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Have yall ever noticed Little House Nitpicker guide ?? Its hilarious. It hasnt been updated since 1998 because the guy just disapeared. but still check it out.

One of my favourites is an episode of Designing Women, the one where Julia's son Payne brings his "girlfriend" [she's 40-something] home from university for a visit. Near the end, when Julia's telling off Primmy, the cameras cut back and forth between Julia and Primmy. Julia's necklace is sometimes caught on a button on her jacket, sometimes not. I don't know how the editors could miss it because the jacket is red, the necklace is gold, and it's quite obvious.

On Angel, in the episode Shiny Happy People you could see Gina Torres (Jasmine) start to slip a little when she's walking on the greasy bowling lane but she does a great job covering it.

The best WWE wrestling screw-up of all time was Torrie Wilson forgetting she was supposed to get involved in the fight, and Matt Hardy (her opponent) having to call her to turn her dumb ass around, and hide it in his trademark scream.

"Toorrrriieeeeaaaaagh!"

Then she turns around, and has clearly forgotten what she's supposed to do (kick him in the balls) and he walks towards her completely bowlegged. Never have you seen a man so happy to be kicked in the nads. He falls down and looks like "damn, I didn't actually disappear."

The Hardy Boyz have other bloopers but that was the funniest.

From a year ago, but...


I think she did at least have dark hose on, so it wasn't too bad. And I think Wayne was more embarassed than she was! She was laughing and he looked like he wanted to crawl under Drew's table!

I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I remember an episode of Star Trek Next Gen where Ro and Geordi were "phased" and could pass through solid objects. Except, of course, through the floor, which they seemed to have no trouble standing firmly on. They should've just fallen right through and out of the ship.

And this was in a movie, but an MST3K movie, so it counts: Space Mutiny, where a woman gets killed, then re-appears in the background two scenes later.

And perfectly snarked by Mike and the 'bots. Good times.

"Look alive, everybody! Oh, sorry, Susan." Hee.

Reversed shots can be equal parts amusing and annoying, but my current favourite is from an episode of Starsky and Hutch from the second season, when the guys are driving down the road. It's obvious they've reversed the shot, because Starsky, who's driving, is on the wrong side of the car. Looks like they're in a special right-hand drive Torino.

Or maybe they were magically transported to England.

On a recent episode of The OC Seth says "What the Hockey?!" and you can clearly see Racel Bilson cracking up even though the camera shot is from far away.

In the Friends ep TOW No one's Ready, Phoebe's hummus stain changes size in different shots. I'd seen the ep a couple of times before I noticed it, and now it's very distracting.

Palm trees in the background of Arcadia, MD, in Joan of Arcadia struck me as a bit odd. You have to look quick in the infrequent street shots, but they're there.

Lita wrote about that in her autobiography (the match was Torrie & Hurricane vs. Matt & Lita). I'm completely paraphrasing, but Lita was really pissed about it and had a talking-to with Ms. Wilson after the match. I will always love Lita for writing something along these lines:

"In WCW, Torrie probably screwed up all the time and the guys just slapped her on the ass and told her she did a good job, but that's not how it went down in WWE."

There's an episode of TDVDS called "Bupkis". Rob wants to call a radio station so he picks up the phone, dials, then looks the number up in the phone book and says "Right". Dick almost loses his shit.

Wouldn't it be great if by the end of every season of any TV show there would be an extra episode, dedicated to Bloopers and Sneak Peaks? It's so much fun to see what's going on behind the scenes when the actors are shooting, and witness how the actors are getting along on set. It's especially hysterical if those are bloopers from sitcoms.

Pro wresting flubs and goofs should be its seperate category. Even worse than reality shows IMO since no one really prepares them for "acting"

But due to the Wilson story above, one time in WCW Goldberg gets a shot to the groin, completely no sells it (doesn't recoil in pain due to the shot) for about half a minute before realizing that his manhood would be questioned if he didn't sell a shot to the groin in an agonizing manner

On a Cathy Gale ep of The Avengers, one of those that was done live, an actor forgets his line in a scene with Steed. First you notice silence, then you notice that Patrick Macnee is smiling a bit awkwardly and looking around wondering what's going to happen next, then you hear a very faint off-camera voice prompting the stuck actor with his line. I'll ETA the ep title later if someone doesn't beat me to it; I'll have to check my videos at home.

ETA: It was "Concerto".

Personally, I tend to enjoy them no matter where they come from, but I especially enjoy bloopers from dramas--in sitcoms, they're already lighthearted, but when people are trying so hard to be serious and THEN they flub up and completely lose the moment...hilarious!

ETA correct spelling, dufus...

I enjoy the bits at the end of Fresh Prince of Bel Air. My favorite is when the actor playing Uncle Phil slips and gets bleeped out saying "damn." Will goes all old church on him, I think saying something about a Pastor in the audience. I crack-up every time.

Another one has Carlton saying something about trick-or-treating (?) that breaks Uncle Phil and Will out.

I've always been a sucker for a good blooper. Too bad they don't run any of those blooper specials any more.

