0:00:14 > 0:00:15Hello!
0:00:15 > 0:00:17I'm Robert Webb.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20Welcome to Great TV Mistakes.
0:00:20 > 0:00:24I know what you're saying - "People on the telly don't make mistakes.
0:00:24 > 0:00:28"They're all perfect, like you, Rob." Not true. Everyone makes mistakes.
0:00:28 > 0:00:34You just called me "Rob", for instance. No-one calls me Rob unless I give them permission! Understand?
0:00:34 > 0:00:39Over the next hour, we'll be revealing the worst howlers ever broadcast.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Mistakes my crack team of square-eyed, OCD numpties
0:00:42 > 0:00:48refuse to rest until they have shown you the foul-ups they didn't want you to see.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51"They" meaning "them". Not you.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Enjoy!
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Coming up: Mistakes from...
0:01:04 > 0:01:05..and many, many more!
0:01:05 > 0:01:09To misquote the great Salt-N-Pepa, let's talk about sets.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Set designers do an incredible job.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18I hate to spoil the magic of television, but sometimes what appears to be real
0:01:18 > 0:01:23is actually made of elaborately painted wood - much like Amanda Holden's face.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25This wall behind me. That's not brick.
0:01:25 > 0:01:30It's papier-mache expertly knocked together by the Great TV Mistakes set designers.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Trust me. There's nothing we in TV can't convincingly recreate.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36The inside of the White House, the outside of a spaceship,
0:01:36 > 0:01:39even an entire 15th-century English village.
0:01:39 > 0:01:43Everything, in fact, except Daphne in Frasier's Mancunian accent.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46And all these shocking set-related howlers.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Magnum's in Friends!
0:01:50 > 0:01:54Look at the size of him! They have to widen the shot to get him in!
0:01:54 > 0:01:56A bit too wide, if you ask me!
0:01:56 > 0:01:58That is the edge of the set.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Unless there's always been an enormous hole in Joey and Chandler's wall.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05If so, why does everyone still use the door?
0:02:05 > 0:02:07We had a table at college.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14Filming historical storylines is always a challenge.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Take this episode of Doctor Who set in Victorian London
0:02:17 > 0:02:20with Charles Dickens and some zombies. But forget them,
0:02:20 > 0:02:24because that is an electric light switch. Oh, dear!
0:02:24 > 0:02:29Edison didn't test the first light bulb until nine years after Dickens' death.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30If that isn't a mistake,
0:02:30 > 0:02:34my name isn't Robert Webb. Which it is.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40It's Doctor Who, '70s style.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44Problems with the TARDIS have forced him to get these alien builders in.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48See the alien builder on the left? Keep your eyes on his feet.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Doh! That's torn it. Literally.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Light!
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Too much light!
0:02:55 > 0:02:58He's got his space boot caught under the Axminster. Idiot!
0:02:58 > 0:03:03You're thinking, "How's he going to get his foot out from under the carpet?
0:03:03 > 0:03:06"Pick it up, or just kick the carpet out of the way?"
0:03:06 > 0:03:09Yes, he just kicks it out of the way.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12Nice one. Goddamn alien cowboy builders!
0:03:14 > 0:03:16The IT Crowd.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Jen's up on the top floor.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20I feel like I'm on top of the world.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Well, the top floor, anyway. Which is...
0:03:22 > 0:03:24- AUTOMATED VOICE:- Floor 34.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Yes, Floor 34.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Very exciting. Where am I going?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31All the way down to the basement.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33From Floor 34.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35But hang on.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38That lift's only got 31 buttons. Meaning there's only 31 floors.
0:03:38 > 0:03:44This doesn't make sense. These people don't take their pretend lift buttons seriously.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51A brilliantly silly sequence from Wonder Woman now,
0:03:51 > 0:03:55starring killer ape Gargantua and a bloke in specs
0:03:55 > 0:03:59who kicks off a classic dust-up by throwing a balsa wood table like a massive girl.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Then, after some more acting,
0:04:03 > 0:04:06he runs for the door and that large red emergency button.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10Gargantua throws a poorly-constructed dummy across the room
0:04:10 > 0:04:12and it's a military rozzer.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15He tries to press the button, misses it, but it goes off anyway.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17He's out of the game.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19But here's his mate, who's elderly.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23He ignores the emergency button cos it's not there any more
0:04:23 > 0:04:26and bounces off Gargantua like a septugenarian pinball.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Yes, there was an error there, but I'm damned if I could spot it.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35Here's pathologist turned serial killer, Dexter,
0:04:35 > 0:04:36examining a dead body.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Now, hold it there. Time check.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Eleven minutes past four.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42And play.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Dexter takes a quick shufti at the cadaver.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46And hold again.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Ooh, it's 4.17.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50That little look took six minutes.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Doesn't time fly when you're sniffing at a corpse?
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Here's Lucy Lawless as Xena in the best fighting form of her life,
0:05:01 > 0:05:03taking on baddie Dipholus.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Go, Xena. She's hard as a rock.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08In fact, much harder than a rock.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Especially that rock. Boi-ing!
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Do-iiing!
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Hmm. Did they have foam in Ancient Greece?
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Remember the time you almost drowned...
0:05:22 > 0:05:26I don't want to suggest that they knock these sets up in an afternoon,
0:05:26 > 0:05:28cos often they don't have that long.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31But there is something a bit crap about this clip from Xena
0:05:31 > 0:05:35in which we see a Greek fortress, which history tells us were made of stone,
0:05:35 > 0:05:40stone that geology tells us isn't known for its wobbly properties.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44But over he goes with a wibble and a wobble and a half-piked twist
0:05:44 > 0:05:47that gymnastics tells us is an 8.5.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48I bet he can't do that again.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble. Oh, he can.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57That was the one I was trying to get a look at!
0:05:57 > 0:06:02All's not well at Fawlty Towers, for a change(!)
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Try as he might, Basil just can't get through to wife Sybil.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07For a change!
0:06:07 > 0:06:10She's so annoyed and slams the door - along with half the wall!
0:06:10 > 0:06:13That is some very unstable brickwork.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17Will somebody please call a builder. And not Mr O'Reilly!
0:06:17 > 0:06:18That's for you fans!
0:06:20 > 0:06:25Just in case you're not one, O'Reilly is Basil's regular builder.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28Very cheap and less than competent.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30He's blocked up the door to the dining room.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Blocked solid.
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Well, not entirely.
0:06:33 > 0:06:38No-one puts up a wobblier wall than Basil Fawlty's builder.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Apart from a BBC set designer!
0:06:43 > 0:06:48Sometimes, not even a cheap set can ruin a scene if the scene is a classic.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52Basil's trying to catch one of the guests with a girl in his room
0:06:52 > 0:06:53but he's got the wrong window!
0:06:53 > 0:06:56Keep your eyes on the pane of glass.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01It's plastic, and smeary, scratched plastic at that.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05All in all, a gold star for BBC comedy,
0:07:05 > 0:07:07and a brown smear for programme finance!
0:07:12 > 0:07:16In this clip from Only Fools, Del and Rodney are at Denzil's,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19the only flat in Peckham in worse shape than the Trotters'.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22You'll wish your mother had had a headache that night...
0:07:22 > 0:07:27When his wife storms out, watch what happens to the wall and the budgie!
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Ooh! He didn't see that coming!
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Obviously never stayed at Fawlty Towers.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35All right, then. Tonight.
