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What's with Mink Stole's leg brace?


Was it part of her costume, or was she really injured? I watched the commentary expecting to hear an explanation but all John said was something like "Look, she has a leg brace."

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I think it was part of the costume. It's kinda weird but I love the legbrace.

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Kind of like Flipper's fake thalidomide left arm

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Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) was just recently released from a "mental hospital." She has delusions such as a neighbor boy trying to kill her when a stray baseball comes flying through her window. I think the leg brace was part of her costume, because of her mental illness.

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Maybe she thought her leg was trying to kill her and crippled herself to stop it.

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I think it was to emphasize show how nuerotic she was. She was probably a hypochondriac too.

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I thought that it might of been a thowback to the Herschell Gordon Lewis film Blood Feast, which John often sights as an early inspiration. The killer in that movie had an unexplained limp, too.

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I think besides being bitchy, having her hobbling around just adds to the miserable image.

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Well, she was walking around with a cane, so the leg brace makes sense.

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