I think you mean Worf, but I think you really mean Barclay.
Worf was “devolving” into some Klingon dragon-monster-scare-me-sh!tless-thing.
It’s a fair cop. I’ll substitute instead every freaking time any sharp object is seen in any Scream movie up to and including Laurie Metcalf’s nose.
Um…I always assume Brenda is lying. My cite is Brenda’s personality. I expect that, like Garak from Deep Space Nine, she occasionally makes up long, involved lies to strangers she meeets in coffeehouses just to keep in practice, and to see how large she can blow a given prevariction bubble before it pops.
More nitpicking…Barclay was turning into a spider - Worf was turning into some kind of freakish Klingon monster. In any case, I unapologetically love this episode, wonky science and all…
Carry on!
Any time a TV show set in Boston, NYC, DC, etc talks about highways. You see, these shows are all written in L.A., where there’s such a thing as “the 5”. Except, in the cities that the shows are set in, no one would ever say “the 90” or “the 95” or “the 695”. It’s a stupid little thing but it’s great at jarring me right out of a conversation. Half the time the writers can’t even be bothered to research “the pike”, “the Merritt”, or “the beltway”.
And you wouldn’t have a DC running a squad of detectives. An equally idiotic model was in play in The District, where the Craig T. Nelson person was DC police chief and had his own little squad.
I don’t watch the show, nor have I ever seen an episode but…
In NCIS, how come if the show is taking place in the Navy they rarely (if ever) wear uniforms? If I remember one thing about previews and such for JAG they were always in uni, these guys never seem to be.
Also, regardless if she’s a tech or not, the Navy would never let weird punk girl dress and look like that.
Am I wrong in any of this?
Heh, my Dad does this for planes and helicopters - not only in movies but IRL too. All the goddamn time. And not only by sight - the bastard knows them by sound alone. So what happens is, you’ll be talking to him, and there’s a low key, far away droning sound at the edge of hearing, immediately he’ll cut you off mid-sentence.
He’s been doing this Amazing Jane’s Man act for as long as I’ve known him. 28 years and counting. It’s still annoying as hell :). For obvious reasons, you do not want to watch Blue Thunder, or an episode of Airwolf, or any kind of show that is remotely linked to something that flies with him in the room.
But anyhoo, what I came to say was that there’s actually a much more egregious medical error on House. And every medical show on Earth. And one movie out of two as well. Everyone does it, to the point that newbie EMTs start doing it too even if they should know better : YOU DON’T DEFIBRILLATE A FLATLINING HEART !
Counter-counter-nitpick ! Everyone knows Wolverine’s claws go “Snikt !” !
Not wearing uniforms is deliberate; Gibbs and his team work for a nebulously-defined agency that is part of the Department of the Navy (as in the executive department that is part ofthe Department of Defense), but they are not naval officers; they are civilians. (Gibbs comes closest, as he is a marine veteran.) I expect the original intent was to differentiate NCIS from JAG, of which the former show is a spin-off and whose characters always wore uniforms.
Pregnancy-related stuff. The West Wing was especially bad about that when Andy was pregnant – they found out they were having twins before the first ultrasound? How on earth would they have known it was twins? And the labor sequence was pretty silly, too, with the doctor predicting the babies would be out in 15 minutes without even doing a manual exam. It makes me assume that they also got a lot of the MS stuff wrong, since they couldn’t get something simple and universal like pregnancy right.
I love 30 Rock, it’s one of the shows that consistently makes me laugh out loud at least once an episode. That said—
Kenneth, the page, is from Stone Mountain, Georgia (the character, not the actor who plays him). He’s portrayed as the ultimate hillbilly hick.
In reality Stone Mountain- while a small town (pop 7,145)- is half an hour from downtown Atlanta (which looks likethisrather than this) and part of the metro area. Stone Mountain Park, while admittedly most famous for the enormous carved Confederates* on its face (begun by Gutzon Borglum of Rushmore fame) is a super popular recreation destination that gets tens of thousands of visitors every weekend and where parts of the '96 Olympics were held. There’s no way somebody who grew up in Stone Mountain would be as Deliverance as Kenneth. (Now if he’d grown up in North Georgia- there really are hillbillies and super isolated areas there (though there are also a lot of $350,000 vacation houses and gourmet restaurants and tourist towns).
