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Strong Sad: And this part here represents Rondell's transformation into a new man.

Homestar Runner: I thought you said that was just an accident that happened because you loaded the film wrong.

Strong Sad: [embarrassed] Uhh, why don't you shut up, Homestar? Homestar Runner , " Experimental Film " audio commentary And this part here represents Rondell's transformation into a new man.I thought you said that was just an accident that happened because you loaded the film wrong.[embarrassed] Uhh, why don't you shut up, Homestar?

The preservation of ad libs, improvisations, and the occasional accident or mistimed what-have-you for dramatic or comic effect, sometimes at the cost of continuity.

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These are often some of the most memorable scenes, for better or for worse, due to their spontaneity.

Differs slightly from attaching Hilarious Outtakes to the ends of shows. Related to No Fourth Wall and Enforced Method Acting - especially in cases of pain and surprise. See also Rule of Funny, Rule of Cool.

Not to be confused with Enforced Method Acting, when something unexpected is deliberately done to an actor in order to elicit a realistic response, or Improv, where there is very little or no script at all and the actors are making up large chunks as they go along.

See also The Show Must Go On, Studio Chatter, Good Bad Bugs.

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Contrast Blooper.

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Arts

Norman Rockwell created the models for his paintings by posing real people and taking their picture. One of his works depicts a young couple filling out their marriage license. Originally he intended to depict the presiding clerk in "paternal beaming" mode, but when one of the photos caught the clerk-model slumped in his chair, staring absently off into space, that was what went into the final picture ◊ .

. This was how William Wegman found his niche in film and photographs of Weimaraners. Previously struggling with his career as a painter, Wegman one day found his calling when his dog, Man Ray, wandered onto the set during his photo shoots. Finding it easier to incorporate his dog into the set, rather than keeping him off, he used Weimeraners as a template for his works thereafter.

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Literature

Podcasts

Several examples occur in Interstitial Actual Play. Riley didn't initially realize that the Master Emerald was kept in a place called Angel Island , but once Hazel pointed it out he took that info and ran with it. In episode 12, Riley describes a stomping sound emerging from the forest. Jo asks if Diz has AT-ATs. Riley only intended to describe the Smoke Monster from Lost, but liked the idea so much they combine the two into a single Nobody that they dub "the Smo-body". At the end of the same episode, Riley asks the party to name literally any property. Hazel picks Twin Peaks and so Mr. C appears wearing a suit of Powered Armor made out of his car. The reveal that Roxanne was a Nobody of Ennora began as a joke before the players discussed it further off screen and introduced it into the game later on.



Puppet Shows

The Muppet Show: In the Candice Bergen episode, Kermit ended the episode by attempting to pie Fozzie Bear in the face. However, Kermit didn't get enough cream on Fozzie's face, so he pied Fozzie again and ended up hitting part of Bergen's shirt. Fozzie said, "Look what you just did!" A change that became an establishing character moment for Miss Piggy: in one of her earliest appearances, the script called for her to slap Kermit over some disagreement. Frank Oz, however was having trouble trying to do a convincing-looking slap. He eventually got frustrated and had her karate-chop Kermit with a wild yell. The rest is history.

More of a meta example, but it still fits. During pre-production for Muppets Tonight, the performers started fooling around with random characters to work out characters for the show. When Bill Baretta started singing with the Johnny Fiama puppet, no one was listening, so Brian Henson picked up a random monkey puppet and yelled at everyone to listen to Johnny. This resulted in the character of Sal.

Sesame Street is known to do this with their "Muppet and Kid" segments, in which the Muppet asks the kid something and they reply. In the most well-known of the bunch, Kermit was supposed to sing the ABC's with a little girl. Only the child decided to have her own little joke by shouting "Cookie Monster!" at various points in the song. Jim Henson played along with it, creating one of the funniest moments in the show's history .

. A more dramatic example from Thunderbirds: while filming the climactic landing sequence of "Trapped In The Sky", the string holding one of the Elevator Cars onto the rolling road suddenly snapped, causing it to veer out of control and crash. Special effects director Derek Meddings was so impressed by the realism of the crash that he convinced the Andersons to rewrite the script to incorporate it, adding a shot of the out-of-control Elevator Car crashing into a parked aircraft.

