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The take that proved you're human, preserved forever so everyone else can laugh.
means A filmed or recorded segment — a flubbed line, a giggling fit, a wrong take — that was cut from the final version rather than used.
from Straightforward film-editing compound from 'out' + 'take': a 'take' is one filmed attempt at a shot (from the camera 'taking' the scene), and an 'outtake' is simply the take that got taken out, left on the cutting-room floor while a better version made the final cut.
- origin
- Film editing term from the 1960s
- blooper overlap
- Not all outtakes are mistakes, some are just unused
- credits tradition
- Jackie Chan movies made them a victory lap
- irony
- Often funnier than the scene that made the cut