One of my favourite outtakes from Fresh Prince was from the episode where Carlton got a group of women to play a trick on Will by tying him up in a cabin. Afterwards, Will got payback on Carlton by telling him that he'd had to kill the woman holding him in order to get out, and Carlton ran through the entire set screaming. Alphonso Ribiero just chewed the hell out of the scenery, and it was heeeeeee-larious!

There was one flub I remember clearly from The Wayans Bros., which was the only thing about that show that made me laugh. Marlon and Shawn are talking, and Marlon puts on a wireless headset with a little mic on it, and goes, "I'm Bobby Brown!" and does a My Pregorative dance. The camera cuts to a close-up of Shawn, and the shot was a little blurry, and it looked as if Shawn was genuinely laughing at Marlon's dance, not acting-laughing. It looked like an outtake added into the scene. It was really sweet and funny.

On an ending bumper of Roseanne, there was an outtake of Dan shoving David up against a wall. In the episode it's a serious scene, where Dan practically wants to kill him. In the blooper, he shoves him, but pushes him too hard and Johnny Galecki loses his footing and slips, and everyone starts laughing. Sara Gilbert even makes some quip about it.

Watching Roseanne bloopers, I liked seeing something filmed between takes. Sara Gilbert and Michael Fishman were kids, and they're waiting to do a scene over, and Michael is babbling about something, and repeating it for Sara, who goes "Yeah, we all heard," and Roseanne's voice is heard off-camera, going "C'mon kids, focus, let's do it again," and clapping her hands. She spoke to them much like how her character speaks to the kids, and I just liked how familial and real it felt. Here's the clip.

Another Roseanne flub was Roseanne referring to one of her children as Jackie (her sister).

Wrestlemania, one year (I want to say it was either WM17 or WM18), Vince and Stephanie had Linda sedated, while Vince was allegedly carrying on with Trish Stratus. The blooper situation in question was that Linda and Trish were getting their revenge on Vince and Stephanie, and Linda's revenge, namely was getting to kick Vince in the groin. Problem was, Vince was "bracing" for it, standing with a trash can over his head, and Linda missed her cue. Vince then opened his stance further (hint! hint!), and Linda gave him a half-hearted kick. Oops.

One of my favs was a flubbed scene from "Santa Barbara" that they left in. Marcy Walker's "Eden" was at a party and someone asked if she was having a a good time. Marcy mixed up her words and announced that she was having a "wonderfun" time. Never missing a beat, she quickly adds "Wonderfun? Is that even a word? Yes, I am having a wonderfun time!" and the scene continues. Even though it was an accident, it just added (for the first time ever on that show!) a touch of reality.

There was a great one from Passions. T.C. (Rodney van Johnson) is talking to Sam (James Hyde) about Chad. "Could Chad be Eve's mother?" he asks, in all seriousness. JH can barely get out, "I don't think so," before they both erupt in laughter. The line was supposed to be, "Could Eve be Chad's mother."

Soap opera goofs make you realize how good the actors really are (at remembering and delivering their lines, anyway); there just generally isn't time or money in that medium to stop and re-shoot for every little goof, so many flubs are left in. The fact that we don't see very many means that there aren't a whole lot being made, and that can't be said of many other productions.

One of my favorites from ER, back in the day.

At the end of Love's Labor Lost, as Mark tries to revive the dead patient, Carol can clearly be seen in the background taking off her protective glasses. But after the time of death is called and they show the individual reactions of everyone in the trauma room, Carol takes off the glasses again.

Elizabeth Hubbard (Lucinda, from As The World Turns) can make those little flubs transfer into some of the most natural portrayals in the world. People misspeak or stutter all the time in real life, so seeing her just go for it on the show makes it more involving.

Star Trek the original series had more than a few goofs. One very noticeable one is a reaction shot of Kirk that was used in the Savage Curtain and The Way To Eden episodes that was in reverse, putting his shirt's insignia on the right side.

Ah, and just so no one says that the above example is a demonstration of third season sloppiness (which it actually is), the first season's The Enemy Within episode had Kirk beam up with a shirt on that had no insignia on the chest. But in a later shot, the insignia was back on the shirt! And in the second season's Mirror Mirror episode, Chekov is wearing a sash when Kirk enters the elevator, the sash disappears when Chekov and Kirk have a brief exchange in the elevator, and then the sash is back on Chekov when he exits the elevator!

My all-time soap favorite was Port Charles... two doctors, Eve and Chris, were working on a patient. Eve said the patient was experiencing "alternative states of consciousness". A couple minutes later, Chris relayed that information to a third party as "alternating olive [pause] states". He said it clear as a bell, then got a real "uh oh..." look on his face, but the rest of the actors carried on and managed to finish the scene.

Another Star Trek original series goof. I think it's the episode Charlie X. Kirk goes into the elevator wearing his green Captain shirt, but when he steps out onto the bridge, he's wearing the yellow one (or it's yellow first then green, it's been a while since I watched it)

Original Trek seemed to have more than its share of wardrobe malfunctions (although sadly not the fun kind, and when you look at the skimpy outfits some of those Alien Space Babes were wearing, that's kind of remarkable in itself).

