What tv shows have NEVER shown anyone eating or drinking. Now I know that on dramas and sitcoms they don’t actually swallow, at least not most of the time, and have spit buckets next to them, but the whole fake drinking and eating thing counts for this thread. You don’t like that, too bad.
The only one I could think of was The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, but I don’t know if he ever painted a horse taking a drink or something.
Oh, animals count, so the contestants in the Puppy Bowl are drinking, so that show doesn’t make the cut.
I’m guessing that, by your oddly strict criteria, any show that includes a live fish would be automatically out, because a fish takes water in through its mouth?
Ha! I have it! There is NEVER any eating or drinking in an animated show, because it’s pictures. If you’re going to be as literal as you are, then I’m going to be literal right back.
If you’re going to allow non-fiction shows like this, then examples will abound. Most game and lottery shows, most educational-instructional shows, and a good number of news programs and talk shows have probably never shown someone eating or drinking.
Man you’ve never watched the Home Shopping Network. They sell prepackaged food, and they sell kitchen implements - which are sold via the tactic of showing what you can cook with the stuff, live. Those people eat well on air!
sort of related: for a long time TV never mentioned anyone going to the bathroom but All in the Family had the noise of the toilet flushing and characters talking about going to the bathroom. That might have been one of the first bathroom related scenes
Well, not to be anal about it, but… there was a Halloween episode of The Simpsons where Bart and Lisa were trapped inside the television and being chased by Itchy and Scratchy while Homer handled the remote and flipped through the channels. At one point the animated Bart and Lisa and Itchy and Scratchy literally crashed the live-action Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, landing in a large pot of soup which splashed both hosts. It is not inconceivable that one or the other accidentally swallowed some of it.
I would think most game shows fit in this category. I’ve never seen Alex Trebek chow down between clues. I don’t think Pat Sajak is sipping tea on air. Family Feud may have categories about food, but no one eats on the show.
Yes, Match Game has always had celebs drinking their asses off on air, but most game shows don’t have people eating/drinking on air.
Actually you’d be surprised how many talk shows have shown someone drinking. Mind you I’m not talking about about a segment devoted to beer or winemaking or whatever, but something like Meet The Press where the camera catches one of the panelists sipping from the Meet The Press mug in front of them.
As for news programs, seriously? setting aside that any number of local news shows have a “New hot restaurant in town” segment, invariably around the July 4 there will be news stories about the Nathan’s contest complete with gross out footage of the people chawing down.
As for educational instructional shows, if you are referring to kids stuff like Sesame Street/Mister Rogers you’re wrong.
Actually I just thought of a couple more, “20 Minute Workout” and the yoga/exercise shows that are on early on PBS.
No you aren’t being literal, you’re being nit picky AND annoying, not cute. And obviously you think your post is just the cutest and most hilarious thing ever.
It wasn’t.
But to counter counter your counter point, why wouldn’t animated shows count? There are millions of people who ‘treat’ shows like the Simpsons as if the characters are real.
As for fish, they have to take water in through their mouths in order to stay alive.
I was not thinking of hour-long newscasts, but more the kind sandwiched in between programs at the top of the hour, where it’s just a reporter at a desk with no cuts to on-location footage. Maybe this sort of program isn’t common where you live but they are (or were) not unusual on some European networks.
No, I’m not. I’m thinking more along the lines of Bob Ross or the exercise shows you mentioned. There are also plenty of distance learning shows for higher education that consist of nothing more than a mathematician or scientist scribbling lecture notes, diagrams, and equations on a chalkboard. Sometimes there is no live action at all; the material are displayed using computer imagery with a voice-over.
