{"id":8548,"date":"2008-10-30T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T02:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2010-07-21T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:46:15","slug":"i-hate-that-dummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8548","title":{"rendered":"I Hate That Dummy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes &#8211; what <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/reverseshot\/archives\/018963.html\">the man says is true<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apparently, kids who saw this during prime-time in 1978 got the shit scared out of them so badly they still have this nattering ventriloquist&#8217;s voice stuck in their head to this day. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>That is my life there he&#8217;s talking about.<\/p>\n<p>I just watched it again and while it&#8217;s not quite as scary as it was back on that awful night when I was assaulted by that trailer for the first time in the middle of a Disney movie or something while innocently sitting on the couch in my feetie pajamas eating Rice Krispies &#8211; there are one or two moments that still fill me with a revulsion and an inner kind of panic.  When his upper lip curls up when he says the word &#8220;bed&#8221; (AWFUL.  It&#8217;s the first moment his top lip moves), and how his eyes roll back at the end &#8230; but you know that he &#8211; or IT &#8211; is still &#8220;in there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>1978 comes rushing back.<\/p>\n<p>I hate that dummy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes &#8211; what the man says is true: Apparently, kids who saw this during prime-time in 1978 got the shit scared out of them so badly they still have this nattering ventriloquist&#8217;s voice stuck in their head to this day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24104,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions\/24104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}