# Horrible Movie and TV tropes about computers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 6, 2026, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-movie-and-tv-tropes-about-computers/1032852 "2026-09-06T04:51:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2026, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-movie-and-tv-tropes-about-computers/1032852/35 "2026-09-06T18:31:19Z")
I posted in another thread the following example, one year ago. It’s such a good example, it needs to be mentioned again: > [@Stupid Computer tricks in Television and Movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-computer-tricks-in-television-and-movies/1021359/9): > > In the 1988 Parker Stevenson series “Probe” (one of those genius problem solver shows popular at the time) a mad supercomputer AI takes control and kills people by manipulating real world things, such as setting traffic lights so cars crashand kill the driver, and similar happy hooey. The AI would watch people by hijacking surveillance cameras. Now in 1988 the world was not interconnected like that (and arguably, not even to that extent today). If you made this show today, yeah, at least it wou… You won;t believe who started that thread… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-movie-and-tv-tropes-about-computers/1032852)._