28 Freak Accidents and Fortuitous Mistakes Behind the Scenes of TV Shows and Movies

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28 Freak Accidents and Fortuitous Mistakes Behind the Scenes of TV Shows and Movies

Yes, movies and TV have come a long way in the safety department. But some things you just can’t plan for — a drunk extra hucking a beer can at a star’s head, for example. Assigning a security guard to every random dude on set seems a tad expensive, so we can see why they just left that shot in the film and moved on with their day.

That beer can may have made everyone involved just a smidge nervous, but on the plus side: We got that footage, baby!

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28 Freak Accidents and Fortuitous Mistakes Behind the Scenes of TV Shows and Movies

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MATT. LEBLANC dislocated his shoulder doing a dive for a chair while filming the episode The one where no one's ready. Instead of trying to hide it, the FRIENDS writers added a storyline where Joey hurt his arm jumping on a bed. CRACKED.COM

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As Time Goes By is in Casablanca because of Ingrid Bergman's haircut. The composer, Max Steiner, hated the song (it was a leftover from the play Casablanca was based on), and got the studio to let him record a replacement. But that meant they'd have to do reshoots, which was a non-starter because Ingrid Bergman had cut her hair in the meantime. CRACKED.COM

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Jason Voorhees got his look thanks to a film crew member's fandom. While filming Friday the 13th Part III, the crew needed to do a lighting test, which would have meant hours in the makeup chair. To save time, they threw a hockey goalie mask on the actor instead. Why a goalie mask? Well, a crew member was a huge hockey fan, and had a mask lying around. The director loved it and kept it (with a few tweaks). CRACKED.COM

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Hulk is green because 1960s comics printing technology sucked. In The Incredible Hulk's first issue, 12 THE INCREDIBLE he was grey. But Marvel's printers HULK apparently couldn't consistently THE STRANGEST MAR OF ALL TIME!! print a given shade of grey, so FANTASY te NE 42 - LIKE MAN m MONSTER ON they had to redesign Hulk. OR... 15 ME They picked green as his new color, and handwaved away the change by saying he was always green. CRACKED.COM

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A waterfall tried to murder Burt Reynolds. DELIVERANCE CRACKED.COM When Reynolds went over a 25-foot waterfall in a canoe, he cracked his tailbone, got stuck in a whirlpool, and finally emerged naked as hell. The director later told him It looked like a dummy falling over a waterfall, which, technically, it absolutely was.

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Bob Denver was almost mauled by a lion. GILLIGAN'S ISLAND CRACKED.COM When he sat down next to the big cat, as planned, the lion went off script and lunged at him. Denver yes-and-ed this improv by karate chopping, which further enraged it. That's when the lion's trainer stepped in --to ask the cast not to tell his boss what happened.

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