History Corpsing / TVShowsNoToG

* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had a scene in one episode where Blanche gives the other girls calendars with erotic pictures. There really were some nude pics in the calendar, and you can tell by the reactions.

** One episode featured an event which said that ''Series/MiamiVice'' star Don Johnston was unable to host, but he had sent his suit along. In a commentary, screen veteran Bea Arthur recalled she was unable to make it through the scene without bursting into laughter.

** InUniverse:
*** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot "Robot"]], Sarah has to stand still and look serious while the Doctor interrogates Kettlewell about the robot he thinks is killing people. Their conversation is serious but the Doctor is pulling [[ComicalOverreacting ridiculously intense, bulging-eyed faces]] in order to make Sarah laugh, which she can't resist, and which he clearly gets a lot of pleasure out of.
*** Strax's Field Report played in cinema releases of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]] has him, while sending a video message to the Sontaran battle fleet, make a comment about the Ninth Doctor being "all ears" and subsequently crack up. He then mentions the Eleventh Doctor having "learned to take it on the chin", which causes him to suddenly crack up when he realizes what he's said. Then the more images of the Eleventh Doctor's chin that appear on the screen, the worse his composure gets until he's screaming "CHINS ARE NOT FUNNY" while barely able to stand upright from laughter.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons "The Dæmons"]], in the long shot just after the Doctor gets caught up in the middle of the [[DanceBattler Morris dance]] when they all round on him and begin hitting him with their sticks and bladders, you can see Jon Pertwee is cracking up. (Despite the ludicrous description, this is supposed to be a scary scene.)

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear "The Hand of Fear"]], Eldrad starts having a VillainousBreakdown and begins MilkingTheGiantCow, ChewingTheScenery, and generally foaming at the mouth to extents that are aesthetically indefensible, and when he suddenly raises his voice Tom Baker giggles before turning it into an in-character GrinOfAudacity.

** Janet Fielding (Tegan) and Creator/SarahSutton (Nyssa) suffered an attack of the giggles during the making of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]]. To make matters worse, it happened while they were filming the final scene, in which their characters were supposed to be grieving for Adric. Fortunately, they eventually managed to regain their composure, enabling the scene to be filmed; the incident is recounted in the "making of" documentary on the DVD.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]: When the Doctor discovers that Rose's face has been stolen by the Wire, the outtake footage shows David Tennant and Billie Piper being unable to keep character due in large part to Piper having motion dots all over her face for the post-production CGI removal of her face.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E17Enemies Enemies]]", Faith is moping that she wasn't able to turn Angel evil, and her parental figure BigBad suggests miniature golf to cheer her up. Seeing as she is at the time an AxCrazy psychotic either the character or [[Creator/ElizaDushku her actress]] can't help but laugh.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]], corpsing was used as EnforcedMethodActing. During one scene, Sarah Jane and Rose make fun of the Doctor's mannerisms (namely, his MotorMouth and his habit of petting the TARDIS). When the Doctor walks in, they both burst out laughing. To get authentic laughter from Billie Piper and Creator/ElisabethSladen, Creator/DavidTennant scribbled on his face with a marker when he entered. The laughter from Rose and Sarah Jane is them corpsing over how ridiculous Tennant looked.

** During filming of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora "The Masque of Mandragora"]], Tom Baker apparently made himself a nuisance by messing around off-camera in order to make Tim Piggot-Smith (as Marco) crack up during his torture scene.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace "Spearhead from Space"]], when the Doctor turns up the charm and swaggers across the room to Liz, Caroline John gives a rather helpless little giggle.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber "The Mind Robber"]] at one point the Doctor and Zoe are attempting to get through a door. Watch Zoe as the Doctor hides her under his cloak and you can ''just'' about tell that Wendy Padbury is laughing underneath it.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath "The Seeds of Death"]], the Doctor is pushed through a door by a gigantic wave of fungus (foam), then accidentally slips and lands on his arse (which was [[ThrowItIn not supposed to happen]]). Zoe's actress Wendy Padbury is obviously laughing for about a minute while running around trying to fight the foam off — she even keeps laughing despite having lines to say. "[[BlatantLies That's terror]]," Wendy Padbury explained on the DVD commentary later.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E4NightmareOfEden "Nightmare of Eden"]], Tom Baker is obviously in intense pain trying not to crack up at the ridiculous, [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent completely made up]] accent used by the character Tryst.

** During "The Feast of Steven" segment of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]", it sounds as though Peter Purves is laughing in the background as Creator/WilliamHartnell has to do a really silly and uncharacteristic line where the Doctor addresses the at-home audience and wishes them a "Happy Christmas".

** One more case proving Ross (and possibly Schwimmer himself) was just great for this: as Ross does a dramatic pause regarding a "Geller cup" ("So took the trophy... and threw it in the lake!"), when it cuts away from him, Jennifer Aniston and Creator/LisaKudrow don't even attempt to hide that they're laughing.

