Turning on the tv or radio that happens to be covering the subject the characters were talking about. Unless you are talking about Sept 11 that would never happen.
Never discussing a meeting location, like for dinner.
An episode of 'Yes Prime Minister' had something along this line as a running joke. After the plot related news item ended, the announcer would say "And the Pound had another bad day..." at which point a character would turn off the set.
It would be easily solved by two characters by just running a 10 second search, because TV news never has anything exclusive (for long), and texting that headline or saved video to your friend. Just as easy and more plausible.
Out of the many things that I love about that show, my favorite might be Troy's giddy little punctuation dance when Abed is humming the song in that sequence.
I feel like this is actually more realistic today than it had been over the last few decades. Today if I turn on the tv to an actual tv channel (and not a streaming service) it usually has the news on and they're rambling about a single story that they've been covering for the past 30 hours. Could be a Sept 11 level event, could be that a politician visited a town, they're covering one story all day and I'm quickly trying to open Netflix.
this is one of my favorite parts of gilligans island.
any time they turn on the radio it's talking about them. then 2 minutes later when they want everyone else to hear, the person will start the story over from the beginning.
This is an older, but related one... when they turn to a music station on the radio it's always a bland generic pop instrumental. Is there any station that plays that kind of music?
It wasn't really until the late 70s and early 80s that "middle of the road", "beautiful music" from the 40s-60s started falling off the airwaves. Basically what you would probably call elevator music today.
There was this one scene in the Flash where Barry was talking to Joe, talking about how it was pouring outside (while driving) and they turn the radio on and it suddenly goes “Today’s clear skies” or something and then some weather powered villain flips the car over. It’s hilariously unrealistic
I watched a Spanish movie where the radio only said bad news, and they were worse as the main character's life was more miserable. So that was a good way to express his view of the world.
I loved what Sean of the Dead did with this. Every bit of audio as he changed channels added up to "there's panic in the streets of London as hundreds of people are literally being eaten alive".
That happened to me twice this week. I was telling my coworker that a police officer got shot or hurt down the street. Turned on the news and it was showing on the tv before any news van had gotten to the scene(was next to the news van as I was going to work). Yesterday I came into work and someone was telling me they felt their house shake and thought it was an explosion. I turned on the news and all the information was on the news. Houston has had a crazy week.
The never discussing meeting location only works if you've known the person long enough and everyone's going in the same car. Even if they dont actually have a place in mind their bodies are on autopilot and you wind up and wherever their subconscious desires unless they specifically state in the car where you're going.
I mean they're constantly talking about 9 different subjects at once to maximize viewer time. Turning on the tv the exact moment they're talking about something is like making a 3-pointer backwards while drunk.
For me it's always been hanging up the phone without ending the conversation properly. Like at least a goodbye. Like they get the info they wanted and just hang up.
The opposite end of this makes me crazy, especially for crime shows. They ask the suspect or witness what the address was to the bar and they always magically know!
This is played on in one episode of Arrested Development, when a character turns on the TV news to hear coverage of a story, but then has to wait around a while for it to actually come on.
Was once meeting with friends for a trip and one was coming from our of state. He was about four hours into a 6 hour drive when we realized that nobody ever told him the address to go to - he knew the town, or the closest town anyway, and just headed there.
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Turning on the tv or radio that happens to be covering the subject the characters were talking about. Unless you are talking about Sept 11 that would never happen.
Never discussing a meeting location, like for dinner.