30/08/2010

0:00:13 > 0:00:15Hello, I'm Robert Webb.

0:00:15 > 0:00:18Welcome to Great TV Mistakes.

0:00:18 > 0:00:22Now, I know what you're saying - "But people in telly don't make mistakes.

0:00:22 > 0:00:24"They're all perfect, like you, Rob."

0:00:24 > 0:00:26Not true. Everyone makes mistakes.

0:00:26 > 0:00:29You just called me Rob, for instance.

0:00:29 > 0:00:33And no-one but no-one calls me Rob unless I give them permission. Understand?!

0:00:33 > 0:00:36Don't worry. People in telly are just like you.

0:00:36 > 0:00:40They mess up. A crew member appears in the back of shot, a prop changes colour,

0:00:40 > 0:00:43someone commissions another series of My Family.

0:00:43 > 0:00:45Mistakes get made, and that's where we come in.

0:00:45 > 0:00:49We find these embarrassing errors and make a show out of them.

0:00:49 > 0:00:53Some people might call that schadenfreude. I just call it funny.

0:00:53 > 0:00:54Enjoy.

0:00:54 > 0:00:56Coming up - mistakes from:

0:01:04 > 0:01:06..and many, many more!

0:01:06 > 0:01:11To misquote the great Salt-N-Pepa, let's talk about sets.

0:01:13 > 0:01:18Set designers do an incredible job, and I hate to spoil the magic of television, but sometimes what

0:01:18 > 0:01:24appears to be real is actually made of elaborately painted wood, much like Amanda Holden's face.

0:01:24 > 0:01:27This wall behind me, that's not brick, that's papier mache,

0:01:27 > 0:01:30expertly knocked together by the Great TV Mistakes set designers.

0:01:30 > 0:01:34Trust me, there's nothing we in television can't convincingly recreate.

0:01:34 > 0:01:37The inside of the White House, the outside of a spaceship,

0:01:37 > 0:01:40even an entire 15th century English village.

0:01:40 > 0:01:45Everything, in fact, except Daphne in Frasier's Mancunian accent,

0:01:45 > 0:01:47And all of these shocking set-related howlers.

0:01:49 > 0:01:51Hey, Magnum's in Friends.

0:01:51 > 0:01:54Look at the size of the bloke. They're having to widen the shot just to squeeze him in.

0:01:54 > 0:01:57A bit too wide, if you ask me.

0:01:57 > 0:02:03That is the edge of the set. Unless there's always been an enormous hole in Joey and Chandler's wall.

0:02:03 > 0:02:06In which case, why does everyone still use the door?

0:02:06 > 0:02:08Well, we had a table in college.

0:02:11 > 0:02:15Filming historical storylines is always a challenge.

0:02:15 > 0:02:20Take this episode of Doctor Who, set in Victorian London with Charles Dickens and some zombies.

0:02:20 > 0:02:25But forget about them, because that is an electric light switch.

0:02:25 > 0:02:29Edison didn't test the first light bulb until nine years after Charles Dickens' death.

0:02:29 > 0:02:32If that isn't a mistake, my name isn't Robert Webb.

0:02:32 > 0:02:35Which it is.

0:02:40 > 0:02:46It's Doctor Who, '70s-style. And problems with the TARDIS have forced him to get these alien builders in.

0:02:46 > 0:02:50See the alien builder on the left, keep your eyes on his feet.

0:02:50 > 0:02:52D'oh! That's torn it, literally.

0:02:52 > 0:02:56Light, too much light!

0:02:56 > 0:02:59Yeah, he's got his space boat caught under the Axminster. You idiot.

0:02:59 > 0:03:04I know what you're thinking, how's he going to get his foot out from under the carpet?

0:03:04 > 0:03:07Pick it up or just kick the carpet out of the way?

0:03:07 > 0:03:11And he... Yeah, he just kicks it out of the way. Nice one.

0:03:11 > 0:03:13Goddamn alien cowboy builders!

0:03:15 > 0:03:18The IT Crowd, and Jen's up on the top floor.

0:03:18 > 0:03:21I feel like I'm on top of the world.

0:03:21 > 0:03:24Well, the top floor anyway, which is...

0:03:24 > 0:03:25Floor 34.

0:03:25 > 0:03:27Yes, floor 34.

0:03:27 > 0:03:32- OK, where am I going? - All the way down to the basement.

0:03:32 > 0:03:36From floor 34. But, hang on.

0:03:36 > 0:03:40That lift's only got 31 buttons, meaning there's only 31 floors.

0:03:40 > 0:03:41This doesn't make any sense.

0:03:41 > 0:03:46I'm beginning to think these people don't take their pretend lift buttons seriously.

0:03:48 > 0:03:51A brilliantly silly sequence from Wonder Woman now, starring

0:03:51 > 0:03:53killer ape Gargantua

0:03:53 > 0:03:57and this bloke in specs, who kicks off a classic dust-up

0:03:57 > 0:04:01by throwing a balsawood coffee table like a massive girl.

0:04:01 > 0:04:07Then, after some more "acting", he goes running for the door and that large red emergency button.

0:04:07 > 0:04:13Gargantua throws a poorly constructed dummy across the room and, hey, it's a military rozzer.

0:04:13 > 0:04:18He tries to press the button, misses is, but it goes off anyway. He's out of the game.

0:04:18 > 0:04:21But here comes his mate, who's elderly.

0:04:21 > 0:04:23He ignores the emergency button, cos it's not there any more,

0:04:23 > 0:04:27and bounces off Gargantua like a septuagenarian pinball.

0:04:27 > 0:04:30Yes, there was an error there but I'll be damned if I could spot it.

0:04:32 > 0:04:36Here's pathologist turned serial killer, Dexter,

0:04:36 > 0:04:39examining a dead body. Now, hold it there.

0:04:39 > 0:04:41Time check. 11 minutes past 4.

0:04:41 > 0:04:43And play.

0:04:43 > 0:04:46Dexter takes a quick shufti at the cadaver.

0:04:46 > 0:04:49And hold again. Ooh, it's 4:17.

0:04:49 > 0:04:51That little look took six minutes.

0:04:51 > 0:04:55Doesn't time fly when you're sniffing at a corpse.

0:04:59 > 0:05:01Here's Lucy Lawless as Xena

0:05:01 > 0:05:04in the best fighting form of her life, taking on baddie Deiphobus

0:05:04 > 0:05:07Go, Xena! She's hard as a rock.

0:05:07 > 0:05:09In fact, much harder than a rock.

0:05:09 > 0:05:12Especially THAT rock. Boing!

0:05:13 > 0:05:15Doing!

0:05:15 > 0:05:19Hmm, did they have foam in ancient Greece?

0:05:21 > 0:05:23Remember the time that you almost drowned...

0:05:23 > 0:05:27Now, I don't want to suggest that they knocked some of these sets up in an afternoon,

0:05:27 > 0:05:32cos often they don't have that long, But there is something a bit crap about this clip from Xena,

0:05:32 > 0:05:37in which we see a Greek fortress, which history tells us were made of stone.

0:05:37 > 0:05:41Stone, that geology tells us isn't known for its wobbly properties.

0:05:41 > 0:05:45But look, over he goes, with a wibble and a wobble and a half pipe twist

0:05:45 > 0:05:49that gymnastics tells us is an 8.5. I bet you can't do that again.

0:05:49 > 0:05:53Wibble wobble, wibble wobble. Oh, he can.

0:05:55 > 0:06:00That was the one I was trying to get a look at, not that Australian hayseed.

0:06:00 > 0:06:03All's not well at Fawlty Towers, for a change.

0:06:03 > 0:06:08Try as he might, Basil just can't get through to wife Sybil, for a change.

0:06:08 > 0:06:12She's so annoyed and slams the door, along with half the wall.

0:06:12 > 0:06:16That is some very unstable brickwork. Will somebody please call a builder?

0:06:16 > 0:06:19And not Mr O'Reilly. Little joke for the fans there.

0:06:22 > 0:06:29Just in case you're not one, O'Reilly is Basil's regular builder, very cheap and less than competent.

0:06:29 > 0:06:33Look, he's blocked up the door to the dining room, blocked solid.

0:06:33 > 0:06:35Well, not entirely.

0:06:35 > 0:06:39No one puts up a wobblier wall than Basil Fawlty's builder.

0:06:39 > 0:06:41Apart from a BBC set designer.

0:06:44 > 0:06:49Sometimes not even a cheap set can ruin a scene, if the scene is a classic.

0:06:49 > 0:06:54Basil's trying to catch one of the guests with a girl in his room but he's got the wrong window.

0:06:54 > 0:06:57Keep your eyes on the pane of "glass".

0:06:59 > 0:07:03It's plastic. And smeary, scratched plastic at that.

0:07:03 > 0:07:08All in all, a gold star for BBC comedy and a brown smear for programme finance.

0:07:14 > 0:07:17In this clip from Only Fools, Del and Rodney are round at Denzil's,

0:07:17 > 0:07:20possibly the only flat in Peckham in worse shape than the Trotters'.

0:07:20 > 0:07:23I'll make you wish your mum had had a headache...

0:07:23 > 0:07:28When his wife storms out, though, watch what happens to the wall, and the budgie.

0:07:28 > 0:07:30Ooh, he didn't see that coming.

0:07:30 > 0:07:32Obviously never stayed at Fawlty Towers.

0:07:34 > 0:07:36All right then, tonight, I'll be there.

0:07:36 > 0:07:41It's Blackadder II, and Queenie and Edmond are staking a wager with Lord Melchett.

0:07:41 > 0:07:45Namely, how long can Stephen Fry last before going "Mehhh"?

0:07:46 > 0:07:52Watch what happens when Rowan waltzes out and, in his own words, the wall goes wibble.

0:07:52 > 0:07:55I know what Stephen Fry would have said if he had seen that.

0:07:55 > 0:07:56"Mehhhhh!"

0:07:58 > 0:08:01- Where have you been? - Where haven't I been? Woof!

0:08:01 > 0:08:06Blackadder was a studio show, so you'd expect the build quality of the sets to be a bit dodgy.

0:08:06 > 0:08:09As we know, that's just part of British sitcom law,

0:08:09 > 0:08:11although in the case of these doors,

0:08:11 > 0:08:15surely even balsawood would have been a better choice than polystyrene.

0:08:20 > 0:08:25Will Smith is living it up in his uncle's mansion, a cardboard mansion.

0:08:25 > 0:08:27Boom, shake the room!

0:08:27 > 0:08:29I hope that's not a supporting wall.

0:08:34 > 0:08:35Did you move my hairdryer?

0:08:35 > 0:08:40Over in the city of sex, Miranda's cleaner is about to open her bedside drawer.

0:08:40 > 0:08:42Oh, she's found a massive vibrator.

0:08:42 > 0:08:47'Magda had discovered Miranda's goody drawer.'

0:08:47 > 0:08:51Slam it shut! Got it. Oh, Wait a second, now it's open again. Oh, get a grip, people.

0:08:51 > 0:08:57Someone's sloppy, between-takes work just left Miranda's lady toys on show for all to see.

0:08:57 > 0:08:59Mind you, who'd fancy that?

0:09:02 > 0:09:06Band of Brothers. Here's Captain Nixon looking pretty fed up.

0:09:06 > 0:09:10So fed up, he's going to throw a bin through that shop window.

0:09:10 > 0:09:11Hold it.

0:09:11 > 0:09:14That's a nasty-looking shard of broken glass.

0:09:15 > 0:09:20No, don't go through the window, you'll cut yourself on that nasty looking shard of...

0:09:20 > 0:09:24Oh, it's all gone. That is a mistake. At ease everyone.

0:09:29 > 0:09:31Right, they leave me no choice.

0:09:31 > 0:09:33A classic Thunderbirds car chase.

0:09:33 > 0:09:37Watch what happens when the baddies' car spins off the road.

0:09:37 > 0:09:39Timber!

0:09:39 > 0:09:42Either the biggest squirrel in the world is in those trees

0:09:42 > 0:09:44or the set guy just ran out of glue.

0:09:46 > 0:09:49I think he makes half of it up.

0:09:49 > 0:09:55Doctor Who's been on the telly for 47 years and 42 of those have been spent in corridors.

0:09:55 > 0:09:59That's because corridors are cheap and impossible to get wrong, mostly.

0:09:59 > 0:10:01Freeze the shot.

0:10:01 > 0:10:04Notice the sign on the left for Torchwood.

0:10:04 > 0:10:08Now, spin forward, and it's Billie's turn to try and fill some airtime.

0:10:09 > 0:10:12That's it, Billie, create a bit of tension. Keep the dads watching.

0:10:12 > 0:10:14And look at that.

0:10:14 > 0:10:19The sign's gone all bigger with loads of added signery that just wasn't there a moment ago.

0:10:21 > 0:10:27"Will the set designer please report to base where an arse-kicking is waiting? Thank you."

0:10:31 > 0:10:34You think you can kill a cop and get away with it?

0:10:34 > 0:10:36Why not? I've done it before.

0:10:36 > 0:10:38Star Trek: The Next Generation,

0:10:38 > 0:10:44and Captain Picard and Data have got all mixed up with some '30s gangster types on the holodeck.

0:10:46 > 0:10:49Meanwhile, outside in the corridor, we can clearly see there's

0:10:49 > 0:10:53absolutely no second corridor leading off to the side.

0:10:53 > 0:10:58Except when the gangsters step outside, there is.

0:10:58 > 0:11:02In space, no-one can hear you scream, "That was rubbish!"

0:11:04 > 0:11:05But what I said was a statement of fact.

0:11:05 > 0:11:09Now, I won't condone theft, but everyone knows it's traditional

0:11:09 > 0:11:13when checking out of a hotel to snatch a towel.

0:11:13 > 0:11:19But apparently in deep space it's equally common when being discharged from sick bay, to nick a pillow.

0:11:19 > 0:11:21Two pillows in this shot,

0:11:21 > 0:11:23one pillow in this.

0:11:23 > 0:11:25Don't play the innocent with me, young man.

0:11:25 > 0:11:28I know what you're hiding in your space trousers.

0:11:30 > 0:11:33- It's not going to work. - Excellent, John, you're evolving.

0:11:33 > 0:11:38Here's one for fans of Lost, assuming there are any left.

0:11:38 > 0:11:43In this scene, Locke is required to throw a plastic tray at a stone wall,

0:11:43 > 0:11:46but see how the plastic tray makes the stone wall tremble.

0:11:49 > 0:11:52Normally, I'd say that was a TV mistake but this is Lost,

0:11:52 > 0:11:55so you know, anything's possible. I blame the polar bears.

0:11:58 > 0:12:01Hi, just so you know, we didn't mean...

0:12:01 > 0:12:04Back to Friends, which was, of course, always filmed in front of

0:12:04 > 0:12:07a live studio audience, and a very wobbly set.

0:12:09 > 0:12:13Hmm, about as convincing as that bloke's beard.

0:12:15 > 0:12:16Merry Christmas!

0:12:16 > 0:12:20This is an episode of Friends called The One With The Self-Opening Door.

0:12:20 > 0:12:22Oh God, you're the best!

0:12:22 > 0:12:24Door closed...

0:12:26 > 0:12:34Door open. If that isn't final proof of the existence of the supernatural, I don't know what is.

0:12:36 > 0:12:41Ronnie Barker in the excellent Porridge and the inmates of Slade are out

0:12:41 > 0:12:45for the day, under the supervision of Mr Barraclough in an old church.

0:12:45 > 0:12:51Well, the outside bits were filmed in an old church, but the interiors certainly weren't.

0:12:51 > 0:12:55Want proof? Just look what happens when Melvyn leans on a column.

0:12:55 > 0:13:01Yes, it wobbles in a way that most Saxon stonework just doesn't,

0:13:01 > 0:13:04shaking like Amy Winehouse before the pubs open.

0:13:06 > 0:13:11TV is divided into on and off-screen talent. And for good reason.

0:13:11 > 0:13:15I'm on-screen talent, because I'm beautiful and incredibly clever.

0:13:15 > 0:13:17The camera people, make-up assistants and wardrobe -

0:13:17 > 0:13:21flunkies, are off-screen talent, because they're ugly.

0:13:21 > 0:13:23Trust me, you do not want to see these people.

0:13:23 > 0:13:27I'm facing some of them right now and just looking at them is giving me such violent

0:13:27 > 0:13:30stomach cramps it's a wonder I don't vomit all over the camera.

0:13:30 > 0:13:34So, hold on to your lunches, cos our first set of clips are

0:13:34 > 0:13:38littered with off-screen bods making fleeting on screen appearances.

0:13:38 > 0:13:44Not so much in a knowing, ironic, Alfred Hitchcock kind of a way, more a sort of "Oi, bacon-face, shift!"

0:13:44 > 0:13:46sort of a way. Eww...

0:13:48 > 0:13:52Hey, look, those crafty ancient Greeks are attacking Troy

0:13:52 > 0:13:56after sneaking into the city in the belly of the Trojan horse.

0:13:56 > 0:13:58There they are, in their rubber helmets.

0:14:00 > 0:14:04But, according to this episode of Xena, they weren't alone.

0:14:04 > 0:14:06It's your job to fight her first.

0:14:06 > 0:14:09Oh no, cos also stowed away in the horse's bumhole was...

0:14:09 > 0:14:14This bloke! There he is, squatting on the battlements. You numpty.

0:14:16 > 0:14:22Here's Sarah Michelle Gellar walking through a creepy wood late at night

0:14:22 > 0:14:26Careful, Buffy, watch out for vampires!

0:14:26 > 0:14:27Oh my God, what's that?!

0:14:27 > 0:14:29It's a monster with a huge...!

0:14:29 > 0:14:32Microphone. Oh dear, it's the boom operator.

0:14:34 > 0:14:38Thunderbirds, and ignore this foreign baddie.

0:14:40 > 0:14:42Damn those Welsh Iraqi pilots.

0:14:42 > 0:14:47Watch Tintin, held in the vice-like grip of this serial killer turned puppeteer.

0:14:47 > 0:14:50His nails aren't normally that dirty, he'd just finished burying another body.

0:14:53 > 0:14:56So what did you do that made Dad cut you off?

0:14:56 > 0:14:57OK, team, no clues.

0:14:57 > 0:15:01See if you can spot the mistake in this clip from Friends.

0:15:01 > 0:15:04Yeah, but it wasn't for me, it was for a friend.

0:15:04 > 0:15:06Boy, did we make friends with the wrong sister.

