Below is a list compiled of extremely important things learned from the movies:

• Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people - whether they are employed or not.
  
• Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications system of any invading alien society.
  
• It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
  
• When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
  
• If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.
  
• Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.
  
• During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
  
• All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.
  
• All grocery shopping bags contain at least one loaf of French bread.
  
• You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
  
• The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
  
• A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
  
• If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
  
• If staying in a haunted house, women will always investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
  
• Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say: Enter Password Now.
  
• Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few seconds.
  
• All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red read-outs so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
  
• A detective can solve a case only after he has been suspended from duty.
  
• If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.
  
• Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.
  
• When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English.