these are the best saucers EVAR #Monsterdon

Honest question: did cars in the 50s really have such ridiculously underdamped suspension, or is that just a movie thing? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Headcanon: Professor Dad just thinks that the aliens might be super sexy, and that's why he's stealing a car to meet with them, ignoring both the army and his wife.

I like how the bench seats let directors stage scenes where people got in their cars on the wrong side. Even though I don't think people really did that very often. #monsterdon

We're gonna have to face facts, here, Russ. Your wife's a snitch. #Monsterdon

Off to a secret late night meeting is it now? Well known spot in the city park is it? #monsterdon

She's going to snitch on her husband?!?

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Whoah, THIS is grounds for divorce! Carol, you jerk! Your husband's trying to save the world! And you're being selfish and stupid, squealing on him like that! #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

..girl that's just a shut door, you can follow him #Monsterdon

@blogdiva They do though

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this is a really nice hotel if it has a shortwave transmitter/receiver in the guest rooms.

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Imagine if they loudly discussed the Bomb with open windows and lax security, amateur hour here!
Are they blaming Dr Ross for that whole base being destroyed or what?
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"...our beige uniforms won't allow us to make decisions"

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@Lazarou She’s just a woman, she’s not going to do anything! #Monsterdon

maybe if we didn't have a policy of shooting at people who definitely have superior weapons idk

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next headline: Dipshit Writes Bigoted Song About Skyhook Incident #monsterdon

Wait- was he taping over the message when the batteries died?
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Ooooh wiggle waggley slow tape sounds… #monsterdon

Wasn't this Skyhook project secret? And now it's front page news? Something has changed....

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"remember to drink your ovaltine" #monsterdon

If only the batteries had died sooner… #monsterdon

"The atmosphere is becoming toxic" - was the barbecue *that* bad?

"The gas generator has stopped" - new euphemism for flatulence just dropped...

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"we have not seen or heard anybody else for hours so clearly we're the last people left on earth" has big April 2020 vibes #monsterdon

I love when aliens say things like “your sun”. #Monsterdon

Guess the saucer aliens are kinda fast talkers. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

just recording some classic #monsterdon audiologs

An interstellar conveyance! With a ceiling light which sees into people's brains!

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"Can you explain why, after contacting Dr. Marvin, we were met with violence?"

[The human race shuffles its feet] Look, you gotta understand that we suck real bad

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These visual and sound effects and sets are amazing
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oh no, they put a picture of a brain over his brain! it's all over for the general! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Okay, I don't understand the internal layout of these flying saucers; they have a big collapsible cylinder thing that seems to take up most of their hull that they use to disgorge people, and the interior of the saucer (which isn't all that big) seems to resemble a big round barn with nothing in it except a glowing translation kleenex. The crew seem to be working behind a little window?

My cat likes the sound effects even less than I do 😾 #monsterdon

the air is becoming toxic, much like our relationship

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@dogwelder @blogdiva It was colorized later. You and I are true purists. #monsterdon

"I'm scared Russ" she said, calmly

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"The Rose" by Bette Midler starts playing #monsterdon

yeah this must have been hand colored. #monsterdon

Welcome foolish mortal.. to the haunted saucer. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers #PaulFrees

#monsterdon okay ngl for 1956 this is some kick-ass effects going on.

Also the "Oh hey you got some very aggressive earthbeings on your hands, here we'll make them go away, there, ur welcome!"

this must have been a manual colorization, there is no way they could nail the blue energy beam like that purely algorithmically #monsterdon

I'm immediately on the side of the aliens. #monsterdon

The shimmering curtain effect under the space ship is pretty cool #monsterdon

oh crap, they brought guns to a disintegrator ray fight #monsterdon

dude, they landed on your sidewalk, and you kill the first alien that comes down? i mean, i know you're the US Army, but like, are none of you even remotely curious about them? #monsterdon

Why are these LGMs so goofy? Why don't their arms bend?

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"I'll see your rock tossing sticks and raise you a force field and an evaporation ray."

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'Muricans really gotta work on their First Contact skills #Monsterdon

The thing about the classic saucer design is that it feels like all saucer movies are part of the same story. This is like a sequel to "The Day The Earth Stood Still". #monsterdon

the saucer looks really cool and i would like it to stop making that noise

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#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers So far no toy boats yet, but lots of archaic computers eating punched tape, so that's neat.