0:15:06 > 0:15:11You missed it, didn't you? Forget the pretty actors, look at the pretty cameraman.

0:15:11 > 0:15:15It's amazing what you miss when you're laughing. And when you're not.

0:15:19 > 0:15:23It's gourmet night at Fawlty Towers and a very funny scene featuring

0:15:23 > 0:15:26a fine example of the easily missable TV mistake.

0:15:28 > 0:15:30Missed it, didn't you? Here it is again.

0:15:30 > 0:15:36This time, forget the action and concentrate on the BBC techie bloke squatting behind the double doors.

0:15:36 > 0:15:41A classic mistake from a classic comedy that just got funnier with age.

0:15:41 > 0:15:43If only the same could be said for John Cleese.

0:15:43 > 0:15:45I mean, look at that!

0:15:45 > 0:15:48- Can I help? - Yes, go and kill yourself!

0:15:49 > 0:15:54Sam and Dean from Supernatural are having trouble with a couple of amateur ghost hunters.

0:15:54 > 0:15:57Question is, what's behind that door?

0:15:57 > 0:16:02Guys, you want to go open that door for us?

0:16:02 > 0:16:08Everyone's terrified and armed to the teeth - must be the Jehovah's Witnesses.

0:16:08 > 0:16:14It's a ghost, or at least a ghost who can be hurt by bullets.

0:16:14 > 0:16:18I can't decide what's worse about this clip, the ghost who's afraid of bullets

0:16:18 > 0:16:20or the cameraman who doesn't know where to stand.

0:16:20 > 0:16:23Hmm, it's the cameraman.

0:16:26 > 0:16:32Its Charmed, the series about a bunch of friendly witches. Or am I thinking of Loose Women?

0:16:32 > 0:16:35Anyway, ignore this trespasser and instead feast your eyes on

0:16:35 > 0:16:40the director sitting in the next room listening to his iPod.

0:16:40 > 0:16:43You're supposed to sit behind the camera, not in front of the pointy end. See that book?

0:16:43 > 0:16:48As soon as they turn the camera off, they're going to hit him with that.

0:16:48 > 0:16:54Its Doctor Who from 1975, back when children everywhere could

0:16:54 > 0:16:57be found hiding behind the sofa, avoiding gaffes like this.

0:16:57 > 0:17:02Keep your eyes on the baddie's bottom, or rather what's under it.

0:17:02 > 0:17:04- I can move!- Oh dear.

0:17:06 > 0:17:12That floor assistant's thinking "If I move my hand away slowly, no-one will see a thing."

0:17:12 > 0:17:13But we did.

0:17:15 > 0:17:20Here's Blackadder staging an elaborate con trick, but not the one

0:17:20 > 0:17:23where he gets massive laughs from repeatedly saying the world "Bob."

0:17:23 > 0:17:26No, he's pretending he's built a time machine.

0:17:26 > 0:17:29Of course, it's not real, and you can tell cos it's made of wood

0:17:29 > 0:17:36and bits of old junk and requires one of the crew to push the door shut.

0:17:36 > 0:17:40Well done, Balders, this is very impressive.

0:17:40 > 0:17:42The maybe of Mike Delphino.

0:17:42 > 0:17:47It's Desperate Housewives, and Susan's just broken into a neighbour's house

0:17:47 > 0:17:52to return a Pyrex jug, but finds time to take a moment alone with just her thoughts for company.

0:17:52 > 0:17:57And that bloke crawling behind the sofa.

0:17:57 > 0:17:59Yes, it's the guy who just set fire to the curtains,

0:17:59 > 0:18:05whose idea of keeping out of shot is crawling across the screen on his hands and knees.

0:18:05 > 0:18:07Wait for it. You're... Fired!

0:18:07 > 0:18:09Ha-ha! Sorry.

0:18:13 > 0:18:17Here's a clip from Scrubs, the American sitcom set in a hospital.

0:18:17 > 0:18:20It's a bit like Casualty but with fewer laughs.

0:18:20 > 0:18:24Here, Dr Turk is about to bite into a sarnie when all of a sudden, there's an emergency.

0:18:24 > 0:18:27Thankfully, someone's there to lend a hand.

0:18:27 > 0:18:30That's either a member of the crew holding the door open

0:18:30 > 0:18:33or one of the patients has fallen out of bed again.

0:18:35 > 0:18:38- Make those dreams happen.- Yes.

0:18:38 > 0:18:40You can always tell when a TV series is working,

0:18:40 > 0:18:44cos everyone on screen looks like they're really enjoying themselves.

0:18:44 > 0:18:46Take Arrested Development, a show which is obviously so much fun

0:18:46 > 0:18:51even the crew like to get on, just once... Boo!

0:18:52 > 0:18:55Or twice. Boo!

0:18:57 > 0:19:03- An emotional farewell scene in Lost as Charlie says goodbye to Hurley. - That's uncool, man.

0:19:03 > 0:19:08But for once, try to keep your eyes off the unfolding drama and Hurley's boobs,

0:19:08 > 0:19:11and on the cameraman clearly visible to the left of shot.

0:19:11 > 0:19:16You can see his sandals, his camera and if you really squint, his P45.

0:19:16 > 0:19:18Wait!

0:19:20 > 0:19:25Its 24, and everything, as always, is very, very tense.

0:19:25 > 0:19:27A tense Tony is ignoring a call from a tense Nina.

0:19:27 > 0:19:29Come on, Sammy, pick up.

0:19:29 > 0:19:33Unbeknown to tense Nina, there's someone else in the barn with her.

0:19:33 > 0:19:36And here he comes, wandering in from the right.

0:19:36 > 0:19:38A cameraman.

0:19:38 > 0:19:42And if you want to know how he's feeling, I'll tell you. Tense.

0:19:44 > 0:19:49Jennifer Aniston's fantasising about what it would be like to kiss David Schwimmer.

0:19:49 > 0:19:51It's what they call a dream sequence.

0:19:51 > 0:19:53- It's what I call a nightmare.- Wow!

0:19:53 > 0:19:57Ignore this bloke, he's part of the story, but who's he?

0:19:57 > 0:20:02Remember, we're on a balcony, so who's the levitating fat-arsed numpty with the utility belt?

0:20:02 > 0:20:05Yes, it's one of the Friends crew.

0:20:09 > 0:20:13Whenever there's a conversation about the world's hardest jobs,

0:20:13 > 0:20:16the same professions come up time and time again.

0:20:16 > 0:20:21Trauma surgeon, soldier, air traffic controller, and of course, actor.

0:20:21 > 0:20:25And out of these jobs, actor is surely the hardest.

0:20:25 > 0:20:27Actors do a very difficult job.

0:20:27 > 0:20:30If we're not learning lines, then we're signing autographs or doing

0:20:30 > 0:20:33stuff for free with wonky kids, we're having to stand up in front

0:20:33 > 0:20:38of loads of strangers and say words that sometimes we don't even understand.

0:20:38 > 0:20:45Consequently, every now and again, through no fault of our own, stuff does go a bit wrong.

0:20:47 > 0:20:49I'm sorry, the party got a little out of hand.

0:20:49 > 0:20:51People your age, they have finished college...

0:20:51 > 0:20:53Oh, the poor little rich girls of The OC.

0:20:53 > 0:20:58Here's Hayley, tidying up after another crazy party.

0:20:58 > 0:21:03Well, I say tidying up, but what Amanda Rugetti is actually doing

0:21:03 > 0:21:06is picking up tiny pieces of invisible rubbish.

0:21:06 > 0:21:09Look, she's dropping little bits of air into that bin bag.

0:21:11 > 0:21:15That, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call method acting...

0:21:15 > 0:21:18if your method is piss-poor.

0:21:18 > 0:21:20You know, this scene was filmed eight years ago

0:21:20 > 0:21:24but unsurprisingly, she only finished tidying the room last Thursday.

0:21:24 > 0:21:26Oh, we're back in The OC

0:21:26 > 0:21:30and here comes Mischa Barton, sulking her way into the room.

0:21:30 > 0:21:33"Nuh, nuh, nuh, I'm Mischa Barton."

0:21:33 > 0:21:38And she dumps her jacket down on the right, and then moments later,

0:21:38 > 0:21:39there it is on the left.

0:21:39 > 0:21:42That's not going to improve her mood.

0:21:45 > 0:21:48To Albert Square and that live anniversary episode.

0:21:48 > 0:21:55And Stace and Bradley are talkin' abaht 'fings with Max and Scott when Scott forgets his lines.

0:21:55 > 0:21:59You held the fact from the pl... Look, it's a motive, you've held it against the public...

0:21:59 > 0:22:01- Look, we all have... - Well, I'll explain that.

0:22:01 > 0:22:04Oh dear, no retakes here.

0:22:04 > 0:22:06This is live.

0:22:06 > 0:22:09Oh, he's gone again. Oh, tricky business this live telly.

0:22:09 > 0:22:12Bless him. I'd leave it, Scott, it ain't worth it!

0:22:14 > 0:22:19It's a classic Phil-Mitchell-in-a-rage scene and Ian's on the receiving end.

0:22:19 > 0:22:22But when you want someone to cease doing something, what do you say?

0:22:22 > 0:22:25Is it A, stop, or B, slop?

0:22:25 > 0:22:29- Slop.- What?- Slop. - I'll give you one more guess.

0:22:29 > 0:22:34- Slop.- I'm sorry, Ian, the answer was looking for was A, stop.

0:22:36 > 0:22:40Received and acknowledged, sir. Picard out.

0:22:40 > 0:22:43Jean Luc Picard, ever the stern- faced model of professionalism.

0:22:43 > 0:22:49Except when he goes through the turbo lift doors and has a quick girn. You missed it, didn't you?

0:22:49 > 0:22:51Don't worry, here it is again.

0:22:54 > 0:22:58He just boldly girned where no man has girned before.

0:23:00 > 0:23:06In this clip from Buffy, fiendish but foxy teacher Miss French is making herself a sandwich.

0:23:06 > 0:23:08She's a sucker for fresh ingredients.

0:23:08 > 0:23:11I think I have one of those myself from a motorway services.

0:23:11 > 0:23:13But there's something very wrong here.

0:23:13 > 0:23:15Besides a lady chewing live insects.

0:23:15 > 0:23:21Because when she starts eating, her sleeves are up, then she opens the box, her sleeves are down.

0:23:21 > 0:23:24And finally, they're back up again.

0:23:24 > 0:23:27Add to that the insect sandwich and all the vampire business and you've

0:23:27 > 0:23:31got a scene that's more disturbing than Andrew Lloyd Webber's smile.

0:23:34 > 0:23:37- More odd goings on in Buffy. - The werewolf!

0:23:37 > 0:23:41A werewolf has gone AWOL and they need to find him/it quickly.

0:23:41 > 0:23:43But Giles isn't wearing his glasses.

0:23:43 > 0:23:45Oh, he is. Problem solved.

0:23:45 > 0:23:49Problem unsolved! And solved again.

0:23:49 > 0:23:53I think we're sorted. That werewolf is history. My mistake! The glasses are.

0:23:55 > 0:23:59Gray's Anatomy and Patrick Dempsey takes his earphones out cos he's

0:23:59 > 0:24:01being talked at by a lady.

0:24:01 > 0:24:06- But he pretends he still can't hear her anyway.- Am I invisible? I'm feeling strangely invisible.

0:24:06 > 0:24:11- Also inaudible. - What?- And who can blame him, she really is banging on.

0:24:11 > 0:24:16- So I guess dinner shopping is out? - Yeah.- Might as well wrap the headphones up.

0:24:16 > 0:24:18- Sorry.- No you're not. I'm just trying to figure out why you're not.

0:24:18 > 0:24:20And up. A very long wire.

0:24:20 > 0:24:23And put them away.

0:24:23 > 0:24:26- Yeah, I know.- D'oh! Hang on, they're still round his neck.

0:24:26 > 0:24:28Unless that's his spare set?

0:24:28 > 0:24:32Pat, there's only so much Peter Andre a man can listen to.

0:24:35 > 0:24:41When it comes to bad dead acting, you'd have to go back a long way to find a poorer example than this.

0:24:41 > 0:24:48Centuries back, to be precise. In this clip from Xena, everyone thinks the great warrior princess is dead.

0:24:48 > 0:24:49Though quite why is anyone's guess.

0:24:49 > 0:24:55Clue one, blood is still coursing through her jugular ten to the dozen.

0:24:55 > 0:24:58Clue two, in a moment, she clearly blinks.

0:24:58 > 0:25:00And clue three, this is season one.

0:25:00 > 0:25:04- There's another five series of this rubbish. - We've got to get out of here.

0:25:06 > 0:25:09Yes, no, no, I did not book this one.

0:25:09 > 0:25:15This clip from Arrested Development will delight fans of continuity errors and flowers alike.

0:25:15 > 0:25:20There's the vicious and sexy Lindsey, who's just got back with some shopping.

0:25:20 > 0:25:24We see her take out this bunch of posies and put them on the counter.

0:25:24 > 0:25:27So far so good. Jason Bateman does some talking.

0:25:27 > 0:25:34Back to Linds and this enormous vase that she's about to dump the flowers into. When...

0:25:34 > 0:25:36They're suddenly back in the bag again.

0:25:36 > 0:25:42Yeah, that is a TV mistake and I'll be honest, I'm disappointed by that.

0:25:42 > 0:25:43And so's he.

0:25:49 > 0:25:54Band of Brothers, and Sergeant Major Schwimmer is furious with one of his soldiers.

0:25:54 > 0:25:58Christiansen, why is there no water in your canteen?!

0:25:58 > 0:26:04It's not just about the water. Look, this soldier's gun keeps jumping from one shoulder to the other.

0:26:04 > 0:26:06There it is on the right.

0:26:06 > 0:26:10- And there it is on the left. - You will repeat all 12 miles...!

0:26:10 > 0:26:13And back again. That's dangerous with a loaded weapon.

0:26:15 > 0:26:18He was a good man, your father.

0:26:18 > 0:26:22Here's Uncle Junior in The Sopranos and he's hopping mad.

0:26:22 > 0:26:26He must have lost the remote or worse, forgot to tape Minder.

0:26:26 > 0:26:32Whatever, it's made him so angry that his glasses momentarily disappear.

0:26:32 > 0:26:36Just don't anyone tell him he accidentally put a red sock in with the whites.

0:26:38 > 0:26:41Kate must have a tiny vagina.

0:26:41 > 0:26:44Here we are in that city where there's all that sex.

0:26:44 > 0:26:47And the girls are in the khazi doing lady things.

0:26:47 > 0:26:49Sometimes you just know.

0:26:49 > 0:26:50With the right match, its fate.

0:26:50 > 0:26:53Sarah Jessica Parker's sorting her hair out.

0:26:53 > 0:26:59She's tying it out in a scrunchie, but that's SJP hair, so it'll need special restraints.

0:26:59 > 0:27:03So she straps it down twice with the same scrunchie.

0:27:03 > 0:27:05But spin on, cos it was all worth it.

0:27:05 > 0:27:06Now she looks lovely

0:27:06 > 0:27:10and not at all like a Yorkshire terrier with a Croydon facelift. Super.

0:27:12 > 0:27:14Oh, look, it's only 10. How nice.

0:27:14 > 0:27:17- There's no coffee.- The Gilmore Girls, and Lorelai is chatting to

0:27:17 > 0:27:20Luke as he tries to fix a toaster by shoving a screwdriver into it.

0:27:20 > 0:27:24In a minute, he's going to try and fix the waste disposal

0:27:24 > 0:27:26by sticking his winkie into it.

0:27:26 > 0:27:30See how he goes to get coffee, leaving the screwdriver in the hole,

0:27:30 > 0:27:33and when he returns, screwdriver gone.

0:27:33 > 0:27:36Oh, there it is by the side of the toaster.

0:27:36 > 0:27:40Right, where's that waste disposal?

0:27:40 > 0:27:44Here's Sam and here's his brother, Dean.

0:27:44 > 0:27:48Ignore the girl. The ghostbusting siblings from Supernatural.

0:27:48 > 0:27:54Dean is played by an actor called Jenson - ignore the girl - and Sam by an actor called Jared.

0:27:54 > 0:28:00Are we all clear? Dean is played by Jenson and Sam is played by Jared.

0:28:00 > 0:28:03How do I know? Well, in this scene, when they're all meant to be acting,

0:28:03 > 0:28:05Dean doesn't call Sam "Sam", he calls him Jared.

0:28:05 > 0:28:06Jared, check it out.

0:28:06 > 0:28:08Yeah, "Jared, check it out.

0:28:08 > 0:28:12"I just ballsed up the scene by calling you by your real name."

0:28:15 > 0:28:19Yes, more dumbarsery from the Brothers Grimm.

0:28:19 > 0:28:23In this scene, they're supposed to be acting all angry cos they've just been outwitted by this lady.

0:28:23 > 0:28:28Although, I reckon a pigeon could outwit these two.

0:28:28 > 0:28:33Anyway, the script might be calling for fury but all Jared can manage is a poorly concealed snigger.

0:28:33 > 0:28:39- Son of a bitch!- Remember, this was presumably the best take, the one they actually used.

0:28:39 > 0:28:42Makes you wonder how bad the others were. He probably weed himself.

0:28:44 > 0:28:49Pride and Prejudice, and I've got to say, Jennifer Ehle makes playing the piano look effortless.

0:28:49 > 0:28:52Colin's Impressed. He always uses his fingers.

0:28:52 > 0:28:55Not Jen, though, her hands and arms are barely moving.

0:28:55 > 0:28:58Do you know, I think she's miming.

0:28:58 > 0:29:03- I know you find great enjoyment in professing opinions which are not your own.- And in miming.

0:29:03 > 0:29:06Either that or she's just brilliant at playing the piano.

0:29:06 > 0:29:08It's the first thing though, isn't it?

0:29:08 > 0:29:09Generous of him, is it not?

0:29:11 > 0:29:13What do you think about this?

0:29:13 > 0:29:19Here's Tasha and Troy, surely two of Star Trek: The Next Generation's least favourite characters.

0:29:19 > 0:29:23- It's not for you.- Tasha is covered in scarves. Fast forward but they're

0:29:23 > 0:29:28made from some weird futuristic space fabric which just disappears.

0:29:28 > 0:29:31- Never mind.- Oh, but I do mind.

0:29:31 > 0:29:33They're scarves, Jim, but not as we know it.

