I really felt for Grayson in yesterday's episode and had to greatly admire how she handled a non-stop coughing fit. That is so uncomfortable and impossible to get over while using one's voice!
My favorite coughing scene was in 1967, when Dennis Patrick, as the c*cky Jason McGuire, was overtaken by a very un-Jason-like coughing fit as he lecturing Willie at the Blue Whale.
But my all-time favorite coughing blooper didn't occur on DS. I saw it as an outtake of a soap (don't know the name) on a Dick Clark "TV Bloopers" special. A woman was in bed under the covers, when she was supposed to start shrieking like a banshee, over and over. It worked at first, until she had to take another breath to continue screaming. Instead, she started coughing. Of course, that killed the intensity of the moment, and she began laughing.
I wonder if that would have qualified for a "stop tape" moment on DS. I mean, what if Barnabas, fangs bared and coming in for the bite, started coughing at that very moment?
Ben
(glad not to be coughing like I was for the entire month of January)