What the world is like in TV land:
     
     1.  If a woman is running away from someone she will trip and fall. 
     2.  Your car will always start immediately unless you are being
         chased by a maniacal killer or a monster of genetic creation.
     3.  Crazed maniacs have super-human strength. 
     4.  The suburbs are exciting.
     5.  Good guys always shoot better than bad guys. 
     6.  Good guys are always outnumbered.
     7.  Good guys always win and get the girl. 
     8.  Good guys are always good looking.
     9.  Ugly people are always bad guys.
     10. Teenagers who have sex are destined to die in grotesque ways. 
     11. There are no ugly women, only ugly men.
     12. Court cases are all solved with a suprise witness.
     13. Good guys are the only ones who have a sense of humor. 
     14. Cars will explode in all accidents.
     15. Everyone has a 'dark' secret.
     16. Cream pies are made to be thrown, never eaten. 
     17. Haunted houses are never locked.
     18. The police are smart.
     19. Good guys will only get shot in the arm or leg. 
     20. All Chinese people know Karate.
     21. Murders will always be accompanied by sinister music. 
     22. Rich people are unhappy.
     23. Teenagers are smarter than their parents. 
     24. Indians make good cannon fodder.
     25. Thunderstorms spontaneously create murders. 
     26. Computers never crash.
         a) Teenagers can access any computer by using their PC's. 
         b) Computers know everything.
         c) The same 2 keys are used to do everything.
         d) The user is typing constantly just to display screens of info
     27. When someone is dead or dying, there will be a trickle of blood
         from the corner of their mouth.
     28. No one farts, except after eating beans.
     29. Nothing cures the blues like killing 30 ot 40 bad guys.
     30. Bad guys make elaborate inventions to kill the good guys, but
         never stick around to see if it works.
     31. Christmas Eve and halloween night last for three or four days. 
     32. Movies based on true stories are made up.
     33. Police never wait for back-up.
     34. Undercover cops are too good to be spotted. 
     35. Private detective work is glamorous.
     36. All baseball games will be won with a home run in the bottom
         of the ninth and two outs.
     37. All police killings are in self-defense. 
     38. Everyone wins in Las Vegas.
     39. Good guys don't take drugs.
     40. The world is teaming with voluptuous, young women who are
         desperate to have sex with pennyless young guys.
     41. Nobody ever has trouble finding good parking spots when they
         are in a hurry.
     42. High School students look thirty years old.
     43. Women never do housework, but their homes are always clean. 
     44. Street vendor's carts are magnetically attracted to high-speed
         car chases.
     45. Everyone knows how to pick a lock with one tool.
     46. To kill a vampire, you must set out 5 min before sunset. 
     47. Nobody ever realizes until the end of a monster movie, that
         everyone that went into that dark cellar never came out.
     48. The group always splits up to look for the alien.
     49. The last 5 minutes of any TV show will explain the entire plot. 
     50. The last 5 minutes of any TV show will be stretched out for 20
         minutes with commercials.
     51. The crazed killer always steps out from behind the door without
         the victim seeing or hearing him until the he is about to drive a 
         huge carving knife or pitchfork into them.
     52. Whenever someone hears a noise in the dark they always have
         to check it out.
     53. The crazed killer always walks and still catches the person he
         wants to kill.
     54. All people chasing someone can catch up to a constant
         distance behind them quickly, but can't use that speed to actually 
         catch the person they're chasing.
     55. No one *ever* locks a car when they get out of it (even in NY).