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

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

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Hey, military guys.. why didn't your radar stations pick up a giant locust swarm?

#monsterdon "150 people don't just vanish!" Lady wait until you hear about the cow butts you'll forget all about that experimental plane

rock 'n roll killed that town. that and loose morals.
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Ahh, the 1950s, when the Military used to let the press sit in on top secret meetings once they gave their word not to print anything until they said so.

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Either this journalist is lying or she gave in /way/ too easily on publication control

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I'd guess that was about four takes worth of polish on that exchange. #Monsterdon

Dangit, I know that actor (the old farmer) ...

"I heard somethin that sound like thunder"

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lookin' for them You-FO space aliens!

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look, someone accidentally the whole Ludlow. That's all I got.
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Is this guy that played Arnold Ziffel on Green Acres? #Monsterdon

SPEAK UP.

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Yes Mr. Douglas, giant grasshoppers

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I've seen him on TV somewhere...

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@RobynGoodfellow (of course I know that's not even remotely true, but y'know, just for the lolz)

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@Taweret The sooner you get used to that the better.

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"In Ludlow, The Vanishing comes for you!"

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"A hundred and fifty people just don't vanish into thin air!" Yeah, but there are 300 people total, so.

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@RobynGoodfellow They didn't invent the lack of journalistic integrity until the 70's

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They probably all went to the Taylor Swift concert in Chicago.

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“Until we find out what happened”

My dude, an ENTIRE TOWN disappeared!!! Maybe this is important info to get out *before* you know everything!!!! #Monsterdon

Death count at 152. Nice start.

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Did you ask her is she was 'Miss' Ames, captain?

"Captain, you can't suppress a story like this."

Oh, my sweet summer child.

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Look, they may be nobodies to you and me, but they had families! friends! probably!

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Sure. If there's anyone you can trust it's a journalist. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

They can't tell if it was an explosion?

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Starting out with an entirely destroyed town and some wonderful 50s vehicles.

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@SnoopJ

He has tape lines like Les Nessman.

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"We combed through the wreckage for 2 hours."

In a town of 150 people? Must have been a huge fucking detail. #Monsterdon

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Freedom of the press is important.

Funny we do not see what she was trying to photograph.

NO PHOTO
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That captain's chin cleft could double as a cigarette holder.

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"Send her in?" Brother, you aren't in a separate room.

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THat dark, baked on substance on that old electronic equipment was REAL popular back in the 40's and 50's/

It's all for the best anyway. She could have broken an ankle trying to walk on terrain in those heels

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She's taking photos of the remains of Ludlow from the top of a hill (in Illinois?) ... and we still can't show it to you.

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Ah the 50s, before the invention of paving paradise for parking lots. You parked your ride directly on paradise the way Todd intended!

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So this is our second movie with a female star who drank herself to death in her 40s.

Peggy Castle died of cirrhosis or the liver at 45.

Fucking Hollywood.

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HA ha! too expensive to show us I guess. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

crackling noise

Until further notice, every actor will speak in a commanding and wooden tone, thank you

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no one surely doesn't include the press, who are specifically not a member of the group "no one"
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Where the subtitles on #miru's presentation say '<something> Havana', the cop-actor is really saying 'Champagne-Urbana'. (I was there once for a physics conference, stayed up all night using the host's powerful workstation to get closer to finishing my dissertation, liked the per diem that Wolfram was paying trying to get us to use their software…discovered phở at a place unpromisingly named 'Campus Eggroll', found some good gas-station fried chicken.)

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Excited to see scenes cut out of the MST3K version

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now that's a camera flash you could use to kill a man

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Oh that camera is wonderful! #Monsterdon

Being a journalist sure seems to pay well. That's an expensive car and expensive outfit for a journalist.

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So this is clearly the most ineffective police roadblock ever

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The studio promoted the fact that Pat Dean, its "sexboat"* discovery, would appear in the film. She was a former dancer at the El Rancho Vegas hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. As opposed to Actor's Theater.

* This was before Boaty McBoatface

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Ahh, the famous mountains of northern Illinois.

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man pterodactyl head ornaments were cool

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@JoeWynne ok that is awesome

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look lady, don't give me no lip, they have me standing out here in California pretending it's downstate Illinois
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I think I'm in love w/ her already. #Monsterdon

Who is this Old Man they keep talking about?

This movie is about New Years isn't it?

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This is obviously a movie that loves convertibles.

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Sorry soldier I should have explained. I'm a woman.

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@CactuarJoe I mean, don't we all?

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@Louisa
Yes.
#BeginningOfTheEnd was Mistied S5E18

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I like the way Audrey Aimes towers over the little guy w/ a gun. #Monsterdon

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"Send help, lotsa help, quick!"

Midwesterners.

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can you use the phrase "long, tall, drink of water" to compliment a chick or is it restricted to dudes?

she doesn't appear to be the arrow-following type of gal

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This movie does have ONE legit female character in it, as I recall. #monsterdon

Illinois looks a lot like Topanga Canyon.
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That state trooper needs to take the incident responder class before grasshoppers destroy the next town. #Monsterdon

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Beginning of the End was reported in the 1995 National Wildlife Federation's magazine as the most popular film at the
👉 Insect Fear Film Festival
at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Urbana? Home of UIUC? Probably rioting students / sports fans.

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I'm at Ludlow, the entire towns destroyed!

Can we see?

Are you crazy, do you know how much that would cost?

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I hate when the whole town is destroyed, that's where all the stuff is!

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looks like a tank, moves like a tank, suspension like a trampoline

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Calm down, man, Car 254 just isn't that into you.
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Illinois Department of Public Safety. Failed to protect the public. Yea, checks out. #Monsterdon

you bet your ass it was foul play, officer
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RIP Ludlow.

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#monsterdon dispatch, someone smashed up a paper mache car out here! It's the damnedest thing

Number heavy movie

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"Pull over. I saw something."

Now there's an understatement.

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car 254, where are you, urbana to car 254, car 254, where are you

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Ah cats made me miss the start of the creature feature this week.
Wait. This is just some old cop drama. Is this the competition to Car 54 Where Are You? Alternate Dragnet?
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Is this the Peter Graves from "Mission Impossible"?
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Were they paid extra for saying the words "Car 2 5 4?"

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Looks like a girl's sweater. Do you think it will fit me?

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I'm pretty sure grasshoppers were harmed in the making of this film.

...BUUUT, grasshoppers would have "cost money" and Burt I. Gordon was one cheap filmmaker so who knows.

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Ooh femme sweater! Is it my size?

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You heard the man.

Yup, I’m working for the man

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These are the detectives. You can tell from the hats they wear.

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It looks like a girl's wet her? What? #Monsterdon

Looks like someone was rounding second base. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

back when police cars had comically large lights, like the Michigan Highway Patrol
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This sweater's all covered in goo- I'll never be able to thrift this!
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I put #monsterdon in its own column, which means filtering it out of my home timeline.

How that's going, every Monday:

why would you suspect foul play rather than drunk driving??? #monsterdon

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Director Bert I. Gordon wanted to cash in on sci-fi bug movies after Them!
He was further inspired by The Ten Commandments (1956), and its biblical plague of locusts.

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"dakata street" these subtitles simply cannot.

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