First scene is fantastic, a heroic throwback-style pratfall from Beth, and justifiably revered on this forum. (It's like a modern "Great Race," every year or so someone makes a new post about it.)
Second scene is my least favorite type of mainstream WAM.... "Applied" WAM. Actress (or stunt person) falls onto a mattress OC, then "reappears" after the makeup department has carefully added "mud" to her dress and maybe her cheeks and a few splatters in her hair. Don't get me wrong, I know why they do it. (No actor wants to be covered in crap for the 3 hours it takes to shoot one scene from multiple angles.) That said, the first scene is so rare and perfect, so it's a shame that Beth was probably willing to do it the "right" way but it didn't happen.
Other pet peeve: Kat Dennings is objectively gorgeous, and appeared on one of the last mainstream American shows to (occasionally) throw WAM into the mix.... and yet somehow stayed completely clean throughout countless seasons. (I know someone's gonna link a minor WAM scene now. Trust me, it's not the same....) I just have this sinking feeling that if "2 Broke Girls" appeared on TV in 1977.... By 1979, Kat and Beth would've had a scene in a bakery where things go wrong and they both end up with multiple pies smashed in their faces. [sigh]
Maybe Kat Dennings didn't like it/had a phobia. So they wrote it for Beth to get it. After all Beth did the slime face game on Ellen as well so perhaps she finds it fun.
SlapstickStuff said: First scene is fantastic, a heroic throwback-style pratfall from Beth, and justifiably revered on this forum. (It's like a modern "Great Race," every year or so someone makes a new post about it.)
Second scene is my least favorite type of mainstream WAM.... "Applied" WAM. Actress (or stunt person) falls onto a mattress OC, then "reappears" after the makeup department has carefully added "mud" to her dress and maybe her cheeks and a few splatters in her hair. Don't get me wrong, I know why they do it. (No actor wants to be covered in crap for the 3 hours it takes to shoot one scene from multiple angles.) That said, the first scene is so rare and perfect, so it's a shame that Beth was probably willing to do it the "right" way but it didn't happen.
Other pet peeve: Kat Dennings is objectively gorgeous, and appeared on one of the last mainstream American shows to (occasionally) throw WAM into the mix.... and yet somehow stayed completely clean throughout countless seasons. (I know someone's gonna link a minor WAM scene now. Trust me, it's not the same....) I just have this sinking feeling that if "2 Broke Girls" appeared on TV in 1977.... By 1979, Kat and Beth would've had a scene in a bakery where things go wrong and they both end up with multiple pies smashed in their faces. [sigh]
Agreed that the "mud" scene isn't really a good WAM scene. But I do enjoy her walking back into the roon trying to convince herself she fell in mud and not you know what. I love Kat Dennings' "it's mud?" delivery.
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