I suppose if they didnt bump off the Roddy McDowall character, the cost would've been beyond their budget.

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"Billy, Billy, Billy. You're getting to be a real Dillinger, ain't you, boy?"

Call him a silly Billy, Officer Ungar! Do it!! You owe us that at least!

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Billy is twinked up for jail. #Monsterdon

"Holy shit did you see that guy's car blow up! He's dead man. Totally dead."
"Batbappap?"
"Oh right sorry. Ack mabbap Labap!!"
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I gotta say though, so far this movie isn't completely awful, it's just not very good, there's no plot to speak of, and every single character is more hateable than the last. Still, I've seen worse.

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🎶 Laser-losing spaceship turtles 🎶

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The Man in the JC Penny's Suit.

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The aliens are watching the movie again and offering up their own commentary.

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@MargaretSefton Never forget: No matter how bad the movie script, it has definitely ended up in the training set for an LLM

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Wait, what in the world? Why did Billy just laserblast doctor Mellon? Or was that some other character with a similar Mega Man gun-arm?

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Are the aliens cute or is it just me?

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I love these guys tho

hand made creatures are just special

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Finally, the shell-less turtle aliens make another appearance!

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lol, Laserblaster waiting for Roddy McDowell in the night

Turtle Aliens, yayy!

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Yikes! #monsterdon

@riedlr that's how you right off the pizza lunch
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Wouldn't have expected Roddy Mcdowall in this. I assume the scene is short and the paycheck cleared out the films budget.

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#Monsterdon I’ve never seen these tools before. Ah well, let’s get to surgery!

It's... PEPPERONNI!! #monsterdon

Doctor: Billy I have some pamphlets for you to read… they’re about V.D. #monsterdon

We had a huge Chevy wagon. I took my driving test in that thing. If you can parallel park one of those, you deserve a drivers license. #monsterdon

@EmptySet omg I forgot he is in this, he must have really need the money #Monsterdon

Oh yes, The Old Walden Place. Probably haunted.

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I don't know about you, but I can't tell this movie was made over 3 weekends with virtually no budget.

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The tamale is also laced with fentanyl

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#Monsterdon cops have the munchies.

Shouldn't have bought a tesla.

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one less car
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The 70s synth really made that car explosion scene.

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lol, finally some more laser blasting!

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If only his mother had sewn some buttons on his shirt before she went off to Acapulco #monsterdon

I wonder what the aliens are doing right now

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In the 70s every movie had to have a SA scene. It was the law. #monsterdon

Hang on, is this an American movie? That radio broadcast just pronounced it "nuclear", not "nuke-ular". Or was that a shortwave radio picking up foreign frequencies or something?

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Too much teen angst - Not enough LASERBLASTING! #MONSTERDON

someone make him button his shirt

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"There's an Alien in the Estuary!
There's an Alien in the Estuary!"

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what I wouldn't give for some pool piranhas right about now

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Please somebody get laser blasted at this party

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That is a look that says, "we're getting fired aren't we?"
I wonder if these two know Ugg and Lee? They probably work for the same organization.
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#Monsterdon Thise that have chest hair will leave their shirt unbuttoned. Thise that don’t have hair, nor general testicle drop, will just forget what a shirt is all about. I guess. Also, we might want to lure the plot with a goat, like the T-Rex…

What is going on in this movie?
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Good GOD look at the sunburns at this party! At this rate its a race between the skin cancer and the lung cancer :/

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Bounty hunter Foba Bett is hot on their trail! #monsterdon

Oh my goodness, those controls were hand-drawn on colored paper

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He's posing for an easy listening album cover. AND the 8-track!

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Why is Rich Dude in the desert looking at smashed coke bottles, why?

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Are these aliens watching the movie, too?

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Unless these aliens are female… 0% chance of a Bechdel pass

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Hail, Denise.

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"We're all due there about 3" is the type of family invitation I've grown very adept at dodging and I can say this guy is doing it all wrong. #monsterdon

Not sure how old Billy is supposed to be, but he looks like a worn-out Luke Skywalker at 45.

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"What did you do today, oh boyfriend of mine"

"Just screwing around in the desert"

This dude is going places girl!

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Dude is paying with a credit card, and you have to understand that credit cards weren't as ubiquitous then as they are now. So, that guy's pretty important stuff.

