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* This is most likely the reason [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys the Librarian]] is totally absent from the TV Movie adaptation of ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''. One imagines it's much easier to ''write'' about orangutans playing pipe organs than to film them doing so.
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->''"Why do you like fire!? You're supposed to hate fire! '''You are ruining my movie!'''"''

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** Also shown in a documentary reel about the making of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' were {{George Lucas}}' problems with the snakes. During one scene, Lucas had set up a ring of torches to keep the snakes away, but being cold-blooded reptiles they are naturally drawn to sources of heat and kept slithering nearer. At one point, he just grabs one by the 'neck' and stares it in the eyes, yelling:
->''"Why do you like fire!? You're supposed to hate fire! '''You are ruining my movie!'''"''
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--> ''(Little Girl, after a second's consideration)'' Well, it says "Grand Prix" here!


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* The Mississippi Squirrel Revival is a song of a kid who catches a squirrel. The squirrel is expected to stay in a box. It doesn't, wreaking havok in a church.

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* ITV's regional news show ''Granada Reports'' once brought together Manchester and Liverpool's entrants into the Crufts dog show. With thirty or forty dogs and their owners paraded together in a panoramic shot, little disagreements happened - eagle-eyed viewers clearly spotted the Dobermann biting the head off a hapless chow dog before the studio crew did, and were ringing up to complain about it even as the studio began to collapse in canine-related bedlam and a screaming hysterical owner contemplating the headless corpse of her ex-show dog....
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* The little girl of perhaps ten or eleven, on a Saturday morning zoo show, who was innocent of the subtleties of French pronunciation. Given a link to do concerning the afternoon's sporting attractions, she read off the autocue
--> And this afternoon at two, we go to Murray Walker who will commentate on the Grand Pricks of South Africa..
--> ''(Producer)'' I think you'll find it's pronounced "Grond Pree"...
--> ''(Little Girl, after a second's consideration)'' Well, it says "Grand Prix" here!


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* ''Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow'' ran on getting a bunch of kids to play silly games and throw [[CoveredInGunge gunge]] over each other, live. It's not surprising they sometimes got a bit [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM6J_P3APXk&t=0m25s overexcited.]]

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* ''Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow'' ran on getting a bunch of kids to play silly games and throw [[CoveredInGunge gunge]] over each other, live. It's not surprising they sometimes got a bit [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM6J_P3APXk&t=0m25s overexcited.]] One boy, Raja, almost broke the hosts- he wouldn't stop running round and hitting them. Dom stopped being an ExcitedKidsShowHost and started just telling him off and asking the producers what to do next; they even got him on the ClipShow DaDickAndDomDairies, four years later, to explain himself. ("I'm a really nice guy when you get to know me".)
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* ''Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow'' ran on getting a bunch of kids to play silly games and throw [[CoveredInGunge gunge]] over each other, live. It's not surprising they sometimes got a bit [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM6J_P3APXk&t=0m25s overexcited.]]
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* ''ProjectRunway'' occasionally has challenges featuring children. One season the designers had to make complementary mom-and-child outfits, and in another designers had to make outfits based on paintings from students at Harlem School of the Arts. The designers' reactions are often just as fascinating as the kids', as even the designers with really temperamental and drama-prone personalities tend to be on their nicest behavior.
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** Averted in the "Bird Balance" myth; Kari says that despite what they say about working with animals, the birds were all very cooperative.
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* Lampshaded by StephenColbert after introducing a calf named Daisy on ''TheColbertReport'' - the calf spooked at the cameras, interrupted him by mooing and generally misbehaved.

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* Lampshaded by StephenColbert after [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/225629/april-23-2009/elizabeth-bintliff introducing a calf named Daisy Daisy]] on ''TheColbertReport'' - the calf spooked at the cameras, interrupted him by mooing and generally misbehaved.
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* HoneyIShrunkTheKids, in the TV series, is at least knowledgable about it, as they have Quark do VERY little in the show. Though, at least one episode includes quite a lot of reaction shots from him...

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* In 2009, ChrisColumbus talked about the progress of ''Film/HarryPotter'' kids:
-->''"My biggest pride is seeing the pictures now, and watching the three of them from a distance, and seeing them do an entire scene in one shot. Seriously, I know that sounds funny, but in the old days -- and, you know, the old days meaning eight years ago -- and in that first picture in particular, it's filled with cuts because they couldn't really get beyond the first line without either looking into the camera, laughing or looking at the lights."''
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* In ''TheWizardOfOz'', a large bird walked on to the set during the filming of one of the scenes. At one point, it's clearly visible extending its wing... however, it was a silhouette, and it was hard to tell it was a bird... and not the corpse of a Munchkin. This gave birth to the famous, yet totally bogus, "Munchkin Suicide" urban legend.

