What is extremely common in TV or movies but almost never happens in real life?

Somebody is playing extremely loud music or some other loud noise, a person trying to talk to them is shouting at full volume so the first person turns off whatever was making the loud noise but then the talking person continues to yell at full volume for several seconds after the loud noise is ceased (and then gets yelled out for being loud themselves)

Heh, I like non sequiturs, so I’ve yelled that. Also “I don’t like your tone of voice” said randomly freaks people out.

BTW, I noticed that my favorite legal blog Lowering the Bar has two articles about real-life superheroes. The second one, from 2014, says that the Seattle group was kicking out some of its members who were not sufficiently “super”; that is, they were unable to do 5 pull-ups in 2 minutes. I think I would indeed be concerned if the superhero coming to my aid were unable to manage a physical feat that an average middle-schooler could accomplish.

Or “Do you know who I am?!?”

To which the response can only be:
“Can someone please help this poor gentleman, he doesn’t know who he is!”.

I take it that they didn’t know or care who he was.

I believe that’s a safe assumption, yes. :grin:

May the lord forgive me for linking to Buzzfeed, but

The only reply I think of is from Eddie Izzard’s Death Star Cateen bit. “This is not a game of who the fuck are you.”

Hehe, I haven’t seen that, but when asked “Are you (my full name)*?” I have responded “Who the fuck want’s to know?”

Turns out, it was my college roommate. He lives a block from me now.

*It’s pretty easy to figure out, but I’m not making it too easy.

Somebody to get someone else in trouble starts yelling HELP ME I’M BEING ATTACKED and instead of backing off the other person for some reason decides to grab onto the person yelling in an attempt to calm them down only for someone else to walk in and think the two are actually fighting.

The images wouldn’t load for me but who wouldn’t know who Mike Tyson was?

The claim from the link:

I’m a little surprised Iron Mike didn’t punch him in the face. People that proclaim “I want to eat his children” often aren’t persuaded by rhetorical devices.

That does occur outside films. I have had someone pull that on me, even.

I know who Mike Tyson is, but I don’t follow sport, and probably wouldn’t have recognised him if we’d ever met.

Hard to miss that tattoo.

I forgot he even had a tattoo.

One of my friends used to work the door at a strip club back in the day. She told me about a well-known local radio guy who balked at having to pay the cover charge. And then he asked, “Don’t you know who I am?” She didn’t miss a beat, and said, “Of course I know who you are. And you still have to pay to get in.”

So yeah, it does happen in real life, even if it doesn’t work.

Are there people who are celebrity enough that clubs waive the cover charge for them simply because they figure it’s a net positive having them as patrons?