Throw It In/Web Original

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  • In The Stinger of the seventh episode of Echo Chamber, Zack falls over while walking backwards. The clip appears to be an accident that occurred while filming the third episode. Also, on a meta-level, everything in Echo Chamber's Frame Story can be called a Throw It In, since it's all cobbled together from tapes the cameraman recorded because he was bored.
  • Less funny than dramatic, but Brittanny Ashworth's death in V2 of Survival of the Fittest. The character's handler said, in an OOC note at the end of his first post with her, "Anybody after a kill feel free to take a shot at her." Of course, somebody interpreted this a bit too literally, godmoding the character's death at the hands of his villain character. After a little debate, it was left in.
    • Also, an important part of V3 character's Adam Reeves' backstory revolves around him having his lip torn by a fish-hook hold in a fight. It was suggested the culprit of this injury was the older brother of Maxie Dasai. The more the handlers thought about the idea, the better it sounded, and it was simply thrown in.
  • The website Bloggingheads.tv has a lot of this. Cats, children, doors, phone calls, and various other interruptions have been known to occur, and are sometimes left in.
  • The Fobbies Are Borange Spin-Off Loids Are Not Christmas is completely improvised, leading to such memorable lines as "I'MMA HIT IT... WITH MY HAND."
  • This. Part Two was originally meant to be uploaded here, but the camerawoman thought the dissonance would probably be taken as an excellent piece of satire. See also the adverts on the same channel.
  • While tinkering with Ganon's clothes during the production of The Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage, Ganon's robe fell off for no reason. The creators decided that the thought of the Great Evil King's robe falling off was too funny to leave out.
  • According to one of Linkara's video logs on the filming of an episode of The Nostalgia Critic, the Zuul joke in The Pagemaster review was originally a throwaway joke from Doug's brother, and the two decided to keep it in the video anyway. It got to the point of becoming a proper Running Gag in future Critic videos, and Doug and his brother can apparently no longer watch Ghostbusters without shouting "Zuul, muthafucka! Zuul!"
  • Marble Hornets has a special-effects example: at the end of entry 22, when Alex bleakly informs the camera how his situation has hit rock bottom, a shadow passes over him in a way that makes it look like it's reaching into his head. The shadow was intentional, the way it ended up looking wasn't. They kept it in.
    • In Entry #9, Tim's line to Alex about 'not having enough money to pay because he spends it all on tapes' was completely improvised by Tim Sutton (as in the real-life actor) himself. They decided to add the line into the script, but first they had to stop the take and re-shoot it because the original improvisation sent Troy Wagner into a laughing fit.
  • The flash series 4 Swords Misadventures had quite a few ad-libs in its episodes:
    • In episode 4, the priest who expressed shock at Link's swear was not originally supposed to speak spanish, but Haidouken Dude thought it would have been funny.
    • Red stating that Green should "keep the tunic on" was added in by the creator.
    • When writing the scene for them running to the elder's house, he unintentionally made a reference to Resident Evil.
    • During the episodes where Red Link ended up becoming drunk from Chateau Romani, Red's voice actor suggested that he give Red a slurred southern accent while he was drunk, as well as improvise several of his lines (such as when explaining how he "knew" that "Chuck Norris's fist" was the answer to the third question as well as several lines in Red's drunken rant during the second part of the Phoenix Wright-esque debate). Another VA also suggested that they add in Red stumbling while entering the Castle Gates.
    • In Episode 5, the line where one of the villagers identifies Blue and Purple Link (aka, the Cock Boys) to the crowd was originally intended to be for the Running Man character that they met beforehand, but Haidouken Dude wanted to finish the episode quickly so he rewrote it for another villager.
    • In Episode 6, Vaati's slide show detailing Tingle ripping off the Links with maps at high prices, as well as Link's "It's over 9000!" line within the slideshow was improvised by Haidouken Dude.
    • The pair of Hinoxes that Shiek bumped into was originally supposed to both be voiced by Haidouken Dude, but he ended up voicing the green version instead.
    • Most of the infamous riot scene in the ending of Episode 6 was actually improvised and not in the original script.
    • Red's reaction to and speech about the potion eliminating his hangover in the ending of Episode 7 was an ad-lib. Likewise, his snoring while passed-out drunk from the aftermath of the fight as well as his earlier line of "Let go of me, you Purple Pissant! Me and the Green boy gotta talk!" in response to Green's statement of he should kill him first if he should get to Zelda, and his line when giving a drunken beatdown on Dark Link ("Oh look, I broke a nail on your face!"), were improvised by Red's voice actor, Richard.
    • Haidouken Dude even admitted that he often allows for the voice actors to take liberties when delivering the lines and doing situations when making the episode after creating the script.
  • Most Shiny Objects Videos involve at least a little ad-libbing. The Stinger at the end of the board game segment from "On The Couch" is a good example--the actor Nathan Schneekluth found Catch Phrase so amusing he kept pressing buttons during takes. One of them made it in.
  • The "Wild Card" epsiode of Trifecta on PJTV (the one regarding Obama's current vendetta against the SCOTUS regarding their lack of support for the Obamacare bill) was one big Throw It In, as the topic was chosen at random and the answers were done without any prior scripting.
  • It was mentioned by FTA during the Hellfire Commentaries Playthrough of Sonic Unleashed that his outburst in the Captain mission of Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 was unscripted, but, due to Skype being rather finicky, he did it in every take after that. Bonus points for Sonic saying "That was incredible!" when FTA goes ranting.
  • The animation staff for RWBY is encouraged to come up with fun bits of business which frequently make it into the final product. For instance, Torchwick silently mocking Mercury and Emerald as Cinder upbraids them in V2E1, ending with him making a "throat slash" gesture, was not scripted but created by the animator of the scene on his own time -- and included because the production team loved it.
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