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  • Good morning, Vietnam.

  • Hey, this is not a test.

  • This is rock and roll.

  • Hey, everyone, I'm Rebecca and welcome to watch Mojo.

  • Today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 unscripted Robin Williams moments that were kept in the movie.

  • Thank you, boy, Am I in for it Now?

  • Make your life spectacular.

  • I know I did.

  • For this list, we're looking at lines and even entire scenes from movies and TV shows that were reportedly improvised by Robin Williams.

  • So what's your favorite Robin Williams movie?

  • Let us know in the comments.

  • All right, let's get to it.

  • Number 10 Slipping on the Floor.

  • The Bird Cage.

  • In one of his more underrated comedies, Williams plays Armand Goldman, the owner of the Miami drag club.

  • Fosse, Fosse, Fosse.

  • You do Martha Graham, Martha Graham, Martha Graham or Twyla Twyla Twyla or Michael Kidd.

  • Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd, Michael Carey, Madonna, Madonna, Madonna.

  • He's forced to act straight with his partner, Nathan Lane, dressed as a middle aged woman while meeting his son's conservative in laws to be you men.

  • It is the biggest babies.

  • They can run the world, but they can't pick out a tie I know I can't get this big lug to buy a new suit.

  • In the climactic dinner sequence, Armand slips and falls while carrying a pot of soup.

  • According to Williams, co star Hank is Area Williams actually slipped and fell while filming the sequence.

  • Ever the pro, Williams simply got back up and carried on, although he nearly breaks while telling his son to go, Go, It's okay, all right, that's fine.

  • The shop Goddamn, it's always stop crying.

  • Goddamn you!

  • Why are you standing there for co cow should be here in a minute.

  • Go number nine.

  • Much of the movie Jack one of Francis Ford Coppola's lesser efforts.

  • Jack stars Williams as Jack Powell, a kid who ages four times faster than a typical child just can't sleep.

  • I had a scary dream.

  • Can I sleep in here?

  • Yeah, of course, Buddy Stimpy, too.

  • Sure.

  • When Jack is 10 years old and attending school, he has the body and appearance of a 45 year old Robin Williams.

  • According to Kabbalah, Williams improvised many of his lines at his insistence.

  • He told the Christian Science Monitor quote.

  • The easiest thing about working with Robin was encouraging him to improvise for.

  • He's brilliant, So you might.

  • I want to go to the dance with me.

  • It would be really, really fun.

  • No, Jackie.

  • Yeah, So you want to go?

  • My mom will drive us.

  • When he began to ad lib, it was screamingly funny.

  • While it's not known what specific lines were improvised, it's clear that Williams had to carry much of the film on his shoulders, even if the results were mixed.

  • Williams dedication is undeniable.

  • Number eight.

  • Pinocchio.

  • Aladdin Why 10,000 years Will give you such a Crick in the neck.

  • Despite some strong competition, Williams performances the genie.

  • Maybe his best work.

  • Not only is the voice acting terrific, but it encapsulates everything that made Williams such a fantastic entertainer, his manic energy, his abroad aureus comedy and his unending creativity.

  • I can't make anybody fall in love with anybody else.

  • I love you, little.

  • Put them there.

  • Room number three.

  • I can't bring people back from the dead.

  • It's not a pretty picture.

  • I don't like doing it.

  • Animation supervisor Eric Goldberg finally recalls Williams improvisations in the recording booth, which indicated making a boop sound to indicate Aladdin's lie.

  • It was meant to represent the sound of Pinocchio's growing knows.

  • So Goldberg and his team worked around Williams Improv and added Pinocchio's face into the movie.

  • The only way I get out of this is if my master wishes me out, so you can guess how often that's happened.

  • I'll do it.

  • I'll set you free.

  • Uh, right.

  • No, really, I promise.

  • After I make my first two wishes, I'll use my third wish to set you free.

  • It's amazing to consider how much creative leverage Williams had on the creation of Aladdin number seven Thomas and Tim Friends in 1997.

  • Williams and Billy Crystal co starred in the Ivan Reitman comedy Father's Day the day before it premiered.

  • Williams and Crystal also appeared together in this Friends episode.

  • Thank you Mhm.

  • Their presence was not planned, and their characters never appeared in the script.

