Movie/TV cliche I absolutely hate:

[Aristus]

Wife/girlfriend ties or adjusts her husband/boyfriend’s tie.

I hate that!

I can tie a bow tie and know four ways to tie a necktie. I don’t need anyone to come along and do it for me.

I don’t know how often this happens in real life, but I wish they’d get rid of it on TV.

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Not being snarky but if that bothers you the rest of your life must be pretty damn good.

[Aristus]

3. It's just one of life's little irritations that gives one a break

from life’s big irritations.

[Fla Dem]

2. Well, you're just very talented and careful about how you tie your ties.

I would guess there are many guys who aren't. Silly thing to get emotional about.

[Aristus]

5. The only thing more annoying than guys who don't know how to dress

themselves is having that pointed out in movies and on TV.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. "Before I kill you, let me tell you how our plan is going to work." NT

[Aristus]

7. Monologing!

That’s another one!

“Now that I have your attention, Mr. Bond…”

[zanana1]

6. Hey, I hate that too.

I know it isn't as drastic as say, a nuclear explosion, but I do really hate it.

[Aristus]

8. If I have any identifiable remains after a nuclear holocaust,

I at least want the survivors to know I was well-dressed.

[Diamond_Dog]

9. Oh come on Aristus

Isn’t every red blooded American male supposed to be totally helpless and enjoy a kittenish young lady tying his tie for him? You would certainly think so if you watch any old movies from the 40s, 50s and 60s.

[Aristus]

12. Red-blooded or not, I'm fifty-three.

Kittenish young ladies are not really my thing. I’m more of a Helen Mirren kind of guy.

Having said that, I’m not averse to having her help me take my tie off…

[Srkdqltr]

16. Her characters would probably strangle you with it . 😁😁😁

[Aristus]

25. What a way to die happy, though!

[LakeArenal]

18. While smoking cigarettes.

[Glamrock]

10. Never ever happen here!

My wife can’t tie a tie. She does help me put on and adjust my tidy whities….so there’s that! 🤣🤣🤣

[Clash City Rocker]

11. It fits into the whole "men are incompetent" theme that permeates TV these days

Usually the man has a wife who is much smarter than him, and usually much more attractive too. On kid’s shows, the kids are often smarter than their father. It is a little annoying.

I rarely wear a tie, so I don’t have your expertise at tying them, therefore that has never bothered me. But I see where you’re coming from.

[Aristus]

26. My wife is both much smarter and more attractive than I am.

I’d be like one of those sitcom guys, except I dress nicely in order to narrow the attractiveness gap a little.

[Sanity Claws]

13. Another annoying Movie/TC cliche

A grocery bag with celery sticking out the top.

But I guess that cliche will disappear because grocery stores no longer give out paper grocery bags.

[Aristus]

14. Or a French baguette.

n/t

[nocoincidences]

15. I hate it when the plot revolves around

several characters doing impulsive stupid things.

Several movies and serials I have watched recently had parents who just HAD to do dumb things to try to get their kids because they just had to do something!!! So yeah, pick the most useless dumb thing you could possibly do, and do that!

I am not impulsive, and I really don't get it. If all you can think of to do is dumb pointless interference, just STOP. Sometimes it is best to just do nothing.

This virus is making me cranky, ya think?

[snowybirdie]

17. Haven't seen

a man in a tie for years! Of course its Florida.

[LakeArenal]

19. I don't hate this but:

When there is a couple running, she is always the one that falls down or trips over a rock.

Then, when they kill the monster, they always turn their back on it. Of course, the monster gets up for one more battle.

[Aristus]

20. Or when the woman comes to the rescue and shoots the bad guy/monster.

Then drops the gun and bursts into tears.

[LakeArenal]

21. This one: Criminal Minds

Morgan the hot sexy fit trained professional is constantly sucker punched from behind when searching a building. It happened so often we call it being “Morganed”. Now any show where the trained cop gets hit from behind.

[Docreed2003]

22. Lol, I wear bow ties frequently, as well as neckties

But my wife always does the straightening act after I get dressed. I'm convinced it's because of this movie trope because I can tie my ties without using a mirror.

[DarthDem]

23. "Can I Get a Beer?"

This one always amuses me. It's when a character enters a bar and must for some reason be shown interacting with a bartender (almost always a nonspeaking part) by ordering an alcoholic beverage. Yes, we understand that the movie or TV show didn't want to pay for the right to use a brand name, and/or didn't want to alienate viewers by having the character's drink preference displayed. But there are sooooo many ways to write a scene where a character goes to a bar and orders a drink and yet avoids this vexing problem. Just one: "Whatever you have on tap, thanks." Another - have the character point and say "Could I get one of those?" without showing the item.

Or writers can carry on with the cliché. I always crack up thinking about the likely reaction from a real-life bartender to "Can I get a beer?"

