Do we really want to watch people brush their teeth?

I’d certainly rather have the bathroom scenes than the bedroom ones! Why do we have to see what’s going on? I’m no prude but I really don’t want to see anything jiggy thanks. Just turn the light off and move on with the story.

Chestnut

What puzzles me is how they can walk around chatting while cleaning their teeth. I am pouring toothpaste everywhere and have to stand over the washbasin. Maybe that's just me.

That was one of the things that drove me mad about my ex, he’d walk into the bedroom, talking and dribbling toothpaste all over the carpet and it’s a nightmare to get the marks out.

Sitting on the toilet - why oh why do we have to see this. Many time the actors will be sitting around the table but nobody eats.

My pet hate at the moment is people chopping carrots!! They never cook anything just chop carrots!

i dont mind it at all, I mean the actors are portraying people and people do all of those things. I think its funny that no-one said oh we hate to see the hugging or the sexy bits but have a problem with bathroom bits.

Are they trying to send us a message we don’t need?

Too often the 'heroine' of a film will find she is pregnant,
doesn't want anyone to know and puts the pregnancy test in
the bin - Jennifer Aniston in friends for one springs to mind.
They never stash it away secretly obviously the plot can't
unfold if they did!

Can't say that seeing them brush their teeth bothers me in the slightest. People eat, vomit, clean their teeth and have rampant sex (occasionally) all part of life. Depends if it is relevant to the program. But then again I love a good old late night horror movie and so I suppose cleaning teeth does not come up too often - unless it is a modern version of Dracula I suppose.

Ro60 I completely agree with the eating and Gemma in Corrie chewing, I have to go out of the room! And when did people stop using a knife and fork properly? Come dine with me....I can't watch it

When films were a new venture here in Denmark, my grandmother said people were often shown cleaning their teeth or washing their faces, or hands. This was thought to encourage good hygiene.

She objected to this, which fails to surprise any of us.

I object to seeing any young woman who according to the story-line is supposed to be newly pregnant, being sick into the toilet bowl! Or sitting on the toilet waiting for a pregnancy test to turn the appropriate colour.

Surely her delight or consternation could be expressed outside the bathroom?

The thing that really annoys me in TV and film from all over the world, is the number of people who go out to a parked car at night, and get into it and switch their headlights on BEFORE starting the engine. When I learned to drive over 50 years ago we were always told to start the engine before switching the lights on as having the headlights on while starting the engine could consume too much electricity and the battery could be flattened before the engine started!

In the Pursuit of Love on Sunday evenings, two characters actually ate some food and had to chew and swallow before saying their lines! Normally, when food appears on film, people just seem to wave forks over it!

It fills in air time.

I’m not overly bothered about the teeth brushing or even the sitting on the loo but like rockgran I really hate it when soap and other drama characters walk away from a plate of food or have it put in front of them and it gets pushed away because they ‘aren’t hungry’. Such a bad example and hard to watch for hungry people who can’t afford such food. In Eastenders, which I’ve long given up on, they would walk out of the pub leaving a nearly full glass of alcohol. Who does that!

I don’t like to see teeth cleaning, peeing or any other bathroom activity. It adds nothing to the production

I first noticed this in "Better Call Saul"! and that was a while ago..

Loooool!!!!

I don't see any problem with any of it

Maybe the script writers or directors do it as a joke , just to see if an actor can actually say their lines when they have a mouthful of toothpaste ?
Eating on tv ? You should watch the Aussie soaps - they order food that no one ever eats!
What a choice of takeaways too - pizza or pizza!!!

Eating /teeth cleaning not bothered, sitting or standing up to have a pee I do not want to see.

Totally agree. We don’t need to see brushing teeth, peeing or vomiting. Eew!

Even worse they show women sitting on the toilet. That is cringworthy.

Littleannie - exactly this. Why oh why oh why do we need to see people vomiting. It can be portrayed in a way that doesn't necessitate the actor spitting out scotch broth.

It is disgusting.

I could also live without the audio accompaniment

It annoys me

Even worse is when they show people vomiting!