40 Mistakes in TV Shows and Movies That Ultimately Made Them Better

Ross saying the wrong name is one of the most iconic scenes on the popular sitcom Friends, and apparently, it was an accident. Anyone who truly got into the Friends frenzy knows you were rooting for the reunion of Ross and Rachel. Who wasn’t? It was even extremely apparent in one episode that when preparing to marry another woman, Ross, too, was rooting for Ross and Rachel.

When Ross is about to marry Emily under the altar and accidentally says “Rachel,” the writers were just as surprised as the audience. The original script didn’t call for Ross to make that pivotal mistake, but David Schwimmer got the names mixed up. That gave the writers the idea for how the plot unfolded, and it was definitely the right call to go with this mistake.