why tv might not be funny

Tv and movies have some very exciting and unintentionally hilarious physics errors. One of my favorites is in Speed, where they jumped a bus over a break in a freeway ramp. Without all the work the stunt guys put into that, the bus would have made a nice parabolic arc and hit the ground, smack. It makes me laugh every time I see it. And don't get me started on Jack Bauer testing a suicide cord by shorting it last season on 24.

So here's a little background on a different topic brought up by tv recently: I got sick from stachybotrys mold, and we 'moldies' call it stachy ('stacky') because we're so familiar with it that it needs a nickname.

The reason this is important is that I finally watched the season finale of Fox's Prison Break, and they knew enough to know that stachy is bad, but they pronounced it all wrong. I recognize I have good reason to know about mold, and I'm not dumb, but for heaven's sake, couldn't they have looked it up in the dictionary?

What I learned here is that physics mistakes are funny, but mold just isn't.

Also on Prison Break, they had a weird discussion of AC vs. DC for electric chairs that I can't remember, which means that it didn't make any sense, so that's not funny either. I don't know about that show.