  • Rather, Williams and Crystal were both near the friends set and were asked if they wanted to cameo.

  • They obviously agreed and reportedly improvised the entire scene.

  • So So you went to Pete.

  • What happened?

  • It's something you know.

  • Why is this happening to me?

  • I don't know.

  • Maybe it's my wound.

  • Forget at one point.

  • Matt LeBlanc even got in on the action and improvised a rude interruption, resulting in an annoyed admonishment from Billy Crystal.

  • It's me.

  • I've been sleeping with you.

  • So you're the gynecologist.

  • Hey, I'm trying to have a private conversation, right?

  • Yeah.

  • It was probably the highlight of his career.

  • Alright, Alright.

  • Number six stole my line.

  • Good will Hunting.

  • Sean Maguire is one of William's more reserved and dramatic roles.

  • And it was the one that earned him his only Academy award.

  • You don't know about real loss because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself.

  • I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.

  • The ending of the movie sees Will going to California to reunite with Skylar and leaving Sean a note telling him he had to quote go see about a girl.

  • This is a reference to align.

  • Sean, uttered earlier in the film, Just slipped my ticket across the table and I said, Sorry, guys.

  • I got to see about a girl.

  • I gotta go see about a girl.

  • Yeah, that's what you said.

  • And they let you get away with that.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • They saw my eyes and I meant it.

  • According to Matt Damon, Shawn's reaction to the note was completely improvised by Williams.

  • The script didn't have Sean saying anything, but Williams, ever the ad libber, reportedly improvised a different line on each take.

  • When he said the line that now appears in the movie, Damon grabbed the director and excitement, knowing that Williams had just uttered gold.

  • If the professor calls about that job, just tell him Sorry, I had to go see about a girl.

  • Well, okay.

  • Want to trade soon?

  • Bitch stole my life number five Many things Mork and Mindy, Mork and Mindy served as Williams Mainstream Breakthrough hit Boy, My in for it Now sent before the white desk again.

  • What did I do?

  • The Solar Landrieu, fool.

  • You painted a moustache on it.

  • What?

  • Orson doesn't know I did it.

  • Then why am I here?

  • If I knew that, I wouldn't be talking to myself.

  • It all started when Williams was cast in The Happy Days episode, My Favorite Orkin, and he reportedly impressed the network executives by improvising most of Mark's dialogue.

  • His character proved so popular that he was given a spinoff, and Williams quickly became a household name.

  • While stories of Williams improv have been greatly exaggerated and mythologized, he still improvised to great success.

  • Stop what you're gonna stretch out my boots?

  • Is your boots really have to stop socks in the front?

  • Yeah, introducing.

  • Oh, Mark, you're so talented, handsome.

  • You have such great taste in clothes.

  • He waited, and I never said there would be nice if you did.

  • Once in a while.

  • One of the show's writers, David Mish, told Gizmodo quote.

  • He didn't do extended ad Libs, but what he did that would be so brilliant were these little things a line here and there, a word here and there.

  • A face, a voice.

  • Those were the things that blew people's minds.

  • That's it.

  • You know, I really hate it when you act like this.

  • Oh, yeah, really?

  • You know what I hate?

  • I hate it when you gargle.

  • You don't make any noise.

  • It's like, yeah, number four, melting icing Mrs Doubtfire In one of the movies Greatest sequences.

  • Daniel is forced to play both himself and Mrs Doubtfire when social worker Mrs Sellner pops by for a surprise visit.

  • Because I have an appointment on Monday and Friday evenings to check the apartment.

  • I remember him saying something about that.

  • Are you sure you want to walk in here?

  • That's three floors within it all the way.

  • If you can do it, I can.

  • I'll bet.

  • So is your ticket.

  • All right.

  • Top notch.

  • Oh, good.

  • Because I don't want to jump start you having lost his mask, Daniel shoves his face in a cake and pretends that it's Mrs Doubtfire is nightly Meringue mask.

  • Hello.

  • Oh, I'm sorry to frighten you, dear.

  • I must look like a yeti in this ghetto.

  • This is my nightly meringue mass.

  • That much was scripted.

  • The rest was all Williams.

  • The hot studio lights began melting the icing on William's face, and it genuinely began dripping off into the T.

  • Williams decided to just run with it.

  • And he gave audiences a classic bit of comedy in the process.

