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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#monsterdon He has a knack for understatement. "I see something” which is a "crashed car”, so this it going to be a *journey* together.

OK made it through the End of the End of the credits. Now I'm at the Beginning of the Beginning of the story proper.

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Driver may have been a bear wearing a hat, repeat, a bear wearing a hat

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@YsengrinWolf "I saw something" Lol #monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

There appears to be the bodies of a frog and a bear in this Studebaker. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Unsafe at any speed.

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Champaign-Urbana? The Other university. #Monsterdon

Another Bert I. Gordon movie for tonight's #Monsterdon, Beginning of the End.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/66918

I think I will put on the MST3K version, s05E17, for as long as I'm able to keep my eyes open.

I’m late! There’s a crashed car already?

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"Pull over. I saw something."

Dude, that's called a sign
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#monsterdon The "Big Lou" in teh opening music is actually 50 feet tall and named Bert and he's here to promote other movies of his

In other news, don't show, don't tell, just have the actress scream real loud and cut to credits. It's the Bert I Gordon way (tm)

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starting out with a lesson in what happens when those dang kids listen to that boogie woogie and make out without supervision
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The Rear Projected Patrol. There for YOU.

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Oh great another traffic safety film. #Monsterdon

krang-a-lang-a-ding-dong indeed!

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Car 254, Where are you?

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Reporting a 984-2

Gotta love that tech police talk

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I guess this is where the rule comes from that you have to die if you have sex in a horror film?

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@annathepiper

Teenagers? Oh, that's right, in the 50s, everybody looked like adults.

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Are these numbers supposed to mean anything?

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car 254, where are you, car 254, where are

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Cops talking in numbers again.

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I realized why I half-remember watching this. It's part of The Movie Orgy!

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Are the credits doing this or do I need to see the eye doctor again?

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#monsterdon Okay, so we have a big brass band to start us off, some #mononucleosis kissyface, and the threat of a grasshopper-heavy anti-Chicago plot threatening to break out all over.

Car 54 where arrrrrrre you? #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Car 254 where are you?

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I'm locked in, let's do this! Mute me now or forever hold your peace

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@wohali run awaaayyyy

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That’s a lot of screaming to start the movie. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

73 minutes ftw!

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Lester GORN

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#monsterdon I've seen this one on MST3K I think? Unless there's more than one giant grasshopper movie

Special Effects: Bert I. Gordon.

Oh, yah!

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Fred "The Showkiller" Freiburger: The Early Years

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So far it’s a screamy good time, at just 30 seconds in.

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BERT!!!!!!

I!!!!!!!!!

GORDON!!!!!!

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In a car in a '50s monster movie, there was no such thing as truly safe sex….

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👂Listen for the song on the car radio at the beginning of the film. It's "Natural, Natural Baby". This song played over the air for promo spots before the movie came out. The song never was a "Billboard" hit, but yet was heard on radio. Probably inspired "Ice, Ice, Baby."

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The grasshopper will be played by Martin Landau

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The "Big Lou" sax number was hopping

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Another enchanting evening with Burt I. Gordon. At least they won't be roller skating through the desert in this one. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Starring: A Bunch of People!

But not those two you just saw.

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Weirdest. Mission Impossible. Ever.

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@miru I enjoyed the MST3K intro and movie trailer! #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

A little tonsil hockey never hurt anyone ... OR DOES IT

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in fabulous BLACKBOARD-VISION

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peter graves? alright.

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#Monsterdon Couple making out in car. No chliches here!

Ah, there's the scream.

#Monsterdon Jumping right in!

"Necking" is, alas, not on my bingo card.

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DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN

Peter Graves!

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Have we watched this before?

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More twentyteens.

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@Wynter

Hahahahahahahaha!

It's never good! But I hope it'll be fun. The Beginning of the End 1957.

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BIG LOU IS HERE

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So the monster is called Big Lou?

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Groovy!

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Champaign 25, that means we won't get 25 minutes in before we need alcohol.

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All right- Bring on the grasshoppers on postcards!

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A big Ending Welcome to Monsterdon participants and lurkers!

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Oh no I was wrong, we got LUDLOW sign instead!

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Black and white, 30 seconds in and people are screaming. Looks like it's gonna be a fun one! #Monsterdon

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Ludlow 1
Rantoul 5
Champaign 25

Is this small town 'merica?

Beginning of the End (1957) #monsterdon now playing on https://miru.miyaku.media :miyaku:

"Never before has there been anything"

yeah stop right there

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And... Rolling!

An Experience No One On Earth Has Ever Known Before!
(AKA You Can't Drop An Atom Bomb On Chicago!)

Go! Go! Go!

Ludlow ... Rantoul ... Champaign ... we're in the middle of Illinois.

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SEND ME A POSTCARD WHEN YOU GET TO CHICAGO OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

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Your mission, Mr. Phelps, should you choose to accept it, is to watch a terrible Bert I. Gordon movie. This toot will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.

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#monsterdon tiiiime

Who needs opening credits??

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