‘What trope in UK television shows annoys you?’ – 24 little annoyances that jolt you out of the action
13.
”Oh no, the top secret whatever it is we need is on the evil company’s server! What will we do?’
‘Don’t worry, I’ll hack the server!’
TAPPY TAPPY TAP FOR THIRTY SECONDS
‘Done, here’s the exact bit of information you need.’
FFS, it does not work like that. More realistic hacking would be clicking a couple of times to start running a script, waiting for hours, and then finding out that it didn’t work anyway.’
–Anaptyso
14.
‘Creating ‘tension’ by standing there like a lemon in silence after saying ‘and the winner is’ as music plays in the background and the camera jumps around for 10 seconds. Great British Menu, Bake Off, Four in a Bed all guilty amongst others.
If you want tension, have the result in an envelope that they can’t open until they have said ‘is’.’
–Tuarangi
15.
‘In any lab on TV, say for forensics and DNA work, the staff are wearing lab coats but no gloves and with loose hair everywhere.
In reality they’re in old jeans and T-shirts, no coats unless it’s an extra-clean area, with nitrile gloves changed regularly, and hair securely tied back or under a hairnet, and no touching their face.’
–DameKumquat
16.
”Drink tonight?’ ‘Sure, 8 o’clock?’ ‘Great, I’ll pick you up’ ‘See you then.’
Where? Where will you pick them up?’
–Nearby-Percentage867
17.
‘Police/detectives allocated a massively complex case days before retirement. They’re either getting shot minutes before they’re due to clock off, or they work 24/7 for their last week and have some near misses along the way.’
–urban_shoe_myth
18.
‘There’s been some kind of fight, and someone has an injury. There then follows an entire scene where a second character, usually a woman, holds a bowl of water and dabs ineffectually at the wound with filthy wet rags while a very long and significant conversation takes place.’
–DifferentWave
19.
‘Whilst it’s referenced as a plot point a few times, Waterloo Road would’ve been repeatedly put under special measures with what goes on there.’
–TheFlyingHornet1881
20.
‘When anyone goes to visit a CEO type dude and he pours whoever a large whiskey from a crystal decanter at 10 am and they both drink it.’
–Major-Revolution5250
21.
‘Any scene where a dangerous and determined criminal with a bladed weapon is completely disarmed and subdued by an unarmed, unarmoured person (cop or not.)
Even martial arts experts will tell you this is highly unlikely to go well for the person trying to stop the armed criminal.’
–Mc_and_SP
22.
‘Historical adaptations where everyone has no body hair and beautiful smooth skin with no imperfections. Then having mad passionate sex scenes involving all sorts of stuff that in reality you’d probably not want to do to someone who hadn’t had a bath in the last year.’
–GraceEllis19
23.
‘Empty cups – I read this elsewhere and now can’t unsee it and now, neither will you. Coffee cups, etc, are always empty when given to the actors and knowing it’s empty, they wave it around unlike the normal care you’d take with a full cup of hot beverage.’
–YammyStoob
24.
‘I find it crazy we’ve had 60ish years of Coronation Street and despite all the fights and drama, not one of them has said a single swear word.
Might be the Street that has the most crime in the UK, but not a single swear word.’
–pickindim_kmet
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