0:07:35 > 0:07:36It's Blackadder II
0:07:36 > 0:07:40and Queenie and Edmund are staking a wager with Lord Melchett,
0:07:40 > 0:07:44namely, how long can Stephen Fry last before going, "Baaaa!"
0:07:44 > 0:07:49Watch what happens when Rowan waltzes out and, in his own words,
0:07:49 > 0:07:51the wall goes, "Wibble".
0:07:51 > 0:07:54I know what Stephen Fry would have said if he'd seen that.
0:07:54 > 0:07:55Baaaa!
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- Where have you been? - Where haven't I been?
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Blackadder was a studio show,
0:08:02 > 0:08:05so you'd expect the quality of the sets to be a bit dodgy.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09As we know, that's part of British sitcom law.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Although in the case of these doors,
0:08:11 > 0:08:15surely even balsa wood would have been a better choice than polystyrene.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22Will Smith is living it up in his uncle's mansion.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Cardboard mansion.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Boom, shake the room!
0:08:26 > 0:08:28I hope that's not a supporting wall!
0:08:35 > 0:08:36They leave me no choice.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39A classic Thunderbirds car chase.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43Watch what happens when the baddie's car spins off the road.
0:08:43 > 0:08:44Timber!
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Either the biggest squirrel in the world is in those trees
0:08:48 > 0:08:50or the set guy just ran out of glue.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54I think he makes half of it up.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Doctor Who has been on the telly for 47 years
0:08:57 > 0:09:01and 42 of those have been spent in corridors.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05That's because corridors are cheap and impossible to get wrong. Mostly.
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Freeze the shot.
0:09:06 > 0:09:11Notice the sign on the left for Torchwood. Now spin forward.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13And it's Billie's turn to fill some airtime.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17That's it, Billie. Create a bit of tension, keep the dads watching.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21And look at that. The sign's gone all bigger
0:09:21 > 0:09:25with loads of added signery that wasn't there a moment ago.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29- ON TANNOY:- Will the set designer please report to base
0:09:29 > 0:09:32where an arse-kicking is waiting. Thank you.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39You think you can kill a cop and get away with it?
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Why not? I've done it before.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Star Trek: The Next Generation.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48Captain Picard and Data have got mixed up with some '30s gangsters
0:09:48 > 0:09:50on a Holo-deck.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Meanwhile, outside in the corridor,
0:09:53 > 0:09:57we can clearly see there's absolutely no second corridor
0:09:57 > 0:09:58leading off to the side.
0:09:58 > 0:10:03Except when the gangsters step outside, there is!
0:10:03 > 0:10:06In space, no-one can hear you scream...
0:10:06 > 0:10:07"That was rubbish!"
0:10:09 > 0:10:12What I said was a statement of fact.
0:10:12 > 0:10:13Now, I won't condone theft,
0:10:13 > 0:10:16but it's traditional, when checking out of a hotel
0:10:16 > 0:10:18to snatch a towel.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21But apparently, in deep space it's equally common
0:10:21 > 0:10:24when being discharged from sick bay, to nick a pillow.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Two pillows in this shot.
0:10:27 > 0:10:28One pillow in this.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Don't play innocent with me, young man.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33I know what you're hiding in your trousers!
0:10:35 > 0:10:39- It's not going to work. - Excellent, John. You're evolving.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40Here's one for fans of Lost.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Assuming there are any left!
0:10:43 > 0:10:46In this scene, Locke is required to throw a plastic tray
0:10:46 > 0:10:48at a stone wall.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52But see how the plastic tray makes the stone wall tremble!
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Normally, I'd say that was a TV mistake.
0:10:56 > 0:11:01But this is Lost, so anything's possible! I blame the polar bears.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Hi. Just so you know...
0:11:06 > 0:11:11Back to Friends, which was always filmed in front of a live studio audience.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13And a very wobbly set.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18Hmm. About as convincing as that bloke's beard.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Merry Christmas!
0:11:22 > 0:11:26This is an episode of Friends called "The One With The Self-Opening Door."
0:11:26 > 0:11:28You're the best!
0:11:28 > 0:11:29Door closed.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Door open.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36If that isn't proof of the existence of the supernatural,
0:11:36 > 0:11:38I don't know what is.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Ronnie Barker in the excellent Porridge.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48The inmates of Slade are out for the day
0:11:48 > 0:11:51under the supervision of Mr Barraclough in an old church.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Well, the outside bits were filmed at an old church.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57But the interiors certainly weren't. Want proof?
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Just look what happens when Melvin leans on a column.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05Yes, it wobbles in a way that most Saxon stonework just doesn't.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15TV is divided into on- and off-screen talent.
0:12:15 > 0:12:20And for good reason. I'm on-screen talent because I'm beautiful and very clever.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23The camera people, make-up assistants and wardrobe flunkies
0:12:23 > 0:12:26are off-screen talent because they're ugly.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Trust me, you do not actually want to see these people.
0:12:29 > 0:12:34I'm facing some of them now and looking at them gives me violent stomach cramps.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36It's a wonder I don't vomit on the camera.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39So hold on to your lunches cos our first set of clips
0:12:39 > 0:12:44are littered with off-screen bods making fleeting on-screen appearances.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Not so much in a knowing, ironic, Alfred Hitchcock kind of way,
0:12:47 > 0:12:51more a sort of, "Oi, bacon-face! Shift!" sort of way.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52Eugh!
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Look - those crafty Ancient Greeks are attacking Troy
0:12:58 > 0:13:02after sneaking into the city in the belly of a Trojan horse.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04There they are, in their rubber helmets.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09But according to this episode of Xena, they weren't alone.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11You have to find her first.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Oh, no. Cos also stored away in the horse's bum-hole was...
0:13:15 > 0:13:17..this bloke!
0:13:17 > 0:13:19He's squatting on the battlements. Numpty!
0:13:22 > 0:13:27Here's Sarah Michelle Gellar walking through a creepy wood at night!
0:13:27 > 0:13:31Careful, Buffy! Watch out for vampires!
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Oh, my God - what's that?
0:13:33 > 0:13:35It's a monster with a huge...microphone.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Oh, dear, it's the boom operator.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43Thunderbirds. Ignore this foreign baddie.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45SPEAKS MADE-UP LANGUAGE
0:13:45 > 0:13:47Damn those Welsh Iraqi pilots!
0:13:47 > 0:13:52Watch Tintin held in the vice-like grip of this serial killer turned puppeteer.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56His nails aren't normally that dirty. He'd just buried another body.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01What did you do that made Dad cut you off?
0:14:01 > 0:14:05OK, team. No clues. See if you can spot the mistake in this clip from Friends.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08It wasn't for me. It was for a friend.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12Boy, did we make friends with the wrong sister!
0:14:12 > 0:14:14You missed it, yes? Forget the pretty actors.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19Look at the pretty cameraman. Amazing what you miss when you're laughing.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20And when you're not.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Basil!
0:14:23 > 0:14:28It's gourmet night at Fawlty Towers and a very funny scene
0:14:28 > 0:14:31featuring a fine example of the easily missable TV mistake.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Missed it, didn't you?
0:14:35 > 0:14:37Here it is again. This time, forget the action
0:14:37 > 0:14:42and concentrate on the BBC techie bloke squatting behind the door.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46A classic mistake from a classic comedy that just got funnier with age.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49If only the same could be said for John Cleese!
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- Look at that!- Can I help? - Yes, go and kill yourself!
0:14:55 > 0:15:00Sam and Dean from Supernatural are having trouble with some ghost-hunters.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Question is, what's behind that door?
