Verb: To fail to suspend disbelief about (and complain about) small details of a fictional piece, while ignoring larger impossible issues.
Noun: the item complained about
While watching Pinocchio and accepting that fairies can turn puppets into human boys: "Oh come on! Cleo the fish would die in that ocean! Goldfish are freshwater fish!"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)