No matter how wet the streets are a cars tires always makes a screeching noise when turning a corner or coming to a quick stop

On the subject of ventilation systems, why is the inside every single one of them sparkling clean like they have a team of air shaft gnomes scrubbing them everyday? What the heck kind of filters are they using that manages to trap every speck of dust coming in, even in the run-down prison from My Name is Earl?

So what's the French saying?

On TV and in movies when people make a date with each other they just say "So Friday it is" and walk away! They psychically know the time and place and everything!

Women on TV almost always wake up with their hair & makeup perfect!

On 24 cell phones never need to be charged. Jack Bauer can go 24 hours without peeing. And terrorists can break into CTU, a major government facility whenever the hell they want.

(a) The dog never dies.

(b) In bedroom scenes, men have sheets that reach their waist, but women have L-shaped sheets that come up to their chests.

Let's see... where to begin? First of all, the reason we don't see characters go to the bathroom - unless it's a key story point - is because it's NOT a key story point. If we saw every character go to the bathroom, the the show would be way longer than time allows. Same thing goes for getting fuel, and paying for cabs. We usually see characters exit the cab from the street anyway. Could it be possible that they paid while still in the car, yet we just did not see it? There's also another reason these things happen only in TV and movies - it's because it's more interesting than real life. It's not supposed to be real, just entertaining. No one wants to see people paying for cabs, taking bathroom breaks, and getting fuel unless it's important to the story being told. I mean, if I'm telling a story to someone, I never mention these things. And we see the Eiffel Tower so the viewers know the setting is Paris. And as far as that spaceship thing goes, that wouldn't happen anyway - why even put that on the list? In fact, why even have a list at all? This was dumb.

People on TV never change their clothes or remove shoes when entering homes. Does everyone sit on their bed in knee-high boots?

Two comments:
1. Stargate Atlantis recently did a nice twist on the bomb thing. When the station went haywire, the self-destruct mechanism was triggered but the crew had no idea how long the countdown was set for. That would have been a great tension-adding device if we didn't already know that TPTB would NEVER blow up Atlantis with all the crew in the city. (I guess their cred is kinda ruined, though, because one of the scientists, a small guy, climbed through the ventilation tubes to get to the power core to turn it off.)

2. There is a scene in the second Bridget Jones were Mark Darcy tells her that he's going to the loo and then he's coming back for them to have a conversation. I thought that was a really weird scene. It kinda took me out of the story. I thought, "Why is he announcing that he's going to the bathroom and *then* they're going to have a serious talk?" It turned out to be a plot device. While he's in the loo, another woman calls and leaves a message on his answering machine which Brig overhears. That call becomes a point of contention between the two characters. So, I guess characters only go to the bathroom when it advances the plot.

3. Most characters, no matter how poor, don't bother to get change from anyone - cabbies, hot dog vendors, at the coffee shop, etc. They almost always say, "Keep the change." All TV vendors/cabbies should make sure their total prices are 1 cent over the dollar to maximize their profits from these generous suckers.