DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '25 I => Current Talk '02 I => Topic started by: ProfStokes on April 22, 2002, 08:47:57 PM
-
In honor of today's classic first episode, I thought that it would be fun if we shared our favorite bloopers. They don't necessarily have to be restricted to the blooper tape. Here are the categories:
Best Verbal Blooper (e.g. flubbed lines, name calling, etc.)
Bathia Mapes: "......("Go to the house of the curse")"
Honorable Mention--Roger Collins: "Several of my incestors are buried here."
Best Physical Blooper (e.g. falling sets, intrusive stagehands, camera equipment, flies, etc.)
Tie: Barnabas picks his nose/John Yeager tries to re-hang the portrait
Honorable Mention: Charles Tate's falling window shade
Best Recovery--Louis Edmonds: "The car rolled a hundred miles down the road--a hundred miles...it seemed like a hundred miles--a hundred feet down the road.
I've started this topic in the spirit of fun and don't intend for it to be a means of abusing the actors and actresses, for whom I have great respect. They created this enduring and memorable show under very trying circumstances, and probably couldn't help most of what happened to them. I hope that others will see it that way.
ProfStokes
-
In honor of today's classic first episode, I thought that it would be fun if we shared our favorite bloopers. They don't necessarily have to be restricted to the blooper tape. Here are the categories:
Best Verbal Blooper (e.g. flubbed lines, name calling, etc.)
Bathia Mapes: "......("Go to the house of the curse")"
Honorable Mention--Roger Collins: "Several of my incestors are buried here."
Best Physical Blooper (e.g. falling sets, intrusive stagehands, camera equipment, flies, etc.)
Tie: Barnabas picks his nose/John Yeager tries to re-hang the portrait
Honorable Mention: Charles Tate's falling window shade
Best Recovery--Louis Edmonds: "The car rolled a hundred miles down the road--a hundred miles...it seemed like a hundred miles--a hundred feet down the road.
I've started this topic in the spirit of fun and don't intend for it to be a means of abusing the actors and actresses, for whom I have great respect. They created this enduring and memorable show under very trying circumstances, and probably couldn't help most of what happened to them. I hope that others will see it that way.
ProfStokes
actually my Blooper tape is one of my favorites It is great to see how a lot of the actors recovered themselves. Today you see so many bloopers at the end of shows that i swear they make them up on purpose (Home improvement)these actors know it will be redone but the actors of the 60s had to put up with it!
love Willie when he is bricking up the wall and says
it gives him the willies! :o
also the famous fly that tried to steal the show!
Quentin knocking down the sword!
jennifer
thanks Prof S for a great topic!
-
Incestors, by Roger Collins, has always been my favorite.
I also love the falling tombstones, giant trees that wobble and Quentin taking the sword from the wall and crashing a lamp all over the floor. You could hear it being swept up behind the scenes as the dialogue went on!
Love, Robin
-
I'll mention one Linda has called to my attention.
Nicholas is performing some sort of Black Mass/incantation to darkness, etc. Very into it. A stage hand is seen running right in front, trying to stay out of frame. If that's not enough, the stage hand realizes that he is in camera and mutters "Jesus!" quite audibly.
Luciaphil
-
I really liked today in the first episode when some male voice yelled out the lines "Go to the old House" that Bathia Mapes was supposed to say. It was strange she was staning next to the coffin in a daze and the voice called out the line for her. She then repeated them.
I played it over several times. Somehow the intensity was not lost.
-
So many to choose from .. .candles not blowing out. . Frid scratching his nose and Hall looking on oblivious to what her co-star is doing. . I also like the Julia walking into the foggy room, a door flies open and you see the frozen ice bucket. Hall looks, says to herself. .'just keep goin" and does. . .funny!
-
I particularly like the sight (and sound) of 1840 Quentin Collins' head hitting the top of the doorway in the foyer of Collinwood.
Also, look at the pained expression on Lamar Trask's (Jerry Lacy) face as he courageously and vainly tries to suppress a big belly laugh at the sight of the tallest Collins making contact with the hard wood. Ouch!!!
-
Carolyn and Julia are walking from the drawing room into the foyer. While Julia is talking to Carolyn, somebody moves in front of the camera and another man hurries through a door, and is still holding the door and peeking back in the room.
-
:D My favorite is when the credits are rolling, and all at once, here come Jonathan Frid, carrying his sneakers and a pair of jeans. He sees the camera or somebody yells at him to get out of the way, anyway, that my favorite Blooper.
