Did you ever see Mickey Spillane’s star turn as Hammer? It had happened by 1963.
I’ve been watching old episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive on MeTV channel and Josh Randall got hit over the head in every episode, with no bad effects.
The Revenant was based on an actual incident, a man named Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a bear. As in the film, he was attended by two men named Bridger and Fitzgerald, who abandoned their charge, taking his weapons. Glass reportedly recovered somewhat and then crawled and then limped to a settlement.
Some of the other tropes mentioned are probably dead. I can’t actually think of a show I’ve seen where heavy drinking doesn’t lead to a hangover (if anything, hangovers are exaggerated) and the last rendition of a baguette in a shopping bag I can recall was in Michael Clayton, where the insane lawyer has a big sack of them. I don’t really watch all that many shows or movies, so maybe there’s genres where cliches still get used and I don’t know about it. But if you’re watching daytime schlock maybe you should be rolling your eyes at yourself, not the show.
You’re lying! I know how to get to the bottom of THIS, you fiend!
Hell, how many times in just one season of Lost was Ben Linus beaten to a pulp? That guy should have been a zombie but instead managed to shake it off better than any other wimpy guy ever known.
Yesterday… I like baguettes.
The orange juice pitcher at breakfast.
Even on a school/work day, the kids come downstairs at 7am, and there is a sumptuous full breakfast, usually cooked by Mom, who also has to go to work, but the table is set with with the pitcher of orange juice sitting in the middle of the table.
No cartons in movie land.
What kind of mom wouldn’t have fresh squeezed juice on the table?
Not to mention a pitcher of milk instead of the carton from the store.
The point was its kinda random.
if you hit one guy on the skull, he might be knocked out, you hit the next guy the same way, he can have his skull broken away and brain hanging out and he’s seeking revenge on you.
More like the trope of everybody who ever buys any groceries in a American movie using paper bags and having one baguette except if they have one piece of celery instead; the amount of baguettes is invariant with regards to family size. Bachelor? One baguette. Bachelorette? One single piece of celery. The Brady bunch, Eight is enough, the next generation of either? One baguette. And if they are later shown doing anything in the kitchen other than put away those groceries, the baguette is nowhere to be seen and all bread is of the non-baguette types.
Not to mention the BRIGHT CHEERY MORNING SUNSHINE POURING through the windows at 7:00 am!
That can happen in June at higher latitudes.
Note that the sunbeams come thru all the windows, even the ones on the opposite side of the house. Grey’s Anatomy was esp. bad at this. They would even have sunbeams coming in windows at 6am in the winter.
In Seattle, famous for its long winter daylight hours without rain.
Well, in that case, I’m low-down!
I’m pretty sure this one hasn’t been mentioned, but I didn’t read through all of the posts.
Nobody uses a holster, they just stick the gun in the back of their pants.
When a man and a woman are running from anything, they must hold hands while running. That way if one trips and falls, they both go down.
In spite of what you might see in the various Law & Order franchises, very few people have been shot on the stairs or jumped off the roof of the New York County Courthouse at 60 Centre Street.
If they stuck it in the front of their pants, they might go off half-cocked.
When you go into a restaurant, bar, corner coffee shop, or hamburger joint with a funny Japanese owner named “Arnold” it actually costs money which often you dont have and if you do go to those places it will quickly drain your bank account. Plus the owners dont really like people taking up booth or table space if they are not buying anything even if they are clever fun people who always having an interesting adventure.
And back to bars, I cannot think of one where nobody actually gets drunk.
And bartenders and waitresses are never your friends. They want your money and thats about it.
Most writers do not solve an average of two murders a month due to incompetent law enforcement officers. (“Murder She Wrote” ran for 264 episodes!)