10 Movie Mistakes That Became Canon
3. Joel Can't Shoot Arrows - Addams Family Values
The Addams Family Values is a stone cold masterpiece of a comedy sequel, and in recent years seems to be finally getting its due.
Not everything in the shoot went quite according to plan, though in this case it ended up only making one scene that much funnier.
The film features a legendary subplot in which Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) are sent to a chirpy summer camp, where Wednesday meets a similarly unenthusiastic outcast, Joel Glicker (David Krumholtz).
Among the many camp activities the trio are forced to participate in, they're made to shoot arrows, resulting in Joel growing frustrated as he struggles to load and fire his arrow, instead just throwing it to the ground.
This wasn't part of the script, however: actor David Krumholtz, apparently not much of a practically-minded kid either, couldn't load the arrow for real, and amid his struggle got legitimately annoyed and threw the arrow to the ground.
This apparently generated uproarious laughter on the set, enough that director Barry Sonnenfeld decided to use it in the film.
Given that the shot cuts abruptly after Krumholtz throws the arrow, it's probably fair to assume that the cast all promptly broke character and started corpsing.