Then I like Roger Collins telling Burke Devlins about his incestral family.
Not to be forgotten...Bathia. She did a wonderful job remembering all her lines...except one.
-
Great idea, ProfStokes!
Favorite verbal blooper: there are many, but the one that comes to mind today is Barnabas in 1795 emphatically declaring to Rev. Trask and others that Vicki is "to be presumed innocent ... until proven innocent!"
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
.
.
.
Favorite physical mishap: please allow me to set this one up. In 1897, Evan Hanley (Humbert Allen Astredo) has subconsciously trained Tim Shaw (Don Briscoe), on a certain cue, to pour poisoned brandy into a snifter and force the designated unsuspecting victim to drink it. At the end of an episode, Hanley "practiced" the cue with Shaw, with Hanley himself as the stand-in victim. When Shaw put the snifter in Hanley's hand, Hanley attempted to un-cue him, and we end with a tight shot in which an alarmed Hanley struggles to keep the Shaw from pouring the glass down his lips. Perfect!
The opening of the next episode repeats this scene. Only problem is, in that final tight shot, one of the legs of the chair Hanley is sitting in apparently gives way (you can hear the sound of wood snapping off-camera). The collapsing chair causes Hanley to suddenly drop about two inches, in turn causing the brandy (the snifter is right against his lips) to splash clumsily all over his face. Hanley is looking even more horrified, but I think it's because he has to hold that pose, not knowing if the chair is going to give way completely before the scene ends.
This is not on the bloopers tape, so you might have to wait until it pops up on the 1897 storyline. I always find this one a scream.
Ben
-
My favorite verbal blooper: The Collins Incestors by Roger Collins.
My favorite physical blooper: The Falling Window by Charles Delaware Tate.
My favorite blooper recovery: The Name of That Town in Brazil: Belem by Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.
Gerard
-
I can't remember the details of this one well enough to really state it, but I can describe it sufficiently, I'm sure, for someone to recognize it and fill in the blanks.
SPOILER for the story coming up fairly soon with Dr. Lang
Barnabas is outside a locked door (I think he's with Dr. Lang and Julia is inside, but not sure) and he has to tell her to remember something. I think it's Dr. Woodard's name he needs. He says "remember, remember someone" or something like that. Then Dr. Lang supplies him with the name he needs, except that it's something that he could have no way of knowing.
-
I'm pretty sure I heard this on todays ep. Naomi is talking about Daniel but calls him David instead. I'm surprised they didn't make more mistakes like that with all the time travel.
HobbiesDS 8)
-
Calling any David Henesy character David is extremely common. When I noticed it today, I was thinking of starting a count on that like the Roger Davis hair touch count. I'm not sure if anyone did it before today, but it's the first I specifically recall this time around.
-
Nicholas is performing some sort of Black Mass/incantation to darkness, etc. Very into it. A stage hand is seen running right in front, trying to stay out of frame. If that's not enough, the stage hand realizes that he is in camera and mutters "Jesus!" quite audibly.
That was Evan Hanley, and ironically enough, he was conjuring the "spirit of darkness" at the time. Watching the dark figure of the stage hand zip across the set, I like to think that Evan was successful. ;)
ProfStokes
-
Good Topic prof. Stokes!
One of my favorites was during the ending credits and Professor Stokes comes walking right out in full view, then sees the camera rolling and steps back again.
SPOILER.......SPOILER........SPOILER........SPOILER...........
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
A favorite verbal blooper of mine was during the Adam storyline and the dream curse. Julia & Willie found Barnabas lying on the ground outside the old house and presumed he was dead. Julia then remarks to Willie about needing his help to carry Barnabas out of there. Willie. after a pause, says, "ok, Julia," then after a much longer pause, says,"ok, Julia, I'll do whatever you tell me to do."
A good funny one was during the Leviatan storyline when the sheriff comes calling on the Todds. Jeb answers the door, and that annoying bell they had up there on the door, comes crashing down to the floor. It amazes me how the actors managed to keep their wits about them and not crack up from laughing. I give them credit for that!
I also recall one when Cassandra was trying to hypnotize Tony Peterson with a cigarette lighter. The only problem was is that the lighter's flame kept going out.
-
Bathia did have the most obvious one - maybe due to hearing problems. I agree she really did well though other than that...perfect look for the part!
Other memorable DS boo boos...
During the credits a daring "ledge walking" stage hand creeps by the window (the one near the door) of Josette's room.
