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Nolan: When you need to find Amanda she disappears into thin air. When you want her to go away she keeps popping up like the homicidal stripper version of Whack-a-Mole.

''Just go home and try not to do anything revengey." or something very similar. LOVE Nolan. :D

haha ''with all due respect..<insert something the other person will definately find disrespectful>" i have used this before but never expect to be taken seriously when i do, it's the tv version of 'no offense or anything but <insert something the other person will definately find offensive>".

Only on tv when someone hears some very surprising OMG!-kind of news do they drop whatever they are holding. Most often it will be a glass or for e.g. 'You're the father of the baby' cue person receiving news dropping a whole stack of plates and them smashing on the floor. This always makes me laugh when this happens on tv, when people hear something that shocks them or catches them off guard in real life i'm pretty sure they don't lose the grip of their hands. Similarly someone always feels the need to deliver OMG-kind of news when the other person has their mouth full and they spew their food or drink everywhere.

don't judge me but i thought forte was pronounced ''fortay''?? i have never heard anyone pronounce forte any different! once i know the correct way though i can smugly correct people as if i knew along ;)

Or the current alcoholic detective who is still Amazing at his job. Wife may have left him e.t.c but the drinking only seems to make him better at his job or doesn't affect the job whatsoever. Cos in real life if a cop was drunk all the time they'd really be The Best Cop Ever though (but just a bit cranky) and wouldn't lose their job.

Ah i guess kids and sometimes adults can be exceptionally dumb in real life too your photo printing evidence being a prime example. Just as well they are dumb so don't get away with things as much, i suppose 'criminal masterminds' are more often on tv than in real life then! Still thinking about corridors (i'll try to stop that when i can) there's always a school bully in a teen show who shoves someone over and their books go everywhere. Loads of bullying takes place in corridors and classrooms aswell on tv. While be know bullying does happen in schools in real life, it just seems like teachers on tv ignore it a lot more or must be stupid to not notice shouting abuse in class/pushing people in corridors e.t.c. Hope that isn't the case in real life as of course that's very sad.

"Screw you guys, I'm Going Home!" Cartman from South Park. Can't help pulling that out just as a general goodbye when work is finished on friday etc.

Yes as i recall there definately wasn't enough time or space to stand around chatting in the corridor outside the lockers. Which brings me to... Only on tv do people try to hide incriminating evidence in their locker at school. I know i've seen it often enough, and have seen it literally being evidence they were involved in a murder, or else it's drugs, stolen items, to a less serious degree evidence they cheated on an exam e.t.c... Yes is would be hard to surrepticiously stash a bloody knife in your locker given the busy corridors, but why hide anything in there in the first place? Stashing something in a locked cabinet in your own home is one thing, but don't these people realize they aren't the ONLY ones with the keys to their school locker? The school has these keys too, so why is person-already-under-suspicion-for-some-sort-of-crime surprised when the janitor opens their locker to reveal stashed items in front of the police/entire school??

The mother Grace Rinato in Denial is a piece of work. She murdered her child (IIRC two of them, or was it one??) because 'she couldn't deal with the crying' etc and her other daughter Claire who did everything she could to love and protect that child is then accused of the murder. Grace is totally happy for her daughter Claire to go to prison for murder and Claire now being a heroin addict isn't a credible witness or whatever, i love Fin in this episode and when he hugs her at the end! ah the days when SVU made you feel something real and was powerful not-too-over-the-top emotional drama...so yeah It's only cos the grandmother comes forward and admits that her daughter Grace was the murderer that saves Claire.

This! They just hate them don't they! I was watching an early SVU episode and IAB come to visit the squad room.. our main character goes 'you can look in my desk but sorry i don't think i have any cheese in there for you' haha and being a very early episode it's not like they had any reason to hate 'the rat squad' so much. surely Our cops being Good cops they would be on the same side being against police corruption and all?? Anyway my point is here, in real life we have a general rule (don't know if it's written somewhere or unwritten but a rule all the same) that even when we really dislike a colleague or someone we have to work alongside from a different field, we have to be civil. that doesn't apply to tv, cops make sure Internal Affairs KNOW how much they hate them and the same with anyone else in the workplace they don't like they are outright rude and express their contempt towards them.. and NEVER get called on it. i know i would be told off for bitching about people i work with to their face, and probably be sacked if i continued to not be civil to them.. on tv they can say and do whatever they want to colleages and never get told off by superiors.

And no prisons are ever inspected for anything like that on tv, they're just allowed to get on with whatever awfullness is going on. Oh silly me, they probably are inspected but the superiors/govener or whoever will inevitably be corrupt too. Haven't seen Sons of Anarchy but tv prisons are still proving my point then and getting far worse it would seem! It always makes me laugh when the suspect-who-is-about-to run is approached by the police, say in their work place or on the street or wherever, they knock over a massive table, pots n pans or street stand, to get in the cops way. they do this so often on tv without a thought to how suspicious it makes them look to everybody. and i never understood why when they are approached by cops in their own neighborhood/work place they end up running to the end of a dead-end alley. you'd think they'd know the area well enough to run somewhere less stupid.

In any given prison on TV the large majority of the guards will be completely corrupt. There might be just one corrections officer who doesn't take bribes/bully or assault inmates/frame the inmates for something or other but the rest of the C.O's will be basically pretty horrible people breaking the law themselves and the inmates on the whole will be far nicer than them.

Nate's Dad on Gossip Girl made him Take the wrap literally heh pun totally intended, his mum found drugs that were actually his dad's and he said they must be his son's and they were all ready to send poor Nateybear off to rehab..then his dad gets charged with embezzlement and is all ready to hold his family ransom in another country to avoid extradition or some convoluted reason. though as spartan girl said, the worst of the worst parents that i can think of are some Law & Order SVU parents!

Oh right, thanks! we also wanted to be prom queens and cheerleaders but they don't exist in schools here so that was an Only on US TV thing for me hehe.