Those happy TV accidents that were too brilliant to leave out!
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00:00 Whether the stars involved were trying their best to keep from legitimately going up in flames
00:04 and producing comedy magic in the process,
00:06 or messing up lines to the point of creating a moment far more effective
00:09 than the one previously printed out in the script.
00:12 The directors behind these scenes simply had no choice but to immortalise these particular TV clangers
00:17 due to the performances on show being so utterly marvellous.
00:21 Gareth here from WhatCulture.com and here are 10 TV Mistakes Directors Left In Because The Acting Was Too Good.
00:27 Number 10 - A Blue Blazer Blunder Leads To Gold, Friends
00:31 If you ever needed a reminder of just how unrivaled the electric chemistry possessed by the titch of the group of Friends
00:36 truly was during the NBC smash hit's days as the biggest sitcom in town,
00:40 then look no further than the way the comedy kings and queens handled Matthew Perry's hilarious verbal misfire
00:45 during season 4's The One With Phoebe's Uterus episode.
00:48 With the Chandler being star-tasked with delivering the line of "Donald Trump wants his blue blazer back",
00:53 Perry unfortunately found himself fumbling out the word "black" at the end of that attempted zinger.
00:57 Far from allowing this clear error to derail the bit though,
01:00 an almost cracking Perry was soon met by wave after wave of brilliant improvised digs
01:04 from the likes of David Swimmer, Jennifer Aniston and co. as the unit rolled with the mistake.
01:09 And the creative squad behind the episode found the entire exchange so unexpectedly hilarious
01:13 that they felt it was more than worthy of making the final cut.
01:16 When you throw this many brilliant comedy minds into a room,
01:19 a few unanticipated moments of side-splitting improv are always to be expected.
01:23 And this particular set of priceless unplanned utterances helped unquestionably save the slightly botched scene,
01:29 all whilst hilariously poking fun at their co-star in the process.
01:32 Number 9 - Ashton Kutcher's genuine slip fits Kelso perfectly - that 70s show.
01:37 With Ashton Kutcher's Kelso not exactly being known as the brightest personality in the world,
01:41 a trait I happily share with him,
01:43 the visual of the goofball flying across a sofa and almost completely wiping out
01:47 during the events of season one's 'The Best Christmas Ever' episode
01:50 didn't feel all that out of character for the lad.
01:52 In reality though, this was actually very much a case of Kutcher completely misjudging his landing on the day for real,
01:58 and just about keeping it together long enough to get through the subsequent moment opposite Lisa Robin Kelly's Laurie.
02:03 The end result left the studio audience howling with laughter,
02:06 and Kelly herself legitimately struggling to keep a straight face,
02:09 as Kutcher did all he could to hilariously compose himself.
02:12 Had any other character found themselves at the centre of such a potentially disastrous botch,
02:16 there's a good chance the scene would have been taken back for another attempt.
02:19 But with this physical blunder very much being one that seemed comically in character for Kelso,
02:23 and subsequently making the awkward moment even more hilarious than it likely looked on paper,
02:28 the team behind the show felt it deserved to stay in the finished article.
02:31 Number 8 - Kelsey Grammer's 'Flasier' leads to gold - 'Frasier'
02:34 Another tongue twister of sorts soon led to Kelsey Grammer being met with a particularly cheeky response from his amused co-star.
02:40 You can hardly blame the 'Frasier' leading man for struggling to get through the line of
02:44 'Faults finding flaw fleeing Frasier without the odd trip along the way'
02:47 - I'd know, it just took four attempts to record that line -
02:50 but rather than burst out into a fit of laughter on the back of signing off that statement with the word 'Flasier',
02:54 during one particularly unfortunate line read, David Hyde-Pierce had other ideas.
02:59 Without skipping a beat, the Niles actor jumped on the mistake with a mischievous
03:03 'You said 'Flasier'', before repeatedly poking his on-screen brother over his botch.
03:07 And the subsequent childish back and forth was so gloriously side-splitting,
03:11 that all involved felt getting rid of it would have been a foolish failure on their part.
03:14 Damn it!
03:15 Number 7 - The door jam was too good to leave out - 'Breaking Bad'
03:19 Despite being known for their frankly absurd attention to detail as creators,
03:22 Vince Gilligan and the rest of the team behind 'Breaking Bad'
03:25 still weren't exactly against keeping in the odd unplanned development
03:28 if they felt it fit the story they were trying to tell in their TV masterpiece.
