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From: elb@mtx5d.UUCP (Ellen Bart)
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Subject: Re: tiger in 'SHORE LEAVE'
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 14:24:09 EST
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>    Obviously he thought of a tiger with a collar on!  (Actually it looked like
> he thought of stock footage from the San Diego Zoo)  

Sorry to disappoint you but it was a real tiger on the set - not stock
footage.  And what's so unbelievable about a tiger with a collar?  Was
Don Juan more "realistic"?

>     Did anybody else notice that Rodriguez looked suspiciously non-Hispanic?
 
His father was Hispanic but his mother was a Wasp :-)

>     Or that what's-her-name (McCoy's "princess") is awfully jealous over some-
> one she's just met?
 
So?  Since when is jealousy logical?

>     Or that Finnegan and Ruth look real but the Black Knight has a mannequin
> face?
 
The Black Knight only looks like that after he's been shot.  Maybe these
things have a different "alive" and "dead" state.

>    It's a good thing this episode is so entertaining that we (at least I) can
> overlook all these problems.
> 

Finally a point I can agree with !!!!


Ellen Bart