I recreated all my favourite TV tropes, from crawling through pipes to being two kids in a trenchcoat

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TV tropes told Amelia Tait that life would be spent crawling through ventilation shafts and avoiding quicksand. The reality was very different… until nowWhen I was old enough to know better but young ...

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My young mind could not fully grasp the distinction between cartoon physics and real physics. This is all to say: television lies. We turned it on after school and trusted it with five, six, sometimes even seven, uninterrupted hours of our time, and all we got in return was untruth after untruth after untruth. Television told us that when we grew up, we would frequently go for breakfast with our friends before work; it told us said friends would live in vast, affordable apartments right across the hall.TV also made us think we’d get stuck in quicksand regularly; that the only way to declare our love was by running through airport security; that we could get knocked out cold and not require immediate medical attention. There are, in fact, numerous, things that happen on TV that almost never happen in the real world. But then again, why not? Why not step outside the box? I decided to do just that, spending a month bringing as many TV tropes to life as I could. John McClane famously utilised ventilation shafts in Die Hard…Now Amelia Tait has too…TV TROPE: CRAWLING THROUGH VENTSYou cannot crawl through vents like an action hero in real life, because when you reach a bend, you will find it’s equipped with big bits of metal called vanes and dampers that control the flow of air. Not only this, but many ducts are also fitted with “burglar bars” that prevent people from climbing around inside. I learned this after emailing 17 ductwork suppliers and manufacturers to ask if I could crawl around in their vents – just one replied. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNews Updates\nStay ahead with our three daily briefings delivering all the key market moves, top business and political stories, and incisive analysis straight to your inbox.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe heroes at Southern Ductwork in Bracknell responded with astounding equanimity and grace to my request. Extremely game to help me bring a TV trope to life, they set up some ductwork on the ground outside their factory – sans the tricky metal-filled bends that would trap me inside forever. They even had a lighter available so I could cosplay as Bruce Willis. I have never and will never meet better men. So, what is it like crawling through big metal ducts? At first – as you might imagine – it is quite claustrophobic and mildly frightening. But quickly, the space came to feel cosy, even oddly calm. It would be a lie to say I could’ve stayed in there all day – but TV lies so why can’t I? TV TROPE: DRINKING FROM AN EMPTY COFFEE CUPHave you ever noticed how whenever anyone drinks takeaway coffee on TV, their cup is always very obviously empty? Sure, this is so production can avoid messy spills and tricky continuity errors, but I prefer to imagine that people in TV-world drink air. So, for one afternoon, that’s exactly what I did.I offered to pay, but the kind man in Costa gave me a cup for free. I thought I was on my way to meet a friend in the park but, mortifyingly, she already had three other friends with her when me and my cup arrived. I could see one of them eyeing my drink suspiciously and felt the kind of embarrassment I hadn’t felt since my trousers had fallen down while crawling through some ducts. It was apparent that my friend’s friend was wondering why my cup was so pristine – why it was clearly empty but also clearly unused. I did not enlighten him, for I felt ashamed. The cast of Friends having breakfast togetherAnd Amelia with her friends doing the same thing for the first time everTV TROPE: HAVING BREAKFAST WITH FRIENDS BEFORE WORKIt took an entire month to organise a breakfast date with five of my most morning-person people, and by the time the morning in question arrived, only three of us made it. One friend flaked because she was heavily pregnant and was giving birth in a week – I don’t recall that stopping Phoebe or Rachel. Another friend had to drop her daughter off at nursery, but again, Ross left Ben to fend for himself.\n\nWhile the Friends-friends had the conveniently located Central Perk to catch-up in before heading off to a busy day, finding somewhere central to host all of my pals proved extremely tricky. One poor friend had to wake up at 6:20am and take two tubes and a train to get to our 8am breakfast date, and alas, there wasn’t even a comfy orange sofa for her to slump into when she arrived.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":false,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"}}}