03:32 And in the case of that time, Jesse Pinkman and Walter White were attempting to flee the cops
03:35 during season two's 'Better Call Saul' episode,
03:38 one unexpected awkward occurrence just could not have worked out any better in the moment.
03:42 With a flustered Aaron Paul's Jesse trying his best to get back into the vehicle
03:45 containing Bryan Cranston's Walt, the car door suddenly decided it didn't want to play ball.
03:50 This soon led to the pair, who refused to break character,
03:53 desperately trying to get the thing open so they could rapidly vacate the area.
03:56 Only adding to the palpable tension felt throughout the scene involving the DEA closing in on the two.
04:01 So it's not hard to see why director Terry McDonagh felt that this seemingly unanticipated
04:06 malfunctioning door was simply too perfect an authentic stubble to leave out of the already chaotic sequence.
04:12 Number six, Frank Silver's mirror appearance was a happy accident, 'Twin Peaks'.
04:16 As far as bizarre casting stories go, the way in which Frank Silver went about landing the role
04:21 of the unsettling Bob in the iconic surreal drama series known as 'Twin Peaks'
04:25 is definitely and rather appropriately up there as one of the strangest.
04:29 While shooting a scene involving Grace Zabriskie's Sarah Palmer borting upright and screaming on her couch,
04:34 the image of an individual was accidentally captured on the mirror behind her.
04:38 And while camera operator Sean Doyle was less than impressed by the fact that he just unintentionally
04:42 caught then set dresser Silver on camera, David Lynch absolutely loved this mistake
04:47 and used it as the catalyst for the creation of 'Killer Bob'.
04:50 Lynch had already taken the time to shoot some footage of Silver upon hearing that he very nearly
04:54 locked himself in Laura Palmer's bedroom, becoming fascinated by the visual of the set dresser lurking in frames.
05:00 So the combination of Zabriskie's screams of terror and the haunting accidental glimpses at the Bob in the mirror
05:05 soon resulted in this happy accident becoming the foundation for one of the creepiest antagonists in television history.
05:11 Number five, Ian Glenn's made-up Dothraki becomes official, 'Game of Thrones'.
05:16 Trying to improvise some dialogue in your own language isn't always the easiest thing in the world,
05:20 even for the most experienced actors out there.
05:23 So you can only imagine just how difficult trying to string words together in a fictional language must be.
05:27 Ian Glenn in particular knows precisely how tough letting loose a couple of foreign words without any real preparation beforehand is.
05:34 Having to do exactly that when tasked with delivering some of the final bits of Dothraki to appear in season two of 'Game of Thrones'.
05:40 With the star and folk shooting the episode requesting an accurate translation of the words 'take all the gold and jewels',
05:46 the fact said Dothraki alternative didn't arrive in time for the shooting of the scene,
05:50 led to Glenn having to make something up on the spot.
05:52 What Glenn produced on the day may not have been 100% accurate Dothraki,
05:56 but the fact Sir Jorah Mormont wasn't a native Dothraki,
05:59 meant that language creator David J. Peterson was able to find a way to bend the rules of this way of speaking,
06:04 in order to make sense of the character's choice of words.
06:07 Simply put, Glenn's Dothraki improv may not have been absolutely perfect,
06:10 but it was still delivered with a level of conviction and believability,
06:13 that made it just about possible to squeeze into the Dothraki language.
06:17 Number four, some excessively burning hands made the cut, 'What We Do In The Shadows'.
06:22 Make no mistake, a dangerous stunt going wrong on the day of shooting is definitely no joke.
06:27 But if all involved in this sort of on-screen miscalculation managed to make it out of the ordeal relatively unscathed,
06:32 there have been those few occasions over the years when a backfiring stunt,
06:36 has still managed to be effective enough for use in the end product.
06:39 Look no further than that time Natasia Dimitra very nearly went up in flames for real,
06:43 during the shooting of the 'What We Do In The Shadows' TV show.
06:46 For an example of those times, a botched TV stunt didn't necessarily lead to an unusable take.
06:51 Heading into the moment involving Nadia's hands catching fire in the middle of a church,
06:55 the special effects guy working on the project used a special paste,
06:59 that Dimitra quickly realised had been applied a little too generously on her hands.
07:03 Before she knew it, both of her hands had rapidly ended up excessively on fire,
07:07 leading to the actor panicking in such a way,
07:10 that all watching on simply felt she was really in the moment as her character.
07:14 Far from it!
07:15 Thankfully Dimitra made it out of the scene with both of her hands still intact,
07:18 and with show creator Jermaine Clement feeling the fiery accident still very much looked the part,
07:23 the actor's visual fear of actually losing her hand in the moment,
07:26 was ultimately preserved in the finished episode.
07:28 Number 3 - Benedict Cumberbatch forgets his line, but his alternative worked perfectly - Sherlock!
07:34 Rather than completely drying up and requesting another go at one particular moment,
07:38 in the thick of Sherlock's 'The Sign of Three' episode that ultimately aired in 2014,
07:42 Benedict Cumberbatch decided to have a little drunken fun as the titular world famous detective.
07:47 When referring to pal John Watson played by Martin Freeman,
07:50 after the pair had enjoyed a few drinks too many,
07:52 the eventually Oscar nominated star was supposedly meant to deliver a scripted slurred line.
07:57 But with the words escaping him in the moment,
07:59 "I apologise for my... my... him" fell out of his mouth instead.
08:03 Absolutely loving this attempt to keep the scene alive after very nearly bringing the sequence to a screeching halt,
08:09 director Cole McCarthy clearly felt that it wasn't worth going back and delivering what had previously been written down.
08:14 Cumberbatch's improv felt perfectly in character,
08:17 and left many assuming it was simply a part of the plan all along.
08:20 Number 2 - Olivia Cooke couldn't hide her genuine laughter - House of the Dragon
08:24 Coming during episode 8 of the Game of Thrones prequel series,
08:27 Olivia Cooke's Alice in Hightower can briefly be spotted sharing a chuckle alongside her on-screen father,
08:32 Rhys Ethans, playing Otto Hightower in a dinner montage.
08:36 But far from Cooke simply laughing along in the scene as the usually rather stoic queen,
08:40 the actor appears to briefly let her mask as Hightower slip for a second,
08:44 as the words "Stop making me laugh" can be seen tumbling out of her mouth.
08:47 With Cooke's reaction to Ethans jokingly clapping his hands as Otto being so genuine in the moment,
08:52 and her quick slip out of Alicent territory thanks to her co-star's unscripted shenanigans,
08:57 not exactly taking anything away from the scene,
08:59 director Geeta Vasanth Patel likely didn't see any obvious reason why the fleeting beat of warmth between the pair
09:05 couldn't be thrown into the finished episode.
09:07 A few flickers of joy were always going to be needed in a series as dedicated to tragedy and family drama as this,
09:13 and Cooke's failed attempt to keep herself from corpsing mid-scene was evidently too lovely an accident to erase.
09:18 Number 1 - James Gandolfini's burn screams were for real and were too good to drop.
09:23 The Sopranos
09:24 Another case of a burning moment leading to a legitimate response that was too damn excellent to leave on the cutting room floor,
09:30 the late James Gandolfini evidently wouldn't let anything get in the way of delivering the goods as the iconic Tony Soprano.
09:36 In fact, the legendary figure was so determined to keep up the illusion of his soprano's leading light
09:40 during one particularly fiery scene that he found a way to incorporate a legitimate burn into his performance.
09:46 As Tony is seen stumbling around the kitchen after violently killing Ralph,
09:50 the actor wanders over to the lit stove and quickly recoils upon getting a little too close to the fire.
09:55 Far from being an impressive piece of pretending though,
09:57 Gandolfini apparently legitimately burned himself on the flames and let out an anything but artificial scream.
10:03 Without so much as showing a glimpse of the actor within,
10:06 Gandolfini then proceeded to let out an in-character curse before switching off the stove in the heat of the moment.
10:11 Ha ha, I'm sorry.
10:12 An accident that could have understandably led to another actor needing to take a second to make sure they hadn't just blistered their hand,
10:18 turn into a way to simply add even more of an edge to the already rough and ugly sequence
10:23 that had just unfolded thanks to Gandolfini's quick thinking.
10:26 And that's our list.
10:27 Know of any other TV mistakes directors left in because the acting was too good?
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