Mine is people entering another person's house without knocking on the door first!

It's just not believable. In my opinion it makes it hard to suspend your disbelief that you're watching a scripted TV show. And I'm not talking about people with gimmicks like Cosmo Kramer. Or even close family members. But pretty much everyone else knocks first in the real world. It even irks me when Ed Norton constantly walks into The Kramden's apartment unannounced without knocking.

I was recently watching an episode of Roseanne and The Tilden family walked into The Conners back door (in the kitchen) without knocking. The Conner's were in their living room and reacted no differently than if they knocked on the front door first!

I've seen this on the majority of sitcoms in all eras. Even when I was a kid, I figured it was to save time for more dialogue, but still! I can't stand it.



pet peeve:

nouninformal
plural noun: pet peeves
something that a particular person finds especially annoying.
"one of my biggest pet peeves is poor customer service"

It happened frequently on Everybody Loves Raymond when Frank and Marie kept barging in to Ray and Debra's house.

In my house it was somewhat like that. People coming into the house without knocking, but usually I did hear a Yoo whoo . I live on the second floor so I would hear people climb the stairs.

I HATE laugh tracks.

I hate shows without laugh tracks.

Everyone regardless of income wears designer clothes, drives nice cars, live in good neighborhoods, and have hot spouses

I don't like it when characters get dumber over time. Examples: Chrissy from Three's Company, Kelly from Married With Children, Synclaire from Living Single

It happened frequently on Everybody Loves Raymond when Frank and Marie kept barging in to Ray and Debra's house.
Yeah, but I didn't mind that because it was a gimmick within the show. Like Kramer. Plus, Frank & Marie were at least close family members.

Just once, it would of been nice to see them barge in while Ray & Deb were having some alone time on the couch. That'll teach 'em to knock!

The "very special episode"-- common to shows like Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Full House, et al., it's when a show that's supposed to make you laugh tries to teach you a lesson, and such lesson seemingly drowns out all the comedy.

I hate it when a TV show's timeline gets messed up & the show's writers don't stick with the details.

The fish out of water bit annoys me to no end I mean even the most isolated backwoods hick knows about doorbells and billiards.

Disappearing Pets - examples: The King of Queens, The Brady Bunch

Disappearing Pets - examples: The King of Queens, The Brady Bunch

Leave It To Beaver did this too, Ward and June buy the boys a dog at the end of the alligator episode, then we never see or hear of the dog again.

The "very special episode"-- common to shows like Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Full House, et al., it's when a show that's supposed to make you laugh tries to teach you a lesson, and such lesson seemingly drowns out all the comedy.
Diff'rent Strokes was the worst at this. It seemed like every other episode was a dramatic two-parter.

Only thing I hated more with very special episodes was the writers remembering at the last second "Oops...this is supposed to be a sitcom", and inserting an uncomfortable joke in there.

Other pet peeves:
-Tired plotlines (amnesia, two dates on the same night, the family getting involved in a get rich quick scheme)

In my house it was somewhat like that. People coming into the house without knocking, but usually I did hear a Yoo whoo . I live on the second floor so I would hear people climb the stairs.

And you didn't mind people walking into your home without knocking first?

I HATE laugh tracks.

Sometimes, I do too.

I hate shows without laugh tracks.


Sometimes, I do too.

I hate it when a TV show's timeline gets messed up & the show's writers don't stick with the details.
Yeah, this definitely irks me too.

Yeah, but I didn't mind that because it was a gimmick within the show. Like Kramer. Plus, Frank & Marie were at least close family members.

Just once, it would of been nice to see them barge in while Ray & Deb were having some alone time on the couch. That'll teach 'em to knock!

In the last episode of ELR, Marie burst in on Ray and Debra in their bedroom.

A locked door could never keep that pushy lady out of their business...:lol:

Disappearing Pets - examples: The King of Queens, The Brady Bunch

Shampski from ELR.

Butch from I Love Lucy.

Mine is people entering another person's house without knocking on the door first!

It's just not believable. In my opinion it makes it hard to suspend your disbelief that you're watching a scripted TV show. And I'm not talking about people with gimmicks like Cosmo Kramer. Or even close family members. But pretty much everyone else knocks first in the real world. It even irks me when Ed Norton constantly walks into The Kramden's apartment unannounced without knocking.

I was recently watching an episode of Roseanne and The Tilden family walked into The Conners back door (in the kitchen) without knocking. The Conner's were in their living room and reacted no differently than if they knocked on the front door first!

I've seen this on the majority of sitcoms in all eras. Even when I was a kid, I figured it was to save time for more dialogue, but still! I can't stand it.



pet peeve:

nouninformal
plural noun: pet peeves
something that a particular person finds especially annoying.
"one of my biggest pet peeves is poor customer service"



Yea I hate when people just walk into another persons house without knocking too. Sometimes like on Everybody loves Raymond they complain about his family just walking in without knocking, but they don't ever lock the door.
I hate when people don't really have any financial problems.

