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
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.
01:32Number 9, 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,
01:42a 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 larder. 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 themselves
02:14at the centre of such a potentially disastrous botch, there's a good chance the scene would have been
02:18taken back for another attempt. But with this physical blunder very much being one that seemed
02:22comically in character for Kelso, and subsequently making the awkward moment even more hilarious than
02:27it likely looked on paper, the team behind the show felt it deserved to stay in the finished article.
02:318. 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 of
02:52laughter on the back of signing off that statement with the word Flasier, during one particularly
02:56unfortunate line read, David Hyde Pierce had other ideas. Without skipping a beat, the Niles actor
03:01jumped on the mistake with a mischievous, you said Flasier, before repeatedly poking his on-screen
03:06brother over his botch, and the subsequent childish back and forth were so gloriously side-splitting,
03:11that all involved felt getting rid of it would have been a foolish flail here on their part,
03:15damn it.
03:157. The Doorjamb was Too Good to Leave Out, Breaking Bad
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 still weren't exactly against keeping
03:27in the odd unplanned development if they felt it fit the story they were trying to tell in their
03:31TV masterpiece. And in the case of that time, Jesse Pinkman and Walter White were attempting to
03:35flee the cops during Season 2's Better Call Saul episode. One unexpected awkward occurrence just could
03:40not have worked out any better in the moment. With a flustered Aaron Paul's Jesse trying his
03:44best to get back into the vehicle containing Bryan 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,
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 McDonough felt that this seemingly unanticipated
04:06malfunctioning door was simply too perfect an authentic stubble to leave out of the already
04:10chaotic sequence. 6. Frank Silver's mirror appearance was a happy accident, Twin 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 Killer Bob.
04:50Lynch had already taken the time to shoot some footage of Silver upon hearing that he very nearly
04:54locked himself in Laura Palmer's bedroom, becoming fascinated by the visual of the set dresser lurking in
05:00frames. So the combination of Zabriskie's screams of terror and the haunting accidental glimpses at
05:04the Bob in the mirror soon resulted in this happy accident becoming the foundation for one of the
05:09creepiest antagonists in television history. 5. Ian Glenn's made-up Dothraki becomes official,
05:15Game of Thrones Trying to improvise some dialogue in your own language isn't always the easiest thing
05:20in the world, even for the most experienced actors out there. So you can only imagine just how
05:24difficult trying to string words together in a fictional language must be. Ian Glenn in particular
05:29knows precisely how tough letting loose a couple of foreign words without any real preparation
05:33beforehand is. Having to do exactly that when tasked with delivering some of the final bits of
05:37Dothraki to appear in Season 2 of Game of Thrones. With the star and folk shooting the episode
05:42requesting an accurate translation of the words take all the gold and jewels, the fact said Dothraki
05:47alternative didn't arrive in time for the shooting of the scene led to Glenn having to make something
05:51up on the spot. What Glenn produced on the day may not have been 100% accurate Dothraki,
05:56but the fact that Jorah Mormont wasn't a native Dothraki meant that language creator David J.
06:01Peterson was able to find a way to bend the rules of this way of speaking in order to make sense of
06:05the character's choice of words. Simply put, Glenn's Dothraki improv may not have been absolutely
06:10perfect, but it was still delivered with a level of conviction and believability that made it just
06:14about possible to squeeze into the Dothraki language. 4. Some excessively burning hands made the cut,
06:20What We Do In The Shadows Make no mistake, a dangerous stunt going wrong on the day of shooting is
06:26definitely no joke. But if all involved in this sort of on-screen miscalculation managed to make
06:30it out of the ordeal relatively unscathed, there have been those few occasions over the years when
06:35a backfiring 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 the
06:44shooting of the What We Do In The Shadows TV show. For an example of those times, a botched TV stunt
06:49didn't necessarily lead to an unusable take. Heading into the moment involving Nadia's hands catching fire in
06:55the middle of a church, the special effects guy working on the project used a special pace that
06:59Dimitrov quickly realized had been applied a little too generously on her hands. Before she knew it,
07:04both of her hands had rapidly ended up excessively on fire, leading to the actor panicking in such a
07:09way that all watching on simply felt she was really in the moment as her character. Far from it.
07:15Thankfully, Dimitrov made it out of the scene with both of her hands still intact, and with show
07:19creator Jermaine Clement feeling the fiery accident still very much look the part, the actor's visual fear of
07:24actually losing her hand in the moment was ultimately preserved in the finished episode.
07:29Number 3, Benedict Cumberbatch forgets his line, but his alternative worked perfectly, Sherlock.
07:34Rather than completely drying up and requesting another go at one particular moment in the thick
07:38of Sherlock's The Sign of Three episode that ultimately aired in 2014, Benedict Cumberbatch decided
07:44to have a little drunken fun as the titular world famous detective. When referring to pal John Watson
07:49played by Martin Freeman, after the pair had enjoyed a few drinks too many, the eventually Oscar
07:53nominated star was supposedly meant to deliver a scripted slurred line, but with the words
07:58escaping him in the moment, I apologise for my, my, him fell out of his mouth instead.
08:04Absolutely loving this attempt to keep the scene alive after very nearly bringing the sequence
08:08to a screeching halt, director Cole McCarthy clearly felt that it wasn't worth going back
08:12and delivering what had previously been written down. Cumberbatch's improv felt perfectly in character,
08:17and left many assuming it was simply a part of the plan all along.
08:202. Olivia Cooke Couldn't Hide Her Genuine Laughter House of the Dragon
08:24Coming during episode 8 of the Game of Thrones prequel series, Olivia Cooke's Alison Hightower
08:29can briefly be spotted sharing a chuckle alongside her on-screen father, Rhys Ethan's,
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, as the words
08:45stop making me laugh can be seen tumbling out of her mouth.
08:47With Cooke's reaction to Ethan's jokingly clapping his hands as Otto being so genuine
08:52in the moment, and her quick slip out of Alison territory thanks to her co-star's unscripted
08:56shenanigans not exactly taking anything away from the scene, director Geeta Vasant Patel
09:01likely didn't see any obvious reason why the fleeting beat of warmth between the pair couldn't
09:06be thrown into the finished episode. A few flickers of joy were always going to be needed
09:09in a series as dedicated to tragedy and family drama as this, and Cooke's failed attempt to
09:14keep herself from corpsing mid-scene was 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 Sopranos' 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 before
10:09switching off the stove in the heat of the moment. I'm sorry. An accident that could have
10:14understandably led to another actor needing to take a second to make sure they hadn't just
10:18blistered their hand, turned into a way to simply add even more of an edge to the already rough and
10:22ugly sequence that 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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