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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #35 on: September 26, 2012, 05:36:57 PM »
You have to kill vampires by cutting their heads off.
Kill ghosts by finding their body and salting then burning the remains. For some reason, salting is not alwas required.
Demons can't enter doors/windows lined with salt.
Rock salt loaded into shotgun shells is effective against ghosts.
A Latin speech will exorcise a demon and send it back to hell.
Reapers are hot. Nurses are hot. Hell, everyone is hot.
Classic Impalas magically heal themselves on a weekly basis.

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A monster's primary strategy for attack is to first knock the shotgun out of your hand and then slowly strangle you just barely within reach of it.
Demons have much wittier things to say than humans.
People knew everything about evil monsters in the dark ages, so if you need to know how to kill something, all you have to do is find the correct ancient text.

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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #36 on: September 26, 2012, 06:40:06 PM »
Got advanced modern technology? Well, this ancient technology/magic can tamper with the very laws of nature and the universe.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #37 on: September 26, 2012, 06:46:22 PM »
Got advanced modern technology? Well, this ancient technology/magic can tamper with the very laws of nature and the universe.

Did you just watch The Avengers?
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #38 on: September 26, 2012, 06:53:48 PM »
It only describes every sci-fi/fantasy action movie ever.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LostTechnology
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #39 on: September 26, 2012, 06:58:09 PM »
It only describes every sci-fi/fantasy action movie ever.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LostTechnology

Yea well...............................I just watched the extras to The Avengers.


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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #40 on: September 26, 2012, 06:58:58 PM »
Ah, still haven't picked up that DVD. Great in-theater experience though.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #41 on: September 26, 2012, 08:16:35 PM »
America is the only country in the world. At least the only one that matters.

And New York is the only city in America.
And occasionally Los Angeles.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #42 on: September 26, 2012, 08:21:22 PM »
And on rare occasion, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #43 on: September 26, 2012, 08:31:55 PM »
And on rare occasion, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #44 on: September 26, 2012, 09:19:45 PM »
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God DAMN I'm slow today. That wasn't even intentional. Cedar Rapids is just my default "Anytown, USA" punching bag for jokes about random cities. What are the fucking odds of that?
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #45 on: September 26, 2012, 09:22:15 PM »
a sniper can take out every "extra" on the scene with a single shot from hundreds of feet away, but can't hit the "star" even though he is only a few feet away

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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #46 on: September 26, 2012, 09:26:28 PM »
This applies to an earlier one:

If the hero is using a revolver with six bullet capacity, he/she will fire their gun over ten times without reloading.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #47 on: September 26, 2012, 09:32:56 PM »
This applies to an earlier one:

If the hero is using a revolver with six bullet capacity, he/she will fire their gun over ten times without reloading.

so true.


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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #48 on: September 26, 2012, 09:40:02 PM »
~25% of car chases go through an open market, too.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #49 on: September 26, 2012, 09:42:46 PM »
The police arrive at the serial killer's house only moments before the killer claims their next victim. Always.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #50 on: September 26, 2012, 09:58:13 PM »
The police arrive at the serial killer's house only moments before the killer claims their next victim. Always.

OH GOD THAT DRIVES ME CRAZY ON CRIMINAL MINDS!

Like, here we have a show that tries to take a grittier, more realistic approach to serial killers, but there's always ONE MORE VICTIM that they happen to be RACING TO SAVE just in time.

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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #51 on: September 26, 2012, 10:15:42 PM »
Not to mention that person they save in the nick of time is usually someone the main character wants to bone.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #52 on: September 26, 2012, 10:41:18 PM »
 :lol  this one is my all-time favorite

It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by
   one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #53 on: September 27, 2012, 03:47:27 AM »
You have to kill vampires by cutting their heads off.
Kill ghosts by finding their body and salting then burning the remains. For some reason, salting is not alwas required.
Demons can't enter doors/windows lined with salt.
Rock salt loaded into shotgun shells is effective against ghosts.
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Reapers are hot. Nurses are hot. Hell, everyone is hot.
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A monster's primary strategy for attack is to first knock the shotgun out of your hand and then slowly strangle you just barely within reach of it.
Demons have much wittier things to say than humans.
People knew everything about evil monsters in the dark ages, so if you need to know how to kill something, all you have to do is find the correct ancient text.
A few more.

Don't ever accept something from someone willing to give you "ten more years."
Don't buy old paintings with creepy people in them. Seriously, fuck that episode.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #54 on: September 27, 2012, 04:04:35 AM »
Also, cremation is more common than burial.  Who knew?

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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #55 on: September 27, 2012, 08:22:43 AM »
TV (and movie) characters know they're being watched and will gladly explain their back story nonchalantly through conversation with another character. I'm looking at you Sam Winchester.

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« Reply #56 on: September 27, 2012, 10:19:09 AM »
Long hallways with flickering lights are to be avoided at all costs.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #57 on: September 27, 2012, 10:33:21 AM »
Long hallways with flickering lights are to be avoided at all costs.

To be fair, this rule sometimes does turn out to be true. :P
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #58 on: September 27, 2012, 12:34:10 PM »
If a pop star is about to release an album, they will show up on a primetime drama show as a guest star.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #59 on: September 27, 2012, 12:40:17 PM »
99% of the worlds population is very attractive.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #60 on: September 27, 2012, 12:44:15 PM »
I learnt that Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas, and Louis XVI liked to drop his pants as a party trick

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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #61 on: September 27, 2012, 01:17:59 PM »
I apologize if this has already been posted..

Even if they look dead... shoot them again in the head.

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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #62 on: September 27, 2012, 01:22:42 PM »
TV (and movie) characters know they're being watched and will gladly explain their back story nonchalantly through conversation with another character. I'm looking at you Sam Winchester.

If you work in entertainment, you'll find it's more unusual when people don't do this than when they do.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #63 on: September 27, 2012, 02:32:08 PM »
Only Major cities will be destroyed when the world ends.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #64 on: September 27, 2012, 02:42:15 PM »
Only Major cities will be destroyed when the world ends.

That's because major cities are the only places that exist, aside from suburban Pennsylvania and California.

Also, if it's not in the United States or Japan, the local technology hasn't changed in at least a century.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #65 on: September 27, 2012, 02:54:22 PM »
TV (and movie) characters know they're being watched and will gladly explain their back story nonchalantly through conversation with another character. I'm looking at you Sam Winchester.

If you work in entertainment, you'll find it's more unusual when people don't do this than when they do.

I forgot to add: the character being told the backstory already knows it because he's the freakin' brother!

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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #66 on: September 27, 2012, 03:08:04 PM »
I apologize if this has already been posted..

Even if they look dead... shoot them again in the head.

Especially if they look dead!
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« Reply #67 on: September 27, 2012, 03:10:37 PM »
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #68 on: September 27, 2012, 04:38:22 PM »
The bad guys have terrible aim.
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Re: Things You Would Never Know Without TV
« Reply #69 on: September 27, 2012, 04:59:08 PM »
Heroes are usually white. They are rarely black (but when they are, they're super badass). They're never Asian, Indian, or Latino.
 
Also, only white people lived in Middle-Earth.
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