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

Obscure example here, but on Freaks and Geeks, Lindsay (basically one of the title characters, along with her brother, Sam), a straight A+ student, suddenly ditches studying to hang out with the burnouts, freaks, and "losers" on the show. While this was indeed the premise for the entire show, I don't see that happening in real life. First, the "freaks" would never truly accept her, they would kick her ass every day, and her parents, unless they were brain-dead, would be up in arms over her throwing her entire life away! (Some of the "freaks" on the show actually made the same point to her, and about her!) Real "freaks" wouldn't want a "brainiac" in their midst! They would think she was a "narc"! ::) :eek:
 
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.
That was one thing I could see happening, because plans for that sort of thing can change on a moment's notice. Hawkeye's hair and BJ's big ol' 'stache, on the other hand...

What about cop computers on TV? Usually about 2 seconds after initiating a search for fingerprints, driver's licenses, or some such thing, the words "Match Found" magically appear on the screen.
 
What about the CSI guys roughing people up and making arrests? Wouldn't that be left to regular officers, not to mention lead to civil rights lawsuits?
 
firepoint525 said:
71dude said:
Alice - the customers complaining about Mel's lousy food every day for nine years instead of going somewhere else
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Didn't some of those same customers also claim that Flo was "hot"? :eek: ::) Okay, so that wouldn't happen in real life, either! ::)
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A weird touch of irony here: If you were to see Polly Holliday (Flo) without the garish get-up, she was actually a pretty darn good-looking lady!

You can see her dressed like a "normal" human woman in the film "All The President's Men", in a scene where she plays a receptionist at an office where Dustin Hoffman, portraying journalist Carl Bernstein, is waiting patiently for an official who really doesn't want to talk to him. He & Holliday exchange some polite chit-chat for a few minutes. She looks nothing like Flo.
 
71dude said:
Alice - the customers complaining about Mel's lousy food every day for nine years instead of going somewhere else
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Its called "old habits die hard !!"

There is a pizza shop in my hometown that has been around since the 1960's and still in business today. The food sucks ( hard to find anyone who disagrees with that ) and the owner who runs the place ( I swear he must live there ) is a big time smoker. Not only is the place dirty but he actually smokes while he makes your sub or pizza. In fact the first thing one sees in the place is HIS ashtray !!! Why do people eat here and continue to eat here? Because Buzz is such a nice man. He will ask you how your family is, how are your kids ( by name too ), in short...friendly conversation. Something one pretty much can't get at a Subway.

I guess there is a point there but still I much rather not have my meatball sub taste like a pack of Marlboro Ultra Light 100s.
 
Come to think of it, any episode of "Alice" when any of them had a date is stretching reality, Diane Ladd excepted.
 
On General Hospital the mob boss Sonny would by now be in a prison . On Chico and the man Chico lived in a van in the garage. Not in real life. Welcome Back Kotter students being rude to Kotter. In a real school they would have been kicked out. On y&r Victor Newman is the only wealthy man in town. In some towns now nobody is rich. on Days Of Our Lives John Black is a spy . And has saved the whole town at least several times. Now in real life John wouldn't know what to do and if he did he wouldn't be around.
 
But haven't you ever noticed that every soap town has
its international conglomerate...and these are supposedly
small towns? And the CEO is almost invariably the bad guy?
And on soaps people get cloned (Reva, GL), possessed by
demons (Marlena, Days Of Our Lives), suddenly age from
babyhood to teenage (all of them), and come back from
the dead (usually an excuse to introduce a new actor in
the part).
 
On the subject of "aging too fast," how about Andrew Keaton on Family Ties? He was born one season, then was in kindergarten the next! ::) :eek: I would like to know how much older Brian Bonsall (the kid who played Andrew) is than the child Meredith Baxter (Birney?) actually gave birth to that season! (Her pregnancy was written into the show.)
 
bpatrick said:
But haven't you ever noticed that every soap town has
its international conglomerate...and these are supposedly
small towns? And the CEO is almost invariably the bad guy?
And on soaps people get cloned (Reva, GL), possessed by
demons (Marlena, Days Of Our Lives), suddenly age from
babyhood to teenage (all of them), and come back from
the dead (usually an excuse to introduce a new actor in
the part).
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On Melrose Place, D&D Advertising becomes a major player on the stock market. An ad agency(!) becoming a hot commodity!

If that wasn't looney enough, Jack Wagner's character (Peter) tries to kill Heather Locklear's character (Amanda), then they get married!

I think I now know why reality shows got popular.
 
Or how about General Hospital? Luke rapes Laura
and they end up in love and get married on that
historic 1981 telecast with Elizabeth Taylor on hand.
 
firepoint525 said:
On the subject of "aging too fast," how about Andrew Keaton on Family Ties? He was born one season, then was in kindergarten the next! ::) :eek: I would like to know how much older Brian Bonsall (the kid who played Andrew) is than the child Meredith Baxter (Birney?) actually gave birth to that season! (Her pregnancy was written into the show.)
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On Growing Pains, Chrissy Seaver was a baby one moment and then she turned into a 5 year old. It happens often also on soap operas. I remember when Nicholas and Victoria on The Young And The Restless were just little kids and now they are in their 30's and Nicholas's son Noah is now a teenager and a month ago he was 10 years old, and a few years ago, he was a baby.
 
