so you trying to eat god huh i gotta eat
god whoopee see i made this deal with my
wife if i don't eat god then i can't
have another kid welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 unrealistic sitcom
storylines hello blessed be the fruit
baby fish cop you watch that show watch
what that's my pick-up line for this
list we'll be looking at far-fetched
contrived and borderline fantastical
plots from sitcoms that take place in
universes resembling reality we're
excluding sitcoms where things like
magic time travel and mothers
reincarnated into cars are per the norm
number 10 reese joins the army malcolm
in the middle malcolm in the middle was
always more surreal than the average
family sitcom but we have an especially
hard time buying that a teenager as
dense as reese could trick the us army
into believing he's old enough to enlist
welcome to the us army your home for the
next three years
you will proceed single file on the
yellow stripe to the processing facility
do not overwork your tiny little brains
trying to figure out what the other
stripes are for proving to be a model
soldier rhys is sent to afghanistan
where he goes on the run posing as a
woman and even getting wetted off rhys
makes it to india where his mother
miraculously tracks him down
mom
thank you so much there you are
what in the name of god were you
thinking
rhys faces no repercussions for lying to
and deserting the army likewise the army
isn't held accountable for any of this
everything just goes back to normal and
by normal we mean the boys dropping
diaper balloon bombs upon unsuspecting
rapping grannies
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number nine the apartment switch friends
in season four rachel and monica are
forced to switch apartments with joey
and chandler after losing a bet
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apartment switching isn't like trading
lunches however for a switch like this
to occur an apartment lease transfer is
required this usually entails consulting
one's landlord who monica and rachel
have been dodging
why because they've been illegally
subletting the rent control department
in monica's grandma's name they said
that he wasn't gonna apologize because
you guys are living here illegally so
instead what he's gonna do is have you
evicted i'll see you later
we guess that's why they don't involve
the landlord but wouldn't some red flags
be raised if joey and chandler started
paying the rent for nana's apartment for
that matter is the rent the same for
both apartments well it doesn't really
matter since monica and rachel switch
everything back several episodes later
what the hell is going on
we took our apartment back
i had nothing to do with it
seriously they moved everything in one
night number eight the heists brooklyn
nine-nine usually taking place on
halloween the heist episodes are among
the sitcoms most memorable with each
heist however the nine-nine pushes the
limits of realism rosa's feline dancing
distracted you as a mysterious party or
stole your badge on
halloween
it was you in the mask you sly son of a
well done given how immature and
competitive the characters can be we can
see why they'd make heists an annual
tradition we have a harder time
believing that so many others would get
involved including a party bus of people
and a group dressed as characters from
the handmaid's tale
handmaid's tale this is amy she won't
shut up about how relevant that show is
in today's political landscape it's
relevant as hell but i'm not doing
anything exactly how are they paying for
their helpers costumes and mission
impossible spy gear anyway is it all out
of their pockets on government salaries
or is this our tax dollars at work their
only purpose was to draw you into the
copy room while two members of my team
broke into your locked office so now i
had a way into your office
and an open cabinet you'd also think
that a higher up would catch wind of
these heists especially after property
is damaged number seven michael scott
paper company the office michael scott
can be a surprisingly persuasive
salesperson but he's not very good at
the business side of well business yet
he launches the michael scott paper
company with pam who has no sales
experience and ryan who doesn't have the
best sales track record if you like to
come to work for the michael scott paper
company
what size shoes you guys i have nine
what are those men's ten no
look what he's doing what is he doing
he's stealing him okay okay he's already
paying for himself since michael can't
even get his grandma to invest it's not
surprising that the company verges on
going broke within weeks what is
surprising is that michael's company
does well enough to take business away
from dunder mifflin in the last month we
have lost 10 major clients to michael
scott what are we supposed to do they
keep undercutting us on prizes i don't
want to hear excuses i want to see
improvements this is unacceptable this
results in dunder mifflin offering the
four-week old paper company 60 000
before ultimately rehiring its three
employees including ryan who got
arrested for committing fraud as vice
president these are our demands this is
what we want
our balls are in your court
okay
deal getting back to the status quo
comes with a tough pill to swallow
number six hand bitten off by a seal
arrested development whenever we
re-watch arrested development we always
catch ingenious details that we missed
before for example at a claw machine
buster wins a toy seal foreshadowing
that a seal is going to bite off his
hand in a later
episode watch out for lucille i don't
know
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and then a seal bites off his hand as
clever as this is it's over the top even
by arrested development standards things
only get more ridiculous when it's
revealed that the seal coincidentally
belonged to job who gave the sea
creature a taste from mammal blood by
