Injured people either expire immediately or just lie quietly.
Having broken several bones as a youth, I can tell you that there is more likely to be extended crying and screaming. (The worst part, in one instance, the anesthetic I was given didn’t kick in until AFTER the doctor reset the bone - it kicked in a few hours afterwards.)
Or dangling directly over a pool or stream of molten lava with no ill effects other than sweating profusely. The temperature of molten lava is about 1,200-2,200 degrees F. If you are dangling above it, you are going to be blasted by superheated air and your lungs are going to be scalded, to say nothing of the toxic gases being emitted. Your skin will blister and you’ll immediately pass out followed by death by air-frying within minutes. The same goes for dangling over a cauldron of molten metal in a blast furnace.
It is possible to approach lava flows from the side especially if they are cooling and forming a crust. But the way this is usually depicted is someone above very hot rapidly flowing or bubbling lava where they would be exposed to extremely hot air.
Consumption of Let’s potato chips.
parking spot always open right in front of where they need to go
And dead people are immediately stone still. I haven’t been around any death, and that probably happens sometimes, but I hear the process of dying can often involve some movement, spasms, writhing, etc. Once I learned that, it made sense that people can sometimes but not always survive after being shot in a mass shooter situation by playing dead, since even if they are not completely and absolutely still there are other bodies around them that are dying that are also moving.
People who close their eyes and just expire. Like they’re taking a nap - a looooong nap.
People always being knocked unconscious with a tap of varying strength on the head, or slugged on the chin. Down they go, quiet as a mouse, until it’s convenient for them to ‘come to’, shake their head, rubbing it. Then jump to their feet and onwards…It’s so convenient, the knock 'em out blow. In real life, they would be dazed for a minute, but wouldn’t collapse in a quiet heap. They WOULD have concussions, headaches, brain damage - not jumping up and driving off in a car or joining the shootout.
Maybe my experience was atypical, but I didn’t need anyone telling me “Puuuush! Puuuush!! One more!” In fact, my Dr kept telling me not to push. I dunno - my body was doing what it needed to do, and I don’t recall having a whole lot of control over the contractions.
And I understand that movies are not real life, but there has to be a way to portray childbirth without having the doctor sticking his head under the sheet that’s tented over the mother’s knees. Or in the case of a man having his genitals shaved prior to a procedure, the nurse was working under the sheet. Seems to me the light would be better without the covering, and there has to be a camera angle that would work without showing naughty bits.
Or maybe I’m too critical…
Or people who or shot or otherwise injured, appear dead, and their companions just briefly check their pulse before deciding they are definitely gone and running off leaving them.
It may have been a function of my epidural, but I definitely needed guidance on pushing. I could barely feel contractions. Without them telling me what to do I’d be like, “OK, let’s break for an hour and we can get right back to it!” Because that stuff’s exhausting.
Not just that. Do any adults in real life go a friend’s house just to sit on the couch all day?
Saying “Enhance” to the computer and a 4 pixel image expands into an ultra high-def scene of incredible detail.
I had a buddy who, when we were in our 30s, lived at home with his parents due to circumstances. They didn’t know he used tobacco. Nearly every day he’d stop by to sit around, chat, and smoke a bunch of cigarettes.
Sometimes I’d have things to do, and I’d just do them. Run to the store, run errands, clean out the car, etc all while he hung out, sometimes with my wife, chain smoking.
Just once, I’d like to see the following scene:
Boss: I need you to decrypt these files.
IT guy: OK. What’s the password?
Boss: I don’t know the password.
IT guy: Come back when you do.
Alternate ending.
IT guy: When come back, bring password.
Macho characters who go out in freezing weather with inadequate clothing never suffer hypothermia. Because they’re tough.
In reality: You know those people who show up at subzero sporting events barechested, and often drunk? According to Christopher Wanjek in the book “Bad Medicine” Most of them wind up in emergency wards with dangerously low core body temperatures.
No matter how common any of the characters names are NOBODY is ever going to have the same name as them.
This is the first thing that came to mind for me too. Someone rushes into another room and says “Turn on the TV!” They do and there’s a news bulletin just starting, from the very top, not midway through as it would be in real life.
When someone is carrying a bag of groceries, it’s always a brown paper bag with carrot greens, celery, and an unwrapped loaf of French bread visible sticking out the top.
Hospital wards are always a hive of activity with people milling around and a phone is always ringing in the background.
When a foot chase lasts like 5 minutes and no one is getting the least bit tired or winded.
This could be a candidate example for a “what always shows up in a ‘what happens in tv but not real life’ thread but doesn’t actually occur on TV” thread
Every time a woman gets a positive pregnancy test, the baby is immediately assumed to be viable. Everyone is told and everyone celebrates right away. It’s as if those early nerve-wracking weeks of hoping there’s not a miscarriage don’t exist.
That’s one thing I liked about The Sopranos. They acknowledged that a lot of Italian guys are named Tony, and had two major characters with that name (Tony Soprano and his cousin Tony Blundetto. Tony’s son was also Anthony but went by A.J.)