Why is it always raining when people break up?

Or when they have their first embrace?

Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?

I'll tell you one other thing that bugs me and is totally overused. You know that rising screech that they use to build tension, usually at the end of an episode or season? It goes up and up and up and then cuts off. Every bloody show uses it!

Haha, yes! And trailers for movies too.

When "nerdy"/outcast girls turn out to be super hot princesses just by taking off their glasses.

Bitch, please.

AND taking down their hair, which always fans out in a cascade of perfectly-formed blonde, black or brown....

I am going to make note of this thread as I write my pilot.

Note of things to avoid or add?

Things to avoid, or at the very least spin and then lampshade.