10 TV Scenes Shot For Real

In the never-ending fan debate about The Office's greatest-ever cold open, the discussion inevitably veers to the season seven premiere "Nepotism," which begins with the Dunder Mifflin employees performing an elaborate lip dub to The Human Beinz's "Nobody but Me."

The two-and-a-half minute scene involves almost 20 main cast members performing a song and dance number, each with their own precise markers to hit, any of which being ever-so-slightly off would ruin the entire take.

Given the sheer number of moving parts involved and the handheld camerawork making it easier to disguise edits, you'd be forgiven for assuming the sequence was actually cut down into three or four more manageable segments. But alas, it was done totally legit.

Though you'd never know it, various crew members were hidden throughout the office to give the actors their cues, after several days had been spent figuring out the choreography and then teaching it to the cast.

Incredibly, the scene was completed after just "3 or 4" takes, with no digital trickery or shortcuts that a big-budget TV show would've certainly been able to rely on.