"Can you eat them?" "No, these are just styrofoam." "Ah, like AI." "Exactly!"

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

(Opens lead lined cabinet, dosing her)

#Monsterdon

Does Audrey just not… see the giant tomatoes? How do you not immediately comment on them?
#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

He's a deaf mute. Working with radiation last year. Hell of a botanist though. #monsterdon

Contains materials found by the state of California to cause fun. #Monsterdon

"I assume you heard what happened in Ludlow"

The thing no one is talking about?

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd1957

AAAH...

That's sketch container for radioactive stuff.

#Monsterdon

@Taweret
I love how she's just treating them like they're normal.

#monsterdon

Looks legit...

#monsterdon

BEG YOUR PARDON
#monsterdon

Giant tomatoes you can eat? That mission sounds impossible!

#beginningoftheend
#monsterdon #grasshoppersvspostcards

#monsterdon It's TV's Peter Graves! “Billy, you like movies about gladiators?”

see I would be asking about the giant tomatoes

#monsterdon

I BEG YOUR PARDON
#monsterdon

Foreshadowing: "Grasshoppers by the drove!"

#monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd

#Monsterdon

Hey was that the Bert I Gordon filmography Dr Pete just rattled off? #Monsterdon

I want to see the giant snail movie. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe I bet they would taste like water

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

I want. Her. Dress and I cannot lie. You other mothers can't deny.

Please 🙏🏻✨

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

#Monsterdon Ooooh. Look at the big shot with a car phone!

Check out those tomatoes! Peter Graves jump scare.

Working with radiation can be dangerous. That's why we let the deaf-mute do it.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Love the fake giant vegetables
#monsterdon  

Oh yeah, I forgot about the whole "grow giant food with radiation" era.

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

Peter Graves, serious mode. #Monsterdon

back in the age when everything was going to be atomic. Farms? Atomic. Cows? Atomic. Corn? Atomic.
#monsterdon

I BEG YOUR PARDON, SIR

#monsterdon

AH! Peter Graves jumpscare!!
#Monsterdon #BeginningoftheEnd

🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

Tonight's feature was filmed at the height of the science fiction movie boom in the late 1950's when nuclear testing was constantly in the news. You could go to Las Vegas and watch nuclear detonations while you sipped atomic-themed cocktails.

Don't be surprised if radiation comes up in the lab.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Sciencing a massive blt

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd

Sorry ma'am. He had his ear buds in...

#monsterdon

You ever been in a Turkish prison? #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Listen, lady, your tomatoes are nowhere near as heavy as these. #Monsterdon

Are those giant spheres meant to be tomatoes?

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Atomic agriculture? Radioactive rutabaga?
#Monsterdon #BeginningoftheEnd

"I'm Peter Graves. Tonight, on Biography..."
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon

Ah, the giant plants.

#Monsterdon there may be a fake lead planted there

“Hello, I’m Peter Graves.”

#Monsterdon

pardon me, is this where they grow the pod people?

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

This is where they grow the butts. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Seymour, is that you!?

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Ah, yes. The Dept. of Agriculture has been experimenting with atomic weapons to control herds of cattle and crops.

#Monsterdon

Check out the size of his balls #Monsterdon

"USDA: I like Big (Earl) Butz, and I can't lie." #Monsterdon

#monsterdon You know, this has shades of X-Files all over it. I know there is no continuous universe or meta here, but dag-nabbity, a bunch of bugs and the USDA and an "Experimental Station” come on! It's War of the Coprophages except in Black and White with a huge butt-chin.

@amyfou it's the 50s, the Power of the Atom is a possible explanation for any unusual phenomena in a movie

#Monsterdon

Excuse me- what's up with all the papier mache plants?

#beginningoftheend
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eyyyy the nice lady wants her camera back
#monsterdon

my headcanon is, she's expensing the entire getup to the wire service.

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

#Monsterdon

That is indeed a car phone.
1000 dollars a minute.

Man I wish we knew what color that car was. I'm hoping hot pink. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

I want a big huge giant 50s car. two lanes wide

#monsterdon

Oh it's that plucky Dept of Agriculture... at it again!

