That’s a clip of 2 people typing on the same keyboard at the same time in order to type faster. Now I want everyone to look at their keyboards and think for a moment if they can figure out the problem with that.
I mean, surely this script was typed at some point! No one noticed the problem with that idea? The actors, the director, the tech guys, the guy who gets people coffee, none of them noticed the problem with that?
New York City sheriffs aren’t like sheriffs everywhere else in the country.
They collect judgments on behalf of the city, do some process serving, evict people from rentals, and other really unpopular stuff. They tow cars for non-payment of parking tickets. Everyone hates them.
The City Marshals do the same kind of stuff, but on behalf of civil litigants, for fees paid by those litigants. They’re not paid a salary by the City (in fact, I think they have to give the City a cut of what they collect).
They’re not really law enforcment officers, like the New York City Police Department.
Often the appointments are somewhat political, although I don’t know anything about Mayor-For-Life Bloomberg’s appointee Edgar Domenech.
There was a recent episode of Hawaii Five-0 in which half of the episode took place in North Korea. First the villains calmly waltzed across the DMZ into North Korea and did various villainy things in an abandoned military bunker. Then the good guys chased them into North Korea by flying a helicopter over the DMZ. A chase ensued where the bad guys drove around in a bunch of really big, loud trucks, a bridge got blown up by an RPG launched from the aforementioned helicopter, and then said helicopter flew back over the DMZ into South Korea.
If this had been attempted in real life, the bad guys would have been ripped to pieces by land mines and machine gun fire when they attempted to cross the border. The helicopter would have then been blown out of the sky and the heroes reduced to smoldering little bits. On the 0.0001% chance that everybody did make it across into North Korea to carry out the rest of the plot, they would have been detected in approximately 15 minutes by the Korean People’s Army and nobody would have ever heard from any of them again.
There are dozens, hundreds of villainy places in the world they could have used as the location for the plot. But they just had to pick the most unrealistic one.
JFTR, this is a NYC-specific thing, owing to the fact that NYC includes five counties, which up until 1942 each had their own sheriff. In that year it was consolidated into a single city-wide office with an Undersheriff heading up the deputies in each borough.
Presumably the independent cities (Baltimore, St. Louis, most Virginia cities) and coterminous city-county units (Jacksonville-Duval, Nashville-Davidson, San Francisco, etc.) have sheriffs as well.
I always wonder about stuff like that. I understand the director or the actors not getting it, but from what I’ve seen TV writers are the nerdiest people in Hollywood, but when crime shows tackle things like video games or the internet the results are just ridiculous. Some times I wonder if they do stuff like that just so the clip can live forever on YouTube.
Ugh. As if the ridiculous double-typing wasn’t enough, I like how the “hacker” is hiding his evil schemes by taking over the screen and populating it with jillions of windows - way to be sneaky! (Hey experts - disable Remote Desktop!)
And then Mark Harmon swoops in and saves the day by…unplugging the monitor. Problem solved!
Maybe it’s because I’m not a beer drinker, but this makes even less sense to me. I guess there’s no predicting what a bunch of bored teens might do, but if it were perfectly legal to buy hard liquor at home in Wisconsin, why make what could easily be a 16+ hour drive (roundtrip) to get a stronger variety of beer?
Wouldn’t surprise me if the idea of having them both use the keyboard at the same time was something they came up with on-set, and was never actually part of the script.
No idea. But recalling my own “bored teen” days, we all preferred beer over hard liquor. Maybe it was the taste–beer we could handle; whisky, gin, etc. just tasted foul, no matter what they were mixed with. Or maybe it was just the feeling of getting more for our money: for the price of a single bottle of booze, we could get 24 bottles of beer. For whatever reason, we preferred beer, though I don’t think we’d make a 16 hour trip just to get a stronger beer than was available locally.
Drawn Together (the gross-out animated “reality” show) did this, except for medical insurance. They get a pass because it’s a fantasy land, and the governing body is “the King of Insurance,” not the US government. The show being what it is, they draw out the supervised kiss/gay sex part.
Was it that they wanted some form of national photo ID, and he had none of the above on hand? I doubt Canadian authorities have any responsibility to accept US Immigrant ID, but in practice, maybe they consider it enough. It doesn’t explain why they want to keep shifty teenagers in their country, and not just kick them out.
And Mounties are the only cops in Canada. Haven’t you watched a movie lately?
Says who? I just checked several California towns and they all have mayors.
Usually, not always etc.
I see NYC was mentioned, the SF Mayor can and may soon fire the SF Sheriff for being an asshole.
Not in Nevada and South Carolina, and likely others. A “town” is a municipality that decided it wanted to be called “town.”
Still, that does remind me of one common error I notice is writers who have barely left NYC let alone the Northeast, who assume that NYC law applies everywhere.
