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Written-In Infirmity

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Written-In Infirmity	comment	Occasionally a show's writers will have to work around a very real physical circumstance involving one of the actors, i.e. a temporary medical complaint. Sometimes the character will be Put on a Bus until the actor recovers, but if they're still able and willing to perform, then the showrunners will either attempt to hide the condition or find a way to work it into the story. You may watch your favorite action series and this week the hero gets kidnapped and needs his spunky sidekick to save the day...to hide the fact that the actor broke his leg. Or the soap opera heroine finds out she's pregnant but doesn't know if the baby is her husband's or her secret lover's, because the actress herself is with child. A subtrope of Real Life Writes the Plot. See also Reality Subtext. When the character is permanently disabled because the actor is permanently disabled, it's Disabled Character, Disabled Actor. If it's a pregnancy, expect either But I Can't Be Pregnant! or Hide Your Pregnancy. The Logical Extreme is The Character Died with Him when the show's writers have to take into account an actor's death. Examples
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Written-In Infirmity / int_16aa3232	comment	Desperate Housewives : Gale Harold was injured in a motorcycle accident shortly after joining the cast as Susan's new boyfriend. The producers were quick to proclaim that they wouldn't let it interfere with their plans for the couple, and he will be back working on the show as soon as possible. Which apparently meant his character moving from the neighborhood and Susan breaking up with him over the phone. Kathryn Joosten's character was given lung cancer after the actress's long-dormant cancer returned. Naturally, the scene where she emotionally reveals this to Susan is quite a Tearjerker.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_18acb3a5	comment	On The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, this resulted in Janet Hubert-Whitten being fired as Aunt Vivian, as her real-life pregnancy was a violation of her contract. She stayed until the end of Season 3 though, and her pregnancy was incorporated into the storyline. Afterward, the character was recast with Daphne Maxwell Reid.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_1b7f57d	comment	On Good Luck Charlie, Leigh-Allyn Baker's pregnancy was written into the storyline by having her character Amy have her fifth child, which causes problems in the family because they are only just getting back to normal after having a fourth unplanned child.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_1e703d1f	comment	In Gilmore Girls, Melissa McCarthy became pregnant two seasons after Sookie made Jackson get a vasectomy he didn't want after the birth of their second child. Since they couldn't hide it very well, her pregnancy was written into the storyline by revealing that Jackson lied about getting the vasectomy because he didn't want it in the first place and thought Sookie would still be on birth control.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_221d6500	comment	The CHiPs episode "Satan's Angels" had a subplot where the Getraers are preparing for the birth of a child. Mrs. Getraer's actress Gwynne Gilford actually was pregnant note with Chris Pine when the episode was shot.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_221d6520	comment	CHiPs: Erik Estrada was in a motorcycle accident during one season, so the same thing happened to Ponch. After the accident, Estrada literally shot scenes from his hospital bed.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_22211d68	comment	Emily Deschanel of Bones became pregnant during the production of the sixth season. The pregnancy was written into the end of the season as the result of a one-night stand between Booth and Brennan, answering the ongoing Will They or Won't They?. Deschanel was visibly pregnant for the early part of the seventh season and it played a significant role in the personal storylines for the season. And when she became pregnant again during production of season ten, it was written into the show again.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_2221ecbd	comment	Anna Belknap of CSI NY had her first pregnancy hidden, with the storyline of Lindsay going to visit her family in Montana being used when she took off to have the baby. The second pregnancy, in season 5, was written in and led to Lindsay and Danny getting married.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_2268de37	comment	During the fourth season of Grimm, actress Claire Coffee (Adelind Schade) became pregnant with her first child. This was particularly amusing because her character, Adelind, had just finished a pregnancy arc. The writers decided to write the pregnancy in, leading the characters to exclaim an exasperated "Again?!" when Adelind reveals her pregnancy.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_226f7a41	comment	During production of the first season of Hazel, Don DeFore (who played George Baxter) injured his right hand bad enough that he had to wear a cast for a while. This was written into a few episodes, most notably the color special "What'll We Watch Tonight?" for which they had to refilm the opening sequence; there, they tried to hide his injured hand, but sharp-eyed viewers could still spot it.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_2275c659	comment	In one episode of House, Hugh Laurie had a black eye he'd gotten while boxing, so they just wrote it into the script that someone had punched House. Given House's personality, it wasn't much of a stretch.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_22b62a34	comment	DCI Banks: In the second season, DS Annie Cabot becomes pregnant following a one-night stand and goes on maternity leave as a result of actress Andrea Lowe becoming pregnant.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_22caa0de	comment	Similarly, when he lost his voice during The Good Son review, he did the entire review with subtitles for the footage and Talking with Signs for himself.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_22e860f4	comment	Timothy Omundson was riding his bike to the set of Psych when he fell and broke his collarbone. This prompted last minutes rewrites, Buzz being called in to do Lassiter's lines, and Lassiter showing up in a cast and refusing to say what happened. This injury persisted until the end of the season. In a deleted scene, he reveals to the police officers that he had slipped and fallen in his bathtub... which was not what they were asking about. Omundson also writes a blog and tweets in-character for Lassiter. Lassiter had an entry on New Year's resolutions, he mentions "not riding bikes."
