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1	->''"Television may have an excuse for putting on all those unrealistic Medical Shows and unrealistic Police Shows and unrealistic Lawyer Shows and unrealistic Western shows. After all, Television writers don't have any first-hand experience at being Doctors or Cops or Lawyers or Cowboys. But what's the alibi when Television puts on an unrealistic Comedy about ''Television''?"''
2	-->-- '''Magazine/{{Mad}}''', "[[Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow The Mary Tailor-Made Show]]", December 1972
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4	A situation that would normally be chalked up to a lack of research, but can't really be put in that category because movie shooting is being inaccurately portrayed... by people who are ''in the process of shooting a movie'' or making some other form of visual entertainment! Scenes are shot in a single take, often in sequence, with the camera kept at a great distance where it couldn't possibly be getting the right angles or close-ups to make the scene convincing, and they never do a retake. This is especially annoying in action scenes, although it can often follow the RuleOfCool.
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6	[[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not necessarily a bad thing]]: the entire process of filmmaking is rarely the point, so a bit of ArtisticLicense, so that the viewers have an easier time understanding it, or to prevent a subplot from dominating the movie can be a wise choice.
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8	AcceptableBreaksFromReality can include:
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10	* Showing scenes and sequences being filmed in order or sequentially, which allows the viewer to catch the chronology of the InUniverse story. RealLife productions will group scenes together according availability of locations, sets, actor schedules and effects sequences such as explosives or stunt work.
11	* Only one take is done and they run through the entire scenes start to finish. Showing multiple takes can easily bore the viewer and cause the filming of a scene to be far too long. Can be got around somewhat with editing it down to the mistakes that ruin the take, or other such tricks, but it'd be hard to have a realistic number of takes for every scene.
12	* Special effects are active and present at all times, and tend to be of the sort that's fun and interesting for the audience to see. Animatronics will be preferred to CGI or stop-motion monsters (unless these can be played for comedy), and you'll almost never see an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_%28filmmaking%29#In-camera_matte_shot in-camera matte shot]].
13	* A form of MagicalSecurityCam where the scene that was filmed doesn't match the scene that was shown being filmed. Maybe there's a few angles in the final shot which the cameras we see couldn't have got. But it'd be annoying to the viewer to show the alternate angles being filmed in separate takes.
14	* The director screaming "Cut!" after every minor little flub. Works for a ProsceniumReveal and moving on with the official plot but the timing needed to start filming means the brakes and screeching to a halt is used only for a completed take or [[TroubledProduction major malfunction]] as resetting everything (lights, camera, microphones, sound, etc.,) is pretty arduous. You'll notice in the HilariousOuttakes, if line flubs or minor accidents happen they'll simply mutter a quick apology and start over. It's a lot easier to edit out an earlier mistake than to sync up a crew of dozens to start a new take.
15	* The use of a clapperboard at the start of every take regardless what other equipment the film crew is using. The purpose of a clapperboard is to help sync up the video to the audio, as professional film sets with high-end equipment will generally record the two separately. Amateur or low-budget films are more likely to use a camera with an attached or built-in microphone, making the clapperboard perfunctory. If something is being filmed with no intention of using on-set audio, the clapperboard will generally just be held up for scene identification without snapping it, yet fiction still loves to have a character snap a clapperboard in all circumstances to indicate that a camera is rolling regardless.
16	* Simplifications of the process. Scenes may be stitched together from dozens of takes, each a few seconds long, just for coverage (an editor may only use two {{Reaction Shot}}s but when filming they get ''everyones'' reaction shot so they have options). Special effects and WireFu stunts will be filmed just for that and nothing else. When the actors aren't in closeup, they'll probably be replaced by a StuntDouble, TalentDouble or have a BodyDouble to help the crew get ready earlier. Two shots may be filmed weeks apart. And that's not even getting into matte shots or reshoots, where the actors and the background are filmed separately. All this is confusing for the viewers, and would take a long time to establish, so why not pretend the action scene is all one take, and that the special effects are really happening at the same time?
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18	A great deal of this trope stems from the perception that producing a film or TV show is essentially like performing a play, only with cameras instead of a live audience. Other times, they just think ViewersAreMorons and won't notice the glaring mistakes.
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20	There can often be some overlap with MagicalSecurityCam and YouJustRuinedTheShot.