0:15:03 > 0:15:07Guys, do you want to go through that door first?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Everyone's terrified and armed to the teeth.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Must be the Jehovah's Witnesses!
0:15:13 > 0:15:15It's a ghost!
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Or at least, a ghost that can be hurt by bullets.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21I can't decide what's worse about this clip.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23The ghost who's afraid of bullets
0:15:23 > 0:15:26or the cameraman who doesn't know where to stand. Hmm.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29It's the cameraman.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35It's Charmed, a series about a bunch of friendly witches.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Or am I thinking of Loose Women?
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Anyway, ignore this trespasser
0:15:39 > 0:15:45and instead feast your eyes on the director sitting in the next room listening to his iPod.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49You sit behind the camera, not in front of the pointy end!
0:15:49 > 0:15:53See that book? As soon as they turn the camera off, they'll hit him with that!
0:15:55 > 0:15:57It's Doctor Who from 1975,
0:15:57 > 0:16:01back when children everywhere could be found hiding behind the sofa,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03avoiding gaffes like this.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Keep your eyes on the baddie's bottom, or what's under it.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09I can move!
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Oh, dear!
0:16:11 > 0:16:15That floor assistant is thinking, "If I move my hand away slowly,
0:16:15 > 0:16:17"no-one will see a thing."
0:16:17 > 0:16:18But we did!
0:16:21 > 0:16:24Here's Blackadder, staging an elaborate con trick.
0:16:24 > 0:16:29But not the one where he gets massive laughs from repeatedly saying "Bob".
0:16:29 > 0:16:31No, he's pretending he's built a time machine.
0:16:31 > 0:16:36Of course, it's not real. You can tell because it's made from wood and bits of junk
0:16:36 > 0:16:40and requires one of the crew to push the door shut.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43Well done, Balders. Impressive.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47'The maybe of Mike Delfino.'
0:16:47 > 0:16:52It's Desperate Housewives. Susan's broken into a neighbour's house
0:16:52 > 0:16:54to return a Pyrex jug,
0:16:54 > 0:16:58but finds time to find a moment alone with just her thoughts.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01And that bloke crawling behind the sofa.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05Yes, it's the guy who just set fire to the curtains
0:17:05 > 0:17:10whose idea of keeping out of shot is crawling across the screen on his hands and knees.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Wait for it - "You're fired!"
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Ha, ha! Sorry.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Here's a clip from Scrubs, the American sitcom
0:17:21 > 0:17:23set in a hospital. It's a bit like Casualty,
0:17:23 > 0:17:25but with fewer laughs.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29Dr Turk is about to bite into a sarnie when suddenly there's an emergency.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32Thankfully, someone's there to lend a hand.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34I was paged!
0:17:34 > 0:17:39It's either a member of the crew holding the door, or a patient has fallen out of bed!
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Make those dreams happen.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45You can always tell when a TV series is working.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50Everyone on screen looks like they're really enjoying themselves.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Take Arrested Development, a show which is so much fun,
0:17:53 > 0:17:55even the crew like to get on - just once.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58- Does that answer some questions for you?- Yeah.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Or twice.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05An emotional farewell scene in Lost
0:18:05 > 0:18:07as Charlie says goodbye to Hurley.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Cool, man.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13But keep your eyes off the unfolding drama and Hurley's boobs
0:18:13 > 0:18:17and on the cameraman clearly visible to the left of shot.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19You can see his sandals, his camera,
0:18:19 > 0:18:22and if you really squint, his P45.
0:18:22 > 0:18:23Wait!
0:18:25 > 0:18:30It's 24, and everything, as always, is very tense.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33A tense Tony is ignoring a call from a tense Nina.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35Jamie, pick up!
0:18:35 > 0:18:39Unbeknown to tense Tina, there's someone else in the barn with her.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Here he comes, wandering in from the right, a cameraman!
0:18:42 > 0:18:46If you want to know how he's feeling, I'll tell you.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Tense.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Whenever there's a conversation about the world's hardest jobs,
0:18:56 > 0:18:59the same professions come up time and time again.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Trauma surgeon, soldier, air traffic controller
0:19:02 > 0:19:03and, of course, actor.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07And out of these jobs, actor is surely the hardest.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Actors do a very difficult job.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12We're learning lines, signing autographs,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15doing stuff for free with wonky kids,
0:19:15 > 0:19:20we're standing up in front of strangers, saying words that sometimes we don't even understand!
0:19:20 > 0:19:24Consequently, every now and again, through no fault of our own,
0:19:24 > 0:19:26stuff does go a bit wrong.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32I'm sorry. The party got a little out of hand.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34People your age have finished college...
0:19:34 > 0:19:37The poor little rich girls of the O.C.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41Here's Hailey, tidying up after another crazy party.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Well, I say tidying up, but what Amanda Righetti is really doing
0:19:45 > 0:19:48is picking up tiny pieces of invisible rubbish.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52She's dropping little bits of air into that bin bag.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57That, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call method acting.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00If your method is piss poor!
0:20:00 > 0:20:02This scene was filmed eight years ago,
0:20:02 > 0:20:05but she only finished tidying the room last Thursday.
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Oh, we're back in the O.C.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Here comes Mischa Barton, sulking her way into the room.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16"Na, na, na! I'm Mischa Barton."
0:20:16 > 0:20:18She dumps her jacket on the right.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22And then moments later, there it is on the left.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24That's not going to improve her mood!
0:20:26 > 0:20:31To Albert Square and that live anniversary episode.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Stace and Bradley are "talkin' about fings" with Max and Scott
0:20:35 > 0:20:38when Scott forgets his lines.
0:20:38 > 0:20:39He won't forget...
0:20:39 > 0:20:42SPLUTTERS INCOMPREHENSIBLY
0:20:42 > 0:20:43We all have!
0:20:43 > 0:20:44I'll explain that.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Oh, dear! No retakes here. This is live!
0:20:47 > 0:20:49When he found out what she... What she...
0:20:49 > 0:20:53Oh, he's gone again! Tricky business, live telly. Bless him!
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Leave it, Scott! It ain't worf it!
0:20:57 > 0:21:00It's a classic Phil Mitchell in a rage scene
0:21:00 > 0:21:02and Ian's on the receiving end.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06But when you want someone to stop doing something, what do you say?
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Is it A) Stop, or B) Slop?
0:21:08 > 0:21:09Slop!
0:21:09 > 0:21:11What?
0:21:11 > 0:21:13- Slop!- I'll give you one more guess. - Slop!
0:21:13 > 0:21:17Sorry, Ian. The answer I was looking for was A) Stop.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Received and acknowledged, sir. Picard out.
0:21:21 > 0:21:26Jean-Luc Picard, ever the stern-faced model of professionalism.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Except when he goes through the turbo-lift doors
0:21:29 > 0:21:31and has a quick gurn!
0:21:31 > 0:21:34You missed it? Don't worry, here it is again.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40He just boldly gurned where no man has gurned before!
0:21:42 > 0:21:47In this clip from Buffy, fiendish but foxy teacher Miss French
0:21:47 > 0:21:48is making herself a sandwich.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51She's a sucker for fresh ingredients!
0:21:51 > 0:21:53I had one of those on the motorway services.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57But there's something very wrong here - besides chewing live insects.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Cos when she starts eating, her sleeves are up.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Then she opens the box and her sleeves are down.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06And finally, they're back up again.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Add to that the insect sandwich and all the vampire business
0:22:09 > 0:22:13and you have a scene more disturbing than Andrew Lloyd Webber's smile!
