History Main / TheShowMustGoWrong

* School plays/pageants, amateur theater productions, and even professional shows (theme parks, parades, etc.) going awry have proven frequent RealLife fodder for ''AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''. A memorable $10,000-winning clip featured the finale of a religious play, with Christ ascending into heaven...but due to a faulty harness, also slowly turning his back to the crowd. Unfortunately, the actor's robe's back is open, revealing his underwear to the audience, resulting in Christ twirling around in midair to try and face the crowd again. Tom Bergeron quipped, "He waited three days for ''this''?"

* School plays/pageants, amateur theater productions, and even professional shows (theme parks, parades, etc.) going awry have proven frequent RealLife fodder for ''AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''. A memorable $100,000-winning clip featured the finale of a religious play, with Christ ascending into heaven...but due to a faulty harness, also slowly turning his back to the crowd. Unfortunately, the actor's robe's back is open, revealing his underwear to the audience, resulting in Christ twirling around in midair to try and face the crowd again. Tom Bergeron quipped, "He waited three days for ''this''?"

* A number of [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Bros.]] cartoons have a show gone hilariously wrong. In "Show Biz Bugs," Bugs can seemingly do no wrong while everything Daffy does is a full-fledged FEMA candidate. Bugs puts Elmer on the spot in "Stage Door Cartoon," and leave us not forget "Rhapsody Rabbit."

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* The one and only attempt [[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]] ever made at a SchoolPlay, as detailed by Dumbledore in his commentary on ''Literature/TheTalesOfBeedleTheBard''. The two leads had been dating until an hour or so before curtain-call, at which point the boy dumped the girl for one of the other actresses. The resulting disaster led to school plays being banned rather than just dropped.

* The finale of ''TheMuppetMovie'' is performed while their first attempt at filming goes ''epically'' awry.
* The finale of ''MeetTheFeebles'' does this too; fitting considering it's a ''Muppets'' parody.

* The plays put on by the [[OneHundredAndEight Stars of Destiny]] in ''SuikodenIII'' '''can''' be played straight... but it's [[RuleOfFunny much more entertaining]] to, say, cast ''RomeoAndJuliet'' with [[BadBadActing not-so-talented actors]]. Or ninjas. Or ducks. Or an all-dog cast. ''Then'' there's the performances of ''William Tell'': guess what can happen when '''those''' go awry.
* ''FinalFantasyVII'' has one section where Cloud and one of his friends have a date and are put into a play. You can mess it up totally and get away with it.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "The Show Stoppers": The Cutie Mark Crusaders' musical performance goes horribly wrong since every task is placed in the hooves of the one least suited for it - the singer (Scootaloo) can't sing, the dancer (Applebloom) can't dance, and the backdrops and special effects are done by somepony who should not operate a hammer (Sweetie Belle). The irony that everypony except them can see is that they'd have done a great job if they just shifted those tasks around a bit...

* A number of [[LooneyTunes Warner Bros.]] cartoons have a show gone hilariously wrong. In "Show Biz Bugs," Bugs can seemingly do no wrong while everything Daffy does is a full-fledged FEMA candidate. Bugs puts Elmer on the spot in "Stage Door Cartoon," and leave us not forget "Rhapsody Rabbit."

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* ''HomestarRunner'' has done this in "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/xmas2002.html A Decemberween Pageant]]" and [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Poor_Acting probably a number of other times]].

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* ''SlingsAndArrows''' third-season production of ''KingLear'' is like this. [[spoiler:It ends with the lead actor dying and everyone else involved in the production being fired.]]

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* ''FinalFantasyVII'' has one section where Cloud and one of his friends have a date and are put into the play. You can mess it up totally and get away with it.

* ''FinalFatasyVII'' has one section where Cloud and one of his friends have a date and are put into the play. You can mess it up totally and get away with it.

* The plays put on by the [[OneHundredAndEight Stars of Destiny]] in ''SuikodenIII'' '''can''' be played straight... but it's [[RuleOfFunny much more entertaining]] to, say, cast ''RomeoAndJuliet'' with [[BadBadActing not-so-talented actors]]. Or ninjas. Or ducks. Or an all-dog cast. ''Then'' there's the performances of ''William Tell'': guess what can happen when '''those''' go awry.

* In ''{{Chowder}}'', the main cast (minus Endive) put on a play, and it is nearly completely ruined by Chowder when he takes his role ''too seriously''. [[OrIsIt And then it gets ''really'' weird]]

* The second act of ''{{Gypsy}}'' opens with Louise in "Mme. Rose's Toreadorables," a tacky pastiche of June's turns that degenerates into a parade of flubs.

* The second act of ''{{Gypsy}}'' opens with Louise in "Mme. Rose's Toreadorables," a tacky pastiche of the "Dainty June" act that degenerates into a parade of flubs.

* ''{{Frasier}}'' used this in the Mystery Theater episode. Frasier is reading a play for his radio show, and no one cooperates. Roz's can't speak properly because of Novocaine, one guy gets stage fright and can't talk, another guy gets arrogant and wants to tell a childhood story, and Niles gets fed up with everyone and "shoots" all of the characters (with the sound effects).