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22	!!Examples:
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27	* When Renge decides to make a movie out of the titular ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' (with a Hollywood camera crew handy), the intended ThrowItIn scene with Tamaki fighting young {{Yakuza}} thugs couldn't have been filmed from the position the camera was in (not to mention it wasn't there when the fight started).
28	* Averted in ''Anime/PerfectBlue''. The scenes from the show-within-a-show are filmed out of order, but it could be argued that it adds to the movie's dreamlike atmosphere. In fact, near the end of the movie when they call a wrap, the scene they're filming doesn't even seem finished.
29	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
30	** In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', the Xtransceiver commercial shown could not have been filmed in one shot and would have required a fair bit of editing. Furthermore, there is apparently only one film director in all of Unova, as he is working on several projects across mediums in a relatively short amount of time.
31	** There is an episode early in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' where the heroes participate in a movie. The director then proceeds to shoot the last scene of the movie, saying "I always shoot the last scene first, so I know how the movie ends". From the way he says it, this is implied to be a silly, comical quirk of his.
32	** Averted in ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite Best Wishes!]]'' with Luke and his movies, as their production is presented in a fairly accurate method; with the Pokéwood episode showing the necessity to shoot scenes out of order, then edit them into the correct order in post-production.
33	* ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV'', with the [[BruceLeeClone Fei Long]] episode, where Ken is hired to play the bad guy, and the two of them start Ad-libbing the fight (so to speak). The director calls it off and vows to destroy the footage simply because Ken eventually managed to tag Fei Long in the face with an attack. Creator/JackieChan has to be spinning in his grave, and he's not even dead yet!
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37	* In the ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheArtOfTheft'', the movie is filmed in chronological order, in large chunks.
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41	* The film ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' uses this, with the dog convinced that the show is real. This is {{hand wave}}d by saying that they wanted the dog to [[EnforcedMethodActing think the girl was actually in mortal danger, so they'd get a better performance]]. Still, method acting didn't come close to justifying the absurd expenses and [[NoOSHACompliance dangers]] incurred by the type of shooting they were apparently attempting. A network TV series in particular simply wouldn't have that kind of budget. Legality and budget aside, the director ''is'' shown as being a bit [[MadArtist insane]]. The network executive certainly thinks so. Furthermore, in real life the scenes of a television show are rarely filmed in the order they're scripted (the "cliffhanger" of Penny's capture certainly wouldn't have been saved for last).
42	* A plot point of ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' involves the superheroes wearing miniature cameras to show their point-of-view during super fights, so that civilians can watch the footage and see the supers doing their best to contain the disaster. The cameras themselves are very efficiently compact and high definition for a [[{{Retraux}} supposedly '60s setting]]. Additionally, it's never addressed whether some of the footage would have to be edited out since there are parts where Elastigirl discusses secret information relevant to her personal identity, or some of the Screenslaver's hypnotic imagery recorded in the video.
43	* ''Film/TheReluctantDragon'' features all the steps Disney took to make animated films, but the segments are not shown in the order they would be performed (for one example, the filming of the animation is shown BEFORE the story planning and actual animation work).
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47	* ''Film/{{Bowfinger}}'' is ''all'' about this. It even has a shoestring guerrilla film crew shooting around an actor who doesn't know he's their star. With a crew made of illegal Mexican immigrants. And a ChurchOfHappyology in the mix.
48	* ''Film/DragonTheBruceLeeStory'' has an action sequence where Bruce fights a mercenary for several minutes, in one take as the camera follows them. Not only that, but the fight is ''real!''
49	* Subverted in ''Film/EdWood'', as he does do all those "simple mistakes". Except that he is shown shooting scenes out of order. He must have been awake that day in film school.
50	* Johnny Cage's introduction scene in ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie''. They shoot an entire fight scene (until a last-move screw-up) in one take.
51	* Ironically the ending of the snuff film hoax ''Snuff'', which was actually supposed to look like a real film shoot, looked nothing like a real film shoot.
52	* ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' has Creator/MattLeBlanc's character acting in a movie - the inaccurate portrayal, in this example, was a device to show that [[TwistEnding it wasn't reality]]. This is similar to the ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' example above.
53	* The first scene of ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', which has an action scene filmed in one shot for a [[ShowWithinAShow Movie Within a Movie]] of Creator/StevenSpielberg's Austin Powers. RuleOfFunny.
