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Originally Posted by cplnuswing  The best period reference of this episode I noticed were the Pop-tart wrappers, the old white paper type. Where in the world do you find a supply of vintage Pop-tarts??? |
They didn't have to find vintage Pop-tarts, just mimic them by showing some type of rectangular pastry-looking thing -- maybe current Pop-tarts, maybe not -- in a white paper wrapper. And since they probably had to film multiple takes of that scene, the props people would have to have maybe 20 "Pop-tarts" on hand, just in case. Or they could have had fewer and just turned the pastries upside-down in the wrappers to hide bitten-off corners.
It's amazing what is done in tv and movies to aid production and trick the viewer, without CGI. When you see a character eating an ice cream cone in a film or tv show, you are seeing an actual cone, but the "ice cream" is often a scoop of mashed potatoes (sometimes colored to mimic a particular flavor). Real ice cream would melt under the lights used during filming. Maybe if you looked closely you could tell, but in most cases you aren't concentrating on the ice cream cone, you are concentrating on the actor.
When you see a pitcher of ice-water in a restaurant scene, or drinks with ice, it's likely that the "ice" is shiny clear plastic to reflect light much like the real thing. That's so props people or the set dressers don't have to be constantly replacing the melted ice. And the plastic ice has to float, like real ice; it can't sit at the bottom of the pitcher or glass.
"Red wine" is typically regular grape juice, "white wine" can be white grape juice, "champagne" is often the non-alcoholic version or may be a pale ginger ale, beer is often the NA type, "whiskey" is watered-down cola, etc. Most productions use non-alcoholic beverage stand-ins because their actors are often working long hours and they usually need the actors to be sober enough to work.
For those who are not already totally bored with this topic, here's a list of some
prop foods.
The magic of television.
I noticed the Freakies cereal box in the background once again in this episode, too.
Sorry about the extensive threadjack
and sorry if I ruined your future viewing by revealing some of these "secrets."
Thrax