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00:00 "Oh, thank God. I don't remember the last time."
00:04 Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:06 For this list, we're looking at bloopers from the popular sitcom where Ross actor David Schwimmer either breaks or causes his scene partners to crack up.
00:13 "It tastes like feet!"
00:15 [Laughter]
00:18 [Music]
00:20 Number 10. Zip up.
00:21 When Ross moves in with Joey and Chandler, the guys end up not really loving having Ross as a roommate.
00:27 "Uh, fellas?"
00:28 [Laughter]
00:34 "Okay, so he's out of here."
00:36 However, it isn't all bad, as Joey and Ross use his moving boxes to build a pretty cool fort in the middle of the living room.
00:42 In the scene that made it to air, Chandler comes home and mocks them, but decides to join them among the boxes.
00:47 "Don't you think the cowboy hat's a little much?"
00:49 "Come on, it's fun!"
00:51 [Laughter]
00:55 "All right."
00:55 But in one take that was left on the cutting room floor, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc have some fun with Matthew Perry when he walks into the scene.
01:02 When Perry asks them what they're doing, their response is a bit more risque than the original scene.
01:07 "What are you guys doing?"
01:08 "Nothing."
01:12 [Laughter]
01:14 Number 9. Be prepared.
01:16 In the season 6 episode "The One With Unagi", Rachel and Phoebe sign up for self-defense classes.
01:22 "Kicking a guy in the crotch all morning really takes it out of you."
01:24 [Laughter]
01:26 "Takes it out of you."
01:26 [Laughter]
01:29 "Now we can kick anybody's ass."
01:32 Ross tries to convince them that the classes aren't really preparing them for real-life encounters.
01:36 To illustrate that practicing in class is very different from being able to react to a surprise attack in real life,
01:42 he tries to catch them off guard by shouting in their faces.
01:45 "All I'm saying is, it's one thing being prepared for an attack against like each other,
01:50 whole 'nother story being prepared for an attack, I don't know, like, 'Surprise!'"
01:54 While in the episode the girls don't react at all to his attempted surprise,
01:58 in at least one of the takes, all three of them couldn't keep a straight face.
02:02 "Whole 'nother story being prepared for like, 'This is a surprise!'"
02:05 [Laughter]
02:11 Number 8. A little uncomfortable.
02:14 Watching this scene, we definitely understand how standing there while his girlfriend considers going back to her ex could make Ross a little uncomfortable.
02:22 "Is there any chance you would take me back?"
02:24 "Maybe."
02:29 "Sweetie, this conversation started to make me a little uncomfortable."
02:33 What we can't understand is how David Schwimmer was able to get through his lines without cracking up.
02:38 As it turns out, he wasn't able to do so multiple times during the filming of the episode.
02:43 "Sweetie, this conversation started to make me a little uncomfortable."
02:46 [Laughter]
02:48 Although, watching the bloopers, we kinda have to lay most of the blame on Aisha Tyler.
02:53 She appears to be the first to break each time.
02:55 Although, soon enough, everyone on camera is laughing too.
02:59 "Sweetie, this conversation started to make me feel a little uncomfortable."
03:02 [Laughter]
03:06 Number 7. Grow and blow.
03:09 After reading a woman's self-help book called "Be Your Own Wind Keeper",
03:12 Rachel asks Ross how he expects her to grow if he won't let her blow.
03:17 "Your wind?"
03:18 "Yes, my wind. How do you expect me to grow if you won't let me blow?"
03:23 The line gets a huge laugh from the studio audience,
03:25 but they don't have to worry about keeping a straight face.
03:28 On the other hand, David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston are not allowed to laugh during the scene.
03:33 "I don't have a... have a problem with that."
03:38 In a few bloopers, they struggle to maintain their composure while the audience continues to laugh at their reactions.
03:44 While they eventually manage to get through it properly,
03:47 it turns out that it took a few tries to get there.
03:50 "How do you expect me to grow if you won't let me blow?"
03:52 [Laughter]
03:56 "F*ck."
03:58 Number 6. Halloween arm wrestling.
04:00 As if a guy dressed up as a potato arm wrestling a guy dressed up as a pink bunny wasn't funny enough,
04:06 this scene also called for Matthew Perry to make Chandler's sex face.
04:10 "Oh God, Chandler's making his sex face."
04:15 While the face is a great way to make the audience laugh,
04:17 it also has the same effect on Perry's scene partner David Schwimmer.
04:21 Take after take, the actors just can't keep it together.
04:24 "Oh God, Chandler is doing his sex face."
04:27 [Laughter]
04:33 It gets to the point where Schwimmer actually pleads with his co-star Perry not to make any faces on the next take.
04:39 "Just for now, don't make any faces."
04:41 Somehow, Ross is giggle-free in the final cut.
04:45 Number 5. Poor Ross.
04:47 "I knew it! I knew I wasn't crazy!"
