Her car is probably this 1956 Chrysler New Yorker.

And yeah, I bet it's pink and white on set. Because how could it not be?

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#monsterdon And then we go to the mens room and we show each other Mr. Bouncy's Kingdom of Fun.

ATOMIC WHEAT
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It's quadrotriticaline, it was tribbles.
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It’s a real estate scam being run by the Department of Agriculture so they can scare Illinois farmers off their farmland!

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Monster sign!

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"This doesn't look unusual for a central Illinois town... people just got tired of it and left"
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The only thing more voracious than horses are goats, man. You got a radioactive giant goat on your hands. #Monsterdon

"No that's nature's way Audrey" so too is condescension #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

#monsterdon No Audrey, your an ignorant slut. Birds cleaned thousands of pounds of grain you ignorant whore! FETCH THE COFFEE WOMAN! ;)

🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️

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The grasshoppers used are "Eastern Lubbers," common throughout the southeastern US, where I toot from. They are very colorful and grow to almost three inches long and have a thick exoskeleton.

They are voracious eaters. I would fear them if they were enlarged.

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(ok, the sweet and spicy cones are open!)

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Someone really should've cleaned up before they made this movie

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Get outta there lady! The department of agriculture is worse than the CIA!

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oh no Frank is the other one dangit

Even the deaf guy is putting these two on mute.

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She's an adrenaline junkie, is what he's saying. #Monsterdon

She’s been doing ALL the driving.

Weird for 57.

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"I was born inquisitive"

Huh, I was born in Ottawa.

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folks, our throuple.

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The best thing about these old films is how darn seriously they take themselves.

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She's back and she wants to see your supervisor.
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why do these B movies hate greenhouses and people who use them?
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Housemate is having a meltdown about the "tomato" plant having banana leaves. :neocat_laugh_sweat:

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It takes an outsider to realize there's something weird about people vanishing without a trace

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Dr. Frank (Peter Graves) and his assistant, Igor.

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Hitting on a gal after visiting a scene of disaster. Classy. Not. #Monsterdon

have i seen this before???

no. i think there were just so many movies like this in the 50s

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Presumably tornado stock footage.
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Thank you, Bert, I appreciate you using your money for that lovely front projection effect. #Monsterdon

This could happen to your town too thanks to magical radioactive voodoo!

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A couple weeks ago we had a very similar disaster, but I don't see any connection.

Stock footage of tornado damage.

Wait, if the road to Ludlow is closed, why is there traffic driving the other way?

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Something seems up with the seattle dot pink account so I'll be posting about #Monsterdon from here instead! From a test account that I was planning to use for bot stuff.

~Chara

"I hope you have a strong stomach."

That's just how Ludlow normally looks.

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"I hope you have a strong stomach", it's in Illinois #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Why does she need a strong stomach? There weren't any corpses or body parts.

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Great security

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Giant tomatoes seems like a good story. Also now I kind of want to see Attack of the Killer Tomatoes again (it's been decades)
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"Radiation causes photosynthesis" er nope #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

The fruit plants like to be tickled but you gotta limit their stimulation to only 30 minutes per day

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That bracelet makes me wonder if she's secretly Wonder Woman. #Monsterdon

"I've just beaten a man insensible with a strawberry!"

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No logo on the Radioactive materials?

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NIST standard vague labeling.

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this lady is hard to impress

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We think the entire town slipped on a large banana peel. Would you know anything about that?

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I bet a Geiger counter would be going apeshit right now. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Formula contains radioactive materials

Wonderful detail.

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What do you think they have said more often in this movie

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I bet the people who made the giant vegetables were sad that the bright colors they painted them would never be seen.

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This movie is bullshit the Beatles didn’t arrive for 7 more years!

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Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

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Grasshoppers... oh what a giveaway. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

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Peter Graves: "Just a slight catastrophe.."

The snails invade in formation.
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The characters in this #monsterdon come in three genders: army, reporter and kissing teenagers.

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Fun fact: the Department of Agriculture has a booming atomic experimental division based out of Area 47

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It's never a good sign when the plant folks are playing around with "that atomic stuff"

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Oh no! Is this Attack of the Giant Tomatoes?

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Reckon half those plants are smokeable.

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okay I love the giant tomatoes

A+

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Heh, monstera plants in a monster movie

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This is where Pac-Man was invented

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@CactuarJoe unfortunately he dropped the bass

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Oh of course it's magical experimental radioactivity that we seem to know nothing about because it's the 50's.

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The USDA was experimenting with radiation? (Well, yes, they were back them)

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In the 50s, it's always the radiation. #Monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie Only imperial stormtroopers are that accurate.

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They gave The Bomb to the USDA. You know. For fun. #Monsterdon

Before satellites phones got cheaper radio phones were the way you could call home while at sea so that's how I know about them
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I like how the army dudes trying to keep this quiet see the reporter lady and they're are all like "oh you're that reporter! we're fans of your work!"

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Cops can’t find a town. A whole town. Tracks.

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These car phones were radiophones, handled through an operator. There's a third party on this line.

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HOLY SHIT SHE HAS A PHONE IN HER CAR

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#monsterdon old farmer describes a boring evening and possible monster attack ASMR

Hank Patterson from "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction."

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HOLY SHIT A CAR PHONE!

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Daddy Warbucks had one in Annie. #Monsterdon

Unusual? There were that pair of transbians using an angle grinder at 3am, but that ain't unusual...

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@combatwombat Is that an early version of Meta's creeper glasses?
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@Lazarou

Dave radiates pure charisma.

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150 people does not a town make. That's a village at best.

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"And how drunk were you?"

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the Colonel went from "I can't tell you anything, ma'am" to "here's everything we know" real fast

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150 people vanished. In Illinois. And the military noticed. Mmhm. #Monsterdon

towns just get mysteriously destroyed sometimes

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@Lazarou #monsterdon

There's been a mysterious disaster. Quick, someone contact the University of Minnesota - we need as many Peter Graves as we can get!

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Something tells me Jiminy Cricket isn’t going to show up and sing ”When You Wish Upon a Star”… too bad.

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Do police even have colonels?

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#monsterdon She found the “Picturesque Overlook" and then had a national guardsman steal her very old and very fragile camera. And now we have military buttplug types waddling around.

Is that Paul Frees on the radio? #Monsterdon

"send her in"

she's right there, bro, the whole office can hear you.

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Also, you ever notice how government is *almost never* this competent or coordinated in modern film?

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"You'll have to get back on the main road. It's about a mile South."

AND FOR GOD'S SAKE BRING A GIANT CAN OF RAID!

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But I am stylish, I tell you! Let me pass! #Monsterdon

She did NOT just climb that little hill in those high heels.

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If she wanted to get through she should had put on the deaths head storm trooper face mask and said she was with Homeland Security and there to mop up. #Monsterdon

I guess police radio was considered super high tech in the 50s or something, idk why there's so much focus on it in movies from this era.

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