Bad science in TV programmes

[Fambo Number Mive]

Robocop The Series - Robocop is able to see the last image a person saw before being murdered by looking at the back of the corpse's retina using his retina scan tool.

[Blumf]

Well, if you're going to start with shit TV, then all of the CSI serieses.

That image held on the retina of dead people thing turns up a lot in fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EyeRemember (has the Robocop example listed)

[MojoJojo]

The Victorians were big on the murderer appearing on the retinas of their victims. They checked Jack the Rippers victims, and since they couldn't see anyone they concluded he must have attacked them from behind.

[jamiefairlie]

The Victorians were big on the murderer appearing on the retinas of their victims. They checked Jack the Rippers victims, and since they couldn't see anyone they concluded he must have attacked them from behind.

Thick cunts. Fuck knows how they built all them bridges.

[Gulftastic]

Thanks to Mythbusters I roll my eyes at any 'blown away' reactions to being shot. I was very disappointed in The Sopranos when Tony Blundetto went flying after he caught a bullet in the head.

[Keebleman]

In 1927 the killer or killers of PC George Gutteridge shot his eyes out.  It's often reported that this was done because the criminals believed that their faces would appear on the dead man's retinas, but as they never confessed that's just supposition.

https://www.essex.police.uk/police-forces/essex-police/areas/essex-police/au/about-us/essex-police-memorial-trust/roll-of-honour/roll-of-honour/george-william-gutteridge/

About 25 years ago I read a book which proposed that of the two men convicted only one - Kennedy - had carried out the killing, and he had hoped that by framing Browne and saying it was he who'd actually fired the shots he, Kennedy, would get a lighter sentence.  Didn't work.

[Mobius]

[Magnum Valentino]

Thick cunts. Fuck knows how they built all them bridges.

Biggest laugh of 2021 for me so far mate, thank you!

[kalowski]

In 1927 the killer or killers of PC George Gutteridge shot his eyes out.  It's often reported that this was done because the criminals believed that their faces would appear on the dead man's retinas, but as they never confessed that's just supposition.

https://www.essex.police.uk/police-forces/essex-police/areas/essex-police/au/about-us/essex-police-memorial-trust/roll-of-honour/roll-of-honour/george-william-gutteridge/

About 25 years ago I read a book which proposed that of the two men convicted only one - Kennedy - had carried out the killing, and he had hoped that by framing Browne and saying it was he who'd actually fired the shots he, Kennedy, would get a lighter sentence.  Didn't work.

"But what that Comanche believes, ain't got no eyes, he can't enter the spirit-land. Has to wander forever between the winds."

[Thomas]

Thanks to Mythbusters I roll my eyes at any 'blown away' reactions to being shot. I was very disappointed in The Sopranos when Tony Blundetto went flying after he caught a bullet in the head.

See also: characters falling unconscious after a bop on the head. I know this one inflames SMBH's ire, too. You'd think professional screenwriters might've Googled it by now.

[BlodwynPig]

*Tania Bryer leaves thread cowed*

[dissolute ocelot]

Star Trek and Spongebob Squarepants are the worst.

[Keebleman]

"But what that Comanche believes, ain't got no eyes, he can't enter the spirit-land. Has to wander forever between the winds."

John Wayne in The Searchers!  What's my prize? (Dead Comanch' eyes?)

[Rizla]

Thick cunts. Fuck knows how they built all them bridges.

They got ants to do it (when they weren't at the disco).

[Icehaven]

A film rather than a TV series but the 'logic' applied to the periodic table of the elements in Evolution always struck me as bizarre. I know nothing about science so maybe that is how it works but I don't think so.

[Blumf]

A film rather than a TV series but the 'logic' applied to the periodic table of the elements in Evolution always struck me as bizarre. I know nothing about science so maybe that is how it works but I don't think so.

It's sort of plausible, as an element's position on the Periodic Table indicate it's properties, including how they react with other elements.

[kalowski]

John Wayne in The Searchers!  What's my prize? (Dead Comanch' eyes?)

Ol' Mose's rockin' chair.

[jamiefairlie]

They got ants to do it (when they weren't at the disco).

Thanks ants for the bridges...thridges...

[jamiefairlie]

See also: characters falling unconscious after a bop on the head. I know this one inflames SMBH's ire, too. You'd think professional screenwriters might've Googled it by now.

Even worse, when they come round they're completely better and don't have brain damage. they've just been asleep for a bit.

[katzenjammer]

It's dangerous that one too. When I was a kid I think my mates and I were all pretty convinced we could punch someone in the head A team style without any serious consequences.

[Sonny_Jim]

Playing Kerbal Space Program has ruined quite a lot of sci-fi for me.  Orbits and how spaceships move through space especially.  There's a couple of TV and films where they get everything right (2001, The Expanse, The Martian, Interstellar) but then you have stuff like Armageddon that famously NASA uses it in their management training program as it gets so much wrong. 

'The Core' is a notable exception, in that it's science is completely bonkers, but it's all done in a nod-nod wink way, the ship is made out of 'unobtanium' for example.

[Butchers Blind]

That bit in a Bugs Bunny cartoon where he saves himself from a free falling elevator by stepping out just before in hits the ground.  Nonsense,

[gib]

In an episode of Elementary, Sherlock claims to have bred a new species of bee, yet the bee shown is an existing species.

[St_Eddie]

That bit in a Bugs Bunny cartoon where he saves himself from a free falling elevator by stepping out just before in hits the ground.  Nonsense,

Made all the worse for the reckless way that it encouraged real life kids to try and save themselves from a free falling elevator by stepping out just before it hits the ground.

[Blumf]

That bit in a Bugs Bunny cartoon where he saves himself from a free falling elevator by stepping out just before in hits the ground.  Nonsense,

Made me so mad, I put my foot through the TV screen and sent Mel Blanc the bill!