I was watching a rerun of the Brady Bunch and it was the episode where the kids are building a house of cards to see who gets all the trading stamps.
Anyway it’s Marcia’s turn and she puts a card on and her bracelet almost knocks it off. Jan says “If that had happened it wouldn’t have counted.” Greg objects and Mrs Brady says “Well we did say everything counts.” Cindy says “That’s not fair boys don’t wear bracelets.”
I felt like yelling WHY DOESN’T SOMEONE TELL MARCIA, TAKE OFF YOUR BRACELET?
I got to wondering what other minor plot lines like that make you want to yell?
I don’t mean whole storylines just minor details, and I don’t mean continuity problems but just minor things that weren’t thought out well in TV/Movie stories
Whenever I see that “Simpson” episode where Sideshow Bob keeps stepping on the rakes, and whacking himself in the face, I just want to scream “TURN THE F*** AROUND!!!”
I stopped watching Sitcoms over twenty years ago simply because more than 95% of all the situations involve miscommunications and stupidity that could easily be circumvented or brought to an immediate end if someone, sometimes just ANYONE, would open their mouth and say something.
Yes, but the boys lost anyway, because of Tiger. Even as a boy myself, I always wanted to yell “serves you right, you poncy little gits!”
(And I always assumed that the bracelet was a gift from Marcia’s dead father, and everyone knew it, and even Bobby would never suggest that she take it off. I have an explanation for why she wasn’t wearing it in the Brady Wives series, but to be frank it’s XXX-rated and involves a great deal of adult Jan & Marcia making out.)
The moment when the Bluth family makes an abortive getaway run aboard RMS Queen Mary really annoyed me. Even if the charming old rustbucket wasn’t bolted to the shore and hemmed in by a breakwater and still had her boilers, it’s not like they could just power her up with the push of a lever.
I know by the end of its run “Arrested Development” was about as realistic as “The Simpsons,” and it wouldn’t have bothered me as much if they hadn’t made a joke in that very episode that depended on the utter impossibility of the ship leaving port.
How many TV show episodes would have been reduced to 5 minutes if someone had just given someone a stern “he/she’s out of your life now, get over it” talk?
Back to the Future 2 was on TV the other day and I watched it with my girlfriend’s son. He’s 16 and it was really fun to make fun of the 80’s with him and answer his questions from someone who lived through the era.
Anyway, in the beginning, Doc drives up and is all “Hurry, hurry, hurry. We have to get to 2015 to save your son. There is no time to waste.” That makes no sense at all. They could have spent two years devising the perfect plan and still arrived there right on time.
Over here we used to have what were called Whitehall Farces(After a theatre that used to show them continuosly)with mostly a bloke called Brian Rix in the starring role.
The plot was basically this,a middle class(Brit MCs ie. a bit posh) bloke is having his boss/vicar/head of the golf club that he wishes to join)to dinner and for some reason or other his trousers fall down out of sight of the person he is so desperate to impress.
Rather then saying "Oh I am sorry my belt snapped etc."to the person he is trying to impress who,bearing in mind this was not very long after the war so that most people were used to seeing people bombed out half naked and covered in excrement etc.),he will try hiding in the cupboard under the stairs or somewhere equally useful where another mishap will happen like a dog peeing on his leg or whatever and so it goes…
I always enjoyed French Farce more because while it was as equally ridiculous it was always about infedelity which at my young age was MUCH more interesting.
Nope. There’s plenty of room of room between the car and the rakes for him to step around them. Hell, the whole Simpson family and their dog managed to avoid stepping on the rakes, including that blockhead Homer. so there!
And most genius moment ever? Nope. It’s nowhere near as funny as Bart duping the church congregation into singing “Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida”, or Homer hallucinating on Mexican death sauce. So Nyah nyah.
I hate the miscommunication leading to hilarious consequences when it is obviously so contrived. Like a dude makes out with the best friend of his girlfriend. Meanwhile the girlfriend thinks her boyfriend wanted to have a surprise party bu iot didn’t work out. Hilarity ensues.
"I just wanted to tell you…
“it’s alright, I already know.”
“You do? And you’re not mad?”
“Why would I be mad?” (here is wehre alarm bells shoudl go off, but no)
“Ri-i-i-ight. No need to be about THAT.”
“In fact I think it’ sweet.”
“Sweet…ok…cool.” (flop sweat abounds)
