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00:00Whether the stars involved were trying their best to keep from legitimately going up in flames and
00:04producing comedy magic in the process, or messing up lines to the point of creating a moment far
00:09more effective than the one previously printed out in the script, the directors behind these
00:13scenes simply had no choice but to immortalise these particular TV clangors due to the performances
00:18on show being so utterly marvellous. Gareth here from WhatCulture.com and here are 10 TV
00:24mistakes directors left in because the acting was too good.
00:2710. A blue blazer blunder leads to gold, Friends
00:30If you ever needed a reminder of just how unrivaled the electric chemistry possessed by the titch of the
00:35group of Friends truly was during the NBC smash hit days as the biggest sitcom in town, then look no
00:41further than the way the comedy kings and queens handled Matthew Perry's hilarious verbal misfire
00:45during season 4's The One With Phoebe's Uterus episode. With the Chandler being star tasked with
00:50delivering the line of Donald Trump wants his blue blazer back, Perry unfortunately found himself
00:54fumbling out the word black at the end of that attempted zinger. Far from allowing this clear
00:59error to derail the bit though, an almost cracking Perry was soon met by wave after wave of brilliant
01:03improvised digs from the likes of David Swimmer, Jennifer Aniston and co. As the unit rolled with
01:08the mistake, and the creative squad behind the episode found the entire exchange so unexpectedly
01:13hilarious that they felt it was more than worthy of making the final cut. When you throw this many
01:17brilliant comedy minds into a room, a few unanticipated moments of side-splitting improv are always to be
01:23expected, and this particular set of priceless unplanned utterances helped unquestionably save the
01:28slightly botched scene, all whilst hilariously poking fun at their co-star in the process.
01:329. Ashton Kutcher's Genuine Slip Fits Kelso Perfectly, That 70s Show
01:37With Ashton Kutcher's Kelso not exactly being known as the brightest personality in the world,
01:41a trait I happily share with him, the visual of the goofball flying across a sofa and almost completely
01:46wiping out during the events of season 1's The Best Christmas Ever episode didn't feel all that
01:51out of character for the land. In reality though, this was actually very much a case of Kutcher
01:55completely misjudging his landing on the day for real, and just about keeping it together long
02:00enough to get through the subsequent moment opposite Lisa Robin Kelly's lorry. The end results left the
02:04studio audience howling with laughter, and Kelly herself legitimately struggling to keep a straight
02:09face, as Kutcher did all he could to hilariously compose himself. Had any other character found
02:13themselves at the centre of such a potentially disastrous botch, there's a good chance the scene would
02:17have been taken back for another attempt. But with this physical blunder very much being one
02:21that seemed comically in character for Kelso, and subsequently making the awkward moment even
02:26more hilarious than it likely looked on paper, the team behind the show felt it deserved to stay in
02:30the finished article. 8. Kelsey Grammer's Flasier Leads to Gold
02:34Another tongue twister of sorts soon led to Kelsey Grammer being met with a particularly cheeky
02:39response from his amused co-star. You can hardly blame the Frasier leading man for struggling to get
02:43through the line of, fault finding floor fleeing Frasier without the odd trip along the way,
02:48I'd know it just took four attempts to record that line, but rather than burst out into a fit
02:51of laughter on the back of signing off that statement with the word Flasier, during one
02:55particularly unfortunate line read, David Hyde Pierce had other ideas. Without skipping a beat,
03:00the Niles actor jumped on the mistake with a mischievous, you said Flasier, before repeatedly
03:05poking his on-screen brother over his botch, and the subsequent childish back and forth were so
03:09gloriously side-splitting, that all involved felt getting rid of it would have been a foolish
03:13flail here on their part, damn it. 7. The Doorjamb was Too Good to Leave Out, Breaking Bad
03:19Despite being known for their frankly absurd attention to detail as creators, Vince Gilligan
03:23and the rest of the team behind Breaking Bad still weren't exactly against keeping in the odd
03:27unplanned development if they felt it fit the story they were trying to tell in their TV masterpiece.
