Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Where an Outtake Can Lead

When it comes to outtakes, the usual ones -- forgetting a line and cracking up, forgetting a line and swearing -- are OK. But I prefer something a little more meta-humorous like Bob Newhart's famous absent-minded mistake from the first season of Newhart:



I wonder if this moment helped inspire the show's finale, eight years later? Probably not, but it's fun to pretend that it did.

3 comments:

wcdixon said...

priceless...

Anonymous said...

Funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

Anonymous said...

Newhart's wife was the one who came up with the idea for the finale. But maybe she remembered this incident.