HE HIT BIG FRANK! #Monsterdon

I was too young to have called the Freddy Freaker hotline, but I'm guessing it was basically like this #monsterdon

They said "Earth time" and *then* remembered to clarify the time zone?!

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@rwhe And voice of Haunted Mansion narrator in DisneyWorld.

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@Louisa is there…a Mrs. Major Husband? #monsterdon

Greenwich Meridian Time. Interesting #monsterdon

@trixter gotta have it or else the whole thing sounds like "chchchshshhshshhhshhshhh" the whole time #monsterdon

225.6 megacycles! For all the latest flying saucer chat. #monsterdon

okay but why did we shoot at the aliens tho?

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THERE’S A KNOB LABELED “SQUELCH”!? #Monsterdon

Yeah, the army wouldn't be monitoring for transmissions.
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Oooh "megacycles", haven't heard that in a long time

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Uh, I wonder why the aliens are hostile to us? Could it be shot on sight policy?
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This is the MILITARY we have to follow the rules of the bureaucracy and respect the chain of command unless there is shooting involved! #Monsterdon

"this may be too big to allow for mistakes" like the one that got a million-dollar installation destroyed and as many as eight soldiers vapourized along with you mean?
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"We're asking you to leave contacting a possibly hostile alien race to the actual trained diplomats"

Our Hero: HEEEEEEEY ALIEN MOTHERFUCKERS HERE I AAAAAAAAAAM~ #Monsterdon

Was that guy's name Major Husband? Because that's moving a little fast, could we start with Lieutenant (junior grade) Boyfriend first? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Having slowed down the tape, Professor Dad discovers that the aliens were sending a message in slow motion trying to meet with him before the rocket launch.

It's possible they were just trying to do a diplomacy and the humans overreacted by shooting them like dummies. It's also possible that they're here to conquer us; I still would prefer not shooting incoming aliens without really good reason.

"my own wife's father" way to appeal to rank and authority #monsterdon

he already has a liason at his hotel, he just got married like a week ago. #monsterdon

Scientist: Am I under arrest?
Army Guy: Uh, yeah.

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Though for the night? Look out the window!
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it's a boardroom decision. #monsterdon

That's right audience! We have more than three US Army officer uniforms and we're NOT afraid to use them. #monsterdon

🛸 FLYING TRIVIA

The movie's headquarters was the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in LA. They used the sound of the adjacent processing tanks for the sound of the alien spacecraft. (Sorry!)

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Man, this room's a Who's Who of B-movie Actors Who Played Generals In Monster Movies #Monsterdon

Ignoring the scientist!

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oh hey there again narrator I didn’t realize you were still here with us #monsterdon

Smoking on a *fancy* airplane

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This is like when I was six and asked my dad why it rains some days and not on others and he told me there was a government office that scheduled the weather because he didn't know the real answer. #monsterdon

DON’T LOOK OUT THE WINDOW OF THAT PLANE

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Ah ha! The aliens are Alvin and the Chipmunks!

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#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Do the flying saucers have a TARDIS thing going on where they're bigger inside than outside?

If not, then why is the interior a huge empty space? Are they cargo vessels just repurposed to do mischief? Maybe the landing cylinder is just the main chamber extending out of the hull for loading purposes.

Thank you doctor for explaining what the aliens explained like a minute ago
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@CactuarJoe time is a flat circle. #monsterdon

Every government department is dedicated to figuring out what's going on with the aliens. The Post Office, Fish & Wildlife, every department.

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AROUSED PUBLIC!
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That’s no alien voice! That’s the man in black himself, Mister Johnny Cash. #Monsterdon

An aroused public demanded an answer. And more stock footage of rockets being launched. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

"When the batteries died, the tape slowed down --" YES. WE GET IT.

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I'm informed the alien voice is Paul Frees, famous voice actor and veteran of previous Monsterdon #monsterdon

New petition against tax!? AGAIN!? #Monsterdon

Yeah, that's how speed up voices sound.
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The public is aroused? So they heard about the nookie in the car too? #Monsterdon

Wait i want to read some of these articles about taxes #Monsterdon

Why they always gotta be so sweaty? #monsterdon

"Operation Skyhook" what a name -- and too bad the scientist didn't try to figure out the funny noise from the saucer earlier! #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

"Traffic toll at new high"! That is bad news!

