Still more things I learned from TV
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There is always someone in the canal or storm drain when the flood hits.

During a very emotional confrontation instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind them and talk to their back.

ACME products (Road runner cartoons) has a never ending supply of defective products.

The more people there are firing at you, the less likely they are to hit you.

Children grow up fast -they can go from newborn to kindergarten in one TV season.

A monster can always sneak up on you, no matter how big or clumsy it is.

A leap from a hotel roof is completely safe as long as you can land in the pool.

If a gas station and a man with a gun appear in the same scene, before the scene ends the gas station with explode. The same is true of fuel drums.

No ship, base, or compound ever as more than one emergency radio.

By the 24th century the concepts of circuit breakers, fuses and uninterruptable power supplies will have been lost --All sci-fi series

Even the best mastermind will be stuck with inept henchmen

Never go to a masked ball. Because at midnight with everybody removes their masks one of the partiers will be an evil madman/death, and you'll be in some serious trouble.

Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers, and man made eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

Light level is not a relable gauge of whether is's night outside. You have to judge by the cricket noises.

There are always people carrying around large sheets of glass on the street during a car chase.

When the power plant/missle site whatever overheats, all the control panel will explode as will the entire building--BOOM!

City crime labs have so little backlog that DNA tests can be ordered and delivered before the detectives even change shifts--CSI, CSI-Miami, CSI New York

If there's a maniac on the loose, it's the perfect time to just relax and run a bubble bath.
and in the same vein
When being chased around the house by a knife wielding mania always, run upstairs and never take the more logical step of running outside.

When superheroes (like Batman) use high tech weapons to protect themselves, the bad guys never take advantange of obvious weaknesses, such as oooooo, no face protection. [/list]

Hope this brought a smile

Keep'em flying