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Written-In Infirmity / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers: Rhea Perlman became pregnant three times during the show's run. Each time, her character Carla became pregnant as well. The tenth season subplot where Sam and Rebecca attempt to conceive a baby together was intended to work Kirstie Alley's pregnancy into the series. Sadly, Alley miscarried and the subplot was wrapped up with Sam and Rebecca deciding they weren't ready to be parents.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_23633967	comment	Top Gun: Maverick: Val Kilmer invokedreprised his role as Iceman, and his real life battle with throat cancer and inability to speak was written into the film.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_24ffd341	comment	When Kaitlin Olsen became pregnant, her character Dee from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia also became pregnant. An entire episode was dedicated to the gang trying to find out who got her pregnant; by the end, they stop caring. It was later revealed that she was a surrogate for a Transgender woman and her husband.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Lisa Lackey on Heroes got pregnant during filming of the first season. The first person she told was Greg Grunberg to ask him for advice because he'd worked with actresses who got pregnant during filming before and she was worried that the producers would freak out. So he ended up making a call to the writers' room on her behalf...at the exact moment when the writers, brainstorming a storyline for their onscreen relationship, had come up with the idea for her character to be pregnant.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_2d5cd9f3	comment	Horse Feathers: During the filming, Chico Marx was in a car crash that shattered his kneecap. One scene, shot shortly after, has Harpo, trying to kidnap two football players and getting beat up, while Chico sits in a chair and directs him.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_2dfd87a4	comment	The Rookie (2018): Angela's surprise pregnancy occurred because actress Alyssa Diaz really was pregnant. This ended up fueling much drama as Angela's kidnapped by drug trafficker La Fiera, with designs on her baby. Her second pregnancy during season five was also written in. Nyla got pregnant unexpectedly in Season 4 because her actress, Mekia Cox, was actually expecting.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_2f1b5710	comment	In Jekyll Fenella Woolgar was cast as one half of a lesbian couple; however, by the time filming started she had a rather noticeable bump. She thought that she'd lose the role but it was no matter to the writers; they just worked it into the plot and it actually spawned quite a few endearing and funny bits. It was joked about on the commentary: 'You just can't cast lesbians these days!'
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Written-In Infirmity / int_32318e9a	comment	When Roseanne actress Laurie Metcalf became pregnant, it was originally going to be covered up. Jackie's clothes got looser and looser (which was a huge tip-off as she usually wore form-fitting outfits) and she always seemed to show up carrying something in front of her. However, as Metcalf progressed she got so big it couldn't be hidden any longer. Her pregnancy was written into the show about halfway through her real one.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_34834a5c	comment	He also had to concentrate on doing vlogs and Lets Plays for a few months after suffering a Jones fracture. This was caused by nothing more than setting his foot down wrong, giving him something of a reputation for having fragile bones. Ironically, Spoony's commentary for Kickassia reveals that he was pretty much the only person (including cameraman Rob Walker) who got through the arduous shoot unscathed.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_353b7af3	comment	Star Trek: Discovery featured a case of a new disabled character being written for an existing actor. Kenneth Mitchell, who had guest-starred in several roles in the first and second seasons, was later diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and began to use a wheelchair. To be able to retain his talents, the producers wrote a wheelchair-using (well, hoverchair-using) character for him in the third season. He wouldn't have been able to reprise his original roles anyway, since all his characters were denizens of the 23rd century and were left behind when Discovery jumped forward in time to the 32nd. Oh, and two of them were dead anyway.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_3544ad11	comment	On House of Cards (US), Frank Underwood being scalded by coffee (and the subsequent "I despise children" line) was written in after Kevin Spacey accidentally burned his hand during a promotional photoshoot, in which he had to hold a burning American flag.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_36151c14	comment	In the first season of the 2000s Hawaii Five-0 reboot, a severe knee injury Scott Caan suffered while filming was written into the show to explain why his character was limping around and using a cane.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_37995798	comment	Pushing Up Roses didn't sleep well before driving with Paw Dugan to Todd in the Shadows' house to film the Head review. As she didn't want to show her eye bag-heavy face on camera, the trio was shot with their backs at the camera, MST3K-style — and they admitted it worked well.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_39c20861	comment	Highlander: This often had to be avoided, as many of the characters were immortals. However, Joe Dawson, like his actor, had lost both legs. Oddly one never thought of Joe as handicapped, he simply had a peculiar walk. This turns into a Plot Point in the Season 4 episode "Brother in Arms" when we discover that Joe lost his legs in Vietnam and was rescued by an Immortal, and he was then inducted into the Watchers. It gets raised in this episode because the Immortal who rescued him faces off against Duncan's friend Charlie DeSalvo.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_3aabfec3	comment	Happened again, causing him to postpone an update and instead do a brief sketch in which Ma-ti encounters Doug's character from Ask That Guy with the Glasses (who does not speak for the duration).
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Written-In Infirmity / int_3c8a917a	comment	Unusual example in the original run of UK daytime soap Crossroads. Actress Jane Rossington, who played Jill Harvey, became pregnant and this was written into the show. Sadly, she suffered a miscarriage but agreed to be padded up so that the character's pregnancy could continue. Soon after, the actress became pregnant again and this time successfully gave birth - but the character's pregnancy lasted eleven months.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_405243c7	comment	In season 5 of The 100, actress Ivana Milenkovic (Diyoza) learned she was pregnant shortly after being cast as one of the season's antagonists, and rather than recast, they wrote it into her character.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_417e5cac	comment	All Creatures Great and Small (1978) had lead character James Herriot confined to the vet's surgery for a while after actor Christopher Timothy injured his leg. Conveniently, Herriot had something similar happen to him in the original books after an especially uncooperative carthorse punted him halfway across a farmyard.