0:22:15 > 0:22:18More odd goings-on in Buffy.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23A werewolf has gone AWOL and they need to find him/it quickly.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26But Giles isn't wearing his glasses.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28Oh, he is! Problem solved.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Problem unsolved! ..And solved again.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33We're sorted. That werewolf is history.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35My mistake - the glasses are!
0:22:37 > 0:22:42Grey's Anatomy. Patrick Dempsey takes his earphones out
0:22:42 > 0:22:44cos he's being talked at by a lady.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46But he pretends he still can't hear her anyway.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50I feel strangely invisible. Also inaudible.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51What?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Who can blame him? She really is banging on.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57- I guess dinner shopping is out. - Yeah.
0:22:57 > 0:22:58So wrap the headphones up.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01- Sorry.- You're not. I just don't know why.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03And up. Very long wire.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- And put them away. - No.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08Hang on, they're still round his neck.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Unless that's his spare set?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14There's only so much Peter Andre a man can listen to.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15See you at home.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20When it comes to bad dead acting,
0:23:20 > 0:23:24you'd have to go back a long way to find a poorer example than this.
0:23:24 > 0:23:30Centuries back. In this clip from Xena, they think the warrior princess is dead.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Though quite why is anyone's guess.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36One, blood is still coursing through her jugular.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40Two, in a moment she clearly blinks.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43And three, this is season one.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46There's another five series of this rubbish!
0:23:46 > 0:23:47We have to go!
0:23:49 > 0:23:52No, I did not book this one. I think I...
0:23:52 > 0:23:54This clip from Arrested Development
0:23:54 > 0:23:57will delight fans of continuity errors and flowers alike.
0:23:57 > 0:24:02There's the vicious and sexy Lindsay, who's got back with shopping.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06We see her take out these posies and put them on the counter.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10So far, so good. Jason Bateman does some talking.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Back to Linds and this enormous vase
0:24:12 > 0:24:15that she's about to dump the flowers into.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Then suddenly they're back in the bag again.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21Yeah, that is a TV mistake.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24To be honest, I'm disappointed by that.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27And so's he!
0:24:32 > 0:24:35Band of Brothers. Sgt Major Schwimmer is furious
0:24:35 > 0:24:37with one of his soldiers.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41Kristiansen, why is there no water in your canteen?
0:24:41 > 0:24:46It's not just about the water. This soldier's gun keeps jumping from shoulder to shoulder.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48There it is on the right.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51And there it is on the left.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56And back again. That's dangerous with a loaded weapon!
0:24:58 > 0:25:01He was a good man, your father.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05Here's Uncle Junior in the Sopranos. He's hopping mad!
0:25:05 > 0:25:08He must have lost the remote, or forgot to tape Minder.
0:25:08 > 0:25:14Whatever. It's made him so angry that his glasses momentarily disappear.
0:25:14 > 0:25:19Just don't anyone tell him he accidentally put a red sock in with the whites.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25Here we are in that city where there's all that sex.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27The girls are in the khazi, doing lady things.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31Sometimes you just know you're the right match.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Sarah Jessica Parker's sorting her hair out.
0:25:33 > 0:25:37She's tying it up in a scrunchie. But that's SJP hair.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39So it'll need special restraints.
0:25:39 > 0:25:44So she straps it down twice. With the same scrunchie.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46But spin on, cos it was all worth it.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Now she looks lovely and not at all like a Yorkshire terrier
0:25:49 > 0:25:51with a Croydon facelift. Super.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56- Oh, it's only ten. How nice. - There's no coffee.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58Lorelai is chatting to Luke
0:25:58 > 0:26:01as he tries to fix a toaster by shoving a screwdriver into it.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04In a minute, he'll try and fix the waste disposal
0:26:04 > 0:26:07by sticking his winky into it.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11See how he goes to get coffee leaving the screwdriver in the hole
0:26:11 > 0:26:14and when he returns, screwdriver gone.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Oh, there it is, by the toaster.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Where's that waste disposal?
0:26:21 > 0:26:24Here's Sam, and here's his brother Dean.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Ignore the girl.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29The ghostbusting siblings from Supernatural.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Dean is played by an actor called Jenson. Ignore the girl.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35And Sam by an actor called Jared.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39Are we all clear? Dean is played by Jenson and Sam is played by Jared.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43How do I know? Well, in this scene, when they're all meant to be acting,
0:26:43 > 0:26:47Dean doesn't call Sam Sam. He calls him Jared!
0:26:47 > 0:26:48Jared, check it out.
0:26:48 > 0:26:53Jared. I just ballsed up the scene by calling you by your real name.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58Yes, more dumb-arsery from the "Brothers Grim".
0:26:59 > 0:27:02In this scene, they're supposed to be all angry
0:27:02 > 0:27:05cos they've been outwitted by this lady.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08I reckon a pigeon could outwit these two!
0:27:08 > 0:27:11Anyway, the script might be calling for fury,
0:27:11 > 0:27:14but all Jared can manage is a poorly concealed snigger.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15Son of a bitch!
0:27:15 > 0:27:19Remember, this was presumably the best take. The one they used.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22Wonder how bad the others were! Probably wee'd himself!
0:27:24 > 0:27:30Pride and Prejudice. Jennifer Ehle makes playing the piano look effortless.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Colin's impressed. He always uses his fingers.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36Not Jen, though. Her hands and arms are barely moving.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38I think she's miming!
0:27:38 > 0:27:42I know you find great enjoyment in professing opinions which are not your own.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46And in miming. Either that, or she's just brilliant at playing the piano.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49It's the first thing, though, isn't it?
0:27:49 > 0:27:50Generous of him.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54What do you think about this?
0:27:54 > 0:27:59Tasha and Troi. Surely two of Next Generation's least favourite characters.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00It's not for you.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04Tasha is covered in scarves. Fast forward.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08But they're made from some weird space fabric which just disappears.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Never mind.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13But I do mind. They're scarves, Jim, but not as we know it.
0:28:16 > 0:28:20They don't half have some straps trouble in Six Feet Under.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22And props in general. Watch these two.
0:28:22 > 0:28:26Who do you think plays Parker in the movie of her life?
0:28:26 > 0:28:28Sandy Bullock or Julia Roberts?
0:28:29 > 0:28:33They both put their rucksacks on twice and she loses her water bottle.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36Who do you think plays Parker in the movie of her life?
0:28:36 > 0:28:38They're not taking it seriously.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42I wanted to say how wonderful...
0:28:42 > 0:28:46Back to Friends and a guest appearance by Susan Sarandon,
0:28:46 > 0:28:47the thinking person's milf,
0:28:47 > 0:28:50playing a hard-drinking, chain-smoking actress.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53Ever the pro, Susan manages to cram both into this scene.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56Chain-smoker.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Hard drinker.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Chain-smoker.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02I hope my fingers are that nimble when I'm 80!
0:29:04 > 0:29:08TV shows are a huge investment of time, money and effort.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11You can spend months getting something right,
0:29:11 > 0:29:15hiring the best actors, camera persons, writers and crew
0:29:15 > 0:29:19only to have the whole thing ruined by some extra in the background being a tit.
0:29:19 > 0:29:23These people are a menace, wandering in and out of every shot
0:29:23 > 0:29:28trying to be ordinary members of the public - who are the only things worse than extras.
0:29:28 > 0:29:32Nothing causes more trouble on set than members of the public.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34I hate them all.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36Apart from you, obviously!
