The Rookie’s Eric Winter Drops F-Bomb in Season 7 Bloopers: Watch

Eric WinterTim Bradford is often the strong, stern type. The rookie — but the actor himself laughs a lot on set.

Winter, 49, can’t hold on Us every weekthe exclusive first look at the cast’s funniest antics during season 7, especially while riding in a police car with Melissa O’Neil. (O’Neil plays Tim’s love interest and former recruit Lucy Chen.)

“What’s on the road?” Winter asks before revving the car’s engine and making O’Neil, 37, burst out laughing.

Winter, embarrassed, admits, “It was terrible. I have to go back. I hated it.”

When he does another take, it doesn’t get any better. “What’s on the road?” » Winter asks, looking at his on-screen partner, who he then accuses of making fun of him.

“No, I didn’t laugh,” O’Neil replies before starting to laugh in the passenger seat.

Winter is defeated and admits, “I just did a bad reading and Melissa made fun of me. She made fun of me.”

While O’Neil playfully claims that it was “actually my fault” that he snapped during the scene, Winter takes ownership and shows off their fun dynamic.

“It’s good that she made fun of me, it was a bad reading,” he says in a self-deprecating tone. Winter then pretends to be O’Neil who scolds him, saying, “Psh, don’t do that again!”

O’Neil, for his part, is not immune to mistakes on camera. In a scene with Winter and Richard T. Jones as Captain Wade Grey, she gets caught up in his lines, muttering, “And the recruits followed them. No, the Wookiees!”

After catching herself, O’Neil apologizes, but Jones just laughs. “It’s okay, we all love Star Wars” he jokes, referring to the furry characters in the film franchise.

Despite O’Neil’s intergalactic mistake, Winter is the winner of the Season 7 blooper for dropping an f-bomb during a different scene.

“A little tough on the steak – stash”, You have a coxswainwho plays Nyla Harper, says that Winter and Nathan Fillionwho plays John Nolan, walks towards her at the LAPD station.

The moment she accidentally says “steak house,” Winter can no longer control herself. “F***! You can’t say steak is safe!” he shouts, instantly breaking character.

“Hold on, man,” Fillion, 54, says to his teammate, who just yells, “Steak, safe!”

Fillion teases, “You’re better than that,” grabbing Winter by the shoulder and bringing him back for another attempt at the stage.

We kicked off The rookieThe blooper reel rollout, which will continue as the series prepares for the season 8 premiere next year. The cast and channel will release 12 videos in total that will document the goofs, goofs, and laughs from Season 7 over the next week.

The rookie finished the 2024-25 broadcast season among the top five shows in adults 18-49 and was ranked the No. 1 drama series in the season demo, according to the Nielsen ratings.

These numbers were due in part to the crazy storylines that took over Season 7 — many of which will continue into Season 8, which premieres Tuesday, January 6.

During the May finale, fans and the LAPD learned that villainous Monica Stevens (Brigitte Regan) reached an immunity deal with the FBI for information she previously stole from police earlier in the season.

According to the showrunner Alexi HawleyMonica will return in the season 8 premiere, which will take some of the cast to Prague. Nolan (Fillion) and his wife, Bailey Nune (Jenna Dewan), will be part of the overseas cast, Hawley confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con in July, as will Harper (Cox) and Felix Solis“FBI Supervisory Special Agent Matt Garza, who has already left The recruit: the feds.

Related: ‘The Rookie’ Season 8 Questions Answered: Will Lucy Move In With Tim?

The Rookie finale brought back two villains, and Tim Bradford finally made his intentions with Lucy Chen known – but the episode left us with more questions than answers. During the Season 7 finale on Tuesday, May 13, Oscar Hutchinson (Matthew Glave) reappeared after escaping from prison in the Season 6 finale with the help of corrupt agents. […]

Season 8 will also answer questions about Tim (Winter) and Lucy’s (O’Neil) relationship after he asked her to move in with him, but she was sound asleep and didn’t hear the question.

“Cementing that conversation at the top of next season and figuring out what’s next” for “Chenford” is a top priority, Hawley said exclusively. We in May.

He teased: “Whatever the definition of endgame is, I think we’re getting there, for sure.”

Now that we’ve kicked off the rollout of The Rookie’s blooper reel, Nathan Fillion will be next to tickle your bones when he introduces the next reel for fans, followed by other videos premiering to celebrate the premiere of the new season on ABC on Tuesday, January 6 at 8 p.m. ET and the following day on HULU.