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Here's a few snippets from a website that's stood beside me during my painful hours of boredom during holiday season. This is actually e-mail forward material, but what the heck...

Here are a few movie cliches

For the female teenagers there is only one way to go; they find a new friend (odd girl, dance teacher, old lady) who transform them into Cinderella. So she first gets attracted by the school´s Idiot (seen from the sight of an adult: football star, best looking bully, is barely able to read or write) but later chooses the friendly, shy guy that she got to know on her first day, all are happy, the end.

Whenever the main hero is about to confess something important to another character (usually a love interest) they both have something to say. The hero lets the other person go first, and whatever they say makes the hero not want to say what he was about to say. When asked what they were going to say, they say something unimportant like "Nice dress".

People never get hickups , sneeze, or cough during movies.

Everyone wears their shoes on inside the house.

Teens are always confronted by their lover/crush/friend the EXACT moment they open their locker.

The Eiffel tower is perfectly visible from any window in Paris.

Enemies are very inaccurate when it comes to firing a gun.

Throwing spitballs and passing notes are the ONLY two forms of amusement in a classroom when it comes to movies.

Clapping finales in the movies often follow the same rules. First, there will be complete silence after the hero accomplishes a task or gives an inspiring speech. Second, one solitary person (this is often someone who means a great deal to the hero. The hero might have even had relationship problems with this person) will begin to clap slowly and rhythmically. Third, the solitary clapper is slowly joined by another...and then another...and then another clapper until ultimately everyone is clapping for the hero. ex. Cool Runnings, Strictly Ballroom, Can't Buy Me Love, etc.

The president/leader of any organization will be in a swivel chair. You will start talking to them, and only when you enrage them will they turn around.