I love how psychologists and psychiatrists can go from meeting a person to working through major emotional pain from childhood in about 10 minutes.
This is one of my pet peeves: a forensic scientist collecting samples with their hair loose all over the place. Yeah right. :rolleyes:
I noticed in the first season of “Crossing Jordan” when they did autopsies they were all done up with face shields and everything, but it subsequent seasons they slacked off and didn’t use them.
The worst thing about the CSI shows (and similar programs) is the lighting. Every time I flip past these programs, the lab is always dimly lit when they’re doing there work. You almost never see labs in real life that aren’t as brightly lit as possible. There is no good reason (unless your’re using UV light) to have your lab in underlit situations. Then why do these shows keep showing labs that look like they’re hosting Goth Night at the local club?
My hunch: The producers despise writers, so they make them portray themselves in as poor a light as possible.
Carrie on *Sex in the City *always had enough cash for posh places and fancy outfits…but she was a columnist…who landed a brownstone in a rent controlled area of the Upper East Side. <raise brow>
That’s because we can’t handle the truth.
I have another - I am a military Public Affairs person. I am, believe it or not, not trying to keep pulling the wool over anyone’s eyes.
If I can’t tell you something due to security/privacy concerns, I will actually tell you that. I will otherwise push out the most accurate and up to date info I can, I won’t lie.
My credibility on my job is the major asset I have, if I lied to the media/public, I would be useless in my job.
Writers writing about writers always make their own profession sexier than in real life. If cops wrote cop shows and lawyers wrote lawyer shows, things might be different.
…and not a good one either.
I think it’s the opposite. They want to make writing look as intriguing and dangerous and adventurous as possible so the audience will think writers are awesome and want to have sex with them. 
Oh, yes. And no one ever turns on the overhead lights at a crime scene. It’s all flashlights and Goth Night at the club.
Ditto that on the civilian side. Nor do I spend my days walking the corridors of newspapers and TV stations backing unsuspecting reporters against the wall while trying to browbeat them into running my story.
On the other hand, I don’t cast a Machiavellian spell over my clients, dictating their companies’ every action in my relentless thirst for power and influence. That’s the Sales department’s job!
Or in a courtroom even. I’m always surprised how many courtrooms seem to get their light only from the windows.
That’s a good one. Also many courtrooms you see on TV seem to be these ornate oak-paneled temples to justice, with chandeliers, brass railings and old paintings on the wall. In real life, courtrooms look little different than conference rooms, but with a judge’s bench up front. Think a lot of gray and beige with fluorescent lighting, along with beat up carpeting.
With a gun to their head while getting a blowjob.
Yeah, as a developer I barely even notice anymore how hilariously wrong they are.
I love the resident mentat they have on lots of cop shows. I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of Criminal Minds, but the skinny guy (quick google search- Dr.Spencer Reid) is not only an expert on everything under the sun but he doesn’t even need to consult a smartphone or a book. One scene it’s “That’s a symbol that originated in the Tang Dynasty… approximately 812-813 A.D. from the looks of it, probably on a Thursday after the rainy season…”, in the next it’s “Interesting, that’s a salt from a tripolyphosphoric acid, or would be except it seems they went with one extra oxygen atom… which has only been encountered once before in history and that was at a truckstop in Prince George County, Maryland, in November 1972…”.
Dragnet was probably the first show to have the “Expert on all sciences” guy, but it’s been copied a lot on cop shows, sitcoms and in movies. (And on Pawn Stars of course; I love how Rick will rattle off a wikipedia article on 18th century British political campaign ribbons or the history of a type of Coke only sold for three days in Venezuela in 1984 as if it’s off the top of his head.) I know there are many people who have vast spectrum of information tucked away but these experts beggar description. I don’t even know what Spencer Reid’s job is supposed to be since he’s the expert on all aspects of police work generally, but I would like to know how he gets the sapho juice stains off his teeth.
I liked the casting in Predators of Adrian Brody, as well as some of the non-Stalone actors in the most recent Rambo film, for these reasons.
Not everyone looks like Ah-nahld and Apollo Creed.
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Therapists on TV seem to just *love *analysing everyone around them. Especially if they are brought in as a love interest for a main character, and they analyse all the friends… I think most therapists don’t want to bother with that in their leisure time.
But the smoking in the teachers lounge, ala Simpsons, was a fact when I was younger. It was even considered good form to find out your teacher’s brand and give her a carton for Christmas.
Psychiatrists also don’t generally go out of their way to treat mob bosses that in the past have expressed a romantic interest in them, and have then threatened violence using agressive language (like several times before) when this overture was rebuked.
I’m an EMT, and I agree 100% with your wife’s itchy teeth.