54	* It's not entirely clear if the opening of ''Film/TropicThunder'' is intended to be this, or if it's intended to be a [[ShowWithinAShow Movie Within a Movie]] that then cut to the actors. The camera is never seen, so it might not be intended as a single take.
55	* ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' is pretty good when it comes to the visual footage -- the show does have the wonky camera angles, lack of/awkward use of camera movement, inappropriately close or far-away shots, etc, that you'd expect from a live show captured with hidden cameras. What is more problematic is the sound. All the dialogue is very clean and clear, as though caught on a high-end unidirectional mic from a couple of feet away, including a scene on a beach (beaches being notoriously awful places to record sound even under ideal conditions, usually requiring some degree of ADR for dialogue to even be comprehensible). At one point it's suggested that certain passers-by are concealing little shotgun mics on their person, but it's a HandWave at best.
56	* ''Film/AnAlanSmitheeFilmBurnHollywoodBurn'' desperately tries to justify using this trope, by portraying all the actors in the fictional movie as being total assholes who will only ever do a single take of a given scene, which later becomes a sticking point when the director steals and destroys the film's master print. Like everything else in ''Burn Hollywood Burn'', though, it fails dismally -- not least because the fictional film is shown being edited on a computer at one point, meaning that a completed version of the film would probably survive in some form, even if the audio-visual quality was degraded.
57	* The Burt Reynolds film ''Hooper'' is nothing but stuntman scenes and stuntman activities, but runs mainly on RuleOfCool instead of accuracy.
58	* Francois Truffaut's ''Film/DayForNight'' is basically a response to this trope. While it does show things like multiple takes (from different angles to keep it interesting) and the difficulties of making films, it goes a bit dramatic with worst-case scenarios, including [[spoiler:actor death]].
59	* During ''Film/{{Gordy}}'', a camera has its ordinary lens secretly replaced with a wide-angle lens, to cause the commercial being filmed to be distorted. The cameraman apparently notices while he's looking through the camera, but all he does is rub his eyes. No one apparently noticed when the footage was being edited together. Sabotage of this kind would require striking the whole film crew with blindness.
60	* The opening scene of ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' features Daniel recording for a cartoon. For the most part in the West, voice recording for animation is done before the actual animating (Japan, however, animates, then records). Creator/ChrisColumbus DID acknowledge this in his commentary and figured it could be taken as Daniel dubbing a foreign cartoon. However, this doesn't make sense either as the lip-sync in the cartoon (produced by Creator/ChuckJones) is clearly English. Daniel is more than likely just doing post-production looping, either to just do touch ups on certain lines or maybe [[TheOtherMarty Daniel replaced another actor]] and is recording over the previous actor's work. Which makes sense from his conversation with the producer who complains that this session is already costing the studio and they're on a deadline. Also, you don't typically have a censor board overseeing the actual dubbing/recording of a cartoon...that would waste far too much of their time.
61	* ''Film/Tekken2010'' features a scene where Jin fights Marshall Law inside a cage. The fight is televised, and we see plenty of shots on the TV from inside the cage...except there's no camera in the cage and no sign of any filming equipment around as the fight is going on.
62	* ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'': Quentin Beck a.k.a. Mysterio [[spoiler:wears a motion-capture suit that maps his movements onto his artificial projection of himself during his faked "superhero fights," but it's just the underlayer (and a custom bubble helmet) without [[https://d1u6g1e1nisfhs.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/articles-what-is-motion-capture-w.jpg the sensor dots and face camera rig]] of real ones. It's possible the sensors were left off the suit out of the real life concern that they might interfere with the CGI being used in their scenes]].
63	* ''{{Film/Super 8}}'' features a group of kids making an amateur movie, which we get to see during the credits. It is mostly filmed with the level of competence one would expect from children, with terrible acting, cheesy dialogue, a cliched plot, and zero budget special effects. However, what gives away that the short was actually shot by a professional director (i.e. Creator/JJAbrams) is that the cinematography is pretty good. The shots have depth, there’s no dead space, and conversations are filmed with back and forth cross-cutting instead of all in one take. Even the shots that are trying to look bad (like when they break [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180-degree_rule the 180 rule]]) are unlikely choices from a cheap indie, since the kid director Charles has only a single camera so why would he move it to the other side of the room?