** One episode has Ross playing the bagpipes really badly while the rest of the friends watch with looks of horror on their faces while Phoebe is awestruck in amazement. Phoebe then joins in by singing along, which consists of nothing but her screaming "EEEE!!!" for every note Ross plays. Jenifer Aniston (Rachel) cracks at the hilarity of the scene and you can see her trying to conceal her laughter by hiding her mouth with her hand. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0z18rM68D8 In one of the takes via blooper reel, she can't contain the laughter, and everyone laughs along (including Ross!)]].

* In the Series/{{Frasier}} episode "Roz and the Schnoz," the characters struggle hilariously to keep it together to avoid offending their guests by laughing at their {{Gag Nose}}s. The episode's director Ken Levine has admitted some EnforcedMethodActing was in play: He instructed the camera crew to keep their shots rolling on any actor who started losing it.

** "[[Recap/FatherTedS1E5AndGodCreatedWoman And God Created Woman]]" has one instance of this, where Mrs. Doyle lists off vulgar turns of phrase in a certain author's books. After Ted escorts her out, she calls through the door "'Ride me sideways', was another one!" This was unscripted, and Creator/DermotMorgan is evidently trying his hardest not to lose it.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was not immune to this.

* A Season 7 episode has a take that made it into the final version. Adam Busch, who played the Season 6 BigBad Warren, here instead plays Willow, who has been transfigured in appearance to look like Warren. Near the end of the episode, "she" breaks down in anguish in front of Xander over her new feelings for Kennedy clashing with her not having fully accepted Tara's death. It seems Adam couldn't pull off anguish very well, and angle during the scene shows him with just the biggest laughing smile on his face that couldn't be mistaken for anything else.

** A famous series of bloopers happened in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' "[[Recap/AngelS04E06SpinTheBottle Spin the Bottle]]", when the characters were mentally reversed back their obnoxious teenage selves and Angel, being a 250-year old vampire, was shocked by the appearance of things like cars. Going outside, freaking out and running back into the main room, whenever Creator/DavidBoreanaz (Angel) made eye contact with Alexis Denisof (Wesley) they could not keep a straight face. In the episode proper, you can see them avoid eye-contact very deliberately and even still Wesley glances towards the ceiling with a slight smirk before walking off camera.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen "Revenge of the Cybermen"]] contains a scene where the Doctor has to tell Sarah, "We're headed for the biggest bang in history." (The writers had missed the DoubleEntendre, and intended it as a completely straight WhamLine.) It apparently took ''tens'' of takes before Creator/TomBaker was able to deliver this line without Lis Sladen — and most of the floor crew — disintegrating into hysterics. In [[DevelopmentGag reference to this incident]], Creator/RobertHolmes added a line to the next serial ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]]) where the Doctor had to say in a completely serious voice, "was that bang big enough for you, [[HoYay Brigadier]]?"

** Janet Fielding (Tegan) and Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) suffered an attack of the giggles during the making of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]]. To make matters worse, it happened while they were filming the final scene, in which their characters were supposed to be grieving for Adric. Fortunately, they eventually managed to regain their composure, enabling the scene to be filmed; the incident is recounted in the "making of" documentary on the DVD.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire "Dragonfire"]], when Mel and Ace first see the dragon, Mel lets loose with a characteristic [[ScreamingWoman scream]]. Sophie Aldred, inches away, grimaces for real.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]], watch Mickey's face from the point that the Doctor staggers out of the TARDIS to the point that he collapses at Mickey and Jackie's feet. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF2EmKdTbsc Poor Noel Clarke could barely keep a straight face.]]

* ''Series/FatherTed'' has one instance of this, where Mrs. Doyle (Pauline [=McLynn=]) lists off vulgar turns of phrase in a certain author's books. After Ted (Dermot Morgan) escorts her out, she calls through the door "'Ride me sideways', was another one!" This was unscripted, and Dermot Morgan is evidently trying his hardest not to lose it.
** Dougal's line "...and instead of a mouth, he's got four arses" in the episode "Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep" (while describing the mythical Beast of Craggy Island) was improvised by Ardal O'Hanlon. In the episode proper, it ''appears'' to go by without breaking anybody up, save for a brief roar of laughter from the audience and no breaking whatsoever from either actor. However, this was apparently edited down from a good long stretch where both Dermot Morgan and the audience absolutely pissed themselves laughing.

** Creator/AdamBaldwin continues to show just how seriously he takes his job. When Nathan Fillion screws around, the entire cast laughs at his antics, but Baldwin simply stays in character and even ad-libs lines occasionally. On the other hand, there's "Dammit, Mal, I forgot my line!"
** One blooper has Fillion spontaneously burst out laughing for no apparent reason then stop. Then he goes, "Okay. ''({{beat}}, turns his head)'' What's my line?" and sets off Gina Torres.
** One episode actually has an in-universe example. [[spoiler:In "Trash," while the crew is manipulating Yolande/Saffron/Bridget, some of their performances are a little...off. At a couple of points during the exaggerated routine, Kaylee gets the giggles.]]

* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Phil and Will prepare to board an elevator at the hospital. A hot girl walks out of it before they walk on and Will, of course, flirts with her and barks like a dog while doing it before Phil drags him into the elevator. Although he's not seen, you can definitely hear Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton) laughing like crazy.
** Will Smith lost it backstage in “Father of the Year” after Geoffrey (Joseph Marcell) quipped about seeing Uncle Phil & Aunt Viv naked.

* Tim Conway was the ''master and archetype'' of sending his cast members into bouts of unscripted laughter on ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow''. He was so good at it, they didn't even try to hide that they were laughing. All it took was him to come out in some ridiculous outfit, flash his trademark smirk at them, and the others would be falling over laughing.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen "Revenge of the Cybermen"]] contains a scene where the Doctor has to tell Sarah, "We're headed for the biggest bang in history." (The writers had missed the DoubleEntendre, and intended it as a completely straight WhamLine.) It apparently took ''tens'' of takes before Creator/TomBaker was able to deliver this line without Lis Sladen — and most of the floor crew — disintegrating into hysterics. In [[DevelopmentGag reference to this incident]], and as a little bit of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, Creator/RobertHolmes added a line to the next serial ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]]) where the Doctor had to say in a completely serious voice, "was that bang big enough for you, [[HoYay Brigadier]]?"

** [=WhatCulture=] pointed out that during the scene in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E3TheCreatureFromThePit "The Creature from the Pit"]] where the Doctor has to approach a monster that looks like [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign a giant green penis and scrotum]] and "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar communicate]]" with it, Tom Baker, normally very good at keeping a straight face during such things, is clearly about to crack up and even has to hide his smile with his hand at one point.

* During an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show where guests are blindfolded and have to describe the food their eating to their partners, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHIoQfsh59w Dax Shepard and his wife Kristen Bell have an memorable exchange]] that leaves Ellen in stiches.

** One episode actually has an in-universe example. [[spoiler:In "Trash", while the crew is manipulating Yolande/Saffron/Bridget, some of their performances are a little...off. At a couple of points during the exaggerated routine, Kaylee gets the giggles.]]

** Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons and Tatiana Ali (Hilary & Ashley respectively)played this trope on screen in "Asses to Ashes" when they make Will cry and he starts whining at them. However, they were able to regain control and not break character. Nevertheless, it make blooper reel during the credits.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. The eponymous VillainOfTheWeek in "Moloch" was so NightmareRetardant (a LittleGreenManInACan that actually looks like a one-eyed fried chicken) the cast kept bursting into laughter, eventually causing Creator/DeepRoy who was playing the part to do a RageQuit, as he was still in pain from a broken collarbone he'd received during location filming.

** A famous series of bloopers happened in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' "[[Recap/AngelS04E6SpinTheBottle Spin the Bottle]]", when the characters were mentally reversed back their obnoxious teenage selves and Angel, being a 250-year old vampire, was shocked by the appearance of things like cars. Going outside, freaking out and running back into the main room, whenever Creator/DavidBoreanaz (Angel) made eye contact with Alexis Denisof (Wesley) they could not keep a straight face. In the episode proper, you can see them avoid eye-contact very deliberately and even still Wesley glances towards the ceiling with a slight smirk before walking off camera.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was not immune to this. In season three Faith is moping that she wasn't able to turn Angel evil, and her parental figure BigBad suggests miniature golf to cheer her up. Seeing as she is at the time an AxCrazy psychotic either the character or [[Creator/ElizaDushku her actress]] can't help but laugh.
** Invoked in ''Real Me'' where Buffy is told Harmony has minions. Yep, [[BigBadWannabe that]] Harmony: Joss was behind the camera trying to make SMG crack up.
** In ''Halloween'', Angel was supposed to look bored when Cordelia attempts to flirt with him. But David Boreanaz kept laughing, and they decided to add it in.

** Something similar happens at the end of season six. Willow has gone completely off the rails, as has the lives of Buffy and her friends. She details this to Giles, who reacts to the somber news by cracking up laughing. After a moment Buffy does as well.
** Gellar would also corpse a little in the ending to ''First Date'' where Xander, clearly having enough of girlfriends who turn out to be demons, remarks, "What do you think happened?" when asked.
** A famous series of bloopers happened in the fourth season of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' when the characters were mentally reversed back their obnoxious teenage selves and Angel, being a 250-year old vampire, was shocked by the appearance of things like cars. Going outside, freaking out and running back into the main room, whenever David Boreanaz (Angel) made eye contact with Alexis Denisof (Wesley) they could not keep a straight face. In the episode proper, you can see them avoid eye-contact very deliberately and even still Wesley glances towards the ceiling with a slight smirk before walking off camera.
** Discussed in the commentary to one ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode, where the writers ask Adam Baldwin how he manages to ''not'' corpse when he tells Angel, "You and I will not be making love on this couch anytime soon." It turns out Baldwin ''[[BerserkButton hates]]'' people who corpse.