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Some classic muscle mary slo-mo running now
0:29:42 > 0:29:45from legendary beach-front twaddle merchants Baywatch.
0:29:45 > 0:29:49See their toned torsos as they pound along the sand?
0:29:49 > 0:29:52See their hair blown by the gentle Pacific breeze?
0:29:52 > 0:29:55See the kid in the background pulling a moonie?
0:29:55 > 0:29:57That's worth a second look.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01Everyone's a critic!
0:30:03 > 0:30:06You don't have to. I'm sure you were freaked out.
0:30:06 > 0:30:07Totally.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09See this woman with the tartan top?
0:30:09 > 0:30:14Remember her. This lady is about to take the art of the attention-seeking TV extra
0:30:14 > 0:30:16to a whole new dimension.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20This is Buffy's high school and she is presumably the most mature student.
0:30:20 > 0:30:23I think you're the coolest.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26There she is, drawing attention to herself with that big red bag.
0:30:26 > 0:30:28Now, spin on.
0:30:29 > 0:30:32And there she is again, walking in the opposite direction.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35No, she's not. She's over there,
0:30:35 > 0:30:39walking upstairs, drawing attention to herself just like she's not supposed to.
0:30:39 > 0:30:44Back for more stair climbing, this time without the bag. Clever.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47Still going up the stairs. At least we know where she is.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50No, we don't. Buffy - now she's behind you!
0:30:50 > 0:30:53"Right. I've had enough of this", said the director.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55"Get that woman out of my sight.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58"Nobody lets her back on this set."
0:30:59 > 0:31:01Whoa! How did that happen?
0:31:01 > 0:31:06Crafty cow. She's taken off her horrible jacket and given the red bag to someone else.
0:31:06 > 0:31:10Damn you, nightmare tartan extra lady!
0:31:10 > 0:31:14Still, the jacket's gone, the bag's gone, and finally, so is she.
0:31:15 > 0:31:16Or not.
0:31:20 > 0:31:22Ever get the feeling you're being followed?
0:31:22 > 0:31:26In this episode of Buffy, the lovely Eliza Dushku certainly does,
0:31:26 > 0:31:28and with good reason.
0:31:28 > 0:31:32The winners of the 2002 Most American Couple award
0:31:32 > 0:31:35walk behind her once, which is fine. Nothing wrong there.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39But twice is pushing it.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41That's borderline harassment.
0:31:44 > 0:31:49Three times is frankly unacceptable. That's a restraining order.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51They won't be trying that again.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53From the same direction.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57For Pete's sake, leave lovely Eliza alone.
0:31:57 > 0:32:01They'll be hiding in that bush outside her house next. And that's mine!
0:32:03 > 0:32:05Sex and the City.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07A show about four single young women.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10Well, three young women and the one who plays Samantha.
0:32:10 > 0:32:15But let's rewind and look at those extras on the left, sitting side by side.
0:32:15 > 0:32:20Now spin on. Clearly, one of them has dropped a massive guff.
0:32:20 > 0:32:25Because next time we see them, they're sitting miles away from each other in separate rows.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28Poor Sam. Must have been a pretty serious guff.
0:32:28 > 0:32:30Open a window!
0:32:32 > 0:32:35OK, listen, everyone. We have to get out of here.
0:32:35 > 0:32:36Back to the Doctor,
0:32:36 > 0:32:40and Micky is attempting to save a roomful of headphone-wearing children.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42But they're all zombified.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44Micky must have a background in IT
0:32:44 > 0:32:50cos he resorts to the tried and tested solution of just yanking out the plug.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52Magically, it works!
0:32:52 > 0:32:54And removes the kids' headphones.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56Come on, move!
0:32:56 > 0:32:58They trudge out of a doomed building, smirking.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01Good work, kids. You're hired!
0:33:03 > 0:33:04'This is where I was born.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07'And this is where I died.'
0:33:07 > 0:33:12More Doctor Who, and Billie's on the bus in contemplative mood.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15'The first 19 years of my life, nothing happened.'
0:33:15 > 0:33:18But keep your eyes on the extra who sits in the row behind her.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20'Not ever.'
0:33:20 > 0:33:24Billie, come on! Incredible things are happening all around you.
0:33:24 > 0:33:28That bloke jumped back through time and space just to get a better seat.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30Pay attention, girl!
0:33:32 > 0:33:37The X-Files, and Scully has a mysterious dead body to investigate.
0:33:37 > 0:33:42In this case, the mystery is why they chose the most fidgety man in North America to play the corpse.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45See how the faintest prod from Scully
0:33:45 > 0:33:47makes the big wuss blink.
0:33:47 > 0:33:50Not so much dead man's body, more big girl's blouse.
0:33:50 > 0:33:53But just in case anyone missed that,
0:33:53 > 0:33:56moments later he leaves everyone at home in no doubt
0:33:56 > 0:34:03that this is just acting as Scully decides to balance this plastic ruler on his tummy-wummy.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06"Ow, it's cold!"
0:34:06 > 0:34:08"We've got a breather!"
0:34:10 > 0:34:13I love Lost.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15It's top-notch, allegorical, surrealist drama
0:34:15 > 0:34:17with a satirical subtext.
0:34:17 > 0:34:22Plus it's got that funny fat bloke with the beard in it. He's got boobs like a lady.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26In fact, the only problem with this show
0:34:26 > 0:34:27is that it makes no sense.
0:34:27 > 0:34:31That and their decision to use an extra with chronic asthma to play a corpse
0:34:31 > 0:34:35and then put him in front of shot. Just look at this.
0:34:35 > 0:34:37WHEEZING
0:34:42 > 0:34:45Mind you, that fat bloke's funny!
0:34:45 > 0:34:46Oh, dear.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Time for more weird goings-on in Lost.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55Look out for the lovely couple
0:34:55 > 0:34:57walking past in the background.
0:34:57 > 0:35:00Off to catch some fish. Wish they'd walk past again.
0:35:00 > 0:35:04Oh, lovely. That's the trouble with being marooned on a desert island.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07Nothing to do but walk round in circles.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11This clip from Sex and the City proves
0:35:11 > 0:35:14that not all New Yorkers are used to seeing TV crews.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17This lady simply can't believe her eyes
0:35:17 > 0:35:21and has to peer over her specs to check they aren't deceiving her.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25Yes, it's a camera crew. But best of all, if we rewind,
0:35:25 > 0:35:27here comes my personal favourite.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29Look at the wonder in her eyes.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31"Them's is some telly people."
0:35:33 > 0:35:37And so ends one deeply unremarkable woman's brief glimpse of celebrity.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41Oh, my God!
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Here's another spot from Friends.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Phoebe is returning a dog,
0:35:45 > 0:35:49but look in the background at the neighbour walking up to her house.
0:35:52 > 0:35:53Twice.
0:35:53 > 0:35:59Fair play to her. She's got that "neighbour repeatedly walking up to her house" thing down to a tee.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04Bad news for 24's Jack Bauer.
0:36:04 > 0:36:08His daughter's been kidnapped and the series is very short-staffed.
0:36:08 > 0:36:11Look at this hospital orderly.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13He's here.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15He's there.
0:36:15 > 0:36:17He's everywhere.
0:36:19 > 0:36:24Apparently, if you work in this hospital, you have to be in three places at once.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26Just like the NHS.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Dawson's Creek. There's the creek.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33Gretchen's about to have a heart-to-heart with Dawson.
0:36:33 > 0:36:36But I'm more concerned with the swingers in the background.
0:36:36 > 0:36:40First there's an old man and old woman in a denim jacket.