03:32And in the case of that time, Jesse Pinkman and Walter White were attempting to flee the cops
03:36during Season 2's Better Call Saul episode. One unexpected awkward occurrence just could not
03:41have worked out any better in the moment. With a flustered Aaron Paul's Jesse trying his best to
03:45get back into the vehicle containing Brian Cranston's Walt, the car door suddenly decided
03:49it didn't want to play ball. This soon led to the pair, who refused to break character,
03:53desperately trying to get the thing open so they could rapidly vacate the area, only adding to the
03:57palpable tension felt throughout the scene involving the DEA closing in on the two. So it's not hard to
04:03see why director Terry McDonough felt that this seemingly unanticipated malfunctioning door
04:07was simply too perfect and authentic stubble to leave out of the already chaotic sequence.
04:126. Frank Silver's Mirror Appearance Was a Happy Accident
04:15Twin Peaks
04:16As far as bizarre casting stories go, the way in which Frank Silver went about landing the role
04:21of the unsettling Bob in the iconic surreal drama series known as Twin Peaks is definitely and rather
04:27appropriately up there as one of the strangest. While shooting a scene involving Grace Zabriskie's
04:32Sarah Palmer bolting upright and screaming on her couch, the image of an individual was
04:36accidentally captured on the mirror behind her. And while camera operator Sean Doyle was less than
04:40impressed by the fact that he just unintentionally caught then set dresser Silver on camera,
04:45David Lynch absolutely loved this mistake and used it as the catalyst for the creation of
04:50Killer Bob. Lynch had already taken the time to shoot some footage of Silver upon hearing that he
04:54very nearly locked himself in Laura Palmer's bedroom, becoming fascinated by the visual of the set
04:59dresser lurking in frames. So the combination of Zabriskie's screams of terror and the haunting
05:03accidental glimpses at the Bob in the Mirror soon resulted in this happy accident becoming the
05:08foundation for one of the creepiest antagonists in television history.
05:125. Ian Glenn's Made Up Dothraki Becomes Official
05:15Game of Thrones
05:16Trying to improvise some dialogue in your own language isn't always the easiest thing in the world,
05:21even for the most experienced actors out there. So you can only imagine just how difficult trying to
05:25string words together in a fictional language must be. Ian Glenn in particular knows precisely how
05:30tough letting loose a couple of foreign words without any real preparation beforehand is. Having
05:34to do exactly that when tasked with delivering some of the final bits of Dothraki to appear in
05:38season 2 of Game of Thrones. With the star and folk shooting the episode requesting an accurate
05:43translation of the words take all the gold and jewels, the fact said Dothraki alternative didn't
05:48arrive in time for the shooting of the scene led to Glenn having to make something up on the spot.
05:52What Glenn produced on the day may not have been 100% accurate Dothraki, but the fact
05:57Sir Jorah Mormont wasn't a native Dothraki meant that language creator David J. Peterson was able
06:02to find a way to bend the rules of this way of speaking in order to make sense of the character's
06:06choice of words. Simply put, Glenn's Dothraki improv may not have been absolutely perfect,
06:11but it was still delivered with a level of conviction and believability that made it just
06:14about possible to squeeze into the Dothraki language.
06:174. Some Excessively Burning Hands Made The Cut What We Do In The Shadows
06:22Make no mistake, a dangerous stunt going wrong on the day of shooting is definitely no joke.
06:27But if all involved in this sort of on-screen miscalculation managed to make it out of the
06:31ordeal relatively unscathed, there have been those few occasions over the years when a
06:35backfiring stunt has still managed to be effective enough for use in the end product.
