We have beer?I always assumed that Americans only have one kind of beer
Tropes that movies, etc. use that you hate.
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First heard by me in a Monty Python joke (at the Hollywood bowl?), paraphrased:
Why is American beer like fornication in a canoe?
It's fucking near water.
Funny. Water tastes better.
Obviously people who have never tried craft beer.
British breweries are at least great at making that one style of beer they make.
British breweries are at least great at making that one style of beer they make.
I really dislike when a TV show does a Rashomon episode, a lot of characters remembering or presenting a past event differently, a lot of times they think they're so clever with the concept that the actual style and content is pretty bland, dry. Edit: And there's usually just the sense that the concept is so great and hasn't been done before.
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I always assumed that Americans only have one kind of beer
My favourite reaction to that kind of thing is on Better Call Saul, when the german guy is at the bar and orders the german beer and then proceeds to tell the bartender how to pronounce it. That was a brilliant interaction.
About that "generic name" trope I just mentioned: They did it again! On the last L&O:OC episode there was a scene set at, and I quote, "Brooklyn High School".
Seriously. That was literally the name of the place.
I'm like, is that the fucking best they could come up with? Why couldn't they just make up an actual name? They have to get all generic like that?
Seriously. That was literally the name of the place.
I'm like, is that the fucking best they could come up with? Why couldn't they just make up an actual name? They have to get all generic like that?
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Speaking of schools, how about the morning dropoff/afternoon pickup where the moms are all out of their cars on the sidewalk talking. It's usually done to show some outsider parent being judged by a parent clique.
My experience with with dropping off/picking up my kids is that it's a whole procedure done like clockwork and everyone has somewhere to go and has no time to stand around talking.
My experience with with dropping off/picking up my kids is that it's a whole procedure done like clockwork and everyone has somewhere to go and has no time to stand around talking.
Speaking of schools, one thing I've noticed quite a bit in more recent years: If there's a scene involving a teacher in class, it will happen near the end of the class period, the bell will ring, and then the teacher will begin to hurriedly shout a bunch of information about homework, tests etc. as the students rush out. I don't remember something like that ever happened in my school career.
Add "the Adam Project" to the list, where people in 2050 are still listening to only 60s-70s classic rock, apparently (and, yes, I know at least one Pete Townshend song used was used for a particular reason that made sense in the story but that doesn't explain that everything else was Spencer Davis, ELO, etc.)
Yeah, that's a weird one. I think it's partly due for nostalgia, but it'd be far better if they had an original score, but on the other hand that would likely cost way more than they could afford. The easiest thing to do would be to use a classical score.
And the Beastie Boys thing annoys me too. It's supposed to be a future unlike our own, and the only thing it really does is immediately pin it to the era in which the movie was released in.
I'm glad it's not just me that finds this incredibly annoying (and frankly lazy). Why not just come up with a generic name for the beer? Craft microbrews are so common these days that no one would blink an eye if a character asked for some unknown beer.I always assumed that Americans only have one kind of beer
More and more these days, I've noticed that some shows will have real microbreweries featured as the show's brand of choice. It happened on at least three locally produced TV series, ie Carter, and Letterkenny, and Bad Blood. In fact with Letterkenny, it's not a fake beer, but rather one that the brewery came up with and is actually selling. I think it's a great way to advertise a microbrewery.
Eh, they put a lampshade on it by calling it "classical music". Which I guess is another trope, modern pop music becomes classical music in the future.
^ Which doesn't really work in that context, because the viewer knows exactly the era the music is from.
Not sure how that makes a difference. Why does it matter that the viewer recognizes that the song is 15 years old or a 150 years old? It's just a gag about music.
Well, I'd say that kind of thing would maybe work better with a lesser known piece of music. But that's just my opinion. I didn't feel it was effective.
That sort of gag relies on familiarity. It's the same gag as "Ah, the giants" in STVI. It only works with popular writers like Harrold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann.
Therein lies part of the problem. It relies too much on pop-culture for the joke to work, and it's distracting.
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