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When Props Attack

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When Props Attack	comment	Where Special Effect Failure overlaps with Fight-Scene Failure, this is a scene where a supposedly animate object or creature attacking a character is obviously an inert object that the actor is trying to manipulate while supposedly "fighting" it. Usually this involves something small strangling someone or biting someone's throat, which allows the actor to stagger around holding the Prop to their neck and occasionally wiggling bits of it. A common necessity in an era before cheap CGI or animatronics, but often looks rather comical now.
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When Props Attack / int_1298743d	comment	In Sapphire and Steel, "Assignment 3" features a series of poltergeist attacks by animal spirits, leading the spectacle of David McCallum being "attacked" by a pillow that's supposedly animated by the ghosts of the birds whose feathers it's stuffed with.
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When Props Attack / int_3e5de40b	comment	In Scrubs, J.D. imagines a demon baby launching out of Jordan and attacking him. The baby in question is a lumpy plastic doll.
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When Props Attack / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes had several examples, including Calvin's dad pretending that he was being attacked by a poltergeist to scare Calvin. It's implied that this is what onlookers see when Calvin and Hobbes "fight".
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When Props Attack / int_44e0b783	comment	A late 2011 Garfield strip had Garfield eating cookies in the cookie jar, but when Jon catches him, Garfield pretends that the cookie jar is eating him. Jon isn't fooled one bit by it:
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When Props Attack / int_4c4e08ca	comment	In a sketch on The Benny Hill Show, Benny plays a TV nature presenter parodying David Attenborough. One of the animals he shows is a giant spider, which is really a prop that Benny slips onto his hand and his fingers are the spider's legs. While Benny is holding the "spider" and talking about it, the spider crawls up Benny's chest towards his neck. Benny drags the spider back down to abdomen level, and it starts crawling up again. He also gets attacked by an offstage "elephant", which is somebody's arm in a gray sleeve simulating the elephant's trunk.
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When Props Attack / int_5d354f8	comment	The Polymorph going for Lister's throat while disguised as a shami kebab in the Red Dwarf episode "Polymorph".
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When Props Attack / int_7ad0ade	comment	The fight between George and the lion in George of the Jungle, partially.
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When Props Attack / int_80d4b7e6	comment	Ed Wood includes a dramatization of the real-life incident during filming of Bride of the Monster where Bela Lugosi had to fight an inert giant octopus prop.
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When Props Attack / int_9a492449	comment	The unused US ending for Frankenstein Conquers the World has Frankenstein fight a giant octopus. The effect looks okay for the most part, but it’s noticeable in a few shots that Frankenstein’s actor, Koji Furuhata, is moving the prop’s tentacles himself. The page image demonstrates an interesting version of this trope; as the film was shot at normal speed, for scenes where Frankenstein lifts Baragon, Haruo Nakajima would step out of the suit, which would then be filled with fabric stuffing to keep its shape. The suit was then hoisted on wires to allow it to move, and also to make it easier for Furuhata to lift the suit up above his head.
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When Props Attack / int_a685790b	comment	The fight between the Skeleton and the Mutant in The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. Like with the rest of the movie's bad effects, it's all part of the fun.
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When Props Attack / int_b0183e04	comment	The second episode of Garth Marenghis Darkplace, "Hell Hath Fury", in which the characters are fighting Animate Inanimate Objects. Including Sanchez struggling with his own gun, then battling a kitchen whisk trying to stab him in the neck, and then wrestling a garbage can.
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When Props Attack / int_b2ac2311	comment	Back in the very early days of Peanuts when Charlie Brown was more mischievous, he once made it look like a snowman was chasing him by towing it around in a wagon.
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When Props Attack / int_b5929672	comment	Singin' in the Rain: During the "Make 'Em Laugh" scene, Cosmo "flirts" with a headless mannequin, which proceeds to slap him and they tussle for a minute or two off screen.
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When Props Attack / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The scenes with Nestene-possessed objects in "Terror of the Autons". Aversion: The "organism" in "The Three Doctors". It would have been a case of this had the effects team not had the idea to render the blob-like thing electronically, eliminating the need for a risible physical prop. When unshelled Daleks attack people in "Genesis of the Daleks" and Resurrection of the Daleks". The Cybermat attacking Sarah in "Revenge of the Cybermen". The bat attacking the Doctor in "State of Decay". The severed Auton arm attacking the Doctor in "Rose". The Cybermat attacking Craig in "Closing Time".
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When Props Attack / int_ca1bf20c	comment	In Beethoven, the crooked vet simulates an attack by the title dog by smearing fake blood on his arm, then grabbing Beethoven's face and shaking it.
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When Props Attack / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Parodied in the Monty Python's Flying Circus "Scott of the Sahara" sketch, in which Scott wrestles a lion which is partially Stock Footage, partially a guy in a lion costume, and partially this.
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When Props Attack / int_ccae327f	comment	In The Spoony Experiment's video on Ultima III, there's a skit about fighting the floor outside Exodus's castle. In it, Bennett the Sage fights with his square of carpet in a very unconvincing manner.
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When Props Attack / int_d5d98e35	comment	An episode of Police Squad! has Frank Drebin react this way to a wig tossed in his face, staggering around and grunting in pain for several seconds before pulling it aside.
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When Props Attack / int_e293455a	comment	The non-CGI parts of the fight between Buffy and the giant enchanted snake in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Shadow", which reverses the usual by having a small actor clinging onto a very large almost-inert prop.
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When Props Attack / int_e3728ccb	comment	In one episode of Van-Pires, the Motorvators' fight against a living electric guitar is half the actors waving around a very obviously inanimate prop guitar pretending it's attacking them and half a really cheaply rendered CGI guitar just kinda flopping around.
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Bride of the Monster / int_3862ebb9	type	When Props Attack
Ed Wood / int_3862ebb9	type	When Props Attack
Monty Python and the Holy Grail / int_3862ebb9	type	When Props Attack
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_3862ebb9	type	When Props Attack
Sapphire and Steel / int_3862ebb9	type	When Props Attack
The Benny Hill Show / int_3862ebb9	type	When Props Attack
Singin' in the Rain / int_3862ebb9	type	When Props Attack

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