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Even though it happened on TV...it can not happen in real life !!!!

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mleach

The other day my wife and I were watching a rerun of The Simpsons. It was the episode where the parents of Millhouse decided to break up. In the very same episode Kirk " Millhouse's father" loses his job at the cracker factory because he and his wife had broken up and the plant was "family friendly". Ok...I know The Simpsons is only a cartoon and such but still though..what are the odds of someone losing their job ONLY because he and his wife had broken up/getting a divorce?

Has there been any situation you have seen on a sitcom/drama or whatever...that for one reason or another just can't happen in real life? Not talking about things that were common place years ago but no longer are like smoking in restaurants, visiting a "downtown" department store, paying 50 cents or so for a gallon of gas or that local doctor doing house calls.
 
Um, just about ANY cartoon out there other than "King of the Hill". Tom from Tom & Jerry comes to mind getting run over by a steam roller & then popping back up to continue chasing Jerry?
Everything from Mr. Ed to Fonzie's "magic snap" to Samantha Stevens nose twitch to create a feast just as Darren brings the office people home at the last minute. This thread could be endless.
 
mleach said:
Ok...I know The Simpsons is only a cartoon and such but still though..what are the odds of someone losing their job ONLY because he and his wife had broken up/getting a divorce?
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It happens to pastors all the time.
 
Ummm, I am not convinced that your "cracker factory" example COULDN'T happen. Things like this happen all the time - only a different "excuse" may be given as the official reason for separation. Anyone who gets a job because they "know" or are "related to" someone can lose a job for the same reason.

Of all the things that you could have chosen that happen on TV and couldn't happen in real life, you picked a pretty poor example. ::)
 
Tom & Jerry is still one of the best. He dies, his spirit's going up to heaven & Jerry or Brutus send a cannonball or a bomb pummeling up to blow him out of the sky to continue the feud.
Here's something impossible...THE CAST OF THE NEW KNIGHT RIDER SHOW BEING ABLE TO ACT! ;D :D :D ;) :)
 
LaVerne & Shirley - Men who consider LaVerne, aka Penny Marshall, attractive! :D

MASH - An enlisted man, Sgt. Rizzo, extorts money from an officer and second-in-command, Major Winchester, and NOT get into trouble!

Happy Days - People who would actually associate with someone like Ralph Malph.

Married, With Children - A man who supposedly makes a below-average living has so many chances to be on national TV, associate with big name celebrities and athletes, and have "brushes" with countless beautiful women with "realistic" names like Flopsie, Bambi, and Lanolin.

Family Matters, Family Ties, & Full House - Pick any episode.
 
ANYTHING that happened on Malcolm in the Middle...

95% of ANY cop shows where the bad guy stops to explain why he's going to kill the cop he has at gunpoint & has to explain how he pulled off his scheme to the cop before he shoots him...
Christa Miller(Kate) lip locking with Drew Carey. eeech.
The Brady house always being spotless. 6 kids & the only thing that ever broke was a vase when Peter hit it with a basketball? C'mon.
Any one of the males on Gilligan's Island NOT empregnating Ginger or MaryAnn.
Everything else about Gilligan's Island.
My Mother The Car.
I'm through here.
 
BRNout said:
Ummm, I am not convinced that your "cracker factory" example COULDN'T happen. Things like this happen all the time - only a different "excuse" may be given as the official reason for separation. Anyone who gets a job because they "know" or are "related to" someone can lose a job for the same reason.

Of all the things that you could have chosen that happen on TV and couldn't happen in real life, you picked a pretty poor example. ::)
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A far better example would have been the 1960's NBC sitcom Occasional Wife. A man working for a boss who is very blunt at the fact that if you are a single guy well you can't work here so as a result the single guy gets a female neighbor to be his so-called wife whenever the boss is around. I don't know about the 1960's but today for a business to demand that their employees be married or else they get the ax, that would be like asking to get sued.
 
Pretty much any situation from Saved By The Bell, the principal hanging out with his students, Zack pulling his schemes without getting caught, the school seemingly having a full blown open campus policy just to name a few.
 
nightfly61 said:
The Brady house always being spotless. 6 kids & the only thing that ever broke was a vase when Peter hit it with a basketball? C'mon.
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Don't forget the episode where Bobby tries to wash his school monitor outfit when he rescues the cat from the little girl from that old house and he overflows the washer with detergent and the whole washroom was full of suds.

And no toilet in the house either. That would take a lot explaining too.