0:36:40 > 0:36:44And a young man in a blue shirt and Chinos with a blonde girl.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47Then, moments later, the young man with the blue shirt
0:36:47 > 0:36:50wanders past again with another woman.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52He just picked her up. Floozy!
0:36:52 > 0:36:53But he's not done yet.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57Now he's back with the blonde girl and they're heading for the water.
0:36:57 > 0:37:02What's going on? He must have finished with that other woman and got back with the first.
0:37:02 > 0:37:04I liked her. I'm glad they made up.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06I never would have...
0:37:06 > 0:37:09Shut up, Dawson! The old fellow's back with the older woman.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11Thank heavens for that.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15There's the younger man with the blonde girl again.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18This time walking away from the water from the right, up the hill.
0:37:18 > 0:37:23What have they been up to? I don't know. I bet it was rude. And watery.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Now, whenever I'm on the telly, which is a lot,
0:37:28 > 0:37:31I take great care over my hair and make-up.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33That's not vanity, it's necessity.
0:37:33 > 0:37:38We need make-up experts to compensate for the "bleaching out" effects
0:37:38 > 0:37:40caused by the powerful lights we use.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43And hair experts to compensate for the "loss of hair" effects
0:37:43 > 0:37:47caused by the powerful hairspray that we use.
0:37:47 > 0:37:52The girls, and what might loosely be described as guys, of the hair and make-up department
0:37:52 > 0:37:55are important, albeit tiny, cogs in the great TV wheel.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58I call them my little miracle workers.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01That's because I enjoy patronising my colleagues.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03Of course, they, too, make mistakes.
0:38:03 > 0:38:05Mistakes like these.
0:38:07 > 0:38:13Someone's locked David Banner in this fiendish torture contraption, which he won't like.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15It'll send him all green and hulky.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17He's so excited he's passed out.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21Wow. That's what Vin Diesel would look like if you smeared him in mushy peas.
0:38:21 > 0:38:26He's making that solid carbon steel look like plywood - which it is.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Hold up - he's got tights on!
0:38:29 > 0:38:33The Hulk's wearing pantyhose to stop his pinkies getting hurty!
0:38:33 > 0:38:35Oh, bless!
0:38:38 > 0:38:40It's Skins.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42Young people doing cool things like drugs
0:38:42 > 0:38:45and snogging and dribbling ketchup down their chins.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Wow, it's so real.
0:38:48 > 0:38:51Hey, that ketchup dribble just changed.
0:38:51 > 0:38:54I think you're going to like this, Sid.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57I'm not. He's re-dribbled. Three dribbles, one chin.
0:38:57 > 0:38:58Something has to give.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02And sure enough, now it's gone completely.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04Now it's back!
0:39:05 > 0:39:07Oh, he's dropped his knife.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12Now they've started snogging and the old dribble's back.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15I'm just lost. And so is the make-up department.
0:39:15 > 0:39:18I take it back. That's not cool. It's a TV mistake.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23- You're looking, aren't you?- No!
0:39:23 > 0:39:27Back to Skins. There's Dev Patel before he won the Slumdog lottery
0:39:27 > 0:39:29and he's having a wee up that tree.
0:39:29 > 0:39:32In fact, did you know, it was his weeing up a tree acting
0:39:32 > 0:39:36that won him a role in the film in the first place? No,
0:39:36 > 0:39:37it's not true.
0:39:37 > 0:39:38And neither is this.
0:39:39 > 0:39:43The car with the spliffed-up teens rolls into the canal.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47And everyone inside goes into the water. Apart from Dev.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53But then, in the next scene, Dev is wet through, just like the others.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56Why's he all wet? He didn't go in the water.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58He was weeing up that tree.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01You know, I bet he just jumped in the canal to be one of the gang.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04Teenagers. They'll do anything to fit in.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08In this next clip,
0:40:08 > 0:40:13pay attention to the cute smear of grease on Debra Messing's cheek.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17It just changed into a completely different smear of grease!
0:40:17 > 0:40:19This is not a problem.
0:40:19 > 0:40:22I'll be the judge of that. Yep, there's another.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Now it's the same mark, just a bit darker.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28I guess that's why they call it the Go Cup.
0:40:28 > 0:40:29You OK?
0:40:29 > 0:40:33Now it's all smudged. You know what they should have called this show?
0:40:33 > 0:40:35Will & Grease!
0:40:35 > 0:40:37Yeah.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43Here's Will from Will & Grace, sitting on a sofa.
0:40:43 > 0:40:44Surprise!
0:40:46 > 0:40:48He's gay, so he's naked, obviously.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51Or is he? Are those flesh-coloured pants I see?
0:40:51 > 0:40:55Although Eric McCormack wasn't naked in this scene,
0:40:55 > 0:40:59I can confirm he did genuinely slam his penis in that book.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06A powerful moment from 24. Sorry, did I say "powerful"?
0:41:06 > 0:41:08I meant "incomprehensible".
0:41:08 > 0:41:12Mum wants troubled teenager to shoot his already-dead girlfriend.
0:41:12 > 0:41:16Relationships aren't easy, especially when one of you is murdered.
0:41:16 > 0:41:19But he's not used to handling a gun, so why not let Mum do it?
0:41:19 > 0:41:21Move away!
0:41:21 > 0:41:23There you go. Right in the waist.
0:41:25 > 0:41:30Oh, here comes Dad, and he's so proud. In their strange fictional foreign culture,
0:41:30 > 0:41:34shooting your dead girlfriend in the belly button is a rite of passage.
0:41:34 > 0:41:40Hang on, the bullet wound's moved up to her rib cage! Brilliant trick.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45Reason I'm asking is cos we didn't get the bill.
0:41:45 > 0:41:49It's the Sopranos, and Tony wants a chat with Uncle Junior
0:41:49 > 0:41:53who's been shaving, although as you see, he's washed the shaving foam off.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55Apart from that bit near his ear.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58But spin forward and whoa!
0:41:58 > 0:42:00You got shaving cream.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03Where in the name of Don Corleone did all that foam come from?
0:42:03 > 0:42:06That's what's known in Mafia circles as omerta,
0:42:06 > 0:42:09which is Italian for "bad continuity error".
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Oh, it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
0:42:15 > 0:42:19so called because half the viewers want to see her in the buffy!
0:42:20 > 0:42:25Here's the lovely Sarah Michelle Gellar facing a hideous ghoul from beyond the grave.
0:42:25 > 0:42:29He's been underground for centuries. He's in a bad way.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31Just look at the state of those fingernails.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34They're so bad, one's practically falling off.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36That's because it's a fake.
0:42:36 > 0:42:40Buffy the Vampire Slayer's make-up department, I trusted you!
0:42:43 > 0:42:47Everybody thinks being a pro is just NBA.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50One Tree Hill. Haley and Skills are having a chat
0:42:50 > 0:42:52about being from California.
0:42:52 > 0:42:55So while y'all doing the world tour,
0:42:55 > 0:42:58we can remember this day and laugh about it.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00He's a bit annoying. Haley's very pregnant.
0:43:00 > 0:43:04Or is she? That's no baby, that's a cushion shoved up her top!
0:43:04 > 0:43:07What some people will do to jump the housing queue.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14She's got a tongue like an electric eel
0:43:14 > 0:43:16and she likes the taste of a man's tonsils.
0:43:16 > 0:43:21A scene from Blackadder II where Flashheart storms into Edmund's wedding,
0:43:21 > 0:43:22steals the bride and the scene.
