Hello? Ricola?

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150 million years ago wasn't the beginning of everything.

Exactly as it was 150 mya. Whatevs! No scientist would ever say that. #monsterdon

the Amazonian rat that's as big as a sheep, I think you mean the CAPYBARA that is SHAPED like a FRIEND

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Dr. Reed reminds me a little bit of Phil Hartman.

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@diazona @bstacey @forestine #Monsterdon would not be complete.

"... hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz ..."

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Lovely Rita Creature boat. Lovely Rita Creature boat. #Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

#Monsterdon Now hold on sir a centipede would be 30cm long

it's a pretty good evolutionary strategy to only have one of your species alive at any given time, unchanged across archaeological time #monsterdon

Boat captain's the best character so far.

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Uh, terrible biology. The amazon is not the same as it was 150 million years ago #monsterdon

Dude, this is NOT anythig like the Devonian. Jeez.

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No they didn't.

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No, you were right, the Mississippi is something. Very few rivers are nothing. #monsterdon

I can't fault the picture quality, you can see crows feet on the stars. #monsterdon

"A professor needs both vision and confidence." And tenure, but where can you get tenure track these days?

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lmao that barge driver living it up

can we just get a movie of him fucking around in the jungle, these other people are boring
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DANG if that guy who got the claw in his face didn't look just like Fred Armisen.

We’re watching the African Queen right, when do the Germans show up?

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He’s a scientist not a fortune teller!

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Stock footage off the port bow! #Monsterdon

Kay: "So hot"
Dr. David: "Yep, you are"
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Well the Skipper seems a jolly fellow. #Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

As soon as I saw his hair, I knew he'd be the first to go... #Monsterdon

It's nice to have a monster movie where the humans aren't virulently hostile to one another for no reason. #monsterdon

#monsterdon you've been hit by

you've been struck by

a fish

I wanna go camping now.
But do I want to run the risk of a merman coming into my tent in the dead of night?
DO I want to run the risk of that never happening? :3
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That is one effective claw. Didn't even need a body attached to it to take out 2 men camping.
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y'know that background moving that fast

this boat is _cruising_

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#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon anyone seen "Aguirre, The Wrath Of God"?

I too line up with my friends and have conversations facing the water when I go out on a boat. #Monsterdon #LastSupper

"it's soo hottt"
have you considered not wearing a long sleeve shirt and pants into the jungle? 🥴
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Well, now we have a lab, such as it is. It's here in this bucket!

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if the tent is a-rockin'... uh... time for a funeral in your schedule you'll be a blockin'

hell yeah

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I hope this captain has a monkey.

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Los gringos are unsuited to the climate

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@nhgeek

Don't come careening when the tent's a-screamin'

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#monsterdon weird prequel to the shape of water

And now The Other Side Of Water! #Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

@wohali "Hey Tomas! Smell my palm!"

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#monsterdon oh do we have a bingo card generator?

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Bummer. He even kept a machete in the tent and couldn't fend off swamp-boy.

lovely rita paddleboat

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Talking about how the lungfish failed right in front of lungfish is, quite simply, rude. #monsterdon

The Rita, the Pinta, and the Santa Morena

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it's the "Mano de Dios!"

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"Sleep now. No screaming. Only dreams" - The disembodied hand

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"The Claw" making a second appearance.
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If this tent's a rockin' etc etc. #Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

Getting good value out of that hand
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GIVE ME YOUR WIG!

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Emo Phillips....NOOOOOO! #Monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

puts hand over face

SLEEEP!

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The music is Waaaayyyy over the top! Perfect for #Monsterdon

Meanwhile, in Brazil, the Gill-Man is still trying to get out of the pond ... oh, there, he made it. Just out looking for a little snack.

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Don't throw a lantern at it, you'll only make it angry. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon time to first monster kill: 11 minutes

not half bad

Oh, so THAT’S what the webbed hand is for!! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🌊 🔦🐸🐊🧜‍♂️ 😱

oh no not the face!

Is this another movie where the monster is playing the soundtrack? Like the octopus and the harpsichord in Tentacles? #Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

I think the really square headed guy was in Tormented and that 3D alien movie we saw. #Monsterdon

Edit: yeah Richard Carlson

@TrishEM I find it telling that there was zero ambiguity about which actress you're talking about

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Only a foot-long centipede, pffff

How is THAT Devonian?

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guy picking that hand up and looking at it like "damn can't wait till they're all gone to goon with this thing"
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"He stole my great-granddad's grave marker!" - The disembodied hand

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Fish evolution is the solution to human development of a new type of man in space? Sure that works. Gundam SEED was about space whales or something after all.
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Meanwhile, in Emo Philips' tent...

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"Dum da DA DAaaaaI left my keys up here, I just know it"

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just go to that swamp bank where the monster keeps reaching out and touching it, seems like you'd have a good chance of discovering the monster there #monsterdon

how does a bank make money off this exactly?

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#Monsterdon smash cut to: same flipper claw scene as before!

4 out of 5 lungfish smoke Chatterton cigarettes, the only cigarettes loved by fish across the sea for their smooth flavor that won't attract sharks and gill-friendly form factor.

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This monster doesn't seem much of a threat, it just makes parallel lines along the beach front.

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Gah, same brass musical sting and hand sequence. #monsterdon

While we're talking transitional Devonian fossils, here's the great NYT piece about how Tiktaalik became a meme (archive) #Monsterdon

Revenge of monster claw dragging through the muck ASMR

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That lungfish is in great shape for being 15 million years old

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#Monsterdon the rolled R on River - rrrrrriver

OMG THE HAND AGAIN

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I phrase my grants in a way that implies the fish will help us fight the reds. Darpa just loves that! #Monsterdon

Ut oh!

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A new world ... where they can smoke in peace. #Monsterdon #BlackLagoon1954

#monsterdon Isn't this like the plot of Atlantis: The Lost Empire

“We have a clue to an answer.”
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SEEN IT

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He points out how the lungfish has failed because it hasn’t changed in millions of years, but that actually means it succeeded.

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*points* at Whit Bissel who has the pipe. #Monsterdon

"...perhaps we can teach men to adapt..."
room erupts in laughter

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Diving gringo reminds me of Phil Hartmann

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Are they riding the same boat as at the end of SOME LIKE IT HOT?

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#Monsterdon #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon i didn't come from no fish monkey, science man

@jivens I don't think they're very smart unless they have the pipe, glasses AND elbow patches.

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Hey, don't shame the lungfish for being content with his life.

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That's that's not how that works....

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that seems like way too many fish in that tank
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"Why don't we make up the expedition? Certainly no harder than that big show we put on in the barn last Summer to save the institute." #Monsterdon

I'm sorry before you continue your speech, I'd really feel better if more people in this room were smoking. #monsterdon

#monsterdon it's like Jim but not as we know it.

Being able to do the same thing for millions of years is not failure, you twerp

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