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: When series lead Jared Padalecki injured his wrist in a stunt, the injury was explained by his character being tackled during a fight with a zombie, explaining the presence of a cast for the next four episodes. The next episode filmed features much less of Padalecki's character, Sam, because post-wrist surgery, Padalecki was prescribed painkillers that left him a little loopy. Similarly, when Padalecki injured his shoulder (apparently caused by off-screen shenanigans that involved wrestling with fellow actor Osric Chau) and needed to wear a sling, several episodes involved poking fun at Sam for getting his shoulder injured off-screen in a Noodle Incident between Padalecki's character, Sam, Misha Collins' character, Castiel, and a demon.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_43ce5692	comment	In Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio cut his hand on broken glass during the filming of a scene. The scene is left in, and also explains why Calvin Candie has a bandage around his hand for the remainder of his scenes.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_44127c7c	comment	The only Power Ranger that has ever been killed off on the show is Kendrix Morgan after actress Valerie Vernon collapsed on the set of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy and was diagnosed with leukemia. (It seems insensitive, but the series takes place on a space station, and there are no Peace Conferences in the Lost Galaxy. And she dies with an epic Heroic Sacrifice.) Her character returns to life in the Grand Finale and, fortunately, the actress recovered â€” in time to film the Reunion Show, even.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_457b671e	comment	On 24, Carlos Bernard injured his ankle playing basketball, and hence, his character Tony Almeida hurt his own ankle and started using crutches. Because a season of 24 takes place over the course of a day, Tony was still using crutches long after Carlos Bernard's ankle had healed.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_4617a9f2	comment	On Married... with Children, Katey Sagal, the actress who played Peggy, became pregnant, and the show's writers worked it into the storyline by making Peg pregnant, much to Al's chagrin since their two kids were young adults by that point. Most of the plot lines of the sixth season centered around the pregnancy, until Sagal's tragic miscarriage forced the producers to backtrack. The pregnancy was explained as being a dream Al had. The second time Sagal became pregnant, the writers had Peg return to Wanker County to try and reunite her divorced parents, and then set out to find her missing father. When Peg did appear, she was shown sitting in the backseat of a limousine, talking to her family on the phone, or other situations that filmed only the top half of Sagal's body. When Sagal was ready to return to work (thankfully, her pregnancy was successful this time), an entire episode was dedicated to Peg's return.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: When Sonia Manzano (Maria) became pregnant in 1987, it was not only written into the show but resulted in one of the show's landmark changes, Maria and Luis's marriage. Since an illegitimate pregnancy would hardly have been well received by the target audience's parents, the show-runners gave the two Fix-It Shop owners, who were previously Just Friends, a Relationship Upgrade to have Maria safely married before Manzano's pregnancy would start showing. Her pregnancy was then used to teach young viewers about birth, and eventually, her real daughter Gabriela became Maria and Luis's daughter Gabi, playing the role throughout the first years of her life until a professional child actress replaced her.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_46eb42f2	comment	Near the end of the fourth season of Everwood Bright is seen wearing a sling for five episodes with the explanation being that he broke his hand in a failed attempt to karate chop a piece of wood in half. In reality, actor Chris Pratt sliced a tendon in his hand while cutting apart frozen elk steaks.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_47607004	comment	The first chief medical examiner on The Closer, Dr. Crippen, made several appearances in a wheelchair when James Avery injured his foot.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_47a34a01	comment	During the filming of the tenth episode of the original Kamen Rider, actor Hiroshi Fujioka (who also portrayed Segata Sanshiro in the Japanese marketing campaign for the Sega Saturn) was thrown from his motorcycle after crashing into a telephone pole, breaking both of his legs. How do you fix up the plot when your main character has just crippled himself? Easy; Create another Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider-2! This was because Fujioka did his own stunts, up to and including wearing the Kamen Rider suit. After this, however, it was required for all tokusatsu program leads to have a separate suit actor for fight scenes to prevent a problem like this from occurring again.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_4d04208	comment	The Andy Griffith Show: One of the most visible and popular characters was Floyd Lawson, aka "Floyd the Barber". During the series' third season, Howard McNear, the actor who played him, suffered a major stroke, which left him unable to walk. Special accommodations were made to allow McNear to continue his role, usually by having him sit in a chair at the shop or by having him lean against an unseen stand (to make it appear he was working); although there were times his speech was slurred, McNear remained on the show as long as his health continued. Floyd the Barber makes appearances through the end of the 1966-1967 season when failing health no longer allowed McNear to continue; he died in 1969, less than a year after the final show aired.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_4ec6798d	comment	During filming of the climactic shooting gallery scene in The Wild Wild West's "The Night of the Avaricious Actuary", Ross Martin broke his leg (which is why he's replaced with a very obvious double in most of said scene). The injury was written into the next episode to be filmed, "The Night of the Juggernaut" (Martin sports a walking cast in this and "The Night of the Kraken", the next episode made).
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Written-In Infirmity / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena: Warrior Princess: In season 3, when Gabrielle broke her ankle trying to imitate Xena's somersaults, Renee O'Connor really did break her ankle during shooting. Then Gabrielle was poisoned by Persians.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_54790179	comment	For a few episodes of Family Feud in 1978, host Richard Dawson wore tinted glasses after scratching his eye. (He wore the same glasses while serving as a panelist on Match Game.) Later on, he wore a brace due to injuring his ribs in a car accident, and on one episode, asked contestant coordinator Caryn Lucas to host a question while he went to adjust the brace.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_54aab83e	comment	In Murder on the Orient Express (2017) Judi Dench, due to her failing eyesight, is most often sitting down, and guided by Olivia Colman, who plays her maid, when she does have to walk.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_5562da6a	comment	3rd Rock from the Sun: In the third season, John Lithgow (Dick) broke his leg playing tennis. Dick (who never stands in the episode immediately after the accident) rides a wheelchair down the stairs breaking his leg. This is complicated because Dick had already sprained his ankle in season two. (Most plots revolve around the characters learning about some aspect of life on Earth, like say getting injured.)
