As I thought.

You are 100% entitled to your opinion. But where Goodnight, Sweetheart is concerned, I value my own opinion somewhat more highly. The fact that millions of viewers share my opinion is, of course, incidental. Popularity merely means something is popular...

Yep. It's not Serious Science Fiction, of course (or even Serious Science Trektion™), but it's great fun.
Geraldine McNulty rules!

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"All your bias are belong to us." Ara Pacis
"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire

Some people won't bat an eyelash- if you turn green and grown antennae in front of them- let alone call the police.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

These days that would invoke the line, "DUUUUDE! I'm tweakin!"

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

In the grand top secret facility, the ductwork is big enough for a man to crawl through, no obstructions or alarms, and the grating at the other end is easily removed from the inside.

Oh yeah, and spies talk about their secrets in public restaurants where any eavesdropper could hear.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

That did happen in the Cold War, but it was always in code.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

Restaurants are great places to have private conversations, as the noise usually drowns them. It's also more difficult to predict which restaurant you'll choose for dinner, than the house you live in.

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"All your bias are belong to us." Ara Pacis
"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire

Former boyfriend stands up to protest during a wedding ceremony.

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"That's Not Blight. It's New Jersey" - The Wall Street Journal

And the bride immediately rejects her fiancee to run back to old boyfriend.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Just like in real life.

And it's presented to the audience as a good, "romantic" thing, instead of showing her as being, say, an indecisive homewrecker.

PS, the man she's marrying is always an insensitive, unsympathetic jerk so no one can feel bad for him. Making you wonder why she'd marry him.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Just imagine how the fans of those movies would react to a man doing exactly the same thing...

They seemed to like it just fine in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

While we're on weddings-in-movies clichés, how about this one: the male lead has to catch up to his love before she marries another man. If he can't make it in time before they say their vows, all will be lost. Ummm, doesn't divorce exist?

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If we don't play god, who will?-James Watson
I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.-Albert Einstein
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.-Tom Waits
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo.-Enoch Root, The Confusion
When I was a kid, if someone brandished a shrink gun he'd get a little bit of respect!-Myron Reducto, Harvey Birdman

But that race-against-time is what gives it DRAMA!

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Well yeah, but it could be years before she realises her mistake. By which time she will have changed (probably for the worse if she married the wrong one), she might have had a child or two which makes things complicated, the former boyfriend will have changed (probably for the worse as he turns cynical because he lost the love of his life), he might have got together with someone on the rebound... and so on. And they'll both be older, and will have missed out some years.

And let's compare:

Scenario 1:
Priest: "Do you, Catherine Jenkins, take Philip Smith to be your..."
Former boyfriend running into the church: "No! Catherine, I love you! Marry me instead!"
Catherine: "Hmm, I had my doubts all along and now that you've made such a bold gesture I realise where my true feelings are... Sorry Philip, Quentin is the man for me."

Scenario 2:
Priest: "Do you, Catherine Jenkins, take Philip Smith to be your lawful wedded husband?"
Catherine: "I do!"
Priest: "I pronounce you husband and wife."
Congregation: "Ahhh!"
Former boyfriend running into the church: "Sorry I'm late, the traffic was unbelievable. Anyway... No! Catherine, I love you! Marry me instead!"
Catherine: "Okay, I will initiate divorce proceedings after the honeymoon. Not! Just move on, you idiot!"

Also, don't forget that Emily Joyce is hot!

Or crazy father who was not invited.
I have only seen this in movies set in societies where devorce does not exist, or the groom-to-be is some dictator who would not allow it.
The girl still says "I do" even if she hates the guy's guts.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

She is a cutie, and she plays the only fully sane character in the whole show!

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"All your bias are belong to us." Ara Pacis
"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire

Geeks have medical conditions.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song