10 More Movie Scenes More Real Than You Think
8. Ben Stiller Was Actually Dropped Getting Into The Ambulance - There's Something About Mary
Sometimes comedy comes at a rather unexpectedly painful price.
Take the moment Ben Stiller's Ted Stroehmann accidentally gets his privates caught in his zipper and dropped whilst being taken to hospital on a stretcher, for example.
While it may seem as though this sort of excruciating moment of hilarity would have been rehearsed a number of times before allowing the star to fall right down to earth with an almighty bang, it turns out that this tumble wasn't actually scripted at all.
Instead of throwing away such a brilliant moment of accidental comedy, though, after stopping filming to check to see if Stiller was definitely fine, the team decided the unintentional moment was too hilarious to erase and kept it in the finished article.
The way the flick smoothly cuts to Cameron Diaz's worried Mary Jensen as Ted is eventually helped back up likely made you believe that this perfectly timed beat of physical comedy was always part of the plan.
However, the bruises Stiller probably ended up earning on the day tell the story of a potentially terrible on-set disaster being salvaged and used to make an already side-splitting moment even more ridiculously funny.