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Written-In Infirmity / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The first sketches of the Middle-Earth universe, as well as the earliest versions of The Fall of Gondolin and Beren and LÃºthien, were written by J. R. R. Tolkien when he was in the hospital, on sick-leave after surviving the Battle of Somme.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_5a3533fe	comment	Season 2 of My Name Is Earl had a storyline where Joy became a surrogate for her estranged half-sister (as well as to get sympathy from the jury in her upcoming trial). This was written in to accommodate Jaime Pressly's real-life pregnancy.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_5b18983b	comment	On Ghostwriter, David LÃ³pez, who played Alex, had a broken leg at the start of the episode "Into the Comics". However, this isn't a plot point apart from a few throwaway lines and progressively heals until he's running without any problem in the final act.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: Stargate SG-1: Vaitiare Bandera, who played Sha're, Daniel's wife, in the first few seasons of the show, was heavily pregnant with Michael Shanks' child when it came time to bring the character back. The writers managed to turn the child into a huge plot point for the next couple of seasons. Claudia Black (Vala Mal Doran) also got pregnant around the time of the end of the same season, but it was an unintentional subversion of the trope: they were already planning on a story that involved her getting pregnant so they were happy they wouldn't have to use special effects for it. The character's daughter is very, very evil. However, she got pregnant with her second child just before filming began for the last SG-1 movie Continuum, which the writers had not anticipated. They had to resort to things like having her wear an outsized camouflage jacket and carry a big sci-fi gun in her first scene, to having her sitting and with things obstructing the camera's view of her stomach in most of her other scenes. Since she was actually near the end of her second trimester, neither approach really worked and it's still very noticeable. In Stargate Atlantis, Rachel Luttrell (Teyla Emmagan) became pregnant too. This also got written into the plot and involved her character getting pregnant via her unseen boyfriend and then her later kidnapping by Michael, a Wraith that the Atlantis team made somewhat human against his will. After he was born, Michael kept trying to kidnap them, turning her into a woman in distress instead of her previous Action Girl. Until she kicked his sorry ass off of the central tower of Atlantis and earned her label back.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_6065fc7e	comment	This trope was parodied in Stuck on You, where a conjoined twin wants to be an actor but his brother has stage fright. The film then shows executives trying to work around this, first by incorporating him into the environment, then by putting him in a Blue Screen suit.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_61339eee	comment	While filming Das Boot, Jan Fedder lost his footing and was severely injured as he was swept off the set. His role was partly rewritten so that his character was bedridden for a portion of the film.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_625e571	comment	Law & Order: Criminal Intent had Alexandra Eames get pregnant at the same time Kathryn Erbe was. The storyline was that Eames was having a surrogate child for her sister. Another Temporary Substitute, G. Lynn Bishop, was brought in, but unlike Beck, no attempt was made to give her any meaning. It almost seemed like they were writing her to intentionally be disliked, in part because Eames is Goren's Living Emotional Crutch; it was a plot point that he was missing her terribly.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic During the filming of his review of Alone in the Dark (2005), Doug Walker developed a throat infection that made him almost inaudible. To compensate, he claimed that the movie was so bad that it had caused him to lose his voice and did his part of the review using a text-to-speech program. It actually came out even funnier. Similarly, when he lost his voice during The Good Son review, he did the entire review with subtitles for the footage and Talking with Signs for himself. Happened again, causing him to postpone an update and instead do a brief sketch in which Ma-ti encounters Doug's character from Ask That Guy with the Glasses (who does not speak for the duration).
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Written-In Infirmity / int_64bdc2ed	comment	In the film version of You Can't Take It With You, Lionel Barrymore's arthritis had worsened to the point that he performed his role on crutches. Frank Capra added a few lines of dialogue to explain that the character had sprained his ankle sliding down a banister. In later film roles, Barrymore performed from a wheelchair.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_657b4c67	comment	Mandalay: Lyle Talbot (aka Love Interest Dr. Burton) had an accident before the film's production began, so the writers had to tweak an In-Universe reason for his head bandage. In the film, his character does that to himself because he's The Alcoholic.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_6ab79c14	comment	In Bend It Like Beckham, main character Jess has a huge scar on her right thigh that's visible whenever she's wearing her football shorts. Parminder Nagra accidentally set the right leg of her pants (which were made of polyester) on fire as a child while helping her mother prepare dinner. Her uncle put out the flames and placed her in the bathtub to begin dousing the injury with cold water (which was good), but then made the mistake of taking her pants off (which was bad). Most of the skin of her thigh came with them, resulting in a substantial scar. The film's director Gurinder Chadha decided not to even try and mask it, instead making it part of Jess's backstory as well, pretty much unchanged except changing the uncle to Jess' big sister and main character Pinky.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_6b3b8320	comment	Wiseguy. When actor Ken Wahl broke his ankle in an on-set accident, this was written into the arc as the protagonist being hit by a cab (explaining the limp), then subsequently having his leg broken by loan-shark Johnny "Coke Bottles". A Suspiciously Similar Substitute character (OCB agent John Henry Raglin) was then brought in to replace Wahl for the Garment Trade arc.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_6c54dcc4	comment	During the filming of his review of Alone in the Dark (2005), Doug Walker developed a throat infection that made him almost inaudible. To compensate, he claimed that the movie was so bad that it had caused him to lose his voice and did his part of the review using a text-to-speech program. It actually came out even funnier.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Grayza's outrageously massive (and tattoo-decorated) pregnancy in the Farscape Wrap It Up "The Peacekeeper Wars" was because Rebecca Riggs had decided to have a career break and a child when the show was canceled. Considering that her character had raped the hero in the previous season, this led to much Wild Mass Guessing about the in-canon paternity of the offspring...
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Written-In Infirmity / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Vaitiare Bandera, who played Sha're, Daniel's wife, in the first few seasons of the show, was heavily pregnant with Michael Shanks' child when it came time to bring the character back. The writers managed to turn the child into a huge plot point for the next couple of seasons. Claudia Black (Vala Mal Doran) also got pregnant around the time of the end of the same season, but it was an unintentional subversion of the trope: they were already planning on a story that involved her getting pregnant so they were happy they wouldn't have to use special effects for it. The character's daughter is very, very evil. However, she got pregnant with her second child just before filming began for the last SG-1 movie Continuum, which the writers had not anticipated. They had to resort to things like having her wear an outsized camouflage jacket and carry a big sci-fi gun in her first scene, to having her sitting and with things obstructing the camera's view of her stomach in most of her other scenes. Since she was actually near the end of her second trimester, neither approach really worked and it's still very noticeable.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: During production of season 4, Nana Visitor (Major Kira) got pregnant with the child of co-star Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir). The writers had already begun a plotline about Keiko O'Brien being pregnant, and so they wrote an episode where a medical emergency forces Dr. Bashir to transplant Keiko's unborn baby into Kira's uterus. There was even a bit of Lampshade Hanging on the subject — in a later episode, an irate Kira tells Bashir that her situation is his fault.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_754dc5c1	comment	The Hollywood Squares: Guest celebrities who had physical ailments were invariably placed in one of the three lowest squares. This worked out for Cliff Arquette (aka Charley Weaver), the lower-lefthand celebrity during the original NBC daytime show after he suffered a stroke in 1973 and had to use a wheelchair the rest of his life.