0:43:22 > 0:43:25No-one does upstagery quite like Rik Mayall.
0:43:25 > 0:43:30Apart from that fake moustache that's threatening to fall off his face.
0:43:30 > 0:43:34I've got a plan and it's as hot as my pants!
0:43:36 > 0:43:38Mmm. Mmm.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41Of course, a lot of people come up to me and say,
0:43:41 > 0:43:42"Robert, what is a prop?"
0:43:42 > 0:43:48I say, "I don't know who you are, but if you don't get out of my bath, I'll shoot you down like a dog."
0:43:48 > 0:43:51I'm joking, of course. I don't even own a gun. Or a bath.
0:43:51 > 0:43:55As an actor, I don't need to, cos I live my life surrounded by props.
0:43:55 > 0:43:58This lamp, this chair, this table.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01Basically, "props" are just the things we all have in our homes.
0:44:01 > 0:44:06Except in our case, they really are our "property", rather than stuff you got on credit.
0:44:06 > 0:44:11Unfortunately, this doesn't make them any less likely to cause trouble.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17Band of Brothers, and this soldier is looking concerned.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19He's seen the next scene,
0:44:19 > 0:44:24a stealth raid across a river and an elementary mistake from the soldier in the foreground.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27Did you spot it? Let's go back and have another look.
0:44:28 > 0:44:30He's rowing with no oar.
0:44:30 > 0:44:34Which, I suppose, will make their approach much, much quieter,
0:44:34 > 0:44:38but - and I'm no military expert - much, much slower.
0:44:42 > 0:44:46Here's Nicholas Hoult as Tony in Skins, who's learning how to write.
0:44:46 > 0:44:50He's written "Tony". He's written his name. Well done, Tony.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52Although if we spin forward...
0:44:53 > 0:44:56that doesn't say "Tony". It says "Tohy".
0:44:56 > 0:44:58Let's see the first one again.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00And the second one.
0:45:02 > 0:45:03Now both together.
0:45:03 > 0:45:06I think that's a different piece of paper
0:45:06 > 0:45:09with the word "Tony" written by a different person.
0:45:09 > 0:45:13The props department want to make you look stupid, Tony. I mean, Tohy.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17Not much.
0:45:17 > 0:45:20Hannah Montana, that little singing sensation.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22The sensation being nausea.
0:45:24 > 0:45:29But get a load of this continuity howler as wacky goofball Jackson walks into his room.
0:45:29 > 0:45:34He pats the muscle man, grabs his towel,
0:45:34 > 0:45:37and suddenly the muscle man is behind the door.
0:45:37 > 0:45:39Good thing I straightened up.
0:45:39 > 0:45:43But not now. Whoops! Hannah's going to be furious about that.
0:45:43 > 0:45:47She'll probably throw a pop sock at the director. A rolled-up one.
0:45:51 > 0:45:52To be fair to the makers of 24,
0:45:52 > 0:45:55they only have one day to make each series,
0:45:55 > 0:45:56and that's with no sleep at all.
0:45:56 > 0:46:00It's like being a junior doctor, but with a lower body count.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02There's Jack in rare stand-easy mode.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05We're resuming our approach. Good work.
0:46:05 > 0:46:09Cheers, Jack. Time to sheath that dangerous weapon in your bottom holster.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12But fast forward a few seconds
0:46:12 > 0:46:16and crikey, Jack's now so relaxed he's putting his gun away again.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18It's either another TV gaffe
0:46:18 > 0:46:21or that young man has two guns hidden in his pants.
0:46:24 > 0:46:30If, like me, you're a fan of scenes where actors mistakenly put their pistols away twice,
0:46:30 > 0:46:34then you'll love this clip from the soon-to-be-remade Hawaii Five-0.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36The team are at a tense siege situation
0:46:36 > 0:46:40but nothing gets in the way of Steve McGarrett's tea break.
0:46:40 > 0:46:43So, at ease, Lieutenant. Put your gun back in your holster.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46No need for firearms at elevenses.
0:46:46 > 0:46:49I wonder if you can use a bucket like that to build sandcastles?
0:46:49 > 0:46:53Anyway, here he comes and there goes the gun again.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55Back in the holster for a second time.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57Now, who's brought the thermos?
0:47:01 > 0:47:04A tense game of chess in the X-Files.
0:47:04 > 0:47:08A moody Russian is taking on an American kid in specs. Textbook.
0:47:12 > 0:47:13Checkmate.
0:47:13 > 0:47:17Suddenly, the Russian is shot by an assassin in the crowd
0:47:17 > 0:47:20and falls to the floor, dragging the board with him.
0:47:20 > 0:47:23Except in the next shot, it's clearly on the table.
0:47:23 > 0:47:28So, they managed the logistical nightmare of filling the auditorium with 5,000 people,
0:47:28 > 0:47:32but couldn't cope with one elementary bit of prop continuity.
0:47:32 > 0:47:36The truth is out there. The incompetence is in here!
0:47:38 > 0:47:39Have you ever been to the Louvre?
0:47:39 > 0:47:41Not yet.
0:47:41 > 0:47:44Bones, a series about forensics,
0:47:44 > 0:47:46a branch of science that's all about detail.
0:47:46 > 0:47:50So how did they miss this clanger? Here's a patronising girl.
0:47:50 > 0:47:52What you do is pretty awesome, too.
0:47:52 > 0:47:55She's been diagnosed with clinical smugness.
0:47:55 > 0:47:57She's also an agent of TV mistakery.
0:47:57 > 0:48:01When she hands over her sketch, it's a small drawing in the centre of the page.
0:48:01 > 0:48:05But when the doctor looks at it, it's gone all big!
0:48:05 > 0:48:09Nobody notices. The character dies in the end, so all's well that ends well.
0:48:11 > 0:48:16An ice hockey game and Ross from Friends has a big foam finger.
0:48:16 > 0:48:20Of course, this is New York, and seconds later, it's gone.
0:48:20 > 0:48:22Someone's nicked it. It's a rough town.
0:48:24 > 0:48:27My eye doctor is Richard. I can't see him with no boyfriend.
0:48:27 > 0:48:31Poor Monica. As if it's not bad enough having something in your eye,
0:48:31 > 0:48:34she can't even watch TV cos it's switched off.
0:48:34 > 0:48:37Although moments later...
0:48:37 > 0:48:38My mistake. It's on.
0:48:38 > 0:48:41No-one's even watching it. That's not very green.
0:48:43 > 0:48:45Can I bum a cigarette?
0:48:45 > 0:48:50Feel those hormones as bad boy meets annoying girl in The O.C.
0:48:50 > 0:48:54Blimey, they're smoking in California, which is practically a shooting offence!
0:48:54 > 0:48:57Luckily, Ryan is smoking a special cigarette -
0:48:57 > 0:49:00you know, the ones that burn down to a butt in half a second.
0:49:00 > 0:49:02Long ciggie...
0:49:02 > 0:49:05Tiny ciggie! To think, I used to love The O.C.
0:49:07 > 0:49:09MUSIC: It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones
0:49:09 > 0:49:12Elsewhere in the O.C, is Ben going to commit suicide
0:49:12 > 0:49:15before Ryan and Marisa can get to him?
0:49:16 > 0:49:18He's emptying all his pills onto the table.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20PHONE RINGS
0:49:20 > 0:49:21And mixing them up.
0:49:21 > 0:49:25But in an instant, they've sorted themselves into colour-coded piles.