Braves2005 said:
firepoint525 said:
On the subject of "aging too fast," how about Andrew Keaton on Family Ties? He was born one season, then was in kindergarten the next! ::) :eek: I would like to know how much older Brian Bonsall (the kid who played Andrew) is than the child Meredith Baxter (Birney?) actually gave birth to that season! (Her pregnancy was written into the show.)
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On Growing Pains, Chrissy Seaver was a baby one moment and then she turned into a 5 year old. It happens often also on soap operas. I remember when Nicholas and Victoria on The Young And The Restless were just little kids and now they are in their 30's and Nicholas's son Noah is now a teenager and a month ago he was 10 years old, and a few years ago, he was a baby.
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Yes, and none of the other characters has aged more than one year. Kind of like science fiction. I've always assumed the reason was: babies are written into shows so they writers can change things a little, and get viewers more emotionally attached to those "awwww" moments, But then you can only do a couple of scripts with baby-related schtick (stinky diapers, the baby that spits up all over mom or dad), then you're done. But if you change that baby into a precocious 5 year old with a smart mouth, you can change things up all over again.

By the way, I've seen the actress who played the 5 year old Chrissy - Ashley Johnson - in a few things lately:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424534/
 
bpatrick said:
Or how about General Hospital? Luke rapes Laura
and they end up in love and get married on that
historic 1981 telecast with Elizabeth Taylor on hand.
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As sick as it sounds, sadly this sort of thing does happen in real life. My wife and I use to help out at a local shelter for battered women and I remember a few cases where a woman was raped and beaten by their future husband and they still got married anyway and if that isn't bizarre enough, the reasons why many of these women stayed in the abusive relationship was just as bizarre "...but he is so good looking !!!..I just can't leave him !!". Nevermind the fact that many of these same women refused to press charges and often would head right back to the same guy.
 
mleach said:
bpatrick said:
Or how about General Hospital? Luke rapes Laura
and they end up in love and get married on that
historic 1981 telecast with Elizabeth Taylor on hand.
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As sick as it sounds, sadly this sort of thing does happen in real life. My wife and I use to help out at a local shelter for battered women and I remember a few cases where a woman was raped and beaten by their future husband and they still got married anyway and if that isn't bizarre enough, the reasons why many of these women stayed in the abusive relationship was just as bizarre "...but he is so good looking !!!..I just can't leave him !!". Nevermind the fact that many of these same women refused to press charges and often would head right back to the same guy.
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There seem to be women who appreciate the "caveman" approach to dating, even if the lugs refuse to drag them off by their hair,
as real cavemen did.
 
Another case of a baby who seemed to age rapidly was Lily on Step By Step. She was born in the fall 1995 yet two years later she's suddenly when the show moved to CBS she's like suddenly a second grader. In fact the girl who played her was born in 1990 I believe before step By Step even premiered.
 
I might add that only two soap kids were allowed
to age in real time: Patti Barron ("Search For Tomorrow")
and Amy Ames ("The Secret Storm"). Jada Rowland, who
played Amy for all but a couple of years, was 11 when the
show started and 31 when it ended. Patti was played by
11 different actresses.
 
Let's not forget a couple of the teenage boys on Beverly Hills 90210, the original, who had receding hairlines! Must be a Beverly Hills High thing. They have an active oil well on campus and maybe it's causing advanced aging on the students. :)
 
I tend to disagree with the comments about Alice.

All the guys who thought Flo was hot were old, out of shape truckers. They are JUST the type of men who would think Flo was hot, especially since it was implied Flo was a "Fun" date. It's not like any drop dead gorgeous guys wanted Flo.

More unrealistic, is Jack Tripper. Seems no lady can get within 10 feet of him without trying to seduce Jack. Jack was fat and unemployed for most of the series. Who would want him?

At least Mel (from Alice) had a "mack daddy" type of thing going for him and he did own a business so I can possibly see how he could date a "Babe" like Marie.

Also the customers just joked about Mel's cooking, they really liked it. Mel's chili won contests, yet the customers mocked it. It was just for fun.
 
Welcome Back Kotter students being rude to Kotter. In a real school they would have been kicked out. On y&r Victor Newman is the only wealthy man in town.
Also, IRL if a teacher at an inner-city high school had seen some of his students trying to enter his apartment through the window, he would have called 911.

As far as Victor being the only rich person in Genoa City, how 'bout Katherine? The Abbotts? George Rawlins? (I know he's been dead for 20 years, but still...) Someone brought up quickly aging kids...Nicholas and Victoria Newman grew up pretty quickly. Another example that goes back a ways...On "As The World Turns", Tom Hughes was born around the time I came into the world. He was in Vietnam when I was 9 or 10.

EDIT: Looking through the posts, I'm apparently a generation behind on the Newmans!
 
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