AMONGST THE FLAMES — I have no doubt we've all done it. We're watching a movie or TV show and they're doing something that we personally know really well.

Maybe you're a dancer and this person is supposed to be a prima ballerina and you're thinking, "Nope. No way." Maybe you pitched in college and watch an actor try to throw a fastball and you can't help but laugh.

The one that always gets me is when they show newsrooms in TV and movies. I spent several years working in a newsroom day-in and day-out. Whenever I see it on TV I think to myself, "How could they get this so wrong? I mean, just ask someone. Anyone who has worked in news could tell you that a reporter in a small town doesn't have his or her own personal camera person or a field producer! They're likely shooting everything by themselves and writing the story on their smartphone in the back of their Accord that has more McDonald's wrappers on the floor than they'd like to admit."

Turns out Hollywood doesn't always get firefighting right either.

The YouTube channel "Fire Department Chronicles" takes a scene from ABC's "Station 19" and points out all the things it got wrong. Like, got really wrong. The guy in the video actually green-screens himself into the show and keeps letting them know how the actors are putting people in danger, letting the fire burn out of control and keep missing the much easier and safer options right under their noses.

It's pretty funny to watch and while we didn't think of most of these things; when they're pointed out it's pretty obvious.

So next time I see an actor eating potato chips on their couch watching TV, I think I'm going to make a YouTube series pointing out how Hollywood doesn't know the correct form of the perfect chip dip while changing the channel.

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