Popular TV and Movie Cliches that you have never experienced or seen in real life?

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Originally Posted by TheLittleFaerie

I've never experienced being suddenly FROZEN in the shower if someone flushes the toilet or turns another faucet on the EXTREME way that it's always portrayed on TV lol .... Sure, there is a SLIGHT change in water temp when it happens but nothing that dramatic lol

Really? Oh, I have felt burning hot water sometimes when somebody flushes the toilet. I guess it was an old building, I don't know. Bad pipes, but those things do indeed happen.

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by ThisLittlePiggy

Really? Oh, I have felt burning hot water sometimes when somebody flushes the toilet. I guess it was an old building, I don't know. Bad pipes, but those things do indeed happen.

That was indeed more common in the past, but it's been avoided in newer buildings.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

^ That's good. I'm talking about many years ago when this would happen to me.

[dee2364]

The issue with the water definitely does happen. My house, which was built in and around the early 1900s, has this issue. I had to yell at a relative a few months ago when she decided to turn on the kitchen faucet while an elderly relative was taking a shower.

[Janice Johnson]

I've never seen the "Several guys hold onto guy, push him out the door, pull him back in, push him out the door, pull him back in, and the third time, throw him outside," cliche in real life. In fact, I've never seen anyone thrown out of a door in real life.

[dee2364]

Originally Posted by Janice Johnson

I've never seen the "Several guys hold onto guy, push him out the door, pull him back in, push him out the door, pull him back in, and the third time, throw him outside," cliche in real life. In fact, I've never seen anyone thrown out of a door in real life.

I did, but not exactly in the comedic way that is often shown in movies. I was out at a nightclub with a friend who apparently had a huge drinking problem that I didn't know about until this incident happened. As soon as we entered the place, she started drinking beer after beer (like, eight in a row on an empty stomach) and became so drunk that she passed out stone cold in a little under an hour. Two bouncers picked her up just like you see in the movies (one holding each side), opened the door and dumped her outside like a sack of potatoes. I'm only laughing because she turned out to be a horrible human being, so I'm, like, "Whatever."

[Janice Johnson]

I've never seen or experienced the "People fan Celebrity/Royalty and feed them grapes while they lay back and relax," cliche in real life. I have never seen or experience a Celebrity demanding they have a bowl of M&Ms of just ONE color, usually green in real life, although I did something similar to myself. I bought two Party Size kit Kat miniatures, assorted, and I separated all of the red kit kat miniatures and put them in their own bag and the black and white kit kat miniatures went into another bag, so I have a bag filled with only red kit kat miniatures!

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Originally Posted by Janice Johnson

I've never seen the "Several guys hold onto guy, push him out the door, pull him back in, push him out the door, pull him back in, and the third time, throw him outside," cliche in real life. In fact, I've never seen anyone thrown out of a door in real life.

Sadly, I did see a young woman thrown out of a car window by a bad man. She yelled to a friend to call the police and she was okay but her leg was broken.

[dee2364]

Originally Posted by Janice Johnson

I have never seen or experience a Celebrity demanding they have a bowl of M&Ms of just ONE color, usually green in real life, although I did something similar to myself.

That was based 100% on real life and to such an extent that it became rock show legend. David Lee Roth put in a clause in Van Halen's contract that said that there couldn't be any brown M&Ms backstage. He put it in there to test the crew setting up the show to make sure they had read the instructions. If he saw the M&Ms, he knew that the stage rigging wasn't safe.

[Janice Johnson]

Originally Posted by ThisLittlePiggy

Sadly, I did see a young woman thrown out of a car window by a bad man. She yelled to a friend to call the police and she was okay but her leg was broken.

Oh my God!

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Originally Posted by Janice Johnson

Oh my God!

It was the worst thing I ever saw in my life I think. I was stunned. I didn't know what I had seen at first. He threw her out and she screamed and then he drove off really fast. She lived in my apartment building and I later found out that he was an ex-boyfriend and he stole her car. The police found him and she got her car back, but he had dented it up really badly. She broke her leg and was on crutches and then she found a new apartment because I think the guy was stalking her. I could not believe the brutality I saw with my own eyes. I've never seen anything like that before or since. This was about five years ago. I'm glad she moved and she was not hurt worse. The car was probably going maybe 30 mph in a parking lot so if it had been on the street at a faster speed, she could have been killed.

[Janice Johnson]

Originally Posted by ThisLittlePiggy

It was the worst thing I ever saw in my life I think. I was stunned. I didn't know what I had seen at first. He threw her out and she screamed and then he drove off really fast. She lived in my apartment building and I later found out that he was an ex-boyfriend and he stole her car. The police found him and she got her car back, but he had dented it up really badly. She broke her leg and was on crutches and then she found a new apartment because I think the guy was stalking her. I could not believe the brutality I saw with my own eyes. I've never seen anything like that before or since. This was about five years ago. I'm glad she moved and she was not hurt worse. The car was probably going maybe 30 mph in a parking lot so if it had been on the street at a faster speed, she could have been killed.

This thread is escalating quickly, but I'm so sorry you had to see that and feel sorry for her too. This seems like something you'd see in a Thriller movie, not in real life!

[ThisLittlePiggy]

I hope I never have to see that or anything like it again.

[Janice Johnson]

Originally Posted by ThisLittlePiggy

I hope I never have to see that or anything like it again.

I don't blame you. That's some traumatizing stuff! Speaking of traumatizing, someone said she saw a guy commit suicide by jumping off a roof! She said she was traumatized, and I don't blame her!

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Originally Posted by Janice Johnson

I don't blame you. That's some traumatizing stuff! Speaking of traumatizing, someone said she saw a guy commit suicide by jumping off a roof! She said she was traumatized, and I don't blame her!

That is awful. I never saw someone commit suicide but a friend of mine's husband hung himself. It was many years ago and she's fine now but it was horrific at the time.