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67	* Tyler Durden in ''Literature/FightClub'' is a part-time projectionist who likes to prank audiences by inserting single frames of pornography into children's films. The narrator explains that the pornographic frames are so brief that the audience doesn't consciously notice them, asking the reader to "divide a second into sixty equal parts" to illustrate the brevity. In fact, the industry standard framerate in films is 24 frames per second, rather than 60, so the pornographic frame would appear onscreen for 1/24th of a second [[note]]in the 2010s certain directors began experimenting with higher framerates, most notably ''Film/TheHobbit'', but these remain very much the exception rather than the rule in mainstream cinema[[/note]]. This error could potentially be chalked up to the narrator's own ignorance, except that [[spoiler:Tyler is the narrator's split personality and would be expected to have an understanding of framerates.]]
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71	* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' is ostensibly about the production of a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch show (based on creator and star Tina Fey's tenure as head writer on SNL). While the production of said show is mostly played for laughs, the one thing that strains belief is that there are only three people in the cast of performers (in the pilot it was only two before Tracy Jordan was hired). There were seven performers in the original cast of SNL, and in 2021 there are ''twenty-one'' performers. Three seems like far too few to run a sixty to ninety minute sketch show.
72	* The ITV sitcom ''Finest Half Hour'' was set in a TV station but bore no resemblance to a real one.
73	* ''Series/{{Extras}}'' has this trope in-universe, as the director of "When the Whistle Blows" is deliberately shown to be totally incompetent.
74	* Viciously subverted in ''Series/{{Frontline}}'', where the current affairs show within a show's tricks are exposed time and again. A notable early example is the filming of an interviewer's reactions AFTER the interview is finished.
75	* ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' at least acknowledged the need for multiple takes, although [[spoiler:the movie was quickly revealed to be a trap, so we didn't get to see much more of the normal shooting.]]
76	* ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' plays with the trope when Kendrix must fill in for an [[IdenticalStranger injured actress]]. The film is a romance and the scenes we see being shot appear to be in chronological order. The last scene filmed is the ending and they're apparently using just the one shot since the only re-takes they have to do are down to Kendrix forgetting her lines. Of course, it's not too glaring since it is established that 90% of the movie has already been shot.
77	* ''Series/ICarly'' tends to take creative liberties with live podcasting. For example, using a studio quality camera for shooting[[note]] which they ''might'' [[HandWave have got cheap on eBay or something]], maybe[[/note]] and relatively stable shots despite no tripod. Not as noticeable to the casual viewer is how they are rarely seen planning their next show or setting things up or testing VFX.
78	* ''Series/ComicBookMen'' featured shooting a commercial one episode, it all seemed genuine until the very end when the cast members gathered outside the store and delivered a line to conclude the commercial. This required several takes and the last one where they got everything perfect an old lady on the street walked into the shot. This, of course, ruined the shot, even though they could have easily used the audio over one of the other takes during editing.
79	* ''Series/{{Glee}}'''s "The First Time" features Rachel and Blaine, the stars in the school play, rehearsing about a week before their debut. They're not blocking any scenes, or even off book! This despite the fact that both Darren Criss and Lea Michele (not to mention many other cast members) came to the show from theater/musical backgrounds.
80	* ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'' shows the production of Disney movies as clearly staged and simplified and thus not entirely accurate. This is especially significant with episodes showing the production of [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon animated films]]. To see this particular trope in action here, take a look at no less than ''two'' episodes on the production of ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'', "A Story of Dogs" and "Cavalcade of Songs". In both cases, the actors are shown providing the voices for their characters after the animation is done; in reality, the animation would be done ''after'' all the audio is provided: not just voices, but also music and even sound effects.
81	* Joey on ''{{Series/Friends}}'' once failed a script reading because he misread "50 bucks" as "so bucks". An actual script would have written numbers in dialogue as words so "50 bucks" would have been written as "fifty bucks".
82	* Taken to an absurd level in ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' episode "And Now, a Word from Our Sponsor"[[note]] in which the family is recruited by "hip" director Skip Farnum to be in a TV commercial[[/note]]--so much so that Robert Reed fired off an angry memo to the showrunners complaining about it.
83	* ''Series/Unreal2015'' is about the behind the scenes filming of a Bachelor-style reality show. Yet the show within a show seems to air its episodes live week to week. In our reality, such shows are shot and edited months before they are aired.
