falling over, it’s so it’s done. People don’t just go into a shower and turn the water on while standing under it like a psychopath. Haha. People getting knocked unconscious from a blow to the head but not seriously injured. I’m probably dead from that. Of course. Everyone hanging up the phone without saying bye. The way gifts are wrapped, with the lid wrapped separately from the rest for easy opening in the scene. Nobody wraps gifts like that. I’ve literally never seen a gift where the lid has been wrapped separately. Also with this one. I really hate in movies and TV shows. When someone’s given a gift and they’re like, oh my god, what is it, bitch? Open it. High school classrooms for everyone. Looks 27 years old. Yeah. CSI tech looking at a blurry image. Enhance. And then magically it’s just enhanced. People asking for a drink, getting a drink, and then without even taking one sip, they need to leave right away and leave the drink untouched. People who hear a noise downstairs in the middle of the night and go and investigating without ever turning on a single damn light. They have on X Files all the time. Like, they didn’t. They was. It was in an alternate universe where lights does. Just doesn’t. Doesn’t exist. Quick, turn on the news. Character points remote at TV. TV instantly displays a newscaster just beginning the one story we’re interested in. Or like when characters are watching something on TV, they don’t turn the volume down, but then they have a conversation and suddenly the volume is down. Having a conversation in one location, pausing for the car ride, and then continuing at the next location. Like they’re on a 30 minute car drive. They don’t talk about this whatsoever. A naked woman, alone or with her husband or lover, wrapping herself with a sheet when she gets out of bed. Like, what are you being modest for all of a sudden? Also, when you see a couple who is nude in bed, the woman always has a blanket up past Her chest. And the guy only has it up to his waist. Who? Who what? A career woman giving up everything to be with a man from the country. Telling a cab to follow that car. Running after someone at the airport? Nope. Middle class people living in giant Victoria Mansions in San Francisco. Where are you getting this money at? I’ve never known anyone that goes to a lamaze class when pregnant. Do those even exist in real life? Someone smoking, quickly fanning it out the window, and whoever walks in has no idea any kind of smoking was happening. That is bullshit. The smell is just insta gone. Sleeping on, shoes on. What the fuck? The detective who never waits for backup. Yep. Aliens or other worldly powers, always choosing the United States to be the destination. Like, seriously, go somewhere else. We’re not. We’re not doing well here. Massive family breakfast on school days. There’s 45 seconds left in the timer before the bomb goes off, but a couple takes 10 minutes to declare their love and make big confessions. All before figuring out how to diffuse it in the nick of time. Always choosing the worst times to have a conversation. What are some of your favorites?