{"id":24888,"date":"2017-08-26T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=24888"},"modified":"2017-08-25T20:24:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T00:24:05","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-riff-worthy-facial-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=24888","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Discussion Thread: Riff-Worthy Facial Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert reader &#8220;Sitting Duck&#8221; opines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the Q&#038;A following the sneak peak at Reptilicus, Joel stated that one of the reasons they&#8217;re not inclined to use animated films is because you don&#8217;t get the spontaneous facial expressions that are often incongruous to whatever is happening, which can occur in a live action feature. <\/p>\n<p>So which of these facial expressions (and their attendant riffs) are your favorite? <\/p>\n<p>Mine is from the second half of &#8220;Hired,&#8221; when a salesman enters the showroom with a dejected expression accompanied by the riff, &#8220;Well, my life is a hollow lie.&#8221; What makes it extra bizarre is that the scene in question is part of the Things Are Looking Up Montage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your favorites?<\/p>\n<p><em>Also, if you have any topic suggestions, email them to me at msampo at aol dot com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert reader &#8220;Sitting Duck&#8221; opines:<\/p>\n<p>In the Q&#038;A following the sneak peak at Reptilicus, Joel stated that one of the reasons they&#8217;re not inclined to use animated films is because you don&#8217;t get the spontaneous facial expressions that are often incongruous to whatever is happening, which can occur in a live action feature. [&#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-24888","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\/24888","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=24888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24889,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24888\/revisions\/24889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}