However, as it turns out, Carrie wasn’t meant to wear a tutu at all and studio bosses filmed an entirely different sequence – which saw SJP’s character dressed in something far more… well, far more ordinary.

“There were two wardrobes. One was the tutu, and we did one pass where Sarah Jessica [Parker] was wearing a blue dress and didn’t get splashed; instead, she trips when she sees the ad [on the bus for her column],” show creator Darren Star tells EW.

“In my mind, it was a nod to The Dick Van Dyke Show, but we didn’t use it. It’s in the archives.”

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