She said the title

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Tubi wants me to buy a Lincoln. And get killed by it.

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So how does all this fit into that Dark Tower nonsense?

...explain it to me while I slowly turn up the volume on "Whole Lotta Rosie"

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I saw what you did there, dropping the title into your dialogue, lady. It doesn't make things any better. #monsterdon

Titular line!

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I gotta hand it to Yeardley Smith for being the only one not reacting to all of this like it's a minor inconvenience. #monsterdon

Narrator: That’s the name of the show

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Is that a LAW?

Edit: HAHA IT IS AN M72 LAW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M72_LAW

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I like a lady who keeps a knife in her boot...

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HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

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"MILHOUSE, WHY DIDNT I RUN OFF WITH NELSON....YOU'RE USELESS!"

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Some trucks are driving around. Rivetting.

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damn girl if you scream every line, how is your voice going to hold out for 35 years and counting of performing the same character

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This quiet drum-and-bassline with the twangy guitar coming in is SO John Carpenter, I love it. Really effective.

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"Let's have a scene that is all about fonts" - Stephen King, probably

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@jsit This film isn't handling the suspense, or comedy, near as well as Tremors. #monsterdon

hahaha, those diesel fumes in 1986 are why everything is fucked in 2025, hahaha....

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@healyn #monsterdon

but... but... you'll never find out who made who!?!!!

He ran over *the Bible!* The disrespect! #Monsterdon

I guess we know which cars are non-evil by the evil ones attacking them?

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

#monsterdon So much raspberry sauce! WOW!

Evil capitalism! #monsterdon

@moira "It's American, you can't expect us to WALK places?!"

Therefore Cars are not effected

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I kinda want the Ice Cream Truck to have a good heart and help our heroes, like Frankenstein's monster in Monster Squad

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I cannot fucking believe Stephen King had the gall to criticize Kubrick's direction of The Shining #monsterdon

After about the 5th dead body… you should start peddling your bike a *bit* faster.

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This is what's gonna happen if we keep picking on AI

Or if we keep using it

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MICROWAVE RELAYS MENTIONED

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Emilio and Smith are the only actors in this who went on to bigger and better

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"Maybe I'll grow on ya"

Pretty good flirty dialogue tbh.

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this premise is so silly but so admirable in form. I've not read the story this is adapted from, but… well, they didn't call him the King of Horror for no reason

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You would think a writer would be able to come up with better exclamations and terms of endearment.

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It’s Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson!

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A satisfying death, who are we to judge Goblin Truck?

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Back in the 80s, we ate a lot of shorts

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EAT MY SHORTS. (This will be relevant soon)

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Vending Machine uses Fastball.

It's super effective!

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would not have pegged stephen king as a slapstick head #monsterdon

This is why Health and Safety in the workplace MATTERS

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Okay, killing it with a hammer is funny

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Electric knife driven by Klaus the forklift driver?

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

holy shit

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Millions watch, fascinated. #Monsterdon

That pump guy was very smart #monsterdon

Those trucks look familiar. Did I see this on some other B-movie night and then ruin my memory through my years of wild hedonism?

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#Monsterdon i said not in my eye!!

You know what movie also came out in 1986? Transformers: The Movie. Maximum Overdrive is actually about Optimus Prime.

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oh shitski, what happened ot him

Remember when people used to say Shitski? I do!

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#Monsterdon tabletop ms pac-man alert

Emilio, hurry up with my western omelette!

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That car was just too brown for this Earth

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I can already smell the cocaine #monsterdon

Popcorn snack acquired. Ready for Stephen King to scare the hell out of me

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I hope these guys in the AC/DC van make it to the end of the movie.

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This is actually a Final Destination film and this is all about to be revealed to be a flashback.

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nothing triggers my "this is going to suck extremely badly" reflex harder than hearing AC/DC #monsterdon

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lol, that bank sign is pretty accurate though

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This isn't Maine

...what kinda King story is this

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Night Of The Comet was better.

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It's Dune!

Oh., no....

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If Andrew "Dice" Clay does a cameo, I'm out.

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You can't have Maximum Overdrive without Maximum Energy. We got movie sign!! #Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

That station wagon can't outrun a diesel truck, but it can drift like a king.

