Alternate take of this scene where the flask is filled with coke and the rock is a giant Mentos. #Monsterdon

@brooke @bikeshed.vibber.net I know, it's been, what, 30 seconds since we last saw it!

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#Monsterdon Here we see an early and somewhat glitchy version of a lava lamp.

I assume the cutaway means the rock got him

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Now that is what pet rocks shoud be. "Put water and see them grow!"
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Oh, self-cleaning rock! Nice, now it won't be all dusty. #Monsterdon

Oh, I've seen those fireworks before.

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The striations are the concentric grooves found in natural breaks in obsidian and quartz. #monsterdon

@ramsey I'm calling it, this will be the sea that somebody fucks off into at the end

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Batman-grade labeling job on that tippy flask of water.

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This guy sleeps at his office? Must be ultra hardcore or something.

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#Monsterdon These people have contemporary science acumen. Scads of it. Giant mountains of it.

Are we doing a Gremlins? #Monsterdon

*meteorite sizzling* #Monsterdon

I love the music letting you know something dramatic is about to happen five full seconds in advance.

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#Monsterdon 🌑 🗿 ☄️ 💎 🌵 😱

That's why a lot of guys would close the window at night

@nev yay you made it to #monsterdon!

"Those are no human rocks!"

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@moira If it winds up taking over the world, let me know

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@r343l I mean, it could be something worse, like tap water.

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How long before we have some non-narrator dialog movie? Movie? Is this a silent movie?
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As someone who took one (1) geology class in college: aggregates are one of the rock types that are pretty obvious...

Also I expect a better range of tests. The basics are really easy!

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oh no! Baking soda and vinegar!

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#Monsterdon “What good is a newspaperman?… I should become a geologist.” Ah yes, the excitement and rapid development of… geology.

@brooke *sudden urge for Taco Bell intensifies* #Monsterdon

"I don't stick to my newspaper, my newspaper isn't sticky!"

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Looks like pretty normal obsidian to me!

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#Monsterdon Why would you have a glass if distilled water sitting there like that anyway.

Well, the Nightvale guy does alright. Just wait, elderly newspaper guy, your moment will come!

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It's a big hunk of obsidian for crying out loud. What kind of geologist is he? #Monsterdon

Newspaper guy in the back lot town just cursed himself #monsterdon

#monsterdon rock touchers

"A place like this where nothing ever happens" oh just you wait, old timer! #monsterdon

This place seems familiar. Have we gone back to the future of this town set?
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i am yet again 6 minutes late to monsterdon and watching the intro at 2x speed but thanks to the powers of cheating and watching a little bit already i am up to speed on what meteors are #monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🌑 🗿 ☄️ 💎 🌵 😱

No the local press is a crucial part of our democr...

...oh, nevermind.

why the hat and jacket in the desert? ain't you baking in those?

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Yeah mr newspaper. Geology rocks!
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Oh no, don't feed the rock after midnight!

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FORESHADOWING

FORESHADOWING

HERNK HERNK HERNK

FORESHADOWING

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"The desert's full of things that don't belong. Like tuna fish and grape jelly sandwiches." #Monsterdon

GEOLOGY TALK

Is there a Geology version of the Bechdel Test?

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Hey #monsterdon, Do you enjoy popcorn with your movie?
Tell everyone how you like your popcorn in the comments :ablobpopcorn:

"That ocean knew that the middle of the desert was a silly place to be"

This is a promising start, I like these characters.

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Meanwhile, on the Paramount back lot..... papers rustle and blow.

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"The desert's full of things that don't belong"

Like people... I agree with Bobby Hill, places like Phoenix are a symbol of man's arrogance.

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“The desert’s full of things that don’t belong… like oceans.” #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon station wagon driver just grabbed that cap WITH HIS HANDS!

"...it just doesn't seem to belong."
"Are we still talking about rocks?"

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It's called obsidian #monsterdon

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"Lava maybe?"
"No, it's a solid!"

also it didn't burn your fingers off when you held it so

#Monsterdon Ted Ted! He’s drinking tap water!

The closed caption now says "bright, thoughtful music."

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those strata seem kinda sus. idk

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#Monsterdon Midlife crisis for one, please.

"Rock. Why?"

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It's Colonel Sanders some decades before he went into fried chicken #monsterdon

Awww, they're Science Buddies

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Flock of Space Rocks: clearly not lava #monsterdon

I didn't know rocks traveled in flocks.

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"California Here I Come" just plays on repeat in that room #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957

Also the voice of KARR, KITTs enemy in Knight Rider. #Monsterdon

Excuse me, I was looking to purchase an interior. Is this the right department? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon oh it's a boy scout scientist

#Monsterdon san angelo road? *demolition man intensifies*

The best parts of this movie are the ones that have the feeling of a really liminal Twilight Zone episode. #Monsterdon

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These movies are just full of Bens and Daves

#Monsterdon Hat, shirt, Department of the Interior… and a microscope. I do believe we’ve found our geologist.

That's such intense music for drinking a glass of water. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon the dude in the white suit looks like old david spade

With Tennessee Williams as Mr Cochran #monsterdon

@ryan I'm enjoying all the subtitles for effects and music! "ominous music" etc. #TheMonolithMonsters #Monsterdon

modern films never really explore the possibilities of the putting-down-your-sample-bag sequence

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peers through a microscope

Yup, it's a rock.

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(light eerie music)

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Those are the biggest shirt pocket I have ever seen.

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#monsterdon in case anyone is wondering we already have our first blue and pink pulsating car, although it is showing up as black in some spots. Indiana Geolojones is half pink, half zombie green.

Mom, look! I found coal!
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that uniform is far too clean for someone who's just driven through a desert and had to fix his car. i think this man is a rock. #monsterdon

Is the music like this because they couldn't afford to pay actors to speak? #Monsterdon

Wow, a car that seats 7 people and isn't a giant SUV. Those were the days.

(if I got hit by the front end I might survive!)

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Introducing Torque Majeure, Inspector-General of the Department of the Interior #Monsterdon

the way this is filmed makes it looks like a Marx Brothers movie. Funny...
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@paco *grooooooan*

👏 👏 👏

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Oooh, I recognize the Back to the Future town hall ...

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And we open at the local office of the Department of the Interior

This guy just wandered in from the set of Perry Mason....

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Rock is seething, it's so mad #monsterdon

toshi station! he finally got there!

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I know this is not that movie but I kind of wanted to see the space rock turn into a (space) crab

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@socketwench I feel like you might enjoy Garage 54, or the Dank Pods second channel.

#Monsterdon

WAR SURPLUS STORE
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@moira Oh like you've never stopped the car to check out a nice butte. #Monsterdon

UH-OH ominous picking of weird looking stone. did y'all notice it's… BLACK 🧐

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Jaunty hat, too cool to close the door with his hand... yup, this is the REBEL.

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Water on the rocks, oh my!
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dude settle down it's just glass butte

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Oh great, looks like my hometown desert
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