10 Biggest TV Show Blunders Ever

4. Weird Webcam Eyelines - The Big Bang Theory

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For a show about such brainy fellas, The Big Bang Theory is a series you really need to turn your brain off in order to enjoy. Otherwise, you won't stop noticing bizarre blunders like this.

You may notice that, whenever a character on the show is talking through a webcam, they align their eyes and face as if they are in the room with the people they are talking to. If someone is standing to the right of the screen, for example, the person on screen will turn to the right to talk to them.

If you think about the logistics of this for a split second, you'll realise it makes no sense whatsoever. If you are chatting via webcam and you turn your head to the right, you won't see the person on the right of the other screen - you'll see the right side of the room you're sitting in. Unless you've got your eyes on the screen, you are not looking at the people you're talking to: you're staring into space. And frankly, that's just rude.

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Jimmy Kavanagh is an Irish writer and co-founder of Club Valentine Comedy, a Dublin-based comedy collective. You can hear him talk to his favourite comedians about their favourite comics on his podcast, Comics Swapping Comics.