#Monsterdon This is a cheap gag, but it's still a fun prop.

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the dentist is scary

Hi there, Jack Nicholson!

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Call me crazy, but I feel like a lot of this wailing, brackish dialogue could be replaced with catchy songs

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@SnoopJ a dentist in need of murderin'

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On the return to the restaurant, Shop Owner orders all the alcohol and tells Audrey that he saw a shop murder. He pledges to go tell the police tomorrow. But the Beat Cop Voiceover tells us that he did not, in fact, go to the police, because that would have resolved the problem.

It turns out that the shop has a lot of business the next day because the carnivorous plant has made lots of flowers or something and now they are rich.

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@plaidtron3000 I did not realize this was a Corman film, but I totally understand now

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they really shouldn't shout how much is in the till, fucking OPSEC man!

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Wait, is this a Christmas movie‽
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squeezing out the wrist offal like a damn gogurt, that's all i eat too #monsterdon

🎵 "Mama, woo woo woo, I just killed a man"

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This is just typical NJ Tuesday night

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lol, didn't take him long to harvest that body....

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@LuluHelle oh crap this is what i miss out on by being a couple minutes late #monsterdon

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Live plant: 🌹
Dead plant: 🌹

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"The Bloom Tycoon"

if only there had been some kind of plant based economic bubble from the Past we could learn from....

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"That's my dad!"

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"I want you to call me Dad"

whoa, that's some red flags there from the Boss man

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Oooh I hope we get to see a meeting of the committee

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"We're always on the lookout for new signs outside!"

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Okay so newsie begs the plant to do good and grow up big and strong, then goes to bed. when he wakes up, the plant looks like a pac-man on its side and it bites him, convincing him that the plant likes blood. So he cuts himself and gives the plant blood.

Now the plant is bigger now and the shop owner and the love interest is happy and gives newsie a raise. he lies and says his fingers were each stung by a bee.

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Just imaging the poor stagehand under the table making the plant move....

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Eating flowers jokes are never not funny.

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The newsie cap guy says he has a secret weapon that is a fancy flower that will convince the main flower dude to not fire him. Then he goes to visit his mom, who is in bed and is listening to a radio show called "Music for Invalids" which I thought was funny. Then he gives his mom a snake oil cure, which is basically just alcohol and she is grateful because she can get drunk now.

Then newsie cap has to wander off to find his fancy plant.

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Okay, so there's like this flower shop and it is very slavic. There is a choleric bearded dude who is the main flower dude. And a babushka looking lady who might be his wife.

A dentist calls while inflicting a tooth pain to order some flowers and that is funny. Then a younger guy in a newsie cap appears by tripping on something, then kills a flower. He is an employee of the flower shop and also a fuck up and the main flower dude wants to fire him.

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so i guess they want us to know this is skid row

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Someone please send a get well soon bouquet to my funeral

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#RootPost for #Monsterdon (little shop of horrors, old kind)

Okay so this movie starts by scrolling over a black and white cartoon city, while a beat cop narrates, explaining that he's a cop and his job is hard because there's so much crime in this black and white cartoon city, despite it looking rather nice, like the background of a Richard Scary picture that hasn't been colored yet and has fewer background furries.

But anyway, the cartoon city goes away and is then replaced with a movie that starts in a (presumably doomed) flower shop.

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Despite it being a poor neighbourhood people are mad for flowers....

It is drugs? Is that what he's doing?

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@Terencio no worries, such is life

Although TBH your toot had me thinking of Killer Klowns from Outer Space (even though I know that's not what you meant)

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@diazona I heard it's being replayed, but I got chores, lel.

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I saw the original LITTLE SHOP OF HORROR long before the musical remake, so I had forgotten just how terrible it is. Even if you make allowances for what they called "sick humor" around 1960, failed jokes only remind you what a precious gift true comedy is. Those were some unfunny performances, with the possible exception of the cops of clipped cadence, and maybe the hypochondriac mother in the dinner date.

Audrey Jr, the hungry, hungry flower was the true star, from the cute little Belgian endive in a coffee can, to the massive corpse flower (literally!) mockingly unfurling the faces of its victims. Kudos to the ones who saw there was a gem in the rough.

Still, I'm one of the ones who voted for this #Monsterdon , so I shouldn't be so hard on it. Thanks everyone for watching, and thanks @Taweret for hosting.

@diazona

Already watching ... Rick Moranis singing!

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@Bluedepth And biologically a cross between two distantly related species shouldn't have to follow the same blooming and maturity rules as either parent #monsterdon

In September in a decade not too long before our own, the human race encountered a deadly threat unlike any ever encountered: Capitalism

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@Taweret @jonny the musical movie is pretty great though think it was a missed opportunity to get Jack Nicholson to reprise his role as Wilbur. At least Rick Moranis was spot on casting and Steve Martin was AMAZING as the dentist #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial do they put the plant on trial? In Texas they would... #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe #monsterdon "The master doesn't eat horse." '-)

@floatybirb @strangefour I was just thinking the same! #Monsterdon

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I mean the ending WAS abrupt, but it did have appropriate closure. Seymour must pay for his crimes.