JF's famous exit from the door below the stairs at Collinwood in street clothes with his costume hung over his arm . (Which I did not catch the last time around - did they cut this out?)
David Selby backs hard into a half open door in one of the upstairs bedrooms.
Really LOVE the incestor thing too!
I certainly don't hold it against them...under those tight conditions I can't even imagine what kinds of things I might do!
Wouldn't it be fun to know some of the things they actually HAD to stop tape for?
-
Two of my favorites:
S
P
O
I
E
R
S
A dying Dr. Lang records a message for Julia regarding the Adam/Barnabas experiment-after turning off the tape recorder!
In 1995, a very dead Mrs. Johnson is seen blinking her eyes!
Great topic, ProfStokes!
-
now to a subject i find great ;D...ok for physical goofs, my handle, tripwire, came from the scene which madam finley has discovered quentins room, and obviously trips badly on the wire that was meant to slam the door shut...she looks back down at it in an angry expression....too much.....there is also that scene where barnabas is talking with vickie about the music box, and how its affecting her, when all of a sudden the crew decides to build another set....lol ....oh me.....they played the scene well however.willie coming out of the secret room and cracking his head, had to have hurt...the light blowing out as king johnny and magda prepare to enter the secret room....so many.its like asking what your favorite beatle song is.
-
My favorite one on the blooper tape is in the very early episodes, where Liz is talking to Mrs. Johnson about Vicki's bus. The wheels on the camera (presumably) squeal loudly on the floor, twice - so much so that Joan Bennett is startled and stops for a moment, looking off stage for a cue as to whether or not to continue. She does.
Two of my favorites NOT on the blooper tape involve Alexandra Moltke cracking up. In another early episode, Victoria is having a conversation with Roger in the drawing room. Edmonds flubs his line very badly, and as they cut to a close-up of Moltke, you can see a smile creeping across her face - which she quickly tries to hide, contorting her mouth into a grimace. The camera cuts away quickly.
In a similar scene in another early episode, Victoria and Roger are again talking in the drawing room and Elizabeth enters through the front door. She goes to set her coat down on the long table in the foyer but she misses and the coat falls to the floor. Vicki turns towards the camera to walk into the drawing room and as she does so we can see that same smile spreading across her face. They cut to a wide shot of the drawing room where Vicki seats herself on the sofa. She is obviously trying not to let the camera see her face, which she keeps hidden with her hand. They cut quickly to close-ups of Roger and Elizabeth as Moltke regains her composure.
I wish they had included these scenes on the bloopers tape. I got a big kick out of watching them when the eps aired on Sci Fi. I guess Moltke was given to fits of giggles now and then. During an interview, she once spoke of another fit of laughter that resulted in them stopping and re-taping the scene.
-
Wouldn't it be fun to know some of the things they actually HAD to stop tape for?
Two things I know of:
An early scene with Alexandra Moltke and two male actors, whom she declined to name, that had apparently come into work after a night of partying and expected to "wing it" off the teleprompter. Everything was fine until they started reading each other's lines instead of their own. Moltke stopped the scene and refused to go on.
Another instance both Kate Jackson and Lara Parker have spoken of during the 1841 PT story line involved the two breaking into a fit of laughter over the name "Ezra." I've seen the episode in question and no hint of a smile is evident, so they must have re-taped this one.
-
S
P
O
I
E
R
S
A dying Dr. Lang records a message for Julia regarding the Adam/Barnabas experiment-after turning off the tape recorder!
In 1995, a very dead Mrs. Johnson is seen blinking her eyes!
Yes, two classics! In an earlier thread asking for titles of books written by various DS characters, I suggested that Dr. Lang might have written Tape Recording for Dummies.
As for Mrs. J, it is unfortunate that although the great Clarice Blackburn had remained dead and unblinking for at least a minute or more in that scene, it was only later that they put her in a close-up -- by now the worst possible moment, when she probably couldn't refrain from blinking any longer.
Ben
-
One of my favorites, which should have been on MPI's "Bloopers" tape, is the scene in which a man (I forget who and during what storyline) comes to Collinwood to see Barnabas. Mrs. Johnson answers the door and says, "Can I help you?" or something along those lines. The man replies, "Yes, I'm here to see Mr. Jonathan."
Along with that blooper is my favorite recovery, by Clarice Blackburn, who is visibly shaken by the other actor's mistake, yet manages to get the scene back on track.
Favorite physical blooper: Quentin taking a sword off the wall and smashing a lamp in the process. How the actors in that scene kept it together without laughing, I'll never know.
