A blooper is at its best when it captures the cast breaking character because of the tension between their awful characters and their real-life friendship.
“I have a theory that it's maybe because your characters are so awful to each other most of the time so that when you break and you're laughing with each other it's like the biggest distance between the way you were acting previously and right right you get to see the real friendship underneath”
The Always Sunny Podcast · Dec 2022 · 1 episode · 2.1M views on this topicBlooper reels provide value because they show alternate takes where the cast finds different ways to express the comedy in a scene.
“one of the things that's really fun about doing the show is every take is different like you know what I mean it's not the scene is scripted it's definitely scripted but like you know you you find these little Pathways these little Alleyways to go down and you you hit on different things”
The Always Sunny Podcast · Dec 2022 · 1 episode · 2.1M views on this topicWatching bloopers allows the cast to remember what they enjoy about the show and why it is fun to produce.
“we would just sit and watch like a season or two of bloopers to remind ourselves of what we like about the show oh oh that's sweet because it's good you know it's a good way to kind of remember like oh yeah when it's good it's good like it's really fun”
The Always Sunny Podcast · Dec 2022 · 1 episode · 2.1M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.