[Aristus]

24. Remember generic products from the '80's?

I’d love it if the bartender plunked down a bottle on the bar, black sans serif on a white label: ‘BEER’.

[Clash City Rocker]

27. That happened in the movie "Repo Man"

There’s a running joke about generic products. At one point, the main character is eating out of a tin can labeled “Food.” Another scene has a character say “Let’s go get some drinks,” and then they’re in a store buying a six pack. Every can is simply labeled “Drink.”

Look at the products on the shelves in this scene.

[Aristus]

29. Never saw the film.

I’ll have to have a look.

Funny story: famous writer Harlan Ellison screened the film before release in his role as a film critic for the Writer’s Guild of America.

He said to his friend Robert Silverberg: “That kid looks and sounds exactly like a young Martin Sheen.” Silverberg replied: “That’s Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen’s son”.

[RandiFan1290]

30. One of my all time favorites!

RIP Michael Nesmith

[rsdsharp]

39. When I was in law school in the 80s there was an absolutely fabulous BBQ joint

a couple of blocks from campus. It was in an old house with a hole covered with a board on the front steps. The mud room you passed on the way to order had free Frogger and Mario Bros. games. The “dining room” (four tables) was papered in red foil with a sting art portrait of the pit master, Big Daddy, on the wall.

Every table got a Tupper Ware pitcher of water, and it you ordered a soft drink, it came in a can labeled “Cola”, “Lemon Lime” or “Root Beer.”

But God, I miss the food.

[Irish_Dem]

28. This gesture is not just about the tie. It is very personal, intimate.

Think about the pictures we have seen of Michelle adjusting her husband's tie. Do you think for a moment that Obama would allow any other woman to do this kind of thing for him?

It is a woman's way of saying, I am taking care of you. I want you to look good. I want to touch you in public. I love you.

Women have been exhibiting this non verbal love message for a very long time. It is not going to stop any time soon.

[Aristus]

31. That's a very positive way of looking at it.

I see it as infantilizing.

My wife doesn’t do that with me, probably because I’m the best-dressed guy she knows.

[Irish_Dem]

32. Women are DNA hard wired to take care of people.

This is how the species has survived. So it is Darwinian in nature.

Your wife knows you don't like it most likely so she is giving you space I assume.

Or yes you are a sartorial wonder!

[Aristus]

33. Or both.

Someone once told me: If you can’t be good-looking, be well-dressed.

I think it was my mother…

[mainer]

34. The fleeing woman trips and falls

It never seems to happen to the fleeing man.

[Ocelot II]

35. I think of it as a sort of allogrooming,

which is social grooming between members of the same species, as when a cat licks the ear of another cat in its household. Maybe you would prefer having your ear licked?

Unlike many movie cliches, this one happens a lot in real life. Back in the days when I had a husband, I often adjusted his tie because he usually looked like he just crawled out of a tumble dryer. Sometimes drastic steps must be taken.

[Bayard]

36. Well......

Most men would not mind a woman fondling their tie, if you think of a tie as a phallic symbol.



Aside from that--yes, I really hate the women always tripping and falling/crying, and being saved by the big strong man. Give me Ripley any day!

[Aristus]

37. I used to like it when a woman would snap the elastic on my suspenders.

Now that, I thought, was very flirtatious!

[TexasBushwhacker]

38. However, a man's tie can get askew

And unless he looks in a mirror, he won't know it. Hence, a lady, probably HIS lady, straightens it for him. It doesn't mean he's incompetent.

[rsdsharp]

40. I can tie the three major necktie knots, and a couple of minor ones,

but I could never tie a bow tie. It always ends up looking like I was in a fight with the tie and lost.

I hate poorly tied ties. Watching the Rittenhouse trial I kept screaming at the screen, “Tighten the damn knot, you little prick!”

[Aristus]

41. One advantage the bow tie has over the necktie:

With a necktie, if you get the knot wrong, you have to pull the thing apart and start all over again. With a bow tie, if the bow doesn't come out looking camera-ready the first time, a little tugging, pulling, and twisting on the ends can get you there without having to undo it and start again.

[rsdsharp]

42. Well, that doesn't work for me. It just looks like I spent more time

making it look bad in a different way.

A senior partner in our firm was famous for wearing bow ties (among other, more prominent things). He said he began wearing bow ties because, as a young associate, he realized he could buy three bow ties for the price of one long tie.

I don’t know if that’s true. I’ve never purchased a bow tie.

[Aristus]

43. I have a few bow ties appropriate for business wear.

But most of them are for black tie outfits. I love the feeling I get after a formal occasion when I can pull the bow tie apart and let the ends hang like Frank Sinatra.

Also, I essentially learned how to tie a bow tie because I'll be damned if I'll wear a clip-on.