Two days from now?
Tell that to MacGyver. The only episode I ever watched, he escaped three times (!) from the bad guys, only to be recaptured because he refused (I guess it was his thing?) to use a gun.
Prop tip: if you are averse to guns, maybe being a spy isn’t the career choice for you.
Women on TV never take off their makeup before they go to bed. And couples never seem to have bad breath or BO when they wake up next to each other in the morning.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a man on TV hurry to take a whiz first thing in the morning. I’d climb over my partner to get to the bathroom in time.
And it just bought a boat. The “Live 4 Ever”.
MENDOOOOZAAA!
I can’t believe we’ve gotten this far in and no one’s mentioned the fact that in TV shows and the movies, no one ever says “good-bye” at the end of a phone call. They just hang up.
Oh, thank you for this!
Yeah, I watched Okja last night, in which a solid gold pig the size of a piggy bank is hefted by a number of people, with no discernible effort.
The proper answer to this is always Double Tap. Problem solved.
Movies and TV shows still do that thing where the bad guy is bopped over the head with a vase or similar object and knocked out, only to wake later with seemingly no neurological complications. When we tried it, it wasn’t that simple and I was told to no longer do that at work.
Chasing a bad guy into a blind alleyway in NYC. There aren’t alleyways in NYC, not in Manhattan, anyway. Maybe in the boroughs but even then they are, like lots with chain link fences-- spaces where buildings used to be but got knocked down.
As a humorous aside, I’ll note here that Kristen Bell’s wine glass is virtually never empty in her current Netflix show
And, cardio!
Did you remind them that all you have to do is hit them on the head again and they’ll be fine?
I just watched a youtube video about location scouting. They mentioned specifically that. Because of that, the majority of “dark/back alleys” filmed in New York are done in one specific alley due looking like viewers expect a dark/back alley in New York to look.
(ETA, should be cued up, but if not, it starts at 6:07)
Where I grew up in The Bronx there were very narrow alleys in between apartment buildings where the garbage cans were kept. Very narrow. Just you and the garbage can fit. Although, if you shimmied down enough it opened out and there was an apartment down there where the super lived.
Now Chicago; there you have a city that knows how to have alleys.
Ahh, Chicago. There are entire neighborhoods that are nothing but alleys. Moody, cinegraphic alleys. More stuff needs to get shot in Chcago!
Reminds me of “THE Chinatown alley” in San Francisco. Same deal: only one alley looks like “Archetypal Chinatown” to movie/TV-goers.
My kid lived a block away, and the third time we walked down that alley (with the laundry backlit across the narrow space and little Asian ladies yelling across to each other), I asked him about it.
He’d grown numb to the iconic-ness of the location, but said “Yeah, lotsa times you can’t walk down here cuz they’re filming somethin’.”
A sentence never spoken before.
In what I thought was an otherwise disappointing parody, there was a subversion of a trope related to this in the last episode that made me chuckle:
Kristen Bell’s character is on a plane.
Flight Attendant: do you want a glass of wine?
Kristen Bell’s Character: no thanks, I don’t drink wine anymore…
(So, clearly her character is now coping with her grief and moving on with her life, symbolized by her kicking her dependency on alcohol!)
Kristen Bell’s Character: …I’ll have a vodka on the rocks.
One of the available migraine meds maxalt, a sublingual tab. My blessed Zofran [nausea med] has a sublingual dissolvable tab - it can stop nausea in its tracks and not vomiting is IMHO a good thing. There are other sublingual dissolvables - I have seen people being given them in hospital.
Odd, when in Greenwich Village we accidentally drove down an alley [actually three times - we couldn’t believe that we saw a guy giving another guy a blowjob, then went back around to check it out, then again for the person who didn’t see it the first or second time.] Little 9th as I vaguely remember it.