0:49:25 > 0:49:29Or at least an inattentive member of the production team has.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32Ben's made up. He's forgotten all about suicide.
0:49:32 > 0:49:35He's just bunging them in with his grandfather's ashes.
0:49:35 > 0:49:37Job done.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45Oh, dear. After having one or maybe 12 too many tequilas,
0:49:45 > 0:49:48Marisa, from The O.C., leaves her handbag at the bar.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51And staggers outside.
0:49:51 > 0:49:54Ryan and the others are scouring the streets for her.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57But tiddly Marisa is now spark out in this alley,
0:49:57 > 0:49:59legless and, of course, bagless.
0:50:00 > 0:50:04Then Ryan and the others turn up. He spots her
0:50:04 > 0:50:08and, bagless, races down the alley and kneels beside her with the bag in his hand.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12Either that's a mistake, or everyone in Orange County has the same bag.
0:50:12 > 0:50:15Well, they're a funny lot in California.
0:50:19 > 0:50:23More continuity malfunctions on the Holo-deck for Captain Picard.
0:50:23 > 0:50:27The 1920s newsvendor hands over the paper folded.
0:50:27 > 0:50:29But Picard takes it unfolded.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32A small mistake, but even in a holographic past,
0:50:32 > 0:50:35a tiny error like that could have changed the future.
0:50:35 > 0:50:38If so, let's hope it's one with less Star Trek.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42A clip from Heroes now,
0:50:42 > 0:50:46a strange group of people all with bizarre superpowers.
0:50:46 > 0:50:50These two find a mysterious key that's wrapped in sticky tape.
0:50:50 > 0:50:53But half a second later, it's suddenly unwrapped.
0:50:53 > 0:50:54He's got super-fingers!
0:50:54 > 0:50:56No wonder she looks pleased!
0:50:58 > 0:51:00I'm the hero.
0:51:00 > 0:51:03More prop-related cock-uppery
0:51:03 > 0:51:07as Hiro appears with his Samurai sword pointing backwards
0:51:07 > 0:51:10and a moment later stands with it pointing forwards.
0:51:10 > 0:51:11You?
0:51:11 > 0:51:16A handy mistake, though. Otherwise he'd have stabbed him with the blunt end
0:51:16 > 0:51:19and that would have been less dramatic.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24It's a blueprint.
0:51:24 > 0:51:27How does Grace, from Will & Grace, take her coffee?
0:51:27 > 0:51:28Gold Star.
0:51:28 > 0:51:31Always black, sometimes with a stick in her hand
0:51:31 > 0:51:33and sometimes with a carton of milk.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36But always in a urine sample jar.
0:51:36 > 0:51:37I didn't know.
0:51:39 > 0:51:42He's obviously very fond of you.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44A clip now from madcap sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
0:51:44 > 0:51:47Or as you know it, Ab Fab.
0:51:47 > 0:51:48Or as I know it, A Fa.
0:51:48 > 0:51:53But surely no-one knows what is going on with Miranda Richardson's glass.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58Witchcraft, pure and simple.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01In my day, she'd get the ducking stool for that.
0:52:03 > 0:52:05It's US comedy drama Weeds.
0:52:05 > 0:52:10Nancy's just found out that her late husband was cheating on her.
0:52:10 > 0:52:13That might not be covered under the contents insurance.
0:52:13 > 0:52:17Not much comedy here. This is one of the more drama-y moments.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19But see all the stuff on the table?
0:52:19 > 0:52:21Watch what happens as her son walks outside.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24Yep, it's gone all empty.
0:52:24 > 0:52:27I reckon the kid was a decoy. His mates have nicked the lot.
0:52:27 > 0:52:30So actually, that probably will be covered.
0:52:32 > 0:52:35I suppose I just fall in love too fast.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38Here are Niles and Daphne sharing an intimate fireside moment.
0:52:38 > 0:52:42According to that carriage clock, the time is 11.15.
0:52:42 > 0:52:43Daphne...
0:52:43 > 0:52:46Only moments later, we see the clock again
0:52:46 > 0:52:48and now it's quarter to 12.
0:52:49 > 0:52:51And five to 11.
0:52:53 > 0:52:55And 20 past 11.
0:52:56 > 0:52:57And 10.59.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00Frasier is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03Or they were when they started recording the scene, four days ago.
0:53:05 > 0:53:11You two have proved yourselves to be just as talented as one another at karaoke.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14By which I mean you're equally shit!
0:53:14 > 0:53:16It's Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps,
0:53:16 > 0:53:22a show which has always split the critics into those who hate it and those who don't like it.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25But this episode is great as it's all about magazine competitions.
0:53:25 > 0:53:31Mind you, if there's one thing I love more than competitions, it's "competions".
0:53:31 > 0:53:34By the way, that's the new issue of Dyslexic Monthly.
0:53:34 > 0:53:35May as well just give up.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37I would if I were you!
0:53:40 > 0:53:44Now, I admit I don't know a lot about How I Met Your Mother,
0:53:44 > 0:53:46other than this guy's called Ted
0:53:46 > 0:53:51and that when he visits a lady, he doesn't bring a bottle, he brings veg.
0:53:51 > 0:53:54Wilted veg in a creased-up paper bag. Sexy blighter!
0:53:54 > 0:53:58But guess who also carries a steam iron in his Y-fronts?
0:53:58 > 0:54:03That bag's now suddenly smooth. It looks like a baby's bottom.
0:54:03 > 0:54:05A papery baby with vegetables for a head.
0:54:05 > 0:54:07- Stupidest thing I ever said. - Me, too.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11Of all the classic moments in The Office,
0:54:11 > 0:54:14this is Ricky Gervais's personal favourite.
0:54:14 > 0:54:16- Wassaah!- Don't do that!
0:54:16 > 0:54:20Gareth's holding a briefcase in his right hand, a paper in his left.
0:54:20 > 0:54:23But now the case is in his left hand and the paper is in his right!
0:54:23 > 0:54:27That's a TV Mistakes Golden Globe right there.
0:54:29 > 0:54:30I guess it's OK...
0:54:30 > 0:54:33Friends, series eight. Sorry, season eight.
0:54:33 > 0:54:36Monica starts to tear open this present.
0:54:37 > 0:54:38- Hi.- Hey.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40She's finished. It's open.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43- Shh! The guys don't know yet. Do they?- No.
0:54:43 > 0:54:47No, she's wrapped it up again.
0:54:47 > 0:54:49And opened it again.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51And wrapped it up.
0:54:51 > 0:54:55And opened it again. For God's sake, make your mind up!
0:54:57 > 0:54:59Poor Ross has clonked his head
0:54:59 > 0:55:02so Rachel's administering a comedy ice-pack cos she wuvs him.
0:55:02 > 0:55:06We ripped that couple apart and kept the pieces for ourselves.
0:55:07 > 0:55:08Wuvs him not.
0:55:08 > 0:55:09Beautiful story.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13Wuvs him. A small error, perhaps,
0:55:13 > 0:55:16but as continuity errors go, that was a blinder.
0:55:18 > 0:55:21Well, there it is. TV's Greatest Mistakes.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24Writers, directors, cameramen, editors, producers,
0:55:24 > 0:55:28set designers, wardrobe, hair and make-up minions, I salute you,
0:55:28 > 0:55:32albeit in a slack, cack-handed and rather incompetent way.
0:55:32 > 0:55:34You were the best.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37And by the best, of course, I mean the worst!
0:55:37 > 0:55:39Bye-bye! Get out of my way!
0:56:01 > 0:56:04Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd