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    5 Times Something Happened To Actors That Had To Be Written Into The TV Show Script

    Writing is actually one of the most difficult parts in the TV show industry. From Phoebe In ‘Friends’ to Pam in ‘The Office’ there are many times something happened to the actors and that had to be written into the script. Actors are also humans and we cannot predict what might happen to them during the show.

    There were several cases wherein actors were injured on the set and were given time to recover and then came again to shoot. Whilst it’s not the case for many shows, sometimes actors would be replaced. However, sometimes, writers change the script and include the injury, or pregnancy or scars the actors have got into the actual plot.

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    5 Times Something Happened To Actors That Had To Be Written Into The TV Show Script

    1) Friends

    Matt Leblanc told the story of how he was injured during the filming of ‘The One Where No One’s Ready’ in Friends, and that this accident had to be written into some future episodes. When Joey and Chandler are arguing over the chair, Matt trips over the coffee table in his haste to get there and ends up dislocating his shoulder. Even though they had to postpone the completion of “The One Where No One’s Ready”, they wrote Joey’s injury into the script for subsequent episodes, with Chandler overhearing Joey falling off his bed because he was bouncing on it, classic!

    2)  Brooklyn Nine-Nine

    The writers of Brooklyn Nine-Nine had actually thought up the idea of Amy and Jake trying for a baby before they knew that Melissa was pregnant, as showrunner Dan Goor explained: “We decided, at that point [of their relationship], before the season started and before I knew she was pregnant, to make her and Jake decide to try and have a kid.” They had already hidden Melissa’s first pregnancy with the genius idea of having her go undercover as a pregnant woman during the filming of season three. But when season seven rolled around, with them having already decided to have the couple trying to conceive and with Melissa actually being pregnant, they decided to go with Amy and Jake having a baby!

    3) The Office

    One happy circumstance was Pam and Jim’s second baby in The Office. Jenna Fischer revealed that “Pam and Jim snuck away last season on Valentine’s Day, and they had sex,” talking before the season eight pregnancy storyline. She went on to say: “When we started shooting that episode, I thought to myself, ‘If everything goes well, this is going to be a very, very convenient coincidence,'” – and she actually found out she was pregnant IRL when they were filming that episode! So Jenna’s actual pregnancy was written-in alongside Pam giving birth to baby Cece! 

    4) Friends

    When Lisa Kudrow was pregnant during seasons four and five of the show, the writers decided to include her pregnancy in the actual script. That’s how Pheobe ended up being the surrogate mother of Frank and Alice’s triplets! In an interview, Lisa explained the adorable ritual the cast used to do before shooting while she was pregnant: “The six of us would do a huddle backstage and just say, ‘All right, have a good show, love you love you love you love you.’ And when I was pregnant, then they would say, ‘Have a great show, love you love you — love you, little Julian!’ ‘Cause we knew it was a boy and that was his name.” 

    5) Mean Girls

    Yes, the brace worn by headmaster Ron Duvall was real and necessary, but not for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome like Tina Fey wrote into the plot. Instead, actor Tim Meadows had broken his wrist before filming had even started. Initially, Tim thought that his injury would cause him to drop out of the movie altogether, but Tina just said, “We’ll just write a little joke about you having carpel tunnel syndrome.” Thankfully Tina’s solution worked just fine, and we were able to see Tim’s hilarious depiction of Ron! 

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    Trisha Gayathri is an ardent writer and a public speaker. She has a masters in English from Women's Christian College, Chennai. She loves to read and 'Book Thief' is her favourite. She knows everything about music and fandom. Her motto in life is to entertain people and thereby placing her first step into entertainment by writing for the entertainment unit of First Curiosity.
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