In the 50's it was still unknown how babies worked.

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1953, when you could just impulse buy a *fucking house* apparently >:/ #Monsterdon

What if they bombard it with the rest of the Greek alphabet? #Monsterdon

"Everything will be all right," as he walks by the old guy whose cane he just made off with. #Monsterdon

Hey cap, you uh gonna give that guy his cane back?

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Waiting for them to deploy the interociter #Monsterdon

I want to live in a world where taking a flight to relieve allergies is feasible. #Monsterdon

so the magnetism didn't let a cabby drive? taxi man looks Mexican. i get the feeling this magnetism doesn't like melanin... 🤔

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@SchlocklusterVideo @floatybirb To be fair Abby is exceptionally competent and also has TV time distortion on her side

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THE WHITE ZONE IS FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING ONLY #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

The white zone is for loading and unloading only

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Really not being subtle with the "women should stay at home," attitude huh? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon it was Betty! With the old phono Jack! At the switchboard! Stabbed him! Hard!

@plaidtron3000
Just until their windshield placards are ready #Monsterdon

MANIAC was a real computer at Los Alamos. It got the name because someone was sick of the silly acronyms like ENIAC.
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#Monsterdon putting on our anti-radiation beekeeping armor, we inspect the room above the store and find a dead guy killed by spicy particles. We fail to catch the radiation boost, so we return to our Science Cave to engage in a noirish monologue and play with our expensive analysis toys.

... naming the computer MANIAC doesn't seem like a great idea #monsterdon

so they guys enter an apartment that looks like the Honeymooners' kitchen got squatted by a some sloppy science club kids.

then they find a guy dead under a cabinet and our says, yup. overdose of radiation.

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Mistyped #Monsterdon with an i, the new LinkedIn is MonsteredIn

radiation emanating from the second floor is totally and i mean TOTALLY causing appliances to move by themselves by the

THE
POWER
OF
MAGNETISM!

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Police will be instructed to shoot to kill THE MAGNETISM and the RADIATION how does this film EVEN WORK

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Whoa a real science term! (paramagnetism)

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#monsterdon reassuring voice: "This isn't a bomb it's a geiger counter" "Well why does it tick" "Well, that's the bad news..."

Radiation? Say, you usually have to pay for that stuff! Whaddya say we open a radium spa, fellas?

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@apLundell haha tho I would totally watch Science Dragnet

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@Taweret When magnets go bad you have to call in the only team that can handle them... Magnet Detectives

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Fantastic physical comedy beat with the metal object sliding around on the counter, great effect!

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Magnet Detectives coming this fall to netflix

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The opening of this #monsterdon movie is basically Science Dragnet.

Right down to describing subatomic particles as "Criminals"

Becki with tears in her eyes:

Mr. Simon, the pan: it's stuck. it's.... MAGNETIZED!!! AAAAAAAAAAAACK!

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Science Dragnet
“Just the facts, ma’am.”
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@floatybirb There must have been someone on staff who was incredibly insistent that suspension of disbelief would be lost if they implied the planes could reach Canada on one tank of fuel #monsterdon

For the record: I am no longer excited

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@blogdiva FWIW I do believe B-MEN (actually B-WOMEN) was the one we watched last week

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I'm definitely giving this one a "wat"

Thanks for hosting @Taweret

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@Louisa When you put it that way, it reminds me of one of the things I appreciated most about Lord of the Rings: that Sauron is very effectively made out to be a powerful, intimidating villain despite never actually appearing in the story (except that one bit with the palantir but I think it still would have worked without that). So I suspect there *could* be a good movie about the dangers of an invisible natural phenomenon, and I'd probably enjoy seeing that movie. It would take a really good writer to make it though.

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@CactuarJoe @aburka Plus it passed the Bechdel test with ease #Monsterdon

Still wondering. So... what exactly exploded there if they could all get out? did part of the secret Nova Scotia powerplant flood? orr #Monsterdon

Next week: The Magnetic Wasp Woman #Monsterdon

@squeedoodle I give them a bit more credit because the rock was alive and had invisible fingers, apparently, and also none of this makes sense

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I've just been informed there are two more "A-Man" movies...Richard Carlson plays a different Doctor? #monsterdon

the MANIAC was real? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I #monsterdon

Anyway, the world is safe forever. Unless another scientist performs a very simple experiment with Selenium, a chemical that is not rare or hard to get. #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe they were like, hey Canada's still a part of the British Empire, right? they're all techincally Brits up there, aren't they? and just rolled with it. #monsterdon

@aburka To be fair the title promised much more than it delivered, I don't think there's any shame in that

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@Louisa But nobody talks about it, like Ang Lee's Incredible Hulk

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#Monsterdon Doctor Stewie and his gradually expanding wife move to the suburbs, putting further distance between themselves and the black people we didn't see in this movie, and also deepening America's growing movement toward car dependency.

I mean at least they saved the Earth I guess?

Another #Monsterdon is in the magnetotron!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's picture claimed to be an electrifying mix of magnetism and radiation! We instead got:

* An element with invisible arms of magnetic death! (well, we never saw the arms)
* A lead lined DANGER truck!
* A hangry unipolar magnet!
* Math makes babies!

#TheMagneticMonster

@rwhe OH GOOD POINT

it did fuck off into the sea! It got that much right.

#monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster

see, magnets are like babies. if you make them with love they won't gain weight during their pregnancy but if you make them with hate they will get hungry and explode

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I enjoyed this one, despite the prominent lack of an on-screen monster. We know that #Monsterdon wants to see the monster.

Really ate it in the 3rd act, though.

I like how they cut straight to the directort credit, so WE KNOW WHO TO BLAME. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

Love makes babies, and hate makes magnet monsters. Goodnight, folks!

#Monsterdon

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm not sure."

Mood.

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On that fateful day, all the world’s magnets stopped working. The cure, as they say, was worse than the disease. #Monsterdon

so listen feeding the magnet actually really worked out for this guy and i am worried for his wife #monsterdon

@blogdiva this is also what modular synthesizers are like #monsterdon

And done! Here's my new A-Man art inspired by The Magnetic Monster! Can't wait to draw something new during next week's show for the 4th weekly Monsterdon Monsterdrawn live-draw!

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The feed the pregnant lady subplot was better. Let’s go back to that #Monsterdon #pancakes

i don't know why this of all things is bothering me, but why is the flood gate control a dial? it's pretty much open or closed, isn't it? #monsterdon

HEEEEEEEEEEIL!

#Monsterdon #MagneticMonster

Oh my god, there's even a label on the control panel. They *really* wanted you to know that this machine's maximum output is 600 MV.

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@sean the OG Deltron says hello.

#MagneticMonster #Monsterdon
#deltron3030

@SnoopJ omg it is all coming into focus the monster was his voracious lust for feeding #monsterdon

...Did this film have an actual antagonist and I just missed it? #Monsterdon

After they’re done with this whole thing, the A-Men still have to swing by George McFly’s house to scare him into taking Lorraine Baines to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance …
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#TgeMagneticMonster

The Deltatron is actually the underground magneto-dynamo from the German science fiction thriller Gold from 1934. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

"For the Deltatron, the film used ten minutes of footage of the atom smasher from the German science fiction thriller Gold (1934), directed by Karl Hartl and produced by UFA" #monsterdon

Are we watching Metropolis all of a sudden? #Monsterdon

Mind you: I fuckin love this giant bullshit set with all its electric nonsense and huge, fully-exposed high-voltage variable potentiometres and such. That part's great.

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chose your Adult Entertainment, number 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5! the Deltatron can show you all your wildest desirest! #monsterdon

I'm reminded of the "we're wearing the hats" bit from Chernobyl

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@diazona That type of plane was the first to have a pressurized cabin, if you are an aviation nerd. Or have sinus problems.

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#Monsterdon behold our tiny adorable passenger rail car! It is for transporting Durin's Dwarves within the mines that they may delve in search of Mithril.

We also have a giant electrical cyclotron, in case we must electrocute the resulting balrog.

You can tell they’re in Canada because of all the wood. #Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster

Everyone in this movie refers to MANIAC as "the MANIAC" like people of a certain age referring to "the Google". #monsterdon

im too mad at the movie now to even care about the Big Sciency Thing

#monsterdon

btw: it's 4 guys wearing fedoras, talking nonsense with big tech words and not one woman around.

yup.

it's a techbro movie alright

#Monsterdon #MagneticMonster

THE DELTATRON

(presumably so-named for the delta resonance which was brand-new science at time of the movie's release?)

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@brion The magnet knows how to swap plane models in flight

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@moira
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"THRILLING AND EROTIC REFUELLING"

Damn. Sort of annoyed that I'm missing this.

Wait, so the “State university” technicians are just going to dump the magnetic nuclear waste element monster thing in Nova Scotia? *brushes hands* “Welp not our problem anymore!” Hahaha good luck with that hot potato Canada! #Monsterdon

Oh good, midair refueling scenes. Did the director sift through #MST3k movies looking for the most boring scenes to splice into a single film? I fully expect a badly-lit hostel in the Arizona desert next. #Monsterdon

NO ONE WILL BE SEATED DURING THE THRILLING AND EROTIC REFUELLING MANOEUVER SEQUENCE

#monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster

Hot damn, an in-flight refueling sequence.

This movie reeks of "wowee, jet aircraft!" energy

#Monsterdon

@Taweret@octodon.social This is the early 50s, no? They might be able to get it out of the atmosphere, but it's going to be on a very short closed orbit.

#Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster

there's not a rocket powerful enough to launch it anywhere but two guys can carry it in a thermos?

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Yes! Canada will save us! #Monsterdon

force-feeding is this guy’s answer to everything #monsterdon

are... are the canadians gonna save us??? #monsterdon

Is the Earth's leaving its orbit really a mayoral issue? #monsterdon

@SnoopJ The magnetic flux dial doesn't show the units either #monsterdon

Five hundred million herbs? Eat shit, Colonel Sanders

#Monsterdon

Reporting an energy in units of Hertz? That's a paddlin.

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That beeping! That mad beeping! The sound of a phaser on overload! ST:TOS used the same FX library. #monsterdon #themagneticmonster

"...I'll call you as soon as I get information from the maniac."
"The computer you mean?"
"No."
"ummmmm"

#Monsterdon #TheMagneticMonster

no real monster? no real maniac? #monsterdon

Does this movie have Dragnet on the brain? #Monsterdon

putting all these formulae into MANIAC with LaTeX #monsterdon