Biggest suspension of disbelief you've had to have with a TV show or film

Dicky Pride · 08-09-2013 08:44AM

Every single minute of the worst show to ever come out of America "the following"

snausages · 08-09-2013 11:20AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

This was shite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN02pNRqgM8

That's one of the few actual good bits in that series.

johnnyskeleton · 08-09-2013 11:26AM

George bush's speech about how He had proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Sea Sharp · 08-09-2013 11:35AM

In Oz. They gave Cyril O'Reilly some aging pills and his full head of hair turned white overnight. I was outraged! How is a tablet going to change the color of hair that's already grown. :mad:

ROCKMAN · 08-09-2013 11:36AM

claypigeon777 wrote: »

Miley riding Fidelma on Glenroe.

Barry riding Niamh on Fair City.

Ross riding Rachel on Friends.

Ross Kemp as an SAS soldier in Ultimate Force.

RikkFlair wrote: »

Poor auld Ross, didn't get to ride anyone

He did , UTV , the BBC and Sky , Did u see the wages he gets....:eek:

Sir Osis of Liver. · 08-09-2013 11:45AM

When Seamus McAleer had the head transplant in Fair City in 2009.

That show lost all credibility after that.

silverharp · 08-09-2013 11:45AM

Where Eagles Dare, the German soldiers aim in that movie made the Star Wars storm troopers look like marksmen

Goat the dote · 08-09-2013 11:52AM

osarusan wrote: »

Any time I watch CSI or Bones any of those forensic-laboratory themed crime shows, with simply ludicrous technology-aided discoveries in their crime labs.

Can't insert it as an image, but if you click on the link, you'll see a parody of the kind of stuff I'm talking about:

http://www.funnyjunk.com/channel/funny/CSI+Whatever/ezfrGrm/

And they wear their own clothes to crime scenes. No white paper jumpsuits?

Sgt Hartman · 08-09-2013 11:56AM

How Jack Bauer always manages to save the world in just 24 hours.

Osmosis Jones · 08-09-2013 12:01PM

"And these blast points; too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise."

Then why can they never hit anyone

:P

Irish Guitarist · 08-09-2013 12:55PM

Years ago in Coronation Street the actor who played Nicky, who was about ten years old, was replaced by an actor who was in his mid teens. That actor was then replaced. I stopped watching it years ago but last time I happened to catch a glimpse of it they had yet another actor playing him.

Also David Platt went from being an annoying child to being some kind of psychotic evil genius.

krudler · 08-09-2013 01:13PM

dark crystal wrote: »

In Back to the Future, when Marty's parents didn't cop their son Marty was the same Marty who introduced them and whom his own mother had fallen for and snogged 30 years earlier.

What's even more mental is the Marty we've been following throughout the film has now stolen the alternate Mary's life. His family were poor and miserable and he goes back, gets his parents together, sorts out time and changes things so now they're rich and succesful and happy.
So along that changed timeline post-1955 the parents had a kid named Marty, that Marty still exists when the Marty we know comes along and walks into his life, he'd be a completely different person brought up with happy rich parents and probably off at school someplace only to come home to find his time double in his room or something.

The photos where people disappear out of existence as well, how could a photo change because the person in it doesnt exist anymore? if that was the case every photo of someone who died would be blank. It's just a plot device to show how the timeline is changing but it still makes no sense. I do love the BTTF movies though :cool: Time travel in films always needs to be taken with a pinch of salt as it'll only make your head spin.

osarusan · 08-09-2013 02:00PM

Alien Resurrection is on Japanese TV right now.

So, let me get this straight..you've known about these aliens for 200 years, been studying them for 200 years...and you sill kept them in a cage made of metal, so they could escape with their acidic blood?

languagenerd · 08-09-2013 02:12PM

ONeill2013 wrote: »

Home & Away. A natural disaster every year or someone joining a cult every few years.

And the amount of times they used the "witness protection"/"someone isn't really dead" storyline is ridiculous.

Like - this is years ago now - when Peter Baker died in an explosion (at Jack and Martha's wedding, I think?) - Jack needed a liver transplant after the explosion and it was said that he got Peter's liver. But then it turned out that Peter was actually alive, hidden on witness protection - and the liver was never mentioned again!

