10 TV Mistakes Directors Left In Because The Acting Was Too Good
Those happy TV accidents that were too brilliant to leave out!
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00:00Whether the stars involved were trying their best to keep from legitimately going up in flames and producing comedy magic in the process,
00:06or messing up lines to the point of creating a moment far more effective than the one previously printed out in the script,
00:12the directors behind these scenes simply had no choice but to immortalise these particular TV clangours
00:17due to the performances on show being so utterly marvellous.
00:21Gareth here from WhatCulture.com and here are 10 TV mistakes directors left in because the acting was too good.
00:2710. A blue blazer blunder leads to gold, Friends
00:31If you ever needed a reminder of just how unrivaled the electric chemistry possessed by the titch of the group of Friends truly was
00:37during the NBC smash hit's days as the biggest sitcom in town,
00:40then look no further 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.
00:49With the Chandler being star-tasked with delivering the line of Donald Trump wants his blue blazer back,
00:53Perry unfortunately found himself fumbling out the word black at the end of that attempted zinger.
00:57Far from allowing this clear error to derail the bit though,
01:00an almost cracking Perry was soon met by wave after wave of brilliant improvised digs from the likes of David Swimmer,
01:06Jennifer Aniston and co. as the unit rolled with the mistake,
01:09and the creative squad behind the episode found the entire exchange so unexpectedly hilarious
01:14that they felt it was more than worthy of making the final cut.
01:16When you throw this many brilliant comedy minds into a room,
01:19a few unanticipated moments of side-splitting improv are always to be expected,
01:23and this particular set of priceless unplanned utterances helped unquestionably save the slightly botched scene,
01:29all whilst hilariously poking fun at their co-star in the process.
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,
01:43the visual of the goofball flying across a sofa and almost completely wiping out
01:47during the events of Season 1's The Best Christmas Ever episode,
01:50didn't feel all that out of character for the lander.
01:52In reality though, this was actually very much a case of Kutcher completely misjudging his landing on the day for real,
01:58and just about keeping it together long enough to get through the subsequent moment opposite Lisa Robin Kelly's Laurie.
02:03The end result left the studio audience howling with laughter,
02:06and Kelly herself legitimately struggling to keep a straight face,
02:09as Kutcher did all he could to hilariously compose himself.
02:12Had any other character found themselves at the centre of such a potentially disastrous botch,
02:16there's a good chance the scene would have been taken back for another attempt.
02:19But with this physical blunder very much being one that seemed comically in character for Kelso,
02:24and subsequently making the awkward moment even more hilarious than it likely looked on paper,
02:28the team behind the show felt it deserved to stay in the finished article.
02:35Another tongue twister of sorts soon led to Kelsey Grammer being met with a particularly cheeky response from his amused co-star.
02:41You 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''
02:48I'd know, it just took four attempts to record that line.
02:50But rather than burst out into a fit of laughter on the back of signing off that statement with the word ''Flasier'',
02:55during one particularly unfortunate line read, ''David Hyde Pierce had other ideas''.
02:59Without skipping a beat, the Niles actor jumped on the mistake with a mischievous,
03:03''You said Flasier'',
03:04before repeatedly poking his on-screen brother over his botch.
03:07And the subsequent childish back-and-forth was so gloriously side-splitting,
03:11that all involved felt getting rid of it would have been a foolish failure on their part.
03:15Damn it!
03:19Despite being known for their frankly absurd attention to detail as creators,
03:23Vince Gilligan and the rest of the team behind Breaking Bad,
03:25still weren't exactly against keeping in the odd unplanned development,
03:28if 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 during Season 2's Better Call Saul episode,
03:38one unexpected awkward occurrence just could not have worked out any better in the moment.
03:43With a flustered Aaron Paul's Jesse trying his best to get back into the vehicle containing Bryan Cranston's Walt,
03:48the car door suddenly decided it didn't want to play ball.
03:50This 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,
03:57only adding to the palpable tension felt throughout the scene involving the DEA closing in on the two.
04:02So it's not hard to see why director Terry McDonagh felt that this seemingly unanticipated malfunctioning door
04:07was simply too perfect an authentic stubble to leave out of the already chaotic sequence.
04:16As far as bizarre casting stories go,
04:19the way in which Frank Silver went about landing the role of the unsettling Bob
04:22in the iconic surreal drama series known as Twin Peaks,
04:25is definitely and rather appropriately up there as one of the strangest.
04:29While shooting a scene involving Grace Zabriskie's Sarah Palmer borting upright and screaming on her couch,
04:35the image of an individual was accidentally captured on the mirror behind her.
04:38And while camera operator Sean Doyle was less than impressed by the fact that he just unintentionally caught
04:43then-set dresser Silver on camera,
04:45David Lynch absolutely loved this mistake,
04:47and used it as the catalyst for the creation of Killer Bob.
04:50Lynch had already taken the time to shoot some footage of Silver upon hearing
04:54that he very nearly locked himself in Laura Palmer's bedroom,
04:56becoming fascinated by the visual of the set dresser lurking in frames.
05:00So the combination of Zabriskie's screams of terror,
05:03and the haunting accidental glimpses at the Bob in the mirror,
05:05soon resulted in this happy accident becoming the foundation for one of the creepiest antagonists in television history.
