One lesson I learned early in my 727 career was, that on landing and you see a TV crew filming your arrival, don't both of us in the front seats be looking at the TV crew and forget to flare. (Oh, the FE was a lot of use, he was laughing his butt off, he could see what was getting ready to happen, but did he say anything,,,,,,,,,,,,,hell no. And yeah I bought the beers that night.)
The same could be said for landing at St. Maarten when young ladies only wearing bikini bottoms are standing on the seawall waving at you as you land, but somehow that is more forgivable.
All the test pilots I know are paid to make safe landings, not necessarily smooth landings.