Don't think of it as a helicopter. It's a giant octopus enrichment toy!

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Little did they know the giant octopus attack was actually a giant SEAL attack. #Monsterdon

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Our brave military industrial complex has invented a new weapon, an ANTI-OCTOPUS-HARPOON-JET-TORPEDO which can pierce the natural damage reduction of kaijus but is probably trash against soviet submarines. Sometimes ya gotta specialize.

Joyce reveals her own power item, a storybook with Octopus cartoons showing Seymour eating a sailboat with a comment explaining that this comes from the time of Vesuvius or something.

Lots of bridges to choose from, but honestly if you're going to climb a bridge, make it the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Yep, that's a CITY LANDMARK DESTROYED alright. Marking it!

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

<Octopus lovingly caresses Golden Gate bridge> #monsterdon #BeneathTheSea

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Not sure why, but we get a phone call from an airplane informing us that Seymour is a zombie octopus and so we have to destroy his brain to defeat him. A near miss won't work because he can regenerate or something.

How the airplane learned this is unclear. I'm gonna assume they met Gandalf riding a Kirin while flying over the pacific, and Gandalf shared the deep lore before flying off.

Movie making very sure we understand that they blew the mines up one at a time by calling our their numbers to the trigger guy.

#Monsterdon

the octopus did nothing wrong

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Otome Game Characters:

Protagonist: Joyce (horny scientist lady)

Potential Love Interests:
Submarine Captain
Scientist Husbando
Cigarette Sailor
Seymour, the Giant Octopus (probably)

They could have made a quick check to see if there was anything they could do to help that guy before they hightailed it out of there
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And a NEWSPAPER HEADLINE. Unclear what the best path to #MonsterdonBingo is from here

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Okay, we reported an giant octopus, and so immediately we cut off all trade in the Pacific (somehow) and deploy the navy to search for Seymour. By "search" we mean "depth charge", because... um... violence solves all problems? I think turning all ocean trade off is a bit of an overreaction (along with the depth charges), but that's probably because I'm a pinko commie coward.

We get a sequence explaining how cephalopods work with a balloon.

Whoa, I was NOT expecting a JATO sequence in this movie!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO

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"Sharks, probably"

BOOOOOO

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To save money on the model due to this film's low budget, Harry Harryhausen only gave six legs to the Octopus monster. Guess that technically makes the film's adversary a Hexopus ...
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Joyce uses a wall map to explain her hypothesis that the H-Bomb turned Seymour into a monster. Evidence for this is that the Japanese fishers had less of a catch; this could be Seymour's fault, or Godzilla's. I don't remember if this movie came out before or after Godzilla, so I'm just gonna pretend they're happening at the same time.

The Navy King is unimpressed with Joyce's hypothesis, even though this is a movie so the first hypothesis is always right.

You'd better believe that's a TENTACLE ATTACK

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

#Monsterdon #ItCameFromBeneathTheSea okay so one of the properly protected beekeepers was the Submarine Captain, who is going to have a weird 50s movie romance with Joyce, the One Girl.

Judging from the handy she gave to the graduated cylinder, she seems to be into it.

oh sure, every time a giant monster rises from the sea you blame the atom bomb, next you'll be saying global warming is real

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Uh "Pete", can you fucking read? #monsterdon

AH-IM TAH-EE-ERED

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Whose hair took longer to do? #Monsterdon

oooooh our frogmen do not have the underwater astronaut doohickeys from Gojira

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Starting a #Monsterdon thread for #ItCameFromBeneathTheSea

Hoping for lots of toy boats in this movie.

🗣️ 📣 TECHNICAL EFFECTS
HARRY HARRYHAUSEN!

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@paco 🤣 Oh boy ... I'm sure Professor Joyce and Joan Weldon's character from Them! could have quite the discussion over a couple of martinis about how 50s male cinematic scientists dealing with radioactive monsters are such giant a-holes!
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@RobynGoodfellow @Taweret 🤣🤣🤣 Radioactive octo-chunks will be washing up on Alcatraz for months! #Monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow I'd like to believe that the first reel narrator was attacked by the Octopus, and that's why he left! #Monsterdon

@Louisa Legitimately shocked that there was NO COFFEE SERVED in this movie. #Monsterdon

"Hey you dead? Yes? Cool. I'mma go stab an hexapus in the eye."
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Exciting scuba diving action... *yawn*
Well atleast the soundtrack isn't weird loud squid farts right now.
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@strangefour The magic of Godzilla is mostly that it doesn't try to be anything other than Godzilla smashing buildings and cars

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Final score:
U.S. Navy: 1
Fifth Columnist Octopus: 0
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For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about It Came From Beneath The Sea.

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

@arisummerland @Taweret Maybe it should, but on the other hand we will always have sympathy for the monster

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Thanks #Monsterdon for a fun movie, and also possibly identifying a thing that deeply interests our cat. We noticed she was seriously **watching** the scenes with the octopus, and after the movie put on a few minutes of a random squid documentary. Turns out she might be legit interested in cephalopods. Just can't take her eyes off them. Even 50's claymation ones.

@blogdiva @Taweret @cheribaker Salute! Thanks a bunch folks! 🐙🐙🐙 #Monsterdon

Oh she just got her lashes done and came to town to show off.
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Haha welp

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#MONSTERDON THANK YOU

@cheribaker Busy Bingo this week! My favorite entry was Eggs or Larvae. I was looking so hard! Thanks for doing this.

THRILL! At the exciting traffic report.
CHILL! At the phone operator stock footage.
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@wohali And how the hell do you make a monster movie about a giant cephalopod, and! not! have! any! ink!?!?!?

