I didn’t realize we were playing The Match Game.
no, I can absolutely positively confirm that the person then will throw the gun at you … you just need to be prepared to duck …
I’ve never seen a drunk person stare into a mirror, then throw their glass at the mirror causing it to shatter. Probably would look weirder because IRL you’re not seeing it from the mirror’s point of view.
I’ve also never seen a person shoot a gun at their TV. (though I sometimes have the urge, but I don’t own a gun)
Isn’t Elvis known for shooting up his TV whenever he saw something he didn’t like on it? That’s what I heard when I was a kid.
Oh yes, I heard that too, maybe I confused that story with a movie/TV meme.
To be fair, it’s hard to know what to believe about Elvis.
So I bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast
And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast
‘Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet
And they busted me for disturbin’ the almighty peace
Judge said “What you got in your defense son?”
“Fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on”
-B. Springsteen
How dated…
"During our August Dog Days Sale, you can get two hundred fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on."
There seem to be so many alcohol-related clichés that only happen on-screen. Not the least: “Gimme a whiskey. Leave the bottle.”
Corollary: Friend/relative/fellow cop walks into dive bar, finds the disillusioned drinker with the almost-empty bottle and a half-dozen empty shot glasses on the bar.
What is that? “Gimme da bottle… but I’m going to use a clean glass every swallow. I do have standards…”
Ah! So that’s where they got that from when Bart and Lisa wrote the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon!
Robert Goulet was on the tv that Elvis shot, although there’s no reports that Elvis disliked him.
However, Frank Sinatra was said to have pulled off the road, removed his shoe and used it to smash his car radio when “Light My Fire” (The Doors version, not José Feliciano‘s cover) came over the air.
Along with his snarling baritone and swiveling hips, Elvis Presley apparently was known for his gunslinging. The story goes that as he watched singer Robert Goulet performing on television one night, he shot out the screen of his 25-inch RCA TV.
“There was nothing Elvis had against Robert Goulet. They were friends,” Kevin Kern, a spokesman for Presley’s home and museum Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, told the Associated Press in 2006. “But Elvis just shot out things on a random basis.”
“Clancy, use the remote!”
This is more “The writers are ignorant or haven’t left the 1980s” but any movie/show where a serial killer/monster/alien is on the loose, a group of people decide to arm themselves and go find it or hunker down, and for some reason a bunch of the posse are all armed with scoped bolt action hunting rifles.
Now there’s DEFINITELY a time and a place for a classic hunting rifle, but almost every time I see this it’s people using them like pistols, only shooting them or holding somebody up from 2 feet away within easy “push away” distance. Nowadays if you look at what most guns people own it’s almost entirely handguns, and those with hunting rifles would probably also own a shotgun a weapon far superior to the close range engagements in these works. But no I gotta see yet again a killer grab somebodys hunting rifle away and then stab them because the person with the gun was standing within punching distance with it.
Secret passages/rooms are a thing in some ancient English country houses, where they were Catholics and were harbouring Catholic priests. Some of these hiding places were so well constructed they were not found until the 20th c., although they were known to be somewhere in the house.
This happens in every episode of “Criminal Minds” and probably a lot of other crime shows: The investigators have assembled the local police force and are giving a briefing of suspect. Everyone on the team says one or two random sentences about the suspect and then the lead guy dismisses everyone. No questions. No paper handouts. Just remember what we said.
“How will we identify the serial killer?”
“It’s simple, you saw him introduced at the beginning of the episode”
And everyone automatically knows which too sentences to say without a script. And they speak to this room of people without any introductions or reasons why anyone should listen to them.
I’ll give Criminal Minds a pass because I saw Matthew Gray Gubler walking through Greenwich Village once and he seemed like a genuinely friendly and happy guy. I didn’t talk to him but he didn’t mind having little interactions with fans.
I just call that “TV Shorthand”. Things I just assume are done, and we never need to see them. It’s boring enough in real life to go to a meeting like that, get your coffee, complain the feebs didn’t buy donuts…again…they never buy, find a seat, have the boring introductions of people you’ll never see again and probably don’t like cause they’re Feds, all to get the handouts that they could have just left on the table - do we need to take up twenty minutes of the show for it. 
Besides, if you introduce the bit payers, that means their characters have names and possibly lines, and that means they get paid more. We gotta budget, donchya know?
At least they could do an icebreaker exercise