If they do wake up naked, they will either put their clothes on while under the covers, or make a sheet toga to wear while putting on their clothes. Yes, Charlie Harper, I’m talking about you. How come you weren’t earing a sheet toga when trashing the Plaza hotel room?
I like how they always say “Yeah, the suspect ran a website for talking about little girls…”, hit a button and the website just springs up, fully loaded with sound, animation and whatever.
I’d like to see them hit a button, wait, get a time out error, hit F5 a dozen times and then finally see the site come into view.
Ok, not really but computers on TV are funny 
But even then she was able to get inside an air duct and crawl around in it until it became amusing for her to fall out of it.
If I were writing an action thriller, I’d have a scene were the heroes are trapped inside a locked room. They notice an air vent up above. They improvise some kind of ladder and climb up and then improvise some kind of tool to unscrew and remove the vent … to find a typical air duct that’s about six inches wide.
The wiseguy hero then turns to the straightman hero and says “You first.”
And presumedly it’ll be one of those L-shaped sheets that are so popular in movies and TV shows - the kind that only come up to the man’s waist but go all the way up to the woman’s shoulders.
It can’t be that tough. Abby from NCIS does the same thing. And Angela on Bones has them both beat. She’s a Fine Arts major who can run a facial reconstruction program and then find out who the real person is.
Over the weekend, I saw the DVD of The Girl Who Played with Fire, the second film in the Millennium Trilogy. The title character is supposed to be a super-hacker, so in a couple of scenes we see her typing commands like (assume that John Doe is the target of her spying):
Locate_computer_John_Doe
Control_computer_John_Doe
Download_Files_John_Doe
And just like that she’s reading every file on John Doe’s computer. I understand that the hacking was compressed for film reasons, but it was hilarious.
It’s the underscores that do it. You have to be an expert to know about them.
I will concede that this one is sometimes valid, but in fact it depends on the nature of the show–hell, the individual episode. I just saw a snippet of an old MONK, for instance, in which Steven Weber was guest-starring. He was the murderer, which was made clear in the teaser, but that was no big deal for this show, as the cases were just the framework for Monk’s crazy. Monk was about the comic journey, not the resolution.
Now this one is silly. The episodes are only going to be an hour long – really more like 45 minutes with commercials. There’s no time to show all the stuff that would happen in “reality,” or even all the stuff that the characters surely do. We only see the payoff.
On NCIS, the characters are based in Washington DC but frequently have occasion to drive to Norfolk for crime scenes. That’s a good long drive, and it’s always implicit that the next time we see them in the office, it’s probably the next morning. You don’t really want them to show the drive, do you? Or to show the long tedious process of Abby working alone in her lab, talking to her instruments because she’s all by herself for hours at a stretch each day?
No one wants to see fat guys in speedos. Not even straight girls. I just checked with every straight girl in Collierville and the answer was unanimous.
TV shows are not supposed to replicate reality. They’re supposed to be amusing. If you want reality, you can always go outside.
What show featuring non-superhero characters does this?
n00bs think that holding shift just makes the dash mark bigger.
No we don’t. We know that holding the shift key increases the screen resolution of photographs on the computer to levels never before seen, meaning that that license plate photograph taken at night, in the rain, from 3 blocks away can be zoomed in on so much you can SEE the fingerprints on it.
My husband HATES police procedurals because the crime is ALWAYS solved within an hour. Too predictable, says he. :rolleyes:
**DMark ** said:
Yeah, some shows make it work, because the mystery isn’t who did it, but how and why. But 90% of the shows, they want you to wonder at the who, but it’s pretty easy to eyeball the biggest name guest star or most recognizable one of 3 and you’ll be correct.
A lot of time there is shorthand - the lead detective walks up, and someone who has been there starts explaining what they know, and then someone else points out detail X they just found. The suggestion is they’ve been looking for a while.
The biggest jumps are usually ~20 ft and drop a floor. But some of them do look fairly far for the average person to leap.
Not all alleyways are the same. Some places the gaps between buildings aren’t so much alleyways and just spaces between walls, or footpaths.
Annie-Xmas said:
Recently watching a show (IIRC Undercovers), lady lying on top of her husband, with her back exposed, but butt covered. She rolls sideways off of him, to have him exposed to his waist but she has the cover over her chest. That’s right, she had a layer of sheet between them.
Skald the Rhymer said
I don’t know, the all Abby show might make an interesting spin off. With or without sound. 
I dunno. I like Abby, and watching her interact with Gibbs, McGee, Ducky, and occasionally Vance is a big attraction of the show for me. But by herself she just seems … nuts.
Worse is when the crime scene is a public place, where who knows how much random crap may have been lying around for who knows how long – but that broken barrette under the subway platform, that’s the only thing the investigator picks up, is obviously the key to solving the crime.
It’s also lazy writing when the off-duty main-character cops just happen to be attending a high school football game when a gang killing happens right on the field, or just happen to be at a surfing contest talking to one of the participants right before he gets shot to death. These were two of the three episodes of the new Hawaii Five-O I have seen.
As I recall, the premise is that she already had installed some sort of virus on John Doe’s computer or whatever to allow her to access it. Maybe I’m thinking of a different scene…
Look, are you sure you really want any change here? Think carefully.
I guarantee you the perfectly normal square sheets that you likely use in your very own home are capable of that exact same thing. It’s a piece of cloth, not a rigid board. Just a little adjusting, and maybe a little tucking, is all that’s needed.
Anyway… Is there anyone in the history of TV/Movies that hasn’t had an extremely easy to guess password? I mean, sure some people do that in real life too, but the evil computer genius that created a virus that will wipe out all computers on the eastern seaboard uses his kid’s name “mike” instead of “jFFgiHSSS32q”?
The passwords on the various Treks seemed okay – except for the bit about havin to say them OUT LOUD.
I’m always amazed when I watch “House” that none of his team has ever been arrested for breaking-and-entering when going to the patient-of-the-week’s house to figure out what made them sick.
Clumsy exposition in the dialogue.