"Well hey there little lady."

#Monsterdon

Smoking in a hospital? What is this, the 1950s?

#monsterdon #alligator1980

@jsadow I'll do my best to track the characters but in case I get confused just remember that most of them probably suck. #monsterdon

Anyway our heroic cops explore the sewer, learn sewer lore and meet some rats. Then they get bored and the blonde cops gooses the detective, but does so in a way to trick the audience into thinking he's going to be attacked by an alligator.

Then they decide to go home and the detective actually is attacked by an alligator, which ends up chasing both of them through the sewers.

#monsterdon

Whoops, Kelly whited out. Ran out of usable Pokemon. #Monsterdon

Aaaargh promoting harmful stereotypes about psychotic disorders once again.

And are all the baldness references leading to something, or is it just a running harassment joke?

#Monsterdon

"Get you home for dinner...."

BUT WHOSE?

#Monsterdon

This is very well preserved. You can't find a watchable print of some lost classicss, but Alligator is in HD. #monsterdon

"I think someone's been back here recently"

Yeah we saw you playing grabass, dipshit. #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe The loaded gun had me feeling a certain way.
#Monsterdon

Mm, I love some nice Kelly greens :D #Monsterdon

@hollie A bomb or a radio. Why not both?

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Chekhov's gas.

#Monsterdon

I know it's not him but the rookie cop looks too much like Ricky Schroder.

#monsterdon

He has seen some shit in St Louis...

#Monsterdon

To pad out the run time, there's a weird guy in the police station who the cops think are crazy who confesses to killing the people who died in the sewer and also has walked into the cop store with a bomb with a giant digital clock but they disarm him and turn off the bomb, which was actually just a radio and then they arrest him, I guess for doing a fake bomb threat.

#monsterdon

@paco I'm not a Yank but even I know he's being naughty with his guns there #MOnsterdon

Stop tweaking his nipple, Robert it's NOT part of the bomb.

#Monsterdon

So the male pattern baldness is a running gag... how adorable. #monsterdon

@hollie Probably more than one

/me goes to count entries on the cast list on IMDB

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

lol, love the way everyone is picking on his hair

#Monsterdon

The Daily Bugle, huh?

#monsterdon

oh boy, tubi is now blocking movies as "previews" unless you sign up

#monsterdon

@Violinknitter I hope he goes into politics! #MOnsterdon

I actually kind of admire boss guy's suit

#Monsterdon

Anyway, bright shirt guy feeds the alligator and is then eaten by the alligator. In accordance with prophecy.

#monsterdon

The rest of #monsterdon explained to me that the pet store was disposing of animal bodies improperly by sending bright shirt guy to dump meat in the sewers. Thanks monsterdon!

The worker standing in the manhole is also the reverend who says Laura Palmer’s eulogy in Twin Peaks.

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

watching this man pushing dog carcasses on a trolley through a sewer and wondering where America went wrong...

#Monsterdon

Nothing screams authority like cigarette burns in your shirt and some weathered Adidas

#Monsterdon

We cut to a cop investigating some sewer murders that the audience knows are alligator murders. Some of the murders are of dogs, making the audience care more, because dogs are the best people.

There's a scene where an old lady is showing us the sweater she made for her dead dog, which I think the movie thinks is supposed to be funny, but really it just seems weird.

#monsterdon

@hollie This deserves more boosts than I can give. Alas I can only give one.
#monsterdon

@hollie Nobody should be sorry for that one 😅

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Dog trafficker!!! #Monsterdon

@diazona Sorry not sorry 😂

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

lol,. oh this guy is getting eaten by the 'gator, fuck him and his pet abduction scam!

#MOnsterdon

A wild Sydney Lassick appears!

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Chekhov’s thinning hair.

#Monsterdon

You kinda get attached to dogs?
I mean that is the whole point yes?
#monsterdon

@MatthewTitus88 Same plot as Slugs, but with legs and teeth.
#monsterdon

I love bonding with pet store owners over my male pattern baldness... #monsterdon

This movie starts with an outdoor alligator wrangling, which is a public entertainment event held in a swamp somewhere, but this time ends in disaster as the alligator eats a mustachioed man.

I'm unsure if this will be related to anything because then we cut to our next character, Little Girl, who is in a pet store adopting an adorable baby alligator. I don't know if she was at the alligator wrestling thing or not, but I'm not sure if it matters at all?

#monsterdon

Was kinda hoping the gator would meet the hamster and team up

#Monsterdon

Some alligators were flushed in the plot of this film. #monsterdon

Don't worry, Ramon's gonna meet a radioactive rat and learn Ninjitsu.

#monsterdon

Launching my #monsterdon thread for Alligator, a movie where an alligator eats people, I think!

Anyway monsterdon is a thing where we watch a monster movie each week and make fun of it. Follow the hash tag if this sounds interesting to you, or mute it if that sounds boring to you.

This is a film that delivers its title on the first frame, and nearly got our first kill in the first minute.
#alligator #monsterdon

GATOR CHOMP

Not even sixty seconds to our first creature bite! Gonna be a good one tonight, folks

(Not a monster chomp because (a) that alligator is not the protagonist of our film, and (b) that's just a gator doing gator things, not any kind of monster. ...YET)

#monsterdon

So what country is this movie set in?

