Not many in the TV show, either, other than a scene of the killer being taken away after confessing.
Do you mean an inadvertent fire or some sort of flambé recipe?
Night of the Living Dead, black guy dies last.
Dawn of the Dead, black guy survives, as does the pregnant lady who never gives birth
When a child sings, they will be off-key. I don’t know why they do this. Children can sing on key and sing beautifully. I guess they think it emphasizes their youth.
If a repulsive alien / monster / human is shown, they will invariably be evil.
If goes without saying that the converse is also true.
(and, yes, I can think of a number of counterexamples, but this is true by-and-large).
When a family in a horror movie is shown to have a dog or cat, odds are almost 100% that the animal will die before the movie is over. Usually before the people die.
I saw a terrible horror/thriller movie this weekend, but surprisingly the cat actually survived the whole thing.
Big Driver
Alien, too. Cat even survived the sequel.
The more picturesque and small the village, the higher the body count.
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.
If you’re an underdog sports team (often made up of semi-inept players), you will win the championship. Generally you will defeat a team of gifted but arrogant athletes.
Some exceptions, most notably
Mystery, Alaska
Actually Maine really does have a lot of coves due to its geography: a cove is where erosion from a river outlet has formed a small bay or inlet.
We now continue with our regularly scheduled thread.
I would TOTALLY watch that show.
It’s flashy, it’s fun, it’s easy to do, and actually does have an effect on the cooking process.
Are we sure? Didn’t she leave it back on earth? In the care of the same company that sent them off to bring back aliens?
That kitty was on the dissection table before ripley was in hypersleep.
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).
Also, the original Bad News Bears, in which the Bears lose the championship game, but tell the winning team to “take that trophy and shove it straight up your ass!”
Classy to the end.
In The Simpsons, everything that crashes will burst into flames. Even the Flying Nun.
Nowadays if there is a lesbian in it it’s because Hollywood appears to have set the quota for lesbian women at 67%, much like in my home so it seems realistic to me. 
In Necessary Roughness they didn’t win the championship game, just the last game of the season.
Holy crap, so would I! What a brilliant idea. And Alan Alda has still got the chops to do it.
Ah, but would he really be in it? In my Netflix series, odd things keep happening, but Dr. Pierce is barely mentioned. By the second season of The Cove, veiled references are made to “the old doc”…
And by next season, people are not only disappearing, but coming back… that mute kid who was kidnapped? The town started a kickstarter and paid half the ransom, but the child didn’t wander back into The Cove for a year. He’s traumatized, but now he can talk, and claims that “Benjamin Franklin” taught him how…