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.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01Here's a clip from American series Bones, and the perennial question,
0:01:01 > 0:01:05how do you pass the time on a long trip through the desert?
0:01:05 > 0:01:09I know. How about looking at the back projection and trying to spot
0:01:09 > 0:01:15when the cyclorama suddenly changes from flat scrub to mountainscape in a split second. Are we there yet?
0:01:15 > 0:01:19There we are. Your turn.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20And...cut.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24Great work, everybody. Who wants to play I-spy?
0:01:24 > 0:01:28I spy with my little eye something beginning with C.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30It's Crap FX, isn't it?
0:01:33 > 0:01:35It's Skins, and lovely Tony
0:01:35 > 0:01:38is about to tuck into a delicious tuna sandwich.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41Mmm, I love sandwiches. Conversely, most directors hate them.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45They're a continuity nightmare.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49And we're off. Bite one to the left.
0:01:49 > 0:01:50Which is now two bites big.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53That'd really put a dampener on your day.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55And whole again. First bite again to the left.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Look what you're doing to your mate.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59He doesn't know what day it is.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02- But now multiple bites to left and right.- Have some tuna sandwich.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06- It'll make you feel better.- Are you sure? I'm feeling a bit dizzy.
0:02:06 > 0:02:07No, no, no, leave it.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Leave it. He's at it as well.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Tony is back to a one-bite sandwich. Two bites.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Bites right and left.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17No, two bites to the left.
0:02:17 > 0:02:22- Hi, Tony.- Oh, beat it, kids, I'm trying to concentrate.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Multiple bites again right and left.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Oh, I've changed my mind, I hate tuna sandwiches.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31You got a whacking lot of doughnuts.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Yes, food is a continuity nightmare, especially on Skins.
0:02:35 > 0:02:40Look, Pandora dives into this bag of doughnuts and grabs one with yellow icing.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Takes a couple of bites, one, two.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Now it's half-gone.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Suddenly, it's all gone.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48Takes a pink one.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Which is now yellow.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55And back to pink with two bites out of it.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Then just one bite.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58And now it's gone.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Hello.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02And back again!
0:03:02 > 0:03:06- That's doughnut madness. - Effie. So glad to meet you.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Go on, my son, go on, go on!
0:03:10 > 0:03:14Classic comedy from Only Fools And Horses, with some less-than-classic
0:03:14 > 0:03:18"standing around waiting for a cue" work from actor Lennard Pearce.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22Here it comes. Wait for it, Lennard.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Oh, Lennard!
0:03:24 > 0:03:28I blame the director. It's not really Grandad's fault.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30He's so old. He's probably just stuck to the lino.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36It's Friends in Vegas.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40Here comes Chandler. He sees Monica having fun with another fellow,
0:03:40 > 0:03:43and all melancholy, he turns to leave.
0:03:43 > 0:03:49And leave again. You might think they just used the same shot twice, and you'd be right.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54You will not be better until they've...
0:03:54 > 0:03:57In this clip from the first series of Red Dwarf, Craig Charles
0:03:57 > 0:04:02is enjoying Craig Ferguson's lines and big acting so much, he joins in.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05I don't know, is it some place near Uruguay?
0:04:05 > 0:04:06Oh, you missed it, didn't you?
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Try again and keep your eyes on little Craig.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13- HIGH-PITCHED:- "I don't know, is it some place near Uruguay?"
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Lovely bit of close-harmony acting.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Just let her go.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23- Go ahead, shoot.- Agent Mulder is in a stand off with a villain.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26He's probably an alien in disguise, they usually are.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30Like all good FBI agents, though, he's got his earpiece in so that
0:04:30 > 0:04:33he can listen to Chris Moyles and fight the alien hordes.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Which is harder? You decide.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39This scene is crying out for a close-up of Mulder wrestling with his conscience
0:04:39 > 0:04:40and finally shooting the baddie.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Unfortunately, they didn't get one, so they'd to film it later
0:04:44 > 0:04:47when he wasn't wearing an earpiece.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Embarrassed in front of millions.
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Sorry, Dave.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Here's the lovely Jennifer Ehle
0:04:57 > 0:05:00in Pride And Prejudice, playing the piano.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Except she isn't, because when we see inside,
0:05:02 > 0:05:04none of the hammers are moving.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Although, she's definitely got my hammers moving,
0:05:07 > 0:05:08if you know what I mean.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12Actually, I'm not sure if even I know what that means.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16He had it shipped over from Scotland.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Ever wondered what Superman's teenage years were like?
0:05:19 > 0:05:22Me neither, but that didn't stop them making Smallville.
0:05:22 > 0:05:28In between popping zits and shouting at his parents, Clark has found time to visit young Lex Luthor.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29Nice house.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33Shame you can see those two pieces of white tape on the parquet floor,
0:05:33 > 0:05:36put there by the crew to let Lex know where to stand.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38That's what we in TV call a mark.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41- And a mistake.- What's the matter?
0:05:41 > 0:05:44- You don't like it?- No, it very bad.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Three days after my funeral,
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Lynette replaced her grief with a much more useful emotion.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55In this clip from Desperate Housewives, Lynette is at the mall
0:05:55 > 0:05:59with those three naughty sons of hers and the baby, in pink, in the trolley.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02I can only imagine.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Uh-oh, two of the boys have done a runner.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08But one bad pick-up shot later, and it looks like all four have scarpered.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11At least she's still got her pink blanket.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Whichever way you look at it, that is borderline careless.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- Lynette Scavo?- Crap.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23With live TV, you just have to go with it.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26In this climactic scene in the live 'StEnders episode,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29see if you can spot the moment when the cameraman trips.
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Oh!
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Here is a sequence to make the Avatar team blush and then pat
0:06:44 > 0:06:48the Dr Who effects department on the head and say, "Oh, bless."
0:06:48 > 0:06:54When this spaceship crashes into the tower of Big Ben, suddenly, the numerals are back-to-front.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Because someone made a boob in the CGI and had to
0:06:57 > 0:07:01flip the shot to make it look like the spaceship enters from the right.
0:07:03 > 0:07:08The technique of flipping can also be used on your own TV remote every time Simon Cowell comes on.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13The king will therefore be requiring a new mistress.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Dr Tennant again, in this clip,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18leaning on a balustrade in 18th-century France,
0:07:18 > 0:07:20spying on Madame Pompadour.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23She senses his presence, turns, but sees nothing.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Not even his hand touching the wall.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Because he isn't. But, in the next shot, he clearly still is.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Maybe he's developed the power of invisibility.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35She's in for a surprise at bedtime.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41And finally, if it's bad shot choices you're after,
0:07:41 > 0:07:43and who isn't, then check this. Here's Buffy,
0:07:43 > 0:07:46undertaking a vampires slayer's least onerous of tasks,
0:07:46 > 0:07:49picking up and putting down a pair of glasses.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51See if you can spot the gaffe.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Yep.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Wearing two pink rings on her fingers,
0:07:58 > 0:08:02she places the specs on the table, unfolded, with both hands.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05But in the close-up, the glasses have been folded,
0:08:05 > 0:08:08and are now put down by a single hand wearing a silver ring
0:08:08 > 0:08:10on a completely different table.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14- That, with the best will in the world, was really- BLEEP.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19Thanks to all of our contributors for being so sloppy.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22It's a good job it's telly and nothing more important, like a paper round,
0:08:22 > 0:08:25otherwise you'd have been fired. Bye-bye!
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