History SpecialEffectFailure / LiveACtionTV

*** Also from Gokaiger, the CGI model of [[HumongousMecha Gokai-Oh]] used during the transformation sequence. It looks ''hideous''.[[note]]Seriously, ''[[Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger Hurricaneger]]'' had a better CGI HumongousMecha, and that installment came out nearly a decade before ''Gokaiger''[[/note]]

** In "The Dognapping", the skugs carrying Jeb's cage in Grimlord's palace are clearly in front of a green screen. Their lighting is completely different from the rest of the footage.

* ''Series/{{Mash}}'' had a couple during its run. The most egregious one (mixed with EarlyInstallmentWeirdness) comes in the episode "[[Recap/MashS2E8TheTrialOfHenryBlake The Trial of Henry Blake]]". In this one, Klinger tries one of his most ambitious and whacky schemes to leave the Army -- [[CrazyAwesome if he can't get out on a Section 8, he'll fly out with a home-made hang-glider!]] The problem comes after takeoff: the only optical-composition shot of the show's run is a fairly obvious shot of Creator/JamieFarr walking slowly across a floor hanging onto the prop glider superimposed over a long-shot of the camp. It's about as unconvincing as it sounds.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and ''Franchise/SuperSentai''
** ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' inverts this. The costume version of Doggie Cruger, as well as Fowler Birdie and Sergeant Silverback, are much more elaborate and high-tech, using similar animatronics to bring them to life as the title characters in the live-action ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movies. However, this is part of a series made infamous for its use of StockFootage, OffTheShelfFX and PeopleInRubberSuits, so they stuck out like a sore thumb to fans, being decried as too "{{muppet}}[[UncannyValley -like]]" for the series. The [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom fursuit-esque costumes]] of its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart, ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'', are ironically considered better-constructed and more appropriate, even though they ''literally'' look like something from Creator/JimHensonsCreatureShop (again, YMMV on whether that's good or bad.) However, the TheyChangedItNowItSucks factor must always be considered, as it ''is'' [[ForeignRemake an American version]] of [[SeriousBusiness something Japanese]].
** Speaking of ''Deka'', it took several episodes for them to get the original Doggie's mask to work right. Instead of moving with his speech, it just hangs open in many a scene, giving him a ''permanent'' staring-in-shock look.

** The werepanthers' cat forms are clearly CGI, whereas other shapeshifting characters are usually played by real animals. To be fair, most of the animals used are relatively easy to work with, such as canines, pigs, and horses, while panthers probably ''had'' to be CGI for the actors' safety.
*** It should be noted (as explained in the Season 4 DVD commentary) that real panthers were brought in for the chase scene when Jason escapes Hotshot. Those were not CGI.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' had an infodump on the BigBad in a season 7 episode, which showed several pictures of him horribly photoshopped alongside real-life notable figures.

* ''The Lawrence Welk Show'': The cast's performance of "Cruising Down the River (on a Sunday Afternoon)" in a 1972 episode centering on transportation suffers from this. Not only do chromakey artifacts make the bluescreening against film footage of a river painfully obvious, later rebroadcasts since HD became the norm reveal cutoff on the left side of the screen.
* In the sixth episode of ''Series/MuppetsNow'', a watermark for FX Factory Pro appears several times during the segment "Lifesty(le) with Miss Piggy".

*** In the script for "[[Recap/AngelS05E22NotFadeAway Not Fade Away]]", the last scene was similar to the end of the ''Film/MortalKombat'' movie, where the sky cracks open and legions of warriors and demons appear; this demonstrates, as we find out in the comic book, that LA has been pulled into Hell. As shot it's an alley set, with rain, a bunch of stuntmen in rubber suits lurching around in the shadows, and a CGI baby dragon.

*** It should be noted (as explained in the Season 4 DVD commentary) that real panthers were brought in for the chase scene when Jason escapes Hotshot. Those were NOT CGI.

*** There's one scene in "[[Recap/AngelS04E06SpinTheBottle Spin The Bottle]]" where Creator/DavidBoreanaz and Vincent Kartheiser's stunt doubles are clearly visible, and another in one of the Pylea eps where the bulge of Creator/AmyAcker's microphone pack under her costume is seen.

* ''Series/WandaVision'': In-universe. In the bizarre sitcom universe, the effects are horrible and era-appropriate, with lots of blatant cuts to cover onjects appearing out of thin air, and Wanda's telekinesis obviously relying on strings. It's only in the third episode, [[spoiler:when "Geraldine" brings up some of Wanda's real-world trauma that she shouldn't know about, that Wanda once again demonstrates her trademark red glow]].

* In the ''Series/FawltyTowers'' episode "Basil the Rat", most of the shots of Manuel's pet "filligree Siberian hamster" use a real rat, videotaped separately from the main action and edited in. In a scene where the rat scurries across the floor, it's obviously a model pulled by a nylon cord, but the main fx failure occurs in the final scene in which the rat pops its head out of a biscuit tin that Polly is presenting to [[spoiler:the health inspector]]. In this scene, the rat is a very unconvincing puppet with a rotating head which is operated from beneath the tin by actress Connie Booth.
* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode War Stories, Mal's ear gets cut off by the villain as part of some ColdBloodedTorture. The scene wasn't too bad when the show was originally broadcast and viewed on an old fashioned analog TV, but when streamed on a modern high definition TV, the prosthetic that Creator/NathanFillion is wearing is painfully obvious.

