Bravo! Bravo! Everyone bravo! 👏👏👏

Fun to watch this with some people who've never seen it. It's a great musical and the movie gets to do so much unique stuff. Loved seeing posts from those of you viewing for the first time as the show unfolded its magic.

And the PUPPETS! And the SINGING!

Gah. I'm not a fanatic for musicals or anything, but this one is mandatory reading IMO, it's great in any format and especially in this format with this budget.

Thanks @ryan for setting up the #WrongFrogs double feature, it's always fun to revisit this one.

Have a nice night/week y'all!

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Maybe the real horrors were the capitalism that we found along the way

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For those of you who haven't seen the musical version of Little Shop of Horrors, it is playing as a #WrongFrogs second showing on Miru. If you're feeling like another movie, it's quite good and makes a diamond out of the rough rock that is the 1960 version.

https://miru.miyaku.media/

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Rick Moranis' eyebrows deserve their own line in the credits.

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Maybe the real little shop of horrors was the free market enterprise we found along the way

"This could be bigger than Hoola-Hoops"

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Hope you all had your fill of the scenery because Steve Martin has arrived to eat the rest.

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Anyway we're going out on the American flag and this is IN NO WAY pointing out the real horror in the movie

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Little baby Audrey II is so cute :blobfoxpleading:

So much killing and growing up to do.

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The ladies on typewriter doing synchronized shoulder dips is really great choreography. I love all the interstitials in the movie

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Wait, but didn't Audrey II say only blood? How can Seymour be feeding them a whole body?

Also, I want Steve Martin's motorcycle boots with all of the buckles. My inner teenage goth has needs.

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"You remember that total eclipse of the sun about a week ago?"

Now THIS is a show tune.

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a few stings of "My Sharona" in there.

also, EVEN MORE PUPPETRY ESCALATION

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[stunning puppetry continues to escalate]

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Once again, Ellen Greene strums at our hearts, and we get a callback to "Out of Skid Row".

It's still a way out of Skid Row, after all. Just not the one we were hoping for.

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The physicality of the puppet really sells the horror of being eaten by this plant. And like, every single other thing about it.

Putting on a production of Little Shop is going to revolve around the puppets, to some extent.

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Seymour and Audrey are going to take the money, split town, and get married. What a happy ending that will be!

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SUPPER TIME AGAIN
PUPPET TIME AGAIN

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[bouncing in seat]
♫ The guy sure looks like plant food to me! ♫

Rest in piss, you abusive shithead.

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Anyway, everybody else is hungry for scenery, so it is time for Steve Martin to leave the production.

Speaking of hungry, Audrey II could do with a snack.

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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HE HAS A GUN
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HE INTENDS TO SHOOT ME WITH IT
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HOW AMUSING
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
DOES THIS AIR TASTE FUNNY TO YOU
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

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"I've been saving all month for this. I need a root canal. I'm sure I need a long slow root canal."

😳

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♫
The guy sure looks like plant food to me!
♫

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Ahhh!!! Steve Martin is great!!!

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"If that's what he does when he likes me, imagine what he'd do if he ever got mad"

Oof.

Ellen Greene is great as Audrey, I think she's just right for this role

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"Twice as many" mouthed from the other side of the window is a perfect example of what you can do in a movie that just isn't going to play on stage unless you're *really* careful about it.

Anyway, bring in the woodwinds with the musical's theme.

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I wonder if the cast ever did interviews talking about what it was like to play opposite the puppets. Must have been the gig of a lifetime.

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[chanting]
puppet
puppet
puppet

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don't wake the puppet it's eepy

actually on second thought the puppet is amazing so please wake it

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I'm pretty sure this is something about nitrous and erectile tissue, but I'm not sure I want to google it...

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Hehehe the balloons

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Try this kind of interaction between an actor and a digital composite LOL

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I always forget about the extremely cool inside-the-mouth effect. "Dentist" as a tune is good but the movie is what freezes it in my mind. So much visual fun to bring Steve Martin into the story as the extremely bad dude that he is.

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Is Seymour an orphan in this version? Will we not have the terrible dinner scene with his mom?

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"You'd be seen with me in a public place like a department store?"

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"Do you hear this, God? He forgot!"

Time for emergency arrangement by floral surgeon Audrey, assisted in the operation by Sweet Putz Seymour.

