43 Laughably Fake Movie And TV Moments

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10-06-2025

Recently, Reddit user Behind_Th3_8_Ball asked about props that ruined a movie, and a bunch of people chimed in with the wildly fake movie moments that always bother them. Here are 43 fake-looking things from movies that I can't believe made it onto the screen.
This garbage can from Independence Day, which literally says "art department" on it:
Suggested by u/Namtab666
This extremely obvious fake baby from American Sniper:
And the baby that appears on the ceiling in Mark's dream in Trainpotting (yes, it's supposed to be creepy, but STILL):
Suggested by u/Significant_Fuel5944
Also, the fake baby in this Malcolm in the Middle scene:
Suggested by u/plainandawesome
Anytime characters in post apocalyptic movies and shows, especially women, have perfect hair...like Dina in The Last Of Us:
And Karen from The Grudge 2:
When an FBI agent uses Excel to hack a nuclear weapon in Unthinkable — and you can also see a movie script pulled up:
Suggested by u/HalfACupkake
When you can see that a character's not actually on the phone, like in this scene from The Boys...:
Even worse, when the character's on a different app, like Abby in this NCIS scene.
Suggested by u/Foxterriers
Similarly, when characters text using a non-messaging app, like in School of Rock, when an audience member "texts" someone using a blank document:
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Wildly fake video game-playing moments, like this one from Rumble in the Bronx...:
...And this one from Malcolm in the Middle...:
...And the "controller acting" from Anora, where this character just mashes buttons indiscriminately:
This costume from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles scene, where you can clearly see the person inside:
Suggested by u/SlipTheSlime
Whenever actors drink from clearly empty coffee cups, like during the stakeout scenes of Law & Order...:
...And on Gilmore Girls, where the characers keep gesturing while holding cups that are clearly empty:
Qui-Gon's communicator from The Phantom Menace, which is obviously a Gillette Razor:
And Anakin's backpack from the same film, which looked like the backpack every other kid had at the time:
Speaking of The Phantom Menace — when you could tell this guy in the background was DEFINITELY not Samuel L. Jackson:
Suggested by u/colinaclark
The obvious mannequin used in this stunt from Wonder Woman 1984:
Similarly, the wildly fake dummy from the car explosion in Casino:
Here it is in a slowed-down GIF, so you can see how bad it is.
The badly photoshopped family photo in Twin Peaks: The Return:
This obviously fake stalactite from The Lord of the Rings:
Suggested by u/IljaMaran
Also from The Lord of the Rings, when this extra is clearly using imaginary arrows:
Suggested by u/AnalysisMoney
This stunt from The Fugitive, where it's clearly a dummy and not Harrison Ford:
Check it out in GIF format here:
The toilet seat from Liar Liar, which you can tell is made out of foam:
Suggested by u/heidismiles
The game of hackey sack going on with no hackey sack in this scene from Twilight:
Suggested by u/Charlie4774
Everything about Bond making espresso in this scene from Live and Let Die:
The way Steven Seagal holds a gun in Sniper Special Ops:
Anytime a character fits through the air ducts, like this scene from Die Hard:
The eggs from Batman V Superman:
The uncanny valley CGI Renesmee from Breaking Dawn:
The fake prop toilet from Boondock Saints:
When Wash wasn't even holding onto the wheel in Firefly:
Similarly, when Brian pulls at a brake that isn't there in 2 Fast 2 Furious:
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And also Antonio Banderas just miming moving imaginary controls in this scene from Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams:
Suggested by u/Chair_Last
This moment in D2: The Mighty Ducks when you can tell the background extras are actually just cardboard cutouts:
Suggested by u/LisleSwanson
Speaking of cardboard cutouts — these fake books behind Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
Suggested by u/Oldspice_DentalFloss
This scene from Men in Black where Zed and K are only pretending to type in the background:
Suggested by u/MyNameGifOreilly
Zoro's bending scabbard from One Piece:
Suggested by u/MikeFleezy
This "metal" rod from the show Dark, which moves:
Suggested by u/AjemMirumilovny
This man's photo in Smallville, which is very obviously glued/taped on rather than printed as a part of the newspaper:
Suggested by u/ArtisanGerard
And finally...the coffee cup in Game of Thrones:
What wildly fake or unrealistic moment or item took you out of a film or TV show? Let us know in the comments.