GMTA, Rainey. Right after I read Luciaphil's post and just before I read yours I was thinking about the day I was watching The Edge of Night when one of the actors experienced what was probably one of his worst live broadcast nightmares. His bad guy character was sitting at a desk in his apartment and browsing through some of his incriminatiing papers when another character, who would have liked nothing better than to catch him with those papers, suddenly knocked at the door. Apparently the bad guy was supposed to open the desk drawer and put all the papers in it before opening the door - but the thing was, he couldn't get the drawer open. The panic-stricken, deer-in-the-headlights expression on the actor's face worked perfectly for the scene, but it was clear from the other actor's face that something was happening on the other side of the door that wasn't supposed to be, and watching both actors trying to figure out what to do about the mishap was both horrifying and hilarious. Though not quite as hilarious as how the problem was solved because the bad guy finally just shoved all the papers down his shirt. (I suppose that in the panic of the moment it never occurred to anyone on set that perhaps he could have simply put them in an unseen room in the apartment
). And after the other actor's character was finally let it, the scene progressed as it probably should have, but with one glaring difference: despite the fact that it was really quite obvious that papers had been shoved down the actor's shirt, so obvious that anyone seeing him couldn't help but mention it, not one word was made of that oddity by the other actor's character. And what made everything worse was that their entire scene was an argument over those papers. Talk about the audience REALLY having to suspend their disbelief that day!
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Ah, the "fun" of working on live TV. And as bad as some of the bloopers on DS may have been, absolutely none of them rank as bizarre as that TEoN blooper.
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(I wonder if a videotape copy of it even survives. Proctor&Gamble has often been criticized for destroying the videotaped copies of their soaps that were used later in the day for the West Coast. Though, if at all possible, one might hope that TEoN would have retaped the scene for the other half of the country...)
