I just watched the British detective series Broadchurch, and those motherfuckers were incompetent as fuck.
On “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, Sunnydale HS Principal Snyder correctly stated, “The Sunnydale Police are deeply stupid.”
As are the Gotham City PD in every incarnation of Batman, obviously.
If Indy hadn’t gotten involved, Marian would probably have wound up dead, the Nazis would have found the ark, taken it directly to Hitler and opened it in front of him, killing him and ending WWII before it really got started.
Sometimes some writer starts a meme, like “why didnt the eagles just drop the Ring into Mt Doom?” and “Indy didnt really do anything”. They are usually wrong.
Or they would have finished their research, and found out how to open it safely.
Belloq did what he always intended to do, open it himself. He was never going to send it to Hitler first.
Like “Luke didn’t do anything” in ROTJ? I guess if Luke hadn’t given himself up, Vader would have just shown up where ever Luke was going to. Assuming Vader hasn’t been emasculated by the Emperor. My impression of their relationship in ROTJ is that Vader has been put in the doghouse.
Found out a about a guy named Shelley Nutt the other day. He got married and took his husbands name of Hunt. Yes…he’s now Shelley Nutt-Hunt.
A lot of people make fun of the Gotham P.D, but the people in charge of security at Arkham and the Gotham City jail must truly be incompetent.
Washington, DC’s WHFS hit most of those metrics in the 60s and 70s. They were quite a tonic for all the stations that had playlists in the upper single/lower double digit ranges. And while they eventually settled on an alternative rock identity in the 80s (and had handshake deals with a bunch of fringe bands that went on to be commercially huge in the 90s), they still had a blues show well into the 1990s. The station and format died spectacularly about 15 years ago when new owners gutted it and turned into “EL ZOL,” a Spanish language station, but HFS was contemporary with both versions of WKRP.
(I forget whether they aired pay-for-play religious content on Sundays, but that was certainly done on some Washington area stations.)
I worked with a Michael Hunt. He preferred his full name and not a nickname and he was from Germany so I’m not sure if anyone ever told him.
No mention so far of House. Four wrong diagnoses for every right one, and an enabling boss who dresses like an escort. No wonder other hospitals wouldn’t take Dr, Foreman; Princeton-Plainsboro’s toxic reputation spilled all over him!
Stephanie Plum in the Janet Evanovich series. I should amend that - the first few books in the series are somewhat serious, like a Kinsey Milhone novel. She is untrained - she was a lingerie buyer til she lost the job and blackmailed her cousin into hiring her as a bounty hunter. Somewhere about book 5 it shifted to broad slapstick chick-lit complete with effectively Beevis and Butthead crossed with I Love Lucy Lucy and Ethel shindigs. A few books back, after some 17 or so slapsticks she shifted to using a ghost writer that rumor had being her daughter and son in law and the books got even worse, but this most current book seems to be written by a competent ghost, and sliding back to more serious [there are complaints in the reviews that it isn’t funny any longer]
Like the Kinsey Milhone novels, they don’t seem to have much of a changing timeline, so it is like each book is almost just a reboot - but still, you would think that someone chasing down crooks would value learning to use her gun and run so that she could chase down her skips, and maybe take some self defense/martial arts to kick butt when attacked, but all she seems to do is sit there eating doughnuts and dealing with having an abusive “boyfriend”
SW:ANH was on earlier today and I stopped on a few minutes of it and thought of something I never had before: when Luke asked him about Princess Leia, he said that he didn’t know who she was, but thought that she was on the ship and was important for something or another. But as a protocol droid, shouldn’t it be part of his job to be familiar with what officials and important passengers are on the ship with him?
it’s even more ironic that after Leia was born it was her dad that supposedly erased r2d2’s and c3pos memory banks …but r2 remembered everything (unknown to everyone else)
The Tuetels from “American Chopper”. They had a golden goose dropped in their laps, and they couldn’t keep their personal vendettas and childish grudges out of the business and destroyed it. Paul Sr. and Jr. went on spending spress for themselves, while treating their employees like dirt and subsequently losing their best ones. And then the two of them couldn’t even maintain a working relationship despite being father and son.
One would think a droid trained/programmed in “protocol” (is it ever defined what a “protocol droid” does?) would be a bit more dapper than the bumbling C3PO, tbh. But, to your point, yes he should’ve known not just Leia, but her entourage as well.
And a lesser example is Dave Hestert of “Storage Wars” who forgot he was only supposed to be an asshole on the show.
Yah, but he had a kick-ass salesman!
OK, so Madolyn Madden of The Departed is pretty sucky at her job:
- Sleeps with a patient of hers.
- Gives him drugs because he had a snit.
- Gets involved with a man she may end up treating.
- Constantly misses the signs that her boyfriend (Matt Damon) is a rat. (Though she has ‘doubts’.)
- Underestimates herself.
- Yells at her patients. Kicks them out of her office.
- Gets tired at the end of the day, stops giving a shit (according to Leo).
- Gives Leo Lorazipam (sp). When he asks “is this enough to kill myself”, she responds “maybe it is”. Then she asks her patient “Have I done enough to meet your standards?” while still admitting that he “fits the model of drug-seeking behavior”. That’s some quality psych work right there, Maddie!
- Right after the above, she has coffee with the “drug seeking” suicide, starts flirting.
- Doesn’t understand that cops are playing her (the “cops cry when they use their weapons” scene).
- Hell, Leo does a better job of psychoanalyzing her than she, him.
- Even Damon plays with her emotions just in their first date.
- Damon takes her to a swank French restaurant, she doesn’t question where the money comes from.
And so on. Just bad, horrible at her job.