10 Most Over-Used Romantic Comedy Plot-Points

5. The 'Non-Fixably Fixable Miscommunication'

An absolutely contrived, clunky plot complication will arise at the exact moment that said Boy and Girl are about to connect that will force them apart and thus push the film€™s running time safely into the area of €œfeature motion picture€ and away from the under sixty minute mark labelled €œTV pilot€. Said complication could be easily quashed with something as simple as reasonable communication but this is never the case. I repeat, NEVER! There's always the horrible cliche of Character A having Character B walk in on them at an inopportune moment, misunderstand what is going on and walk out. They always say something stupid or, most commonly, let Character B run away distressed whilst they sigh / shake their head / place their hand on their hip whilst doing the first two. This (without fail) symbolises the end of Act II. Actually stopping Character B and just sensibly explaining the misperception or miscommunication CANNOT be allowed to happen. It's like the 'crossing-the-streams' / 'pushing the red button' of romantic comedies - If they do that then this is a two act sixty-minute movie. No. No. No. If you allowed sense and immediate logical solution(s) to come into play then you would be stopped from having...