History ThrowItIn / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse" is widely considered [[TearJerker the most emotionally moving in the entire series]] (for full effect [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmerFuzRNZ4 the scene is here]]). Creator/WillSmith's final line in it was unscripted - he had been channeling [[RealitySubtext childhood memories of friends who went through]] what the show's Will Smith does (contrary to popular belief, he had a wonderful relationship with his own father).

* In an exception to the comedy rule, the last episode of the third season of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' had, at the end, the characters having a moment of silence [[spoiler:upon learning that their former commanding officer Henry Blake's plane was shot down, with no survivors.]] At the very end of the scene, someone drops a scalpel, shaking everyone from their thoughts; this was unscripted and left in.

* In the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "The Final Nail", Beckett interrogates a man with a thick Russian accent. During the interrogation, she ends up [[GotMeDoingIt mimicking his speech pattern, rolling the 'r' in "cry"]] before catching herself. Stana Katic does speak fluent Russian and her slip was purely unintentional, but it added levity to the scene so they kept it in.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' episode "Those Old Scientists" [[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks Boimler]] sees Pike's horse saddle and goes to sit on it, uttering "Riker!" as he swung his leg around, hoping to make director Creator/JonathanFrakes laugh. It worked and it was kept in.

** "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing The Conscience of the King]]": In the original script for this episode, there were two people who can identify Kodos the Executioner: Kirk and Lieutenant Robert Daiken. The casting director cast the latter role with Bruce Hyde, who had played Lieutenant Kevin Riley in the episode "The Naked Time". The producers decided to roll with it and re-wrote Daiken as another appearance of Riley.

** From "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E22Grave Grave]]":
-->[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "... And I've been sleeping with Spike."]] {{Corpsing}} [[HilarityEnsues ensues]].

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'''s famous AndAnotherThing mannerism was a sort of ThrowItIn. While writing the play ''Prescription: Murder'', which introduced the character, writers Creator/LevinsonAndLink had just written Columbo's exit from a scene when they realized they had forgotten to include an important plot point. Rather than retyping the whole scene, they simply had Columbo come back in and ask "one more thing".

** In the infamous "The Contest," Elaine laughing at George's story about his mother walking in on him [[ADateWithRosiePalms while he "enjoyed" the Victoria's Secret catalogue]] wasn't scripted--Julia Louis-Dreyfus couldn't keep back her laughter. To save the take, Jason Alexander stayed in character and snapped "It's not funny, Elaine, she's in traction!," which only made her giggle more. The entire scene was kept intact.

** Back in the 70s, while filming an early episode of ''Series/KamenRiderSkyrider'', lead actor Hiroaki Murakami accidentally drove the title character's motorcycle into a wall. The writers drew inspiration from this and gave Skyrider the "Rider Break", a FinishingMove where he [[RammingAlwaysWorks rams the enemy with his motorcycle]] (sometimes busting through a wall in the process); it also lead Toei to require all ''Franchise/KamenRider'' stars to have motorcycle licenses in order to prevent further accidents.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' had a lot of this too... a fair amount of it probably stemmed from Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos' MethodActing. The most famous ThrowItIn was probably the scene when in a fit of rage over losing someone, Olmos-as-Adama destroyed a model ship that his character had been building. Olmos thought that the model was just a prop, and smashed it in a single infuriated take that made it into the show. Little did he know the model was actually on loan from a maritime museum, and had a value of around $100,000. Fortunately, it was insured.

** For Holly's return to the cast in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VII Nanarchy}} Nanarchy]]", he had to give a complicated explanation of the episode's events. According to a later interview, Norman Lovett couldn't pronounce a particularly difficult word in the script, which was Holly-ish enough to make it into the episode as 'that word I can't say'.

* At least twice on ''Series/{{Highlander}}''. In 'Money No Object', Duncan and Amanda were supposed to kiss, but the actors' timing was off and they bumped heads. The episode was a comedy, though, and the mistake flowed well with the rest of the ep, so it was left in. Another was a season 2 episode ending where Creator/AdrianPaul and Stan Kirsch expected the director to cut the scene earlier than he did. They start laughing after a few moments, wondering what's wrong, and the cut finally came, but the unexpected part was left in.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' often includes ad-libs. The most notable of which is the long-running gag of Shawn introducing Gus using absurd, fake names -- sometimes resulting in AwesomeMcCoolName or UnfortunateNames. The first use was a surprise ad lib by Creator/JamesRodayRodriguez. Eventually, the names became written into the script.

* Back in the 70s, while filming an early episode of ''Series/KamenRiderSkyrider'', lead actor Hiroaki Murakami accidentally drove the title character's motorcycle into a wall. The writers drew inspiration from this and gave Skyrider the "Rider Break", a FinishingMove where he [[RammingAlwaysWorks rams the enemy with his motorcycle]] (sometimes busting through a wall in the process); it also lead Toei to require all ''Franchise/KamenRider'' stars to have motorcycle licenses in order to prevent further accidents.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS318Earshot Earshot]]", Giles walks into a tree when Buffy reveals that [[{{Telepathy}} she knows]] he had sex with her mother under the effects of magical chocolate. This was unrehearsed and done at the last minute, to comical effect.

** When Brienne approaches Olenna and Margaery for the first time, Olenna's "My word!" was unscripted, genuine surprise. Filming that scene was the first time Olenna's actress Creator/DianaRigg had met Brienne's actress Creator/GwendolineChristie. Rigg knew the role of Brienne required a tall woman, but she wasn't expecting Christie to be 6'3. The producers kept Olenna's exclamation since it fit so well with her character.

** When Brienne approaches Olenna and Margaery for the first time, Olenna's "My word!" was unscripted, genuine surprise. Filming that scene was the first time Olenna's actress Creator/DiannaRigg had met Brienne's actress Creator/GwendolineChristie. Rigg knew the role of Brienne required a tall woman, but she wasn't expecting Christie to be 6'3. The producers kept Olenna's exclamation since it fit so well with her character.

* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'' Whenever Shireen hugs her father Stannis, he responds stiffly, while this is in character for TheStoic that is Stannis, it's actually because Kerry Ingram, Shireens actress has Brittle Bone Disease, and ''Creator/StephenDillane'' was afraid of hurting her.

* ''Series/JimmyKimmelLive'': During the show's first season in 2003, [[SlowPacedBeginning the show was struggling to find its tone]]. Towards the end of one episode, which Creator/JimmyKimmel believed was very weak, he ad-libbed the line "Apologies to Creator/MattDamon, we ran out of time.". The audience was so amused that this became Jimmy's SigningOffCatchphrase, and [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Matt Damon himself was amused]] that it gave birth to a long-running "feud" between them, with Matt acting as Jimmy's SitcomArchNemesis, thinking he's constantly getting being denied guest appearances.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' often includes ad-libs. The most notable of which is the long-running gag of Shawn introducing Gus using absurd, fake names -- sometimes resulting in AwesomeMcCoolName or UnfortunateNames. The first use was a surprise ad lib by Creator/JamesRoday. Eventually, the names became written into the script.

* ''Series/TheSiflAndOllyShow'' often had these moments whenever one of the duo would laugh. These moments were usually caused by Liam Lynch. An example can be seen in the music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33JsxFNgllY "Baby for Gravy"]]. These were also very common in segments featuring the character Chester.