Bloopers

[ghost of miles]

I was just reading an article about Mad Men on the New York Review of Books blog, in which the author made reference to "wristwatch-with-toga" bloopers in Biblical epics. Intrigued by the reference, I Googled around, and the reference is apparently to goofs made in Spartacus. Any favorite such moments from the film and TV lovers here?

[Matthew]

Okay, I'm outing myself as a huge Friends fan, but some of their bloopers are flat-out hilarious.

[GA Russell]

I remember 30 years ago there was a tape of bloopers frequently advertised on TV; ie, "World Cup soccer".

[Dave James]

My favorite Seinfeld blooper:

[Shawn]

Kind of like the parking lot visible on the "other planet" at the beginning of Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone?

(don't ask me why that popped into my head first thing)

[Big Wheel]

No video that I could find, but during the whole jazz/Letterman nonsense here I learned that Paul Shaffer was the first person to say the F word live on SNL. The skit parodied the Troggs tapes and the cast was supposed to say "flogging" instead, but Shaffer slipped.

[Quincy]

A movie that is full of time inconsistencies is Quadrophenia. It's my favorite Who album and I knew the band's history so I was detail minded when I saw the movie. It's a bit of mess trying to figure out the year it takes place. Within the movie there are TV appearances by the band that Jimmy watches that suggest 1964, later A Quick One is in a record collection so it has to be later (Dec. '66). Then there's the matter of 1970s cars driving around. I knew my British cars from having visited a car nut cousin in the British Isles a few times, so they couldn't get that past me! At least Bellboy Sting didn't start singing Police songs.

I swear I've seen a jet trail in a western along with a big power lines on cattle drives (though I suppose the latter could be a stand in for telegraph if they're simple wooden poles) as I used to look for them, but it was so long ago I can't recall specifics.

Oh yes, more for geeks than a big alarms-going-off problem, but in Field Of Dreams Shoeless Joe bats right rather than left like he did in real life. Personally I was horrified.

[Big Al]

I think my favorite happens in The Untouchables, when Sean Connery's top button miraculously buttons and unbuttons itself in three separate shots of the same conversation.