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.
05:23So you can only imagine just how difficult trying to string words together in a fictional language must be.
05:28Ian Glenn in particular knows precisely how tough letting loose a couple of foreign words without any real preparation beforehand is.
05:34Having to do exactly that when tasked with delivering some of the final bits of Dothraki
05:38to appear in season two of Game of Thrones.
05:40With the star and folk shooting the episode requesting an accurate translation of the words
05:44take all the gold and jewels,
05:46the fact said Dothraki alternative didn't arrive in time for the shooting of the scene,
05:50led to Glenn having to make something up on the spot.
05:52What Glenn produced on the day may not have been 100% accurate Dothraki,
05:56but the fact Ser Jorah Mormont wasn't a native Dothraki,
05:59meant that language creator David J. Peterson was able to find a way to bend the rules of this way of speaking,
06:04in order to make sense of the character's choice of words.
06:07Simply put, Glenn's Dothraki improv may not have been absolutely perfect,
06:11but it was still delivered with a level of conviction and believability
06:14that made it just about possible to squeeze into the Dothraki language.
06:22Make no mistake,
06:23a 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
06:30managed to make it out of the ordeal relatively unscathed,
06:33there have been those few occasions over the years when a backfiring stunt
06:36has still managed to be effective enough for use in the end product.
06:39Look no further than that time Natasja Dimitra very nearly went up in flames for real
06:44during the shooting of the What We Do in the Shadows TV show.
06:47For an example of those times, a botched TV stunt didn't necessarily lead to an unusable take.
06:52Heading into the moment involving Nadia's hands catching fire in the middle of a church,
06:56the special effects guy working on the project used a special paste
06:59that Dimitra quickly realised had been applied a little too generously on her hands.
07:03Before she knew it, both of her hands had rapidly ended up excessively on fire,
07:08leading to the actor panicking in such a way
07:10that all watching on simply felt she was really in the moment as her character.
07:14Far from it!
07:15Thankfully, Dimitra made it out of the scene with both of her hands still intact,
07:19and with show creator Jermaine Clement feeling the fiery accident still very much looked the part,
07:23the actor's visual fear of actually losing her hand in the moment
07:26was ultimately preserved in the finished episode.
07:34Rather than completely drying up and requesting another go at one particular moment
07:38in the thick of Sherlock's The Sign of Three episode that ultimately aired in 2014,
07:42Benedict Cumberbatch decided to have a little drunken fun as the titular world-famous detective.
07:47When referring to pal John Watson played by Martin Freeman,
07:50after the pair had enjoyed a few drinks too many,
07:53the eventually Oscar-nominated star was supposedly meant to deliver a scripted slurred line.
07:57But with the words escaping him in the moment,
07:59I apologise for my... my... him fell out of his mouth instead.
08:04Absolutely loving this attempt to keep the scene alive
08:06after very nearly bringing the sequence to a screeching halt,
08:09director Cole McCarthy clearly felt that it wasn't worth going back
08:12and delivering what had previously been written down.
08:15Cumberbatch's improv felt perfectly in character
08:17and left many assuming it was simply a part of the plan all along.
08:25Coming during episode 8 of the Game of Thrones prequel series,
08:28Olivia Cooke's Alicent Hightower can briefly be spotted sharing a chuckle
08:31alongside her on-screen father, Rhys Ethans,
08:34playing Otto Hightower in a dinner montage.
08:36But far from Cooke simply laughing along in the scene as the usually rather stoic queen,
08:41the actor appears to briefly let her mask as Hightower slip for a second,
08:44as the words stop making me laugh can be seen tumbling out of her mouth.
08:48With Cooke's reaction to Ethans jokingly clapping his hands as Otto being so genuine in the moment,
08:53and her quick slip out of Alicent territory thanks to her co-star's unscripted shenanigans,
08:57not exactly taking anything away from the scene,
08:59director Geeta Vasant Patel likely didn't see any obvious reason
09:03why the fleeting beat of warmth between the pair couldn't be thrown into the finished episode.
09:07A few flickers of joy were always going to be needed in a series
09:10as dedicated to tragedy and family drama as this.
09:13And Cooke's failed attempt to keep herself from corpsing mid-scene
09:16was evidently too lovely an accident to erase.
09:24Another case of a burning moment leading to a legitimate response
09:27that was too damn excellent to leave on the cutting room floor,
09:30the late James Gandolfini evidently wouldn't let anything get in the way
09:33of delivering the goods as the iconic Tony Soprano.
09:36In fact, the legendary figure was so determined to keep up the illusion of his soprano's leading light
09:41during one particularly fiery scene,
09:43that 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,
09:50the actor wanders over 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,
09:57Gandolfini apparently legitimately burned himself on the flames
10:01and let out an anything but artificial scream.
10:03Without so much as showing a glimpse of the actor within,
10:06Gandolfini then proceeded to let out an in-character curse
10:09before switching off the stove in the heat of the moment.
10:11Ha ha, 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,
10:19turn into a way to simply add even more of an edge to the already rough and ugly sequence
10:23that had just unfolded thanks to Gandolfini's quick thinking.
10:26And that's our list of any other TV mistakes directors left in because the acting was too good.
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