(Just kidding)

(yee haw)

#Monsterdon

My mother-in-law used to sport that look #monsterdon

Nictitating membrane the movie?

#monsterdon #alligator1980

Okay! I'm doing #Monsterdon tonight!! Starting the film! But I need to go make popcorn. Start without me!

Aren't we all dumping in the sewers? #monsterdon #alligator2

hey did we ever learn the name of the most hated wrestler in three continents?

#Monsterdon #WrongRamón

@cavyherd @ohiofi Honestly, if that was the slogan, it would be perfect.

#monsterdon: A very experience weird.

#Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

Brock Peters:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676349/

On a less happy note, this is like the third week in recent memory I've gotten a majority of the card full without getting bingo 😢

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

#monsterdon

In honor of Ramone:
Donna Summer
On the Radio

Someone found a letter you wrote me on the radio
And they told the world just how you felt
It must have fallen out of a hole in your old brown overcoat
They never said your name, but I knew just who they meant
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
I was so surprised and shocked, and I wondered, too
If, by chance, you heard it for yourself
I never told a soul just how I've been feeling over you
But they said it really loud, they said it on the air

On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh

Now, now, don't it kinda strike you sad when you hear our song?
Things are not the same since we broke up last June
The only thing that I wanna hear is that you love me still
And that you think you'll be comin' home real soon
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, it kinda made me feel proud when I heard him say
You couldn't find the words to say it yourself
And now in my heart, I know I can say what I really feel
'Cause they said it really loud, they said it on the air

On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio

If you think that love isn't found on the radio
Then tune right in, you may find the love you lost
'Cause now I'm sitting here with the man I sent away long ago
It sounded really loud, he said it really loud

On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio, whoa-oh-oh-oh
On the radio

ANYWAY

Good job team, another #monsterdon movie launched into space

and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting!

#alligator1980

SHE SAID IT

#Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

@Terencio

🏆

#monsterdon

his kid and wife died years ago, didn't they?

#Monsterdon #WrongAlligator

@_L1vY_
...cuz you'd seen this movie before?

#Monsterdon

@paco

Stop trying to logic, Paco. It’s #Monsterdon.

@RobynGoodfellow pretty much! #Monsterdon

Aaaand it had kids I'm guessing? #monsterdon

Oh another male pattern baldness gag.
#monsterdon

btw @ryan is good people. #monsterdon

Thanks everyone! Have a gatoriffic night! #Monsterdon

At least we end on another cute baby gator!

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

thanks @Taweret for hosting another fun #monsterdon. stay safe all!

As always, thanks @Taweret and everybody. I need to do this more.

#monsterdon

The alligator animatronic is AMAZING
#monsterdon #alligator1980

The sewer wasn't dark enough so we're adding smoke just so the audience can't see fucking anything. #monsterdon

Fun time. Thanks #monsterdon ers. Take care. See ya soon.

Well that was a much more gentle wrap up than our usual endings which would've just rolled credits with the exploding 'gator.

#Monsterdon

Always nice looking up old friends #crotchwatch #monsterdon

Oh look.

It's the sewers.

Again.

I'm glad we're saving on number of locations. #monsterdon

Who blew up better?
#Monsterdon #Alligator

@brooke i'm wondering the same thing #monsterdon

Nice car flip! #appreciatethecrew #monsterdon

That was great #Monsterdon material!

Thanks @Taweret and all the #monsterdon sewer turtles!

@brooke The copy I got off of archive.org is 1:27:03 🤷

#monsterdon #alligator1980

@gnomon yeah, like, have you tried making friends with the gator

It just ate like 20 people it's probably down to chill

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

@Bluedepth and he had a great bod. RIP #monsterdon

So was the bomb guy earlier... foreshadowing this?

#monsterdon

I lost track of how many scumbags the gator ate, but it was a few. Also 1 server and 1 child.

Rip Ramòn.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

#Monsterdon

Because shooting from a speeding motor boat is always more effective.

#Monsterdon

@Ayyyydrew Apparently so. Very public safety-minded

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Wasn't this bomb fake? Wasn't that the point?

I guess you can just stick some dynamite to a fake bomb to make it real? I guess that almost makes sense.

EAT THE RICH!
#monsterdon #alligator1980

@Taweret I think the alligators in the movie are a manifestation of the terrible psychic outcomes that occur when society allows cops to become mopey and depressed and their psyche wishes to punish their bosses by eating them instead of coming to terms with their guilt feelings.

#monsterdon

The practical effects are really fucking great for some of these scenes, dang

#monsterdon

The miserable dribble of xenon-extruded photons leaking out the front of that stack of D cell batteries in Madison's non-gun hand is hilarious and tragic

#monsterdon

And that, ladies and gentlemen, was an alligator eating a buncha shitty rich people.

And people wondered why I pushed so hard for this movie…

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

That barbecue is soo well done, it's murder
#monsterdon #alligator1980

yeah, fuck that neighbourhood! #MOnsterdon

@gblues Think of all the fat and silicone he's digesting #monsterdon

@catzilla 😆
#Monsterdon

Chekov's "make sure the manhole is clear" #monsterdon