If you have cut rate car insurance, you could be caught paying for this giant grasshopper destruction yourself.
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"Foul play suspected. But all I can hear is crickets."
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"This looks like a 242 dash 6."

"A giant grasshopper attack?

"Roger"

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Your ass is grassed

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Shame on you, Bert I. Gordon. #Monsterdon

Albert's hittin' us pretty hard with the soundtrack this time. #Monsterdon

Hot cold open.
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this is some very tame dogging

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#monsterdon #monsterdonalert GO!

*Walks down the creakiest stairs in existence*

They will never notice me sneaking around!

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@diazona ooo ooo "the Gland that time forgot?! :ablobcatgooglymlemjumping: " #monsterdon

"Clamp clamp clamp"

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@saucerlost you can play an organ, just don't play with an organ? #iMconfusedRightNow #monsterdon

those pills don't dissolve at all

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Gedro is Mitch

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#monsterdon Finally, a coffee fetching wench fetches coffee.

This is very Spider Baby

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#monsterdon There's abled and then there's just being a prick buddy.

#monsterdon Dr. Wright is in your office. He's so Wright, it's wrong!

That dude is so full of ketamine right now....

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This is how rich people live, isn't it?

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Well team, that's another movie launched successfully into space. Well done! And thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. ^_^

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@jonny that relationship will last well into the 80s, I'm sure #Monsterdon

Thanks for a lovely evening, folks! I missed y'all. Thanks @Taweret and @miru in particular ✨

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At last we turn on the boat transmitter and all the giant locusts decide to fuck off into the lack and drown, then the movie ends.

Chicago 1, Giant Insects 0.

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#monsterdon Yay for the double-feature! The Unearthly! Mad Surgeon! LOL

That movie was wildly good for the first 20 minutes compared to the absolute rest of the movie

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The End.
The locusts fucked off into the sea.
Pater Graves got married to Hot Blonde and the ringbearer was a locust attach to a polygraph machine.
Thanks, @Taweret and all #monsterdonians ..

THE END! A top notch effort from our buddy Burt I Gordon. I think this was even more fun than Earth Vs. The Spider. Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! Stay away from radioactive veggies. Especially the lettuce. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Monsters in the next Miru movie: Men with beards

(Dope music tho)

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Really? That’s the end. What?!

I guess we’ve been watching too many movies lately that have some kind of denouement. I’ve been spoiled.

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it’s wild how recognizable 1950s Chicago is, guess a lot of the shape of things was pretty set by then #monsterdon

Years later the Space Archanids would revenge the locusts #Monsterdon

The locusts fuck off into the sea, and the atomic foods are probably fine. Also the reporter got the story of a lifetime.

Definitely a good bad movie, though.

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yes that was surely all of the locusts, not a single one was hungry or scared of water or had an independent thought of any sort

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finally, the end of the beginning of the end!

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And the grasshoppers literally fucked off into the sea!

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I'm pretty sure the building that the locusts were climbing on was just a photo pasted on cardboard and cut out a bit so they wouldn't crawl onto the sky

and I love that

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Okay, that's not the Prudential. But it SHOULD have been the Prudential! 😂

(It was the tallest at the time)

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they did a great job rocking the fake boat, flowers for the stagehands

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The locusts on a photo effect actually kinda works!

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do bullets do anything though?

Oh wait he got one!

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@CactuarJoe makin' my way downtown
scree-in' fast
faces pass and i'm hop-bound

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I mean this is fun tho

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They're everywhere! They're taking the El past Wacker drive! They're car pooling on LSD! THEY'VE REACHED THE LOOP! I REPEAT! THEY'VE REACED THE LOOP!!!

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Should have chosen the lingerie shop for your look out dude...

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I used to work in an emergency lab, but it turned out natural emergencies are just better, so we stopped research.
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Those locusts are on Wacker... are they getting wacked?

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did anyone ever secure that greenhouse or?

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"Their time in Chicago has made the locusts pushy and irritable!"

#Monsterdon #MidwesternRivalry

The bug scientist explains his plan. First he'll attract the locusts to downtown chicago using a speaker on top of the tall building they're hanging out in. Then they'll switch the signal from "skyscraper" to "sailboat" and attract all the locusts into the lake.

I can see many ways this plan might go wrong, but there's only 8 minutes of movie left, so maybe it will work.

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#Monsterdon See, the locusts make a really annoying noise, so we have to fight them with our own annoying noise.

Things got better once JJ Bittenbinder started giving the kids hard facts about giant locusts

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We found the brown note. The grasshopper shit its pants.

