# Plot Genres You Hate, Even In Your Favorite Shows

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plot-genres-you-hate-even-in-your-favorite-shows/680851>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 8, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plot-genres-you-hate-even-in-your-favorite-shows/680851 "2014-02-08T19:37:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plot-genres-you-hate-even-in-your-favorite-shows/680851/141 "2015-07-29T08:31:34Z")

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I’m binge-watching the second season of Brooklyn Nine - Nine these days. Will you believe they had the old _“character who has never been seen near a cigarette suddenly happens to be a long time smoker quitting for that episode”_? And no, not even in an ironic meta way, like they did in HIMYM, no. They did it for real.

It’s not even the fact that I thought that cliché had been buried since the early nineties, it’s that it happened in the TV show I least expected to see it sprung, since otherwise it’s written in a fairly self-aware way.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plot-genres-you-hate-even-in-your-favorite-shows/680851/142 "2015-07-29T10:40:15Z")

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> [@Raguleader](#):
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> JAG[…]the attractive female was the believer.

Truth in television 🙂

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plot-genres-you-hate-even-in-your-favorite-shows/680851/143 "2015-07-29T14:15:18Z")

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The mental disability _de jour_: It’s usually some insipid mental quirk like hoarding that made headlines and the talk show circuit. A cast member or recurring character all the sudden has it, and all it takes is probing into the victim’s childhood and making them confront the truth about what really happened at that pivotal moment to cure them.

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**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plot-genres-you-hate-even-in-your-favorite-shows/680851/144 "2015-07-29T14:20:04Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> A baby being born somewhere outside of a hospital, especially if it’s somewhere ridiculous like in an elevator or in a mountain cabin.

There’s a lot to piss off someone watching “Sense8” but Riley’s labor scene, supposed to be tragic, just made me angry as heck. They piled the stupid high and wide for that scene.

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