{"id":214,"date":"2016-05-16T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/05\/16\/why-do-tv-characters-who-love-coffee-not-actually-drink-coffee\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:59:00","slug":"why-do-tv-characters-who-love-coffee-not-actually-drink-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/05\/16\/why-do-tv-characters-who-love-coffee-not-actually-drink-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do TV characters who love coffee not actually drink coffee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to ruin every television show you&#8217;ll watch for the next week? Look at the cups people drink coffee from.<\/p>\n<p>Critic Myles McNutt has noticed the prevalence of people drinking coffee on TV. It&#8217;s an easy way to make characters seem relatable and gives them a reason to stand around or meet together. But something has been bugging him for years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2016\/05\/10\/the_empty_cup_awards_are_here_to_raise_awareness_for_an_important_tv_issue.html\">their cups are almost always empty<\/a>. Actors gesture around with cups that should be splashing around or at least have a little weight.<\/p>\n<p>This is a common production flaw, but rather than mock it, McNutt uses it to make a point about the challenging nature of film production. Filling prop cups with liquid could be a nightmare if they spill, especially if they contain real coffee. In <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2016\/04\/big-budget-independent-television-is.html\">the often tightly budgeted world of television<\/a> especially, having a realistic Starbucks cup is the lowest priority item.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to play along at home, McNutt started <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23EmptyCupAwards&amp;src=typd\">#EmptyCupAwards<\/a> for people similarly annoyed by this. Just don&#8217;t get sucked down a black hole of noticing every production shortcut.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to ruin every television show you&#8217;ll watch for the next week? Look at the cups people drink coffee from. Critic Myles McNutt has noticed the prevalence of people drinking coffee on TV. It&#8217;s an easy way to make characters seem relatable and gives them a reason to stand around or meet together. But something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[130,212,377],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-film-production","tag-links-of-interest","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}