{"id":32631,"date":"2022-11-11T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=32631"},"modified":"2022-11-11T14:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:08:34","slug":"rip-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=32631","title":{"rendered":"RIP Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gallagher.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gallagher-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gallagher-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gallagher-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gallagher-400x233.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gallagher.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> California &#8212; Gallagher, the prop comedian known for smashing watermelons as part of his act, died at a hospice here Nov. 11. He had several heart attacks in recent years. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p>Born Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr., he was the subject of a sarcastic tirade by Tom Servo in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS. He was also mentioned in episode 318- STAR FORCE: FUGITIVE ALIEN II.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/tv\/news\/gallagher-comedian-known-for-smashing-watermelons-dies-at-76\/ar-AA140pGt?OCID=ansmsnnews11\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety has the story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to regular commenter &#8220;AlbuquerqueTurkey&#8221; for the heads up.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/> California &#8212; Gallagher, the prop comedian known for smashing watermelons as part of his act, died at a hospice here Nov. 11. He had several heart attacks in recent years. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p>Born Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr., he was the subject of a sarcastic tirade by Tom Servo in episode 211- [&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","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\/32631","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=32631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32638,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32631\/revisions\/32638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}