“The View” cohosts navigate on-air seating incident, switch spots over Joy Behar's faulty chair: 'It's your ass'

Behar famously has a storied history with "The View" seating, after tumbling out of her chair live on air in 2022.

Chair-based terrorism rang in the holiday season Wednesday morning on The View set, as furniture chaos sprung forth from the show's Thanksgiving seating arrangement and plagued the cohosts within the program's harrowing opening moments.

The cheery fall aesthetic of the program's seasonal set existed for mere seconds at the top of the live broadcast, before an issue with Joy Behar's chair pierced through the otherwise jovial pre-holiday atmosphere.

While Whoopi Goldberg took her seat at the head of the table without issue amid the festive décor, commotion was heard among the other cohosts as the Oscar-winning actress attempted to moderate the show's first Hot Topic of the day.

"Why is Joy so low?" Sara Haines asked, raising an initial alarm bell.

"I'm like, in a hole over here," Behar said, with her head barely visible over the show's Thanksgiving table decoration. "It's not the first time," Goldberg joked, while Behar lamented being in "the wrong seat" at the table.

"Come sit on my lap while I do this," Goldberg suggested as the audience laughed. More commotion followed, as Sunny Hostin got up from her post to address the situation. She moved toward Ana Navarro, who didn't take kindly to the live disruption.

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"I don't think it's the chair, I think it's your ass," Navarro observed.

Hostin then helped Behar settle into her chair, as Goldberg maneuvered out of the predicament by distracting the cohosts with treats, as celebrity chef Bobby Flay made his way to the table with Thanksgiving snacks, and the show soldiered on without a hitch.

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This is not Behar's first brush with chair-based horrors on the set of the show, as the 82-year-old memorably tumbled to the ground at the top of an episode in early 2022, when the swivel on her seat sent her crashing to the floor. The show later replaced the swiveling seats with fixed chairs to prevent further accidents.

Chaos phantoms apparently followed the comedian home, as she later revealed that she again "went flying" in her kitchen, months later.

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.