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The theme is the song from this show that sticks most in my mind, but the soaring chorus of "Suddenly Seymour" makes it a close second.

♫
We snuggly watching Lucy
On our big, enormous
twelve-inch screen
♫

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As a show-tune I find "Down on Skid Row" to be kinda mid. It's definitely an improvement to further establish these characters

but I *always* forget how goddamned good the opening bars are in this movie

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@ramsey If I wasn't already thoroughly convinced of that by the Muppets, this absolutely would have sold it, indeed

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After Seymour fed Audrey's dead body to the plant I was just listening because I had to do a stack of dishes and wow, that was a very peppy sounding ending for what apparently happened...

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♫
I'm just a mean green mother
from outer space
♫

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The bassline in these "something terrible will happen" moments is so good.

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Let's see what Audrey has packed to run away and start a new life with Seymour.

One pair of shoes, and a stuffed doggie.

Well, okay then.

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"The gas isn't for you, Seymour."

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This just took a turn for unexpected far more explicit S&M with a masochist. Was this part of the Corman movie?

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"Feed Me" is of course also very memorable. Mostly for the actual performance IMO, the lyrics slip out of my mind easily, but not because they aren't great

♫
I have so
so many strong
reservations
♫

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"Nice plant. Big."

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Oh wow, mixed animation and live action, I'm surprised this pre-dates Who Framed Roger Rabbit (by 2 years) because that's the best example of the format.

(if we ever do that for monsterdon I'm 100% on time for once and will gush about it, but I'm not sure Judge Doom counts enough as a monster and it would be one of the rare "good" movies)

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Ahhh, John Candy…

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The pacing of the musical is so good. Enough dialogue to get you between songs and keep things moving, and then all the rest of the interiority is the songs.

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I was counting on this #Monsterdon to rescue an otherwise disappointing weekend (more so than usual) and it definitely delivered! Especially with the #WrongFrogs musical version

Thanks @Taweret and @ryan

@SRLevine Indeed, but I'm willing to believe a carnivorous plant that can also sing show tunes might work a little differently

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♫ Suddenly Seymour (sad mix)

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Uh Seymour, with the way carnivorous plants work rescuing her isn't going to give you her back...she should be missing some skin and things.

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"Give me your secret gardening tips"

Dude, you have No Idea what you're asking for.

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Every time Audrey leans over I'm waiting for her to fall out of her dress. I guess double stick tape really is a miracle. Either that or the blooper reel from this film is very explicit...

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:blobfoxpleading:

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@SRLevine I just think of it like us eating chicken wings

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The musical version is doing *such* a better job of developing the dentist as a villain (and character development in general)

It feels so weird

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This is so over the top. Corny? Campy? I don't even known what word describes this song with a tract house and a lawn mower...

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Such cool puppets, too.

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#AudreyIIAndTheBuds 🤞

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Thank you @ryan ! What an experience

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Given that Audrey II seemed to need to eat at least a few solid body parts to grow to full size, you'd think someone would have noticed before they took over, but nooooo

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waiting for an Audrey pair to fall into Statler and Waldorf giggles

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the only thing that would make this better is a Jack Nicholson cameo about here

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@ohiofi YES

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Godzilla: Plant Edition

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PUPPETS OF DESTRUCTION

the crew had to be having a GLORIOUS time

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Wait, after being partially engulfed she wants to be part of the plant? Was there some brainwashing involved?

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Is Audrey II romancing Audrey? This movie got way queerer than I expected! Yay!

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well this took a very different turn from the original

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♫
I swear on my spores
When he's gone, the world will be yours
♫

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Blood doesn't dry red...

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Is Bill Murray really that tall? Or is that doorway weirdly short? Or is Steve Martin not as tall as I thought?

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"I'm gonna get a candy bar."

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Billy Murray's mouth is way too weirdly flexible. It's creeping me out.

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oh good i was afraid they'd gotten rid of the Jack Nicholson masochist. Bill Murray didn't have a PAIN magazine though #wrongFrogs #Monsterdon

Thoroughly creeped out by the people in the waiting room for the radio station interview.

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Grow… grow… grow…

My my, would you just look at that unusual plant?!

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I'm thinking of all the people who swear that talking or singing to their plants helps them grow

Definitely true in this case

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