Cite?
Seriously…I don’t want to pick on anyone specifically but can we get people to provide atleast 2 or 3 examples?
Some of these things I think you would be hard pressed to find 2 examples of let alone enough to make it a cliche.
[flashback scene]
…and that’s why I vowed never to tapdance again!
[near the ‘climax’ of the movie]
If you don’t tapdance we’re (all dead)(going to lose the car wash)(going to lose the talent centest to Borington High!).
-Joe
On “Lost”, the three raft sailors are in the pit after being captured. One suggests feigning illness.
(Incredulous) “What, you’re going to try the Sick Prisoner?”
Ooh, I know, I hate that SO much… “so, the really important thing that you had to tell me was that you wish me good luck? Why, I believe that completely! Thank you!”
That was quite well skewered in Shanghai Noon, with Owen Wilson talking to Jackie Chan, who suggests said gambit: “Does that still work in China? Because it’s getting kinda old around here…”
I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen this one in here…
Character gets shot, falls down dead. After bad guy leaves, character gets up, the bullet has been stopped by something in his/her coat/shirt pocket.
You see a cat, you hear a meow or hiss.
You see a dog, you hear a bark or whine.
You see a bird, you hear a chirp or squack.
You see an alligator, you hear a gurgle or something.
“Hey, there’s some animal on screen, but I can’t tell what it is!” “Meow” “Oh! It’s a cat!”
The cat almost never opens its mouth when it meows, either. Hates it.
That’s true, sort of.
But here’s the counter-question; why does the audience need to see the Hero get out of his car at ALL? Either right in front of the building, or ten blocks away? How they park their car is not going to advance the story in any movie I’ve ever seen, unless it’s a comical effect like in “Ace Ventura.” Why not cut out the scene of the parked car completely and just cut straight to them arriving at their destination?
A lot of these dumbass scenes just should not exist at all.
Or, as my father would say, “have I stopped the goddamn car yet?”
In movies, here’s something that bugs the shit out of me. Rather than actually describe it without an example, let me include this snippet I heard in a video store recently.
In “Bewitched,” (which I will NOT watch), there’s apparently a scene where Will Farrell has a spell cast on him during a read-through for his show. He’s supposed to say, “it’s MY dog, I want him back.” He says, “You shall lick my face, and I shall lick your snout.”
Cut to the dog, cocking its head to one side, and making an interrogative “huh?” sound.
God, that bugs me…when they make an animal have a human notion like that.
“Oh, and Baldrick - clean up this dead butler.”
Didn’t that happen in The Fifth Element?
“Thank you, Encyclopedia Brown!”
In “A Fistfull of Dollars”, Eastwood wears an iron stove door for a bulletproof vest under his poncho, and there’s no sound as the bullet hits the door. Everyone is stunned to see the door as Eastwood throws back the poncho.
was flipping channels last night and came across Fletch which reminded me of this thread:
When someone shoots at a car with a shotgun and the only thing that happens is the back window explodes - not a scratch on the car, no damage to any tires, etc.
Although, now I must put in my next story a character named ‘Paul Babyeater’. He may, in fact, just be a mailman with an unfortunate name. 
“It’s pronounced BAB-yeeter!”
He lives near John Bigbooty, I’m sure.
Another one is (and yeah, this is just me I’m sure) the use of snakes to show evil. Poor snakes! I like you! You are not evil, no matter what that slut Eve* says!
*Not to be confused with the poster Eve, as I don’t want to die and/or be ripped to shreds by her infamous razor wit.
[Family Guy]
“They bought Death Spares Not the Tiger? He actually named the main character ‘Joe Everyman’.”
[/Family Guy]
Beautiful young woman dying in her sleep of a disease that is never truly named. Note that she looks beautiful, but the make-up artists goes for a lighter shade of foundation to make her look sickly.
Whenever I buy a bagette that sticks out of the top of the shopping bag, I can’t help feeling as if I am about to collide with a handsome stranger and find myself in the midst of some wacky adventure that naturally leads to romance…
This hasn’t happened yet.
heh. Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash features a “Hiro Protagonist.”
L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth stars Jonny Goodboy, which is actually less ridiculous than I would expect from Hubbard; his first choice was probably “Everyman Whitehat McHeroperson”.