04:50 In this blooper, Schwimmer is doing a scene with Lisa Kudrow and cracks himself up with a line about Ross not being crazy.
04:57 Then a moment later, he makes Kudrow laugh with a reflective lament about his character's frequent troubles.
05:02 "Oh, poor Ross."
05:04 [Laughter]
05:05 Kudrow delivers a priceless response.
05:07 "Have you ever seen the show?"
05:09 [Laughter]
05:10 The interaction between the two is great,
05:12 and we'd like to imagine Schwimmer ended up pulling himself together and nailed the line.
05:16 However, we can't know for sure because those lines aren't in the episode.
05:20 Maybe the writers also started to feel sorry for poor Ross.
05:23 "I'm gonna tell her that my pregnant ex-girlfriend is living with me."
05:26 [Laughter]
05:27 "If I haven't said it before, she's a lucky, lucky lady."
05:31 Number 4. He can't act.
05:33 We think David Schwimmer is a good actor, and we're sure his friend's co-stars agree.
05:37 "I hope you're a better father than you are a friend!"
05:40 However, even good actors have moments when they just can't get it right.
05:44 That's what happened to Schwimmer in the Season 8 scene where Ross rushes to the hospital
05:48 only to find out that Rachel had Braxton Hicks contractions.
05:51 The final cut is a pretty funny scene,
05:53 and Schwimmer plays it perfectly, hitting his jokes with great timing.
05:57 "What? What was it? What happened?"
05:58 "Well, it's something called Braxton Hicks contraction."
06:01 "Oh, oh."
06:02 [Laughter]
06:03 "My God, that's no big deal. Most women don't even feel them."
06:06 "Okay, no uterus, no opinion."
06:07 That wasn't the case for a few of the takes that ended up on the cutting room floor.
06:11 It was after a few of those missteps that Jennifer Aniston jokingly questioned
06:15 Schwimmer's acting abilities.
06:17 "When you beat me, I was online at the concession stand at the, uh, the movie theater."
06:20 [Laughter]
06:21 "You just suck!"
06:22 "What happened to you? You used to be able to act!"
06:25 "I know!"
06:26 Number 3. Too much trifle.
06:29 Remember the episode where Rachel makes the disgusting trifle
06:32 and Ross scarfs his down to keep Rachel from tasting it?
06:34 "It's so good!"
06:36 [Laughter]
06:37 "Maybe Jen would have some left."
06:39 [Laughter]
06:43 "It tastes like feet!"
06:44 Well, you might notice that Ross doesn't have that much of the dish on his plate to begin with.
06:48 It turns out that was because he originally had more,
06:51 but Matt LeBlanc took some off his plate to help get through the scene.
06:54 "That is too much!"
06:56 [Laughter]
07:00 As helpful as LeBlanc was in that moment,
07:02 he also prolonged filming as they both had trouble keeping a straight face
07:06 after Schwimmer's line about the trifle tasting like feet.
07:09 "Tastes like feet!"
07:10 [Laughter]
07:15 Number 2. Pivot.
07:16 Anyone who's ever tried to move a large piece of furniture up a flight of stairs
07:20 knows that it's more pleasant to watch someone do it than to attempt the feat yourself.
07:25 "I brought reinforcements."
07:26 "Oh, great! What, you brought Joey?"
07:28 "Well, I brought the next best thing."
07:29 "Eh."
07:30 [Laughter]
07:32 "Chandler, you brought Chandler? The next best thing would be Monica."
07:35 The scene where Ross, Rachel, and Chandler try to move a couch up to Ross's apartment
07:39 is both iconic and hysterical.
07:41 The humor was elevated to a whole other level
07:43 with Ross's now famous instructions to his friends
07:46 as they struggle to maneuver the furniture.
07:48 "Pivot!"
07:49 [Laughter]
07:51 "Pivot!"
07:52 [Laughter]
07:54 "Pivot!"
07:55 "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"
07:57 As funny as the moment is to the audience,
08:00 it also completely broke Schwimmer, Perry, and Aniston on set.
08:04 "Pivot!"
08:04 [Laughter]
08:11 "Pivot!"
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08:27 Number 1. Bagpipes
08:31 You don't have to look that closely to see Jennifer Aniston trying hard to hide her laughter
08:35 while Phoebe sings along to Ross playing the bagpipes.
08:38 [Bagpipes playing]
08:48 If you're wondering why they didn't try to get a take without Aniston breaking character,
08:52 we're going to assume that it would have taken too long to do so.
08:55 Seeing how hard they all crack up in the outtakes
08:57 leads us to believe that what made it to air was the best they were going to get.
09:01 We don't blame the actors.
09:02 Schwimmer's playing is hysterical, but throw in Kudrow's screeching
09:06 and keeping a straight face would definitely be out of the question.
09:09 [Laughter]
09:13 What's your favorite Ross-centric outtake? Let us know in the comments.
09:17 "I don't know what I'm saying. I really have no-"
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