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[tearknee]

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorstNewsJudgmentEver

[Lugal]

20 hours ago, meep.meep said:

Someone gets a call/text saying "turn on the TV!"  and they turn it on and see something they can relate to.

Me:  there's 700 channels, can you be more specific?

When it's the situation of "Giant squid-monster eats the Empire State Building" you can pretty much bet that nearly every channel is going to cover it.

But in that situation, rather than telling them to turn on the TV, it's just as easy to tell them, "Holy @#%& shit!  There's giant squid-monster eating the Empire State Building!!"

[proserpina65]

On 11/1/2024 at 2:06 PM, Affogato said:

Yup, teen sex is not fanfiction bondage or hours of gentle orgasms. Sophistication requires a learning curve. 

I haven't seen a lot of that on tv shows with teens that I've watched, just the clumsy and quick missionary.  Maybe I'm watching the wrong shows?

On 11/1/2024 at 9:15 PM, tearknee said:

If you want to show any awkward teenage sexual fumbling's, you have to cast an adult actor, because doing so with a teen actor constitutes child pornography.

Not entirely.  A lot depends on the age of the teenager, parental consent and the country where the show is filmed.

 

[Affogato]

18 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I haven't seen a lot of that on tv shows with teens that I've watched, just the clumsy and quick missionary.  Maybe I'm watching the wrong shows?

 

 

I believe my contrxt was how it strikes viewers. The tv shows clearly are not porn. Per se, but the fan fiction often is, and ‘evidence’ is shows like Riverdale, wherr it is lampshaded by everyine sleeping with everyone, in groups. 

[tearknee]

19 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I haven't seen a lot of that on tv shows with teens that I've watched, just the clumsy and quick missionary.  Maybe I'm watching the wrong shows?

Not entirely.  A lot depends on the age of the teenager, parental consent and the country where the show is filmed.

 

ISTM that I was clearly referring to Hollywood/SCal?

[Anduin]

One I like is defeating biometric scanners. Like, putting the person's hand on the scanner after they've been killed, or removing someone's eyeball. Macabre, but it always makes me smile. Of course, I've also seen bits of wire jammed into important sockets or making a mask of someone's face. It's all good fun.

[proserpina65]

On 11/14/2024 at 7:53 AM, Affogato said:

I believe my contrxt was how it strikes viewers.

Clearly it doesn't strike all viewers that way.

[Affogato]

3 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

Clearly it doesn't strike all viewers that way.

Hell, some don’t watch the shows and it doesn’t strike them at all! However canon and fanon are two different things. I do think the age of the actors, reason doesn’t matter, effectively changes the story. For some it may simply make it less problematical. 

[Gharlane]

On 11/12/2024 at 5:54 PM, Mabinogia said:

All they really had to do was go to their local bar where the TV is always turned to the news and the exact news you need to further your story is being shown just when you need it. 

I like how the reporters on TV wait for the characters watching to stop talking before continuing with their news story. 

[tearknee]

6 hours ago, Gharlane said:

I like how the reporters on TV wait for the characters watching to stop talking before continuing with their news story. 

Uncle Howee in the Haunting Hour is used to parody that

[tearknee]

On 11/13/2024 at 7:46 AM, meep.meep said:

Someone gets a call/text saying "turn on the TV!"  and they turn it on and see something they can relate to.

Me:  there's 700 channels, can you be more specific?

"Hey, what gives? I thought you had a satellite dish". -- "Sure didilly do. Over 230 channels locked out".

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E16HomerLovesFlanders

[Kel Varnsen]

On 11/1/2024 at 7:04 PM, scarynikki12 said:

For teenage roles you just hire adults and then you can film as long as you want.

Also if you hire adults you don't have to worry about them actually doing school work or having tutors or that sort of thing.

[tearknee]

and have the characters do sexual things that would get the whole production team arrested if they were actual teens. At least where Hollywood is.

[Mrsmaul2021]

The trope where creators play up  underlying chemistry between two characters is not okay to do when one of the characters kidnapped the other when they were just a child

 

My greatest pet peeve with the show  Found on NBC

Edited December 24, 2024 by Mrsmaul2021

[tearknee]

I tend to find in the Kids Incorporated sorts of shows [or a movie like Lizzie McGuire] that the "foreign twin of the girl main character [this plot is rarely used with a boy]" in 90% of cases mysteriously lose their accent whenever they have to sing.

Unfortunately, when the actor tries to avert this, the overdone fake accent when she was only talking becomes even more overdone - and more irritating!

Yes, Miss Sands, I'm looking at **you**:

 

[Raja]

The evil guy is a sniper but when he goes after the hero protagonist he has to get within hand to hand fighting range so he can be defeated 

[Gharlane]

On 11/1/2024 at 7:04 PM, scarynikki12 said:

For teenage roles you just hire adults and then you can film as long as you want.

They managed just fine with "Oh That Rusty!".

 

[tearknee]

 

[Blergh]

Here's a trope I don't recall being detailed but seems to happen on TV (though I sure hope not too often in RL), one protagonist spouse is nice to family friends while the other is openly rude and hostile to them which often compels them to make a hasty or angry exit- yet rarely if ever will the nicer spouse will consider visiting the family friends at their place to minimize the friends' exposure to the rude spouse. Examples are plenty but few epitomized this more than The Jeffersons (1975-1986) which had George  Jefferson constantly trash Tom Willis's ethnicity and Helen's having opted to have wed Tom (and even would insult their daughter Jenny for being biracial despite otherwise liking her as his son Lionel's fiancee then wife). Tom  and Jenny were FAR more patient with George than he deserved while Helen was more openly combative to George's insults to her family dynamic.

However, in hindsight, it's puzzling that it seemed to never occur to any of the Willises  to quit visiting the Jefferson's apartment so frequently when they knew George would dis them upon sight but instead invite Louise (and Lionel) solo sans George up to their apartment (in the very same building one floor up!) - and oddly enough, Louise never seemed to spend much time there visiting them despite her being welcomed there (to say nothing of getting some respite of her own from George). Yes, Louise and Helen seemed to spend a good part of their time together volunteering in the charitable Help Center but they'd usually interact away from there in the Jeffersons' instead of the Willises' apartment.

Of course, before too long, Florence would spar with George and deflect a good amount of George's barbs away from her employers' neighbors (and seemed to get along fine with all members of their family). Also, interestingly enough, Mother Jefferson seemed to be fond of all members of the Willis family despite her son's hostility- and they all seemed to like her despite her son's 'tude and her frequently putting down their friend Louise.

 Thankfully, at Sherman Helmsley's instance, George's hostility became much less overt in the latter part of the show.

Still, it's a bit off that they (and Louise) would want them to have kept returning to Jefferson's apartment knowing that George would show up and insult them instead of Louise visiting them in their own apartment.