84	* A Brazilian telenovela had a scene in a dubbing studio that the actual voice actors of the country decried as horribly inaccurate, with mistakes such as [[VoicesInOneRoom two actors in a booth]], the director pulling double duty as engineer, playing the whole scene instead of just starting where the voices come in, and the prospective dubber being complimented on takes that she's clearly flubbed.
85	* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': The ShowWithinAShow "Tool Time" is a local cable show where Tim is the host. It's generally portrayed as a real time live broadcast but specific episodes indicate it is delayed same day or with a week or two turnover. No dress rehearsals are ever seen with Tim sometimes making director calls mid-shoot, which allows for [[TheKlutz accidents]] and AmusingInjuries to be a surprise to everyone. Tim and Al are treated as the showrunners and will pitch ideas to each other off set, but while they have regular meetings with execs from their chief sponsor Binford Tools an actual producer was [[RememberTheNewGuy only seen in one episode]].
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89	* In ''ComicStrip/SpiderMan'', MJ was to star in an action flick. One scene involved a brawl in an elevator. Only the two actors were anywhere near the elevator. Apparently, there were no microphones, no lines, no choreography, and two unmanned or remote-controlled cameras. Small wonder that it [[GoneHorriblyWrong went horribly wrong]].
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93	* The Franchise/IndianaJones Stunt Show at Disney Hollywood Studios suffers from this, but since it's more about watching cool stunts than getting an accurate portrayal of a film set, it's somewhat forgivable.
94	** Deliberately Averted in one segment of the Backlot Studio Tour, which to show the guests how movies are made, sets up a small stage to film a sequence for a WWII movie (originally tied into ''Film/PearlHarbor'', which was coming out at the time of the segment's introduction). Two sets are featured and a total of four "actors" culled from the audience are used and the show proceeds thusly:
95	*** The first segment involves the exterior ship set on the audience's left side of the stage, which has a sequence for two actors to clean the decks while a third looks for enemy planes. Air jets placed under the water allow machine gun fire on the ship, which sends the three actors into a frenzy as the first two go to their battle stations and the third makes a call on the ship phone. Then torpedoes come and hit the ship, causing a chain of controlled burns in the tank near the ship.
96	*** In the second segment, the fourth actor is in a room dressed to look like the ships engine room on the audience's right side of the stage. The actor is directed to answer a phone call and then begin playing with the buttons to get the ship into a defensible position. Finally, a huge tank of water is dumped into the new set, drenching the actor.
97	*** In the final segment, the audience is directed to view TV's in the arena, which play out the completed production in the movie's intended order (Crew going about their duties. The third actor sees enemy planes. Enemy planes fly in and open fire on the ship. The crew reacts and scrambles. The third actor makes a phone call. The fourth actor picks up the phone, answers the third actor, and then begins working the ship consols, planes come about and release torpedoes. The ship is torpedoed. Actors 1-3 react to the explosion. Actor 4 is hit by a deluge from the impact. Planes fly off.). To further stress the out of order filming, the director indicates that he filmed the actors in the planes some time ago and that what was shot today was the final shoot for the film and they can call it a wrap.
98	* The old 'Titanic' ride at Fox Studios Sydney is set during the filming of [[{{Film/Titanic 1997}} the 1997 movie]], but lacks the camera/sound crew and other production personnel that would be there if this were a real film shoot.
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102	* ''VideoGame/TheMovies'':
103	** This game is about running a studio and making movies. However, you have to shoot all the scenes in order--which can mean that your cast and crew will shoot a scene on one set, then run to another set for the next scene, then back to the first one if that's where the next scene takes place. And if another movie is shooting on the set, they have to wait instead of shooting another part of the movie. And scenes are shot in a single take. This can get particularly irritating if one cast member is out of action, usually due to alcoholism and stress. The entire shooting schedule has to be put on hold while said thespian is cured of his or her ailments, rather than e.g. letting the camera team film shots where the actors are not needed.
104	** A crew member will use a clapperboard at the start of every take, even during the silent film era when it wouldn't serve a practical purpose. When exactly the clapperboard was invented is difficult to pin down, but it didn't see widespread adoption until the 1930's at least.
105	** How do they shoot the killing of movie-monsters? By literally putting a blade in the actor's neck.
