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

[Dogen]

The imaginary friends have moved into kid’s phones

 

[Old_School_Brad]

It is mostly sitcoms that do the parents career day thing. Where the parent struggles to make their job pushing paper sound interesting after following an alligator wrestler or something like that. On the shows all the parents are there on the same day waiting and go one after another and it never matters how boring or hard to explain their jobs are, they have to get up and tell the kids about it.

This clip is relevant, but mainly because it feels so unrealistic for an adult to:

1. Be visibly depressed yet still choose to stand in front of kids without managing their emotions.
2. Deliver a stereotypical depressive rant that no one would actually give.

 

[JSmith]

Australia?

Yeah, but from a comedy tv show called Housos... which is a play on housing commission tenants.

Even though it's comedy... it's not far off in some cases. It can come across as a bit crass though, depending on mood.


JSmith

 

[Audio Science Pal]

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

2) Grade school career day with parents

Those two scenarios I can believe to happen sometimes. Time travel is the highly improbable movie theme that amuses me.

 

[userPaul]

Yeah, but from a comedy tv show called Housos... which is a play on housing commission tenants.

Even though it's comedy... it's not far off in some cases. It can come across as a bit crass though, depending on mood.


JSmith

comedy, it seems like not many people talk about it

 

[suttondesign]

Husband says to wife who is being tormented by something evil: "Maybe you're imagining things." Wife left to her own devices.

This may have been realistic in a 1972 episode of Mannix, but it's laughable now, I use it at home as an in-joke -- not that my wife enjoys the humor.

 

[Petrushka]

Firing a gun, pistol, whatever indoors without going deaf. Do not ask me to elaborate.

 

[pderousse]

1. Both the HS district I work in and the PK-8 District on whose board I sit do parent/career day. Its a good institution. Most kids have no clue what they want to do in college, because they only see what their parents do, and what (they think) teachers do.
2. Not only are phones kids' best friends, but a good number of adults too have let social media broaden the concept of friend to such an extent that the word is becoming empty. In case you have not seen it yet, AI can now be your girlfriend.

Now, there are story lines that do not exist, like the 'self-made man,' the idea that the world is simple, that there is just one story, etc.

 

[ta240]

1. Both the HS district I work in and the PK-8 District on whose board I sit do parent/career day. Its a good institution. Most kids have no clue what they want to do in college, because they only see what their parents do, and what (they think) teachers do.

That is interesting. Is it the full on career day where everyone's parent comes in or just those with 'interesting' jobs. Although, I guess at least if it happens at all that gives a solid foundation for the story line.

 

[ta240]

Those two scenarios I can believe to happen sometimes. Time travel is the highly improbable movie theme that amuses me.

Guy's wife gets killed, so he devotes his life to martial arts and mastering every known weapon so that he can go on an international hunt for the killers (bonus points if the killers work for a giant corporation).

How about the innumerable movies where 11 or 12 year old kids constantly get the better of the adults, all of whom are complete bumbling idiots.
Or body-switching, instantly going from 12 years old to 32, etc.
None of those seem to ever happen in real life.

To me, there are two categories of things that happen in movies.

Those that we know are unrealistic like time travel, body switching, instant assassin etc.

And then the imaginary friend, all parents come to career day type things were they seem realistic enough and are in so many storylines that they seem to be an accepted part of our culture.

That is what surprised me, I had never questioned either, but when I started asking around I hadn't found anyone locally that had encountered either.

I talked to a grade school teacher with about 25 years experience and they hadn't ever known a kid that interacted with an imaginary friend in public and none of the classes have ever done the career day thing.

 

[ta240]

This clip is relevant, but mainly because it feels so unrealistic for an adult to:

1. Be visibly depressed yet still choose to stand in front of kids without managing their emotions.
2. Deliver a stereotypical depressive rant that no one would actually give.

In high school I went to something called Business Week and at one point they had local business owners talking to us about what it was like. A guy with a Baskin Robins franchise rapidly spiraled into a very depressing talk about how hard it was to make any money. He talked about how his employees would eat the ice cream and give it away to their friends. He went on to talk about how corporate made them buy all the tray liners, cups and napkins at ridiculous prices. By the end I thought he was going to jump out the window.

 

[Newman]

Societies in which nobody ever seems to watch TV. So many sitcoms and soapies are like this.

 

[ta240]

1. Hitmen / cops racking up huge body counts all over a city as if it were a normal occurrence

It is interesting with the ones where the main character that isn't a cop shoots a bunch of bad guys, and then the police show up and they just walk away like they don't have to spend hours, if not days giving statements on what happened. Even cops would have a lot of paperwork and explaining to do.

A lot of shows and movies end on moments that would be really hard for the main characters to explain to authorities.

I did get a kick out of a Clint Eastwood movie where him and another cop shot quite a few rounds at a bad guy that got away and when one wanted to leave the other said they had to stay since they had fired their weapons. Then the first one asked "did you hit anything?" and the answer was "no" and then "any wittnesses?" and "no" so they left.