10+ Bad Clichés Only Found In Movies And TV

Unless you're Annie from Bridesmaids who got up early enough to sneakily put on makeup, characters shouldn't be in full glam.

Truthfully, most of us wake up with bad skin, a rat's nest of hair, and stank breath.

Marv and Harry in Home Alone 2, anyone??

The YouTube channel Screen Junkies once even broke down how many times Harry and Marv would have been killed due to Kevin's deadly pranks.

Spoiler: it's a lot.

Nightlife is notorious for being noisy. You usually have to yell "what??" after everything someone says in a loud bar or club.

Try that three times in a row and you'll just nod and pretend that you heard them.

Maybe Hollywood just wants its viewers to understand that funerals are really, really sad?

I think we got the memo on that, though, from people wearing all black, people crying, and someone being, you know, dead.

If time worked like this in real life, we'd be able to work out for an hour and drop 10 pounds.

It's just not possible, yet this DNA thing is one of the oldest clichés in the book.

Try this at your local pub and see how fast your server gets annoyed.

Servers can't read minds. They won't know that "beer" secretly means "grab me a Stella."

It's a nice touch, sure, but most killers prefer an element of surprise.

In addition to a bright red countdown timer being incredibly unrealistic, most of these explosions just throw people around instead of killing them.

Unless you're Usain Bolt, the chances of this being possible are pretty slim.

Some movies even feature a shot of someone walking away while a bomb explodes behind them. Cool? Yes. Realistic? No.

You'd have to work at the nicest steakhouse in town for this to be possible. And even then, the odds are pretty slim.

Rachel from Friends and Penny from The Big Bang Theory were huge examples of this.

This is frustrating to no end.

When something bad happens, the character either won't listen to the other person explain or the person who has an explanation simply won't offer it up.

Oh, if only this were true.

Most of us are down to, like, one friend, and when they're busy, we spend our weekends alone with our cat, Netflix, and snacks.

Instead, they usually begin a very long, emotional speech before they die.

We know that we'd be crying out bloody Mary if someone had just stabbed us in the stomach, that much is for sure.

Hollywood has been known to portray a lot of jobs inaccurately.

Hacking is definitely one of them. Not every hacker wears all-black and they can't make miracles happen with just a few clicks on a keyboard.

This happens all in time in action flicks and shows like Game of Thrones and The Witcher.

Truthfully, you would need like eight arms to fend off a whole swarm of sword-wielding bad guys coming towards you.

It's a very strange game of cat and mouse (which, to be fair, keeps us on the edge of our seats).

By just going in for the kill, serial killers could be home in time to watch Jeoporady.

Gilmore Girls was notorious for this.

The characters loved food — it was all they could talk about sometimes — but they were constantly taking one bite of Luke's delicious burgers and then leaving it behind.

This is the case in, like, every Hallmark movie. NO ONE HAS TIME TO PERFECTLY CURL THEIR HAIR EVERY MORNING.

Not only that, but their hair magically stays perfect all day long. Humidity is much too cruel in real life for that.

If only this were possible. Finding parking in busy cities is a challenge that leads many to just take the bus or subway.

To add to this being unrealistic, the detectives never seem to get a parking ticket.

Talk about rude.

We understand doing this with telemarketers, but if this happened in real life, this person would have no friends.

Plus, they always say, "let's meet at seven," but never actually specify where.

While this might have been the case in the olden days when medication was way behind, the trope still stands.

As soon as someone coughs, get ready because they're going to die, whether it's believable or not.

Believe it or not, even cable catches more than just that!

Also, I don't know about you, but I rarely see super old movies on cable in real life. This seems to be just a movie and TV thing.

This basically never happens, although I really wish it did. It would save me, and I'm sure many others, tons of time.

But unfortunately, for most people, we constantly have to flip through channels before finding something we actually want to watch.

It happens on more than one occasion, not just in Suits.

Unless someone is a speed reader and has a photographic memory, they'd have to actually read the entire folder before understanding what is actually happening.

A network that continuously has this issue is the CW channel.

Almost every show they have casts people in their late 20s or early 30s to play someone who is meant to be a teenager. It sets very unrealistic standards.

No matter what you're taking or drinking, chances are it takes longer than 30 seconds to actually work on a human being.

But in movie and TV time, apparently that is not the case!

Every time a movie or show wants to bring about the next plot point while keeping people in the dark, someone whispers the classic:

"We have to go! No time to explain."

How is there no time to explain from one destination to another?

When you're outside, it's one thing, but inside a small room? It's a lot different.

Movie makers just don't seem to understand how loud guns are. It could seriously damage the characters' eardrums!

Chances are, real life will never be as romantic as a romantic drama/comedy movie.

There's never any music in the background, and in real life, there are accidents and embarrassing moments. In movies, everyone is consistently happy. In real life...not so much.

A really big trope, especially in TV shows, is that the mother is always around to cook a huge breakfast every single day, but no one ever eats it.

First of all, even if you're a stay-at-home mom, who has time for a three course breakfast meal?

Or they aren't, but the villain thinks they are. It's the classic:

"We're not so different, you and I," with the hero replying something along the lines of, "I am nothing like you."

It happens OFTEN.

A perfect example of this is when Mickey and Ian were running from the law in Shameless and thought to go to Mexico.

It's all very flawed, considering it's right under the United States, making it easy for people to go find them.