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<\/p>\nThe King of Queens ran for nine seasons on CBS between 1998 and 2007. The hit sitcom centered around Kevin James and Leah Remini as Doug and Carrie Heffernan, a married couple living in Queens, along with Carrie\u2019s eccentric father, Arthur (played by Jerry Stiller). Also featured prominently throughout the show\u2019s run was Doug\u2019s childhood friend, Spence Olchin, as portrayed by comedian Patton Oswalt. Spence had many memorable moments over the years, but one that really stands out in hindsight was an unscripted moment that went seemingly unnoticed until well after the episode first aired.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of the 2006 episode \u201cEmotional Rollercoaster,\u201d we find Doug celebrating his 40th birthday with some friends and family. Standing behind him in the scene as he opens his gifts is Spence, whose presence starts to become creepier and creepier the more you watch him. Before long, you\u2019ll come to the realization that he\u2019s the only one in the room who doesn\u2019t seem to be paying attention to anything or reacting to what\u2019s happening. He lingers there, motionless, for over two minutes, as if someone had hit the pause button and it had only affected his character. Even as the camera jumps to the next room to cover the conversations going on elsewhere, you can still spot him frozen in place like a statue looming ominously in the background. Take a look at the full scene below.<\/p>\n
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When somebody brought the subject up to him in 2011, Oswalt tweeted that he\u2019d forgotten about doing the scene, and referred to the footage as \u201ceerie\u201d:<\/p>\n
So what happened here exactly? Did he just zone out because he didn\u2019t have anything scripted to do, or was this some kind of intentional gag? In an interview for Howard Stern\u2019s Stern Show Summer School in 2022<\/a>, Oswalt briefly touched on the incident, explaining that working on The King of Queens was a blast for him because \u201call the writers were stoners.\u201d Furthermore, he said, there were always weird pranks going on during production.<\/p>\n Chief among them, evidently, was what we saw play out in the video above. As Oswalt tells it, \u201cThere\u2019s a scene where I\u2019m in it, but I don\u2019t have any lines, and they went, \u2018Do not move the whole scene. See if we can get away with it. See if anyone catches it,\u2019 And there\u2019s a scene [where] I am completely immobile through the whole scene.\u201d Well, we\u2019re happy to report that they did indeed get away with it, and we can all rest easier now knowing that we didn\u2019t actually witness Oswalt being possessed by those little girls from The Shining<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King of Queens ran for nine seasons on CBS between 1998 and 2007. The hit sitcom centered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[8615,1483,1482,9,24,63,8620,122,124,123,1868],"class_list":{"0":"post-119963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-jerry-stiller","9":"tag-kevin-james","10":"tag-leah-remini","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-patton-oswalt","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-the-king-of-queens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}