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wait who was #TeamOctopus anyway?

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#Monsterdon Mr. Fucktofftapus agrees with the creature, fuck that bridge.

There is beauty in how the tentacles unwind. In ways that aren't quite how an octopus moves. Or looks since this only has six tentacles. Sextopus? Hexapus?
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@wohali So many missed opportunities! They must've talked about getting coffee a dozen times, but! Never! Actually! Served! Any! Coffee!
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Tonight I am definitely looking up #BeardMeatsFood doing a seafood eating challenge

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Well that was a bit too easy for the men TBH...they are still super creepy but at least they are *starting* to figure out the Lady actually saved their asses!

Anyways great #Monsterdon @Taweret ... can't go wrong with soft core stop-motion tentacle porn on Mastodon!

Leslie doesn't have the personality to pull off that last evening gown #monsterdon

I guess I don't know what harpoon guns are supposed to look like, but this looks like three bits of plumbing glued together. #monsterdon

So monsterdon goes back to its hidden lair, to strike mirth and mayhem and masers. #Monsterdon

And the credits roll ... like Calamai!
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"You were right about this new breed of woman. It's like she doesn't want me to take over her life or anything! I'm so confused." #Monsterdon

rooted clearly for the monster here #monsterdon

The rate at which #monsterdon movies end with something fucking off into the sea remains astonishingly high

Thank goodness the danger is over now that the giant octopus is just a massive pile of extremely radioactive waste floating right outside of San Francisco. Thanks for a fun watch everyone! And thanks yet again to @Taweret for hosting! #ItCameFromBeneathTheSea #Monsterdon

We were robbed of our rightful fucking off into the sea! The two bland nerds who went swimming at the end should've stayed down there! I demand JUSTICE #Monsterdon

“I guess that’s it.”

Brother you said it. #Monsterdon

Gross.

Thanks everyone for another fun #monsterdon see you next week!!! #monsterdon #itcamefrombeneaththesea

So... I think that's the earliest example of a throuple on film that I've seen?

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Another #Monsterdon is in the sub!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's picture had all manners of aquatic hijinks!

* Fish with built in geiger counters!
* Tentacles all over the place!
* Too much talking, and not enough monster.
* Bridge destruction!
* Clock destruction!
* Boat destruction!
* Another case where the monster should have been the hero.

#ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace #TeamOctopus

@GrimmReality Initially I honestly thought this was a #monsterdon comment about the giant octopus destroying San Francisco in a bad horror film and was about to make an Elon Musk joke.

#monsterdon Flamethrowers are like 1950s masers.

Griff can just taste that promotion to Lt. Cmdr. #Monsterdon

THE PVC PIPE GUN is how you say we ran out of budget for the ending #monsterdon

oh come on at least paint the PVC pipe you're making that prop out of, c'mon!

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i think my subtitles are flaky #monsterdon

@brion HEAD-ON: apply directly to the forehead
HEAD-ON: apply directly to the forehead
HEAD-ON: apply directly to the forehead

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all the ordinary city street traffic as the octopus fucks off into the sea (barely)

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CITY LANDMARK DESTROYED!

#monsterdonBingo #monsterdon #ItCameFromBeneathTheSea

Pssh ... I bet that French hippie Jacques Cousteau wants to try to negotiate with the monster ...
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After we fail to kill Seymour via depth charges, Seymour decides to attack the golden gate bridge because he thinks it looks pretty and wants to play with it. More alarms go off, annoying the audience.

Some bridge guy is ordered to abandon his post rather than die needlessly. This compares favorably to the 2020s Hawaii Nuclear Attack False Alarm where fast food employees were ordered to man their stations despite supposed impending atomic hellfire

Umm ... why is there traffic moving on the golden gate bridge in the background? Isn't there like a big gap in it now?

#Monsterdon

Hat tip to that extra for his excellent rolling fall

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Nowadays we look down at our phones but in the 50s… #Monsterdon

LOOK OUT! :D:D #monsterdon

Hey, how about that. For once, Fish HATES Mongo. :D #Monsterdon

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Annoying Alarms Everywhere! This is super urgent! Very Urgent I tell you!

@arrjay

That's what the geiger fish are for!

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And done! Here's my new fan art in celebration for tonight’s Monsterdon presentation! Thanks for watching it shape-up, folks! 🐙🐙🐙
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see, she's a woman so she can't handle seeing a bridge destroyed, emotionally. hormones and all

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So they just wrapped a mic in a ziplock and shoved it into their kids fish tank to get the monster sound effect, yeah? #Monsterdon

i love the octopus so much

i might actually enjoy a marvel movie if they ever fought a giant stop motion monster

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i've got 99 problems but a bridge ain't one #monsterdon

I want to be the guy who plots stuff on glass. That seems like a fun job.

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She spends an awful lot of time putting on & taking off her jacket, doesn't she? She should invest in a windbreaker...

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When an octopus and a bridge love each other very much ...

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isn't Billy is a little old to be in the navy?

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are they even targeting anything before they scream FIRE!

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i wonder what the octopus is up to

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"Here's another piece of evidence" - hands reported a xerox of a woodcut.

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my torpedo is bigger than his tentacle... and it's ELECTRONIC!

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Reporter: What will you do if this fails?
Navy Rep: Well, if we build this large wooden badger….
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@paco my subtitles said 'Siemens' ... weird #monsterdon

oooo ELECTRONIC CONTROLS

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"Where are you?"
"Coastal waters."

Good. Thanks. That helps.

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#TeamOctopus

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okay, the monster is AWESOME tho

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#monsterdon Remember when the monster they were hunting left radioactive traces? Maybe a geiger counter could help?