Things you see on TV but never IRL

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Just once I'd like to see someone try to insert that cheesy, horrible music they have in reality shows into a real-life argument. Imagine some guy just starting up a boombox and narrating the conflict.

Another thing I see in reality shows such as Hell's Kitchen is these really bizarre reactions the actors have to certain stimuli; neck-jerking, facial tics, overdone expressions that you never see from anyone in real life. Most likely a result of deceptive editing where they take a shot of the expression and then insert it after a climactic line to make it look like their real reaction. 'Judge Judy' does this constantly in its commercial bumpers (Judy: "Bla bla bla bla bla blah?!?!", cue shot of defendant making weird gesture or staring blankly at her) and it DROVE ME INSANE, because when the show came back on after the commercial and you saw the actual scene, the defendant didn't react that way at all.

Is this kind of contempt for the viewers' intelligence unique to FOX, or do all the reality shows do it now?

I would really like to have had Richard Kiley [RIP] narrate my life [on a bed of swelling and receding dramatic music] as I lived it. but of course that is not realistic.

Young, voluptuous nurses wearing their hair long and loose, and wearing too tight, too short, and too low-cut uniforms, and behaving in a completely unprofessional manner.

IRL, nurses are not there to be physically appealing, nor are they there to dress like nurse-fetish call-girls. All of the nurses that have ever taken care of me have dressed and behaved in the most professional manner, completely unlike those tarts on TV ...

... Darn it!

you never see people have to hold in their farts, and gingerly padding about in agony at the trapped gas until they get a chance to let it out. you never see people use toilet plungers after clogging their toilets. the residents of the tv universe are free of these concerns.