# Carpenter's The Thing and its prequel \[SPOILERS GALORE\]

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**Created:** [December 8, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpenters-the-thing-and-its-prequel-spoilers-galore/706663 "2014-12-08T15:28:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carpenters-the-thing-and-its-prequel-spoilers-galore/706663/21 "2014-12-10T11:50:26Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> And why did they throw Americans into it? Why not just make them all Norwegian?

Because then there’d be no Mary Elizabeth Winstead in it, and that would be bad.

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