Top 10 Television Show Cliches
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Television, especially sitcoms are riddled with cliches. They aren’t necessarily bad, but they are still things you are going to see a hell of a lot of. Have you ever noticed how will they/won’t they storylines are really common, or that the characters always have a massive apartment regardless of income or what city they live in? So join WatchMojo as we take a look at the most common and noticeable TV tropes and cliches.

List Rank and Entries
#10. All the Drama
#9. The Hangout Spot
#8. Computer Exaggerations
#7. Token Minorities
#6. Will They / Won’t They
#5. Struggling 20Somethings with Huge Apartments
#4. Learning an Important Lesson at the End
#3, #2 & #1: ?

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10 COMMENTS

  1. The big apartment thing does work with Daredevil they explain it super cheap due the huge neon sight and Matt being blind it doesn’t bother him

  2. When #4 was shown, I really thought I’d hear one of the boys from South Park say, “You know, I’ve learned something today”.

    Or the narrator from The Twilight Zone.

  3. There is always an episode where the characters sit around and “remember” stuff that happened in the past and its filled with clips from old episodes

  4. I just watched the newest episode of Chicago PD on NBC app and they ended it on a to be continued…
    I cried!

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