0:29:35 > 0:29:38Before Dexter was Dexter from Dexter,

0:29:38 > 0:29:42he was David from Six Feet Under, and if you thought that was confusing, I'd try not to look too

0:29:42 > 0:29:47closely at his dance teacher's bag, which is strapped over his left shoulder.

0:29:47 > 0:29:50Sometimes. You get the idea.

0:29:52 > 0:29:58They don't half have some trouble with bag straps in Six Feet Under, and props in general.

0:29:58 > 0:29:59Just watch these two.

0:29:59 > 0:30:03So, who do you think plays Parker in the movie of her life?

0:30:03 > 0:30:05Sandy Bullock or Julia Roberts?

0:30:05 > 0:30:11They both pull their rucksacks on twice and she loses her water bottle.

0:30:11 > 0:30:15They're just not taking this camping thing seriously.

0:30:17 > 0:30:21- Anyway, I just wanted to say how wonderful...- Back to Friends, and a special guest appearance

0:30:21 > 0:30:27by Susan Sarandon, the thinking person's MILF, playing a hard drinking, chain smoking actress.

0:30:27 > 0:30:31Ever the pro, Susan manages to cram both into this scene.

0:30:31 > 0:30:32Chain smoker.

0:30:32 > 0:30:35Hard drinker.

0:30:35 > 0:30:36Chain smoker.

0:30:36 > 0:30:39I hope my fingers are than nimble when I'm 80.

0:30:41 > 0:30:44TV shows are a huge investment of time, money and effort,

0:30:44 > 0:30:48but you can spend months and months getting something right,

0:30:48 > 0:30:52hiring the very best actors, camera persons, writers and crew,

0:30:52 > 0:30:57only to have the whole thing ruined by some extra in the background being a tit.

0:30:57 > 0:31:00These people are a menace, wandering in and out of the back of every shot,

0:31:00 > 0:31:05trying to be ordinary members of the public, who are the only things worse than extras.

0:31:05 > 0:31:08Nothing causes more trouble on set than members of the public.

0:31:08 > 0:31:13I hate them all. Apart from you, obviously.

0:31:16 > 0:31:19Some classic muscle Mary slow mo running now from legendary

0:31:19 > 0:31:22beachfront twaddle merchants Baywatch.

0:31:22 > 0:31:25See their toned torsos as they pound along the sand,

0:31:25 > 0:31:29see their hair blown by the gentle Pacific breeze,

0:31:29 > 0:31:32see the kid in the background pulling a moonie.

0:31:32 > 0:31:34That's worth a second look.

0:31:35 > 0:31:37Everyone's a critic.

0:31:39 > 0:31:42You don't even have to. I'm sure you were pretty freaked out.

0:31:42 > 0:31:44Totally.

0:31:44 > 0:31:46See this woman with the tartan top?

0:31:46 > 0:31:49Now remember her, cos this lady is about to take the art

0:31:49 > 0:31:52of the attention seeking TV extra to a whole new dimension.

0:31:52 > 0:31:58This is Buffy's high school, of course, and she is presumably the most mature student.

0:31:58 > 0:31:59I...think you're the coolest.

0:31:59 > 0:32:04There she is again, drawing attention to herself with that big red bag.

0:32:04 > 0:32:09Now, spin on. And there she is again, walking in the opposite direction.

0:32:09 > 0:32:12No, she's not. She's over there, walking up some stairs,

0:32:12 > 0:32:16drawing attention to herself just like those extras aren't supposed to.

0:32:16 > 0:32:20Back for more stair climbing, this time without the bag. Clever.

0:32:20 > 0:32:22Still going up the stairs.

0:32:22 > 0:32:25Mind you, at least we know where she is. No we don't.

0:32:25 > 0:32:27Buffy, now she's behind you.

0:32:27 > 0:32:33"Right, I've had enough of this," said the director, "Get that woman out of my sight.

0:32:33 > 0:32:36"Nobody lets her back on this set."

0:32:36 > 0:32:38Whoa, how did that happen?

0:32:38 > 0:32:43Crafty cow, she's taken off her horrible tartan jacket and given the red bag to someone else.

0:32:43 > 0:32:47Damn you, nightmare tartan extra lady!

0:32:47 > 0:32:51Still, the jacket's gone, the bag's gone, and, finally, so is she.

0:32:51 > 0:32:53Or not.

0:32:55 > 0:32:59Ever get the feeling you're being followed?

0:32:59 > 0:33:05In this episode of Buffy, the lovely Eliza Dushku certainly does, and with good reason.

0:33:05 > 0:33:08The winners of the 2002 Most American Couple award

0:33:08 > 0:33:11walk behind her once, which is fine. Nothing wrong there.

0:33:13 > 0:33:15But twice is pushing it.

0:33:15 > 0:33:17That's borderline harassment.

0:33:21 > 0:33:23Three times is frankly unacceptable.

0:33:23 > 0:33:26That's a restraining order right there.

0:33:26 > 0:33:30They won't be trying that again... from the same direction.

0:33:30 > 0:33:33For Pete's sake, leave lovely Eliza alone!

0:33:33 > 0:33:36They'll be hiding in that bush outside her house next, and that's mine.

0:33:39 > 0:33:44Sex And The City, a show about four single young women.

0:33:44 > 0:33:47Well, three young women and the one who plays Samantha.

0:33:47 > 0:33:53But let's rewind and look at those two extras on the left of picture sitting side by side.

0:33:53 > 0:33:57Now, spin on and clearly one of them has dropped a massive guff

0:33:57 > 0:34:02because next time we see them, they're sitting miles away from each other in separate rows.

0:34:02 > 0:34:06Poor Sam. Must have been a pretty serious guff. Someone open a window!

0:34:09 > 0:34:11OK, listen everyone, we've got to get out of here.

0:34:11 > 0:34:17Back to the doctor, and here, Mickey is attempting to save a room full of headphone wearing children.

0:34:17 > 0:34:19But they're all zombiefied.

0:34:19 > 0:34:23Mickey must have a background in IT cos he resorts to the tried and tested solution

0:34:23 > 0:34:26of just yanking out the plug and hoping for the best.

0:34:26 > 0:34:31Magically, it works, and removes the kids' headphones.

0:34:31 > 0:34:35And off they go, trudging out of a doomed building smirking.

0:34:35 > 0:34:37Good work, kids, you're hired.

0:34:39 > 0:34:42This is where I was born.

0:34:42 > 0:34:45And this is where I died.

0:34:45 > 0:34:49More Doctor Who, and Billie's on the bus in contemplative mood.

0:34:49 > 0:34:52The first 19 years of my life, nothing happened.

0:34:52 > 0:34:56But keep your eyes on the extra who sits in the row behind her.

0:34:56 > 0:34:57Not ever.

0:34:57 > 0:34:58Oh, Billie, come on.

0:34:58 > 0:35:00Incredible things are happening all around you.

0:35:00 > 0:35:04That bloke just jumped back through time and space simply to get a better seat.

0:35:04 > 0:35:06Pay attention, girl.

0:35:10 > 0:35:13It's the X-Files, and as Mulder and Scully head

0:35:13 > 0:35:19out into the car park, what seems to be a perfectly ordinary passer by suddenly disappears.

0:35:19 > 0:35:21Where did she go?

0:35:21 > 0:35:25Abducted by aliens right in front of Mulder's nose and he's missed it.

0:35:27 > 0:35:32The X-Files, and Scully has a mysterious dead body to investigate.

0:35:32 > 0:35:38In this case, the mystery is why they chose the most fidgety man in North America to play the corpse.

0:35:38 > 0:35:43See how the faintest prod from Scully makes the big wuss blink.

0:35:43 > 0:35:46Not so much dead man's body, more big girl's blouse.

0:35:46 > 0:35:50But just in case anyone missed that, moments later,

0:35:50 > 0:35:56he leaves everyone at home in no doubt that this is just acting as Scully unwisely decides to

0:35:56 > 0:36:02balance this heavy plastic ruler on his tummy-wummy. "Ow, it's cold!"

0:36:02 > 0:36:03We've got a breather!

0:36:07 > 0:36:13I love Lost. It's top-notch allegorical surrealist drama with a satirical subtext.

0:36:13 > 0:36:15Plus, it's got that funny fat bloke with a beard in it.

0:36:15 > 0:36:19Yeah, he's gone boobs like a lady.

0:36:19 > 0:36:24In fact, the only problem with this show is that it makes no sense.

0:36:24 > 0:36:26That, and their decision to use an extra with chronic asthma

0:36:26 > 0:36:29to play a corpse and then put him in the front of shot.

0:36:29 > 0:36:34Just look at this.

0:36:38 > 0:36:42Mind you, that fat bloke's funny. Oh dear...

0:36:44 > 0:36:46I mean, dogs can find pot and bombs so...

0:36:46 > 0:36:50Time for more weird goings on in Lost, and look out for the lovely

0:36:50 > 0:36:53couple walking past in the background. There they go.

0:36:53 > 0:36:55Probably off to catch some fish.

0:36:55 > 0:36:57Wish they'd walk past again. Oh, lovely.

0:36:57 > 0:37:02That's the trouble with being marooned on a desert island, nothing to do but walk round in circles.

0:37:05 > 0:37:07Oh, brilliant, it's Blackadder.

0:37:07 > 0:37:10Oh, crap, it's series one.

0:37:10 > 0:37:12Never mind, the set designer, wardrobe and prop departments

0:37:12 > 0:37:15have all gone to a lot of trouble with this one.

0:37:15 > 0:37:19Sadly, all their hard work is about to be ruined

0:37:19 > 0:37:24as one of the extras suddenly stops playing dead, looks up and starts having a bit of a look around.

0:37:24 > 0:37:26"Where's that Rowan Atkinson?

0:37:26 > 0:37:29"I'm going to get a picture with him later."

0:37:31 > 0:37:36This clip from Sex And The City proves that not all New Yorkers are used to seeing TV crews.

0:37:36 > 0:37:42This lady simply can't believe her eyes and has to peer over her specs to check they aren't deceiving her.

0:37:42 > 0:37:45Yes, it's a camera crew.

0:37:45 > 0:37:49But best of all, if we rewind, here comes my personal favourite.

0:37:49 > 0:37:51Look at the wonder in her eyes.

0:37:51 > 0:37:54"Thems is some telly people."

0:37:54 > 0:37:59And so ends one deeply unremarkable woman's brief glimpse of celebrity.

0:38:03 > 0:38:05Here's another spot from Friends.

0:38:05 > 0:38:07Phoebe is returning a dog.

0:38:07 > 0:38:12But look in the background at the neighbour getting out of the car and walking up to her house.

0:38:14 > 0:38:15Twice.

0:38:15 > 0:38:17Fair play to her, though.

0:38:17 > 0:38:21She's got that whole neighbour repeatedly walking up to her house thing down to a tee.

0:38:24 > 0:38:26Bad news for 24's Jack Bauer.

0:38:26 > 0:38:30His daughter's been kidnapped and the series is suddenly very short staffed.

0:38:30 > 0:38:33Look at this hospital orderly.

0:38:33 > 0:38:35He's here.

0:38:35 > 0:38:38He's there.

0:38:38 > 0:38:42He's everywhere.

0:38:42 > 0:38:46If you work in this hospital, you have to be in three places at once.

0:38:46 > 0:38:48Just like the NHS.

0:38:50 > 0:38:54Dawson's Creek. Gretchen's about to have a heart-to-heart with Dawson.

0:38:54 > 0:38:58But I'm more concerned with the partner swapping swingers in the background.

0:38:58 > 0:39:03Look, first there's an old man and an old woman in a denim jacket.

0:39:03 > 0:39:06And a young man in a blue shirt and chinos with a blonde girl.

0:39:06 > 0:39:12Then, moments later, the young man with the blue shirt wanders past again with another woman!

0:39:12 > 0:39:15He just picked her up! What a floozy. But he's not done yet.

0:39:15 > 0:39:19Now, he's back with the blonde girl and they're heading for the water.

0:39:19 > 0:39:22What's going on? He must have finished with that other woman and

0:39:22 > 0:39:25got back with the first one, which is nice, because I always liked her.

0:39:25 > 0:39:28I'm glad they made up.

0:39:28 > 0:39:31Shut up, Dawson! Look, the old fella's back with the older woman.

0:39:31 > 0:39:34Thank heavens for that.

0:39:34 > 0:39:37Aye-aye. There's the younger man with the blonde again, this time

0:39:37 > 0:39:41walking away from the water from the right, heading up the hill.

0:39:41 > 0:39:42What have they been up to?

0:39:42 > 0:39:47I don't know, but I'm betting it was rude and watery.

0:39:47 > 0:39:53Now, whenever I'm on the telly, which is a lot, I take great care over my hair and make-up.

0:39:53 > 0:39:55That's not vanity. It's necessity.

0:39:55 > 0:40:00You see, we need make-up experts to compensate for the "bleaching out" effects

0:40:00 > 0:40:02caused by the powerful lights we use,

0:40:02 > 0:40:06and hair experts to compensate for the "loss of hair" effects

0:40:06 > 0:40:09caused by the powerful hairspray that we use.

0:40:09 > 0:40:14The girls and, what might loosely be described as guys of the hair and make-up department

0:40:14 > 0:40:17are important, albeit tiny cogs in the great TV wheel.

0:40:17 > 0:40:20I call them my little miracle workers.

0:40:20 > 0:40:23That's because I enjoy patronising my colleagues.

0:40:23 > 0:40:25Of course, they, too, make mistakes.

0:40:25 > 0:40:27Mistakes like these.

0:40:30 > 0:40:35Someone's locked David Banner in this fiendish Oriental torture contraption. Which he won't like.

0:40:35 > 0:40:37It'll send him all green and hulky.

0:40:37 > 0:40:39He's so excited he's passed out.

0:40:39 > 0:40:44Wow, that's what Vin Diesel would look like if you smeared him in mushy peas.

0:40:44 > 0:40:49Oh, he's making that solid carbon steel look like plywood, which it is.

0:40:49 > 0:40:51Hold up, he's got tights on!

0:40:51 > 0:40:55The Hulk's wearing panty hose to stop his pinkies getting all hurty.

0:40:55 > 0:40:57Oh, bless.

0:41:01 > 0:41:06It's Skins. Young people doing cool things, like drugs and snogging, and dribbling ketchup down their chins.

0:41:06 > 0:41:09Wow, it's so real.

0:41:09 > 0:41:14Hey, that ketchup dribble just changed.

0:41:14 > 0:41:16- Well, I think you're going to like this, Sid.- I'm not. He's re dribbled.

0:41:16 > 0:41:20Three dribbles, one chin? Something's got to give.

0:41:21 > 0:41:24And, sure enough, now it's gone completely.

0:41:24 > 0:41:26Now it's back!

0:41:28 > 0:41:31Oh, he's dropped his knife.

0:41:31 > 0:41:34Now they've started snogging and, look, the old dribble's back again.

0:41:34 > 0:41:37Oh, I'm lost. I'm just lost and so is the make up department.

0:41:37 > 0:41:40Look, I take it back. That's not cool, it's a TV mistake.

0:41:42 > 0:41:45- You're looking, aren't you?- No.

0:41:45 > 0:41:50Straight back to Skins, and look, there's Dev Patel before he won the Slumdog lottery

0:41:50 > 0:41:52and he's having a wee up that tree.

0:41:52 > 0:41:55In fact, did you know, it was his weeing up a tree acting

0:41:55 > 0:41:56that won him the role in the film in the first place?

0:41:56 > 0:41:59Of course you didn't, because it's not true.

0:41:59 > 0:42:01And neither is this.

0:42:01 > 0:42:06Look, the car with the spliffed-up teens rolls into the canal.

0:42:06 > 0:42:09And everyone inside goes into the water apart from Dev.

0:42:11 > 0:42:17But then, in the next scene, Dev is wet through just like the others. Why is he all wet?

0:42:17 > 0:42:20He didn't go in the water, he was weeing up that tree! You know what?

0:42:20 > 0:42:24I bet he just jumped in the canal to be one of the gang. Cor, teenagers!

0:42:24 > 0:42:26They'll do anything to fit in.

0:42:28 > 0:42:32More Skins now, and more wee-wee.

0:42:32 > 0:42:36And the age-old conundrum, how do you do a wee with a stiffy?

0:42:36 > 0:42:39Here's Chris calculating a combination of angles that

0:42:39 > 0:42:42even Ronnie O'Sullivan would struggle with.

0:42:42 > 0:42:45And, oh, he wees up his own nose

0:42:45 > 0:42:48but when he stands up again, it's all gone.

0:42:48 > 0:42:52Now, that is one young man with wonderfully absorbent skin.

0:42:55 > 0:43:01In this next clip, pay attention, if you will, to be cute smear of grease on Deborah Messing's cheek.

0:43:01 > 0:43:05That just changed into a completely different smear of grease!

0:43:05 > 0:43:08- OK, this is not a problem. - I'll be the judge of that!

0:43:08 > 0:43:09Yep, there's another.

0:43:09 > 0:43:13Now it's the same mark, just a bit darker.

0:43:13 > 0:43:16Guess that's why they call it a "to go" cup.

0:43:16 > 0:43:19- You OK?- And now it's all smudged.

0:43:19 > 0:43:22Hey, you know what they should have called this show, don't you?

0:43:22 > 0:43:25Will & Grease. Yeah.

0:43:28 > 0:43:33- Here's Will from Will & Grace sitting on a sofa.- Surprise!

0:43:33 > 0:43:36He's gay, so he's naked, obviously.

0:43:36 > 0:43:40Or is he? Are those flesh coloured pants I see?

0:43:40 > 0:43:47Well, they are flesh coloured pants but only if your flesh is a sort of deathly greyish white.

0:43:47 > 0:43:50Maybe those pants belong to Amy Winehouse? Oh, God, what a horrible thought.

0:43:50 > 0:43:53I think a little bit of sick just came up then.

0:43:53 > 0:43:56Although Eric McCormack wasn't really naked in this scene,

0:43:56 > 0:44:00I can confirm that he did genuinely slam his penis in that book.

0:44:04 > 0:44:07A powerful moment from 24. Sorry, did I say powerful?

0:44:07 > 0:44:09I meant incomprehensible.

0:44:09 > 0:44:13Mum wants troubled teenager to shoot his already dead girlfriend.

0:44:13 > 0:44:17Well, nobody said relationships were easy, especially when one of you's murdered.

0:44:17 > 0:44:22But he's not used to handing a gun, so why not let Mum do it?

