Flubs, trips, missed-marks, bum notes, dropped props: unfortunate things in theater. Things that an audience knows to let slide. Bumps in the road that, unless particularly grievous, are quickly forgotten by the viewers. Because we're good a figuring that out and giving leeway to those kind of accidents.
In improv, there's not script to forget, no blocking to mess up, no score to get lost in. So, then, everything that happens is exactly how it was supposed to happen.
There still are honest mistakes: a stutter, a trip, an accidental walk through a couch. These we can still just notice but disregard.
Everything else though, is being noticed, digested, and held on to as meaningful. In your talking heads scene were you and a partner are just arguing six feet from each other in who-knows-where, the audience is starving to find out more of the meaning of what they're seeing on stage. They want to see more context, more information. Do they need it? Not always need. But they do want it, and will be delighted to discover it.
Everything you do on stage looks intentional, so even if you're not thinking about it, the audience is.
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