Top 10 TV Tropes

Sometimes TV reflects reality. Sometimes it doesn’t. As a viewer inevitably being “programmed” by your favorite TV shows, it’s important to know the difference.

Here are a few things that happen in TV-World that don’t usually happen in real life.

1. You’re asked to give a eulogy for someone you barely knew.
2. You pretend to be married to impress the boss (only to eventually fall in love with your pretended spouse).
3. You attend someone else’s High School reunion while pretending to be the person on your stolen nametag.
4. You get stuck in an elevator with “colorful” characters.
5. You catch your divorced parents making out in the kitchen.
6. You sweep things off a desk in anger (or in passion, better preparing the surface for spontaneous lovemaking).
7. Your friends and pesky neighbors always walk right in your front door without knocking.
8. You sleepwalk every night, unknowingly raiding the refrigerator for ice cream or pastries until your snooping roommate catches you.
9. Your new best friend gives you a dramatic makeover, and suddenly everyone likes you.
10. Your oversexed mother-in-law hits on you when your wife isn’t around.