0:44:22 > 0:44:25There you go. Right in the waist.

0:44:26 > 0:44:29Oh, here comes Dad and he's so proud.

0:44:29 > 0:44:32In their strange fictional foreign culture, shooting

0:44:32 > 0:44:36your already dead girlfriend in the belly button is a rite of passage.

0:44:36 > 0:44:41Hang on! The bullet wound's moved up to her ribcage. What a brilliant trick.

0:44:43 > 0:44:46The reason I'm asking is cos we didn't get the bill.

0:44:46 > 0:44:51It's The Sopranos and Tony's turned up for a chat with Uncle Junior, who's been shaving.

0:44:51 > 0:44:56Although, as you can see, he's washed all the shaving foam off, apart from that bit near his ear.

0:44:56 > 0:45:01- But, spin forward and... whoa! - You've got shaving cream all over you.

0:45:01 > 0:45:03Where in the name of Don Corleone did all that foam come from?

0:45:03 > 0:45:10That's what's known in Mafia circles as omerta, which is Italian for "bad continuity error".

0:45:14 > 0:45:18Nothing makes temperamental Adriana from The Sopranos more temperamental

0:45:18 > 0:45:21than receiving a phone call when she's having her hair done.

0:45:21 > 0:45:25- Unless it's two phone calls. - Adriana, you got a call.

0:45:25 > 0:45:27Stay calm, love.

0:45:27 > 0:45:31Remember what happens when you really lose your temper.

0:45:31 > 0:45:32Yes, your hair falls out.

0:45:32 > 0:45:35With the price of the cut and the colour, that just cost her 300.

0:45:35 > 0:45:38301 with the tin foil.

0:45:42 > 0:45:44Oh, it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

0:45:44 > 0:45:47So called because half the viewers want to see her in the buffy.

0:45:47 > 0:45:49Ak-ak-ak-a!

0:45:49 > 0:45:54Here's the slightly lovely Sarah Michelle Gellar facing a hideous ghoul from beyond the grave.

0:45:54 > 0:45:57He's been underground for centuries. He's in a pretty bad way.

0:45:57 > 0:46:00I mean, just look at the state of those fingernails.

0:46:00 > 0:46:03They're so bad, one's practically falling off.

0:46:03 > 0:46:05That's because it's a fake!

0:46:05 > 0:46:09Buffy the Vampire Slayer's make-up department, I trusted you!

0:46:12 > 0:46:16Everybody thinks being a pro is just NBA.

0:46:16 > 0:46:21One Tree Hill and Hayley and Skills are having a chat about being from California.

0:46:21 > 0:46:24So when y'all roll through on the world tour,

0:46:24 > 0:46:26we can remember this day, sit back and laugh about it.

0:46:26 > 0:46:29He's a bit annoying. Hayley's very pregnant.

0:46:29 > 0:46:33Or is she? That's no baby! That's just a cushion shoved up her top!

0:46:33 > 0:46:36Some people will do anything to jump the housing queue.

0:46:38 > 0:46:44In this bloodthirsty clip from Heroes, Claire's pony tail is over her shoulder one minute,

0:46:44 > 0:46:46and then not the next. A small oversight, admittedly.

0:46:46 > 0:46:53But noticeable if you happen to be very bored, borderline OCD and terrified of ponytails.

0:46:53 > 0:46:56Which I was when I watched this clip. I'm fine now.

0:47:01 > 0:47:05She's got a tongue like an electric eel and she likes the taste of a man's tonsils.

0:47:05 > 0:47:08A classic scene from Blackadder II in which Flashheart storms into

0:47:08 > 0:47:12Edmund's wedding, steals the bride and the scene.

0:47:12 > 0:47:15No-one does upstagery quite like Rik Mayall.

0:47:15 > 0:47:19Apart from that fake moustache that's threatening to fall off his face at any moment.

0:47:19 > 0:47:22I've got a plan and it's as hot as my pants.

0:47:27 > 0:47:32Mmm. Mmm. Of course, a lot of people come up to me and say, "Robert, what is a prop?"

0:47:32 > 0:47:34And I say, "I don't know who you are,

0:47:34 > 0:47:37"but if you don't get out of my bath I'll shoot you down like a dog."

0:47:37 > 0:47:41I'm joking, of course. I don't even own a gun. Or a bath.

0:47:41 > 0:47:44As an actor, I don't need to because I live my life surrounded by props.

0:47:44 > 0:47:46This lamp. This chair.

0:47:46 > 0:47:50This table. Basically, props are just the things we all have in our homes,

0:47:50 > 0:47:55except in our case, they really are our property rather than stuff you've got on credit.

0:47:55 > 0:48:00Unfortunately, this doesn't make them any less likely to cause trouble.

0:48:03 > 0:48:06Band of Brothers and this soldier is looking concerned.

0:48:06 > 0:48:08He's seen the next scene.

0:48:08 > 0:48:13A stealth raid across a river and an elementary mistake from the soldier in the foreground.

0:48:13 > 0:48:14Did you spot it?

0:48:14 > 0:48:17Let's go back and have another look.

0:48:17 > 0:48:19He's rowing with no oar.

0:48:19 > 0:48:23Which, I suppose, will at least make their approach much, much quieter.

0:48:23 > 0:48:27But, and I'm no military expert, much, much slower.

0:48:30 > 0:48:35Here's Nicholas Hoult as Tony in Skins who's learning how to write.

0:48:35 > 0:48:39He's written Tony. He's written his name. Well done, Tony.

0:48:39 > 0:48:42Although, if we spin forward...

0:48:42 > 0:48:45That doesn't say Tony. It says Tohy.

0:48:45 > 0:48:48Let's see the first one again.

0:48:48 > 0:48:51And the second one.

0:48:51 > 0:48:53Now, both together.

0:48:53 > 0:48:56You see, I might be wrong but I think that's a different piece of paper

0:48:56 > 0:48:58with the word Tony written by a different person.

0:48:58 > 0:49:02The prop's department are trying to make you look stupid, Tony. I mean Tohy.

0:49:04 > 0:49:08Hannah Montana, that little singing sensation.

0:49:08 > 0:49:11The sensation being nausea.

0:49:11 > 0:49:19But get a load of this continuity howler as wacky goofball Jackson walks into his room.

0:49:20 > 0:49:22He pats the muscle man standee.

0:49:22 > 0:49:26Grabs his towel. And suddenly the muscle man's behind the door.

0:49:26 > 0:49:28It's a good thing I straightened up.

0:49:28 > 0:49:32But not now. Whoops, Hannah's going to be furious about that.

0:49:32 > 0:49:36She'll probably throw a pop sock at the director. A rolled-up one.

0:49:40 > 0:49:43To be fair to the makers of 24, they only have one day to make each series.

0:49:43 > 0:49:46And that's with no sleep at all.

0:49:46 > 0:49:49It's like being a junior doctor, but with a lower body count.

0:49:49 > 0:49:51Here's Jack in rare stand-easy mode.

0:49:51 > 0:49:54- We're resuming our approach. Good work.- Cheers, Jack.

0:49:54 > 0:49:58Time to sheath that dangerous weapon in your bottom holster.

0:49:58 > 0:50:05But, fast forward a few seconds and, crikey, Jack's now so relaxed he's putting his gun away again.

0:50:05 > 0:50:10It's either another TV gaffe, or that young man has got two guns hidden in his pants.

0:50:13 > 0:50:16If, like me, you're a fan of scenes where actors mistakenly

0:50:16 > 0:50:23put their pistols away twice, then you'll love this clip from the soon to be remade Hawaii Five-O.

0:50:23 > 0:50:26The team are at a tense siege situation

0:50:26 > 0:50:28but nothing gets in the way of Steve McGarrett's tea break.

0:50:28 > 0:50:32So, at ease, Lieutenant. You can put your gun back in your holster.

0:50:32 > 0:50:35No need for firearms at elevenses.

0:50:35 > 0:50:38I wonder if you can use a bucket like that to build sandcastles.

0:50:38 > 0:50:42Anyway, here he comes and there goes the gun again.

0:50:42 > 0:50:46Back in the holster for a second time. Now, who's brought the thermos?

0:50:50 > 0:50:53A tense game of chess in the X-Files

0:50:53 > 0:50:59and a moody Russian is taking on an American kid in specs. Text book.

0:51:01 > 0:51:02Check mate.

0:51:02 > 0:51:05Suddenly, the Russian is shot by an assassin

0:51:05 > 0:51:09and falls onto the floor, dragging the chess board with him.

0:51:09 > 0:51:12Except in the next shot, it's clearly on the table.

0:51:12 > 0:51:17They managed the logistical nightmare of filling this auditorium with about 5,000 people,

0:51:17 > 0:51:22but couldn't cope with one bit of elementary prop continuity.

0:51:22 > 0:51:25The truth is out there. The incompetence is in here!

0:51:27 > 0:51:29Have you ever been to the Louvre?

0:51:29 > 0:51:31- No, not yet. - Bones. A series about forensics.

0:51:31 > 0:51:37A branch of medical science that's all about detail. So how come they missed this clanger?

0:51:37 > 0:51:39Here's a patronising little girl...

0:51:39 > 0:51:41I think what you do is pretty awesome, too...

0:51:41 > 0:51:43..who's been diagnosed with clinical smugness.

0:51:43 > 0:51:45She's also an agent of TV mistakery.

0:51:45 > 0:51:51When she hands over her sketch, it's a small drawing in the centre of the page.

0:51:51 > 0:51:55But when the doctor looks at it, it's gone all big! But nobody notices.

0:51:55 > 0:52:00The character dies in the end, though, so all's well that ends well.

0:52:00 > 0:52:04An ice hockey game and Ross from friends has got one of those big foam fingers.

0:52:04 > 0:52:09Of course, this is New York and seconds later, it's gone.

0:52:09 > 0:52:11Someone's nicked it. It's a rough town.

0:52:13 > 0:52:16My eye doctor is Richard. I can't go to him when I don't have a boyfriend.

0:52:16 > 0:52:20Oh, poor Monica. As if it's not bad enough having something in your eye,

0:52:20 > 0:52:23she can't even watch TV because it's all switched off.

0:52:23 > 0:52:25Although, moments later...

0:52:25 > 0:52:29my mistake! It's on. No-one's even watching it.

0:52:29 > 0:52:30That's not very green.

0:52:32 > 0:52:38- Hey, can I bum a cigarette? - Feel those hormones as bad boy meets annoying girl in The OC.

0:52:38 > 0:52:43Blimey, they're smoking in California, which is practically a shooting offence.

0:52:43 > 0:52:46Luckily, Ryan is smoking one of the special cigarettes,

0:52:46 > 0:52:49you know, the ones that burn down to a butt in half a second.

0:52:49 > 0:52:52Long ciggy. Tiny ciggy.

0:52:52 > 0:52:54To think, I used to love The OC!

0:52:57 > 0:53:04Elsewhere in The OC, is Ben going to commit suicide before Ryan and Marissa can get to him?

0:53:05 > 0:53:08He's emptying all his pills onto the table.

0:53:08 > 0:53:10And mixing them up. But, whoa!

0:53:10 > 0:53:15In an instant, they've sorted themselves into colour-coded piles.

0:53:15 > 0:53:19Or, at least, an inattentive member of the production team has.

0:53:19 > 0:53:21Ben's made up. He's forgotten all about suicide.

0:53:21 > 0:53:25He's just going to bung them in with his grandfather's ashes.

0:53:25 > 0:53:27Job done.

0:53:30 > 0:53:35Oh, dear. After having one or maybe 12 too many tequilas, Marisa, from

0:53:35 > 0:53:40The OC, leaves her handbag at the bar. And staggers outside.

0:53:40 > 0:53:44Ryan and the others are scouring the streets for her.

0:53:44 > 0:53:48But tiddly Marisa is now spark out in this alley, legless, and, of course, bagless.

0:53:48 > 0:53:51Then, Ryan and the others turn up.

0:53:51 > 0:53:58He spots her and bagless races down the alley and kneels beside her with the bag in his hand.

0:53:58 > 0:54:02Either that's a mistake, or everyone in Orange County has the same handbag.

0:54:02 > 0:54:04Well, they're a funny lot in California.

0:54:06 > 0:54:11Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and Paddy's payphone is out of order.

0:54:11 > 0:54:15You can tell by the sign on the side which says 'out of order'.

0:54:15 > 0:54:20But now, the same sign is on top of the phone, which leads me to believe someone might be having a laugh.

0:54:20 > 0:54:22At Paddy McGuinness? Surely not.

0:54:26 > 0:54:30More continuity malfunctions on the holodeck for Captain Picard.

0:54:30 > 0:54:34The 1920s news vendor hands over the paper folded.

0:54:34 > 0:54:36But Pickard takes it unfolded.

0:54:36 > 0:54:42A small mistake but even in a holographic past, a tiny error like that could have changed the future.

0:54:42 > 0:54:45If so, let's hope next time there'll be less Star Trek.

0:54:48 > 0:54:53A clip from Heroes now. A strange group of people all with bizarre superpowers.

0:54:53 > 0:54:57Watch how these two find a mysterious key that's wrapped in sticky tape.

0:54:57 > 0:55:00About half a second later, it's suddenly unwrapped.

0:55:00 > 0:55:01He's good super fingers.

0:55:01 > 0:55:03No wonder she looks pleased.

0:55:05 > 0:55:08I'm their hero.

0:55:08 > 0:55:13More prop related cockuppery as Hiro appears with his samurai sword pointing backwards.

0:55:13 > 0:55:18And, a moment later, stands with it pointing forwards.

0:55:18 > 0:55:20A handy mistake, though.

0:55:20 > 0:55:22Otherwise he would have just stabbed him with the blunt end,

0:55:22 > 0:55:26and that would almost certainly have been less dramatic.

0:55:29 > 0:55:30It's a blueprint.

0:55:30 > 0:55:34How does Grace from Will & Grace take her coffee?

0:55:34 > 0:55:37Always black. Sometimes with a stick in her hand.

0:55:37 > 0:55:39And sometimes with a tiny carton of milk.

0:55:41 > 0:55:44But always in a urine sample jar.

0:55:46 > 0:55:48And he's obviously very fond of you.

0:55:48 > 0:55:52A clip now from madcap sitcom, Absolutely Fabulous.

0:55:52 > 0:55:54Or as you know it, Ab Fab.

0:55:54 > 0:55:59Or, as I know it, AaFa. But, surely, no-one knows what is going on

0:55:59 > 0:56:01with Miranda Richardson's glass.

0:56:02 > 0:56:05Witchcraft. Pure and simple.

0:56:05 > 0:56:08Back in my day, she'd have got the ducking stool for that.

0:56:10 > 0:56:12It's US comedy drama Weeds.

0:56:12 > 0:56:17And Nancy's just found out that her late husband was cheating on her.

0:56:17 > 0:56:20Yeah, that might not be covered under the contents insurance.

0:56:20 > 0:56:24Not much comedy here. This is one of the more drama-y moments.

0:56:24 > 0:56:26But see all the stuff on the table?

0:56:26 > 0:56:30Watch what happens as her son walks outside.

0:56:30 > 0:56:31Yep, it's all gone empty.

0:56:31 > 0:56:34I reckon the kid was a decoy. His mates have nicked the lot.

0:56:34 > 0:56:37So, actually, that probably will be covered, then.

0:56:39 > 0:56:41I suppose I just fall in love too fast.

0:56:41 > 0:56:46Here are Niles and Daphne sharing an intimate fireside moment.

0:56:46 > 0:56:50According to that carriage clock, the time is 11:15pm.

0:56:50 > 0:56:55Only, moments later, we see the clock again and now it's 11:45pm.

0:56:57 > 0:57:00And 10:55pm.

0:57:00 > 0:57:03And 11:20pm.

0:57:03 > 0:57:07And 10:59pm. Frasier is filmed in front of a live studio audience.

0:57:07 > 0:57:10At least they were when they started recording this scene four days ago.

0:57:12 > 0:57:17You two have proved yourselves to be just as talented as one another at karaoke.

0:57:17 > 0:57:21By which, I mean you're equally shit.

0:57:21 > 0:57:23It's Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

0:57:23 > 0:57:28A show which has split the critics into those who hate it, and those who don't like it very much.

0:57:28 > 0:57:32But this episode is great because it's all about magazine competitions.

0:57:32 > 0:57:37Mind you, if there's one thing I love more than competitions, it's 'competions'.

0:57:37 > 0:57:41By the way, that's the new issue of Dyslexic Monthly.

0:57:41 > 0:57:44- May as well give up now. - I would if I were you.

0:57:47 > 0:57:51Now, I admit I don't know a lot about How I Met Your Mother.

0:57:51 > 0:57:54Other than this guy is called Ted and that when he pays a visit

0:57:54 > 0:57:58to a lady, he doesn't bring a bottle, he brings veg.

0:57:58 > 0:58:02Wilted veg in a creased-up paper bag. Sexy blighter.

0:58:02 > 0:58:04But guess who also carries a steam iron in his Y fronts?

0:58:04 > 0:58:07That bag's now suddenly smooth.

0:58:07 > 0:58:12Looks like a baby's bottom. A papery baby with vegetables for a head.

0:58:12 > 0:58:15- That's the stupidest thing I've ever said.- Me too.

0:58:16 > 0:58:22Of all the classic moments in The Office, this is Ricky Gervais's personal favourite.

0:58:22 > 0:58:24- Whassup?- Don't do that. - Gareth's holding a briefcase

0:58:24 > 0:58:27in his right hand, the paper in his left, but, look!

0:58:27 > 0:58:30Now the briefcase is in his left hand, and the paper is in his right!

0:58:30 > 0:58:34That's a TV Mistakes Golden Globe right there!

0:58:37 > 0:58:39Friends. Series eight.

0:58:39 > 0:58:45Sorry, SEASON eight. And Monica starts to tear open this present.

0:58:45 > 0:58:47She's finished. It's open.

0:58:47 > 0:58:50Sh. The guys don't know yet. Do they?

0:58:50 > 0:58:53- No.- No, she's wrapped it up again.

0:58:53 > 0:58:56And opened it again.

0:58:56 > 0:58:58And wrapped it up.

0:58:58 > 0:59:00And opened it again.

0:59:00 > 0:59:02Oh, for God's sake, woman, make your mind up!

0:59:04 > 0:59:09Poor Ross has clonked his head, so Rachel is administering a comedy ice pack because she wuvs him.