No we don't know where it found pants.

No we don't know which way it wore them.
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@faoluin Aaaanticipaaation #WrongSNLskit #monsterdon

#monsterdon South sides getting grasshopper action. Cars being smashed, thrusted against, presumably however grasshoppers need hot sexytimes... the south side is doing it for sure!

Okay so the river isn't made of chocolate but we're still drowning them in it. Neat I guess.

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The bug scientist thinks he got the right locust noise but then the locust breaks out of a cage and eats a soldier, but the bug scientist somehow beats it with a regular gun. He calls the general and the general calls off the A-Bomb strike.

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We've got to stop that atomic bomb!

Meanwhile...

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They tried to cancel the A-Bomb, but unfortunately the "precious bodily fluids" guy was in charge.

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"Negative on mission cancel! We will protect our precious bodily fluids!"

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Man… Fox News was right… Chicago is dangerous

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Locust just gave Name, Rank, and Serial Number.

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@apLundell I've got bad news...

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i think you've got it!

by george you've got it!

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This is some pretty good army-on-grasshopper action.

Uh-oh. Now it’s grasshopper-on-picnickers action. And that poor woman in a towel would’ve been a star in a King Kong movie. Here she’s just a locust lunch.

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I love how representative of actual science this scene is. Just fiddling for hours w/ this thing he's not sure is even doing anything. #Monsterdon

I always wear a full suit while torturing grasshoppers.
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@RobynGoodfellow his life long wish... #Monsterdon

Man. That general REALLY wants to nuke a major American city. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

When the temperature reaches 68 degrees, make sure you launch the locust at 88 miles per hour

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Yo dawg I heard you liked to call grasshoppers so I put an audio amplifier in your audio amplifier so you can call grasshoppers while you call grasshoppers.
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I think your nonsense technobabble is agitating the locust

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Just take a normal sized bug jag and add radiation

Also… normal sized bug net plus radiation… obviously

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Chicago is rough town. You might be walking around at night and you get jumped by a grasshopper.
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Giving the locust a lie detector test?

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Because no one can do a convincing giant locust mating call, the bug scientist tells the general he will need a live giant locust for this plan to work. I'm not sure if they've even killed any of the giant locusts, yet, despite all the tank rounds and flame throwers they've employed.

But they army dudes seem willing enough to send One Guy to go with the bug scientist to try to capture and one.

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TWO
TWO audio amplifiers
NO THREE
FOUR
FOUR

No three.
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The bee sound he's referring to is called piping. It's a high pitched call that queen bees make.

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Straighten your helmet, General. #Monsterdon

The bug scientist tells us that the bugs slow down when it is cold. This seems to make their plan to attack chicago a bad one, but I guess it's summer now so they won't all freeze to death.

The lead general plans to evacuate Chicago and then nuke it. The reporter suggests driving the locusts into Lake Michigan, and that gives the bug scientist an idea to attract the locusts to the lake with a fake locust mating call.

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So the army and tanks can't stop them, but eight guys with carbines are going to capture a live one?

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"I need an Arduino and a DAC shield."

"Also a trans femme game dev with deep knowledge of chiptunes."

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Chi-raq most dangerous city in America

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"you ever been duck hunting General"

Say no, we know where this line of questioning goes

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After a tense battle, the army is defeated. The news guy tells us that the giant locusts have reached the Chicago south side and also no one should panic, so naturally we get a panicked evacuation scene. Some locusts are chasing people and eating them. We get a scene of locusts crawling on a building and another one where a girl in a towel is doing her hair and then is accosted by a locust.

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#monsterdon Washington wants us to bomb Chicago. I think I heard a very far away moan from DC just now…

HOld your fire!
It's only composited effect! There's nothing actually there!
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Voyeuristic locusts

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Locusts, defeated by Chicago winters. Just like Chicago!

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America has lost Chicago to the Locust

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I’m not that worried about the south side of Chicago because Bad, Bad Leroy Brown lives there.

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Everyone's panicking, except Gertrude who had a luxurious shower and is working on her hair, until "Arrrggg!"

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hee hee

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Pervy locusts!

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Meanwhile, the news media:

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I mean… it’s not Ray Harryhausen high quality work… but it’s not the *worst* we’ve seen

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So the rest of the movie just drags on like this. With rather dull machinations of controlling the grasshoppers. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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also, there was a guy in the group that looked Native Americanish and that seems to be the guy that also got eating

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MY GOD IT'S KING PICCOLO

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