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_75f553ac	comment	The Deuce: Inverted with Harvey Wasserman, who is fat in the first season because actor David Krumholtz had gained a large amount of weight due to the side effects of getting his thyroid removed. By the time the second season had begun filming, Krumholtz had dropped the extra weight, leaving his character suddenly rail-thin. The show wrote in that Harvey got a new girlfriend, who forced him to diet between seasons. Harvey is still whining that he wants "real food," but is also heard bragging about losing 94 lbs to colleagues at a party.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_77e84827	comment	Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger had Yousuke's arm in a cast after his cockpit exploded, to explain an injury that the actor had suffered while filming a stunt.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld: When Jerry Seinfeld had laryngitis, his character made a comment about losing his voice after performing a very rowdy set. In another episode, Elaine screams at a barking dog all night. Julia Louis-Dreyfus injured her voice filming that scene, so her character was given the same injury.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_78b8e562	comment	Michael Zaslow, who played David Renaldi on One Life to Live, was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease and confined to a wheelchair. The character, who was absent from the show for several years, was given the same diagnosis when he returned. Also a case of The Character Died with Him, as David was written to have passed away in 1998 when Zaslow did.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_7a380f3b	comment	Occurs in General Hospital when actress Lynn Herring got pregnant. Like her character, Lucy Coe was single, it was written that she would be the surrogate mother for ex-lover Scott and his dying (of cancer) wife Dominique. Since then, other GH actresses have had their pregnancies written into the story, with actress Sofia Mattson's pregnancy in 2021, being the most recent example.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: During production of season 4, Nana Visitor (Major Kira) got pregnant with the child of co-star Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir). The writers had already begun a plotline about Keiko O'Brien being pregnant, and so they wrote an episode where a medical emergency forces Dr. Bashir to transplant Keiko's unborn baby into Kira's uterus. There was even a bit of Lampshade Hanging on the subject — in a later episode, an irate Kira tells Bashir that her situation is his fault. Star Trek: Voyager: When Roxann Dawson became pregnant, it was mostly camouflaged and her character B'Elanna Torres wasn't portrayed as pregnant. However, in the two-parter "The Killing Game," where the characters' memories are erased and they're forced to participate in a deadly World War II simulation, her character's character Brigitte is portrayed as pregnant.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_82439e64	comment	In The Office (US), Jenna Fischer's pregnancy was written into the eighth season for her character Pam. It wasn't a big deal since at that point she was already married with one child; she and Jim just decided to have another kid. Ironically, Angela becomes pregnant during the same season as well, but her actress, Angela Kinsey, wasn't actually pregnant in real life. This makes Angela's dig at how Pam's pregnancy is bigger than hers more hilarious, considering Kinsey was only using a prop pillow, while Fischer was already several months pregnant by the season premiere.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_8529459f	comment	An episode of El Chavo del ocho has Chespirito with a bandaged hand (due to broken fingers). In-universe, Don RamÃ³n mentions that El Chavo broke his fingers last week from playing with his hammer.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_87681db3	comment	Working Girl has a scene explaining the origin of Harrison Ford's chin scar. He says he'd cut himself shaving.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_876c7452	comment	Robert Guillaume suffered an off-set stroke during the filming of the first season of Sports Night. The writers quickly whipped up a storyline where Guillaume's character Isaac Jaffe fails to show up for an out-of-town business meeting, causing everyone to panic. It turns out that Jaffe was hospitalized after he had suffered a stroke at the airport on the way to said meeting. When Guillaume returned to filming, Jaffe's storyline dealt with how having the stroke had affected his life.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_880cfa15	comment	In Hogan's Heroes, Robert Clary (Lebeau) always wore long-sleeved clothes to cover up the serial number he had received in childhood at the concentration camp of Buchenwald.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_89fa77a	comment	An unusual reversal of this trope happened in Coronation Street. The character Sally Webster had a storyline where she battles breast cancer. Turns out that the actress who plays her, Sally Whittaker, discovered she had breast cancer as a result of researching the storyline for the role. She says that she would never have noticed if the storyline hadn't been given to her, so the show effectively saved her life.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_8e0312e6	comment	RuPaul's Drag Race UK: Season 1's makeover challenge involved the contestants turning one of their family members into a member of their "drag family," and Divina DeCampo's partner, her sister, was pregnant at the time. Not only was no attempt made at hiding this, but Divina incorporated a fake baby bump into her own outfit so that they'd match. RuPaul dubbed the baby as "the youngest contestant in Drag Race herstory."
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Written-In Infirmity / int_92cfb0f8	comment	During the second season of What's Happening!!, Danielle Spencer (Dee) was involved in a serious car accident that led to spinal problems. To accommodate her, she remained seated in many of her subsequent scenes to minimize physical exertion, and her hair was styled to cover up damage to her forehead.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_950c5eaf	comment	In 2022, Jessie Gender had facial harmonization surgery. In the weeks following it, she wore a fake beard until the swelling went down.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_99709ae6	comment	On Motherland: Fort Salem, Raelle getting sucked into the Mycelium in season 3 was written in due to Taylor Hickson having to recover from a car crash during shooting season. Raelle is absent or has a very reduced presence in several episodes.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_9a56099	comment	In A League of Their Own, the actresses insisted on performing their own stunts and several were injured filming the baseball scenes, with no attempt made to cover them up as it made them more realistic as having been playing for some time. In a montage, we see one player sporting a ginormous bloody bruise on her thigh that was very much real. Actress Renee Coleman said it took a year for it to fully go away.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_9bb59653	comment	The third season of The Blacklist saw star Megan Boone become pregnant; and her character of Elizabeth Keen became pregnant as well. A lot of early drama was whether or not she would give the baby up for adoption.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_9ce851a3	comment	Baby Jamie on Malcolm in the Middle came to be as a result of Jane Kaczmarek's real-life pregnancy in Season 4. Lois also went to stay with her sister so Jane Kaczmarek could have maternity leave.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_9eb9a191	comment	In the WWII-era film The Train, the main character Labiche, played by Burt Lancaster, is shot in the leg. This was added because Lancaster had injured his knee playing golf, but it serves to make the final scenes of the film even more tense and exciting.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_9f1766e4	comment	An in-universe example happens on The Brady Bunch when Peter is cast as Benedict Arnold in a school play. He grows tired of his classmates jeering him for playing a traitor, so to get out of the play, he fakes a limp and tells the director that he injured his leg. Unfortunately for him, she's delighted to hear that, since Benedict Arnold had a limp in real life and thus it would fit in perfectly.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_a1d89056	comment	Zoe Hart (Hart of Dixie) became with child in the 2014-2015 season as a result of Rachel Bilson being pregnant for reals.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing: John Spencer, who played chief of staff Leo McGarry, had suffered from heart troubles. When the time came for him to resign from his position in-show, his character had a heart attack. He later wound up being named as a vice presidential nominee in the show's final season, but during the course of filming the final season (during which his character's health and capacity to continue such a grueling campaign schedule was repeatedly questioned by the press), Spencer suffered a fatal heart attack. The first new episode after his death again prominently featured Leo and included some very uncomfortable lines when viewed with the knowledge of what had happened — which even the most shut-in viewer had, as Martin Sheen recorded a touching tribute to Spencer at the start of the episode. Stockard Channing broke her ankle hiking in 2001, so her character was promptly given a similar injury to explain why she was wearing a cast. Martin Sheen has limited movement in his left arm, which is why he puts on his suit coat with that characteristic flipping gesture. In "Two Cathedrals," the younger Jed does it as well (the movement is used to link the two time periods).
