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    Car parking - always an available space right out the front of a building no matter what time of day or night it is.

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      50 year old overweight/morbidly obese cop always catches perp who is 30 years younger and was coached by Valery Borzov.

      A classic example of this was an Aussie TV Cop show called "Bluey" - people who lived in the North West of England in the early 80's were privileged to have watched this on late night TV.

      In fact the continuity was so bad Bluey would be driving the car wearing a natty pistachio coloured sports jacket, then when chasing aforementioned perp would be wearing a tartan double breasted number

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        Tramp The Dirt Down wrote: 50 year old overweight/morbidly obese cop always catches perp who is 30 years younger and was coached by Valery Borzov.
        Except Frank Cannon.

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          "natty pistachio coloured sports jacket"

          That phrase really tickled me. Redolent of pretty much all of my '80s viewing. And pretty much every piece of furniture I sat upon during said era.

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            Jah Womble wrote:
            An obvious soap rule: No one shall have a relationship with a person who doesn't already inhabit the square/street/farm/hospital. In the unlikely event that this does happen, said newcomer must move in with his/her partner immediately - regardless of the fact that it's far too early in the relationship. The couple will then start planning a family with similar reckless abandon. Or indeed kill one another.
            So many soap rules .. No-one can remain happily single, they have to mope around for a week or two before hooking up with another character, despite the fact that their last relationship ended in attempted murder/fraud/jailtime/partner having sex with other family member.

            If character loses a job, they look downcast for half an episode and then are offered another job in same street or square, and can start without any training - often being simply thrown an apron and serving food without even washing their hands.

            All deep dark family secrets must be announced in local pub, with whole pub falling conveniently silent.

            When female character is angry with male character, he will stand patiently in the pub while she empties entire pint over his head. Bar staff will not be angry at this, and will often cheer or laugh uproariously.

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              MsD wrote:
              Originally posted by Jah Womble
              An obvious soap rule: No one shall have a relationship with a person who doesn't already inhabit the square/street/farm/hospital. In the unlikely event that this does happen, said newcomer must move in with his/her partner immediately - regardless of the fact that it's far too early in the relationship. The couple will then start planning a family with similar reckless abandon. Or indeed kill one another.
              So many soap rules .. No-one can remain happily single, they have to mope around for a week or two before hooking up with another character, despite the fact that their last relationship ended in attempted murder/fraud/jailtime/partner having sex with other family member.

              If character loses a job, they look downcast for half an episode and then are offered another job in same street or square, and can start without any training - often being simply thrown an apron and serving food without even washing their hands.

              All deep dark family secrets must be announced in local pub, with whole pub falling conveniently silent.

              When female character is angry with male character, he will stand patiently in the pub while she empties entire pint over his head. Bar staff will not be angry at this, and will often cheer or laugh uproariously.
              The phrase “this is the happiest time of my life” and/or “this is the happiest I’ve ever been” will, without exception, be followed by hideous personal misery/injury. Spain is no longer considered an exotic enough bolt-hole for fleeing soap characters: it’s South America or bust. You cannot have a girl/boyfriend or job that isn’t within a 400-yard radius of your front door. It’s acceptable to not only be in a pub before noon, but it’s also ok to drink straight whisky/vodka. They never watch football in the pub. In fact, no-one watches TV ever. More people kill other people than watch TV. I’d like to see what soap opera Dot Cottin tunes in to. I don’t have a problem with any of this.

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                Okay, so I missed a few.

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                  Any device that blows up or destroys anything with impressive results will be followed by a teen or child standing nearby who surveys the smouldering results and blurts out an approving murmur of 'cool!'

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                    MsD wrote:
                    Originally posted by Jah Womble
                    An obvious soap rule: No one shall have a relationship with a person who doesn't already inhabit the square/street/farm/hospital. In the unlikely event that this does happen, said newcomer must move in with his/her partner immediately - regardless of the fact that it's far too early in the relationship. The couple will then start planning a family with similar reckless abandon. Or indeed kill one another.
                    So many soap rules .. No-one can remain happily single, they have to mope around for a week or two before hooking up with another character, despite the fact that their last relationship ended in attempted murder/fraud/jailtime/partner having sex with other family member.

                    If character loses a job, they look downcast for half an episode and then are offered another job in same street or square, and can start without any training - often being simply thrown an apron and serving food without even washing their hands.

                    All deep dark family secrets must be announced in local pub, with whole pub falling conveniently silent.