  • As you can see, I can't stay with you, dear.

  • I'm melting like a snow cone in Phoenix.

  • There we go again.

  • I'll go get Daniel.

  • Right.

  • He'll be right with you.

  • Hold on, Danny.

  • Number three, the broadcasts.

  • Good morning, Vietnam.

  • Good morning, Vietnam.

  • Hey, this is not a test.

  • This is rock and roll.

  • In this war comedy drama, Williams plays Adrian Cronauer, a real United States Air Force airmen who served as a military DJ throughout the Vietnam War.

  • William's performance as Cronauer was widely acclaimed, and it earned him his first Academy Award nomination for best actor.

  • Well, thank you, Rosa, What's the weather like out there is hot, damn hot, Real hot, hot.

  • And this is my shorts.

  • I can cook things in it.

  • A little crack pot cooking.

  • According to the movies producer Mark Johnson, most of the DJ scenes were entirely improvised by Williams in the movies.

  • Production notes, Johnson stated, quote when he sat down in the control booth to do the scenes involving crone hours broadcasts.

  • We just let the cameras roll.

  • He managed to create something new for every single take.

  • Such was the manic energy and unbelievable creativity of Robin Williams.

  • Remember the people who brought you career?

  • That's right, the U.

  • S.

  • Army.

  • If it's being done correctly here abroad, it's probably not being done by the Army.

  • Number two, farting in sleep, Good will Hunting.

  • Despite being one of his more serious roles, Williams still found time to imbue Sean Maguire with a funny bone.

  • Whatever blows your hair back.

  • Haven't got much hair left.

  • Hey, you know, you'd be better off having that cigarette up your ass and I would be healthier for you during a heart to heart With Will Sean mentions that he has to learn to embrace a woman's imperfections.

  • My wife used to fart when she was nervous Here.

  • Also, it's a wonderful idiosyncrasies to give an example, he tells Will that his late wife used to fart in her sleep.

  • That line and the resulting discussion were entirely improvised by Williams and Matt Damon.

  • And Damon's laughter was reportedly genuine.

  • Oh, God, she woke herself up.

  • Yeah, okay, Mhm.

  • Oh, nice.

  • But, well, she's been dead two years, and that's the shit I remember.

  • Some viewers even noticed the camera shaking right after Shawn says, I didn't have the heart to tell her.

  • I'm sorry I shared that with one night.

  • It was so loud to walk the dog.

  • She woke up and go like What was that?

  • You see, I didn't have the heart to tell, indicating that the camera operator was laughing alongside Williams and Damon.

  • What it would have been like to work with this man.

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  • Number one Celebrity impressions.

  • Aladdin.

  • What would you wish?

  • You mean?

  • The ever impressive but never do genie of the lamp as stated before Aladdin?

  • Maybe Robin Williams.

  • Greatest work.

  • So much so, in fact, that he reportedly gave the filmmakers 16 hours of content.

  • Animation supervisor Eric Goldberg recalls that he had Williams for 44 hour sessions, and Williams filled that time with improvisations, jokes, lines and tons of celebrity impressions.

  • Looks like we're gonna have to find a way out here.

  • Excuse me, are you looking at me?

  • Did you rub my lamp?

  • Did you wake me up?

  • Did you bring me here?

  • And all of a sudden you're walking out on me?

  • I don't think so.

  • Not right now.

  • You're getting your wishes.

  • So Goldberg told Entertainment Weekly quote.

  • When we got Robin in the recording studio, out came all the celebrity impressions.

  • That's a good move.

  • I can't believe it.

  • I'm losing to a rug.

  • So aside from busting a gut laughing, we just looked at each other and said, We can't not use this stuff.

  • The result was genies, signature use of celebrity impressions and the rare case of animators working around a voice actor.

  • Williams really could do anything.

  • Jeannie, I need help.

  • Alright, Sparky, here's the deal.

  • If you want to court the little lady, you got to be a straight shooter.

  • Do you got it?

  • I read a factoid that there were so many unused ad lib moments from the movie Flubber that there was enough to make a whole other movie.

  • So were you surprised that any of these were ad Libs?

  • Let us know in the comments which your favorite was or come tell me on Twitter or Instagram at Rebecca Britain or on my YouTube channel.

Good morning, Vietnam.

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