10 Totally Embarrassing WWE On-Air Production Botches
8. Kane & Eve's Late Cue
Directing something with as many moving parts as the average episode of Monday Night Raw can't be easy. With dozens of personnel and a number of set pieces to coordinate, the production team have an unenviable job. Thus, it's pretty easy to forgive the odd hiccup every now and then, so long as it doesn't shatter the viewer's immersion.
Unfortunately, Kane's attempt at kidnapping Eve Torres in February 2012 doesn't fall into this category. The opening is the kind of shambles that we rarely see on WWE television, but will inevitably happen every now and then, given the pitfalls of live TV.
The scene starts with Josh Mathews interviewing John Cena backstage. The sound of a woman screaming pulls John away before he can answer the first question, and we switch to a horrendously mistimed cut of Eve casually walking into the back of an ambulance, and a docile Kane standing at the door. A suit-clad producer holding a bunch of papers then gives him his cue, and the segment continues as intended.
The flub was only five segments long, but more than enough to shatter anybody's suspension of disbelief.