I wouldn’t count on that. Most people, yes, although trying to actually deliver such a blow is harder than it looks. Some will just look at you funny and then punch you in the face.
There was an episode of Fringe where the technobabble doodad of the week killed people by generating some sort of sound. In order to retrieve it quickly and without dying from the sound, one of the characters had another fire off a gun next to his head so he couldn’t hear the device anymore.
For some inhalers you, in fact, do hold it an inch or so away from your mouth. Note figure a here.
Some inhalers will shoot most of the medication to the back of your throat if you put it in your mouth. By holding it away from your mouth and breathing in you get the full dose of medication. Newbies can buy special spacers or use an empty toilet paper roll to get the correct distance.
But in the films, they make the comical puffer face and crossed eyes after being struck, but are able to give chase a minute later.
I thought Luis Gossett Jr was the kicker, not the kickee.
Indeed. It was Richard Gere who ate mat.
The knife fight in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was probably also a pretty realistic portrayal of a nut shot.
“Rules? In a knife fight?”
Way back in the Watergate era, a news cameraman walked through a glass window. He was tracking some bigwigs who were walking down the corridor out of an office building; he was paralleling them, so taping them from the side.
They went through the door.
He went through the window beside the door.
The image jiggled a little, then he caught right up with them again. It was almost as inconsequential as if he’d gone through another door. (But he didn’t! You could see the glass flying!)
Tasers do not knock people out.
Fred Burton (an alias) stalks Joan Manion in The Sky’s the Limit. James Bond romps with Pussy Galore in the hay. Commonness could depend on what one watches.
I’ve never yet seen a “stop” button in an elevator.
It’s incredibly difficult for one car to catch another that has a head start and trying to escape. Especially within a city with multiple routes a car can disappear with virtually no chance of finding it within 60 seconds. (and yes, I outran a chasing car with a 20 second head start and “lost” it in a subdivision)
Already mentioned - but a van is not going to keep up with sports car
Rooftops are generally locked and inaccessible without the proper authorisation / keys.
I’ll double-check and try to post a photo, but I think I’ve seen this lots of times. Not just a “door open” button, that doesn’t always work, but a big red emergency button. Let me get back to you…
Grin! Back in my misguided youth, I did that too. I whipped into an apartment complex and parked in someone’s space. Engine off, lights out, I’m as good as invisible.
And rooftops are at very different heights; there’s no possible way to do a rooftop chase of any significance. And streets are much too wide to be jumped across. Movies make it look like a whole “other world” up there, and that’s just a load of hooey.
For the record, if properly motivated, tires will squeal on dirt roads. Been there, done that! 
is it a regional thing? I’ve travelled in NZ, Oz, through parts of Asia (Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia) and have seriously never seen it in 42 years…
I have seen “door hold” on goods lifts, but never an honest to god “stop” that would hold the elevator between floors
There are emergency buttons in American elevators, but I don’t think they cause the elevator to screech to a halt. I think they’re just alarms. A bell rings and maybe someone tries to call you on the intercom.
Sometimes there’s a thing that says “stop,” next to where the fire department key is inserted. (IIRC when an elevator is in fire mode it works sort of like an old fashioned elevator with an operator, so the firefighters have time to load it up with hoses and rescued people and such.)
When you fast reverse or fast forward a videotape, you don’t hear the sound pitched higher and at a faster speed. The VCRs I’ve used have all muted the sound when you rewind or fast forward. You do not hear people on the tape speaking like Chip and Dale.
Not that rare, and it drove me fucking nuts when I was marathoning the seasons that are on Netflix. I suffer from tinnitus…one of the things that can set it off is frequencies in the same range. So, I’m not just getting a simulation of the tinnitus, I’m getting the real damn thing, and I will be for the rest of the episode.
At a judicial hanging, the condemned man doesn’t die the second he drops, even if the neck is broken.
Prison lights do not dim when someone is executed in the electric chair. (It has its own generator.)
If you try to jump a car like it’s the General Lee, the vehicle will be completely destroyed on landing. And passengers are going to be seriously injured, too.
Guns never have recoil in the movies. Nor does the shooter ever need to use two hands while firing.
According to my father, who was quite scandalized by it, yes but not limited to doctors and nurses.
Are DNA and chemical analysis “common devices and machines”? Because the immense majority of what goes on in the lab in cop shows makes Star Trek look realistic.
And you can’t be in front of the Biltmore in Miami and then in the middle of the Everglades in a matter of half an hour. Not even if that Pontiac flies.
Lots of romcoms, too, and lots of stories set in high school or college (both movies and TV). Sleepless in Seattle is the one which always comes to mind.
An untrained person forced to do a parachute jump will probably suffer significant lower leg injuries.
You wont win at the casino.