Breakfast Buffet

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Actors have to do several takes and if they eat in the shot, they have to eat in every shot. A lot of young actors who don't know often learn this very early in their career to never eat the food because they will forever be sick of it.

I think it was Zach Braff that mostly chose to have soup on the Scrubs set for this reason! And if I remember correctly Donald Faison never learned that lesson

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I can’t believe Frosted Flakes was legal to sell and advertise to kids with a mascot.

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And a sugar rush from the oj

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You will likely not notice this unless you happen to be very hungry when it happens; then it will drive you up the wall.

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I had them.

On Saturdays.

ElectricMachman

Flying Squid

Frosted Flakes is savory compared to some of those other cereals. Froot Loops is like just pouring a sack of sugar in your mouth. It also has a mascot and, unlike Frosted Flakes, it comes in lots of fun colors to appeal to kids.

And all of this is legal.

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Or... Should I finish the box? I ate the five of them, seems weird to just let the sixth one sit here.

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Focus groups show that the audience gets confused by the word "goodbye" and think the movie is over and leave.

They kept getting bad reviews about how the movie was only 37 minutes long and had an unsatisfying story arc.

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I can see she is holding 7 flapjacks with a pad of butter. I am going to assume the yellow is a eggs. Glass of milk and OJ on the table. The dad has more flapjacks with bacon and eggs. What is the orange stuff in the kids plate and what are the multi-colored things in the bowl?

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The multi-colored stuff is probably cereal.

The yellow could be homefries (cubed potato's), oatmeal, corn flakes, or a big bowl of butter.

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make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening

In others words "assume the viewer is too stupid to understand up cereal + day light + kitchen + after night time scene = breakfast."

That's one issue I have with a lot of newer shows and movies. Yes the older ones were guilty of it too, but now it feels like we're being spoonfed every detail. "Did you catch the foreshadowing?? Here lets play it 3 times in slow motion, zoom in on it, and have a character say "oh look, that might be important later""

Buglefingers

See, the neat part was it was a complete breakfast without the cereal too!

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I was thinking cut up fruit for the multicolor given the heaped nature, but I also considered cereal.

Cid Vicious

It's outdated shorthand for "look! she's a good mom!"

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The just leaving it without taking so much as a bite like it's no big deal is as hard for me to believe as the ahead itself. On the face of it, it shouldn't be, after all it's entirely plausible and narratively sensible that the character doesn't have time and technically it only reinforces the ludicrousness of the giant meal on a weekday morning but, if I was late in the morning but also someone had cooked me pancakes and bacon and eggs with orange juice and coffee and all these cafe breakfast dishes altogether on the table like that then work is just going to have to wait. I'm not spurning pancakes for anything.

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For most shots, multiple shots can't be avoided.

You have to get coverage of the principal actors and unless they are all facing the same way, you always have to get shots in one direction and one shot the other direction.

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The fact that it's daytime outside always bothered me too. My parents were always rushing us out the door before the sun was up. Maybe in the spring but even then it wasn't full daylight outside like in these scenes.

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

Can't they do that with multiple cameras and save time?

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When they can, they do. But it's not always possible.