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Not sure I’d trust this kid with so much as a leaf blower.
Lots could go wrong here. #monsterdon

That'll be $90,000 for the heart attack sir

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This is as iconic as the scene of a monkey throwing a bone in 2001.
Wait no sorry, this is as iconic as a monkey throwing it's feces.
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This is like someone went to see Star Wars and then was like, "Okay but what if instead of Tatooine it's southern California, and instead of whining about missing out on picking up power converters, it's whining about his mom leaving him alone again, and what if instead of the dark side, it's cops who steal weed?"

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I think this qualifies as bingo! Quick one this time

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So this is DorkassLoserton, huh?

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#Monsterdon He’s viscerally excited by pew pew blow up shit. Okay. Tragically straight. Also, the leaking power cell will be leading to significant radiation exposure. So, Spock-melt here we come! As long as he wears the necklace of poop. I guess.

ewwww, stop making the gun sexual you weirdo....

lol

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I keep thinking this is a grown adult but I thinking he must be 10 at most?
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is he five?

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Stick your hand in it, you twat

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@ramsey key question tonight #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Prince Valium shouldn’t mix Valium with Glass Bottle Coke. That’s dangerous. He could actually wake up. Then where would we be?

Is that the guy who always plays an awkward nerd in films?

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If this was "The A-Team" that car would totally have exploded. #monsterdon

@Lazarou They realized they had the budget to wreck one (1) car.

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I want a tv series where these two have to actually investigate real crimes. #monsterdon

Wouldn't have gotten a ticket if his shirt were off #monsterdon

Soundtrack wins already. #monsterdon

and now hijinks music #monsterdon

Oh my god, 'comedy chase music'

Just use everything you can find lads, throw it all in....but don't bother with any actual stunts though...

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gimme a puff o that marywanee cig

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So far it’s exceeding my expectations. #Monsterdon

Puff-puff-pass bro. #monsterdon

Wagged-out boomer vietnam vet stereotype was a thing in the 70s

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#monsterdon Ever notice that senile old military guys are always colonels?

If you've got that rank, try to get promoted before you retire.

Just.....never go near a shirtless dude in a van.....never.....

"Operation Sand....dust......"

Oscar worthy.

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the music is telling me to be a lot sadder about this than i am. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon huzzah! He’s got a shirt!

This 70s van better have a big waterbed and velour wall paper inside, or it's not living up to the 70s vibe.

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This feels like The Room.....

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Best thing about these lasers is that police don't need to make chalk lines when there's a murder. #monsterdon

A difficult era for fashion, as we see in this exhibit #monsterdon

Why did Laserblast have a grenade around his neck?

Was this all a horny young man's dream?

Does anybody speak in this movie?

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#Monsterdon Shellless Turtle Aliens. Okay! And some pew pew laser blaster play. Piano. Oops. He’s vapor. Oh well. The end? LOL.

They chose "quacking" as the subtitle.

Are the aliens ducks?

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Wow a real stop-motion clay alien!

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Any film that starts in a desert can't be good #Monsterdon #LaserBlast

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These credits are reminding me how much MST3K edits the pointless stuff

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If it says Irwin Yablans you know you are getting some quality

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Good '70s era titles. Conveys the quality of a low-budget TV movie

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A charles band production!

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The Colonel from tonight's #monsterdon and his "hush hush" lines make an appearance in Mike Diva's Grindhouse Megamix: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yDUfPNN5Dfg

Edit: Watching it again and it looks like Laserblast played heavily in that megamix!

I just remembered Billy's mom. Like, she gets off absolutely the best in this film. She's sunning her self in Acapulco. She's having margaritas poolside, blissfully unaware of the bullshit happening at home. And she'll come home to find that her useless, vapid, whining son--who was totally harshing her buzz--is no more.
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@Qenupve one of the coolest things about #Monsterdon is that there is an entire halo of people who passively participate by welcoming it into their feed context-free and engaging with it!

In the Master Pancake Theater¹ community, the people who watch the streams (a new but ongoing thing since the pandemic) without interacting with the chat (but occasionally sending in a donation) grew the moniker Silent Viewers, and John Erler always did a wonderful introduction and shout-out to the Silent Viewers when interacting with the chat at the beginning and end of those shows.

So let this be a hello there to all you Silent Viewers of #Monsterdon. We're glad you're here for it, even if you're not here for it! If you want in any week, you know where to find us and we'd be glad to have you.

¹ Austin comedy troupe who riff movies and do a costumed skit in the middle. IMHO funnier than MST3k, certainly more irreverent.