Family Guy

Some directors seem to think that all forms of explosives make giant balls of fire, making no distinction between high explosives and incendiaries.

When a character, almost always female and always physically attractive gets naked and relaxes in a bath.

When over the course of a cartoon series, current events occurring around the characters suggest a progression of time but the characters don't age accordingly or at all.

You will never see these cartoon characters wearing a separate pair of their casual clothes unless they are trying to be someone else.

Do I pull the green wire or the red one? Maybe the blue one. Every bomb maker, regardless of skill level, will make their devices with multi-colored wiring to aid in diffusal. When will they learn to just make them all red?

Parodies the cliche as Stewie and Brian jump out of a house.

Need a cheap laugh? Throw in an elaborately gay character and let the chuckles begin!

What's funnier than dumb TV characters? Even dumber TV characters. This is a common theme in sitcoms where characters slowly act less intelligent over the seasons, either to make them funnier, make them more accessible to audiences, or sometimes because it's just easier to write them like that.

An alien disguised as Kelly Ripa rip out a heart of an unknown man and eats it up.

Peter falls victim to the "Kicked in the Nuts" clown.

Cleveland was unable to kill Quagmire for sleeping with his then wife, Loretta.

Played for laughs: Meg goes into this mode, once Brian showed her a little affection during one episode.

A character suggests another character do something and that character is like, "No way I'm never doing that, you can't make me." Smash cut to that person doing the exact thing they said they would never do.

After stealing their land and decimating their people you'd think we citizens of the USA could at least not build stuff on their cemeteries. Centuries of spiritual fury from the nether world is about to be unleashed and it ain't gonna be pretty.

Usually in action films the Hero is fighting a villain and they bust into a room where a couple are "getting it on." They are never main, or even side characters.

This is all going a bit too well, everyone should be very careful.

Any Hollywood movie featuring scenes in Britain will likely take place in central London. Anywhere else in Britain, that’s not London, will be shown as countryside full of cows and sheep.

Peter Griffin is a fat lovable loser, who ends up getting Lois, who comes from a rich, conservative, family.

In movies, when real guys want to hang out, they have to do it by getting wasted.

Upon seeing or hearing something dramatic or violent, the protagonist will let loose with their best, slow-motion "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

A character expelling his disbelief of an event he is seeing or experiencing by using the Lord's name in vain. Variations of this include: "Good God!," "Oh God," "My God," and "Oh My Lord."

The main character is in an evil lair and he must escape before the time runs out and the whole place explodes!

Cool guys have muscles and they just love to show them off. The only way to do that is to take off their shirts and flex. These are the films that help them do that.

When a character is presented with a moral dilemma, a devil and angel version of him/herself stands on his/her shoulder to influence the character.

When a character reveals something shocking to another while they were drinking (plot related or otherwise), the receiver of the message spits out whatever they're drinking in shock.

When characters in a movie or TV show suddenly break out into a musical number, even though that movie or TV show is not actually a musical.

Weirdly, the person most responsible for this sort of thing is Richard Curtis, who IS actually English. Suffice to say we all don't have bad teeth and talk like the Queen.....

Cleveland is the only black guy who hangs out with them.

Whenever someone walking the street in a movie needs to be informed of a plot point, they happen to walk by a TV store with several TVs, all which happen to be tuned to the news!

At the bar, office, wedding and funeral this guy can't help but chase tail like a borderline sex criminal. This usually works out well for the main character who comes off looking very good in comparison. Nothing says 'love' more than a woman who thinks "well, at least I'm not with this guy's friend." Entourage, Nip/Tuck, How I Met Your Mother

A troublesome relationship between parents and their children which must be dealt with for the character to move on or have closure

Meg gives one to the rest of her family during the hurricane special. Quagmire gives one to Brian for being a liberal hypocrite.