0:59:09 > 0:59:14We ripped that couple apart and kept the pieces for ourselves.

0:59:14 > 0:59:17- Wuvs him not. - What a beautiful story.

0:59:17 > 0:59:24Wuvs him. A small error, perhaps, but as rudimentary continuity errors go, that was a blinder.

0:59:26 > 0:59:29In TV, we have a special nickname for special effects.

0:59:29 > 0:59:32We call them special FX.

0:59:32 > 0:59:35Aren't we brilliant? These days, the effects on TV are so special,

0:59:35 > 0:59:41they can often leave you, the viewer, wide eyed, slack jawed and dumbstruck, even more than usual.

0:59:41 > 0:59:45Yes, thanks to computer technology, the only limit to modern SFX

0:59:45 > 0:59:48is the producer's imagination, which is a shame, because

0:59:48 > 0:59:53most producers' imaginations are limited to saying, "Hey, why don't we just get Ant and Dec to do it."

0:59:53 > 0:59:59and then ordering the sushi. Which sadly means every now and again, the SPECIAL effects are anything but.

1:00:05 > 1:00:10A high-speed chase in Knight Rider and Michael is in pursuit of two blokes who have kidnapped a lady.

1:00:10 > 1:00:12Oh, she's a terrible back seat driver.

1:00:12 > 1:00:18That car is all over the shop. Three drivers, one steering wheel, that's asking for trouble.

1:00:18 > 1:00:21Oh, no, no, no, no, leave it.

1:00:21 > 1:00:24Sit down, you silly cow! Oh, too late, she's jumped.

1:00:24 > 1:00:27Well, somebody did.

1:00:27 > 1:00:31- Crazy broad jumped out!- I'm afraid that was your unconscious female.

1:00:31 > 1:00:34No it wasn't, KIT, you're talking out of your tailpipe.

1:00:34 > 1:00:38That's her stunt double in an ill-fitting blonde wig.

1:00:38 > 1:00:41She's less lookalike and more look nothing like.

1:00:43 > 1:00:47Its 24 and look out, the guy in the car is about to get all shooty.

1:00:47 > 1:00:50But when he discharges his weapon....

1:00:50 > 1:00:55Through the car window, the glass all falls inwards, in defiance of all the laws of physics.

1:00:55 > 1:00:59Let's see that again. Take that, Newton.

1:01:01 > 1:01:03Look, he's got Stagler.

1:01:03 > 1:01:06Here we are, back in that brilliant episode

1:01:06 > 1:01:11of Wonder Woman, and Gargantua the Gorilla is making his escape carrying that bloke from Magnum.

1:01:11 > 1:01:14But he's made a terrible error.

1:01:14 > 1:01:17In the confusion, he's grabbed a poorly constructed dummy instead.

1:01:17 > 1:01:22See it flailing in the breeze just like human bodies don't.

1:01:22 > 1:01:26Look, his legs have gone all trembly, something, something, Wembley.

1:01:26 > 1:01:31That doesn't make any sense, and neither does this episode of Wonder Woman.

1:01:33 > 1:01:38Yes, it's high time Lynda Carter twirled into her crime fighting boob tube and hot pants.

1:01:38 > 1:01:42Bad news for bad guys, good news for randy 14-year-old boys.

1:01:44 > 1:01:46But look how this spectacular metamorphosis also has the power to

1:01:46 > 1:01:50change this humble biro into thin air.

1:01:50 > 1:01:54Yeah, it's probably just rolled under the desk.

1:01:57 > 1:02:00The Doctor again, and this is what I call thrilling stuff.

1:02:00 > 1:02:03There again, I'm quite easily thrilled.

1:02:03 > 1:02:06Oh, look, the Doctor is climbing up that giant television aerial,

1:02:06 > 1:02:09trying to stop Maureen Lipman being transmitted.

1:02:09 > 1:02:13You cannot stop the wire. Soon I shall become...

1:02:13 > 1:02:18Then, as Dave's a-dangling from the pylon, his foot suddenly disappears.

1:02:20 > 1:02:23Here it is, here it isn't.

1:02:23 > 1:02:27Yes, the BBC's blue screen is no larger than a tea towel.

1:02:29 > 1:02:34Mac and Guy from Green Wing are heading for a very literal end-of-series cliffhanger.

1:02:37 > 1:02:42Ever wonder how they do stunts like this? Well, the clues are here

1:02:42 > 1:02:48and here. That is a safety harness and that is a dirty great support cable.

1:02:48 > 1:02:50Less Italian Job, more bodged job.

1:02:54 > 1:02:56OK, no argument, the Hulk has always been incredible.

1:02:56 > 1:03:01But on the '70s TV show, the effects were anything but.

1:03:01 > 1:03:07Here, a couple of local thugs have unwisely locked David Banner in the steam room.

1:03:07 > 1:03:12He gets angry, goes green, and picks them and half the wall up using the strength of 100 men.

1:03:14 > 1:03:16Or should that be by making them stand on a hidden trolley

1:03:16 > 1:03:20and pushing them back using the strength of three caterpillars.

1:03:20 > 1:03:21You decide.

1:03:23 > 1:03:29The friends from Friends are on holiday and, oh, dear, it's chucking it down.

1:03:29 > 1:03:32But what's worser, their lovely beach house is full of wet sand.

1:03:32 > 1:03:35What's with all this sand?

1:03:35 > 1:03:37Oh, yeah, Bob said there might be flood damage.

1:03:37 > 1:03:40Either that or he has a really big cat.

1:03:40 > 1:03:41But now it's dry.

1:03:41 > 1:03:43They must have under-sand heating.

1:03:46 > 1:03:50A clip from classic Dr Who episode Genesis Of The Daleks,

1:03:50 > 1:03:53and keep your eyes on the Dalek chatting with Davros

1:03:53 > 1:03:56and the light bulb flashing on his head.

1:03:56 > 1:04:00That's how deaf people know that a Dalek is talking, by the way, it's a courtesy thing.

1:04:00 > 1:04:02Hold on a sec, his light's gone out.

1:04:02 > 1:04:05Maybe he forgot to pay the Da-lecky bill.

1:04:06 > 1:04:10But then, between takes, while Davros practises his shouting...

1:04:10 > 1:04:12You will obey me!

1:04:12 > 1:04:16..there's a chance to unscrew the bulb and pop a new one in.

1:04:16 > 1:04:18We are the superior beings.

1:04:18 > 1:04:23On with the serious business of mass extermination and sink plunging.

1:04:23 > 1:04:24Exterminate!

1:04:26 > 1:04:28More from Genesis Of The Daleks now,

1:04:28 > 1:04:33and the Thals are about to detonate a bomb using this rickety old plunger.

1:04:33 > 1:04:38But even before that happens, some smoke wafts through the doors.

1:04:38 > 1:04:42That bomb has either detonated itself, or one of those Daleks is having a crafty fag.

1:04:44 > 1:04:49This is X-Files rain, heavy and persistent, like Mulder,

1:04:49 > 1:04:51apart for the heavy bit.

1:04:51 > 1:04:57Dana and Fox are in hot pursuit of a woman doing some top-notch driving-in-heavy-rain acting.

1:04:59 > 1:05:03Moving the steering wheel about, frowning at rain...

1:05:03 > 1:05:05and then she hits a cloudy ghost. Bosh!

1:05:09 > 1:05:15But when Mulder and Scully pull over seconds later, all the rain has gone. Spooky.

1:05:15 > 1:05:19# Da-da-da-doo, da-da-da-doo... Sorry, that's The Twilight Zone, sorry.

1:05:19 > 1:05:22- I can see her.- Michelle!- Help!

1:05:26 > 1:05:31Considering it was made in the '60s, the effects on Thunderbirds are pretty FAB.

1:05:31 > 1:05:34Of course, every now and again, they were less than perfect.

1:05:34 > 1:05:37Look what happens when the aircraft explodes.

1:05:37 > 1:05:43This bit of debris flies off and bounces off the back projection screen. Boing.

1:05:45 > 1:05:50For some reason, at that moment in that half-finished foxhole, all I could think about was the 4th July.

1:05:50 > 1:05:53Band Of Brothers now, and those German mortars are really doing some damage.

1:05:53 > 1:05:57Thank God they're only aiming at the trees. Yeah, Nazis hate trees.

1:05:57 > 1:06:01Especially these ones. They're birch trees, they make Nazis furious.

1:06:01 > 1:06:05Boom! Take that. Hold on a minute, it did.

1:06:05 > 1:06:09A bomb that only causes minimal bark damage. Let's have another look.

1:06:10 > 1:06:12Yeah, that must have been a smart bomb.

1:06:12 > 1:06:16They only destroy certain trees. If that had been a willow, it would be dead.

1:06:20 > 1:06:28A thrilling FX scene from Blake's 7, the doddery senile granddad of the TV sci-fi family.

1:06:28 > 1:06:32Once again, the audience at home are on the edge of their seats, getting up to leave the room.

1:06:32 > 1:06:35But gasp as the bad guy is sucked into space.

1:06:35 > 1:06:41Although, he's not so much being sucked as dangled by that highly visible safety harness.

1:06:41 > 1:06:43Wheeee!

1:06:45 > 1:06:47Clothes.

1:06:47 > 1:06:49Clothes can go seriously wrong.

1:06:49 > 1:06:52Just look at Lady Gaga or anyone from Germany.

1:06:52 > 1:06:56If there's one department in telly that gets overlooked, it's wardrobe.

1:06:56 > 1:06:59It's very rare to see wardrobes taking a leading role,

1:06:59 > 1:07:01except in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, of course.

1:07:01 > 1:07:04Though frankly, the lion and the witch got all the best lines.

1:07:04 > 1:07:09Consequently, every now and again, the wardrobe department fights back.

1:07:12 > 1:07:17It's Henry VII in a scene from rollicking royal soap The Tudors.

1:07:17 > 1:07:20Here's Henry's (divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived),

1:07:20 > 1:07:25first wife Catherine of Aragon, looking moody, and who can blame her?

1:07:25 > 1:07:29Getting a rousing reception from this crowd of 16th century peasants.

1:07:29 > 1:07:34Although, for a bunch of proles, they're doing pretty well for themselves, because, look again.

1:07:34 > 1:07:36Verily, sire, that's a nice wrist watch.

1:07:36 > 1:07:40He made that himself out of straw and bits of the plague.

1:07:43 > 1:07:51Lovely Buffy. Not only is she sexy, fun, and good at killing vampires, she can swap shoes in a microsecond.

1:07:51 > 1:07:55See, as she attacks the vampire wearing white party pumps...

1:07:55 > 1:07:57Then, alley-oop, suddenly swaps them for a pair of

1:07:57 > 1:08:01black boots when required to kick him in his undead nuts.

1:08:01 > 1:08:03That is my kind of woman.

1:08:03 > 1:08:05Where are your jibes now?

1:08:06 > 1:08:09We want to swim and you can't stop us!

1:08:09 > 1:08:12It's Desperate Housewives, and another wardrobe-related oversight is about to kick off

1:08:12 > 1:08:18thanks to these cheeky kids who are refusing to get out of the water.

1:08:18 > 1:08:21In you go, Mum, sort them out.

1:08:21 > 1:08:23She walks into the pool in heels,

1:08:23 > 1:08:25wades through the water in heels,

1:08:25 > 1:08:31walks out again in heels, but then, having done the hard part, she's suddenly barefoot.

1:08:31 > 1:08:33It's confusing. No wonder her kids are a nightmare.

1:08:33 > 1:08:37- No parental consistency. - Paul, we have to leave now.

1:08:41 > 1:08:4624, and watch this woman exiting the loo, or rather, her shoes.

1:08:46 > 1:08:49A pair of good old-fashioned all-American sneakers.

1:08:49 > 1:08:51Nothing wrong there. In fact, everything right.

1:08:51 > 1:08:53But spin on,

1:08:53 > 1:08:56and during a simple walk to her desk, they've been changed,

1:08:56 > 1:09:00switched, perverted, into high heels.

1:09:00 > 1:09:05Free-world flatties wiped off the face of the earth, replaced by by high-heeled extremism.

1:09:05 > 1:09:07And where's Jack Bauer?

1:09:07 > 1:09:09Running a minicab firm.

1:09:09 > 1:09:12"51 to base, passenger POB, Rog."

1:09:14 > 1:09:21James Corden is a bit of a quick-change artist on the side. Oh, yeah, look.

1:09:21 > 1:09:25One minute he's wearing his dinner jacket, and the next, he's lost it.

1:09:25 > 1:09:29The jacket, not his temper. Although it's a wedding, there's always one fight.

1:09:34 > 1:09:39Here's classic '70s drama Hawaii Five-0, as in five acting expressions, oh dear.

1:09:39 > 1:09:43Steve McGarrett is on the case and there's no time to lose.

1:09:43 > 1:09:46Except to change his suit on the way up the stairs.

1:09:48 > 1:09:52- Mr Dennison, please. - Never mind all that, what have you done with your grey suit?

1:09:52 > 1:09:57Look, he gets out of the car in the grey one, and walks into the office wearing the blue.

1:09:57 > 1:09:59Mr Dennison, please.

1:09:59 > 1:10:04Actually, good work, Steve. No-one wants to be arrested by a man in a sweaty suit.

1:10:07 > 1:10:11A fun run along a canal side for the Ashes to Ashes team,

1:10:11 > 1:10:15and Alex looks all French - scarf, stripey T-shirt.

1:10:15 > 1:10:18I'm not sure about the red belt, though. Nah, get rid of it, Keeley.

1:10:18 > 1:10:21That's better. Does it come back?

1:10:21 > 1:10:23Nope. Don't stop running.

1:10:23 > 1:10:26You don't want Jimmy Savile coming up behind you...ever.

1:10:29 > 1:10:32I hear you're having trouble with your head.

1:10:32 > 1:10:35Fans of Lost will know that the series is set on a mysterious

1:10:35 > 1:10:42island where strange things happen, like a rucksack that changes colour halfway through a conversation.

1:10:44 > 1:10:47See how it starts off dark green with thick straps, but then on a

1:10:47 > 1:10:52reverse shot, it transforms into a black one with much thinner straps.

1:10:52 > 1:10:55What's causing your headaches?

1:10:55 > 1:10:57It's not like it's a tumour or something.

1:10:57 > 1:11:03Then, halfway through some guff about too-mours, it goes back to dark green,

1:11:03 > 1:11:06and then black again, green,

1:11:06 > 1:11:10black, all of you Lost fans think that this means something, don't you? Well, you're right.

1:11:10 > 1:11:15- It means the wardrobe department cocked up.- Just headaches.

1:11:18 > 1:11:24Under normal circumstances, the last person I'd want to see frolicking in a wet T shirt is Hurley from Lost.

1:11:24 > 1:11:28Unless, of course, he was dancing around a pole, and even then only maybe.

1:11:28 > 1:11:33Here he is teaching Charlie to fish and how to be both sopping wet...

1:11:33 > 1:11:35And dry at the same time.

1:11:35 > 1:11:37Maybe he's just really hot.

1:11:37 > 1:11:42Hot warm, not hot sexy. Unless he was dancing around a pole. Phwoar!

1:11:45 > 1:11:49The poacher, I heard him fishing only a few nights ago.

1:11:49 > 1:11:51What, with all his sartorial eccentricities,

1:11:51 > 1:11:56Doctor Who has always been a strain on the wardrobe department, in whichever incarnation.

1:11:56 > 1:11:59In this clip, Tom Baker's jaunty hat is the problem.

1:11:59 > 1:12:02He leaves it on the chair and exits, and then in the next scene,

1:12:02 > 1:12:05he's walking through the woods wearing it.

1:12:05 > 1:12:10Maybe they'd shot a scene where he remembered, thought "huh" and went back for it, but then didn't use it.

1:12:10 > 1:12:13Yeah, better check the director's cut.

1:12:15 > 1:12:17Little Britain, famous for its comedy characters.

1:12:17 > 1:12:20Here's Matt Lucas as Bubbles DeVere.

1:12:20 > 1:12:24Bubbles dives under the tanning machine, naked,

1:12:24 > 1:12:26but if we spin forward,

1:12:26 > 1:12:33she emerges some time later burnt to a crisp and now mysteriously wearing a pair of blue goggles.

1:12:37 > 1:12:41Will you excuse me for a moment, please, Mr Hutton, I'm a little bit on fire.

1:12:43 > 1:12:45How....

1:12:45 > 1:12:48you...a doing?

1:12:48 > 1:12:50I love Friends. I could watch it all day.

1:12:50 > 1:12:53And thanks to E4, I can.

1:12:53 > 1:12:56Here's Joey chatting up a girl in the apartment opposite.

1:12:56 > 1:12:59He can't wait to get over there and introduce himself.

1:12:59 > 1:13:04And yet, he still has time to miraculously change his black shirt on the way over.

1:13:04 > 1:13:07Sweaty black shirt morphs into clean purple one.

1:13:07 > 1:13:10But as he knocks on the door,

1:13:10 > 1:13:12it's back to black.

1:13:12 > 1:13:18Black, purple and black. The three colours of the bad continuity flag.

1:13:22 > 1:13:27It's Jonathan Creek in a spooky old house about to get chased by a massive gorilla.

1:13:27 > 1:13:32When I say massive gorilla, I mean a medium-sized man in an unconvincing gorilla outfit.

1:13:34 > 1:13:39It's enough to give you brown pants, or more precisely, to turn your blue pants black.

1:13:42 > 1:13:43Either way, that's pants.

1:13:48 > 1:13:51Another moment of drama in Gray's Anatomy.

1:13:51 > 1:13:56Sandra Oh rips off her surgical topcoat and exits the operating theatre.

1:13:56 > 1:13:59Meanwhile, out in the corridor, there's a bomb scare.

1:13:59 > 1:14:04These doctors can't go faster than .000003 miles an hour

1:14:04 > 1:14:07or they'll blow up or something.

1:14:07 > 1:14:13Then, just as you thought this scene couldn't get any more confusing, out pops Sandra with her coat on again.

1:14:13 > 1:14:17It's a bit like the film Speed but with less speed and more mistakes.

1:14:17 > 1:14:20We're moving to an OR further away from the oxygen line.

1:14:24 > 1:14:28Hey, David Banner is rescuing a bit-part actress from a cliff.

1:14:28 > 1:14:33Spin on, and sure enough, he turns into The Incredible Hulk.

1:14:33 > 1:14:38And as usual, his massive green muscles completely tear the shirt from his back.

