# What is extremely common in TV or movies but almost never happens in real life? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311 "2021-02-06T04:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 236
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4729 "2025-02-28T20:36:16Z")
Well, there’s rule 34, and socks are a very mild kink I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4730 "2025-03-01T03:49:34Z")
In bad writing there’s a cliche where somebody is super distraught, goes into another room, a gunshot is heard and the people in the other room turn and look at each other “with knowing looks”. I don’t care how distraught you know somebody is, if I suddenly hear a gunshot near me I’m not calmly turning to look at someone else with a knowing look, I’m either jolting from the sudden shock or running my ass into the room to see what the hell happened. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4731 "2025-03-03T16:18:55Z")
If you are a cabbie and someone jumps in your taxi and says “Follow that car!”, do you just do it? Even if it means driving on sidewalks or down thin alleyways and breaking traffic laws? ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4732 "2025-03-03T18:36:21Z")
In TV to show people having sex but not actually showing anything graphic, they’ll have the two people kissing in bed holding both hands with fingers interlaced to REALLY show you how serious it is. I can’t remember any time I’ve ever held both my partners hands at the same time with fingers interlaced, let alone in bed! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4733 "2025-03-03T19:08:11Z")
Showing people who have just had sex lying in bed with their underwear on. Not once have I ever jumped out of bed after sex to put on briefs and a T-shirt and then crawled back in. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4734 "2025-03-03T19:44:15Z")
Jessica Jones and Luke Cage had a sex scene, partially clad but pretty graphic. > [@Asuka](#): > > In TV to show people having sex but not actually showing anything graphic, they’ll have the two people kissing in bed holding both hands with fingers interlaced to REALLY show you how serious it is. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4735 "2025-03-03T20:23:30Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > If you are a cabbie and someone jumps in your taxi and says “Follow that car!”, do you just do it? Even if it means driving on sidewalks or down thin alleyways and breaking traffic laws? If it is a Police officer- yes in certain circumstances. If you are not, a nice tip will get a taxi to fallow another, but not do anything seriously illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4736 "2025-03-03T20:27:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > If it is a Police officer- yes in certain circumstances. Including “you already passed the road test.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xEUC2hPVHec/maxresdefault.jpg "The Naked Gun - "Police Squad! Follow that car!" | 4K HDR | High-Def Digest") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEUC2hPVHec) ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4737 "2025-03-03T21:13:39Z")
interesting aside–in story of Good Samaritan, he washed wounds with oil and wine? ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4738 "2025-03-03T21:26:32Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > I can’t remember any time I’ve ever held both my partners hands at the same time If ever an apostrophe was needed… ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4739 "2025-03-03T21:53:51Z")
For me, this depends on when. After a daytime romp, we’ll probably cuddle naked. Right before bedtime? I’m putting on the shorts and t-shirt I always wear to bed; I can’t sleep in anything else. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4740 "2025-03-03T22:00:47Z")
When someone gets injured and bloody they need to exhibit this for the reminder of the movie so we remember that it is part of their identity. Cinematic weeks go by without a thought of maybe washing their face or taking a shower. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4741 "2025-03-03T22:20:02Z")
A manually done CPR save. Used to be an E.M.T. I did a manual CPR save once. At the hospital, the Paramedic who did the intercept after my partner and I brought the patient back, well, from truly dead took me aside. She told me in a most kind way that I should expect this never to happen again. Many rhythms including ayistole ( no rhythm ) cannot be shocked back, no less be brought back through only manual CPR. That said, they almost always save the person using manual CPR- and ALWAYS save them using a AED ( Automated Electronic Defibrillator ). Many AEDs are fully automated. That means that they only shock if a “shockable rhythm” is detected. Those that are manually set and triggered can in fact be used to hit a patient over and over and over again. As was told to me once, at some point you’re just cooking the heart muscle. And yet, it’s always a clean easy save with a Defib and the patient is able to articulate full sentences. –eyeroll– ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4742 "2025-03-03T22:31:34Z")
I suspect that almost everyone who doesn’t sleep nude does the same within a few minutes. If you wear clothes to sleep, you probably have a reason which wouldn’t necessarily change based on other bedroom activities. If I sleep in a nightshirt because I’m cold, it’s not likely to change just because I had sex before going to sleep. Same if I’m just not comfortable naked. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4743 "2025-03-03T22:48:09Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > That said, they almost always save the person using manual CPR- and ALWAYS save them using a AED ( Automated Electronic Defibrillator ). Of course, the first two shocks have no effect. It’s always the _third_ shock that does it. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4744 "2025-03-03T23:17:14Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > That said, they almost always save the person using manual CPR- and ALWAYS save them using a AED ( Automated Electronic Defibrillator ). Also they always use the AED on TV to start a heart that’s stopped beating. I still see that all the freaking time. Defibrillators don’t start a stopped heart, they do the opposite— they stop a heart that’s in fibrillation, in the hopes the heart will restart with a normal rhythm. it’s a reboot, not a jump start. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4745 "2025-03-03T23:41:00Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > > [@Cartooniverse](#): > > > > That said, they almost always save the person using manual CPR- and ALWAYS save them using a AED ( Automated Electronic Defibrillator ). > > Of course, the first two shocks have no effect. It’s always the _third_ shock that does it. And if that doesn’t work, you can just repeatedly slap them across the face and scream “LIVE DAMN YOU!!! LIVE!!!” at them. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4746 "2025-03-04T00:42:36Z")
IIRC, water nowadays is better, but in the past it would probably be worse than something alcoholic. Because the alcohol contains a lot fewer germs than most free-range water\* \* Forgive me, I’m sure there’s a better term ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4747 "2025-03-04T03:19:22Z")
I’ve heard raw water, but free-range sounds good too. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/4748 "2025-03-04T03:21:00Z")
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