This is going to an HBO thread for me.
True Blood
Some vampires like puns a lot more, since that is the humor from the time they came from. Also they look older than their human age, because the times were more rough.
Deadwood
When they fight, it seems real. Not the usual 100 hard, fast punches to each other.
The Wire
Many things. What springs to mind is the main characters apartment, which is totally bare, just a bed and some clothes.
I just learned that in the second episode of Carnivale (set in the 1930s), the Vitalis that Brother Justin puts on his hair is genuine, 70-year-old Vitalis, and that the bottle was a genuine, sealed bottle opened just for the filming of that scene. I think that’s a neat little touch that shows how conscientious the art designers were about setting the atmosphere.
I always liked the police station on NYPD Blue. I liked that they had knick-knacks on their desks and that they did their interviews and interrogations all over the place, not just in fancy interrogation rooms. I especially liked the bulletin boards full of old-looking haphazrdly-placed papers and the signs all over the place- stuff like “please clean up after yourself” over the coffee maker or “warning! This bathroom is unisex! Please knock before entering!” on the bathroom door (none of those are ver batim… the jerks on TNT stopped airing NYPD Blue a while ago and I did not memorize the signs before it went away.).
Speaking of Adam West’s Batman, I just watched the movie, and was absolutely killed by the scene where he’s at a fancy restaurant, with a beautiful woman, holding a giant brandy snifter filled with milk.
Speaking of OCD, I loved when they are showing Jack Nicholson’s kitchen area in As Good As It gets, and he has a separate glass canister for each color M&M.
Another thing I’ve found about Deadwood, is that an overriding theme is the onrush of ‘civilization’. Telegraph lines, stagecoaches and more and more permanent buildings populate the town as the series went on.
Very cool to see.
Freaks and Geeks was another show that was really good with repeating clothes in the actors wardrobe, especially the “poorer” characters like Kelly.
Noted. 
I loved the way they used props in Julie and Julia to tie the two characters’ stories together. I think the best was when Julie was making bourguignon in her orange Le Creuset pot and it then transitioned to Julia wrapping up her identical pot in preparation for a move.
There are lots of similar juxtapositions if you look for them.
In Dangerous Liaisons, the duel between Malkovich and Reeves was an exhausting, drawn-out affair. Excellently done.
Well, to be fair, Brundle actually figured out a way to teleport matter from one place to another. That’s arguably more clever than Einstein.
Also in McCabe and Mrs. Miller, the gunfight is nothing like the stereotypical meet in the middle of main street fight.
An older one: on Friends, in the boys’ apartment there was a Magnadoodle (or something like it) on the front door. There was something different drawn on it in every episode. I remember in the commentary on one of the DVD sets, the producers said that there was a crew member who was tasked with doing a new drawing for each ep.
In the Pushing Daisies episode, “The Legend of Merle McQuoddy”, Olive buys raincoats for herself and Emerson Cod. Both raincoats are clear plastic, with patterns on them: Olive’s coat is covered with olives, while Emerson’s is covered with cod.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: When Spicoli has the pizza delivered to him in the classroom, he pulls cash out of his pocket, and picks out the lint.
Freudian Slit said:
No hair dryers. Did you get that part? Plus, expectations were for elaborate hair dos.
My mom had a set of curlers she used until the '80s, when perms became more affordable. She was a teen in the '50s.
Reminds me of a couple of similar cuts:
(1) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Luna is tossing food the the scary-looking thestrals, who snarf it up rather messily and noisily. Cut to Ron at lunch gnawing on a sausage.
(2) About a Boy: After Will’s girlfriend dumps him in the restaurant, he makes the “check please” gesture (as if writing) to the waiter. Cut to Will making almost the exact same movement while feeding his fish.
(3) Jeeves & Wooster, first episode: Jeeves is ironing Bertie’s pants, with lots of steam. Cut to the train station, with lots of either fog or steam from the train.
*Firefly *is (well, was, sadly) the one space show where space is actually silent. Spaceship engines, guns, astronauts walking around etc… don’t make a sound.
I always remember one episode of NYPD Blue where one of the female regulars quickly checked an empty coffee mug in the interview room to see if it was dirty before she risked using it.
The commentary track on the DVD explained that the actress had slipped in this tiny action herself because her character wouldn’t have trusted the male cops she worked with to give the mug more than a quick rinse before putting it back on the shelf. That seemed very real to me, and just the kind of habit any woman working in a mostly male office would develop.