1:14:38 > 1:14:41But seconds later, the shirt reappears,

1:14:41 > 1:14:44then disappears, then finally reappears again,

1:14:44 > 1:14:49having mounted its curious green host once more.

1:14:49 > 1:14:51All right, come on, come on!

1:14:51 > 1:14:53Well, there was a lady present.

1:14:53 > 1:14:55But sadly, no continuity person.

1:14:57 > 1:15:00All great telly starts with a script.

1:15:00 > 1:15:04You need writers who can really write words good comma,

1:15:04 > 1:15:09and make the things we actors and presenters say in their mouths have, like, pizzazz and that.

1:15:09 > 1:15:11Yes, script and story are crucial.

1:15:11 > 1:15:16Confused story lines and dialogue, and character errors can spoil an entire series in seconds.

1:15:16 > 1:15:21That's why broadcasters spend enormous amounts of money hiring professional writers and executives

1:15:21 > 1:15:26to ensure this doesn't happen and why they get so disappointed when it still does.

1:15:26 > 1:15:28Take a look at this little lot.

1:15:30 > 1:15:3524, and here's Jack Bauer giving his exact location to headquarters.

1:15:35 > 1:15:38We're at 21408 Kipling, North Hollywood.

1:15:38 > 1:15:46That's 21408 Kipling, North Hollywood. 21408. Now, spin on,

1:15:46 > 1:15:54and the car is here. But spin on again, and we can see they've pulled up outside 21048.

1:15:54 > 1:15:57Well, that's no good. Kiefer's at 21408.

1:15:57 > 1:16:03But hang on, he is here, at 21048,

1:16:03 > 1:16:06- and not... - 21408 Kipling, North Hollywood.

1:16:06 > 1:16:07Where he said he was a moment ago.

1:16:07 > 1:16:11Still, it's only the Secret Service in a race against time to save lives,

1:16:11 > 1:16:14nothing important, like a pizza delivery.

1:16:16 > 1:16:17Here's Ashes To Ashes,

1:16:17 > 1:16:20the disappointing follow-up to Life On Mars.

1:16:20 > 1:16:21It's July 1981.

1:16:21 > 1:16:22And a shocked Keeley Hawes

1:16:22 > 1:16:25has just found herself mysteriously back in the 1980s.

1:16:25 > 1:16:29She's trying to find out the date from Gene Hunt's steam-driven computer.

1:16:29 > 1:16:32Let's check it. 17th July 1981.

1:16:32 > 1:16:35There's nothing on this hard drive but the time and date.

1:16:35 > 1:16:42Spin on, and later, in her new '80s flat, we see that she's marked her arrival date as July 20th.

1:16:42 > 1:16:44She's lost three days.

1:16:44 > 1:16:47There are easier ways to lose three days, Keeley.

1:16:47 > 1:16:49Try drinking five pints of gin.

1:16:49 > 1:16:51Works for me.

1:16:53 > 1:16:57Here's an IT blunder from serial-killing drama, Dexter.

1:16:57 > 1:17:03As Rudy Cooper opens an e-mail from frozenbarbie@hotmail.web...

1:17:06 > 1:17:07..presses reply,

1:17:07 > 1:17:12and suddenly he's writing back to frozenbarbie@hotmail.com.

1:17:12 > 1:17:15Don't worry, though, thanks to the confusing power of telly,

1:17:15 > 1:17:18Frozen Barbie still gets the e-mail anyway.

1:17:18 > 1:17:24All's well that ends well. Except for the fact that he kills her and cut her into tiny pieces.

1:17:26 > 1:17:29Here's an early clip from Star Trek: The Next Generation

1:17:29 > 1:17:34and new Number One, Will Riker, is looking for the holodeck.

1:17:34 > 1:17:36The computer tells him it's...

1:17:36 > 1:17:38'The next hatchway on your right.'

1:17:38 > 1:17:40- You mean left, surely?- Thank you.

1:17:40 > 1:17:45- He's bluffing. Riker knows that the new Enterprise computer is an idiot. - I do.

1:17:45 > 1:17:46And goes left instead.

1:17:46 > 1:17:52In the future, many things will be different, but apparently, men still don't trust directions from a woman.

1:17:54 > 1:17:58US drama Fringe, and this bonkers boffin has invented a camera

1:17:58 > 1:18:00that can photograph a corpse

1:18:00 > 1:18:05and capture the last image seen by a person before their death.

1:18:05 > 1:18:09- Ready?- I know, it's rubbish, but go with it.

1:18:09 > 1:18:12Let's listen to the doc's advice.

1:18:12 > 1:18:16Goggles, all of you. Do not look directly into the light.

1:18:16 > 1:18:19- MIMICS:- "Goggles, all of you. Do not look directly into the light."

1:18:19 > 1:18:23Got it. Camera, dangerous. Goggles, essential.

1:18:23 > 1:18:27But spin on through the rubbish, and see what happens.

1:18:27 > 1:18:30They've taken them off. Oi! And you! Put them back on.

1:18:30 > 1:18:35The doctor said keep the goggles on while the camera is still flashing.

1:18:35 > 1:18:38Doc, tell them to... not you, as well. I give up. This programme is stupid.

1:18:40 > 1:18:43The OC crowd are in a nightclub

1:18:43 > 1:18:45when one of our old friends

1:18:45 > 1:18:48leaves an urgent message for his mate. Let's listen in.

1:18:48 > 1:18:51Luke, it's me. I wanted to make sure you took care of it.

1:18:51 > 1:18:53OK. Ryan said, "Luke, it's me.

1:18:53 > 1:18:58"I want to make sure you took care of it." And there was lots of noise in the background.

1:18:58 > 1:19:01Does Luke get the message? Yes. But not that one.

1:19:01 > 1:19:06- WITHOUT BACKGROUND NOISE: - Luke, it's me. I'm just calling to make sure you took care of it.

1:19:06 > 1:19:09"Luke, it's me. I'm just CALLING to make sure you took care of it."

1:19:09 > 1:19:13Different words and no background noise. Probably a network problem.

1:19:13 > 1:19:18There's a joke here somewhere about Orange County, but where are the good times?

1:19:20 > 1:19:22Writing a long-running show like Frasier is tricky,

1:19:22 > 1:19:25having to remember the characters' likes and dislikes

1:19:25 > 1:19:29and relatives. They're a nightmare, even when they're not real.

1:19:29 > 1:19:32Just listen to Frasier's dad Martin in series one.

1:19:32 > 1:19:33I never had a brother.

1:19:33 > 1:19:36Marty Crane never had a brother.

1:19:36 > 1:19:41- Oh, I've got the feeling he would have liked one, though, and by series five, he did.- There he is!

1:19:41 > 1:19:46Well! This is so exciting! You two must have so much to talk about. Uncle Walt, hello!

1:19:46 > 1:19:50That's either a mistake or someone needs a psychiatrist.

1:19:52 > 1:19:54- Marty.- Walt.

1:19:56 > 1:19:58SOUND problems are very common in television,

1:19:58 > 1:20:03partly because it would be impossible to control all the sounds around us

1:20:03 > 1:20:08and partly because most sound men are tone-deaf alcoholics whose only hope of noticing a pin drop

1:20:08 > 1:20:13is if you pull it out of a live grenade in front of them and throw it in their stupid faces.

1:20:13 > 1:20:16We in telly call the process of replacing sounds "dubbing" or "ADR",

1:20:16 > 1:20:19which stands for automatic dialogue replacement.

1:20:19 > 1:20:24Mind you, looking at these next clips, you'd think it stood for awful dialogue replacement!

1:20:24 > 1:20:27HE GUFFAWS EXAGGERATEDLY

1:20:32 > 1:20:35It's Doctor Izzie Stevens in Grey's Anatomy,

1:20:35 > 1:20:39who can say "ooh" without moving her lips. No really, she can.

1:20:39 > 1:20:41- Look.- Oh, ooh!

1:20:41 > 1:20:43Oh, I like that. Again?

1:20:43 > 1:20:47- Ooh!- Oh, go on then. Once more!

1:20:47 > 1:20:49- Ooh!- Ooh!

1:20:49 > 1:20:53- Are you allowed to eat a cupcake in a sterile environment? - Are you still working with Meredith?

1:20:55 > 1:21:00Ah, yes. Meredith, AKA Dr Grey herself.

1:21:00 > 1:21:02But don't stand on ceremony, she hates that.

1:21:02 > 1:21:04Dr Grey.

1:21:04 > 1:21:06- Meredith.- Meredith.

1:21:06 > 1:21:08We heard it but we didn't see it.

1:21:08 > 1:21:11That man did not say "Meredith".

1:21:11 > 1:21:14- Or did he?- Meredith.- No, he did not.

1:21:14 > 1:21:15At least not at the time.

1:21:15 > 1:21:18Maybe he hates the name Meredith and refused to say it.

1:21:18 > 1:21:22"Ah," they thought, "We'll just stick that on later in the edit."

1:21:22 > 1:21:23And they did. Badly.

1:21:23 > 1:21:27- Because I stayed in the OR to save a life.- Meredith.

1:21:29 > 1:21:31- Very good.- What have you go there?

1:21:31 > 1:21:34Pride and Prejudice, and keep your eyes and ears

1:21:34 > 1:21:36on that fine actress Alison Steadman.

1:21:36 > 1:21:39There she is, famous for her performance in Abigail's Party

1:21:39 > 1:21:42and loads of other parts that have been quite similar.

1:21:42 > 1:21:48But hark, only an actress with Alison's vocal skills could say different words than her own mouth.

1:21:48 > 1:21:51Lord knows I have no desire to be always going here and there at night.

1:21:51 > 1:21:57Oi, Steadman! Your mouth's writing cheques your voice can't cash! That doesn't make any sense.

1:21:57 > 1:22:00I have no desire to be always going here and there at night.

1:22:00 > 1:22:02But neither does poor-quality dubbing.

1:22:04 > 1:22:07# For Jesus Christ our saviour... #

1:22:07 > 1:22:10More Pride and Prejudice, and Mary's depressing everyone

1:22:10 > 1:22:13with her piano playing like some 19th-century Dido.

1:22:13 > 1:22:18But look, there in the back of shot, Maria's singing without moving her lips.

1:22:18 > 1:22:21- Maybe she's singing out of her... - HE WHISTLES

1:22:21 > 1:22:26- Now, you might call that a mistake but I call it some of the finest... - HE WHISTLES

1:22:26 > 1:22:27..singing I've ever heard.

1:22:29 > 1:22:33Everyone, I just wanted to say it really means a lot to me

1:22:33 > 1:22:37- that all of you came.- In this episode of Desperate Housewives,

1:22:37 > 1:22:40Carlos is giving a speech to friends about leaving to go to jail.

1:22:40 > 1:22:44But when they cut to a shot of Susan and Julie listening,

1:22:44 > 1:22:48we see Carlos isn't talking despite the fact we can still hear him.

1:22:48 > 1:22:50And when a man goes away to jail...

1:22:50 > 1:22:52- Now, he hasn't got a... - HE WHISTLES

1:22:52 > 1:22:57- ..so maybe he's talking out of his "ah-huh-huh". In which case, respect.- So, thanks.

1:22:59 > 1:23:03Look, everyone. It's Rachel off Friends, venting her spleen.

1:23:03 > 1:23:08So I was with Joshua for an hour today and he has not asked me out.

1:23:08 > 1:23:09Just so frustrating.

1:23:09 > 1:23:14I know, bad dubbing is very frustrating and I'll tell you what else is frustrating.

1:23:14 > 1:23:18Having Brad Pitt stolen away from you by Angelina Jolie.

1:23:18 > 1:23:21Curse you, Bradley Pitt.

1:23:21 > 1:23:22Just so frustrating.

1:23:22 > 1:23:24I know, but don't go on about it.

1:23:26 > 1:23:29I wondered what it'd be like to be a dude,

1:23:29 > 1:23:32walking through the halls in jeans and a ratty T-shirt...

1:23:32 > 1:23:36It's One Tree Hill, another one of those American shows full of cute people

1:23:36 > 1:23:40who've got everything they need. Except a good slap in the face!

1:23:40 > 1:23:42Maybe I'm into girls.

1:23:42 > 1:23:43SILENCE

1:23:43 > 1:23:46Whoa! Rachel just said that last line twice. No, really. Look.

1:23:46 > 1:23:48Maybe I'm into girls.

1:23:48 > 1:23:51- MIMICS:- Maybe I'm into girls.

1:23:51 > 1:23:53I think it's time for that slap in the face.

1:23:55 > 1:23:57Just give me a straight yes or no.

1:23:57 > 1:23:59Why should I give you...

1:23:59 > 1:24:02It's Only Fools and would you Adam and Eve it,

1:24:02 > 1:24:04Del Boy is about to put his plates of meat

1:24:04 > 1:24:10right in it and say something a bit apples and bassist, or whatever racist is in Cockney.

1:24:10 > 1:24:15What are the odds on you picking the only genuine weight watcher in London?

1:24:15 > 1:24:19Del's original line was "the only Provo weight watcher in London".

1:24:19 > 1:24:23- By the time the show aired, "Provo" had been overdubbed with the word...- Genuine...

1:24:23 > 1:24:26..which wouldn't be offensive to the people of Ireland or the IRA.

1:24:26 > 1:24:30Believe me, it doesn't take much to get THEM writing in to Points Of View.

1:24:32 > 1:24:37Most people in TV will tell you that actors can be difficult to work with.

1:24:37 > 1:24:39But take it from me, those people are LIARS.

1:24:39 > 1:24:42I wouldn't wee on them if they were on fire.

1:24:42 > 1:24:44No, CARS are difficult to work with.

1:24:44 > 1:24:48My old friend Ross Kemp now refuses to work with cars

1:24:48 > 1:24:54following a nasty incident with a dodgy 1974 Hillman Imp which very nearly acted him off the screen.

1:24:57 > 1:25:00A thrilling scene from Lost,

1:25:00 > 1:25:04the show about invisible polar bears on a desert island.

1:25:04 > 1:25:05Based on a true story.

1:25:05 > 1:25:09Here, the truck without the tailgate runs off the road.

1:25:12 > 1:25:17Oh, dear. There goes the truck. There goes the tailgate flying off that it didn't have a second ago.

1:25:17 > 1:25:20But luckily in the next shot, it's back on again.

1:25:20 > 1:25:25Look on the bright side, she's lost a truck but gained a tailgate.

1:25:25 > 1:25:29That might come in handy later, polar bears hate car parts.

1:25:29 > 1:25:31I hate continuity errors.

1:25:34 > 1:25:38Nip/Tuck now and watch these two teenagers.

1:25:38 > 1:25:39Oh, dear.

1:25:39 > 1:25:44Who'd have thought an argument between a pair of stoners in a speeding car could end so badly?

1:25:44 > 1:25:47These lads have left a nasty pair of skid marks.

1:25:48 > 1:25:53But when they go and check out the damage, the skid marks have disappeared.

1:25:53 > 1:25:56Well, the ones on the road have!

1:25:56 > 1:25:57GUFFAWS EXAGGERATEDLY

1:25:57 > 1:26:01I mean, you know, the ones in their pants are still there, yeah?

1:26:01 > 1:26:03Nice one! The woman's dead, by the way.

1:26:03 > 1:26:05I think we hit a bird.

1:26:07 > 1:26:10It's Bo and Luke Duke doing what they do well, driving fast

1:26:10 > 1:26:11and talking nonsense.

1:26:11 > 1:26:15But what's that strange appendage fastened to the right rear wheel?

1:26:15 > 1:26:20It couldn't be a camera, could it? To film them flying through the air? Yes, it could.

1:26:24 > 1:26:26SHE SCREAMS

1:26:26 > 1:26:29Buffy The Vampire Slayer, a show that attracts geeks

1:26:29 > 1:26:31like dog poo attracts new trainers.

1:26:31 > 1:26:38Here, the Buffster's mate, Cordelia, is having a driving lesson and not a moment too soon.

1:26:38 > 1:26:40Wahoo!

1:26:42 > 1:26:45If we spin on, we can see and hear...

1:26:45 > 1:26:47her slam the car door shut.

1:26:47 > 1:26:50But in the next shot it's open.

1:26:50 > 1:26:54So that this oncoming truck can smash into it, as per the script.

1:26:54 > 1:26:56CORDELIA SCREAMS

1:26:59 > 1:27:04Crisis averted. In the circumstances, the best option. Either that or reshoot it properly.

1:27:04 > 1:27:07- Nah.- What's happening? I can't see anything.

1:27:07 > 1:27:08Dozy cow.

1:27:10 > 1:27:15Hawaii Five-O and Steve McGarrett is off to the scene of a crime

1:27:15 > 1:27:17in his beloved Ford.

1:27:17 > 1:27:20But what crime exactly? Grand theft auto, that's what.

1:27:20 > 1:27:26Because when Steve pulls up at the crime scene, his car has grown a couple more doors.

1:27:26 > 1:27:29Yep, he pulls away in a two-door coupe

1:27:29 > 1:27:32and arrives in a four-door sedan.

1:27:32 > 1:27:35Book him, Danno, for crimes against continuity.

1:27:38 > 1:27:42One part of every show normally immune from TV mistakes

1:27:42 > 1:27:44is the titles.

1:27:44 > 1:27:48Not the famous opening title sequence from Sex And The City, though. Oh, no.

1:27:48 > 1:27:50We all know what's coming next.

1:27:50 > 1:27:53SJP gets splashed by a bus full of commuters

1:27:53 > 1:27:57but look what happens when the same bus turns left moments later.

1:27:57 > 1:27:59It's deserted. Maybe they all fainted.

1:27:59 > 1:28:02It's not every day you see a Yorkshire terrier in a Tutu.

1:28:04 > 1:28:07When visiting LA, there are two things you simply MUST do.

1:28:07 > 1:28:09One is rent a fabulous car.

1:28:09 > 1:28:12The Sex And The City girls have gone west.

1:28:12 > 1:28:15Hey, bet you don't know what the most popular car in LA is?

1:28:15 > 1:28:18It's the green four-door sedan.

1:28:18 > 1:28:20Look, there's one going past now.

1:28:20 > 1:28:22And going past again.

1:28:22 > 1:28:24That's very distracting.

1:28:24 > 1:28:28Spin on, and almost enough to make the girls crash into another car...

1:28:28 > 1:28:31SCREAMING, HORN HONKS

1:28:31 > 1:28:33..that's not there any more.

