If you watch enough television shows and movies, then you might even start to notice that a bunch of the same props are used over and over again.  Someone on Reddit recently put together a compilation of photos from various television shows, commercials and movies, showing how one newspaper prop gets around and is reused, and reused again.

I don’t know the story behind this prop newspaper, but I assume it was created as a royalty free prop for television shows. Somewhere along the line, the prop became a recurring gag between propmasters. Something like how sound designers reuse the Wilhem Scream in every movie. Here are some examples…

Modern Family ( 2009 )


Back to the future (1989)


A murder of crows (1998)

A texasi láncfűrészes (2003)


Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (2006)


No Country for Old Men, (2007)


Power Rangers Zeo


Dallas – 1991


Married with children – 1997



Angel – 2001



Charmed – 2001



Six Feet Under – 2003



Malcolm in The Middle – 2005



Lucky Louie – 2006



Smith – 2006



Everybody hates Chris – 2006


Desperate Housewives – 2006



Desperate Housewives -2007



Desperate Housewives -2007



Desperate Housewives – 2008



Desperate Housewives – 2010



Scrubs – 2007



Scrubs – 2008



Scrubs – 2009