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Called it! #monsterdon

Ok, who forgot to put air scrubbers in the underground Mission Control?

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All the others died because of insufficient sex #monsterdon

Poor guy's a Bethesda sidequest now #monsterdon

Shouldn't he also have to tell it his serial number?

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did orson welles direct this scene #monsterdon

Look aliens! Get the howitzer! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon These hot yoga rooms are getting intense.

More scenes like this please
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General Dad: Ami I under arrest? Can I go?

Ew, brain scan.

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Check out those eyes. Yeah, he's still tripping from that barbecue.

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The garbley alien voice affect was created by turning the sound recorder device on and off real quick.

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@trixter What does it even mean to be American if we don't shoot everything on sight 🤦

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Aliens just forgot to turn on their translator when they buzzed the director? Seriously?

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@Taweret they were suspected of blowing up our birds? #monsterdon

@apLundell I'm thinking discount kryptonite...because it's green on the colorized version #Monsterdon

Imagine a world... where they modulate my voice

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The General's a little slow, yeah. >_> #Monsterdon

Ok, so are these space robots? or are those suits? Are those blaster arms part of their biology?
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@Taweret In case there were Russians inside that armor #monsterdon

Those flying saucers are huge!! #Monsterdon

they're going to touch him gently with a giant used tissue, the horror! #monsterdon

#monsterdon mysterious energy crystal? Or used tissue? You Decide!

@Louisa We did indeed shoot first, right? I’m not missing something? #monsterdon

"...stare at the tissue stick!"

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@Taweret the correct time for questions is after shooting
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A rose? WE ARE NOT DATING, SAUCER!
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Liking this set
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#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers One of the frisbees lands and disgorges three humanoids in spacesuits, whom the army shoots with an antiaircraft gun, having already borked up their first contact procedures.

The hulking spacesuit dudes retreat behind their force field then start phasering people and blowing up buildings, and also the rocket. They it goes and buzzes off into the sky. Professor Dad and Daughter of the Mustache hide, while General Mustache is captured.

@Zerofactorial Not my fault everything looks so... Integrated. #Monsterdon

and the officer wakes up on a twilight zone set. #monsterdon

why did we shoot at the aliens again?

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"...Earthlings, this is my clone GORT, and my other clone, GORT"

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look at the grease spot he left on the floor!
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Ooh, they have an earthman specimen. Let the probing begin!

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"Aliens appeared!"

"Should we try to communciate with them?"

"Nah, just fucking shoot them"

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When all you've got is a disintegration ray everything looks like a disintegration target #monsterdon

The alien is commanded by a giant paper rose. #Monsterdon

LMAO ok look, I know it's a tense situation but is the plan really "fire a rocket launcher at the humanoid alien who's slowly tottering out of their spaceship from 50 feet away"

You knocked him down!! He's just a little guy!!!

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Those are some goofy ass looking aliens. Just saying. #monsterdon

Oh no! A random oil rig has also caught fire!
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FIRE HANDS! I’ll bet that’s not on anybody’s bingo

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nice explosion effects! #monsterdon

ah, another typical spacex launch #monsterdon

This movie is an hour and 23 minutes, but I think we could've gotten it under an hour if we cut all the scenes of people trying to use phones. #monsterdon

Well, so much for rocket #12, let's do rocket number #13 tomorrow. #monsterdon

See, what you have to do is slowly push through the force field, it's Dune Rules

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#monsterdon So, gang, the protagonists being in a soundproofed underground bunker while stuff happens above that involves rocket fuel isn't forebiding at *all*, right?

Oh good model explosions! Nice work on the building blowing up, that was great :D #Monsterdon

Oh, is there anything we won’t shoot at? #monsterdon

better keep a grip on her, she might forget to run...or ..something?
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#Monsterdon For the time, these effects are all right!