using terminal cats for bait it's my
fault it was my seal i released him and
he bit off your hand
wow truth feels good
you did this to me
yeah
and job was about to experience
something that didn't feel that good
also we know that the bluths have fallen
on hard times but we'd imagine they'd be
able to afford something better than a
hook for a prosthetic sure buster
eventually gets a bionic hand but why
would they make one that big in the
cabinet please
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oh
too hard number five the trial seinfeld
although jerry has a cell phone the gang
does nothing to help when they witness a
carjacking in massachusetts well there
goes the money for the lipo
see the great thing about robbing a fat
guy is it's an easy getaway you know
they can't really chase you
it's actually doing them a favor it's
less money from buy food
breaking the good samaritan law the four
are arrested and put on trial in
addition to eyewitnesses the district
attorney's office somehow manages to
track down several familiar faces who
testify against them this includes the
soup nazi who moved to argentina and
babu who got deported to pakistan now it
is babu's turn to mock finally i will
have some justice
send them away send them all away lock
them up forever while duty-to-rescue
laws exist they rarely result in this
much fanfare we don't think that a city
would dedicate this much time money and
resources to making an example out of
four people for this especially when
they technically did help i am shocked
and chagrined
mortified and stupefied this trial is
outrageous
it is a waste of the taxpayers time and
money kramer recorded a video of the
carjacker which could be used to
identify him number four santa is real
gilligan's island granted gilligan's
island might have been a bit more
outlandish than the average sitcom that
said getting stranded on an uncharted
island isn't outside the realm of
possibility santa claus showing up on
the island is another story oh merry
christmas to you all well thank you
santa but would you care to tell us what
we have to be mad about it's christmas
and to raise morale the skipper
seemingly dresses as santa when the real
skipper suddenly shows up though it's
strongly suggested that the castaways
just encountered santa himself so let's
get this straight is everybody looking
at
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what's everybody looking at
santa is not only real but he looks
exactly like skipper with a white beard
what's more santa could have rescued the
castaways by giving them a ride in his
sleigh and instead left them to rot
you'll never believe it skipper
merry christmas
merry christmas gilligan thank you
merry christmas whether they were on the
naughty or nice list that's a pretty
sadistic move saint nick number three
miley's secret identity hannah montana
with most of the entries on this list
it's only an episode or story arc that
goes overboard with hannah montana the
entire premise is beyond preposterous on
the surface miley stewart is an average
middle schooler behind the scenes though
she's pop sensation hannah montana
whoever you are you have to get out of
here right now i'll call security how
does miley conceal her true identity
does she wear a mask like daft punk no
she wears a blonde wig with no other
changes whatsoever though we told each
other everything
but i guess i was wrong since you kept
just about the biggest secret in the
world miley stewart slash hannah montana
miley is otherwise identical to hannah
but most of her peers failed to notice
the resemblance people also don't
realize that hannah's manager looks just
like country singer robbie ray only with
a fake mustache and while you're at it
you might want to shave the ferret off
your face
we know that it's a disney channel
sitcom but this makes that so raven look
like a documentary number two jumping
the shark happy days we've all heard of
jumping the shark but where does this
saying come from well the phrase
originated from radio personality john
hein in 1985. the inspiration comes from
a season 5 episode of happy days that
aired in 1977. while shark jumping has
since taken on many different forms the
original case is quite literal on a trip
to hollywood fonzie is challenged to
water ski over a tiger shark shark that
is the stupidest thing i've ever heard
stupid yes all so dumb but it's
something i gotta do fonzie's competitor
who seriously goes by the california kid
chickens out the fonz isn't one to back
down though pulling off the stunt while
wearing his signature leather jacket and
swim trunks that leave little to the
imagination
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it's totally surreal and arguably when
the show declined what's next robin
williams as an alien wait a minute who
are you i am mark flatmart
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number one steve's various inventions
family matters family matters was a
fairly straightforward sitcom until
steve urkel entered the equation
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the show officially leaps into sci-fi
fantasy territory when steve develops a
cool elixir that turns him into the
suave stefan erkel steve later invents a
transformation chamber that not only
turns himself into stefan but bruce lee
and elvis as well
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this isn't even the most logic defying
invention in steve's inventory over the
years he also cooks up a cloning machine
a teleportation device that takes the
family to paris and a time travel watch
that takes him aboard an 18th century
pirate ship one invention even results
in nasa sending steve to space
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steve should be a billionaire with his
engineering skills but for some reason
still lives with the winslows do you
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