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🗣 WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY KENNETH?!?!?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S0z3aU_MQ9Q

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lofi beats to chill/study locusts to

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"A billion dollars worth of damage"

Lady, that's a Tuesday in 2026

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"We should nuke them. It's the only way."
"Isn't that what created this?"
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I bet the US Army hasn't updated their Locust Invasion plans since the end of the Cold War...

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dangit! almost forgot #Monsterdon so am stuck watching late the colorized version of The Beginning of the End, but had to watch a movie with Peter “have you seen a grown man naked” Graves.

Airplane!, Polics Squad and Naked Gun introduced me to a lot of b-movie actors from the 50s and 60s.

Mostly they come out at night… mostly

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Yeah by the way, you can't read the galvanic skin response of a grasshoppers because they don't have skin, and more importantly they don't have sweat glands.
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"Is this a standard bug hunt sir?"

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I never really liked the town of Ludlow anyway.

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Graves: "Wanna smooch?"

(crickets)

Look, the locusts were headed to Chicago looking for food, right? Just send a mess of hot Italian beef sandwiches and Polish sausage out on a barge to lure them into lake Michigan.

Bing, bang, boom, problem solved, we all go out for beer and deep dish.

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@SnoopJ Didn't he say he was 37? Didn't look like it.

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That grasshopper is LYING!!!

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Cool shots of 1950s Chicago

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So are they pretending they can evacuate a whole city like Chicago in a day? Because they're going to kill a lot of people with this bomb plan

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“i used to fool around with radio” is the silent generation’s version of Gen X’s “i went from phreaking public telephones as a kid to hacking computers instead of going to college”

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OMFG THE TOMATOES

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USDA experimenting with nuculear energy on what? popcorn?

yes… nuculear

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bless their barely connected world...

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Man, loud music and a boat are going to save the world. Who knew that all those disco pontoon parties we had over the years were keeping America safe from giant ravenous grasshoppers?

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*walks over to "_ DAYS SINCE SOMETHING HAS FUCKED OFF INTO THE SEA" sign*
*erases 57*
*writes 0*
*shamefully walks back*

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We see some bugs crawling on a photograph of what I think is tribune tower, then the bug scientist and soldiers shoot them with small arms and they fall off.

It seems like guns in this movie get more powerful the closer they are to Chicago. Inside the loop, a tommy gun will easily kill a giant Locust. Outside the city limits, even tank cannons will not harm them.

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Not the worst movie I watched this weekend. Thanks #monsterdon ers. Take care. See ya soon.

#monsterdon Suddenly I have a thought, why not just attack them with a push-style lawnmower like in Dead Alive? Just scream “I kick ass for the lord!" and just dive into the mess with the mower and a scream?

i need an audio oscillator, a boat, chewing gum, a pitcher full of martini and a giant grasshopper in a bikini

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this movie came out in 1957, 3 years after Godzilla.

am sure the pitch was very #techbros #broligarchy: “we can make a bigger and better atomic movie without the need of an actor in a suit.”

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The thing is, a town of 105, you could probably move pretty fast. Chicago? That's gonna take some time. #monsterdon

#monsterdon We're trying to find the right frequency to give these giant grasshoppers the sexual liberation that they need!

It’s no use… we’ve tried 3 different synth frequencies and none of them worked

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"To defeat the giant insects, I will need your strongest MIDI player and a sailboat."

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OMG this movie *is* about green screening LOL

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"Who gave the entomologist a machine gun?
"He brought his own Captain!"

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It’s THEM!

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Peter Graves: doya wanna look at mah tomaters?

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"We keep all our highly radioactive material in this little cupboard"

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A more familiar Peter Graves role a few years later.

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#monsterdon "A town of 150 doesn't disappear” - may we forecast a surprise to you, it's name is Dow Chemical. There will be more. Towns of 150? Wait until they start fracking! TOWNS... 150... HA HA HA.

Edna is also from central casting. They got a quantity discount.
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Did you notice anything wrong?

No sir, my family had the same glowing eyes and dead stare as always.

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Was there a switchboard operator in the 1950s whose name was NOT Edna?

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This is most fantastical part: The military giving an off-the-record story.
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The situation must have escalated off screen because we saw a cop screaming into his car phone "OMG the whole town has been destroyed!" and in the next scene the army is setting up a road block and a Pretty 50s Girl (TM) is driving up to it.

We learn she is a reporter and, like the audience, wants to see whatever is going on in this movie but the army corporal running the roadblock won't let her through. She drives away and sneaks in.

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"Towns disappear all the time lady, get used to it"

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"Alright lady, did you destroy the town of Ludlow?"

"Yes, officer"

"Well, don't let it happen again."

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"We'll get a team of our finest hatted white men to investigate"

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It begins to end!

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da locuss on da soudside of Cheecawgo

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literally fucked off into the sea and drowned, classic Monsterdon!

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Audrey is broken up. "Some of those grasshoppers were my friends!"