06:39Look no further than that time Natazia Dimitrov very nearly went up in flames for real during
06:44the shooting of the What We Do In The Shadows TV show. For an example of those times,
06:48a botched TV stunt didn't necessarily lead to an unusable take. Heading into the moment involving
06:53Nadia's hands catching fire in the middle of a church, the special effects guy working on the
06:57project used a special pace that Dimitrov quickly realised had been applied a little too generously
07:02on her hands. Before she knew it, both of her hands had rapidly ended up excessively on fire,
07:08leading to the actor panicking in such a way that all watching on simply felt she was really in the
07:12moment as her character. Far from it. Thankfully Dimitrov made it out of the scene with both of
07:17her hands still intact, and with show creator Jermaine Clement feeling the fiery accident still
07:22very much look the part, the actor's visual fear of actually losing her hand in the moment was
07:26ultimately preserved in the finished episode. Number 3, Benedict Cumberbatch forgets his line,
07:31but his alternative worked perfectly, Sherlock. Rather than completely drying up and requesting
07:36another go at one particular moment in the thick of Sherlock's The Sign of Three episode that
07:40ultimately aired in 2014, Benedict Cumberbatch decided to have a little drunken fun as the
07:45titular world famous detective. When referring to pal John Watson played by Martin Freeman,
07:50after the pair had enjoyed a few drinks too many, the eventually Oscar nominated star was supposedly
07:55meant to deliver a scripted slurred line, but with the words escaping him in the moment,
07:59I apologise for my, my, him fell out of his mouth instead. Absolutely loving this attempt to keep the
08:05scene alive after very nearly bringing the sequence to a screeching halt, director Cole McCarthy
08:10clearly felt that it wasn't worth going back and delivering what had previously been written
08:14down. Cumberbatch's improv felt perfectly in character, and left many assuming it was simply
08:19a part of the plan all along. Number 2, Olivia Cooke couldn't hide her genuine laughter,
08:23House of the Dragon. Coming during episode 8 of the Game of Thrones prequel series, Olivia Cooke's
08:28Alison Hightower can briefly be spotted sharing a chuckle alongside her on-screen father,
08:33Rhys Ethan, playing Otto Hightower in a dinner montage. But far from Cooke simply laughing along in the
08:38scene as the usually rather stoic queen, the actor appears to briefly let her mask
08:42as Hightower slip for a second, as the words stop making me laugh can be seen tumbling out of her
08:47mouth. With Cooke's reaction to Ethan's jokingly clapping his hands as Otto being so genuine in the
08:52moment, and her quick slip out of Alicent territory thanks to her co-star's unscripted shenanigans,
08:57not exactly taking anything away from the scene, director Gita Vasant Patel likely didn't see any
09:02obvious reason why the fleeting beat of warmth between the pair couldn't be thrown into the finished
09:07episode. A few flickers of joy were always going to be needed in a series as dedicated to tragedy
09:11and family drama as this, and Cooke's failed attempt to keep herself from corpsing mid-scene
09:16was evidently too lovely an accident to erase.
09:191. James Gandolfini's Burn Screams Were For Real and Were Too Good to Drop
09:23The Sopranos
09:24Another case of a burning moment leading to a legitimate response that was too damn excellent
09:28to leave on the cutting room floor, the late James Gandolfini evidently wouldn't let anything
09:33get in the way of delivering the goods as the iconic Tony Soprano. In fact, the legendary figure
09:37was so determined to keep up the illusion of his Soprano's leading light during one particularly
09:42fiery scene that he found a way to incorporate a legitimate burn into his performance.
09:46As Tony is seen stumbling around the kitchen after violently killing Ralph, the actor wanders
09:51over to the lit stove and quickly recoils upon getting a little too close to the fire.
09:55Far from being an impressive piece of pretending though, Gandolfini apparently legitimately burn
09:59himself on the flames and let out an anything but artificial scream. Without so much as showing
10:04a glimpse of the actor within, Gandolfini then proceeded to let out an in-character curse
10:09before switching off the stove in the heat of the moment. I'm sorry.
10:13An accident that could have understandably led to another actor needing to take a second
10:16to make sure they hadn't just blistered their hand, turn into a way to simply add even more
10:21of an edge to the already rough and ugly sequence that had just unfolded thanks to Gandolfini's
10:25quick thinking.
10:26And that's our list of any other TV mistakes directors left in because the acting was too
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