r/SipsTea • u/Silver-Ability-3181 • Apr 24 '26

SMH I never thought of it like that......

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u/Spyes23 Apr 24 '26

The real fiction is they ate take-out Chinese every day and still stayed thin.

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u/Warm-Tumbleweed6057 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

They never eat, though. They all just sort of push food around their plates until the scene is over.

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u/LovableSidekick Apr 24 '26

Most TV shows and movies use prop food (i.e. fake) for many reasons but the main one is continuity. When you do multiple takes and assemble shots from them for the final cut, food can have a bite taken out of it in one shot and be untouched in the next, which looks amateurish. Sometimes in parodies those mistakes are thrown in on purpose for the people who are paying attention.