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Common story lines that don't exist in the real world

1. Guy's daughter gets kidnapped/murdered - seeks recover/revenge. Actually that might happen all to often - Sorry.
2. Ordinary US citizens or couple stumble into international intrigue- find out almost to late that the CIA/NSA/FBI are the real bad guys.
3. Computer/ math genius holds the key to preventing technological Armageddon see #2.
4. Young man with hot girl friend gets in over his head with drugs/gambling, calls his estranged brother Jason Stratham and everything works out,except the hot girl friend winds up with (Spoiler).
5. There's a bomb on the plane/train/boat and retired, cynical CIA/NSA/FBI/Seal Team 6 member is on board and has to defuse the situation without killing the precocious kid seated next to him/her.

I have more if needed.
 
Chrispy said:
Sitcoms are not representations of real life for the most part, tho....and expecting them to would take away from the comedy. City Slickers was a movie, tho
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While I realize sitcoms tend to be silly and ridiculous I do find it interesting that these things have been just been accepted as normal plot lines. They are fairly popular in movies too. Having seen security footage of a guy trying knock out a robber by hitting him over the head with a bottle, it is clear some are believed. But things like stun guns and blunt trauma to the head aren't things that most people have experience with so it is easy to ignore. Meanwhile we were all kids so imaginary friends and career days should have been something we did experience. It wasn't until the movie IF that I wondered where all the kids with imaginary friends were when I was growing up. And then the other night on TV they did the grade school career day thing and so I asked a few people, including a teacher if they had ever heard of a classroom actually doing the all parents come in on the same day and talk about their careers thing. Had I just missed out on the awkward presentations from parents with boring jobs?
 
ta240 said:
While I realize sitcoms tend to be silly and ridiculous I do find it interesting that these things have been just been accepted as normal plot lines. They are fairly popular in movies too. Having seen security footage of a guy trying knock out a robber by hitting him over the head with a bottle, it is clear some are believed. But things like stun guns and blunt trauma to the head aren't things that most people have experience with so it is easy to ignore. Meanwhile we were all kids so imaginary friends and career days should have been something we did experience. It wasn't until the movie IF that I wondered where all the kids with imaginary friends were when I was growing up. And then the other night on TV they did the grade school career day thing and so I asked a few people, including a teacher if they had ever heard of a classroom actually doing the all parents come in on the same day and talk about their careers thing. Had I just missed out on the awkward presentations from parents with boring jobs?
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Same for crime/drama/csi shows, just not that realistic...
 
Chrispy said:
Same for crime/drama/csi shows, just not that realistic...
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The difference, to me, is for most people they don't have any experience with the subject matter so they won't easily spot what isn't realistic. The more specific the storyline the easier it is to get it past most people. I've even read articles talking about how prosecutors have a harder time because people on the jury expect the sort of evidence and confessions that the TV shows come up with.

But most of us have been kids and many of us have attended grade school, so it was just odd to me that I've never heard anyone question these things that are shown as being everyday normal occurrences.

I guess it is always possible that the people writing the movies and TV shows may have seen it enough now that they just assume it is a real thing too.
 
Most American adults have an imaginary friend. The last couple that I had the misfortune to meet in person were quite disgustingly in my face without provocation about it too.
 
ta240 said:
There is the hit on the head hard enough to knock a person unconscious but they wake up fine. In real life the person would likely be dead or brain damaged.

Another favorite of mine is the hand held stun gun knocking a person out.
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Always useful for the plot where the hero has been framed and is now being pursued by his former friends/colleagues.

Captain Kirk could knock a bloke out with one karate chop to the back of the neck, but there'd be no lasting harm.
 
Is it common for Americans to dress like this at home?

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At home it's a loose fitting pair of gym shorts and a very old T-shirt. I can't imagine dressing up at home as if i'm going to go out. Maybe it's because i'm not American.
 
Mart68 said:
Misidentifications - a tourist is mistaken for a hit man, a janitor is mistaken for the president, that sort of thing. Leading to either dramatic or humorous outcomes.
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Unfortunately they do sometimes happen, like the electrician mistaken for a terrorist. The outcome was dramatic and fatal, not at all humorous.
 
DVDdoug said:
Temporary amnesia... It was super-common in soap operas. Permanent memory loss seems a lot more common in real life, typically with no memory of the accident that caused the brain injury. It happened to my sister. She didn't lose consciousnesses but she kept asking, "What happened" every few minutes. VERY disturbing!
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Of the 2 instances I've encountered some memories came back and others were permanently lost. Being asked the same question every few minutes is very familiar from one of them.
 
GD Fan said:
Other than all the times Shakespeare used this device.
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Or when a character takes the identity and credit of another... like the real life glove makers son from Stratford that hijacked Edward De Vere's work as his own... or Dick Whitman becomes Don Draper... or the simple minded son of a rich man assumes his father accomplishments and wealth as his own. There are no new stories... just reinterpretations of art and history to create fictious realities cut into sound bytes and marketed to P.T. Barnum's clientele. "To thine own self be true..." :cool:
 
Keith_W said:
Is it common for Americans to dress like this at home?
At home it's a loose fitting pair of gym shorts and a very old T-shirt. I can't imagine dressing up at home as if i'm going to go out. Maybe it's because i'm not American.
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People dress all sorts of ways at home. For me it is usually blue jeans and a T shirt but my inlaws dress much more nicely than me. Does everyone in Australia dress like you at home?
 
ta240 said:
Maybe I've just never encountered these but as common as they are in TV and movies I'd think I would have. Yet in movies and TV they are treated like a regular thing that all kids and parents experience.

1) Kids with imaginary friends
I haven't met a kid with an imaginary friend and none of the teachers I know have either. Yet a kid interacting with an imaginary friend in front of other people is a fairly common thing in movies and even a TV show or two. All the other characters treat it like it is an everyday occurrence.

2) Grade school career day with parents
Lots of shows and movies use this one, where the parents all come in on the same day and have to talk about what they do for a living.
If a kids parent was a cop or a firefighter they might come in and do a presentation of some sort, but never all the parents talking about their regular jobs one after another.

Have I just missed out on these common things or do they only exist in movies and TV?

I know lots of over-the-top things in movies and TV don't really happen but these two just seem so common and are widely treated as normal happenings.
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One of my sons had two imaginary friends. He’s “on the spectrum” as they say. My mom claimed she had one as well.
 
I don't know anyone with an imaginary friend. I guess I need more diversity in my circle.
 
All suppressed guns are deadly quiet. Actually It's possible but in rare cases (small,weak calibers like .22LR, subsonic ammo).
 
dedobot said:
All suppressed guns are deadly quiet. Actually It's possible but in rare cases (small,weak calibers like .22LR, subsonic ammo).
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It helps when it's a design goal from the start, like with the Welrod which has been described as "Hollywood quiet" - rather giving the game away that most aren't.
 
Old American westerns where the guy falls or gets shot off his horse and breaks a leg and is back in the saddle the next day and walks with a slight limp.
 
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