                    When female character is angry with male character, he will stand patiently in the pub while she empties entire pint over his head. Bar staff will not be angry at this, and will often cheer or laugh uproariously.
                    "No, of course darling, everything's FINE!"

                    The two characters then hug, but the camera focuses on the face of the character who said the above line as they stare, wide-eyed and worried. They're not fine at all. there's something very wrong here.

                    Back in general TV/movie cliches, the remote control for a domestic appliance makes an audible 'click' as the character pushes a button to change channel etc.

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                      The old cop who might as well be sitting about in an "I'm just about to be killed" t-shirt has only 1 week to go before retirement.

                      'Super Baddies' are never as dead as they first appear, always springing back to life immediately after the hero/heroine has given a "thank goodness that's over" style sigh over the 'body'.

                      Anyone who wants to can easily hack into the Pentagon. This is only necessary if they can't be bothered pretending to be a cleaner.

                      When scaling a tall building the rope will always break, leaving our hero hanging from a ledge by one hand.

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                        You've cased the joint. You've got the guns to enforce when you break into the bank and hold up the occupants. You've got the getaway car. You've got every escape route covered so that it's impossible to fuck up when you've put all the money into the bags. You've got every element of the robbery you're going to pull off laid down to the finest detail, so that you'll be on that beach holding a pina colada, celebrating a job well done before the feds can even pick up a hint of a trail.

                        Now...all you need is to recruit a psychotic loose-cannon for your gang of hot-shot perps, who'll do something totally stupid that puts all that planning and preparation in the crapper.

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                          Y'see Ian, I knew that I could rely on you...

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                            Coronation Street had the pint tipped over head scene last night; only not as slowly as usual, and as it wasn't in t'Rovers, no cheering from onlookers.

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                              Y'see Ian, I knew that I could rely on you...

                              GO, I aims ter please!

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                                ian.64 wrote: You've cased the joint. You've got the guns to enforce when you break into the bank and hold up the occupants. You've got the getaway car. You've got every escape route covered so that it's impossible to fuck up when you've put all the money into the bags. You've got every element of the robbery you're going to pull off laid down to the finest detail, so that you'll be on that beach holding a pina colada, celebrating a job well done before the feds can even pick up a hint of a trail.

                                Now...all you need is to recruit a psychotic loose-cannon for your gang of hot-shot perps, who'll do something totally stupid that puts all that planning and preparation in the crapper.
                                Insofar as those kinds of armed robberies are real (they're very rare) that strikes me as probably realistic. I imagine that it is hard to find a group of guys willing to do a crime like that without inadvertently netting at least one complete psycho.

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                                  Thank you for the laughs, so many great ones had from posts here.

                                  Especially the ones about people not eating up their food and banging their cuttlery against the plate.

                                  Haven't read through it all but will go back and do so, so don't know if these have been mentioned:

                                  "Bypass password"

                                  People using a computer and pounding the keyboard like a lemming on crack. Never using a mouse.

                                  Movies set in olden times where the hero/leader is doing his speech ahead of an army of 30,000 and they all cheer at the end of it. There's a reason bands don't play accoustic with no mic's or speakers in stadiums, I reckon, because the people way back wouldn't be able to hear a bloody word, let alone a man on a horse riding back and forth shouting with people sat 30,000 horses away would be able to be heard even a few hoof off his own horse's arse.

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                                    1. Have we had the automobile back seat invisibility cloak yet?

                                    Film characters never see someone sat on the back seat or crouched behind (even in convertibles) despite the fact it is impossible to hide there without being seen by an entering motorist. This is then followed by one of three possible outcomes:

                                    i. Revolver pointed to the back of the neck of driver with the word one command- “Drive”.

                                    ii. Driver garroted.

                                    iii. Driver drives off, back seat invisible person utters “long time no see”, “it’s been a long time such and such or another statement to that effect.

                                    There will be a knowing/smart arse reply from the driver, despite the fact that he/she should be startled leading the viewer to believe that the driver had a funny feeling this was going to happen at some point, yet still didn't bother to take that extra micro-second glance in the back before they got in.

                                    2. Martial Arts movies must always have at least one character with the capacity to instantly change any object at hand into an astonishingly effective weapon- pineapple (after a fruit cart has been overturned- naturally), bunsen burner, rolled up magazine, wall clock.....you name it. Adopted wholesale by the Bourne trilogy

                                    3. The Police Commissioner, Chief Inspector, Commanding Officer etc who exists merely to take the maverick cop off the case, grow increasingly exasperated by him and/or demands he hands over his badge and weapon. Normally to be heard shouting through the entire film.