Anything on Bewitched and I Dream Of Jeannie. Jeannie taking Tony to all those places in time and blinking up money and making it snow in Cocoa Beach, Florida and then making it rain and it doesn't stop raining causing a flood not to mention blinking up Sammy Davis Jr., Boyce and Hart, etc., blinking up a real Rembrandt, blinking up the house to look like a mansion, making a house invisible, etc.
 
OK, on Lassie. Timmy's Mom is being threatened by a cougar who is just sitting in a tree roaring. You'd have thought it would have pounced if it wanted June Lockhart for lunch.

The final Seinfeld episode.
 
nightfly61 said:
Any one of the males on Gilligan's Island NOT empregnating Ginger or MaryAnn.
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In the original Gilligan third season, any hanky panky was limited to
hearing the song on their fully-Hallicrafted Seamaster shortwave radio.
(Can it get Duluth?)
(Duluth, bucko...it can get Tierra Del Fuego!)

In the upcoming 2009 remake of Gilligan, the song is still being heard
on the radio (I guess it's now a "classic hit" ;)), and one now just needs
to visit the Professor's pharmacy prior to commencing in hanky panky. ;D
 
Bosom Buddies-Every single day those guys not getting caught dressing like women so they could live there...

Hogan's Heroes-Just about anything they got away with, especially never getting beat. They only went to "Da Coola".

Gomer Pyle getting ut of formation, being a "numbskull" & stealing Sgt. Carter's women without huge punishment.
 
More from MASH...

Majors Burns & Houlihan try to backstab their Commanding Officer and somehow do not get Court Martialed.

The same two officers badly mistreat enlisted men, and once again, do not get into any trouble.

If I had been the Adjutant General, those two would been in the stockade so fast their beady eyes wouldn't have had time to blink.

During a break at a movie showing, everybody in the unit knows an obscure Army song, and Hawkeye & BJ are able to improvise lyrics on the spot, in unison!

Henry Blake is somehow able to get his civilian girlfriend into a war zone without red tape, delay or much questioning from ICORPS.

After a big buildup of his impending visit, and his detailed agenda, General Douglas MacArthur just zips by the 4077th with nary a second thought.

Radar keeps numerous pets in cages & hutches, a violation of regulations right there, and tells people he got them via mail order from the US, highly unlikely considering quarantine policies and the time it would take for the mail to arrive in Korea from the states.

Hawkeye & Trapper win a horse in a magazine contest, and it arrives in Korea, again, highly unlikely.

MASH was chock full of these things. :-\
 
The Dukes of Hazzard-
Them surviving every jump.
Rosco surviving every jump.
Enos surviving every jump.
Cooter jumping his towtruck.
Rosco jumping his car with Boss Hogg & sister Lulu in back seat & not a thing wrong with them.
EVERY TIME THE GENERAL LEE NEVER CRUSHED ENTIRE FRONT END SUSPENSION OR RADIATOR.
A ramp or road crew always being there right when you need it.
Hoods, fenders, quarter panels, bar flashers/siren- seeming to just "fall off" the cop cars or fall off after a good kick.
Visits & singalongs with country music stars.
 
nightfly61 said:
Um, just about ANY cartoon out there other than "King of the Hill". Tom from Tom & Jerry comes to mind getting run over by a steam roller & then popping back up to continue chasing Jerry?
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Wile E. Coyote painting a fake tunnel on a mountainside, and then Road Runner goes right through it, as though it's real, and then Wile E. Coyote, while chasing Road Runner, crashes into it! *SPLAT!!*

What about cartoon characters that defy gravity? They go off a cliff, but don't even start falling until they look down and realize they've gone over a cliff!

And the cartoon characters that "run in place" several seconds before they start moving forward!
Everything from Mr. Ed to Fonzie's "magic snap" to Samantha Stevens nose twitch to create a feast just as Darren brings the office people home at the last minute. This thread could be endless.
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Fonzie even hanging out with these misfits (Richie, Ralph, Potsie) in the first place! ::)
 
The Robinsons on Lost In Space surviving on the moon for the 3 years that it was on the air. I don't think that that could happen in real life at all or being underwater in a submarine for 4 years on Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea or the members of Land Of The Giants being small while the humans are giant sized (normal sized to people) for 2 years.

There was an episode of Bewitched where Samantha said she went on the moon to Darrin, Tabitha in another episode bringing her toys to life and then Larry encounters the toy soldier nodding his head as he brings him to the bar, Esmeralda conjuring up Julius Caesar, Santa Claus, Mother Goose and George Washington and making the Leaning Tower Of Pisa go straight, Aunt Clara conjuring up Benjamin Franklin and causing a blackout that blacks out the entire state, Serena turning into Samantha at will, Uncle Arthur changing the voices of Samantha and Darrin, etc.
 
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