We don’t know how much Emily eats; we see much less of her than we do the Lorelais. All we know is that the Mrs. G. has improbably good pins and the exact same gestural pattern as the elder Lorelai.
Going back a bit here - in Perry Mason, Mason’s clients were always innocent, and even better, he could almost always point out the real criminal before the case even got to the actual trial stage. You’d think that when Mason was assigned to a defendant for a particular case, the DA would just throw up his hands and say, “OK, who do you think really did it, then?” (Checking online, it seems like there were a couple episodes where the DA helped investigate someone else, but the vast majority of episodes were the standard pattern.)
I chuckle every time I see a police drama wherein the crime scene investigators or behavior analysis unit bust through doors, weapons drawn, ahead of a SWAT team or even just beat cops. Really, Poindexter? Isn’t there a fiber that needs identifying at the lab?!
There’s a name for a substance that does just that.
Cocaine.
Intersect. Not intercept, don’t be silly.
Calling it the intercept would be nonsensical!
The problem is that House has to do ever increasingly insane things to keep viewers interested. In the first season, I suppose it might’ve been mildly plausible to those without a medical education… but after 5 years they’ve started to get into “Dude, Fonzy just jumped that shark, while wearing leather jacket!” territory.
Internal inconsistencies bug me, more than anything else. The Worf thing, mentioned up thread. About 500 or a 1000 things from Enterprise make me bonkers. A few dozen things from each of the other series, per season. (Except voyager, which was at least 30 per episode – seriously, how many shuttles did they bring with them to the delta quadrant? At least 20.)
Stargate SG1, Jack makes long lasting emotional bonds at least once or twice per season, and then apparently abandons them (the woman on the planet he was stranded on,
The resolution to BSG, while it was awesome, was somewhat over-the-top. I can accept a semi-omniscient hallucination, and biological robots compelled to kill humanity… but I’d prefer it if there wasn’t such an obvious Neo-luddism movement that is apparently driven by “God,” who oddly enough, doesn’t like to be called that.
Stargate Atlantis, are you really telling me that the most ancient of ancient races, the smartest and oldest (“they were ancient when we were still young,” -Thor) were out-witted by life sucking alien insect humanoid hybrids? And that humans, with our pluckiness, somehow managed to out-wit them?
In fact, a similar question goes for the Goa’uld in Stargate SG-1. How is it that the humans, almost single handedly overthrew the reigning government of the Milky Way for the last 10 millenia, in 8 years? The Tok’ra had been subverting them for centuries and the Tollan had technology far greater than ours. The humans of Earth should’ve been wiped out a long time before that show ever came to climax.
Stargate Universe: Why was Earth interested in Destiny at all? It doesn’t have any technology that Earth doesn’t have access to, the only thing I can possibly think they might want is the intel on neighboring galaxies… but there’s no reason Rush should be nearly so interested in it. Rush wants to advance science, in comparison to the technology on Atlantis, the technology on Destiny is sadly antiquated…
And that just sci fi shows… I’ve got more from Star Trek, Sit Coms, Dramas and even a few from “historical” stuff knocking around, but Im’ tired of typing.
Did they ever specify where Phoebe lived? I always assumed it was in the east village. But a job as a masseuse actually pays quite a lot (or did in the booming 90s when people had money to burn on luxuries), so she was one of the most plausible members of that group to be living in the city.
The episode that mentions Monica’s apartment being rent controlled was not a first season episode. In fact, it was specifically written to address the issue that people were already griping about. Originally, it really was two waitresses living in an apartment that would have been impossible for them to afford. Thus, this is a case of fan/viewer griping that improved a show.
As for Joey being a soap actor, the first thing he did when he became a soap actor was to move into a bigger apartment. He only lived with Chandler when he was NOT on the soap. And I have had enough actor friends to know that Joey could not have afforded his rent without a day job (which I don’t recall him ever having.)
Nitpick: It’s ManhattAn. There’s no ‘ten’ in it.
NYPD Blue - vast majority of crooks confess to their crime, in many cases because the cop threatens to beat them up if they don’t.
