Editing Blooper (section)

===United States===
The term "blooper" was popularized in the United States by television producer [[Kermit Schaefer]] in the 1950s; the terms "boner" (meaning a boneheaded mistake) and "breakdown" had been in common usage previously. Schaefer produced a long-running series of ''Pardon My Blooper!'' record albums in the 1950s and 1960s which featured a mixture of actual recordings of errors from television and radio broadcasts and re-creations. Schaefer also transcribed many reported bloopers into a series of books that he published up until his death in 1979.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

Schaefer was by no means the first to undertake serious study and collection of broadcast errata; [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]]'s short-lived "behind-the-scenes" series ''[[Behind the Mike]]'' (1940–42) occasionally featured reconstructions of announcers' gaffes and flubs as part of the "Oddities in Radio" segment, and movie studios such as [[Warner Brothers]] had been producing so-called "'''gag reels'''" of outtakes (usually for employee-only viewing) since the 1930s. As recently as 2003, the Warner Brothers Studio Tour included a screening of bloopers from classic films as part of the tour.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}