Also, I like how disinterested the sergeant is about UFO reports; his shift is almost done and he's ready to go home.

Good thing the flying saucers don't have stealth technology

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with the noise it makes maybe it's a flying roomba #monsterdon

"...people of Earth, who ordered the Domino's Pizza?"

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Love that UFO design, tho, halfway between Adamski and the more rounded seamless The Day the Earth Stood Still saucer look :D #Monsterdon

These are some A+ saucers. #Monsterdon

"...UFO approaching"
"what does it look like"
"how should I know, it's a UFO"

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So, they're going to have sex in mission control? That's what the movie is telling us in it's coy 1950s way? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers I find it interesting that the movie people have as good an explanation for Foo Fighters as anyone has been able to come up with. If I remember correctly the current scientific consensus on foo fighters are that they were probably stress induced hallucinations or other optical effects, but weird atmospheric electrical trickery might be plausible as well.

This time we've got TV cameras so we can watch the launch from the bunker. Never tried that before.

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fool lights, not foo fighters? #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

what is that sterno burner pan thing on the table, that's exactly like a mysterious thing my grandparents had and we could never explain during my childhood... was that a normal kitchen thing at the time, or like a fad like a Ronco Rotisserie thing? #monsterdon

@Bluedepth Fortunately we have the aliens to help clean up

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"Apparently, they blow up in outer space!"

Again, y'all's telemetry game is weak.

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characters so far:

General Mustache
Daughter of the Mustache
Professor Dad
Flying Saucers
"Birds" (that are really satellites)

#Monsterdon WE HAVE COFFEE-SIGN! WE HAVE COFFEE-SIGN!

THey sure are blasé about that saucer they saw.

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yes.. there's nothing explosive in... the rockets #monsterdon

They just put eleven satellites in orbit and didn't worry when they lost contact with ten of them? Be less chill!

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"GAMA RAY COUNTER" #monsterdon

Oh hi daddy guess what we got married oh hold on gotta launch a rocket now ket's do dinner 'K bye! #Monsterdon

lol, all that equipment and people in white coats is to help your man maintain his erection during his honeymoon #monsterdon

Woo! Surprise marriage for the bride's father!

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did she just call her dad 'darling?'

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We can't possibly abort- but what's new with you?
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"It's your Dad! Oh hey General, I was just macking all over your daughter at work" #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

the false color is making all their skin the same color as the uniforms and that sort of rocks for the subplot that the aliens have already invaded and are in charge of the military #monsterdon

well they're in the bunker, but where's buckaroo banzai?!

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You forgot to turn it off! You wasted ALL THAT TAPE!

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THE TAPE CAN RECORD SOUNDS????
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"MY THIRD GRADE TEACHER MISS HICKEY"??? #monsterdon

“Hey there! Just dropping in for a second. As we saucers do.” #monsterdon

those meteors looked like rocks with @Taweret@octodon.social's buttfrog

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Do you hear something?

Oh my god that flying saucer is trying to pass us and it didn't even signal!!

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love the slide whistle sound as the saucer speeds off #monsterdon

Hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface... So, literally low Earth orbit

I have to remind myself that was a bigger deal in the 60's

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They seem awful calm with a giant flying saucer right in front of them.

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shoutout to stolen nazi rocket!
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THAT REAR PROJECTION IS AFTER US!
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Wait wait so this guy dictating his report is basically a whole extra round of narration DAMMIT MOVIE JUST SHOW US--

OH WAIT, there's the flying saucer, never mind! Carry on!

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We're currently watching Masters Of Sex, and I have unrealistic expectations of where this newlywed plotline is going #monsterdon

"...once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down, says Werner Van Braun" --Tom Lehrer

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:blobsweats:
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…is he going to fuck the rocket #monsterdon

"February 18, Diane. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. Whoops, UFO." #Monsterdon

oh well if they're married, that's ok!
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Fred Sears directed this after his messy professional (and personal?) breakup from Roebuck.

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what's this FONT i want to make it my DEFAULT FONT for everything #monsterdon

You can't join Hemispheric Defense Command unless you're a hemisphere. There are only four officers. #monsterdon

Been a while since a spooky font scroll!

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