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DKS
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Such as? Most instances of characters speaking in a TV show speak in a different language, use a thing called subtitles. The exception being when a character is obviously supposed to be cursing/screaming/being incoherent, which, obviously, they can't really translate. |
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"I see the sadness in their eyes
Melancholy in their cries Devoid of all the passion The human spirit cannot die" |
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Credit crunching. Esquire does this to Magnum P.I.'s credits! I just want to hear the theme song and see the closing logos! Is that too much to ask?
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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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DKS
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So that's one example. It takes more than 1 instance for something to be "cliche". Cliche means overdone and common, not something that appeared on one show... |
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"I see the sadness in their eyes
Melancholy in their cries Devoid of all the passion The human spirit cannot die" |
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Papa Lazarou
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I know what you mean: Especially Italian...
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Banana!
BANANA!! BANANA!!! BANANA!! Banana! |
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EricTHoff
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Putting hashtags in everything. It was bad enough last year but now it's just ridiculous.
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Donathan
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I am getting tired of the "It's A Wonderful Life," cliche, where a character wishes they were never born, or another character was never their family members, or were born with a more "normal" personality. They enjoy the wish at first, and then are clamoring to be born or for the family member to be back, etc, when they see how absolutely f-cked life really is.
Though in Wizards Of Waverly Place, when Alex wishes that Justin wasn't her brother, instead of becoming invisible to everyone but her, he is visible to everyone, it is just that to everyone else, he is some random new guy in the school. I liked that he didn't just become invisible until later in the episode when the Genie tricks Alex into wishing that Justin was invisible. |
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indianaTVman
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I watched the TLC show about the 132 lb. scrotum guy. Usually I'm very squeamish and would normally change the channel, but for some some I was drawn to watch the show like a highway driver staring at an accident scene. At one point the guy asked the doctor if he could auction off the scrotum to pay for the operation! The doctor said no, because the hospital could be held liable if a person got sick from contact with the scrotum. So they sent the scrotum to pathology for study then probably disposed of it. What a waste! They could have fed a lot of starving people barbecue scrotum sandwiches!
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indianaTVman
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Donathan: in a religious "Archie" comic ugly Ethel got her wish to be beautiful. But her beauty made her arrogant so she changed back to being ugly. A rather heavy handed (and in my opinion stupid) message. Are they saying beauty always corrupts?
I'm sick of TV sitcoms and made for TV movies ripping off the Scrooge plot. Give it a rest! On the plus side, this past Christmas I saw the Happy Days Christmas episode for the first time in decades (I gave up in the show after the original run of the 2nd season) and it was original, creative and NOT a Scrooge ripoff |
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EasyChango
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What a horrible mental image that is!! (I hope Thor doesn't find a pic for that barbecue ) |
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indianaTVman
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Papa Lazarou: is that Italian Interpreter clip from the UK version of the office or another show?
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Trashing Madison Avenue one annoying commercial at a time
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Papa Lazarou
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It's from "The IT Crowd"
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Banana!
BANANA!! BANANA!!! BANANA!! Banana! |
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I'm really getting sick of the "car driving by the gas station" cliché!
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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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