1:28:33 > 1:28:37- OK, that's enough!- Phew, that was close. Did I say close?

1:28:37 > 1:28:38I meant badly filmed.

1:28:38 > 1:28:42I'm not going to die in this tin can. I have a date with a dildo.

1:28:44 > 1:28:46Here's one of those FREAKS from Heroes now,

1:28:46 > 1:28:49using his superpower to defrost a car.

1:28:49 > 1:28:52Finally, a superpower with a practical use.

1:28:52 > 1:28:55What does it say on that car windscreen? "Automatic."

1:28:55 > 1:28:59I wasn't looking for an automatic. It's a nice car though. I'm definitely interested.

1:28:59 > 1:29:04Actually, it's almost exactly what I'm looking for. I like the colour, the make, the price,

1:29:04 > 1:29:09it's just if only instead of being automatic it was say, low-mileage.

1:29:09 > 1:29:11He-hey, now it is!

1:29:11 > 1:29:13That's what I call superpower.

1:29:13 > 1:29:15And art department incompetence.

1:29:17 > 1:29:19BEEPING

1:29:19 > 1:29:23Ashes To Ashes, and a chance to enjoy

1:29:23 > 1:29:27all that painstakingly-recreated '80s period detail.

1:29:27 > 1:29:31Everything exactly as it would have been 30 years ago.

1:29:31 > 1:29:33Except for that N-reg 1993 Rover 600,

1:29:33 > 1:29:37which didn't go into production for another 12 years.

1:29:37 > 1:29:41- ..before the turns to the high street, copy that.- Who cares?

1:29:41 > 1:29:45- COCKNEY ACCENT: - We're remaking The Sweeney and we haven't had any dinner!

1:29:45 > 1:29:48Here's a clip from 24, and Jack Bauer is under surveillance.

1:29:48 > 1:29:51See, there's the minicam, at the front left of the windscreen.

1:29:51 > 1:29:57His every move is being watched, except by the remaining audience. They fell asleep hours ago.

1:29:57 > 1:30:01Now, look as we see the window from the inside of the car.

1:30:01 > 1:30:03The minicam's gone! A mistake?

1:30:03 > 1:30:05Well, yes, but these people are saving the world.

1:30:05 > 1:30:08They can't remember everything!

1:30:10 > 1:30:13Here's Knight Rider, David Hasselhoff, telling KITT

1:30:13 > 1:30:15to round up some other cars,

1:30:15 > 1:30:18a bit like a two-tonne metal sheepdog,

1:30:18 > 1:30:20with an engine and bumpers.

1:30:20 > 1:30:24Talking of bumpers, why are all those covered in plastic?

1:30:24 > 1:30:27It's almost as if they've been fitted with protective guards

1:30:27 > 1:30:29to prevent scratches.

1:30:29 > 1:30:33No, they wouldn't do that. That'd be almost as bad as letting us see

1:30:33 > 1:30:37the stuntman that really drives KITT, slumped in the front seat.

1:30:40 > 1:30:42Well, his arm.

1:30:42 > 1:30:44At least he didn't pull a moonie!

1:30:46 > 1:30:51The great thing about animals is the fact that they will literally work for peanuts.

1:30:51 > 1:30:55Over the years, animals have given us some classic TV moments.

1:30:55 > 1:30:58Who can forget the infamous Blue Peter elephant, who for

1:30:58 > 1:31:01years carried the blame for Peter Purves's violent bout of diarrhoea.

1:31:01 > 1:31:05The following clips might be less well-known, but they are sure

1:31:05 > 1:31:09to delight fans of TV mistakes and mild animal cruelty alike.

1:31:12 > 1:31:13A humorous little set piece

1:31:13 > 1:31:17from Grey's Anatomy now, following doctors Burke and Yang's

1:31:17 > 1:31:20street chat, George's bagel gets pooed on by a bird

1:31:20 > 1:31:22and, devastated,

1:31:22 > 1:31:23he throws it to the pavement,

1:31:23 > 1:31:28where it's immediately pounced upon by a grateful pigeon, just like in the script.

1:31:28 > 1:31:31How do they do that? Was it a stunt pigeon?

1:31:31 > 1:31:36No, it was a plain old ordinary pigeon, tied to a length of wire.

1:31:36 > 1:31:38Time to give the man responsible the push.

1:31:40 > 1:31:42Too late, he jumped.

1:31:44 > 1:31:48This horrible 19th-century singing is upsetting me and the dog.

1:31:48 > 1:31:50HOWLING

1:31:50 > 1:31:51Hark at him howling!

1:31:51 > 1:31:56Well, not so much "howling", more "looking", silently looking up at

1:31:56 > 1:31:59the doggy treat being waved by his handler off-camera.

1:31:59 > 1:32:02"But we need him to howl," said the director.

1:32:02 > 1:32:04"It'll be fine," said the sound man,

1:32:04 > 1:32:06"we'll just stick some howling effects on later,

1:32:06 > 1:32:08"and no-one'll notice."

1:32:08 > 1:32:10Well, we did. Oh shut up, dear!

1:32:12 > 1:32:14How DO they train dumb animals to act?

1:32:14 > 1:32:16I'm talking about the dog!

1:32:16 > 1:32:19They use handlers, of course.

1:32:19 > 1:32:21Handlers like him.

1:32:21 > 1:32:25I've always wanted to see what the top of a dog handler's head looks like. Hairy.

1:32:27 > 1:32:33At the top of the show, what you might call "the beginning", we saw a clip montage,

1:32:33 > 1:32:35what you might call a "collection",

1:32:35 > 1:32:39in which the camera crew accidentally found themselves in shot.

1:32:39 > 1:32:42What you might call "shocking unprofessionalism".

1:32:42 > 1:32:46Not all such unscheduled on-screen appearances are easy to spot.

1:32:46 > 1:32:52Shop windows, car doors, and poorly-placed mirrors are all catnip to the careless cameraman.

1:32:52 > 1:32:55Yes, nothing has the power to confuse and confound

1:32:55 > 1:32:58these highly-trained industry professionals

1:32:58 > 1:33:00like a reflection, or their own shadows!

1:33:00 > 1:33:02Which don't do that.

1:33:04 > 1:33:06You know what Eurisko means?

1:33:06 > 1:33:08Back on those X Files,

1:33:08 > 1:33:11Dave and Gill are about to be shown a mysterious video tape,

1:33:11 > 1:33:14which is what people in the past had instead of DVDs.

1:33:14 > 1:33:18It was like a roll of black ribbon in a box. Trust me, it was rubbish.

1:33:18 > 1:33:21Anyway, look what happens before it starts to play.

1:33:21 > 1:33:24Oh dear, once more, the mysterious effect

1:33:24 > 1:33:26of what some people call "a reflection"

1:33:26 > 1:33:29catches out another entire telly crew.

1:33:29 > 1:33:32- Let me show you something. - We've seen enough, thank you.

1:33:34 > 1:33:37'80s classic Knight Rider will always be remembered

1:33:37 > 1:33:39less for its high production standards

1:33:39 > 1:33:41and more for being a pile of arse.

1:33:41 > 1:33:45How's that for a shadow? Not the best shot in the series, but if you

1:33:45 > 1:33:48look carefully, you can see one of the soundmen doing a shadow puppet

1:33:48 > 1:33:50of a crocodile eating a sausage.

1:33:50 > 1:33:53So not a complete disaster.

1:33:55 > 1:33:57- No, but can you?- Two Pints Of Lager.

1:33:57 > 1:34:00Here's Gaz and Donna on their way to visit Donna's mum,

1:34:00 > 1:34:02but they're not the only visitors.

1:34:02 > 1:34:05Keep your eye on the bay window.

1:34:05 > 1:34:08Peepo! That's either a cameraman or Will Mellor's stalker.

1:34:08 > 1:34:10SHE LAUGHS

1:34:10 > 1:34:13Don't laugh. They don't always follow celebrities.

1:34:15 > 1:34:17..party, not a shareholders' meeting.

1:34:17 > 1:34:19I love Arrested Development.

1:34:19 > 1:34:22Although, admittedly, this isn't the best bit.

1:34:22 > 1:34:24Watch Jeffrey Tambor's fetching shades.

1:34:24 > 1:34:27Because, you know what sunglasses do? They reflect.

1:34:27 > 1:34:29I knew it was against the law!

1:34:29 > 1:34:32Ooh! There's the entire Arrested Development crew!

1:34:32 > 1:34:35Hi guys, great show, bad shot!

1:34:37 > 1:34:40It's Thunderbirds, and as the cameraman

1:34:40 > 1:34:42moves into spy on this puppet lady,

1:34:42 > 1:34:44which is itself a bit wrong,

1:34:44 > 1:34:46we catch sight of him in the window.

1:34:46 > 1:34:50There he is, holding the camera, lowering the camera... Pervert.

1:34:52 > 1:34:54We're just getting a breath of fresh air.

1:34:54 > 1:34:56Now, who wants to see

1:34:56 > 1:34:59what the third assistant director on Skins looks like?

1:34:59 > 1:35:01Ready? There he is!

1:35:01 > 1:35:05Bless! There's his little face reflected in the taxi window.

1:35:05 > 1:35:07Bet he got into trouble for that one.

1:35:07 > 1:35:10Don't worry, though, he's still working in the TV industry,

1:35:10 > 1:35:13putting up satellite dishes in the Solihull area.

1:35:15 > 1:35:19Now, who wants to see what the rest of the Skins crew looks like?

1:35:19 > 1:35:22There they are, merrily dollying along the pavement,

1:35:22 > 1:35:23reflected in the bay windows.

1:35:23 > 1:35:25Didn't even wave!

1:35:29 > 1:35:31- There's always tomorrow. - Maybe for you.

1:35:31 > 1:35:33There are two problems with working

1:35:33 > 1:35:35at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital.

1:35:35 > 1:35:40The first is having to remember all the words in the name when someone asks you where you work,

1:35:40 > 1:35:44and the second is that there are just too many reflective surfaces.

1:35:44 > 1:35:46Looks nice and clean, though.

1:35:48 > 1:35:51Vicky Pollard is thrown out of a shop,

1:35:51 > 1:35:53and oh, there's the reflection of the camera crew.

1:35:53 > 1:35:58Standing around, wondering what's about to happen next.

1:35:58 > 1:36:02Is it that? Yes, it was that.

1:36:06 > 1:36:09More crew caught out by cars in 24.

1:36:09 > 1:36:12Cooee, Mr Cameraman.

1:36:12 > 1:36:15Whose stupid idea was it to polish that vehicle?

1:36:15 > 1:36:18Don't worry, Jack Bauer's got 24 hours to find them.

1:36:18 > 1:36:20And some more consonants for his surname.

1:36:23 > 1:36:25Is that you?

1:36:25 > 1:36:27Here's a heart-rending scene

1:36:27 > 1:36:31from Dr Who, as Micky has an emotional reunion with his grandma.

1:36:31 > 1:36:35And the boom mic operator, reflected in Granny's sunglasses.

1:36:35 > 1:36:37A lovely moment.

1:36:40 > 1:36:43This is a cracker. The housewives are desperate,

1:36:43 > 1:36:46but when it comes to reflections,

1:36:46 > 1:36:49the crew are just plain stupid. OK, fair play.

1:36:49 > 1:36:52This shot's all right, no reflections in the car window there.

1:36:52 > 1:36:56But just look what happens when Susan pulls away.

1:36:56 > 1:37:01Ooh! That is one dirty great camera, and one dirty great cameraman.

1:37:01 > 1:37:03Time for a Twinkie!

1:37:07 > 1:37:12Back on Wisteria Lane, Gaby's Maserati is about to be repossessed,

1:37:12 > 1:37:17but oh dear, whenever I see a shiny object on a TV show, I always fear the worst.

1:37:17 > 1:37:19And here's why.

1:37:19 > 1:37:22Where there's a boom pole, there's a sound man.

1:37:22 > 1:37:28Eva Longoria has been in 128 episodes of Desperate Housewives. And the crew have been in about 12!

1:37:28 > 1:37:31You call this a paint job?

1:37:33 > 1:37:37Only Fools, and here's Del Boy with Mike and Boycie and Trigger

1:37:37 > 1:37:39and the shadow of an enormous camera.

1:37:39 > 1:37:42Altogether now - "You plonker!"

1:37:44 > 1:37:50When TV crews aren't wandering in, or crawling through, or squatting down in the back of shot,

1:37:50 > 1:37:56ruining the hard work of so many others, they're forgetting to clear away their filthy bits of gear.

1:37:56 > 1:38:00And I'm not just talking about flasks of tea or copies of Warhammer magazine.

1:38:00 > 1:38:05I'd like to say that these next clips were memorable for their excellent dialogue or performances,

1:38:05 > 1:38:09but instead, I'm forced to report that they were all but destroyed

1:38:09 > 1:38:12by the unwanted presence of poorly-positioned TV kit.

1:38:12 > 1:38:16Lights, cameras, are just two of the items you'll see. Here's the clips.

1:38:18 > 1:38:20Years ago, trucker named Bubba.

1:38:20 > 1:38:24Ah, Dawson's Creek. Look, there's tiny Katie Holmes-y,

1:38:24 > 1:38:26back when she was only trapped in a TV soap

1:38:26 > 1:38:28and not in a marriage to Tom Cruise.

1:38:28 > 1:38:31Wait a second! That's either Katie's radio mic

1:38:31 > 1:38:34or the box by which Tom Cruise controls her every movement.

1:38:34 > 1:38:36No, she hadn't met Tom back then.

1:38:36 > 1:38:38She does have one now, though.

1:38:41 > 1:38:44Another clip from Pride And Prejudice,

1:38:44 > 1:38:45starring dishy Colin Firth,

1:38:45 > 1:38:49and a scene oozing with sexual tension. Hardly surprising.

1:38:49 > 1:38:51Look at that dancing! That is hot.

1:38:51 > 1:38:53But hang on a minute, what's that?

1:38:53 > 1:38:56An electric light in the early 19th century?

1:38:56 > 1:38:58Oh, I hate anachronistic errors!

1:38:58 > 1:39:01I daren't think what Jane Austen's going to make of that when she sees it.

1:39:03 > 1:39:05She's the real deal.

1:39:05 > 1:39:08Joey told you about the leg?

1:39:08 > 1:39:10Now as we know, sound men often

1:39:10 > 1:39:15use a boom pole to record sound so the microphone won't get into shot.

1:39:15 > 1:39:19Except sometimes when a sound man has had a very busy morning on set

1:39:19 > 1:39:24or an even busier lunch down the pub, the boom does drop into shot.

1:39:27 > 1:39:31D'oh! There it is, did you see it?

1:39:31 > 1:39:34Oh, wake up you sandal-wearing lush!

1:39:36 > 1:39:40Another clip from Friends and proof that firing the boom operator

1:39:40 > 1:39:43isn't the answer because in all likelihood,

1:39:43 > 1:39:45the next one will be just as bad.

1:39:45 > 1:39:46D'oh, hello!

1:39:50 > 1:39:51Of course.

1:39:51 > 1:39:54Here's a scary scene from Supernatural.

1:39:54 > 1:39:55Two men reading a book?

1:39:55 > 1:39:59Ooh, someone could get a paper cut or an overdue library fine.

1:39:59 > 1:40:03Hey, there's something behind that lampshade. It's a television camera.

1:40:03 > 1:40:07Oh, it doesn't get any more exciting than this.

1:40:07 > 1:40:10Oh, it does.

1:40:13 > 1:40:15Stir up a hornets' nest.

1:40:15 > 1:40:19The Wire. A flawless show in every respect. Well, mostly.

1:40:19 > 1:40:23Look, the cameraman moves back too far and, bang,

1:40:23 > 1:40:27that enormous TV light has just been seen by millions of viewers.

1:40:27 > 1:40:30Well, at least the ones that sit three inches from the screen are

1:40:30 > 1:40:35staring at the extreme right of frame instead of at the action, like me.

1:40:35 > 1:40:36GUNFIRE

1:40:38 > 1:40:40He's in here.

1:40:43 > 1:40:47Two Pints Of Lager, and Donna has dragged Gaz to meet her family.

1:40:47 > 1:40:50And this boom mic.

1:40:50 > 1:40:53Hello, there you go, short and sweet, a bit like me.

1:40:53 > 1:40:55Apart from the short bit, obviously.

1:40:55 > 1:40:57He works away a lot.

1:40:59 > 1:41:02She tastes of lard.

1:41:02 > 1:41:04More pints of light comedy lager,

1:41:04 > 1:41:07and stand by for another brief cameo from the boom mic,

1:41:07 > 1:41:10instantly upstaging Ralf Little, and the other one,

1:41:10 > 1:41:12by being twice as funny.

1:41:13 > 1:41:16Peepo! Peep! Peep!

1:41:16 > 1:41:18Thanks, Mr Boom Mic Operator.

1:41:18 > 1:41:20We owe you a drink.

1:41:20 > 1:41:21No, I just kissed her.

1:41:23 > 1:41:26You have absolutely no sense of humour, do you?

1:41:26 > 1:41:29Fawlty Towers, a truly great sitcom

1:41:29 > 1:41:31that wasn't afraid to break the rules.

1:41:31 > 1:41:35Like the one about not leaving monitor screens lying around in the back of shot.

1:41:35 > 1:41:40There it is. You can even make out the very same shot of Basil running

1:41:40 > 1:41:44into the kitchen on the screen, and if you look at the monitor on the monitor, you can even ...

1:41:44 > 1:41:49Actually I'll stop there before or I go mad and start insulting some Germans.

1:41:52 > 1:41:55It's the live EastEnders, and as Bradley lies dying,

1:41:55 > 1:41:58everyone crowds into the Square. Even the boom mic.

1:42:00 > 1:42:03Hell, take my daughter for example.

1:42:03 > 1:42:06The wonderful Arrested Development, and it's time to be

1:42:06 > 1:42:12perfectly honest, of all the "boom mic in shot" shots I've seen, this has to be in my favourite 50.

1:42:12 > 1:42:15A glorious Sunday afternoon. She won't tell me.

1:42:15 > 1:42:18Watch ya. I think you'll agree that was worth waiting for.

1:42:18 > 1:42:20What play?

1:42:22 > 1:42:25Editing is, of course, the simplest of all the jobs

1:42:25 > 1:42:28that people do in television that nobody really cares about.

1:42:28 > 1:42:31All an editor has to do is sit in a room with a producer or director

1:42:31 > 1:42:36and cut out of the stuff that didn't work and stick together all the stuff that did.

