How Hollywood makes prop money

[Otherbrother]

@johnson

I used to work in the Film Biz doing Props and have handled a LOT of Fake Money over the years. Real Money looked better but the Production Companies would just keep balking at using it for some reason. I could not understand why.

I always thought this Simpsons clip was funny, but especially so after I had a short stint working in Hollywood:

Cows Don't Look Like Cows On Film (The Simpsons)

The effects house I worked for used fake milk for commercials because the real stuff apparently isn’t white enough on film. And they once did a dumb Carl’s Jr. commercial in which they put an elaborate prosthetic udder on a cow because the director thought that real udders look weird.