But also very, very aggravating.

Whining about grades. Especially the idea that anything below an A- means the reviewer hated it.

This thread has made me realize, once again, how the "load more comments" feature aggravates me much more than any tv trope.

Had Ripley been cast as a male, he probably wouldn't have run around in his underwear for half the movie though.

German school days are usually over at noon, so kids eat at home. Commonly you have six lessons a day (sometimes one more or less) with two five-minute and two twenty-minute breaks between them, so the school day only lasts till about half past one.

Totally. We didn't even have a lunch break.
Students spending all their time in the hallway is the kids show equivalent of workcoms where the employees have an endless amount of free time to get into wacky hijinks.

Well, I'm not American, so the focus on any extracurricular stuff (a school with an own sports team?!? Or a drama club?) always feels alien to me. We had a school paper (more like a magazine) that came out about once a year but that was it.

As a rule of thumb, kids on kids' shows always behave and deal with problems about three to four years above their supposed ages. So Hey Arnold was nine but seemed more like twelve, Doug was twelve but behaved more like fifteen, all these middle school protagonists on Disney Channel shows are treated more like high…

Frasier usually got it right in execution, yeah (because it was funny), but otherwise it was one of the worst offenders of characters miscommunicating for insane reasons.

The common "Limited Social Circle" trope, where the main characters are all friends with each other and nobody else (prime offender is of course, "Friends") . That's one of the reasons I liked "Scott Pilgrim", actually, it was a lot more realistic about that than most fiction, showing that people don't only have…

Yeah, but don't you wear house shoes? Or flip-flops? On TV characters seemingly put on a pair of shoes in the morning and wear it all day no matter where they are.

When the most popular people in school are completely horrible assholes. It doesn't work like that! At my school the really popular ones were those who were generally… well, nice. Just like the loser protagonists on those shows usually are, where you can't figure out a reason why they'd have this status.

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I've heard complaining about this before, but this must be an American thing? If I'm in a bar in Germany, I'd never think of ordering a beer by name unless I wanted a specific one - you order a "Pils", you get the house choice.

I feel like he wouldn't say no to you!

Yes, I like them too. They have several very nice songs. Breathe Your Name is great (I only recently realized how Jesus-y the lyrics really are, but whatever), as is Million Parachutes.

Franklin wrote some of her songs ("Think" most notably).

The Way We Get By was the only Spoon song I knew for years thanks to the OC soundtrack. I loved the song but never bothered to explore them further until I stumbled over I Turn My Camera On one day and it blew me away.

Well, the point is that they aren't air balloons - while the German word Luftballon literally translates into air balloon, it refers to little colourful toy balloons which are usually just called balloons in English, so they made up "red" because there was a syllable to fill.

Seasons 10-12 have no "classics" whatsoever.