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Written-In Infirmity / int_a70ced0c	comment	The eponymous host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah lost his voice in December 2018 and was informed by a doctor that he couldn't speak at all or he would need surgery. He still continued to host the show for those several weeks his throat needed to recover, with the writers coming up with ways to have fun with it without making fun of the potentially life-threatening situation such as by having him use a text-to-speech app to conduct interviews with guests via Siri, or having lines about Noah's childhood as a mixed-race boy growing up in apartheid South Africa be read verbatim by the other show correspondents (invariably white) while Noah himself goofed off behind them.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_b0b22636	comment	Wheel of Fortune: Host Pat Sajak came down with laryngitis during a week of taping in 1996. On an episode that week, he and Vanna White traded places during the Bonus Round; on another, he used hand signals throughout a round. Contestants who are unable to spin the wheel due to a disability are allowed to bring on a friend or family member to spin for them. Obviously, unless it's a themed week with two-player teams, the "designated spinner" is not allowed to do anything else but spin.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live has had a number of women perform on the show while pregnant, both guest hosts and cast members. Some musical guests (such as Cardi B) have appeared on the show while pregnant, but they don't normally appear in sketches so this trope is unnecessary. Ana Gasteyer was the first cast member to become pregnant while on the show. Her pregnancy was worked into a number of sketches, including a commercial for a pregnancy test (despite being pretty far along). Maya Rudolph's first pregnancy was ignored at first as she wasn't very far along before the season finale. The following season, she appeared in one episode before going on maternity leave and played a pregnant woman in one sketch. Tina Fey appeared on the show during both of her pregnancies. She was a cast member during the first one, but working it into the sketches wasn't necessary since her only onscreen appearances were as an anchor on "Weekend Update". She would later host during her second pregnancy which was worked into not only a sketch (which took place in Lamaze class) but her monologue as well (where she and an also pregnant Maya Rudolph sang a dedication to their unborn children). Amy Poehler played a pregnant woman in a few sketches during her pregnancy. She also played a woman who gained a lot of weight due to trying Michael Phelps' diet. While hosting in 2022, Keke Palmer revealed she was pregnant during her monologue. She would play a pregnant woman in a couple of sketches, including a Kenan & Kel reboot (where she says Kel is the father) and a sketch where she gets an ultrasound.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_b36a8308	comment	In Fido. Carrie-Anne Moss' real-life pregnancy was written into the film, where her character mentions being pregnant, and the husband commenting that he can't afford to pay for another funeral.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_b5ad49c5	comment	According to a myth, Kryptonite was first introduced because Bud Coulier (the actor playing Superman) had a cold or something like thatâ€¦
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ba4b64f1	comment	A rare non-fiction example is Mick Aston, an archaeology professor who co-hosted Time Team. He spent part of one series laid up with a broken leg, but rather than bring in a temporary replacement they simply had him work from home, discussing this episode's dig with Audience Surrogate Tony Robinson over the telephone.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ba9a9454	comment	While filming a chase scene in Se7en, Brad Pitt severed a tendon in his hand and had to wear a cast. A scene was added to the film showing Mills had broken his arm while pursuing John Doe.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_bbe33e8a	comment	In Northern Exposure, Shelly's pregnancy and the birth of her daughter were written in because of Cynthia Geary's real-world pregnancy. (Hard to hide since, as in many examples on the page, Geary was conventionally small and skinny as a Hollywood actress and hence her pregnancy was extremely noticeable.)
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Written-In Infirmity / int_bbfffed	comment	Since it's a very physical occupation, bumps, bruises, and injuries that linger the next week tend to get written in as part of the storyline; frequent ones are quad and hamstring injuries, which will be commentated on-air to help explain lesser mobility (the wrestler will also sport medical tape on the injured body part, but on the uninjured leg, so heels can attack it ruthlessly to aid the story while not actually hitting the injured muscle). Also happens out of universe; for example, when Alberto Del Rio was involved in a legitimate bar fight one night and suffered a hideous black eye, the commentators simply remarked that he got it during his match the previous week.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_bf3a0285	comment	Poppy Montgomery of Without a Trace was a trickier example than most since her character Sam not only was not in a relationship but was implied to be more or less Married to the Job. The writers had Sam conceive from a one-night stand with a bartender, and for the last two seasons of the show, the plot was wrung for drama and Ship Tease.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who is enough of a Long Runner that there have been multiple instances of this: William Hartnell was injured in an accident on-set during the recording of "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", and was unable to perform in the next episode. The episode was rewritten so that the Doctor was unconscious throughout (with a filmed-from-behind extra doubling for Hartnell) and his role in the episode was divided between other characters. Hartnell again had to be written out of Episode Three of his final serial, "The Tenth Planet", after he sent a telegram to the production team informing them that he was too ill to work. As a result, he collapses (a body double shot from behind) at the start of the episode and remains unconscious throughout. His dialogue was reassigned to other characters, chiefly companion Ben Jackson. It actually made sense in-universe as the First Doctor was supposed to be on his last legs, on the verge of regeneration, and indeed the First Doctor's onscreen frailties mirrored the real-life health problems that were forcing Hartnell to step down from the role. Thankfully, both Hartnell and (in-universe) the First Doctor managed to revive themselves for one last hurrah in Episode Four before regenerating. Frazer Hines's character Jamie McCrimmon had to be temporarily recast with actor Hamish Wilson for Episode 2 of "The Mind Robber" due to Hines having contracted chickenpox. Luckily, the surreal nature of the story allowed an easy script addition (while trapped in the Land of Fiction, the Doctor has to reconstruct Jamie's face from memory but gets it wrong) and the temporary recast. During the filming of the story before "The Pirate Planet" Tom Baker's lip was bitten by a dog, so in-story the Doctor hit his face on the TARDIS console. While not in the show itself, publicity shots for the serial show him making the most of the injury by wearing a sticking plaster for dark skin that stands out on his face, giving the impression of him having a funny skew-whiff moustache. Adric appears slightly ropey at the end of "Castrovalva", not because of the ordeal he suffered at the hands of the Master, but because Matthew Waterhouse had too much to drink the night before and filmed those scenes while suffering from a hangover. In "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel", John Lumic was rewritten into an Evil Cripple when his actor, Roger Lloyd-Pack, broke his leg shortly before filming was set to begin. In "The Time of the Doctor", Matt Smith's final episode, the Eleventh Doctor is seen walking with a cane after a Time Skip because Smith had injured his leg just before filming. This was going to be explained as a stone leg caused by Angel attacks, or a wooden leg caused by another incident, but the scene explaining it was cut. A later spin-off book, Tales of Trenzalore, went with the wooden leg option.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_c94b0000	comment	Before filming began for the 11th season of NYPD Blue, Charlotte Ross got pregnant, which made things difficult since her character Connie McDowell had previously been established as infertile due to complications from a teen pregnancy. The writers got around this with a rather mild retcon, revealing that her doctor previously told her it would be almost impossible for her to get pregnant.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire occasionally references Omar's prominent facial scar, which Michael K. Williams received in a bar fight.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ca677a95	comment	Little House on the Prairie: In the spring of 1978, Karl Swenson, who played beloved town founder and mill owner Lars Hanson, became terminally ill, and it took a very noticeable toll on his appearance and energy. At the same time, Michael Landon had commissioned a five-week-long story arc where — building on the 1977-1978 finale — Walnut Grove greatly suffers the ill effects of an economic depression, prompting the Ingalls, Olesons, and Garveys to move to Winoka for a better opportunity. It was decided that, given Swenson's failing health, the character of Mr. Hanson would play a key role in the final part of the episode's story, where he suffers a massive stroke and, bedridden, bitterly concedes the death of his town and wishes for his death. All of Hanson's scenes show him either in bed or — in the final scene — walking and talking with great difficulty. His death — told as happening shortly after the events of the episode — was written in with the expectation he was not coming back. He didn't; at age 70, Swenson died of a heart condition. The 1976 episode "Bunny" focused on Nellie pretending to be paralyzed after falling from a horse that Laura had sold to Mr. Oleson. Shortly before filming began, Alison Arngrim (who played Nellie) broke her arm and rather than wait for the arm to heal (thus delaying production), Arngrim's broken arm was written in as an additional injury.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ccae327f	comment	The Spoony Experiment Noah Antwiler put his injuries to good use; his E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial review was done while he was on painkillers and recovering from dental surgery, making his seeming madness more realistic. He also had to concentrate on doing vlogs and Lets Plays for a few months after suffering a Jones fracture. This was caused by nothing more than setting his foot down wrong, giving him something of a reputation for having fragile bones. Ironically, Spoony's commentary for Kickassia reveals that he was pretty much the only person (including cameraman Rob Walker) who got through the arduous shoot unscathed.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ccf875f7	comment	In Criminal Minds A.J Cook got pregnant and it was written into the show, with her real-life son playing her on-screen son Henry. When she became pregnant again and Jennifer Love Hewitt was also pregnant, both were written in, though Jennifer left the show because of it.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ce51981d	comment	During filming of a basketball episode of Workaholics Adam Devine tore his ACL, resulting in him being written into the hospital. This flowed perfectly with the episode, as it was played off as the result of his taking PCP supplied by Karl.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_d240c96f	comment	EastEnders: Sal is seen walking with a frame during Peggy's funeral, as Anna Karen had a bad fall.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003): Michael Trucco suffered a major spinal injury in a car crash, resulting in Sam Anders's bullet to the head in mid-late Season 4 and spending the rest of the series in either a hospital bed or a Hybrid tub. Trucco went on to make a near-miraculous full recovery and so Anders was able to become an Action Hero again in the post-series movie The Plan. For the record, his injury was almost the same as that of Christopher Reeve, who didn't recover.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_d4fdfff4	comment	George Clooney on ER sprained his ankle prior to filming the Season 3 episode "Whose Appy Now?" Ergo, so his character Doug had one. This resulted in a hilarious Irony as She Is Cast moment when he and Kerry are limping down the hall in tandem and she snaps at him before he explains his predicament. Her limp is the fake one, as Laura Innes is not disabled in Real Life.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_d8cdd857	comment	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Michael Hurst broke his arm while filming the Xena: Warrior Princess episode "Prometheus", which was acknowledged in that episode's Couch Gag. The injury was written into the episode "Cast a Giant Shadow" as a result of "a little torture" to justify his cast in subsequent episodes.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_dbf18509	comment	Jeopardy!! makes frequent use of the Clue Crew to deliver video clues in pertinent categories. One use that fit this trope was when Clue Crew member Sarah Whitcomb Foss had her real-life pregnancy worked into a video category on pregnancy that aired on September 18, 2013.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ddeddf10	comment	In War of the Worlds (2005), Miranda Otto played the remarried ex-wife of the hero, and nearly backed out as she was pregnant. Steven Spielberg convinced her to stay and worked her pregnancy into the story.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: Season 3 sees Snow and Charming deciding to have a second child that they could actually experience raising was written into the series to explain Ginnifer Goodwin's real-world pregnancy (by the actor who played Charming, cutely enough). Emilie de Ravin's pregnancy becomes a plot point in Season 5 when Belle and Rumple fear for the safety of their child. Belle gets put under a Sleeping Curse to allow them to make the passage of time vague so she could start appearing with the bump.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: James Marsters has a scar on his left eyebrow from a mugging. This was written into the canon, with his character Spike getting cut in the same spot while fighting a Chinese Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion. The Expanded Universe explanation for why the scar persisted when vampires normally have a Healing Factor is that the sword she used was blessed by a dragon.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_e4732abc	comment	In Stargate Atlantis, Rachel Luttrell (Teyla Emmagan) became pregnant too. This also got written into the plot and involved her character getting pregnant via her unseen boyfriend and then her later kidnapping by Michael, a Wraith that the Atlantis team made somewhat human against his will. After he was born, Michael kept trying to kidnap them, turning her into a woman in distress instead of her previous Action Girl. Until she kicked his sorry ass off of the central tower of Atlantis and earned her label back.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_e5c6748d	comment	The Three Stooges faced such a situation when they were about to film You Nazty Spy! when Larry Fine injured his foot just before shooting and had to walk with a noticeable limp. Fortunately, this was perfect for his role as a parody of Josef Goebbels, who himself walked with a limp due to a clubfoot.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_e936047a	comment	The Hey Arnold! episode "Gerald's Tonsils" was created when Gerald's voice actor hit puberty. Rather than replace him with another boy (or a grown woman), they simply gave his character tonsillitis to explain the change in voice.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ebcf42fa	comment	During the filming of the Polish series Czterej pancerni i pies (Four tank-men and a dog), one of the actors took a nap on the ground and was hit by a truck. Of course, this was a series about war, so a plot where the tank is hit was plausible enough.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ebd9438d	comment	In Atomic Kitten's video "The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)", Natasha Hamilton was eight months pregnant and no attempt was made to hide it. In fact, the dance moves the girls used were choreographed to accommodate the baby bump.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_edaa765e	comment	For Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, they added a scene in which young Indy uses a whip for the first time and accidentally slashes himself across the chin with it to explain Indy's scar.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_edb4e494	comment	Cactus Jack was angry that WCW didn't do anything with him losing his ear in a match with Vader in Germany in 1994.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: When Roxann Dawson became pregnant, it was mostly camouflaged and her character B'Elanna Torres wasn't portrayed as pregnant. However, in the two-parter "The Killing Game," where the characters' memories are erased and they're forced to participate in a deadly World War II simulation, her character's character Brigitte is portrayed as pregnant.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother had an odd example with Alyson Hannigan's second pregnancy. It wasn't hidden, but only because her character Lily was already pregnant. A couple seasons earlier, the show had gone to great lengths to hide her first pregnancy.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: RJ Mitte, who plays Walt Jr, has cerebral palsy as does his character. However, Mitte's palsy is far less severe so he had to alter his speech and learn to walk with crutches.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_f15f622e	comment	Dana Elcar's character in MacGyver became severely visually impaired from glaucoma when Elcar developed the condition.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed (1998) - Holly Marie Combs was pregnant during Season 6, which was quite amusing as Piper had been pregnant the previous season. There was a long-standing rumor that Chris was going to be revealed as Phoebe's Kid from the Future when real life made him Piper's; However, Word of God said that it was already the plan and Holly's pregnancy was "convenient timing".
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Written-In Infirmity / int_f3464a68	comment	Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: Since Shia LaBeouf injured his arm in a car accident during production, Sam Witwicky injured his arm after Jetfire teleported them into the desert.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_f655ed11	comment	On Frasier, Jane Leeves' first pregnancy (in 2000) could not be worked into the plot, as it happened at the very beginning of her long-awaited relationship with Niles. Instead, the writers created a plot about her gaining weight uncontrollably and taking a sabbatical at a health retreat to combat the problem.note Much like the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, this was given a major lampshade hanging — the day Leeves gave birth, the cast was filming at the NBC lot. The writers wrote into the script a call from Daphne to Niles, with him announcing that her stay at the fat camp was paying off — she'd already lost 9 pounds 3 ounces (or something, whatever it was, it was a code to the audience about the baby having been born) Her second pregnancy (in 2003) was however written into the plot, as her character Daphne gave birth in the Grand Finale.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Phoebe in Friends chose to become a surrogate mother for her little brother because Lisa Kudrow became pregnant. This worked well when Kudrow was unable to fly to London where the season finale was being shot; this also the reason why Phoebe was forced to stay behind in New York.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: In the second season episode "The Geometry of Shadows", Claudia Christian's real-life broken foot was explained by having her character getting caught in the middle of an alien melee. Contrary to myth, she didn't break it on set; her very real cry of pain during that scene was caused by her landing awkwardly on her already-injured footnote Yes, that means she was walking around on a broken foot during the scene leading up to the fight. The following episode, "A Distant Star", managed to work her injury into a minor plot point. Very naturally used in the third season. While filming a fight scene for "Severed Dreams" actor Jerry Doyle broke his wrist. His character, Michael Garibaldi, was originally supposed to end up with an injured leg from that fight. This was quickly changed to match the actor's real-life injury (and in fact, due to the shooting schedule, he does briefly appear with a "leg injury"). To give him more time to heal, he was written completely out of "Sic Transit Vir", which wouldn't have given him a lot of screen time anyway. This, in turn, allowed Zack Allan, Garibaldi's lieutenant, to be fleshed out some. They also came up with an in-universe explanation for Garibaldi's hair thinning out (Jerry Doyle had been balding throughout filming) until he was bald from season four onwards: accidental exposure to exotic substances brought in by a smuggler.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_f8a7362	comment	Midnight Caller: Devon announces she is pregnant at the end of the second season after actress Wendy Kilbourne became pregnant.
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Written-In Infirmity / int_fa200411	comment	In Young Guns II, Chavez gets stabbed in the arm because Lou Diamond Phillips had a broken arm from an equestrian stunt gone wrong.
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