Why do we say an actor was ON a show but was IN a movie? #afternoonheatwaveAdderallwearingoffthoughts
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Replying to @AlishaGrauso
Best guess here is ongoing staffing? “On a show” correlates more to working “on [x movie]” while it’s in production, whereas by the time most of us reference a movie, it’s done? “Oh, he was in [x movie]”, which is no longer a job and now a concrete piece of art.
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Replying to @JohnDellaporta @AlishaGrauso
Best evidence for this is that if you switch to talking about the show as a completed artifact in some way "in" suddenly becomes much more natural "He was in the season 1 finale", "She was in a bunch of episodes from 2016-17", "I was in the short-lived run on TBS"
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