# True facts that movies have taught you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811 "2011-01-24T17:55:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/181 "2011-01-26T15:58:46Z")
There are no area codes. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/182 "2011-01-26T16:05:20Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > Women just love being naked with one another. Locker rooms, slumber parties, summer camp… when they gather together away from the eyes of men, they will engage in naked giggling and conversation. Don’t forget the pillow fights. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/183 "2011-01-26T16:14:54Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > Women just love being naked with one another. Locker rooms, slumber parties, summer camp… when they gather together away from the eyes of men, they will engage in naked giggling and conversation. I KNEW IT! Now, if I can only figure out a way to have a look into one of those places. Maybe a ladder up to the sorority window or a hole cut into the locker room wall. Nobody will notice my big ol’ eyeball looking in. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/184 "2011-01-26T16:20:47Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > It’s worse than that. If The Bad Guy can get a hold of your password hash list, and your office doesn’t have any kind of password requirements, I guarantee the badguys will be able to brute force 99%+ of your passwords. The software available to second guess your passwords is well written to take care of the obvious psychological tools used when a person generates a (bad) password. > > steelers1 > BadKitteh > Sn00kiePuddin995 > 1Kevin2Kathy3Joseph (Your kid’s names with numbers and/or punctuation in the mix) > > They know how you think. Or they just read over your shoulder when you type it in, because MovieOS displays passwords just like any other text instead of replacing everything with asterisks. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/185 "2011-01-26T16:23:46Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > I KNEW IT! Now, if I can only figure out a way to have a look into one of those places. Maybe a ladder up to the sorority window or a hole cut into the locker room wall. Nobody will notice my big ol’ eyeball looking in. Ask a creepy-looking groundskeeper or custodian. They’re always skulking around the shadows near naked women gatherings, acting suspiciously. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/186 "2011-01-26T16:25:57Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > Women just love being naked with one another. Locker rooms, slumber parties, summer camp… when they gather together away from the eyes of men, they will engage in naked giggling and conversation. Unless they’re in prison. Then the “naked conversation” is less giggly and involves a riot in the main yard, and a fire hose, and, as a result, lots of mud. Actually, that trope is just like real life, including the extraordinary physical attractiveness of most female convicts. Sociologists are puzzled. Criminologists are perplexed. Penalogists have no comment as they are too busy with penalogical concerns. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/187 "2011-01-26T17:16:45Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Tea, actually. 😉 Nope, [campbell’s soup](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119809/). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/188 "2011-01-26T17:29:15Z")
Whenever people go grocery shopping, they always buy a baugette, which is never put into an individual plastic or paper bag, but is always left sticking out of the top of the grocery bag. They often buy oranges, which are also never bagged; when they do buy them, their grocery bag will alwys be paper and will always rip, sending them all rolling onto the sidewalk. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/189 "2011-01-26T17:49:46Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > There are no area codes. And every phone number starts with “555-” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/190 "2011-01-26T17:51:06Z")
Any TV or radio news announcement you are able to pick out of the background noise in a public place will be related to your personal story. See [Chekhov’s Gun.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlexn9xzsjd5fif) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/191 "2011-01-26T18:26:51Z")
Villainous henchmen are uniformly inept, unless: (drama) the plot requires the hero to be temporarily captured or otherwise incapacitated, or (comedy) one group of henchmen are being presented as competent to highlight the ineptitude of another group of henchmen ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/192 "2011-01-26T18:55:19Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > You should never spend money on a computer mouse because nobody in history has ever used one. Everything on a computer can be accomplished by typing furiously. And highly critical computer terminals always have keyboards that make very loud clacking/chunking noises when typed upon, and their monitors display output that you would swear was hand-drawn rather than rendered by an actual computer. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/193 "2011-01-26T19:13:56Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Any TV or radio news announcement you are able to pick out of the background noise in a public place will be related to your personal story. See [Chekhov’s Gun.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlexn9xzsjd5fif) And if you turn on your TV at home, the news report relevant to your situation will be on _right now_, not after the commercial or the lottery drawing or the fluff piece about the water-skiing squirrel. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/194 "2011-01-26T20:01:40Z")
If you see the TV in a public place, your picture will be on the screen and everyone around will immediately start scanning nearby faces looking for you. And you will have to race out to a car and spin your wheels escaping. The good news is – you won’t get caught. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/195 "2011-01-26T20:41:30Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > And if you turn on your TV at home, the news report relevant to your situation will be on _right now_, not after the commercial or the lottery drawing or the fluff piece about the water-skiing squirrel. Also, if a live news report comes on that someone needs to see, you can call them up and tell them to turn on the TV, and they will be able to watch the entire live broadcast from the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/196 "2011-01-26T20:54:01Z")
If you’re playing hooky from school or work NEVER go to a baseball game. You will have the unfortunate luck of catching a foul ball live on television and your boss or teacher will be watching the game at that exact moment. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/197 "2011-01-26T20:55:37Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > It is easy to fly a commercial plane if someone walks you through it on the radio As long as you didn’t have the fish. ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/198 "2011-01-26T21:51:23Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > For some reason, movies set in Chicago never show the establishing shot, unless it’s a baseball-related movie (Wrigley). What about _The Blues Brothers_? The Ricochet was solved in the mid 1970s. You will never hear one later than this date. Falling through or being showered with glass never results in a large shard driving through your skull right down to the jaw. Peacetime intelligence is always right. Wartime intelligence is always wrong. The book is **always** wrong. **Never** go by the book. And of course: Anything can be accomplished by wanting it enough. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/199 "2011-01-26T22:24:26Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > The hero is smart enough to run while being shot at. If you’re running, bullets can’t hit you. This is especially true if you have a partner and you yell “Cover me!” before you start running. Only if you **Serpentine!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811/200 "2011-01-27T02:50:25Z")
The First Law of Hollywood Karma: that bad things happen to bad people, and good things happen to good people. If a bad thing happens to you, it’s because you’re actually a bad person. That it’s okay to take innocents and other cops hostage, pretend to kill one, and get one of them actually killed (even if it wasn’t technically your fault) as long as you’re innocent of the crime for which you took them hostage to prove. (from _The Negotiator_) That a blonde sorority bimbo can significantly increase her LSAT score to one point away from perfect, can get into Harvard, and go from being detested to universally loved by her classmates and teachers, as long as she skips out on a few keggers and cracks the occasional book. (from _Legally Blonde_) That kids can get away with flipping Filipino knives and calling bad guys cunts in front of their parents (from _Kickass_). That I will never survive a zombie apocalypse (from _Zombieland_) because I’m fat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-facts-that-movies-have-taught-you/568811.md?page=11)