{"id":21182,"date":"2015-10-10T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=21182"},"modified":"2015-10-09T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T23:14:15","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-worst-msted-movie-prop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=21182","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Discussion Thread: Worst MSTed Movie Prop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert regular Brandon says&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the films that got the MST3K treatment were made on shoestring budgets (and some got a lot less). So the filmmakers couldn&#8217;t construct elaborate sets or expensive CG effects&#8230;or build reasonable props. The list of bad props in MST films is a treasure trove of WTF? I always wonder if the filmmakers knew going in that these props looked unconvincing, or if they really thought an audience&#8217;s suspension of disbelief was great enough to override those shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>Worst props in an MST&#8217;d film. The chewed gum\/foil ball dead talker-thingy from The Dead Talk Back and that dingy paper circle calendar from Blood Waters of Dr. Z immediately stand out in my mind. What the hell was up with those?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to pick the monster in The Creeping Terror. Did they REALLY think that was scary?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your pick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert regular Brandon says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Many of the films that got the MST3K treatment were made on shoestring budgets (and some got a lot less). So the filmmakers couldn&#8217;t construct elaborate sets or expensive CG effects&#8230;or build reasonable props. The list of bad props in MST films is a treasure trove of WTF? I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msties","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}