#monsterdon

“Department of Agriculture?” #Monsterdon

The entire state of Illinois is one massive Experimental Station, if you ask me. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon

man in the moon marigolds?

#Monsterdon 🌽 🌾 🫘 ☢️ 🦗 🦗 🦗 😱

why wld this have anything to do with radioactive materials tho?

"There are no nuclear facilities, secret or otherwise, in the vicinity." Because the US government is happy to announce the locations of their secret nuclear facilities, right?

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

No, I can't find any secret bases in the book of secret bases
#monsterdon

It's always some kind of atomic installation

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

Dig that dash board. Faaaaancy. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Why the colonel is going to see by himself? Doesn't he delegate this stuff?
#Monsterdon #beginningoftheend1957

Ahhhhh, there it is.

#monsterdon

US Department of Agriculture?

The Ethanol Wars, they have begun!

#monsterdon

Umm, if they were secret, how would you know?

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd

@whiskeysailor Yes, and IIRC, mobile telephone wiretapping laws didn't happen until the 70s.

#Monsterdon

My mistake, Dave was played by Hank Patterson. His character name on Green Acres was Fred Ziffel. I must have been thinking of the pig, Arnold. #Monsterdon

Bugs ain't in the movie yet. But some came for my snack tray.
Is this movie going to be entirely driving and journalism in action?
#Monsterdon #BeginningoftheEnd

Does her car phone have an answering machine?

#Monsterdon

I promise I won’t say anything.

Immediately says something to someone. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Car phone - long distance - PERSON to PERSON... she's got to have deep pockets

#monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd

Is this guy Editor in Chief or her research assistant?

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Yea just ask the feds if there were nuclear secrets in Ludlow, IL. Tell them it's okay to disclose that, you're an editor. #Monsterdon

Big? Like giant grasshopper big?

#BeginningOfTheEnd #monsterdon

@klu9 and she pulled over and got out the driver's seat to use it!

I like this woman

#Monsterdon

WOW!!!! CAR PHONE!!!

She must be a really big deal to have expensive equipment like that!

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

She actually said goodbye before she hung up! THat never happens in movies!

#beginningoftheend
#monsterdon #grasshoppersvspostcards

I presume it is a radio phone but if so that is open to anyone with the right frequency
#monsterdon

"She wants her camera back!"

"Okay but I've gotta take the film out first unless she wants a LOT of pictures of men's butts." #Monsterdon

A 150 people? That's hardly a town.
#Monsterdon #beginningoftheend1957

I'm having fun with this one so far, right down the middle for a 50s monster flick. But I'm starting to get the feeling we might not be seeing a monster for a while.

#Monsterdon

Reporter lady has that wonderful elegant style

#monsterdon

She's got a phone! In her car!

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd1957

oh, is this about the time the air force accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb in... Texas I think? (there was no core in the bomb but the TNT still detonated)
#monsterdon

wow, a car phone, that book obviously sold pretty well.

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Woah! A Phone! In a Car! #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

CAR PHONE! She's fucking loaded as well as stacked. #Monsterdon

The image is from the 1980 low-budget schlocker BLOOD BEACH (which would make a "good" #monsterdon entry imo)

Damn your Vulcan Logic!

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd

hello @diazona I've read a lot of your stuff

#Monsterdon

"Got et, too!"

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

Dave and Edna truly look like small town Illinois #Monsterdon

How many towns had only 150 people in them? Even in the 50s

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Oh-hoh, The Beginning of the End is directly tackling the issue of media relationships with the police! And jeez look what happened, a journalist exercising her professional curiosity in the public interest has just gotten shut down by the police. #Monsterdon

Audry Aimes, military influencer. "I've read a lot of you, seen a lot of your *pause* pictures" #Monsterdon

Is it just me or does the cop on the right doing paperwork look like Diedrich Bader?

#Monsterdon

"I've read a lot of your stuff" is how they used to say hello

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

#Monsterdon 🌽 🌾 🫘 ☢️ 🦗 🦗 🦗 😱

Mr Douglas doesn't seem concerned that probably his daughter and SIL have been wiped off the face of the earth