My favorite evocation of this was from the comic book based on Batman: The Animated Series – the Riddler is getting out of prison and, sick and tired of being constantly outsmarted by Batman, decides to call it quits. His henchmen try to talk him out of this, with one of them arguing: “Batman gets hit on the head a lot. Maybe he’s dumber now.”
Guilty. 
No kidding. Damn I hate that shit!
As a proud Jeep owner, I can attest to the fact that Mannix missed, and the Jeep stopped running on it’s own accord. They always do. 
Two cops walk up together to the murder suspect’s door. Every time I see this, I scream! True life scenario: suspects opens door and starts firing. Two wounded or dead cops.
people who live in apartments in big cities never need to have keys. they go in and out of their big city apartment and never lock or unlock the door.
on Breaking bad, the “new improved method” of making crack actually produces an inferior product according some articles I have read (apparently it tastes and smells horrible). I was amused at how people were complaining about how the chemistry wasn’t correct. People actually thought this show should show how to make high grade drugs.
To be fair, sometimes filmmakers will supply incorrect information to prevent copycats. For example, you can’t make napalm out of equal parts gasoline and frozen orange juice, no matter what Fight Club says.
I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t want to get shot either.
That’s awesome! Especially when they both start typing frantically at the same time… ON THE SAME KEYBOARD!
Chloroform. If you are using it to try to knock someone out, you had better have a strong grip and about 5-8 minutes of free time to wait for it to take effect. Also, be prepared that they will likely either wake up with serious brain damage or not at all.
There’s a reason that anesthesiologists are MDs and it’s a specialty.
I regularly saw IHMSA silhouette competitors hit 40 out of 40 targets with revolvers, this is with iron sights and targets at 50, 100, 150, and 200 meters.
People who fall through full length plate glass windows that shatter into a million pieces get up and walk away unharmed!
The only person I knew who did this had to have over 100 stitches and also broke three bones!
I’ve never seen or heard a real gun with a real silencer, but I’d be very surprised if the real sound was anything like what TV shows show us.
Not even close. But if you use a subsonic round, or something like a .22 short, it’s very quiet.
I guess it’s a good thing they weren’t making crack, but rather meth.
Plenty of You Tube videos if you look a little.
Things that don’t work on TV/movies: Brakes – they always squeak.
I want to check again, but Im pretty sure I heard the brakes squeak on the current McDonalds drive-through commercial. When the car pulls in and stops at the window, the brakes squeak. Ever since the first talkies, the foley editor puts in the little squeak sound to show that a car is stopping. Listen for it in movies and TV shows, you can often hear the brakes squeak when even very new cars stop.
Speaking about silencers, Laser guns on TV always make noises.