This is a major pet peeve of mine. Caves are DARK. Like, go in more than a few dozen feet and you can’t see anything, to the point of total disorientation.
A few movies that have characters in caves, with remarkable amounts of illumination despite no sources of light whatsoever, or a flimsy little ‘dying’ torch:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The 2nd Planet of the Apes movie (note the 4-image shadows from 4 set lights in the Under-the-city-of-San-Francisco scenes)
Journey to the Center of the Earth…the entire movie seems to have taken place in a cave with an enormous, convenient Sun somehow inserted nearby, judging by the amount of illumination present
The Rock, although they address this issue with an even more preposterous angle, by having strings of well maintained, oft-replaced light bulbs working in the ‘secret’ caverns that nobody knows about except Sean Connery’s character. In an abandoned National Park. Where nobody has set foot in 40+ years.
My husband’s a sitter, which I completely love about him. Makes much less of a mess. And we’re both “don’t only put the seat down, but put the lid down, too, before you flush” kind of people, so we’ve never had that stupid cliched spousal argument before.
Re the OP: People on TV have bottomless wardrobes, meaning they never wear the same thing twice. Obviously, there are some exceptions (Gilligan’s Island obviously springs to mind) but you see it a lot.
Yeah, I actually posted a threadabout the opposite phenomenon (things that are actually common in real life that some TV shows manage to get right) and I mentioned shows that do acknowledge that characters have real wardrobes, like Freaks and Geeks or My So Called Life.
I’ve heard this before, but there’s at least one exception: Family Guy, which has characters watching TV a lot (appropriately enough for a show steeped in references to TV shows and other pop culture for its humor).
There’s one good reason I won’t pee sitting down - I want to pee in the toilet, not on the floor under or over the seat. Why shouldn’t women pee standing up except they feel it more convenient to sit? So men find it more convenient to stand. We hear far too much about women putting themselves out to be the same as men without questioning whether it might be better for men to learn from women. This is one case where there is no sense at all in men copying women but no harm in women copying men.
That’s one of the things I liked about Seinfeld. You see some of the same outfits pop up every now and then like Kramer’s lobster print shirt or George’s green coat.
How about how, on The Big Bang Theory, it takes two research scientists with PhD’s to afford the rent on a smallish apartment, but it only takes one Cheesecake Factory waitress to afford the rent on the apartment across the hall?
And how many engineers with master’s degrees still live with their mothers?
I do see a lot of wardrobe repeats on that show, though.
This, plus people who are sleeping and whose partner has left the bed, and who pat the side of the bed expecting to touch the partner, and upon not finding him/her after a couple of exploratory pats, wakes up to the realization that the partner has left.
The detectives enter a room where a crime has been committed. They have rubber gloves on, yet no one seems to figure out how to turn on a damned light! Instead, they run around with flashlights. Hello! Light switch is there on the left…they have lamps there in the room! You can see better in the light! Hello?!
Worst offender: Marlo Thomas in That Girl (1966-1971). Three to five new moddish designer outfits per half-hour episode with no repeats from show to show. And this was accomplished by a character who was only sporadically employed, generally as a diner waitress or in some similar position.
My high school had a group of larger lockers near the band room, for the band geeks who (at least theoretically) had to store their instruments in them. And I saw one kid get stuffed into one, just once. He was as small for his age as he was annoying, and it was a tight fit for him. A smaller middle school student would probably fit, but an average-sized high school student, never.
I’m probably showing my age when I mention that back when the comic strip Funky Winkerbean was a gag-a-day strip about high school kids, Crazy Harry was supposed to live in his locker. At least that was intended to be absurd!
? It is not abandoned, they were running tours there last time I was in the area, IIRC the tickets were running $35 each [this was about 10 years ago] and I notice going on line that they are now running $41 per adult.
I think the point is that it’s very unnatural that the sheet always has the man’s chest completely bare and the woman’s is always completely covered. Couples who have been married for years and years have the wife primly keep her tits covered whenever she’s in bed with he husband.