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I just want a movie where somebody "says turn on the TV", and the main character does, and it's just halfway through an episode of The Big Bang Theory or something because who's tuned to the news channel.
There's a scene in Community about this, where Abed is narrating a story, and when a story character turns on the radio, and its just playing conventional chill music instead of anything notable. Abed then points out that it's unlikely the radio would have anything notable right as they turned it on.
I agree this is rare, but my TV happened to be tuned to CNN on 9/11 when I turned it on around 10:30. I was playing hooky from work and getting high while playing bridge on my computer and nobody had called me. The screen showed a pillar of smoke and the caption said "second World Trade Center tower collapses" and I was like "what fucking movie is this?" Took a while for me to process what was happening.
They are not only on the news channel, but they always switch on the TV just in time to get the exact information they needed to hear at that specific moment. All while not tuning in in the middle of a sentence, just perfect timing from start to finish.
I mean, it's a movie. They have license to cut out the boring parts seamlessly.
To be fair, if it was a zombie apocalypse scenario in the states, the national network news would have cut in on the local broadcast and the talking heads would be yapping 24/7 for the ratings. Every channel. There's be a good chance that you'd turn on your TV right to a newscast about the zombies.
Now something like an insane killer escaped from a mental institution would be at most a ticker across the bottom of the local broadcast after a brief local cut in when the story broke.
Not just that, but always the anchor says "For those of you just joining us..." Then does a exposition dump
Who uses a TV anymore?
If they want to make it realistic, they're texting a link.
This is hilarious because it would also resolve that part where the person saying to turn on the TV basically needs to be psychic because they almost always tune in at the start of the presentation where it isn't even clear yet what the presentation is about.
If you click a link, then the video starts from the beginning but it also makes sense that the person that sent the link already knows what it's talking about.
Though this wouldn't really help when that same "needs to see the future to be able to point something interesting out because it hasn't started happening yet and thus wouldn't yet be worth pointing out" gets applied to events about to happen nearby.
I wish shows would have some people just confused and not really understanding what's happening, and not just for "the helpless civilians that need to be saved" but incorporating the whole "it can take time for individuals involved in something unexpected to even understand what is going on or what they are responding to". It's kinda funny how much some fiction ignores things like the fog of war, especially ones where they have a sniper that can somehow just see everything and always has a shot (often also sitting way out in the open where they'd get counter sniped pretty quickly, like hanging from a crane, which also begs some more questions).
Shaun of the Dead does a nice bit using this classic trope of turning the TV on exactly at the right moment.
And Community, as mentioned in another comment.
Big Bang Theory is witty and funny. It’s my favorite show now. Am I old now?
TBBT is bottom of the barrel humour. It's meh at best. IMHO.
I disagree. But that’s OK. I like simple, family friendly (for the most part) jokes. If I want raunchy, doubled over laughing, I watch Dave Chappell. The difference is I can watch one with my kids present. Different strokes, bro, and that’s A OK.