Not to be a total spoil sport- I think Kenneth’s hysterical- but I wish they’d made him from somewhere less specific.
*As with so many southern cities they venerate Lee and Jackson and Davis even though Davis was hated at the end of the war and Lee & Jackson had squat to do with the Civil War history of the area.
Nuclear power. Dear lord, hollywood gets this so wrong its not funny.
I watched a movie set aboard a nuclear sub once, wherein the reactor suffers some serious damage, so the captain volunteers himself to fix it. He opens the door to the reactor room, where the camera reveals a puddle of green liquid on the ground, and he grabs his trusty pipe wrench in order to tighten down the fittings so the coolant stops leaking from the coolant hose. And naturally, since its hollywood, the captain dies of radiation within 1 minute of entering the room.
Oh, and the door? It was a normal style door that was 1 inch thick with a large glass window in it so that the crew could sit there and look sad as they watched the skipper die.
Sorry hollywood. There is no green liquid. Reactors are cooled by water. Just plain water(cept for sodium cooled reactors, but if that leaks, you have far more serious issues). At no point does any of the fluid from a reactor run through a hose. Nor are there ever any screw fittings… Everything is welded. Radiation? Sure, it will kill you, after several hours or days. And if you are standing outside of a 1" thick door looking through plain glass into a reactor compartment, you may as well just press your nuts up against the primary shield for all the help that gives. There are windows into the reactor compartment, but they are 12" thick leaded glass, and the light is reflected like a periscope.
And everytime someone cocks a pump shotgun that already has a round chambered, i want to slap someone. Or any time hollywood has people shooting accurately with 2 pistols, one for each hand, or one pistol in one hand…
Probably a third of the enlisted folk I knew, and fully half the officers, couldn’t have done a proper salute to save their lives.
I had an excellent salute, so maybe I was picky, but I’ll tell you, some of them were pretty crappy.
There’s a Wiggles rendition of the song “Dublin Zoological Gardens” where they sing “We saw the tigers on the African track.” I won’t let the Smell One listen to that song anymore.
Now there’s a commercial for some product that shows a picture of a tiger eating a zebra. That’s one hungry tiger, I’ll tell you, taking a plane from Delhi to Africa just to get some zebra.
Regarding Kenneth: But then his (normal) accent wouldn’t be right. Would you prefer he were from some part of the deep pinewoods and pretend that New Yorkers understand him? 
A tiger?
In Africa?
“We thought the cancer was benigny but it turns out it’s malignot”
Alec Baldwin on SNL
I’ve seen this conceit in TV shows going way back, including in a Hawaii Five-0 episode from 1972. If you have 16mm film you can just zoom in with the projector (!) & the image gets clearer. Maybe the movie Blowup (1966) started it all.
On the contrary, life insurance policies for Red Shirts are mandatory–with Kirk as the beneficiary.
NCIS is a real agency (and really is primarily a civilian agency).
I’m pretty sure the real life NCIS doesn’t include any sexy Mossad agents, though.
Ha! If an doctor told me he didn’t trust me to run his/her lab tests, this is what would happen:
MD: I think you’re incompetent even though you have thousands of hours experience running lab equipment and tests. Let me do it.
Me: Oh you do, do you? Fine. You’ll need these drop 10-15 heavy, 500+ page textbooks and binders on the bench. I’ll be on vacation in the Caribbean. If you have any problems, dial 1-800-FUCK-YOU, I’m sure they’ll be willing to help you out. I give you about 15 minutes before everything stops working. Later!
THe one that I always wonder about is the tyre / track / wheelbase thingy in the CSI style shows.
This track is XYZ tyre - that means it comes from ABC car - don’t people EVER change their factory tyres in the US? The same model car as mine here could be using any one of about 30 different tyres - including different rim combinations eg: factory size is 15 / 185 / 65, I am currently running 17 / 215 / 55, I could also have fitted 16’ rims, or gone for 225 / 50s for my 17", I had the choice of at least four different brands for my current rims, and lets not talk the different tyres within each brand.
The other thing that bugs me - car track is whateverity inches - must mean its a name specific model of all the thousands of car models in the world, no two have the same track?
Then lets not get started on the “dirt / leaf / water comes from” meme. Sometimes I can get it, but mostly I’m like WTF???
