If she's haunted by frightening images, it's only professionally. Day's Fox studio prop room is filled with evidence of the mayhem he regularly helps fake. Many items are custom-made, such as a machete that was shown slicing into a scientist's shoulder in the season's opening episode. It looked great, but it was kind of silly to watch the guy walk over to craft services and get himself a sinker and cup of coffee in the morning,' Day said. The aliens who make occasional appearances in the series are MIA from this storage room.
Some props are benign.
A baseball-themed episode last season called for a mechanical bank. When a suitable one couldn't be found, Day and his crew researched and engineered a bank with a ballplayer whose hat tips in coins. That's the part that amazes me. How quickly it winds up happening. The various departments collaborate on each episode.