Regards,
John
-
Hi John!
One of my favorite "bloopers" is a very subtle one. It's in Humbert Allen Astredo's first scene as Nicholas Blair opposite Alexandra Moltke as Vicki. As he's saying goodbye to her, he has a line that comes out something like, "Very pleased to meet you Miss Molt ... er, Miss Winters!" If you're not very attentive, you'd miss the flub altogether, because he covers it with one of his most deliciously courtly smile.
Then there's this scene again involving Humbert, though the blooper was not at all his fault. When, as Evan Hanley, he was dismissing the "shade" of Minerva Trask (a simulacrum created through one of Evan's few workable spells--quite a clever one, actually), the director had failed to realize that Jerry Lacey, Joan Bennett, and Clarice Blackburn would need to dash ACROSS the camera on the very set where Humbert was reciting his incantation. I swear you can hear Jerry muttering "Jesus!" as he and the two ladies scamper madly across that set!
So many more I could mention... this morning I was watching an episode towards the end of the 1897 storyline where it was one of those days where EVERYTHING seemed to be going wrong. Only the magisterial Thayer David kept his cool. What a gent he was.
On the MPI blooper reel, my absolute favorite moment is the bit of footage that miraculously survived from the one time when they were supposed to have stopped tape and the camera kept running. You hear the director (maybe H. Kaplan?) yell "cut!" and Grayson Hall just glares at him and says: "WHY?" No question who was in charge on set that day!
Gothick
-
Please tell me if I dreamed this one... but I seem to remember a scene where someone walked out of the upstairs door into the foyer toward the stairs and someone (probably the director) screams out, "Do it again!"
The actor then turns around, closes the door behind him and starts the scene again. I know I have seen this twice, but I can't remember the details.
deron ?!?
-
Please tell me if I dreamed this one... but I seem to remember a scene where someone walked out of the upstairs door into the foyer toward the stairs and someone (probably the director) screams out, "Do it again!"
The actor then turns around, closes the door behind him and starts the scene again. I know I have seen this twice, but I can't remember the details.
deron ?!?
That was Anthony George as Burke Devlin. He enters the upstairs hallway at the top of the stairs through the door there as the scene begins, and you can hear the director (or someone) yell "Do it again, Burke," and he turns around, goes back through the door, then comes back out again! This was shortly before they killed off Burke in the plane crash.
-
LMAO.....I love this thread......my fav is:
"But tell them that you saw no one here!"
"Oh, that's fine...what am I gonna tell them?"
"...THAT YOU SAW NO ONE HERE!"
OMG!! that's like the funniest thing I've ever heard. Who says it, tho? I think one is Peter, but I'm not sure :-/ But that's my fav blooper :D
-
No one mentioned two physical bloopers by Chris Pennock's Character John Yaeger in 1970PT as follows:
1. Yaeger has difficulty hanging a painting over a safe in the wall.
2. Yaeger's cane falls appart and he has trouble putting it together (knife part falls out).
Another recent physical one ( in 1795) was seeing a crew member in one corner of the mausoleum when Barnabas confronts Angelique.
-
LMAO.....I love this thread......my fav is:
"But tell them that you saw no one here!"
"Oh, that's fine...what am I gonna tell them?"
"...THAT YOU SAW NO ONE HERE!"
OMG!! that's like the funniest thing I've ever heard. Who says it, tho? I think one is Peter, but I'm not sure :-/ But that's my fav blooper :D
Daphne, that was Roger Davis playing the part of Dirk Wilkins, during the 1897 storyline. That was a good one! :)
-
Daphne, that was Roger Davis playing the part of Dirk Wilkins, during the 1897 storyline. That was a good one!
LOL well I had the voice right anyway! Kinda scary when you know a show so well you can tell who the ppl are just by their voices......*blissful sigh* Ah, obsession....:D
-
There's a scene between Michael Stroka and David Selby where neither of them has any idea what the hell they are doing. I think Stroka may reference it on one of the anniversary tapes.
Stroka's character is setting up some quasi-Batman like device to kill Quentin (you know, the elaborate construction that will render a horrible and bizarre death, but which always backfires, and you as the viewer just sit back and wonder why no one ever just uses a gun and leaves it at that). The scene calls for Stroka to be appropriately smug and confident and for Quentin to do the manly terror schtick. Unfortunately they both seem to have gone up completely, not just to their lines, but to the purpose for the scene itself. Thus we have Quentin almost helping himself into the hands of doom and Stroka's character looking unusually lost.
Luciaphil