Currently watching an episode of Good Luck Charlie. PJ says that a girl he’s dating told him that her mom used to know his dad. PJ tells his parents this and Bob says she was the last girl he dated before Amy. Amy gets upset for absolutely no accountable reason. He hasn’t been talking to this woman or even thinking about her, much less doing anything romantic with her. How dare he have dated other girls before Amy. How dare he not have just waited around for her his whole life. How dare the women he dated not retroactively disappear from existence. To be fair this is Amy Duncan, the irrational drama queen. Sidenote, I’m pretty sure the actress is MAGA and currently does conservative kids shows.
I have been thinking about this one (and actually a bunch of other similar BS tropes) recently… I have remembered a bunch of times people in real life have taken these tropes in as “life rules” and started to behave by them after seeing these on tv or movies. It is really, really weird. Not just this dating thing, but like anything from wearing same or even just similar clothes for two days in row, that’s no way an issue in real life with sane people. But some people see a character react that way in a made-up tv show and suddenly start repeating it in real life?
It’s almost like we’re social mammals and learn all our behaviors by watching, copying, and reacting to each other…
Sure but maybe we should learn from somewhere else than tv shows mixed with advertisements.
Sounds reasonable. But that is probably the problem with your take. 😉