                                    At a crucial juncture, as the crisis reaches boiling point, the Police Commissioner is overruled in his continuing refusal to reinstate the maverick- normally by The Mayor.

                                    The Mayor is persuaded to see the ineffectiveness of by the book procedural policing (as represented by the Police Commissioner) in favour of the maverick approach taken by the film’s protagonist.

                                    The maverick is then tossed back his badge, shoves his returned pistol down the back of his trousers (always jeans), gives his commander a knowing look and shrug then runs out the office and ‘gets the results’.

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                                      One of the things I liked about the old Mike Myers film "So I Married An Axe Murderer" was that they turned that last one on its head. The police lieutenant (Alan Arkin) is serious, concerned, quiet and supportive, to the unending frustration of the cop (Anthony LaPaglia). He ends up trying unconvincing racial slurs at the cop's request to make him feel more like a 'proper' officer.

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                                        Pietro Paolo Virdis wrote:
                                        Movies set in olden times where the hero/leader is doing his speech ahead of an army of 30,000 and they all cheer at the end of it. There's a reason bands don't play accoustic with no mic's or speakers in stadiums, I reckon, because the people way back wouldn't be able to hear a bloody word, let alone a man on a horse riding back and forth shouting with people sat 30,000 horses away would be able to be heard even a few hoof off his own horse's arse.
                                        Blessed are the cheesemakers.

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                                          Every seventies US cop show/movie was compelled to contain at least one scene in which the sleuth's findings took him into a disco - in which a slew of Afro-sporting punters would be seriously gettin' down to a song you'd never heard in your life.

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                                            Jah Womble wrote: Every seventies US cop show/movie was compelled to contain at least one scene in which the sleuth's findings took him into a disco - in which a slew of Afro-sporting punters would be seriously gettin' down to a song you'd never heard in your life.
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                                            A perfectly normal conversation would take place in said nite-club, afterwards our hero will emerge from the seething, throbbing establishment into blazing mid-day sunshine.
                                            Not early in the morning, that was a heavy one, been out all night type of thing but out into a normal bustling, working day.

                                            All baddies & indeed most of the punters in said nite-club will be sporting street baddie gear mainly consisting of cut sleeve denim jackets & those leather fingerless gloves. They will have outrageous mohicans & chew gum with their mouths open.

                                            One of these baddies will get properly filled in by our hero leading to the others all legging it, going round corners on one leg like in Scooby Doo.

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                                              Jah Womble wrote: In all pre-eighties sci-fi productions, the assumption is that all people from the future will wear a variation on whatever is the current fashion.

                                              An obvious soap rule: No one shall have a relationship with a person who doesn't already inhabit the square/street/farm/hospital. In the unlikely event that this does happen, said newcomer must move in with his/her partner immediately - regardless of the fact that it's far too early in the relationship. The couple will then start planning a family with similar reckless abandon. Or indeed kill one another.
                                              Stag nights on soaps are always interesting. Don't invite anyone from outside your square/street, just round up every man in the square/street from the ages of 16-100 and take them down your local boozer.

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                                                Absolutely. Carla's (power-dressed businesswoman who owns the knicker factory) hen night was beyond ridiculous: it kicked off in the Rovers with her, plus a couple of her lackeys from the factory and some of the local p*ss-heads. Because she really wouldn't have chosen a higher-brow venue or invited any friends in higher places and business contemporaries from elsewhere to see her off...

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                                                  Well, she did date the bin man ...

                                                  I love the dismal hen and stag dos, plus the special nights out and first dates in the Rovers. And the defiant entrances 5 days after having a big scene in there, because "we have to face people sooner or later".

                                                  What about Tony Gordon's stag do, with a load of blokes who barely knew him or couldn't stand him, but who'd bothered to wear masks with his face on. Hen and stag dos always include one or more of the other party's exes, too.

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                                                    Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:

                                                    3. The Police Commissioner, Chief Inspector, Commanding Officer etc who exists merely to take the maverick cop off the case, grow increasingly exasperated by him and/or demands he hands over his badge and weapon. Normally to be heard shouting through the entire film.
                                                    And no matter where in the world the police dept. is, even on "Space Precinct", the sergeant is always...IRISH!!!!!!!!

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