#monsterdon "We're not ready yet, the signalman they sent with me is a pinhead.”

He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl.
- Tragically Hip

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Every time Rupert Graves says "Over" I think of that bit in Airplane!

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The South Side’s getting some action.

Classic South Side

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"It's 70 degrees, they're probably starting to move."

Because giant locusts have the same thermal mass and surface to volume ratio as tiny locusts.

NO THEY DON'T WHAT THE FUCK

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amazed that temperature is only coming up here at the end of the movie???

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@diazona Right? Stop with the pistols already. #Monsterdon

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What if the grasshoppers wear earmuffs?

(not actually a B-52)

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I'M DOING MY PART!
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#monsterdon Gregory Peck in Moby Dick! As MST3K once said, never reference a good movie in the middle of your bad movie

May the sound effects engineer on this film suffer jock itch for 100 years.

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did they really just shoot the giant locust after a whole movie of shooting giant locusts being ineffective

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From now on, every lab I work in is gonna be called "Emergency Lab"

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Dr StrangBug #Monsterdon

Wait, guns actually worked? The special frequency makes them vulnerable to guns?!?!

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Maybe the soldier should have had the machine gun instead of Peter Graves, whose body count just keeps going up #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Just send in a fleet of UFOs

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Good news, you made it horny enough to escape. #Monsterdon

Fuck it *cranks dial all the way up*

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What if the locust lied?
What consequences does he face?

Still can't believe they didn't go with my giant seagull plan TBH
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All the shots show an empty Chicago. What's the point in nuking it, if there are no grasshoppers there? lol

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I like that he's just randomly twiddling knobs. #beginningoftheend
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Not gonna lie.
Love the oscilloscope.
And the frequency generator.

woowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowooEEEEEEEEwoowoowoowoowoowoowowowowowoowowowowowowowewewewewewewewewewewew

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That clock is making some weird noies #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

A filtered signal for that smooth, clean smoke

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What? They might hear things beyond human range? #Monsterdon

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Oh yeah, the Art Institute! Don't nuke the priceless art treasures - befriend the gigantic grassy hoppies instead!

I would like a military sanctioned getaway car. #Monsterdon

The Atom Bomb of Damocles?

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You've had your chance to stop them with experimental electronica. Now it's up to the Air Force.

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This general has appeared in other #monsterdon.. s

woowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoowoo

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Try some Freebird!! #Monsterdon

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
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"now harmonize"

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An enormous roll of paper is an excellent way to convey passage of time, that was well composed as a shot. #Monsterdon

i mean, the way it's hooked up is actually ridiculous, but i do believe this is the most rational use of a polygraph i've ever seen from a 1950s movie.

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"It's a good thing we happened to have this atomic grasshopper cage in the basement"
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"You hooked the grasshopper up to a lie detector?"

Sure, why not? The government is paying for it anyways.

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Giant Locust: "You expect me to talk?"

Peter Graves: "No, Mister Grasshopper, I expect to sample your beats."

Giant Locust: "I assert copyright!"

Peter Graves: "I work for #Suno, fuck your copyright."

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Ah yes, the Magic Polygraph that works on invertebrates

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#monsterdon Don't lie to me bug! I'll know!

you're doing lie detection on a fucking locust?

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This polygraph will tell us if the grasshopper is lying.
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You would think capturing one would have been the first thing they did

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So we already established that essentially chlorine gas has no effect on these dudes but you capture one with a smoke bomb?

That's just wrong

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#monsterdon, and a boat, a fast boat, and a pile of cocaine, and a bucket of KFC the size of a thimble, and Toni Basil, and a VLM (very large man) and

It's too bad they didn't do the Smokey and the Bandit thing with Big Enos peeling bills off a stack and Bandit just keeps saying "faster... faster than that..." for the fast boat
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I like that the giant grasshoppers always appear from behind something. A hill, some rubble, a wall.

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Now, if a smoke grenade works on one, couldn't you use something like that at scale?

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What are these two going to do? Wrastle it into the truck with their dashing good looks?
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Great minds...

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Why is that woman primping her hair at a desk?
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@xerozohar

And two hard-boiled eggs!

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@blogdiva generally women would be allowed to wear hats as it's considered part of their outfit, but men had to take off their hats #monsterdon

All he really needs is a trans woman with a synth

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Two amplifiers ought to do it #Monsterdon

@sean 2 amplifiers, so that's like 22

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#monsterdon I need an audio bucket, and an audio mop.

I keep almost dozing off and then the bug noise starts up again #monsterdon

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A few scenes of deserted Chicago streets are actually still photos taken early in the day.

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They need to do the Shin Godzilla and freeze them
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It's only Chicago...

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Warshington

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Locusts on the buildings.

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Just prettying up for the locust invasion

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Insecti-Kong!
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grasshopper's a perv

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😖 it's like someone put a quarter in 1942 and walked away

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SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK

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#monsterdon They reached the south side of Chicago. Skokie mafia will work this out. The bugs will end sleepin with da fishes. ;)

The locusts are using their traditional war-chant 'We’re going to cut your Lower Wackers off!'.

#Pratchett https://wiki.lspace.org/Chimeria#"~":text=Anthem-

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Ah, when you could just push the car in front of you without consequence.

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Inch by inch they're coming closer.

My good man, you have never seen a grasshopper jump or take flight?

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In all honesty, the compositing is pretty cool.

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"yeah, let me fire my handgun at the giant locust, that'll really do something!"
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this is a really weird version of Psycho *ee ee ee ee*

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Many grasshoppers were harmed in the making of this movie 😞

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It's the Battle of the Bugs v. Stock Footage.

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"They always announce their intention to attack" sure they're giant man-eating locusts, but their politeness and sense of etiquette is impeccable #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

They always send out an ear piercing screech before they attack.

My good man, have you met grasshoppers? They send out deafening screeches ALL THE TIME

Also it's not like they try stealth...

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It's a good thing there's nothing west nor south of central Illinois for the locusts to eat.
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Flamethrowers! Kill 'em with fire!

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I wonder what this stock footage is from, the end of the War?

This is kinda like the Tyrannids in Warhammer 40k attacking!

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Dr. Strangelove.

Was the movie I was thinking about earlier.

Which I haven't actually seen but is undoubtedly better than this one.
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the horrors of hamburger helper hill

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Hold your fire, men. Let's try talking with them first.

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"no grasshoppers... well, some grasshopers were harmed in the making of this film"

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Wisconsin setting out large tubs of beer outside of Janesville to stop the menace. #Monsterdon

All the insects were harmed in the making of this film.

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yay stock footage!

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Shouldn't have all those soldiers been in position already? Did they think the grasshoppers were being led by Napoleon?

@RobynGoodfellow I miss that guy! #monsterdon

Chicago is doomed, isn’t it? #Monsterdon