I hate laugh tracks too, some shows have way too much,

I don't know if you can call it a pet peeve but I never like dream sequences on shows.In my opinion if they are also too long they ruin the episode.Gilligans Island would be the exception,they knew how to pull dream sequences off in an entertaining way.

I'm not a huge fan of clip shows because when I watch a show I want to see the episode not stuff that happened previously. Friends did that A LOT and it got annoying. A couple of their clip shows had extremely low ratings because people don't want to watch things that have already happened.
Golden Girls had quite a few clip shows as well which I wasn't terribly fond of. As a matter of fact, a lot of shows have clip shows and I don't know why.

I don't know if you can call it a pet peeve but I never like dream sequences on shows.In my opinion if they are also too long they ruin the episode.Gilligans Island would be the exception,they knew how to pull dream sequences off in an entertaining way.
I agree about Gilligan's Island. Also the Dick Van Dyke Show IMO had some really great dream sequences (the Walnuts, the Baldness, etc.)

Happy days had people walk in all the time without knocking mostly ralph and potsie at Cunningham house,and fonzie,but he lived upstairs.

How about people disappearing? Chuck from Happy Days, the youngest daughter from Family Matters

Shampski from ELR.

Butch from I Love Lucy.

Yeah, that one always bugged me too. Fang from Get Smart also disappeared.

When a character on a sitcom is unloading groceries or carrying a purse when they enter a scene but when they exit the scene they either just leave the groceries on the counter or don't take their purse or bag with them. Nobody just leaves groceries on the counter in the bags!

My biggest sitcom pet peeve is my biggest TV, movie, and even commercial pet peeve. In fact, it's on of the main reasons I stopped watching episodic TV: Male bashing. In every sitcom, every comedy movie, the men are always morons, everything bad happens to a man, it's so relentless that it's brainwashed an entire society into thinking this is normal. I'm sure many of you have no idea what I'm talking about because you've watched this crap your whole lives and don't know any differently.

Male bashing is one of my biggest peeves as well particularly in modern TV where it's all one sided at least in the golden age it was balanced.

My biggest sitcom pet peeve is my biggest TV, movie, and even commercial pet peeve. In fact, it's on of the main reasons I stopped watching episodic TV: Male bashing. In every sitcom, every comedy movie, the men are always morons, everything bad happens to a man, it's so relentless that it's brainwashed an entire society into thinking this is normal. I'm sure many of you have no idea what I'm talking about because you've watched this crap your whole lives and don't know any differently.
I know what your'e talking about. Shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy keep this stereotype going. Time to end it! I hate it too when men are portrayed as morons!

Happy days had people walk in all the time without knocking mostly ralph and potsie at Cunningham house,and fonzie,but he lived upstairs.

I get the feeling the if they knocked, Mr & Mrs C would turn off the lights and pretend they're not home. I'm sure Potsie's parents did that to him often.

My biggest pet peeve would be character backgrounds/histories being changed, they should keep these things strait. Other pet peeves are badly done dream scenes, disappearing kids/pets, & over used laugh tracks.

I'm not a huge fan of clip shows because when I watch a show I want to see the episode not stuff that happened previously. Friends did that A LOT and it got annoying. A couple of their clip shows had extremely low ratings because people don't want to watch things that have already happened.
Golden Girls had quite a few clip shows as well which I wasn't terribly fond of. As a matter of fact, a lot of shows have clip shows and I don't know why.
I don't mind clip shows as long as they're not overdone. One per every season and a half is about right. Some very classic sitcoms often would over due it. Most notably, The Golden Girls.

When a character on a sitcom is unloading groceries or carrying a purse when they enter a scene but when they exit the scene they either just leave the groceries on the counter or don't take their purse or bag with them. Nobody just leaves groceries on the counter in the bags!
And the bag of groceries would almost always have loose loaf of French bread sticking out of the top of the bag. Why wasn't the bread wrapped? It would of gone stale very quickly.

And why were the grocery bags always paper, even in the late 1980's-current? Plastic bags were much more popular at the time, yet rarely would appear on sitcoms.

My biggest pet peeve would be character backgrounds/histories being changed, they should keep these things strait. Other pet peeves are badly done dream scenes, disappearing kids/pets, & over used laugh tracks.
Although I've been a fan of the show forever, I often cringe when I watch The Dick Van Dyke Show because of the over use of the laugh track.

I don't like male bashing either, but likewise am tired of the suburban housewife on television. I want to see more sitcoms where the mom is the breadwinner, or at least has a job.