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This is the most awkward death scene I have ever seen in a horror movie. And I've seen some pretty bad stinkers. Like it really has to work at it.

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Wait, what? Is the tiny remote control toy going to actually kill this guy or something??? What even

What the...

Really?

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So... It's called Trucks, but it still does involve other machines rebelling against humanity too?

Or are phone lines down that somehow also affects cellphones?

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So, uh, what exactly is the plan that this truck has exactly? Like if it has a high speed collision it's probably going to flip over and then how is it going to kill all humans?

At least in Maximum Overdrive they were smart enough to go slow enough that this wouldn't happen.

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Well, watching this Trucks movie with #Monsterdon I have to say it absolutely lacks the wacky energy of Maximum Overdrive, lol.

You have to go so far into that wiki entry to find the phrase's first appearance (season 1, episode 2). But its first "chronological" appearance (season 9 episode 3) has been judged worthy of inclusion in the abstract. #monsterdon

@cascheranno "In the Beginning the Universe began, .....and this has upset an awful lot of people ever since"

#Monsterdon #HHGTTG

@CactuarJoe this is too plausible.... #Monsterdon

Maximum Overdrive is perfect 80s: high budget, action-packed, drug-fueled, fun, and completely meaningless.

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🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

❤️ Thank you @Taweret for hosting this high-velocity vehicle for Yeardley Smith.

🅱️ and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! "The finger" 😆

🎪 And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: The tension between Pro and anti AC/DC, and the friction between stupid vs. dumb created a philosophical foundation for reverie during the screening.

Can't wait until next week! Pick one from the poll at random!

@SnoopJ WTF is this? It’s amazing!

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@mmezabet that's why he's a millionaire! #Monsterdon

Oh man, I knew that truck driver looked familiar - Frankie Faison, Barney from Silence of the Lambs etc.

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@Lazarou I would be on board with that

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And that, my friends, was definitely a movie. I absolutely love it because it's so… bad. Well paced, not too long, killer soundtrack, and some of the cheesiest acting in horror history.

Love you guys. That was genuinely a lot of fun. See ya' next week, unless Little Shop of Horrors wins!

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Fun #monsterdon! The movie didn't make a lick of sense, but it was stupid in a mostly-good way. Made for good riffing and a good hang. Thanks yall!

Guy got snuck up on by a semi truck with a massive green face on the front.

…
🤣😂🤣

#Monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

I think we all learned a lot tonight: how communism saved the world and, uh, alien brooms or something #Monsterdon

"Internal logical consistency? Never heard of her!" - Steven King

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

They got away from the truck stop then done shot up some more trucks then found a sailboat and effed off into the...sea I guess? ...then a UFO was blowed up by the Commies and the comet went away and...uhhhhh

THE END

This #Monsterdon made even less sense than most but it had recognisable actors and a coked up horror novelist making it so it was AWESOME of course!

Thanks for the big hot mechanical mess @Taweret !

They did not make the mistake of trusting the ice cream truck. #Monsterdon

@diazona @lytta It was a sail boat. They said that multiple times.

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Yeah that was great idk what you're all talking about #Monsterdon

Lmao the Green Goblin truck snuck up on them! Get goblin'd!!

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Oh, a diner 100 yards from the truck stop. How convenient

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anyway, thanks everyone, be safe out there and remember that LLM are not your friends!

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why is "You Shook Me All Night Long" (fucked up mix) playing over these credits

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#Monsterdon #AndThenTheyWokeUp Gah! I hate those stories!

Thanks #monsterdon pals. Take care. See ya soon.

also tho. how the fuck is 'oh btw there was a UFO the whole time' something you put in the closing title card?

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UFO destroyed by a Russian weather satellite? Oh, really?

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“A LARGE UFO WAS DESTROYED IN SPACE” fucking incredible #monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #MaximumOverdrive , from 1986, is kind of like Pixar's Cars movie, except it was made by Stephen King, and fueled by cocaine. Alongside the mechanical mayhem, we also had,

It's pretty dark he calls that knife 'Mothers helpers'

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Yeah, they had to bring the green goblin back just to blow it up, I guess. Kinda lame, it wasn't even the main villain. The platform truck got more kills. #Monsterdon