Doctors who do any lab work at all, for that matter.
Doctors who never spend time doing paperwork or dictating operative reports and other documentation for transcriptionists.
Doctors like the above who have all kinds of free time to go out, get drunk in strip clubs, have lots of sex, and so on. (Nip/Tuck, anyone?)
Prostitutes in real life are nothing like movie prostitutes. The “Pretty Woman” prostitute does not exist, but there are more like her in the movies than realistic prostitutes. In real life, prostitutes range from the drug-and-rob you type, to the extortionist type, to the professional type who have absolutely no reservations about their line of work and are certainly not in need of being “saved” by anyone.
Dude, that IS Kevin Smith.
I was thinking that too but it depends on how you view his wife.
During the ‘strutting in black catsuits’ scene with her, Ali Lauder, Shannon Elizabeth & Eliza Dushku (Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back), my reaction was “One of these is not like the others… Which one doesn’t belong and why?”
Teachers who teach only one class – often in an overcrowded inner city school.
Writers who are shown actually writing (the early episodes of Castle was an exception, but he hasn’t been at his computer most of this season).
Writers who steal another aspiring author’s book and publish it under their own name.
I think you’ve stated this one backwards. This is what they don’t show.
I can sorta understand why, though. If the writer is cruising along, inspired by his Muse, you get visuals of someone typing merrily away, which gets boring pretty quick. If it’s a writer stumped and encumbered by a 16 ton Writer’s Block, then nothing is happening, and that’s pretty boring, too. You might get a 5-minute montage of “things I’m doing while procrastinating”, but that’ll get tired pretty quick. Better to make a running gag of it, but restricting it to no more than a minute per episode.
Magic Pixie Dream Girls.
Elaborate Gentleman Heist-Planning Robbers, a la Ocean’s 11.
And all the rules that gentlemen criminals obey. And they defend the rules by ripping off people who break them.
I don’t doubt that she looks beautiful with her hair down and no glasses but honestly, she was actually unattractive before?
Well crap, they both have facial hair. How do we know which one is evil?
If the look-alike is not evil they usually just wear glasses…glasses they can easily function without so the two can switch places, completely fooling family, friends and co-workers.
I can’t speak for his girlfriend, but there is a woman here at work, two cubes away from me. I can’t say she was unattractive before but she was so plain that I never noticed her looks one way or another (but then in the movies the “ugly” before generally isn’t actually ugly except by movie standards).
Apparently someone had New Years resolutions because she got her eyes lasered, changed her haircut and general fashion sense and she’s quite the visual hottie now (we’ve never spoken before or after this change so I have no ideas about her personally, purely a shallow visual assessment).
Closest thing I’ve ever seen to the TV/movie cliche.
Mate, if you think I’m going to answer that in full candor…
Seriously, my gf is exceptionally low-maintenance, and there are times when she’s looked plain-to-ugly, whether in public or church. Glasses with tape, frizzy hair in a ponytail, wearing my clothes (I weigh about twice as much as she does), the whole nine yards. When she takes some care, or when she’s naked, she’s a head-turner, but that’s not really the rule.
And, honestly, that’s cool. That means I get to see her gorgeous more than anybody else 
Exactly.
The tough mobsters who talk about the gams on that dame – you know, that chick, mol, skirt, broad – then he says “Why I aughta…”