The thing I find hardest to suspend disbelief about in the Stargate shows is the idea that the Stargate program is still being kept a secret. I could accept that at the start of the first show, when the stargate program was a few hundred people in a top-secret military base. By the time of Stargate Universe, the number of people who have been through the Stargate is in the tens of thousands, and that includes high-ranking members of dozens of governments. The earth has been attacked by alien fleets several times, and skyscraper-sized starships are being routinely built and flown by both the US and Russia. I actually find it easier to believe in a universe full of aliens who all speak English somehow than to believe that the Stargate program could still be kept a secret from the general public.
Monica was a chef. Not a waitress, and not just a cook either.
I love Dexter but have you noticed how completely incompetent the Miami Homicide force is?
I mean, not only does Dexter murder people all the time under their noses (obviously that has to happen as it is the entire point of the show) but three of the detectives have had sexual relationships with violent criminals.
I dated a massage therapist for a year. She had to work three jobs, and still almost lost her house.
Granted, that wasn’t in the 90s.
I’m just finishing up the third season of 24 (yes, I’m that behind) and the one thing that grates on me is that there is no way that such a highly sensitive unit would allow a husband and wife, a father and daughter, and a boyfriend/girlfriend situation all to be working together and not expect that it wouldn’t interfere with things.
Much less can I see how Kin Bauer learned such advanced computer forensics skills in such a short time.
I’ve only seen a handful of 24 episodes, but it’s my understanding that there’s always a jump of a few years between seasons. Season three is four or five years after season one, not one or two.
That introduces other problems, of course.
Any cop show (or movie) where the cops and the bad guys are engaged in a high speed chase, sirens blaring, but cross traffic pays no attention to the chase so that there can be fancy driving maneuvers. Not to mention that half the cop cars get totaled without anyone batting an eye. At least the Dragnet movie handled this.
Also, when the hero cop shoots people, there seems not to be much in the way of investigation. In most cases around here they are put on desk duty, with pay, even when the shooting looks justified.
Hmm. The massage therapist got $75 for an hours’ work. Guess your g.f. wasn’t working for the right people.
:smack:
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima.
In my defense, I didn’t have any breakfast or coffee this morning.
This is what I liked (one of many things) about the Canadian series Blue Murder. When a cop shot someone, he immediately handed over his piece to a superior until the investigation was complete.
I don’t know about that. Just look around…lots of schlubby guys are dating really hot women. You wouldn’t think so, but start trying to notice and you will. What I rarely see is really hot men with schlubby women- that rarely seems to happen IRL. Maybe there is just a greater proportion of hot women. 
And of course my husband who shares many characteristics of both “Jim” and “Doug” managed to snag me 
so I have no problems believing the tv couplings.
One advantage Earth had was population. The Goa’uld mention this several times (“they should never have been allowed to breed to such numbers”). Most planets the Goa’uld dominate seem to have tiny tiny populations, whereas we could easily spare thousands of soldiers. The Tok’ra were advanced, but there were really only a few hundred or so. So we were not really as weak as we’d seemed. Also the Goa’uld were internally divided, didn’t know we were a threat until it was too late, etc etc. I think there was a distinct element of “we so should have killed them when we had the chance” among the Goa’uld after the first few seasons.
This does create the further problem of “why weren’t there hundreds/thousands of troops involved at any point?” You’d think sending in an infantry division would have seemed like a good idea at some point. Or permanent diplomatic presences on any non-occupied worlds. After the first few seasons they lost the “we must be small” excuse.
I’ll give them the English as a necessary conceit for the series (and at least they were upfront about it). But yes, WTF on the world’s complete lack of curiosity about…everything. Also, why was one crazy senator ever in a position to compromise the program’s funding? Seriously folks, greatest discovery in history of mankind, makes Apollo program look like bottle rockets.
I prefer to pretend Stargate Universe doesn’t exist. Did it ever get better?
She was reknowned for her hypnotic abilities. Now how about a nice game of solitaire?
And then she baked the victims into pies?