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Apr 24
2009
06:22 PM ET
Pop culture pet peeve: Empty coffee cups
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I thought it was just me! I hate hate hate empty coffee cups, tea cups, whatever, because it is so obvious there’s nothing in them. I agree with the others here too: fake snow, fake presents, high heels, people whose clothes never rumple.
Biggest Pet Peeve = When actors/actresses don’t close the doors behind them when they walk into their houses. Ugh, it drives me up a wall!
snarf, the comment about the presents is so true! Like anyone wraps them that way!
I thought it was only me … I always loook for beverage cups in shows just to see how people will treat them … and they always act as if they are empty featherweight props … drives me nuts!
This has ALWAYS gotten to me! You can’t tell me they can’t just put a little water in those cups to make it look better. I appreciate it so much more when you can tell they’re actually drinking something. They eat actual food, why not actual drinks?
I hate it — and so, so many shows/movies are guilty of this — when a character gives birth and the “newborn” baby that is shown is clearly at least six months old.
What also bugs me is when an actor is supposed to be a proficient musician and clearly cannot play their instrument, as in the case of Jamie Foxx in the Soloist. He was great in Ray because he had studied piano, but that makes this case even harder to swallow.
Nathaniel- This is for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKsfL1q91hM
My boyfriend and I always make fun of the way some people drive in movies and TV. They’re constantly turning the steering wheel back and forth. You know they’d be swerving off the road in real life!
In the same coffee vein…I hate shows that are set in Seattle (cough grey’s anatomy cough) which, in order to PROVE that the characters really are from Seattle, make every character obsessed with that mythological taste explosions known as THE MOCHA LATTE. I know this may shock the public, but there is no such drink. The Cafe Latte and the Cafe Mocha are two separate drinks.
I have been bothered by the coffe cup issue for a long time…thanks for saying something. How about suitcases that are supposed to be filled for a trip but are clearly empty because tiny actors are able to left them easily?????
Why do so few of the women on TV carry a purse? Where do they put their keys, lipstick, wallet?? It has bugged me for years.
I completely agree with the comment about closing doors! Once the actors walk through the door and don’t close it behind them, I can’t pay attention to anything they’re saying because it drives me crazy!
Biggest pet peeve? All the sitcoms where a thin, gorgeous women is somehow married to some ordinary, overweight schlub (i.e. According to Jim, King of Queens, that show a few years back with Jamie Gertz…). Hot women do not marry schlubs. Unless they’re filthy rich. Definitely not if they’re living in Queens!
My pet peeve is when you are watching a period piece and the fruit is a shiney waxed Washington apple that only came into existence with the help present day bio-engineering. Dances with Wolves is an example.
I am so comforted to know I’m not the only one who goes crazy over the empty coffee cups. My other peeve, how easy it is for tv characters to find a parking spot right in front of their destination. I know it doesn’t really move a plot forward if a character is circling the block for 20 minutes looking for a place to park but still, so unrealistic.