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* In ''TheWizardOfOz'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', a large bird walked on to the set during the filming of one of the scenes. At one point, it's clearly visible extending its wing... however, it was a silhouette, and it was hard to tell it was a bird... and not the corpse of a Munchkin. This gave birth to the famous, yet totally bogus, "Munchkin Suicide" urban legend.



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* The Mississippi Squirrel Revival is a song of a kid who catches a squirrel. The squirrel is expected to stay in a box. It doesn't, wreaking havok in a church.
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* Mister Rogers (that, and making his show seem more intimate)
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** One of the earlier episodes had Adam and Jamie trying to test out cures for skunk spray. They had everything figured out, except for how to get the skunks to actually spray them. Eventually they bought some in a bottle.
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* In one of Howie Mandel's stage shows, a dog was supposed to come out and bark like {{Lassie}}, and Howie would interpret the barking as "Robert Goulet is in the lobby and trapped under a boulder". The dog didn't bark, so GilbertGottfried, who was on stage as part of a previous sketch comes over and says "woof".
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* ''TheTwoGentlemenOfVerona'' contains a comic servant character named Launce, whose shtick is that he's constantly dragging his dog Crab around and delivering amusing monologues about it. ''Two Gentlemen'' was one of Shakespeare's earliest works and his plot-writing abilities weren't what they ended up becoming, so Launce and his dog, notorious scene-stealers, are regarded by pretty much everyone as the highlight of the play. However, Shakespeare never included a dog in a major role again, and scholars speculate that he probably learned this trope the hard way.

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* ''TheTwoGentlemenOfVerona'' contains a comic servant comedy character named Launce, whose shtick is that he's constantly dragging his dog Crab around and delivering amusing monologues about it. ''Two Gentlemen'' was one of Shakespeare's earliest works and his plot-writing abilities weren't what they ended up becoming, so Launce and his dog, notorious scene-stealers, are regarded by pretty much everyone as the highlight of the play. However, Shakespeare never included a dog in a major role again, and scholars speculate that he probably learned this trope the hard way.
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* ''TheTwoGentlemenOfVerona'' contains a comic servant character named Launce, whose shtick is that he's constantly dragging his dog Crab around and delivering amusing monologues about it. ''Two Gentlemen'' was one of Shakespeare's earliest works and his plot-writing abilities weren't what they ended up becoming, so Launce and his dog, notorious scene-stealers, are regarded by pretty much everyone as the highlight of the play. However, Shakespeare never included a dog in a major role again, and scholars speculate that he probably learned this trope the hard way.
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* In an example that made it into the show proper, infants Winnie and Nelson on ''TheCosbyShow'' would frequently look at the studio lights, boom mike, or other overhead machinery. Bill Cosby (as Cliff Huxtable) would look in the same direction and ask what was so interesting about the ceiling.

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* In an example [[ThrowItIn that made it into the show proper, proper]], infants Winnie and Nelson on ''TheCosbyShow'' would frequently look at the studio lights, boom mike, or other overhead machinery. Bill Cosby (as Cliff Huxtable) would look in the same direction and ask what was so interesting about the ceiling.
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* Alvin Hall [[http://youtu.be/P8QHw9lrMao once found out]] that ostriches are not very cooperative when trying to film.
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* The Build Team tried to make the fainting goats faint on {{Mythbusters}} but they failed. The goats did faint in reaction to everything else from a passing car to the nearby cameraman.

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* In an episode of ColbertReport, he tried to get a cat to pick out why the Egyptians revolted. The cat just sat there despite the food, toys on a string, and even a laser. The cat didn't even react when Steven threw food near him.
* The Build Team tried to make the fainting goats faint on {{Mythbusters}} but they failed. The goats did faint in reaction to everything else from a passing car to the nearby cameraman.

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* Parodied in ''Film, Film, Film''.

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* Parodied in ''Film, ''[[FilmFilmFilm Film, Film''.Film, Film]]''.
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* Acknowledged in the play ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'' by Martin [=McDonagh=], which has [[MultipleEndings two alternative closing lines]] depending on whether a cat on stage eats food offered to it or not.
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** She also mentions one day when the horse she was on had an audibly bad case of gas, and a shot involving a dog that was fascinated by the camera and kept staring directly into the lens. The people who were offscreen in each shot had to all wave dog treats at it to distract it.

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* The aliens in ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' were played by young girls, who were hyperactive and incredibly difficult to control.

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