TV show pet peeves

EarthyChocl8AKA
EarthyChocl8AKA Posts: 69
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Totally random: It sooo peeved me that we never got to see Nanny's face on the cartoon Muppet Babies...all we saw were legs. I guess God knew my frustration bc when I was a kid, I had a dream that I saw Nanny... and you wanna know who she looked like?---Ronald McDonald. #InyourFaceNanny!

What are some of your childhood or current TV show pet peeves/frustrations?
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  • snw_
    snw_ Posts: 237 Member
    When they carry luggage that is obviously empty
  • EarthyChocl8AKA
    EarthyChocl8AKA Posts: 69
    When they carry luggage that is obviously empty

    LOL I was commenting about this the other day :grumble: total peeve lol
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    Clearly empty boxes, coffee cups, etc.
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    Currently it's the different volume settings they have not only between stations (certain ones will blow you out of your seat when you have it turned up to hear the quieter ones) but between the shows and the commercials. Thankfully the end of August is supposed to see the end of this practice here, with commercials and shows at the same volume settings.

    The other is the reality shows that show a segment, go to commercial, and repeat the last segment on return from commercial break.. ummm I'm either sitting here watching it OR PVRing through the commercials anyway so it's annoying to have the repeats, they'd have time for more footage without the duplication.
  • EarthyChocl8AKA
    EarthyChocl8AKA Posts: 69
    Currently it's the different volume settings they have not only between stations (certain ones will blow you out of your seat when you have it turned up to hear the quieter ones) but between the shows and the commercials. Thankfully the end of August is supposed to see the end of this practice here, with commercials and shows at the same volume settings.

    The other is the reality shows that show a segment, go to commercial, and repeat the last segment on return from commercial break.. ummm I'm either sitting here watching it OR PVRing through the commercials anyway so it's annoying to have the repeats, they'd have time for more footage without the duplication.

    I noticed the volume changes too and dislike having to reach for the remote (especially if I left it somewhere) to adjust the volume... Also, I actually like the repeats especially if it's good and suspenseful!
  • california_peach
    california_peach Posts: 1,809 Member
    When they are driving, but they are constantly taking their eyes off the road to talk to the other person in the car.
  • EarthyChocl8AKA
    EarthyChocl8AKA Posts: 69
    My ABSOLUTE WORST scene is when a person is in the bed (and supposedly it is morning now) and they just start talking and or kissing the other character in the room without having gotten up to brush their teeth (or at least pretend like they did) LOL:grumble:
  • midschool22
    midschool22 Posts: 1,267 Member
    All of it. So I don't watch TV.

    Unless the Texas Rangers are on. :love:
  • chonji4ever
    chonji4ever Posts: 120 Member
    1) All reality shows are stupid and not worth airing! 2) I have to pay for cable to get the Science Channel and History 1 and 2. 3) TV sucks most of the year, until college football starts!
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    Sadly some of the reality tv options are better than what passes as staples of network television lately, they seem to toss the good shows and keep the crap endlessly.

    Instead of another post I edited to agree with the post below me... either "bad ratings" or the "wrong demographic" watched it rather than who they targeted their marketing drive at.
  • lbmore33
    lbmore33 Posts: 1,013 Member
    when a show that I enjoy get dropped b/c of low rating
  • Bucky83
    Bucky83 Posts: 1,194 Member
    Drama medical shows that don't consider using allied health services and do everything themselves. Seriously? They haven't heard of specialists?
  • ScientistStudy
    ScientistStudy Posts: 249 Member
    When a dramatic situation gets out of control because a character hasn't explained. If they said one sentence the whole situation wouldn't occur and in reality it's not something likely to happen (obviously it's for entertainment). Desperate Housewives for notorious for this and it because hard to watch.
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    Pet Peeves.......The History Channel has no history shows on it

    MTV has no music on it ( I remember 120 minutes, YO MTV raps, & Headbangers Ball )

    Th rapid cut editing on shows like "The Office"
  • rjt1000
    rjt1000 Posts: 700 Member
    Totally random: It sooo peeved me that we never got to see Nanny's face on the cartoon Muppet Babies...all we saw were legs. I guess God knew my frustration bc when I was a kid, I had a dream that I saw Nanny... and you wanna know who she looked like?---Ronald McDonald. #InyourFaceNanny!

    What are some of your childhood or current TV show pet peeves/frustrations?

    Every live actor Disney channel kids show, like Jesse, Ant Farm, Kickin It, etc. The cartoons on Disney are funny. The live actor shows all suck. Really really badly suck. Same plot lines rotated between the shows, terrible acting, all adults are idiots and fathers even dumber than that. I swear the shows are written by 12 year olds. And Disney keeps looking for their next Hannah Montana. They keep trying to make another one, having each actor doing some music and pumping crap music videos of them between each show.

