TV & Movie Clichés

[Rinox]

This may have been done before, if so, I apologize. Please add if you have new ideas!

Grocery shopping is always in brown paper bags with either (but never both!) a bread stick or a bunch of celery sticking out.

People on the phone never say goodbye.

Arranging a date, no-one says where or when, they just turn up at the right place and time.

Car park - they always find one right away.

Female characters being chased will always trip over and hurt their ankle.

No-one wakes up with bed hair or morning breath.

People only drink red wine.

Villains are English and posh.

 

[Swifty]

If you're a young man and your girlfriends just dumped you, it will start raining and the dumping itself is very likely to happen in a car park .... at night time ...

 

[Bigphoot2]

Bombs always have big red LED displays.
Bad guys are terrible shots.
The best way to put someone under covert surveillance is stand across the road from their home/workplace/restaurants etc reading a newspaper at all hours of the day and night and in all weathers.

 

[Bigphoot2]

Helicopters are silent until they are seen. The hero of the film could be on top of a cliff or high building and everything is silent. Suddenly a helicopter rises up and then and only then is it heard.

 

[Moooksta]

Was always a fan of Chekov's statement that said...If you see a gun in Act 1...it's fired in Act 3.

 

[Swifty]

Helicopters are silent until they are seen. The hero of the film could be on top of a cliff or high building and everything is silent. Suddenly a helicopter rises up and then and only then is it heard.

LOL .. that's true .. I hadn't thought about that before.

 

[Ulalume]

Was always a fan of Chekov's statement that said...If you see a gun in Act 1...it's fired in Act 3.

haha, I was just thinking about this while watching an episode of "Will and Grace" I'd never seen before. The characters were in a piano bar. A piano is never there just by happenstance. A piano is there because one of the characters is going to break into a musical number any moment now. Sure enough, seconds later, Will is singing "I honestly love you"...

 

[Analogue Boy]

You just know spooky shenannigans are about to ensue when the clockwork monkey suddenly starts banging the cymbals.

 

[CarlosTheDJ]

Every car chase will crash though a watermelon stand and some roadworks. The road workers will shimmy left-right-left-right before diving out of the way.

(Are watermelon stands even a thing?)

 

[Swifty]

I remember a time not so long ago when a scary ghost in almost every horror film wasn't automatically the Sadako lookalike little girl in a tattered white dress with long black hair hanging over her face. It's getting past a joke now ..

 

[Shady]

The cars usually hit a water bottle carrying lorry
None of the people in a horror film seem to have watched a horror film, with the way they act ie: Splitting up, going into the woods alone and using torches that appear to have Asda smart price batteries in them.

 

[Analogue Boy]

How about any TV report of a haunted pub with the inevitable 'But it's not just the spirits behind the bar causing problems'.

 

[Shady]

And the local tv news, when they have overweight ladies wearing t shirts hastily pulled over their clothes advertising some kind of local wrong doing

 

[Bigphoot2]

In any war movie as soon as someone starts talking about their plans when they get back home after the war is doomed.

 

[Shady]

In any movie, when they are trying to defend themselves they drop the object they intend to use as their defense.
Any kid who is the lead in a film, usually is much smarter than the thick as a brick adults.

 

[Swifty]

The bomb with the red digital display that's diffused through pure correct wire guess work with only 2 seconds to go until it explodes.

 

[Shady]

Helicopters are silent until they are seen. The hero of the film could be on top of a cliff or high building and everything is silent. Suddenly a helicopter rises up and then and only then is it heard.

Airwolf was terrible for this Altho it had stealth mode i am sure you could still be able to hear it coming up behind you

 

[Shady]

The fact they know how to fly an alien ship

 

[Swifty]

Every car chase will crash though a watermelon stand and some roadworks. The road workers will shimmy left-right-left-right before diving out of the way.

(Are watermelon stands even a thing?)

Yes .. yes the do, and this is the fucker I'd take out:

 

[Bigphoot2]

Airwolf was terrible for this Altho it had stealth mode i am sure you could still be able to hear it coming up behind you

Yes, I think you'd notice it becoming a bit breezy

 

[Shady]

:lol: and the famous screech it always made

 

[Shady]

I always hated the bit in most films when the downtrodden hero ALWAYS told his boring sob story

 

[Bigphoot2]

I always hated the bit in most films when the downtrodden hero ALWAYS told his boring sob story

Brilliantly sent up in Airplane

 

[Naughty_Felid]

In any war movie as soon as someone starts talking about their plans when they get back home after the war is doomed.

the same as any cop facing retirement

 

[OneWingedBird]

Anyone walking iinto a room where music is playing always enters at the exact start of a bar.

 

[Bigphoot2]

the same as any cop facing retirement

Ah yes, the soon to be retired cop who is "too old for this shit."

 

[Shady]

When helicopters blow up they go behind a mountain to do it. I think they must be shy

 

[GNC]

Any school, college or university class will be interrupted by the bell within seconds of the scene beginning.

That old favourite: any man suffering a brutal kick to the bollocks will recover in mere moments.

 

[Mythopoeika]

:lol: and the famous screech it always made

There's also a high-pitched bird recording (like a screech) that gets played during any desert scene.
http://filmsound.org/cliche/

 

[Yithian]

Any plan or action declared to be impossible by a character is not merely possible but inevitable.

Every person in a coma recovers.

Secretaries wear glasses, but only at work.

All children dropped off at school must walk a few steps before breaking into a run as the parent looks on fondly.