# When \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ in a movie/on TV, we know that \_\_\_\_\_ will happen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830 "2018-04-04T20:32:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/161 "2018-04-11T13:08:33Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Also Maine towns with “Cove” in their name (i.e. Cabot Cove and Tinker’s Cove). If I ever set a series of mysteries in a Maine Town, it’s going to be in Crabbapple Cove, with an older Dr. Hawkeye Pierce as the protagonist. > [@Misnomer](#): > > I would TOTALLY watch that show. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > Holy crap, so would I! What a brilliant idea. And Alan Alda has still got the chops to do it. Thank you. I think Dr. Pierce would be the Medical Examiner who figures out who the murderer is. Makes more sense than the culinary mystery stereotype of women who own food establishments finding dead bodies and figuring out the person they are now alone with is the murderer. Speaking of which, any person who figures out who the murderer is will, instead of calling the police, meet up with the person all alone. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/162 "2018-04-11T13:22:20Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Speaking of which, any person who figures out who the murderer is will, instead of calling the police, meet up with the person all alone. Speaking of speaking of which, any person who figures out who the murderer is will, if anyone asks, just say “I’m going to follow up a lead” before they meet up with the person all alone. How hard would it be to say “I’m going to follow up a lead… I’m meeting Ed Jablonsky at the abandoned windmill up on the old cliff road at midnight during the lightning storm. If I’m not back by 1, remember: Ed Jablonsky of Jablonsky’s Cement Caskets. Check on me… and bring some cops.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/163 "2018-04-11T13:23:04Z")
You could name it _Waaaaay After M_A_S_H\*. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/164 "2018-04-11T13:48:34Z")
Or Hawkeye Piece, M.E. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/165 "2018-04-11T14:00:52Z")
Any woman whose in charge of a child (not even necessarily one she gave birth to) will, when presented by the Threat abducting, menacing, or even just in the way of that child’s climactic destiny, will become Mama Bear (Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor). The Male counterpart is known as Papa Wolf (Bryan Mills, Liam Neeson’s character from Taken). When Mama Bear and Papa Wolf \*team up…\*no force in the universe can stop them. Armys…empires…even _gods_ have fallen against the might of Mama Bear and Papa Wolf! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/166 "2018-04-11T14:28:17Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Or Hawkeye Piece, M.E. Or [_B_e_n_j_a_m_i_n\*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS8Vd1vVqXc). ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/167 "2018-04-11T14:48:13Z")
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned that if Sean Bean is in a movie/on TV, we know he’s going to die. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/168 "2018-04-11T15:42:42Z")
In any winter scene where the characters get all lovey-dovey, it will inevitably start snowing at the end of the scene. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/169 "2018-04-11T18:41:56Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > In any winter scene where the characters get all lovey-dovey, it will inevitably start snowing at the end of the scene. Some disaster movie about a volcanic eruption should end this way. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/170 "2018-04-13T08:44:49Z")
Volcanic eruptions are always predicted by the ‘Village Elders’ and never by the trained vulcanologists who have been watching the smoking mountain for years (except for the extremely pretty young junior vulcanologist who has just graduated from college and arrived at the site 48 hrs ago). She’s probably the same one who looked through her telescope for the first time and identified the earth-bound asteroid that is likely to wipe out all life on the planet, before any of the leading astronomers and their million-dollar equipment saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830/171 "2018-04-13T13:57:24Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Naw, I bet in the cities of the future you more or less have to pay to have the privilege of keeping a pet; like an upfront bond for the lifetime of the animal. Ripley probably found someone who’d be delighted to board a cat until she returned (or didn’t). There’s a fan theory that Aliens happens in same universe as Blade Runner, which was based “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”. In Sheep, there was some kind of environmental disaster on earth that wiped out lots of animals, so keeping robotic pets was common for poorer people, and real pets were an extreme status symbol for people with money to burn. So if that’s all the case, she’d have absolutely no problem finding someone willing to care for her cat for free just to be able to say that they have a real cat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-____________-in-a-movie-on-tv-we-know-that-_____-will-happen/811830.md?page=8)