The writing was actually not so terrible. I mean, grading on a curve...

#Monsterdon fuck it. I'll already own the musical. I'll watch it too

“I didn’t mean it!”
So THIS is where we all got that line from.
#Monsterdon is a wrap!

Why is his boss in on the chase?

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@_L1vY_ they're not quite dead in there, though they might wish they were... #Monsterdon

Okay now I really gotta go wash dishes. As always, thanks @Taweret for hosting, @JoeWynne for trivia, @Cherizilla for bingo, and @miru for the stream—and if you tune in now, the director's cut of the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors is starting NOW! 🎬

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and that's it! roll credits.

this was a #monsterdon for "The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)"

and if you enjoyed this, go watch the later remake!

if you didn't enjoy this, GO WATCH THE LATER REMAKE!

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#monsterdon Head out of a toilet, like Val Kilmer in Top Secret! :)

So they're still kind of alive in that thing? That could have been really horrifying with a budget and maybe David Cronenberg or somebody...instead they went with 'a musical'

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This chase scene is crap. But I like Mushnik trying to trip Seymour. Then actually tripping the cop.
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Even the cat is thrilled with the chase #monsterdon

and then its just over I guess

just like that

okay

well, ty for joining, everyone!!

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I love how the cops buy flowers that look like human faces as evidence. They're really rolling with the weird there.

“you wouldn’t find him here with the toilets, let’s go back” #Monsterdon

The children! The fucking children!
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Is this the Origin Story of the Springfield Tire Fire?

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Well the flowers blooming into faces is a really dumb ending. But I guess the plot has to stop somehow? Well "plot"
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It's keystone cops, with TIMPANI.

boom bom boom boo boom
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#monsterdon This plant works better than benadryl! Naptime!

Should a civilian be going along with the chase like that?

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Getting tired of this

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The cops have seen it all before. Classic plant making a man kill people and feeding it to the plant so it can grow flowers with the people's faces sketched on the inside. Open and shut case.

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"He ran alllll the way to hell. With a penny and a broken cigarette." #Monsterdon

and that's how true crime podcasts where born

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Death masks - nice twist

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#monsterdon This is hilariously manslaughtery. Mans. Laughter... y…

The sun is just setting. Weekend went fast. #monsterdon

@apLundell @Taweret well this is Skid Row #monsterdon

Wow sex workers are so subtle on skid row.

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Sure, streetwalkers always give johns their full name.

WTF, Leonora

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"How's the rain on the rhubarb?"

"Beef is better than veal"

This is EXCELLENT writing this is PEAK MOVIE.

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#monsterdon Leonora Clyde is… extra.

Audrey, please eat the shrill, synchronized teenage girls next

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#monsterdon They had enough time for the eye-blink gag. But... well, it's Corman, so that's probably fine.

Oh right, there's supposed to be a narrator

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seymour would've been a master assassin if he could only do it on purpose

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@steggy Best pick-up line.
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How many Leonora Clydes are there?

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How IS the rain on the rhubarb?

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i'm only half paying attention, but a) is this lady a hooker? and b) does she teleport??? what is going on rn?

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This movie is falling apart.

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"You tell me that you love me, but then you act like a complete idiot."

Audrey, that's all men.
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One trophy and you're famous. I wish I could show 1960 my PlayStation profile

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Okay, so the shop owner tells Seymour to stay in the shop tonight. He does that but brings Audrey too so they can make out. But while they're making out the plant keeps screaming "Feed me!" and because Audrey is easily confused she thinks Seymour is talking about how hungry he is instead of kissing her, so she leaves angrily.

Seymour then berates the plant for being a total cockblock.

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"I be johnny big botanist, fuck yeah!"

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he is acting a bit sketchy, Audrey is right to leave...

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I think I've seen his mother on TikTok, trying to sell me diatomaceous earth. #Monsterdon

@kb9ens it's a gateway kink that... #Monsterdon

@faoluin Sustainable, no waste.. #Monsterdon

That nogudnik plant! #Monsterdon

lol, yeah, just walk into that giant weird thing, what's the worst that could happen?

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Wardrobe department choosing fancy driving gloves for the vagrant junkie with the scar

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hahaaa yes

this was obviously planted.

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#monsterdon Epsom Salts, not really for internal use kids, soak in it, but don't eat it.

Seasoned with epsom salt?! woof.

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So the plant echoes the voices of whoever is alone near it?

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#monsterdon "You look fat enough!"

Audrey comes to visit Seymour, introducing her to his mom and the two of them hang out at his mom's house. Because nothing in this movie is normal, the mom offers her cure to Audrey, which she says tastes like cough syrup. She corrects that it is Doctor (So-and-So's) cough syrup. The two dine on liver oil, which the mother has to cure her liver or something.

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