Radio

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The comically anguished scream presented as "this recording of a man being put into the Vortex" is actually a recording of Simon Jones reacting to a piano lid smashing his fingers. In an earlier episode, the Golgafrincham B Ark has "tired TV producers" aboard. This was supposed to be "Tri-D TV producers", but the scripts were misprinted and the production team thought the new line was just as good as the original.

During the episode "TV Documentary" of The Navy Lark there's been a Running Gag about Leading Seaman Riddle being called to the Bridge but he never turns up. During the climax the messenger says that he realises where Riddle has been all this time. "I'm Reading Seama-" [audience explodes with laughter and the actor stumbers for a short while] "I'm Leading Seaman Riddle!" [audience cheers]

In "Bleak Expectations" Anthony Head, in the role of Gently Benevolent, is pretending to be an American named Harlan J Trashcan and suing Pip Bin over the royalties for the invention of the bin. Part way through the court scene he had trouble getting back into his (very, very obviously fake) American accent after two other characters had been speaking. In the process of attempting to get into the accent he says "sorry, can't get the accent". This was left in, along with the slightly odd sounds he made trying to get the accent back, and is not remotely out of place (nor is it at all surprising that Pip still does not immediately realise what's going on).

Roleplay

During the DC Nation Olympics Arc, it was completely unintentional for Hades to actually kill Arsenal. The intent by the plot-runner and Hades-mun was just to get him high, removing him from the fight. The fact the Roy player ran with it and made Hades simulate a heroin overdose completely changed the ending, prompting the Sadistic Choice the Greek Gods would force on Donna later.

Survival of the Fittest: Less funny than dramatic, but Brittanny Ashworth's death in V2. The character's handler said, in an OOC note at the end of his first post with her, "Anybody after a kill feel free to take a shot at her." Of course, somebody interpreted this a bit too literally, godmoding the character's death at the hands of his villain character. After a little debate, it was left in. Also, an important part of V3 character's Adam Reeves' backstory revolves around him having his lip torn by a fish-hook hold in a fight. It was suggested the culprit of this injury was the older brother of Maxie Dasai. The more the handlers thought about the idea, the better it sounded, and it was simply thrown in.

AJCO: While building the original facility for the roleplay sets, A_J's player (the aptly named AJ) accidentally dug through into bedrock, exposing the endless blackness underneath the Minecraft world. She created a lab room around it, and many RPs later the Void is the most important plot point of the whole series. A_J's distinctive Black Eyes of Evil also came about when Pythosblaze, Frances' player, drew her first fanart of A_J and misinterpreted AJ's badly-shaded skin as having completely black eyes. AJ rolled with it, and it was explained in-RP as one of the side-effects of continuous exposure to the Void. Similarly, Breyos' and Dell's players both drew Vinnie with pointy ears when they were meant to be a human, and Vinnie's player Cameo decided to keep it and explain it as plastic surgery due to dramatic bullying on their home planet.

Some elements of We Are All Pokémon Trainers were created simply because someone did something random and the rest decided it was good enough to throw in. Examples include: Jane's inexplicable Southern accent at the beginning of the RP being explained as a Hoennese (In particular Mossdeep) accent. Champloo, Dune's Lucario, decided to make a batch of super-chocolaty brownies. It was suggested that, do to the sheer endorphin-releasing goodness of that much chocolate, they should be able to reduce a Shadow Pokemon's shadow gauge. This is eventually how Vega the Drilbur purified.

A decent part of the plot of Ruby Quest occurs because Weaver took a few of /tg/'s silly and/or unexpected suggestions seriously. When somebody asked to put a severed hand up a pneumatic mail chute, up the hand went, and it was later used to reveal that Ruby used to be murderously violent . When /tg/ wanted to bash their way through puzzles, those puzzles were very quickly solved. When /tg/ directed Ruby to lick the Fleshy Prototube, they discovered it tasted bad. When the players voted to save Jay, three people escaped the Metal Glen instead of two .

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