    Sad that the largest entertainment company in the world can't come up with better....
  • rjt1000
    rjt1000 Posts: 700 Member
    Pet Peeves.......The History Channel has no history shows on it

    MTV has no music on it ( I remember 120 minutes, YO MTV raps, & Headbangers Ball )

    Th rapid cut editing on shows like "The Office"

    Yep. The history channel has gotten bad. Looks like they're going to become just another cable reality show channel.
  • digitalbill
    digitalbill Posts: 1,410 Member
    Most shows that attempt to show how life is in the Military.
    My wife started to watch Army Wives and when I asked her about it, she explained to me that she thought that it would give her abetter understanding of my life while I served.
    I LOL'd on that one.
    I find myself picking apart the inaccuracies too much.
  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
    The fact that they can have sex in the shower, in the car, etc and NEVER have messed up hair or make-up! Seriously???
  • kayleesays
    kayleesays Posts: 564 Member
    Cop shows - one cop gets another cop a coffee and they drink it and it's VERY OBVIOUSLY EMPTY. C'mon, people, acting 101.
  • Rocbola
    Rocbola Posts: 1,998 Member
    They ended "My Name Is Earl" with a "TO BE CONTINUED"

    WTF!?!?!?!?
  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
    My friend and I watch Y&R... yes I like this soap! Peeve is that one episode the kids are like 10-11 yrs old, they leave town for what is obviosly only a month or so and come back all grown up drinking and sleeping around! Drives me crazy!
  • kayleesays
    kayleesays Posts: 564 Member
    When a dramatic situation gets out of control because a character hasn't explained. If they said one sentence the whole situation wouldn't occur and in reality it's not something likely to happen (obviously it's for entertainment). Desperate Housewives for notorious for this and it because hard to watch.

    OH MY GOD THIS

    Just simply explain what's happening instead of making some stupid lie up that is completely unrealistic.

    But that wouldn't make for a half hour of dramatic TV, now, would it? In my opinion, a TV show is well-written when they can create conflict without it being THIS stupid.
  • lauralizzy829
    lauralizzy829 Posts: 215 Member
    My ABSOLUTE WORST scene is when a person is in the bed (and supposedly it is morning now) and they just start talking and or kissing the other character in the room without having gotten up to brush their teeth (or at least pretend like they did) LOL:grumble:

    Or they wake up and their hair is perfectly bouncy and have a perfect smokey eye and perfect makeup done..... I call BS!
  • f1ctional
    f1ctional Posts: 235
    1. Laugh tracks that are excessive and play in parts that are clearly not funny at all (see Whitney)

    2. Night time. I am not sure what planet people are on, but in TV world, night time turns orange or blue instead of "dark"
    (I do know why they do that obviously, but still, its annoying)

    3. Product placement seriously changing one letter off of a product does not mean we do not know what it is. Putting a pear sticker over the apple logo, or a circle over the dell sticker (see big bang theory, icarly)

    That's all it got this early.. :P
  • Sister_Someone
    Sister_Someone Posts: 567 Member
    It generally peeves me when major character development/storyline change happens behind the cameras, never gets explained onscreen, but somehow the viewers are still expected to be okay with it and accept it. Case in point - The Vampire Diaries, Bonnie and her step-brother I guess, suddenly start making out in the middle of the 20s decade dance episode. I was like, so we should just accept that those two are a couple now, even though they never showed ANY scene that would make that situation logical.

    Also, when they forcefully form a couple just because fans want to see that couple, even though it's obvious those two characters would suck as a couple. I'm talking about George and Izzie on Grey's Anatomy. Those were two awesome characters that ended up completely ruined for me because of their "relationship" storyline. It wasn't even that bad an idea as it was a terrible timing.
  • sfarrell1359
    sfarrell1359 Posts: 63 Member
    Currently it's the different volume settings they have not only between stations (certain ones will blow you out of your seat when you have it turned up to hear the quieter ones) but between the shows and the commercials. Thankfully the end of August is supposed to see the end of this practice here, with commercials and shows at the same volume settings.

    The other is the reality shows that show a segment, go to commercial, and repeat the last segment on return from commercial break.. ummm I'm either sitting here watching it OR PVRing through the commercials anyway so it's annoying to have the repeats, they'd have time for more footage without the duplication.

    YES to both of these!!!!
  • beauand1
    beauand1 Posts: 16
    When a show plays the same five syndicated seasons, five times a day, on five different channels (see: Family Guy). I can pretty much quote every episode verbatim from the first 5 years.

    Or when a show has 20+ seasons to choose from and I still see the same episodes over and over in syndication (see: The Simpsons).

    Also the volume thing that was discussed!

    :)
  • Jxnsmma
    Jxnsmma Posts: 919 Member
    no one ever says goodbye when they hang up the phone!
  • hyperionguy
    hyperionguy Posts: 90
    no one ever says goodbye when they hang up the phone!

    At my company a lot of our IT sustaining support (non-project, non-development) is done by Infosys. They are an India-based company that provides us both on-shore and off-shore support (follow the sun support).

    None of our on-shore Infosys people say bye. They just stop talking, wait to hear if someone says anything, then hang up. Bugs the crap out of me.
  • Amatambi
    Amatambi Posts: 72
    I hate that in shows like Bones and CSI and shows that just use a lot of technology never show the technology malfunctioning. It always works PERFECTLY. No lag, no error reports, nothing. And how it magically just does everything that the user needs it to do! COMPLETELY unrealistic. :p

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