But there was one Classic Trek goof that only came to light fairly recently: when the series was remastered & cleaned up for release on DVD, all the syndication cuts were restored, (and at least for a while shown on some cable stations with special expanded time slots) and lots of little bits of scenes were seen for the first time since the 60's. One of these was the tail end of a scene in Spock's quarters, there's some odd little "alien"-ish knick-knack on a shelf in the background, it looks like some kind of piece of sculpture with a candle or small electric light in it, and in the restored bit at the end of the scene you can see a noticeable amount of smoke suddenly start to emit from the thing as it is apparently catching on fire.

There was a show on briefly in the mid 70's called The McLean Stevenson Show that my cousin was a cast member of. Coincidentally, there happens to be a clip of this show on YT and you can see a very unintentional goof in the opening credits around :38 seconds. "Jason" rams into McLean with his bike and I guess the producers loved the mishap since McLean's reaction added to the overall theme of the show.

McLean Stevenson Show - 1976

Although looking at the clip again, it seems intentional (little devil!) but I've heard this story so many times that I know that was not the intention of the scene when they filmed it!

Great Clip, DownsideUp.
Paul Williams singing the theme song - whatever happened to theme songs? And one of the Darryl's from Newhart playing Larry.

Wow. Larry speaks!

Do typos count? 'Cuz I noticed on one of the Hogan's Heroes Season Four eps, the short credits of "written by" and "directed by" that appeared just before the individual ep (not the main credits with title and stars), they spelled the director's name wrong. Edward H. Feldman had been (I think) a co-producer and had written and directed several of the eps, but on this one his last name is spelled "Feldmam". I couldn't believe it. I went back, looked again, paused the frame, and there it was clear as day.

I sure hope so, because CNN Headline News constantly has something misspelled. It's like their graphic person is not quite awake yet during Morning Express with Robin Meade. Nothing like waking up to "Bush goes to Irat", or "Dog saws owner."

One that just happened: on MSNBC, for the past 15 minutes or so, their newsticker has been running with the following text, "THE HEADLINE...THE HEADLINE...THE HEADLINE..." Over and over and over. Either nothing is happening in the world right now, or whatever is, is incredibly generic.

Hee, Shelwood!

If typos and mispronunciations count, my local NBC news affiliate owns this thread.

The full-time, billboard anchorwoman Kristen Mostetler: "...that will make teenagers salivi....savallila....salive....whatever that word is!!!"

What is "salivate," Alex?

That's my favorite, but there have been tons.

Is this one meant to be saves? Because that's the only thing that occurs to me. Unless the dog has suddenly developed thumbs. "This'll teach you for all the times you pretended to throw the stick..."

I've been Netflixing the early Dark Shadows episodes, and at the beginning of every episode an announcer reads the episode number, filming date, and air date off a chalkboard slate. One of the things I most look forward to is when he screws it up from time to time. But the best one happened in the very first episode. Imagine you're about to check out this new gothic soap opera that's been getting so much hype, and the first thing you hear is the announcer in a slightly annoyed tone say "All right, I'm here, what do you want me to do? (pause) I can't see the slate!"

As owner of some of these episodes on DVD (and former owner of hundreds on tape...wish I still had them!), I can assure you that the bloopers just keep coming. One of my favorites was Burke trying to talk Vicky out of researching so much of the Collins family history. He's trying to say "history kick," and it keeps coming out as "hickory stick" and "hickory kick." I could go on forever with booms and cameras being in the shots, makeup falling off, props falling over. Good times.

I loved Dark Shadows, it was must see when I was young. I had read a behind the scenes memior written by Grayson Hall, Dr Hoffman, evidentially they were all drunk or stoned, the actors, the writers, the crew. It was a real party show!

And at least once, a character said "Hollywood" when he meant "Collinwood".

There's a clip on YouTube with the headslate for the final episode, on which the airdate was written wrong. VO: "Dark Shadows, the last one, VTR 3/24/71, Air 3/2-er, 4/2/71."

There was an episode of The Wonder Years where Kevin Arnold walks into the cafeteria and sees a girl he has a crush on. When they show the shot of the girl that is supposed to be from Kevin's POV, you can clearly see Kevin sitting at a table behind her with his back turned.

KCWY strikes again! "Wyoming is somewhat insulted from the current economic crisis due to the energy industry..."

Insulted. Yes, we're very insulted by the economic crisis. How dare you, economy!

Or maybe she meant insulated. I wouldn't care, except that I'm quite sure she actually doesn't know the word "insulated."

I realize I may have been the only person watching it, but on the short-lived CW show Runaway, the FBI was chasing a fugitive, and had tracked him to Boston. So they are working with the Boston police, and one of the officers tells them, while pointing out the location on a map on the wall, that the fugitive's car was spotted "traveling north on 95, headed toward Waltham." Only the actor pronounced the name of the town as "wal-THUMB". Like, geez, if you're going to go to the trouble of setting your show in a very specific location, at least take the trouble to learn how to pronounce the name of the town in the script.

Wal-thumb? Isn't that kinda near Wor-chester? *waves to Blackie, an apparent fellow New-Englanda*

No, hon, wrong direction. It's up near PEE-body.

That's right. Wor-chester is the one near Lee-o-minster.