Things you hate about TV shows

supernova84 · 24-05-2012 08:01PM #1

I'm not big into watching the box but a few things I hate; the way in soaps that there always seems to be a song playing on the radio and no general radio chat, perfectly phrased sentences, lack of farting/belching, no bad hair days, people meeting in pub for pints in middle of day.
So what kind of things do you not like?

Agricola · 24-05-2012 08:02PM

Mostly the way they are dragged out for series upon series, plots developing at a snails pace, all in the name of maximising revenue.

JPA · 24-05-2012 08:04PM

The way people never eat their food, leaving full drinks and meals behind.

hairyprincess · 24-05-2012 08:05PM

The way the kids are never there. Really rags me wondering who they are supposed to be with.

And when a character leaves, there is rarely a mention of them again

Dangerous Man · 24-05-2012 08:05PM

The overwhelming majority of programming on TV is aimed at complete fucking morons yet even intelligent people end up watching it.

summerskin · 24-05-2012 08:07PM

supernova84 wrote: »

I'm not big into watching the box but a few things I hate; the way in soaps that there always seems to be a song playing on the radio and no general radio chat, perfectly phrased sentences, lack of farting/belching, no bad hair days, people meeting in pub for pints in middle of day.
So what kind of things do you not like?

What's wrong with meeting for pints in the middle of the day??? That's what your lunch break is for, at least in the UK anyway.

Found it a shock over here that the Irish don't go for a couple of pints at lunch, pretty standard everywhere I worked in the UK.

And on topic, those bed sheets that never show women's tits!

Biggins · 24-05-2012 08:08PM

They order a drink and leave it behind.

To destroy a computer/data, they shoot the monitor and keyboard!!! WTF!

A female has just come from a tough battle-zone but her make-up and lipstick are perfect and she is spotless - yet her fellow males are dirty, tired and bedraggled looking!

The way they dumb down and even cut scenes out for USA viewers!

There's loads...

kfallon · 24-05-2012 08:08PM

Anything that is a 'reality' based show :rolleyes:

Redhairedguy · 24-05-2012 08:09PM

The fact that after 7 seasons, he still hasn't told his bloody children how he met their mother....

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 24-05-2012 08:09PM

i only watch good tv shows so I guess my main complaint is the lack of tv to watch

westendgirlie · 24-05-2012 08:11PM

Ads are a pain in the arse

Aenaes · 24-05-2012 08:12PM

When shows (usually documentaries) come back from the ads and they proceed to repeat what they said just before the ad break.

Feck the new viewers, I don't need it repeated to me.

ejmaztec · 24-05-2012 08:13PM

I never once saw Captain Kirk, or anyone else in Star Trek go for a piss.

The King of Moo · 24-05-2012 08:13PM

Cliffhangers designed for American ad breaks, which, with our fewer ad breaks, are resolved after a brief fade to black over here.
I always remember on cartoons when a character was tied to a conveyor about to be fed into some blades, or tied to tracks about to be run over by a train.
I'd get so annoyed when it'd fade to black, and then the train/blades would actually be slightly farther away! I thought it was just a really cheap, obvious trick, not knowing the reason for the odd pause.

Also, Ryan Tubridy and Craig Doyle.
You can actually see the smug cloud over Donnybrook when they're both in the building at the same time.

arse..biscuits · 24-05-2012 08:14PM

A pint of unspecific lager please.

Battered Mars Bar · 24-05-2012 08:14PM

Watching Fair City there as you do and that one Caoimhe Dillion walked into the kitchen with a take away and wearing a short skirt. Best show on the box imo.

UndertheBridge · 24-05-2012 08:14PM

Well, how I always end up watching reality shows about people who I absolutely despise in real life and somehow becoming addicted to watching them

Made in Chelsea, you are all bastards, I've just wasted my reading week.

Biggins · 24-05-2012 08:18PM

One that not many kop.

A chap (or woman, rarer though) walks into a bar and order a pint of larger.
5 seconds later, there is is in front of him!
Ok... WTF!!!

Unless the taps are blasting it out by jet propulsion (and thus mess everywhere anyway), no one gets a pint poured in 5 seconds or less!

mikemac1 · 24-05-2012 08:22PM

When you know your favourite show may get the axe for no good reason at all
You invest time in it, realy enjoy and boom, taken away

Fox seem happy to drag out The Simpsons long past their sell by date

But cancel :mad: Chicago Code :mad: after just one season!!

Was a brilliant show, even had the best intro song ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81RRN9tvl10

bluto63 · 24-05-2012 08:22PM

Biggins wrote: »

One that not many kop.

A chap (or woman, rarer though) walks into a bar and order a pint of larger.
5 seconds later, there is is in front of him!
Ok... WTF!!!

Unless the taps are blasting it out by jet propulsion (and thus mess everywhere anyway), no one gets a pint poured in 5 seconds or less!

Boom

Biggins · 24-05-2012 08:26PM

bluto63 wrote: »

Boom

Youtube video inserted.

Interesting.

In the shots we see in the tv/films though they go to standard visible taps.
Then like magic, the pints appear in seconds!

:eek:

jimthemental · 24-05-2012 08:27PM

Redhairedguy wrote: »

The fact that after 7 seasons, he still hasn't told his bloody children how he met their mother....

Oh I can't believe you missed that episode, Ted was kerb crawling.

Anywho how come no one ever goes to the jacks, I think there's a truckload of milk of magnesia needed in a few of these shows!

supernova84 · 24-05-2012 08:27PM

In Come Dine With Me when they have the coming up after the break clips, spoiles the whole thing.
Also in Aussie soaps the way people just barge into the house without knocking, they could be taking a dump and somebody they hardly know appears through the bathroom door.

mikemac1 · 24-05-2012 08:31PM

You call your buddy
They answer within half a second
Yes, yes, no, no, right away

You can pass along a detailed and complicated message in five seconds somehow

Hang up

Clearly this is wrong

And where is the bye, bye, bye, bye, bye?
Or is that just an Irish thing?

jack presley · 24-05-2012 08:32PM

Those home video shows where they 'preview' what's coming up later but in fact actually show the whole clip.

somefeen · 24-05-2012 08:33PM

The simpsons is especially guilty of over explaining anything. "Hey look, its X, winner/writer/owner of Y and Z"

mikemac1 · 24-05-2012 08:34PM

L shaped bedsheets

We see the man's chest but never the wimmins??

doubletrouble? · 24-05-2012 08:35PM

gotta be the ads but not just any oul ad i'm talking about
go-compare, this really irritates the crap out of me. hate it so much i have to switch channels.
and
1890 DODO DODO DODO , well thats exactly what it sounds like

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Biggins · 24-05-2012 08:36PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

L shaped bedsheets

We see the man's chest but never the wimmins??

Just on that...

They go to bed - have sex (or at least its clearly hinted that what is just about to happen), then they wake up and they are wearing their underwear again...

WTF?

Who strips off, makes love to a partner, gets out, part-dresses again and gets back into bed?