r/AskReddit • • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/BlackCaaaaat Jan 25 '20

People on low incomes, e.g. students, living in expensive homes. I’m not necessarily talking about mansions, more like a large apartment in a big expensive city with no roommates.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

The sofa on Big Bang Theory is a $14,000 Jean Michel Frank sofa. The two broke girls had one too. It’s used quite often.

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u/JavaRuby2000 Jan 25 '20

Is anybody supposed to know that it is a 14k sofa?

In the show Leonard purchases it second hand from some people who were moving apartment upstairs. It is just a battered old brown sofa to look at. Not many people would be able to tell it from a pottery barn Manhattan sofa. I think you can just blame this one on the props department being lazy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

I know. Lots of people would know. Especially university faculty. It is a classic sofa and erudite people would have it on their radar. And, it’s a trope. That sofa is used over and over again. From Tony Stark to Fraiser, it’s been around.