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What is your position?

I'm lounging near the women's dresses.

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Peter Graves’ murse is kinda sign he’s a bit of maverick and a hippie. you know that smoke is the GOOD kinda smoke

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Use the B52s...

No it's not a rock lobster...

No that's a clever joke...

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We need a Low Frequency filter, a Wah-wah pedal, and a Big Muff distortion pedal! Fast!

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A billion dollars worth of damage. They used to use that almost as a joke. Like it wasn't possible. Now it's Thursday. #monsterdon

We've invited the grasshopper over for some banana-mayonnaise salad and some corned beef in aspic. When he turns to take his coat off, you grab him

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Tech Bros today

"But is there a way we can harness the giant locust swarm with Technology and use them to clear away poor people's neighbourhoods for golf courses?"

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It's my understanding that the audience's primary responsibility at this stage would have been to "neck" by this point in the film.

So everyone turn to the monsterdonian on your right and...

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The B-52 has only been in service for 2 years in 1957, so that's pretty fancy in addition to going for the nuclear option(tm)

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We managed to get the leader of the locusts on the phone. He didn't make any demands; he just kept screeching.

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"Keep calm. Do not panic."
This always works.
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okay but Chicago *is* the most ironic target for an atomic bombing

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"Before every attack, the locust sends a coded signal from a phonebox, like the IRA"

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Those are very sneaky incredibly loud giant locusts. An entire platoon didn’t notice them until the locusts were literally on top of them.

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#monsterdon We were all impressed when you unzipped your pants, showed us your credentials, and got your silly blond thing to FETCH THE FUCKING COFFEE WOOOOOMAAAAAN!

The obvious solution is to create giant birds to feed on the locusts

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The locusts are fucking loud, no question there. #monsterdon

We drive to the army office, then barge in and yell "Giant Locusts destroyed the Town!" The army captain is like "what, no." Then the chatty scientist is like "oh no this is my fault, a normal locus ate some of my giant plants and must have turned into a giant locust."

Unaware that he's in a monster movie, the army captain does not believe him, but he agrees to send a truck full of soldiers to look for it anyway.

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[ green screen superimposed footage, playing to loud trumpets, to signal the height of media technology ]

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So there goes the deaf representation.

Although in fairness, him being there at all was kinda a big deal for 1957.

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I'm an etymologist, did you know grasshoppper comes from the english Grass and Hopper?

I'm not a very good etymologist.
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"Ground like this is usually teaming with insects, this area is devoid of them"

*Something taps him on the shoulder*

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THEM!

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"Lady, do you like movies about Gladiators?"

That keeps running through my head every time Rupert is putting on the charm

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i need to make myself a white shirt like Miz National Wire Service’s but without the ridiculously popped collar. she does have that Dior New Look pat down, so 9/10 to the wardrobe department.

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Why are you interrupting my advances with questions? Are you some kind of MODERN woman?
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End of act 1. That means this is… The End Of the Beginning of The Beginning of the End

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1950s cars so big because radiation

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@jivens she's had a lot more agency than most Monsterdon starring ladies of the 50s!

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that entire town, nobody else gives a fuck about them but one journalist

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Oh wow, an actual car phone from the 50s!

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Old man Stereotype gives his recollections.
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It's the farmer from central casting.
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wow an entire town killed in the first 5 minutes, if these trends continue these grasshoppers could be the most effective monster in #monsterdon history

I got me a Chrysler, it's a big as a whale, and we're ready to destroy Ludlow!

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Berti Gordon presents, The Beginning of the Ending of the Middle Part II-A: The Metal Years.

NEW THRILLS! GRASSHOPPERS!

KISSING! ♫ It's natural right baby. ♫ Oh, is this another Mr B Natural short from MST3K?

Car 254, where are you? Reporting a 984-2. I just made that up! That's not a real police code!

"You won't believe this! Send help!" Yeah, they'll send the loony squad for you.

Boring, but also badly-paced & shot in the "dark".

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Wondering how soon something like 'Giant Grasshoppers' would travel around the World today...considering how we knew all about Jimothy within a week.

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"This looks like a 242 dash 6."

"A giant grasshopper attack?

"Roger"

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It's safer to make out in retail car parks, if I remember the distant past correctly...

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the locusts are going to da soudside.

da pope is from da soudside.

coincidence?

I THINK NOT!

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Thanks for a lovely evening, folks! I missed y'all. Thanks @Taweret and @miru in particular ✨

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The locusts fuck off into the sea, and the movie is over. Textbook landing

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Boom - it's over. That's what you expect from a #monsterdon wrap up.

These special effects may be simple but they used them really well. #Monsterdon

yes that was surely all of the locusts, not a single one was hungry or scared of water or had an independent thought of any sort

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finally, the end of the beginning of the end!

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And the grasshoppers literally fucked off into the sea!

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We don't have many movies that end with something fucking off into a lake, do we?
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