Erm, yes. I said that in the OP.
:smack:
You did.
Anyhow, the injection stuff was far from the “have no idea how things really work” thing in that show.
I still enjoyed it.
I suspect after about the 30th mass short arm inspection, medics got really annoyed at the concept of VD.
Don’t forget that subcutaneous injections are also a thing.
Eh the examples from Farscape are kind silly because it was pretty clear in context that it was some kind of alien injector device.
It might have been a pipette used as a prop repainted, but in the episode it was an injector.
The know just as much about those as they do AEDs.
I hate to sound stupid, but what other way is there?
Say I shake four aspirin out of the bottle and into the palm of my hand. I’m supposed to pick them up, one by one, in my fingertips and transfer each one to my mouth individually? That’s absurd. I bring my palm up to my mouth, which pops all four pills inside, and then take a sip of water.
I really enjoy tv tropes for giving shots, they’ve taught me a lot. For example:
When preparing a shot, turn the needle up and squirt about three cc’s into the air.
When you need to sedate a bad guy in a hurry, jab him in the neck (as already stated above).
When you need to give yourself an emergency injection jab it directly into your heart. (Ain’t nobody as manly as Malcolm Reynolds in that regard!)
Always use a needle three to eight inches long, depending on the scenario described above.
Oh, also whenever you need to inject yourself, yank the needle cap off with your teeth and spit it out.
This is exactly correct. Hollywood doesn’t know how any profession works—medicine, law, journalism, law enforcement, high finance—and they don’t particularly care. Movies and television aren’t documentaries. They have no need to do anything realistically.
They also don’t know how any specific real-life city is laid out or that it can’t actually go form noon to midnight from one end of an underpass to another. It doesn’t matter.
Yes, but do you toss the pills into your mouth quickly and then lower your hand, or do you leave the palm of your hand over your mouth for several seconds and appear to be slowly licking the pills off your hand, as actors (and my former roommate) do?
Now that you mention it, I’m frequently driven nuts by the depictions of restaurants in movies/shows. Specifically, those scenes where a character is dining in a small, cozy restaurant that seats perhaps 50-100 people. The character’s enemy bursts in through the front door, waving a gun, and so the character opts to flee by running through the kitchen and out the back door. And it is revealed that this small, cozy restaurant has a gigantic, convention-sized kitchen with 12 white-clad chefs.
I’m convinced that that type of depiction is the reason some people see nothing wrong with showing up in party of 40 at a small restaurant, without calling ahead, and then complaining, “Why is our food taking so long?” They just don’t understand that we don’t have a gigantic kitchen with a dozen chefs. We have a cramped kitchen that feels like it was added as an afterthought, with one or two guys in T-shirts and baseball caps, and no space to prepare 40 meals all at once.
Granted, I understand why Hollywood shows kitchens like that: There would be no room for a camera crew in a realistically-sized kitchen. So they shoot the dining room scene in a restaurant that has the look they want, and shoot the kitchen scene in some hotel’s catering kitchen.
That’s the one that bugs me. Also, they usually don’t use a tourniquet to make the vein pop up, they just stick it in.
Also, I just wanted to say …
SED-A-GIVE!
What I find amusing is that sometimes Hollywood gets it correct, but people disbelieve it because it’s in a movie. Hollywood’s percentage ain’t that great, granted, but I look at the OP and I think if I was unethical “mythbuster” I could easily make take somebody down with a poorly aimed injection. Myth confirmed.
Wait a minute!
Are you trying to tell me that Medical and Nursing school graduates know more about giving intravenous and intramuscular injections than Film school graduates? :dubious:
Now pull the other one, it’s got bells on it. 
I went to AA with a relative once and my largest takeaway from it was that every one in Hollywood must be an alcoholic, since the experience basically matched what you see in TV and in film more or less exactly. They might not know how movies are made, but they know what goes on in an AA meeting.