* ''Series/{{Mash}} had a couple during its run. The most egregious one (mixed with EarlyInstallmentWeirdness comes in the episode "[[Recap/MashS2E8TheTrialOfHenryBlake The Trial of Henry Blake]]". In this one, Klinger tries one of his most ambitious and whacky scemes to leave the Army -- [[CrazyAwesome if he can't get out on a Section-8, he'll fly out with a home-made hang-glider!]] The problem comes after takeoff: the only optical-composition shot of the show's run is a fairly obvious shot of Creator/JamieFarr walking slowly across a floor hanging onto the prop glider superimposed over a long-shot of the camp. It's about as unconvincing as it sounds.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'' has a very strange example in "Pretense". The minimalist Tollan Stargate appears to only exist as a painting, the forced perspective fails as the tracking shot follows SG-1 away from the gate. A long shot later shows a completely different physical prop.

** The CGI used for "Jack"'s true form in "Infinite Possibilities" is much better than the physical puppet used in the earlier "A Human Reaction". Unfortunately, after he dies, they switch back to the puppet for the corpse, which is particularly obvious since the CGI and physical forms are significantly different in appearance.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'' has a scene where Rimmer is supposed to accidentally trigger an ejector seat and be flung out of a parked spaceship. The wires involved were so obvious on screen that they added a little aerial to Rimmer's peaked cap in an attempt to disguise the line. It didn't work.
** ''Red Dwarf'' is full of this kind of thing, but in earlier seasons nobody minded. Then came Series VIII, where Cat makes a shuttle tap-dance. Poorly.

*** The pixellation effect was dropped in Series II, and a more effective posterisation effect was used from Series III-V.

** Some split-screen snafus - Lister can be seen clearly leaning one to one side to avoid crossing the line in the middle of the screen in ''[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIMe2 Me2]]'', while the final shot of ''Polymorph'' has a painfully obvious wipe to accomodate a second Lister walking into frame.

*** There's one scene in "[[Recap/Spin The Bottle" where Creator/DavidBoreanaz and Vincent Kartheiser's stunt doubles are clearly visible, and another in one of the Pylea eps where the bulge of Creator/AmyAcker's microphone pack under her costume is seen.

** "Seek, Locate, Destroy" starts with a supposedly terrifying TinCanRobot that wobbles as it goes and is just generally poorly-designed, looking adorable rather than menacing.
** The third season episode "The Harvest of Kairos" is particularly exemplary. The ''better'' of the two main types of aliens seen is modelled by a rock... Many will say that said episode can only be enjoyed as comedy.
** "Gold" has a particularly jarring jump cut on the teleport effect, with actor Roy Kinnear obviously moving between cuts in the foreground.

*** The quality on Oz's werewolf transformation wavers. The first time ("Phases") there is a pretty good werewolf suit, but the second time ("Beauty and the Beasts") it looks like a scary tiki mask glued onto a gorilla costume. In fact, this costume became much reviled on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', to the point where, when the spin-off ''Series/{{Angel}}'' decided to do werewolves, the costume designers were given this note: "Don't make it look like a gay possum."
*** Soldier Xander's gun in Season 2 "Halloween" doesn't even have a muzzle flash.
*** The Series 2 Finale famously has a fight scene between Buffy and Angel where the antagonist is obviously David Boreanaz's stunt double in a couple of shots due to the double's receding hairline.
*** The Season 4 finale "Restless" contains an ''intentional'' example. The scene in Xander's dream where he's driving the ice cream truck has a very obvious greenscreen effect; the background is moving quickly, and there are artifacts around Anya when she's shown in front of the window. This is done to enhance the surreal, dreamlike quality, by creating an effect of "stillness in motion".
*** [[FanNickname "Fake the Snake"]] from Season 5 episode "Shadow", which is either being represented by sub-par CGI or a big, motionless rubber model trundling along on a truck.
*** The Watcher's Council building explosion in Season 7, an effect shot so embarrassing it's allowed only a split-second of screen time.
** ''Series/{{Angel}}''
*** The show's biggest failure is the attempt at redesigning vampire makeup in the pilot episode. They quickly went back to the Buffy-style stuff.
*** There's one scene in "Spin The Bottle" where David Boreanaz and Vincent Kartheiser's stunt doubles are clearly visible, and another in one of the Pylea eps where the bulge of Amy Acker's microphone pack under her costume is seen.
*** Sadly the last scene of the series ended up being this. In the script the last scene was similar to the end of the ''Film/MortalKombat'' movie, where the sky cracks open and legions of warriors and demons appear; this demonstrates, as we find out in the comic book, that LA has been pulled into Hell. As shot it's an alley set, with rain, a bunch of stuntmen in rubber suits lurching around in the shadows, and a CGI baby dragon.