1:42:36 > 1:42:41But as we've already seen, mistakes get made, especially in a busy edit suite where teas

1:42:41 > 1:42:45and coffees have to be ordered and lunch menus read from cover to cover.

1:42:45 > 1:42:48Yes, between them, producers, directors and editors can make some

1:42:48 > 1:42:53pretty surprising decisions when it comes to selecting which shots to use and which to throw away.

1:42:53 > 1:42:57Take, for example, the decision to re-shoot all of my links here today

1:42:57 > 1:43:01instead of using the ones I recorded myself yesterday in the shower. Ridiculous.

1:43:05 > 1:43:09Here's a clip from American series Bones, and the perennial question,

1:43:09 > 1:43:12how do you pass the time on a long trip through the desert?

1:43:12 > 1:43:16I know. How about looking at the back projection and trying to spot

1:43:16 > 1:43:22when the cyclorama suddenly changes from flat scrub to mountainscape in a split second. Are we there yet?

1:43:22 > 1:43:26There we are. Your turn.

1:43:26 > 1:43:27And...cut.

1:43:27 > 1:43:31Great work, everybody. Who wants to play I-spy?

1:43:31 > 1:43:35I spy with my little eye something beginning with C.

1:43:35 > 1:43:37It's Crap FX, isn't it?

1:43:41 > 1:43:42Its Skins, and lovely Tony

1:43:42 > 1:43:45is about to tuck into a delicious tuna sandwich.

1:43:45 > 1:43:48Mmm, I love sandwiches. Conversely, most directors hate them.

1:43:48 > 1:43:52They're a continuity nightmare.

1:43:52 > 1:43:56And we're off. Bite one to the left.

1:43:56 > 1:43:57Which is now two bites big.

1:43:57 > 1:44:00That'd really put a dampener on your day.

1:44:00 > 1:44:02And whole again. First bite again to the left.

1:44:02 > 1:44:04Look what you're doing to your mate.

1:44:04 > 1:44:06He doesn't know what day it is.

1:44:06 > 1:44:09- But now multiple bites to left and right.- Have some tuna sandwich.

1:44:09 > 1:44:13- It'll make you feel better.- Are you sure? I'm feeling a bit dizzy.

1:44:13 > 1:44:14No, no, no, leave it.

1:44:14 > 1:44:17Leave it. He's at it as well.

1:44:17 > 1:44:20Tony is back to a one-bite sandwich. Two bites.

1:44:20 > 1:44:22Bites right and left.

1:44:22 > 1:44:25No, two bites to the left.

1:44:25 > 1:44:29- Hi, Tony.- Oh, beat it, kids, I'm trying to concentrate.

1:44:29 > 1:44:31Multiple bites again right and left.

1:44:31 > 1:44:33Oh, I've changed my mind, I hate tuna sandwiches.

1:44:35 > 1:44:38So the chair's a write-off?

1:44:38 > 1:44:42Miranda and Carrie are in the city taking a break from all that sex

1:44:42 > 1:44:45to enjoy a nice sit-down and... Oh, dear, cupcakes.

1:44:45 > 1:44:50Carrie's cupcake continuity is immaculate, but in a moment,

1:44:50 > 1:44:56Miranda's muffin goes from well-eaten to cake-o intacta.

1:44:56 > 1:44:57Actually, that wasn't too bad.

1:44:57 > 1:45:00Tony from Skins, pay attention.

1:45:02 > 1:45:04You got a whacking lot of doughnuts.

1:45:04 > 1:45:09Yes, food is a continuity nightmare, especially on Skins.

1:45:09 > 1:45:13Look, Pandora dives into this bag of doughnuts and grabs one with yellow icing.

1:45:13 > 1:45:16Takes a couple of bites, one, two.

1:45:16 > 1:45:18Now it's half-gone.

1:45:18 > 1:45:20Suddenly, it's all gone.

1:45:20 > 1:45:22Takes a pink one.

1:45:22 > 1:45:24Which is now yellow.

1:45:24 > 1:45:29And back to pink with two bites out of it.

1:45:29 > 1:45:31Then just one bite.

1:45:31 > 1:45:32And now it's gone.

1:45:32 > 1:45:34Hello.

1:45:34 > 1:45:36And back again!

1:45:36 > 1:45:40- That's doughnut madness. - Effie. So glad to meet you.

1:45:42 > 1:45:45In telly, one of the jobs of the director, besides shouting

1:45:45 > 1:45:47and drinking coffee, is blocking,

1:45:47 > 1:45:51which means telling the cameras and actors where to stand,

1:45:51 > 1:45:53though not always in the right place.

1:45:53 > 1:45:57Look, as Jenna goes to wake Gan, who's that loitering in the background?

1:45:57 > 1:46:02It's either an alien or Vila, arms folded, looking bored.

1:46:02 > 1:46:03Gan, come on, wake up.

1:46:03 > 1:46:05- What's wrong, Jenna? - And cue Vila.

1:46:05 > 1:46:07- Something's happened to them. - Where is he?

1:46:07 > 1:46:10If the future turns out to be anything like Blake's 7,

1:46:10 > 1:46:13- I'm going to be so disappointed. - What are you up to now?

1:46:15 > 1:46:17Go on, my son, go on, go on!

1:46:17 > 1:46:21Classic comedy from Only Fools And Horses, with some less-than-classic

1:46:21 > 1:46:25"standing around waiting for a cue" work from actor Lennard Pearce.

1:46:25 > 1:46:29Here it comes. Wait for it, Lennard.

1:46:29 > 1:46:31Oh, Lennard!

1:46:31 > 1:46:35I blame the director. It's not really Grandad's fault.

1:46:35 > 1:46:38He's so old. He's probably just stuck to the lino.

1:46:40 > 1:46:43Its Friends in Vegas.

1:46:43 > 1:46:47Here comes Chandler. He sees Monica having fun with another fellow,

1:46:47 > 1:46:51and all melancholy, he turns to leave.

1:46:51 > 1:46:57And leave again. You might think they just used the same shot twice, and you'd be right.

1:46:59 > 1:47:01You will not be better until they've...

1:47:01 > 1:47:05In this clip from the first series of Red Dwarf, Craig Charles

1:47:05 > 1:47:09is enjoying Craig Ferguson's lines and big acting so much, he joins in.

1:47:09 > 1:47:12I don't know, is it some place near Uruguay?

1:47:12 > 1:47:14Oh, you missed it, didn't you?

1:47:14 > 1:47:17Try again and keep your eyes on little Craig.

1:47:17 > 1:47:20- HIGH-PITCHED:- "I don't know, is it some place near Uruguay?"

1:47:20 > 1:47:22Lovely bit of close-harmony acting.

1:47:24 > 1:47:27Just let her go.

1:47:27 > 1:47:30- Go ahead, shoot.- Agent Mulder is in a stand off with a villain.

1:47:30 > 1:47:33He's probably an alien in disguise, they usually are.

1:47:33 > 1:47:37Like all good FBI agents, though, he's got his earpiece in so that

1:47:37 > 1:47:40he can listen to Chris Moyles and fight the alien hordes.

1:47:40 > 1:47:42Which is harder? You decide.

1:47:42 > 1:47:46This scene is crying out for a close-up of Mulder wrestling with his conscience

1:47:46 > 1:47:48and finally shooting the baddie.

1:47:48 > 1:47:51Unfortunately, they didn't get one, so they'd to film it later

1:47:51 > 1:47:54when he wasn't wearing an earpiece.

1:47:54 > 1:47:56Embarrassed in front of millions.

1:47:56 > 1:47:57Sorry, Dave.

1:48:00 > 1:48:05Mulder and Scully are pursuing a suspect.

1:48:05 > 1:48:09Either that, or another dissatisfied guest is leaving the FBI hotel

1:48:09 > 1:48:11via this half-open window.

1:48:12 > 1:48:14Oh, it's fallen on him.

1:48:14 > 1:48:16No, it hasn't.

1:48:18 > 1:48:21- Get your hands up!- Yeah, he will if you sort that window out.

1:48:21 > 1:48:23Max?

1:48:25 > 1:48:26Its Mulder again,

1:48:26 > 1:48:30and he's spotted something odd about this enormous tree trunk.

1:48:30 > 1:48:33Wait a minute, I think I know what it is.

1:48:35 > 1:48:38One minute, it's big with no green and no hand, but in close-up,

1:48:38 > 1:48:43it's suddenly much smaller and gained a pointy hand and some green.

1:48:43 > 1:48:46- I've never seen a ring like that before.- Me neither. Rubbish, wasn't it?

1:48:51 > 1:48:53Here's the lovely Jennifer Ehle

1:48:53 > 1:48:55in Pride And Prejudice, playing the piano.

1:48:55 > 1:48:58Except she isn't, because when we see inside,

1:48:58 > 1:49:00none of the hammers are moving.

1:49:00 > 1:49:02Although, she's definitely got my hammers moving,

1:49:02 > 1:49:04if you know what I mean.

1:49:04 > 1:49:07Actually, I'm not sure if even I know what that means.

1:49:09 > 1:49:14This party's rocking. That's not tea they're sipping, it's rum.

1:49:14 > 1:49:16Mmm... All off their 19th-century faces.

1:49:16 > 1:49:18The editor certainly had a few.

1:49:18 > 1:49:20Look what happens when he cuts to a wide shot.

1:49:20 > 1:49:25..can't express what we feel about your kindness to our dear Lydia.

1:49:25 > 1:49:30Suddenly, these two blokes are talking to each other and not listening to Alison Steadman,

1:49:30 > 1:49:35who's now chatting to someone sitting beside her, who isn't even there.

1:49:35 > 1:49:39Not so much Pride And Prejudice as Pride And Pretty Poor Wide Shot!

1:49:39 > 1:49:41- HE GUFFAWS - Oh, dear!

1:49:43 > 1:49:46And let us toast also Dr Soong.

1:49:46 > 1:49:52Star Trek NG, and Good Data and Bad Data are drinking champagne.

1:49:52 > 1:49:55A perfect match for my mind.

1:49:55 > 1:49:58- My body.- Good Data has been poisoned by Bad Data.

1:49:58 > 1:50:03Good Data topples backwards and somehow lands on his face.

1:50:03 > 1:50:07It's almost as if they had to redo it because the way he fell the first time was rubbish.

1:50:07 > 1:50:10They're good, these androids. I'm getting one.

1:50:12 > 1:50:14He had it shipped over from Scotland.

1:50:14 > 1:50:17Ever wondered what Superman's teenage years were like?

1:50:17 > 1:50:20Me neither, but that didn't stop them making Smallville.

1:50:20 > 1:50:26In between popping zits and shouting at his parents, Clark has found time to visit young Lex Luthor.

1:50:26 > 1:50:27Nice house.

1:50:27 > 1:50:31Shame you can see those two pieces of white tape on the parquet floor,

1:50:31 > 1:50:34put there by the crew to let Lex know where to stand.

1:50:34 > 1:50:37That's what we in TV call a mark.

1:50:37 > 1:50:40- And a mistake.- What's the matter?

1:50:40 > 1:50:43- You don't like it?- No, it very bad.

1:50:48 > 1:50:51The Black Adder, AKA Rowan Atkinson.

1:50:51 > 1:50:55Funny comedian, fine actor, always hits his mark.

1:50:57 > 1:51:01Mainly because it's clearly visible right there under his shoe.

1:51:03 > 1:51:04Three days after my funeral,

1:51:04 > 1:51:08Lynette replaced her grief with a much more useful emotion.

1:51:08 > 1:51:12In this clip from Desperate Housewives, Lynette is at the mall

1:51:12 > 1:51:16with those three naughty sons of hers and the baby, in pink, in the trolley.

1:51:16 > 1:51:18I can only imagine.

1:51:18 > 1:51:21Uh-oh, two of the boys have done a runner.

1:51:21 > 1:51:25But one bad pick-up shot later, and it looks like all four have scarpered.

1:51:25 > 1:51:28At least she's still got her pink blanket.

1:51:28 > 1:51:31Whichever way you look at it, that is borderline careless.

1:51:31 > 1:51:34- Lynette Scavo?- Crap.

1:51:36 > 1:51:38Classic Tom Baker-era Dr Who and,

1:51:38 > 1:51:41as one of the mummies from the Pyramids of Mars attacks Sarah Jane,

1:51:41 > 1:51:43he smashes this important device,

1:51:43 > 1:51:47known as a Marconiscope, to smithereens.

1:51:49 > 1:51:51Except in the very next shot, he hasn't.

1:51:51 > 1:51:54If you want to find out what a Marconiscope is,

1:51:54 > 1:51:57just go to any Dr Who fan site. They'll know.

1:51:57 > 1:51:58Just don't ask them what day it is.

1:52:02 > 1:52:04With live TV, you just have to go with it.

1:52:04 > 1:52:08In this climactic scene in the live 'StEnders episode,

1:52:08 > 1:52:11see if you can spot the moment when the cameraman trips.

1:52:14 > 1:52:16Oh!

1:52:18 > 1:52:22Dr George, played by TR Knight, is badly let down by the editing

1:52:22 > 1:52:24of this scene from Grey's Anatomy,

1:52:24 > 1:52:29as we see him remove his surgical topcoat not once but twice.

1:52:29 > 1:52:34A sloppy choice of shots in the edit and a great actor's career lies in ruins.

1:52:36 > 1:52:39# Here's what she said... #

1:52:39 > 1:52:41Great, it's The Simpsons,

1:52:41 > 1:52:43and here is Ned Flanders on top of a hill, singing.

1:52:43 > 1:52:45And here comes everyone else.

1:52:45 > 1:52:48That's funny. Wait a minute, so is that.

1:52:48 > 1:52:52Apu's skin is yellow, which in The Simpsons, means white,

1:52:52 > 1:52:56but he's Asian, and usually brown, which in The Simpsons means brown.

1:52:56 > 1:52:58Which he was, but he isn't any more.

1:52:58 > 1:53:01Who does he think he is, Michael Jackson?

1:53:01 > 1:53:04Sorry, shouldn't joke, he's dead. Jacko, I mean, not Apu.

1:53:04 > 1:53:05That would have been horrible.

1:53:05 > 1:53:08# Que sera, se... #

1:53:08 > 1:53:09Run!

1:53:11 > 1:53:13DOOR OPENS Clark!

1:53:13 > 1:53:17Martha from Smallville has sustained a nasty cut.

1:53:17 > 1:53:20There it is, just above her right eye.

1:53:20 > 1:53:25And here it is on her left eye.

1:53:25 > 1:53:26And back to the right.

1:53:26 > 1:53:31Yep, the director had "crossed the line", telly speak for "cocking up the camera position".

1:53:31 > 1:53:35Then he tried to fix it in the edit by flipping the shot.

1:53:35 > 1:53:39You might be able to get gaffes like that past Superman, but not us.

1:53:43 > 1:53:49Here is a sequence to make the Avatar team blush and then pat

1:53:49 > 1:53:53the Dr Who effects department on the head and say, "Oh, bless."

1:53:53 > 1:53:59When this spaceship crashes into the tower of Big Ben, suddenly, the numerals on her back-to-front.

1:53:59 > 1:54:01Because someone made a boob in the CGI and had to

1:54:01 > 1:54:05flip the shot to make it look like the spaceship enters from the right.

1:54:07 > 1:54:13The technique of flipping can also be used on your own TV remote every time Simon Cowell comes on.

1:54:15 > 1:54:18The king will therefore be requiring a new mistress.

1:54:18 > 1:54:20Dr Tennant again, in this clip,

1:54:20 > 1:54:23leaning on a balustrade in 18th-century France,

1:54:23 > 1:54:25spying on Madame Pompadour.

1:54:25 > 1:54:28She senses his presence, turns, but sees nothing.

1:54:28 > 1:54:31Not even his hand touching the wall.

1:54:31 > 1:54:34Because he isn't. But, in the next shot, he clearly still is.

1:54:34 > 1:54:37Maybe he's developed the power of invisibility.

1:54:37 > 1:54:40She's in for a surprise at bedtime.

1:54:42 > 1:54:43..on my brand-new camera.

1:54:43 > 1:54:46A less-than-thrilling clip from Dr Who,

1:54:46 > 1:54:50and Mark Warren is being filmed by a mate on his camcorder.

1:54:50 > 1:54:54The producers of the show are making sure we understand we're looking

1:54:54 > 1:54:58through a camcorder or by putting these frame lines on the screen.

1:54:58 > 1:55:03But spin on through the tedium, and the little lines have gone.

1:55:03 > 1:55:06Have dark forces tampered with the fabric of time and space?

1:55:06 > 1:55:09- I still don't know.- Well, I do.

1:55:09 > 1:55:13No, the editor got distracted by his Facebook page and forgot to put them on.

1:55:15 > 1:55:19And finally, if it's bad shot choices you're after,

1:55:19 > 1:55:21and who isn't, then check this. Here's Buffy,

1:55:21 > 1:55:25undertaking a vampires slayer's least onerous of tasks,

1:55:25 > 1:55:27picking up and putting down a pair of glasses.

1:55:27 > 1:55:29See if you can spot the gaffe.

1:55:30 > 1:55:34Yep.

1:55:34 > 1:55:36Wearing two pink rings on her fingers,

1:55:36 > 1:55:40she places the specs on the table, unfolded, with both hands.

1:55:40 > 1:55:43But in the close-up, the glasses have been folded,

1:55:43 > 1:55:46and are now put down by a single hand wearing a silver ring

1:55:46 > 1:55:48on a completely different table.

1:55:48 > 1:55:52That, with the best will in the world, was really shit.

1:55:54 > 1:55:57Well, there it is, TV's Greatest Mistakes.

1:55:57 > 1:56:01I'd just like to say thanks to all the people involved tonight.

1:56:01 > 1:56:05Thanks for being inattentive and so very sloppy in your chosen career.

1:56:05 > 1:56:09It's a good job it's just telly and nothing of any importance whatsoever,

1:56:09 > 1:56:14because if this had been a paper round or a Saturday job in a burger bar, you'd have been fired.

1:56:14 > 1:56:21Sloppy cameramen, directors, editors, producers, set designers, wardrobe, hair and make-up minions.

1:56:21 > 1:56:24Thank you, you are the best.

1:56:24 > 1:56:26And by best, of course, I mean worst!

1:56:26 > 1:56:28HE LAUGHS INANELY

1:56:28 > 1:56:30- Bye! - HE SCREAMS

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