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* According to the commentary track on ''[[Spaceballs]]'', Rick Moranis ad-libbed the entire "Dark Helmet playing with his action figures" scene.
* One of the most famous comedy line improvs appeared in the movie ''[[Wayne's World|Waynes World]]''. During a scene where the main characters Wayne and Garth are sitting atop their car watching airplanes take off, when suddenly Garth asks a strange question:
{{quote|'''Garth:''' Did... Did you ever find it attractive when [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] dressed up like a girl bunny?
'''Wayne:''' No.
'''Garth:''' Neither did I, I was just asking... }}
** As it turns out, the entire exchange was improvised. Dana Carvey, Garth's actor, visibly snickers right before asking the initial question and Mike Myers bursts out laughing after responding. The director decided it was too funny to cut and so left it in the final version.
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{{quote|'''Jenna Fischer''': "Those looks of shock/giddiness/confusion on our faces are real. We were all on the edge of our seats wondering what would happen next. I can't believe we held it together for as long as we did. I'm not sure we've ever laughed so hard on set."}}
* When auditioning for ''[[Cheers]]'', John Ratzenberger originally read for the role of Norm. After badly botching his audition, he asked the producers if the show included a bar know-it-all, and proceeded to wander around the room ad-libbing lines that might be appropriate for such a character. A week later, he was called back and offered the newly-written role of [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|Cliff]].
* Finishing recording the first ever episode of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's [[Not Only...
* The Janitor on ''[[Scrubs]]'' was not originally supposed to be a recurring character, so many of his scenes were improvised by Neil Flynn, which added to the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] behavior of the character. In many other instances the other actors would also improvise reaction lines and other moments.
** At the end of most of the later episodes, you see earlier versions of some of the scenes where the dialogue gets progressively weirder/more inappropriate/just plain stupider until one of the actors breaks character and goes 'Oh, God, we can't use that!'
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* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', where an improv team is given "A Starbucks in Serbia" as their setting. "I'll have a coffee" "That'll cost $8. This is Starbucks!" (audience mildly amused) "... In Serbia!" (rocking laughter).
* All the dialog from ''[[Home Movies]]'' was done this way to make it sound like 3 kids talking in real life. Even the scripts only had small notes on them and jokes to fall back on if the voice actors couldn't think of anything to say.
* Paul Rugg's audition to provide the voice of [[Freakazoid!]] went way, ''way'' off-script. Nearly all of it was then animated as part of the first episode, "Dance of Doom."
** Some episodes were written with a Paul Harvey-type narrator. Paul Rugg, warming up his Paul Harvey impression, would say things like "smack me with a handle" or "I think there's a thuuuuuuumbtack under my fanny!" and, as before, was surprised to see it had been animated as part of the episode.
* In ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', Patrick Warburton improvised when Kronk hummed his own theme song when he was carrying Kuzco in the bag to the waterfall. Disney legal department had Patrick to sign all rights to the humming composition over to them.
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