Ten of Swords · 08-09-2013 02:44PM

V for Vendetta,

10 police officers unload handguns into him. Not one bullet hit him anywhere other than his chest which was protected with armour.

His arms and legs completely uninjured as he is able to massacre them all while they're reloading. Nobody went for the headshot?

IvaBigWun · 08-09-2013 04:01PM

dark crystal wrote: »

In Back to the Future, when Marty's parents didn't cop their son Marty was the same Marty who introduced them and whom his own mother had fallen for and snogged 30 years earlier.

I agree. But who are we to argue with the greatest trilogy of all time?

Howard Juneau · 08-09-2013 04:05PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

I agree. But who are we to argue with the greatest trilogy of all time?

What's Jason Bourne got to do with this?

Galwayguy35 · 08-09-2013 04:10PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

How did anyone continue watching Dallas when
Bobby Ewing came back to life as his missus had dreamt the whole season
:pac:

Hmm, not sure we need a spoiler for that considering we saw it 20 years ago.

Galwayguy35 · 08-09-2013 04:15PM

Corvo wrote: »

The Crying Game

How did he not know...How?

<shudders>

Have to admit I didn't guess it myself until the middle leg was let swing.

Czarcasm · 08-09-2013 04:25PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Hmm, not sure we need a spoiler for that considering we saw it 20 years ago.

There's an ongoing Feedback thread I saw re: spoilers in the TV forums for shows and series "because people may not have seen them yet", prepare for pages and pages of posts that are blanked out with completely unnecessary spoilers!

Howard Juneau · 08-09-2013 04:25PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Have to admit I didn't guess it myself until the middle leg was let swing.

It didn't put you off your stroke though!

Galwayguy35 · 08-09-2013 04:27PM

Howard Juneau wrote: »

It didn't put you off your stroke though!

Ah holy jaysus no!!!!!

IvaBigWun · 08-09-2013 07:30PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Hmm, not sure we need a spoiler for that considering we saw it 20 years ago.

I can hardly recommend the use of spoiler tags in this thread and then not use them myself

Paddy Dangerfield · 08-09-2013 07:58PM

That mere humans wrote the theme to Hill Street Blues.

jill_valentine · 08-09-2013 09:05PM

Kimberly Bauer and the stupid mountain lion. 24 had just about gotten away with all kinds of BS right up until then, but that was the point when I just checked out.

Penelope bloody Pitstop, she was.

IvaBigWun · 08-09-2013 09:08PM

jill_valentine wrote: »

Kimberly Bauer and the stupid mountain lion. 24 had just about gotten away with all kinds of BS right up until then, but that was the point when I just checked out.

Penelope bloody Pitstop, she was.

If I remember right most users of jumptheshark.com agreed with you.

Still tho. Great tits.

IvaBigWun · 09-09-2013 07:54PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Years ago in Coronation Street the actor who played Nicky, who was about ten years old, was replaced by an actor who was in his mid teens. That actor was then replaced. I stopped watching it years ago but last time I happened to catch a glimpse of it they had yet another actor playing him.

And didnt they replace the moany faced kid with a hunk to be eye candy for the female viewers?

He was about ten years older than the first :pac:

maynoothlizard · 09-09-2013 08:07PM

In the Elvis Presley western Flaming Star (I know, really going for the low-hanging fruit here), when Elvis is told by an Apache with the quite brilliant name of Buffalo Horn, "I will return again at a time when the sun has killed the stars." Er, okay, Buffalo Horn, see you in the morning then.

MurdyWurdy · 09-09-2013 08:25PM

In Harry Potter Hagrid's mum is a giant and his Dad is a wizard so he's half giant. How on earth did his Dad with his normal man size penis satisfy a giant with a proportionately sized vagina? How did she not squish him?

The mind boggled if you think too much about the mechanics of giant and non giant sex!

Pinesky · 09-09-2013 08:30PM

Ho! Ho! Ho!
It's magic you know
never believe it's not so

Biggest suspension of disbelief you've had to have with a TV show or film

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