How long it takes to get anywhere.
They manage to cross major cities in mins when the reality is 1-2 hours during regular traffic. Or they just fly somewhere else and are there a few hours later. You can’t even get through airport security in the time it took them to drive there, fly and then drive to the next location.
Leave It to Beaver
There was an episode of X-Files that dealt with the Jersey Devil. At one point it shows they are at “the outskirts of Atlantic city” and show it as the Pine Barrens.
That’s not the outskirts of Atlantic city. The outskirts? You mean the ocean? You mean the Black Horse Pike?? You mean fucking Ventnor??? Pine Barrens are further inland!
Team America: World Police depicts the main characters as both nationalistic and kinky. Nationalists are vanilla.
In the 90s show “Twin Peaks” the intro showed a sign saying “population 52,201”, but in the show itself everyone in town knew each other and the town itself was the size of a small village, with one diner, a few cops, and no infrastructure apart from the logging industry. It would have been more realistic to have the sign say the population was in the hundreds or maybe 1000 at most.
Source: I grew up in a small town with a population of about 1100 people and it was several times larger than Twin Peaks in area, and even with that small number of people it was rare to bump into more than a couple of acquaintances in a week’s time.