I don't like male bashing either, but likewise am tired of the suburban housewife on television. I want to see more sitcoms where the mom is the breadwinner, or at least has a job.
Exactly!! All 3 Seth shows has the tired female stereotype which is outdated. I'm not a fan of Johnny Test but in that show the roles are reversed. The husband stays home and the wife goes to work. I'd love to see more of that.

Exactly!! All 3 Seth shows has the tired female stereotype which is outdated. I'm not a fan of Johnny Test but in that show the roles are reversed. The husband stays home and the wife goes to work. I'd love to see more of that.

Me too, or at least where both work. I'm tired of the stereotypes.

I'm not a huge fan of clip shows...k As a matter of fact, a lot of shows have clip shows and I don't know why.


Usually it's because one of the cast is ill but an episode has to be produced.

And why were the grocery bags always paper, even in the late 1980's-current? Plastic bags were much more popular at the time, yet rarely would appear on sitcoms.

Plastic bags are banned in California where many of the shows are taped.

My biggest pet peeve would be character backgrounds/histories being changed, they should keep these things strait. Other pet peeves are badly done dream scenes, disappearing kids/pets, & over used laugh tracks.they sis that so often to june on leave to to beaver that even barbra billinglsey said in interviews that she herself became confused as to what junes background was

Plastic bags are banned in California where many of the shows are taped.
Plastic bags weren't banned in California until November 2016. On the contrary, paper bags seemed to disappear from all major retailers and grocery stores around the year 2000.

I get the feeling the if they knocked, Mr & Mrs C would turn off the lights and pretend they're not home.

So, now we know why Chuck just disappeared one day?!:lol:

And the bag of groceries would almost always have loose loaf of French bread sticking out of the top of the bag. Why wasn't the bread wrapped? It would of gone stale very quickly.

And why were the grocery bags always paper, even in the late 1980's-current? Plastic bags were much more popular at the time, yet rarely would appear on sitcoms.


Obviously because brown paper bags with French bread sticking out of the bag tells you that they went food shopping. They are setting the scene. They don't care that plastic bags are more popular.

When there is an episode that does not feature some or all of the principal cast.

When there is an episode that does not feature some or all of the principal cast.
This, and also when a (usually unfunny) guest star pops up out of nowhere and the whole episode focuses on him/her.

This plot line: Somebody gives away their teddy bear, then gets it back (or tries to). GROW UP! :mad:

Characters shown getting up in the morning after sleeping all night and their hair isn't messy and it's still all neat. Yeah right, that never happens in real life.

Ed.

Characters shown getting up in the morning after sleeping all night and their hair isn't messy and it's still all neat. Yeah right, that never happens in real life.

Ed.

And often wearing makeup, despite just waking up.

And often wearing makeup, despite just waking up.
Or when they wake up and kiss their significant other without brushing their teeth, talk about morning breath! Yuck! :eek:

When people would make a phone call they would rarely wait for someone to actually answer the phone before speaking...

When characters are changed example mean spirited people all of the sudden are nice and visa versa.

I also couldn't stand it when the writers or producers would try to push their political views (usually far left) on the viewers, despite the fact that the show isn't based on politics.

I was born in 1994 and yes I watch and love a lot of 1960's sitcoms, but one thing that gets me is that the parents seem to wear dresses or skirts or slacks and dress shirts with mostly ties for the men. My parents surely do not that. That is the first thing they do when they get home from work is change out of that sort of attire and into relaxing clothes. I am a Nurse so I get to wear Scrubs most of the time at work so my attire is chill anyway.

I also couldn't stand it when the writers or producers would try to push their political views (usually far left) on the viewers, despite the fact that the show isn't based on politics.
Same here but you can add actors and actresses who have allot of stroke on the show as well.

When characters are changed example mean spirited people all of the sudden are nice and visa versa.

A very glaring example of that, from what I've heard, is how Andy Taylor, in the color go-rounds of The Andy Griffith Show (1965-68), started getting incredibly grouchy and mean. Before, in B/W (1960-65, when Don Knotts was in as Sheriff Barney Fife), Andy was incredibly affable and friendly towards everybody, and wasn't very mean at all. Then Knotts left out of it, the show went to color, and Andy did a 180, for other reasons unknown.

I guess he missed Barny.

Only thing I hated more with very special episodes was the writers remembering at the last second "Oops...this is supposed to be a sitcom", and inserting an uncomfortable joke in there.

The worst offender I found was an episode of Family Ties in which Tom Hanks guest starred as Uncle Ned who just so happens to be an alcoholic and there's a bit near the end where he back hands Alex Keaton to the ground but then,...wait for it, yeah crazy 'ole Uncle Neddy has to crack a joke and the audience laughs it up. :rolleyes:

I was born in 1994 and yes I watch and love a lot of 1960's sitcoms, but one thing that gets me is that the parents seem to wear dresses or skirts or slacks and dress shirts with mostly ties .

That is how professional people dressed in the 60s up until the mid 90s.