How come, when the hero gets an anonymous call saying

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

"Turn on the TV, now"

He knows what channel the cryptic caller means? Aren't there a gazillion different news channels?

[skygazer]

1. And how come

When the hero chokes the bad guy unconscious or knocks him out, they ALWAYS turn their back on them, giving said bad guy a chance to come to and attack again?

[gtp1976]

3. And How Come

Probably so the bad guy can later have the good guy all but defeated, but rather than just pulling the trigger and winning he decides to explain why and how he did everything giving the good guy the extra time he needs for his plan to come together and wind up winning. Man, that was one hell of a run on sentence.

[zbdent]

5. And how come the villain always spills his entire plan

allowing the hero enough time to stop it?

(Exception: Ozymadius in "The Watchmen" comic book)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Siskel and Ebert called that "the talking killer" shtick

in their wonderful program about movie cliches.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. SPOILER ALERT: Another cliche in Minority Report

The hero confides his doubts and fears to an old friend--who turns out to be one of the bad guys.

[LoZoccolo]

2. I'm glad you asked that.

I know that if someone says that, it must be so important that it's on every channel.

Does anyone else have any questions for me?

[realisticphish]

4. and just once

i want it to be an episode of "The Brady Bunch" that appears on the heros tv. just for wierdness' sake.


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[baldguy]

6. And whenever a young woman is home alone

at night in a dark house - she hears a knock on the fron door. Everyone KNOWs the killer is at the door, and you tell at the screen "DON'T OPEN THE DOOR! DON'T OPEN THE DOOR!"

But she opens it ANYWAY and gets killed!

[ismnotwasm]

7. How come

It's the woman who always falls down when running away from the bad guy?

[underpants]

10. And how come

it is always the "slutty" or "lose" woman/young girl who gets killed first?