106	* The ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' expansion ''[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace Gangstas In Space]]'' has the Boss playing the lead role AsHimself in [[ShowWithinAShow the titular sci-fi movie]]. Apparently, depicting an AlienInvasion of Stilwater involves building working alien fighters and using them to attack the lead actors, and the shootouts between the Boss and the aliens are shot with live ammunition and working laser pistols. But hey, this is the same game that features a ZombieApocalypse, [[MaskedLuchador lucha libre]] gangsters, a boss fight in virtual reality, and a [[DeadlyGame lethal game show/arena deathmatch]], so it's all fair.
107	* In ''VideoGame/{{Stuntman}}'' and ''Stuntman: Ignition'', long car-chase scenes are shot in sequence, with very little props - even when the scene involves a helicopter chasing a sports car through San Francisco, [[StuffBlowingUp shooting just about every single thing with missiles]]. But hey, otherwise, it wouldn't be [[RuleOfCool cool]].
108	** ''Ignition'' makes it a bit worse with the new effects and ragdoll physics on the actors. The director no longer seems to care if you just smacked your sports car into an extra on the sidewalk and sent him cartwheeling into traction. They also seem to have everything possible rigged up to explode; in the first scene of ''Overdrive'' you can optionally smash through a gas station and send it up in flames, while in the first scene of ''Whoopin' n' Hollerin' II'' the monster truck can crush every car, whether or not they're marked.
109	* Averted in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''. The films made at Pokéstar Studios go through multiple facets of production, as the script has to be read in order to choose the best response and action. Following the stage directions properly can make your film a hit, while going against them can make it a BoxOfficeBomb. The films also make heavy use of ChromaKey special effects that require editing in post-production.
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113	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E4WhereNoDuckHasGoneBefore Where No Duck Has Gone Before]]" has the star of a ShowWithinAShow constantly brag about a "five-year contract" with Scrooge. It ends up backfiring when the show is cancelled and its studio turned into a museum; that same contract somehow forces the star to keep working for Scrooge [[DefeatMeansMenialLabor as a food vendor]]. No one on seasonal television has contracts that last longer than the show they're hired for, much less perform a completely different job.
114	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' had a director filming Fred and Barney, with no apparent script, who didn't even know they were in a movie, while they were being chased around and hit by boulders.
115	* Used justifiably in ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' because the filmmakers are kids who don't know how the process actually works, and only have a home video camera to work with. In one episode, when it suggested that he should be shooting a different scene, Brendan replies, "Yeah, well we don't really have any editing equipment, so we kinda have to shoot in sequence."
116	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
117	** A security camera example: In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E5TheBlunderYears The Blunder Years]]", we see thirty-year-old security footage, complete with sound and in color, and it's filmed from different angles. It looks more like a {{Retraux}} television show.
118	** Then there's the disaster that was the [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2RadioactiveMan Radioactive Man movie]], which likely would have failed even without Springfield taxing the hell out of the production.
119	*** One scene involved Ranier Wolfcastle being swept away in a river of ''actual acid'' with no one on set wearing anything more than a pair of safety goggles for protection.
120	---->'''Wolfcastle''': My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
121	*** The Radioactive Man movie is also apparently filmed with only one camera - they make Milhouse do the same scene a zillion times so they can get it from different angles, instead of having several cameras focused on the scene.
122	*** Bart is also rejected for the role of Fallout Boy despite his natural talent and obvious enthusiasm due to being an inch too short, even though there are all sorts of filming techniques to make actors appear taller or shorter as needed.
123	*** Milhouse is also subjected to an extreme dose of x-rays to the point that his skeleton becomes visible, and when he says he's sitting on a broken bottle, the director just tells him to "[[ThrowItIn use it]]."
124	*** Milhouse's stunt double is horrifically run over by a truck and suffers severe injuries. While stunt doubles do run the risk of sustaining injuries rather than the actors, there are always measures in place to ensure the stunts are done as safely as possible without injuring the doubles.
125	*** The people of Springfield are apparently able to simply walk on set whenever they want, with Bart visiting Milhouse in his trailer. When films are shot on location, especially big-budget blockbusters, the set is a tightly-controlled environment and there is always a ton of security around.
126	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' has Jackie inadvertently walk into a set and fight a WireFu actor he mistakes for an enemy. The set is housed in a seemingly ordinary alleyway with the cameras hidden behind disguised walls when in real life sets on public locations are highly visible precisely to keep random civilians from wandering onto them.
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