"That's my dad!"

#Monsterdon

"I want you to call me Dad"

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

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

Eating flowers jokes are never not funny.

#Monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon #LittleShopOfHorrors

Someone please send a get well soon bouquet to my funeral

#Monsterdon

#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.

#Monsterdon

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

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

#Monsterdon

@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)

#Monsterdon

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

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@diazona

Already watching ... Rick Moranis singing!

#Monsterdon

@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

#monsterdon #WrongShop

@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

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

#Monsterdon

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?

#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! 🎬

#Monsterdon

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!

#Monsterdon

#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'

#Monsterdon

This chase scene is crap. But I like Mushnik trying to trip Seymour. Then actually tripping the cop.
#Monsterdon #LittleShopOfHorrors

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!!

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon

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!
#monsterdon

Is this the Origin Story of the Springfield Tire Fire?

#Monsterdon

Well the flowers blooming into faces is a really dumb ending. But I guess the plot has to stop somehow? Well "plot"
#Monsterdon #LittleShopOfHorrors

It's keystone cops, with TIMPANI.

boom bom boom boo boom
#monsterdon

#monsterdon This plant works better than benadryl! Naptime!

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

#Monsterdon

Getting tired of this

#Monsterdon

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.

#Monsterdon

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

Death masks - nice twist

#monsterdon

#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.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon

Sure, streetwalkers always give johns their full name.

WTF, Leonora

#LittleShopOfHorrors1961

"How's the rain on the rhubarb?"

"Beef is better than veal"

This is EXCELLENT writing this is PEAK MOVIE.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Leonora Clyde is… extra.

Audrey, please eat the shrill, synchronized teenage girls next

#monsterdon #littleshop60

#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

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon #LittleShopOfHorrors1960

How many Leonora Clydes are there?

#monsterdon #littleshop60

How IS the rain on the rhubarb?

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

This movie is falling apart.

#Monsterdon

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

Audrey, that's all men.
#monsterdon

One trophy and you're famous. I wish I could show 1960 my PlayStation profile

#Monsterdon

"I be johnny big botanist, fuck yeah!"

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

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?

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

hahaaa yes

this was obviously planted.

#monsterdon

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

Seasoned with epsom salt?! woof.

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

#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.

#monsterdon

@jivens #monsterdon Maybe I'll finally have to see it.

I think the actors just pretty much do whatever they want, just shenanigans.

#monsterdon

Some cops appear, looking for a missing dentist and a missing guy squished by a train. Shop Owner pretends to cooperate but acts Extremely Suspicious, but the cops are stupid and decide that he knows nothing so they leave. He asks Newsie to make sure that the plant doesn't grow more; Newsie said it at 3000 japanese beetles.

Then a fancy lady appears and expresses horticultural interest in the giant plant, asking if there will be more. Her names is "Fishtwangler", which is cool.

#monsterdon

I'm more concerned by the kids playing with matches.

"Those are the breaks."
#monsterdon

This is SoCal?

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon boy volunteers his mom to make dinner for a date? lame

Meshugginah plant! #monsterdon

If Audrey Jr just eats them all will the movie end sooner? #Monsterdon

blood? in the dentist's office?

COULD BE FROM THE TEETH.

#monsterdon

Corman sat down and said, for this scene, let's see if we can torture the English language *totally* to death. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Mrs. Shiva is connected to Fink! Now THAT's world building!

@trixter oh yeah, probably before electric refrigeration and shit, back when they used to ship in ice from cold places for people
#monsterdon

...It's monsterdonitous!

#Monsterdon

@berniethewordsmith I haven't seen the color one, but perhaps it has to do with how many characters awkwardly display a casual, yet comedic sociopathy.

#monsterdon

"Fink" = "Pig" I think....

#Monsterdon

"You mighta been a crummy dentist, but you were a nice fella."

doubt.jpg

#monsterdon

Heh, blooper, Seymour's hat fell into the puppet and it was back on in after the jump cut.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon The best thing for a dentist, a hypersexual masochist! Go get 'em Jack.

My first dentist had one of those crazy belt-driven drills. It was wild.

#monsterdon

@jivens It started out as a French bread publication #monsterdon

#monsterdon Herbie the Elf ain't got nothing on this sadistic dentist. I think this is what activated so many boomers against dentists... hahahahaha

I have the dentist scene stuck in my fucking head from when I was a little kid, #monsterdon

You can tell a dentist knows his stuff when he's wearing a scarf and a bonnet hat

#Monsterdon