0:00:12 > 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 > 0:01:00Hey, look, those crafty ancient Greeks are attacking Troy
0:01:00 > 0:01:04after sneaking into the city in the belly of the Trojan horse.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07There they are, in their rubber helmets.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11But, according to this episode of Xena, they weren't alone.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13It's your job to fight her first.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Oh, no, cos also stowed away in the horse's bumhole was...
0:01:17 > 0:01:22This bloke! There he is, squatting on the battlements. You numpty.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26Here's Sarah Michelle Gellar
0:01:26 > 0:01:30walking through a creepy wood late at night.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Careful, Buffy, watch out for vampires!
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Oh, my God, what's that?!
0:01:35 > 0:01:37It's a monster with a huge...!
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Microphone. Oh, dear, it's the boom operator.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Thunderbirds, and ignore this foreign baddie.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Damn those Welsh Iraqi pilots.
0:01:49 > 0:01:50Watch Tintin,
0:01:50 > 0:01:54held in the vice-like grip of this serial killer turned puppeteer.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56His nails aren't normally that dirty -
0:01:56 > 0:01:58he'd just finished burying another body.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03So what did you do that made Dad cut you off?
0:02:03 > 0:02:05OK, team, no clues.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09See if you can spot the mistake in this clip from Friends.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Yeah, but it wasn't for me, it was for a friend.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Boy, did we make friends with the wrong sister!
0:02:14 > 0:02:19You missed it, didn't you? Forget the pretty actors, look at the pretty cameraman.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22It's amazing what you miss when you're laughing. And when you're not.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30It's gourmet night at Fawlty Towers and a very funny scene featuring
0:02:30 > 0:02:34a fine example of the easily missable TV mistake.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Missed it, didn't you? Here it is again.
0:02:38 > 0:02:42This time, forget the action and concentrate on the BBC techie bloke
0:02:42 > 0:02:44squatting behind the double doors.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48A classic mistake from a classic comedy that just got funnier with age.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51If only the same could be said for John Cleese.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54- I mean, look at that!- Can I help? - Yes, go and kill yourself!
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Its Charmed, the series about a bunch of friendly witches.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Or am I thinking of Loose Women?
0:03:02 > 0:03:06Anyway, ignore this trespasser and instead feast your eyes on
0:03:06 > 0:03:10the director sitting in the next room listening to his iPod.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14You're supposed to sit behind the camera, not in front of the pointy end.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18See that book? As soon as they turn the camera off, they're going to hit him with that.
0:03:20 > 0:03:24Its Doctor Who from 1975, back when children everywhere
0:03:24 > 0:03:28could be found hiding behind the sofa, avoiding gaffes like this.
0:03:28 > 0:03:33Keep your eyes on the baddie's bottom, or rather what's under it.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35I can move! Oh, dear.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39That floor assistant's thinking,
0:03:39 > 0:03:42"If I move my hand away slowly, no-one will see a thing."
0:03:42 > 0:03:43But we did.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47The maybe of Mike Delphino.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49It's Desperate Housewives,
0:03:49 > 0:03:52and Susan's just broken into a neighbour's house
0:03:52 > 0:03:58to return a Pyrex jug, but finds time to take a moment alone with just her thoughts for company.
0:03:58 > 0:04:02And that bloke crawling behind the sofa.
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Yes, it's the guy who just set fire to the curtains,
0:04:04 > 0:04:10whose idea of keeping out of shot is crawling across the screen on his hands and knees.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Wait for it. You're...f-f-fired!
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Ha-ha! Sorry.
0:04:17 > 0:04:22An emotional farewell scene in Lost as Charlie says goodbye to Hurley.
0:04:22 > 0:04:23That's uncool, man.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28But for once, try to keep your eyes off the unfolding drama and Hurley's boobs,
0:04:28 > 0:04:31and on the cameraman clearly visible to the left of shot.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36You can see his sandals, his camera and, if you really squint, his P45.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Wait!
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Its 24, and everything, as always, is very, very tense.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47A tense Tony is ignoring a call from a tense Nina.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Pick up.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53Unbeknown to tense Nina, there's someone else in the barn with her.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56And here he comes, wandering in from the right.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58A cameraman.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02And if you want to know how he's feeling, I'll tell you. Tense.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Clothes.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Clothes can go seriously wrong.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Just look at Lady Gaga or anyone from Germany.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15If there's one department in telly that gets overlooked, it's wardrobe.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17It's rare to see wardrobe taking a leading role -
0:05:17 > 0:05:20except in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, of course.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Though frankly, the lion and the witch got all the best lines.
0:05:23 > 0:05:28Consequently, every now and again, the wardrobe department fights back.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36It's Henry VIII in a scene from rollicking royal soap The Tudors.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Here's Henry's (divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived),
0:05:40 > 0:05:44first wife Catherine of Aragon - looking moody, and who can blame her? -
0:05:44 > 0:05:48getting a rousing reception from this crowd of 16th century peasants.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53Although, for a bunch of proles, they're doing pretty well for themselves, cos...look again.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Verily, sire, that's a nice wrist watch.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59He made that himself out of straw and bits of the plague.
0:06:02 > 0:06:07Lovely Buffy. Not only is she sexy, fun, and good at killing vampires,
0:06:07 > 0:06:10she can swap shoes in a microsecond.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14See, as she attacks the vampire wearing white party pumps...
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Then, alley-oop, suddenly swaps them for a pair of
0:06:16 > 0:06:20black boots when required to kick him in his undead nuts.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22That is my kind of woman.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Where are your jibes now?
0:06:25 > 0:06:27My Mick is open to anything.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30James Corden is a bit of a quick-change artist on the side.
0:06:30 > 0:06:36Oh, yeah, look. One minute he's wearing his dinner jacket, and the next, he's lost it.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40The jacket, not his temper. Although it's a wedding - there's always one fight.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Under normal circumstances, the last person I'd want to see frolicking
0:06:48 > 0:06:50in a wet T-shirt is Hurley from Lost.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Unless, of course, he was dancing around a pole - and even then, only maybe.
0:06:54 > 0:06:59Here he is teaching Charlie to fish and how to be both sopping wet...
0:07:00 > 0:07:03..and dry at the same time. Maybe he's just really hot.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Hot "warm", not hot "sexy".
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Unless he was dancing around a pole. Phwoar!
0:07:12 > 0:07:16Hey, David Banner is rescuing a bit-part actress from a cliff.
0:07:16 > 0:07:21Spin on, and sure enough, he turns into The Incredible Hulk.
0:07:22 > 0:07:27And as usual, his massive green muscles completely tear the shirt from his back.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31But seconds later, the shirt reappears,
0:07:31 > 0:07:35then disappears, then finally reappears again,
0:07:35 > 0:07:39having mounted its curious green host once more.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40All right, come on, come on!
0:07:40 > 0:07:44Well, there WAS a lady present. But sadly, no continuity person.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50Thanks to all of our contributors for being so sloppy.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Good job it's telly and nothing more important,
0:07:52 > 0:07:56like a paper round, otherwise you'd have been fired. Bye-bye!
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd