We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the most memorable times things went unexpectedly wrong on Saturday Night Live. Here are the hilarious, wild, and even controversial results.
1.When Bill Hader accidentally rearranged the entire set by running into it with his electric scooter in "Girlfriends Game Night," making everyone break character.
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2.When Kristen Stewart accidentally dropped the F-bomb during her 2017 monologue, and she immediately tried to recover by joking that she'll never come back to the show.
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3.When Kate McKinnon kept making Ryan Gosling laugh because of her absolutely wild alien abduction story in "Close Encounter."
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4.When Adrien Brody went off-book and introduced musical guest Sean Paul while wearing fake locs and speaking in Jamaican Patois, resulting in him allegedly being banned from the show.
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5.When Will Ferrell tried as hard as he could to distract Jimmy Fallon and make him laugh in "The Love-ahs" sketch, and it absolutely worked.
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6.When Kanye West was the musical guest in 2018 and went on a pro-Trump rant while on stage, and the cast was visibly uncomfortable.
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7.When Pete Davidson kept breaking during John Mulaney's Les Misérables parody in the "Diner Lobster" sketch.
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8.When Sinead O'Connor protested against the abuse of children in the Catholic Church by ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II while performing as the musical guest in 1992.
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9.When Candice Bergen's character was supposed to be much smarter than Gilda Radner's, but Candice kept messing up, and it played perfectly into the script.
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10.When a bunch of fake blood squirted into Leslie Jones' mouth during the "Gift Wrap" sketch, and she literally threw up.
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11.When the whole "Cork-soakers" sketch was a little too NSFW, causing Janet Jackson, Horatio Sanz, and Jimmy Fallon to get verrrrrrry close to breaking character several times.
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12.When Aidy Bryant's dresser got the wrong cue and accidentally walked on during the live sketch, and Aidy just couldn't stop laughing.
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13.When Chris Farley dove onto the table and broke it during the now-iconic "Van Down By the River" sketch.
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14.When Adele had such a big laughing fit during a problematic "Africa Tourism" sketch that she had to crouch down and hide from the camera.
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15.When Fred Armisen delivered terrible news in "The Californians," but Bill Hader completely lost it and kept laughing throughout the six-minute sketch.
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16.When Martin Lawrence went off-book during his 1994 monologue to inappropriately talk about feminine hygiene, which "nearly cost everyone at Saturday Night Live their jobs."
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17.And when Rachel Dratch made everyone laugh so hard that Horatio Sanz literally had to wipe away his tears with a Mickey Mouse waffle in "Debbie Downer."