LICK THE ROCK, KID

LICK IT #Monsterdon

"Aw, lizards don't get married, do they?"

I'm just gonna leave this here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail 🦎 :ablobpride1:

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No! Ginny is going to get still-framed! #monsterdon

Rattlesnakes
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#Monsterdon Ben found his solution to remaining hard all day and night long. So so haaaaard.

#Monsterdon Telling kids, “OK, explode,” most realistic bit so far.

Also, lizard loving junior matchmaker over here. 🦎

Woah how did they fit that many kids in there? I guess old cars really were a lot bigger #monsterdon

"I dunno, boss! Wreckage and obsidian everywhere!"

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Maybe they are non-binary lizards, DID YOU THINK OF THAT YOU NAZI? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon dude got stoned at work

ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS #Monsterdon

Gay desert lizards and a precocious child #monsterdon

Oh, boy. The nosy little one
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#Monsterdon "don't touch anything you don't recognize" would have been hella good advice for Ben

Jenny picks up a piece of the monolith. DANGEROUS MUSIC PLAYS

Don't smash that lizard, Jenny! Nooooooooo

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all rocks only want one thing* and it's fucking disgusting

*to be licked

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#Monsterdon As a teacher, I have sooooo many issues with this field trip.

Guy with the sharp part showing up for detective duty #Monsterdon

ginny's a bit cheeky. kid needs to mind her own business. #monsterdon

Oh they're touching stuff!

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“Don’t touch anything you don’t recognize, okay? You understand? Okay… explode!”

This has become a very different movie.

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No need for a school bus, just have all the kids pile into a station wagon. #monsterdon

Sarah, future Fedi user.

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that's some 50s parenting

"just run out into the desert kids, don't bother with water or consider the Sun!"

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#Monsterdon it's gonna be a bad field trip for the kids

#monsterdon The importance of unsupervised play. May your child die by aliens? Yes!

Ben is dead.

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That teacher just told those children to 'explode'?

OMG I DON'T CARE IF THEY OPEN AND CLOSE THE TRANSOM!
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None of my elementary school teachers looked that good #monsterdon

The 1956 Pontiac Safari could fit an entire public elementary school inside. #Monsterdon

My teachers never instructed us to "explode". I feel slighted.

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#Monsterdon Next we’re gonna watch real horror. Entering a long distance payment card using a pulse phone! While a speed talking auctioneer calls out in a loud quick pace. Mmmmm true horror. Mmmmmm

@jonny Geology is freakin' awesome and you 100% do that as a standard test. Going on a field trip with those people was a trip.

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#Monsterdon "she took the kids where?"

"why can't we have a *regular* field trip"

"with the frizz? no way!"

no dude, it’s fall BACK and spring forward #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957

Did she just tell the kids to explode?

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Another out of control rock party last night #monsterdon

FUN FACT: i know you're like "if a meteorologist studies the weather, what do they call someone who studies meteorites?" and the term is "meteoriticist".

I bet that meteoriticists are low key sulky that they didn't get to be the -ology and want to swap terms.

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Or the reality show where kids have to rebuild society #monsterdon

I like that cut to the kids laughing, like, a lot

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There is black rock goo and a trashed banister.
Did the geologist and the rock throw down?
I mean, the guy probably likes rocks a lot.
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He's pretty still!

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Being trapped in a car full of excitable children is a personal vision of hell

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You kids keep it down or I'll turn this movie right around! #Monsterdon

don't do rocks, kids

and definitely don't get stoned

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rock party! #monsterdon

Thoughtful of him to take a step back so Ben could fall face first like that. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon The Fantastic Four's origin story was really different in the 1950s.

Ben went out with good hair, but he just fell right over #monsterdon

He’s no fun he fell right over #monsterdon

Wow, I Guess Ben sleeps like a rock
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He's obsidead! #monsterdon

Mommy's way more chill than I would have been with that many kids...

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holy hell how could they expose the rock to the flask full of SOLUTION like that every geologist knows that the only correct way to interact with unknown samples is simply to lick them and NEVER let them touch Solution #monsterdon

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It looks like those scary rocks were trying to climb those stairs!

*bonk*

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That guy's seen the lady with the snakes for hair.

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Ben's stoned ... but not in the good way.

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#Monsterdon I love how the have live-in staff even though it's in a city and not a remote field station

Oh goddamn you and your rock candy habit, Ben!

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I think he dialed like 5 digits. #monsterdon

#monsterdon Oh come on, that is my bedroom in a Friday. Don't be exagerated

Ben is ... stoned.

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I thought Tiberium was first found in the Tiber River.

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Nothing here but us rocks
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This rock really ROCKS! in a suspenseful, orchestral way :)

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“She took the kids where? The desert?”

She must be taking them to the beach.

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"What good is a newspaper man out here where nothing ever happens?"

Time to start a local gossip rag, usually.

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this is like a Dr who premise

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#monsterdon she took the kids to the desert, the b plot is a particularly grim Coen Bros crime drama

slow pan of room full of damage and rocks

sudden glance to stage right

Oh no, the deadly FREEZE FRAME!!

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#Monsterdon Think that meteor crash explosion in the intro was stock footage? 🤔

@foolishowl no doubt printed from Chekov's label maker

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If you know how to dial in that telephone, remember to do exercise #monsterdon

Why did he leave the door open? #monsterdon

Let's hear it for the pathetic fallacy of the ocean feeling like it needed to dry up because it was silly.

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"last name Dover?"

oh you wretched little IF I GET MY HANDS ON YOU

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@trixter They usually do. But not THESE rocks! dun...dun...DUNNNNN

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I regret asking for dialog. I want these two walking expositions to shut up.
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@brooke #TeamRocks

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#Monsterdon this is the geology movie I wanted my school to show

It's bubbling time. The music makes me think the rock killed him. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon welp, the guy just went goodnight

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Ben got rocked, Dave

Ok, the #monsterdon feed is the best thing recently.

#Monsterdon hell of a storm. LOL. Ohhh MST3K…

Huh, I could've sworn this department had an interior yesterday. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Don't feed them after midnight, and never, ever get them wet.

@Taweret

Worse yet, he got it wet after midnight!!!

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@steggy It DOES just sit around all day, doing nothing.

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dials phone, picks up picture frame holding a photo of his favourite rock

wistful look

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@steggy they tend to #monsterdon

that's a lot of fanfaire for turning off the light

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The mist is probably dry ice though. #monsterdon

Fade to black as the bemused geologist stares at the growing rock.

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uh-oh the dude may have gotten blackified by that rock!

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DANGER BRASS! DANGER BRASS!

This piece is called OMINOUS ROCKS.

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He's got a lot of product in his hair for someone just jumping out of bed #monsterdon

Rock band with trumpet sting! #monsterdon