"scientifically documented kraken"

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Chekov's knob has entered the chat.

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<<looks up giant water mollusk>>

This explains all the white liquid

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Looks nothing like the creature actually, but sure. #monsterdon

"As long as this knob is set to that the temperature remains constant..."

Enter the janitor.

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it's the story

of a hard-shelled family

who was filled with lots of goo of every kind

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Chekov's knob.

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That's totally a military instruction.

"Just blow it up. That'll fix it."

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Are ya gonna like, put a piece of tape over the nob...a post-it note reading "do not change or horrible monstering will occur"? No?

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Double mourning bands?

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Chekov's Knob.

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"as long as this knob is set, there will be no problem"

:ohgod_ohfuck:

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We're keeping the egg alive, because the movie would be way too short if we killed it. #monsterdon

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38 degrees .. Fahrenheit or Celcius?

Chekhov's temperature control.

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"As long as this knob is set so that the temperature remains constant, there'll be no problem."

Countdown to the knob being fucked with in 3.. 2...

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I don’t understand this… I kinda like the commander, and usually I’m violently tired of the misogyny of the main guys by 10 minutes into the movie #Monsterdon

these sailors feel like the expendable characters in a SCP Foundation tale

they ain't coming back

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That tender is also covered in seamen.

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wait, is this a single mom in a 1957 film? okay. more than i expected from this movie, at any rate.

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She's already got her black bands on for mourning. #monsterdon

Gail is secretly Wonder Woman. #Monsterdon

so basically, they're nuking it from orbit.

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Maybe they shouldn’t have stolen its egg instead of poking it in the eye.
Just a thought.
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Depth charges, not poison, since poison would be really boring for a movie. #monsterdon

And then we will blow up 20 nuclear warheads underwater

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@bryanhowell wrong week to stop sucking smack

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The Monster design actually challenges its naming. It looks more like a hellgrammite (an aquatic larva) than a mollusk, such as an aquatic snail.

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I wonder if this monster is gonna be some kind of mothra once gets a cocoon
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Two whole years jeez

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Uh, I think it's the commanding officer's job to tell the widow that she's... well, a widow.

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"Radio Shack"

That's where my first computer was bought... nostalgia hitting.

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@pngwen i had the battery club card #monsterdon

why do these people have emotions this guy #monsterdon

Parade of sailors heading to the dock, I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat.

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Oh, you were married? I didn't notice.

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@apLundell Well you know how those routine bomb tests have a mind of their own

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"Connie, I couldn't help it. George was on my last nerve. I just had to murder him."

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I do believe I have a #monsterdonBingo

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The One-eyed Monster and the Mysterious Seamen

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Mother checking out the sailors there...

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did somebody mention Radio Shack (tm)?
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Is anyone else reminded of the Star Trek silicon monster that was protecting its eggs from miners? #Monsterdon

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There's a market out there for silicone castings of this guy!

Dang it cameraman, you're missing the good part! #Monsterdon

and that was the end of the monster that challenged some guys on a boat #monsterdon

Like I said, August Lehman has a lot to answer for regarding the “special” effects.

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why should we root against this loving mother #monsterdon

"Does it come in peace?"
"No, those are just its natural secretions."

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The monster growls then eats one of the divers. The other one swims back up.

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"Why must my eyes be so poke-able!"

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wow

so fear

such terrifying

srsly this would barely pass muster in community theatre

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While the divers are netting up the giant salt crystal, we see that a Monster is staring at them. It looks kind of like a centipede or something, with two eyes and mandibles. The music decides to be Super Ominous whenever it appears on the screen. It looks hungry or maybe angry.

The divers then find another spooky body with bulging eyes under the water, trapped in seaweed. They try to cut it loose then one of them gets their tank stuck.

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NGL, that was kind of gross.
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This monster has got a sweet deal actually, it can just float there in its little cave and divers conveniently wander into its claws

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It is hard for me to root against Salty monster..

"Blake! It got Blake! Miss Kitty is dead!" #Monsterdon

... the drooling monster is not phallic *at all*

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@samsagreg Haha! Exactly!

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#monsterdon Not a half bad monster.

Uh it's not a creature, it's a monster. It's right in the title. It's not "The Creature That challenged the world".
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Lol yes the best way to reduce a person's panic is to shake them and yell, "TALK SENSE!"

Why didn't I think of that

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Oh my gosh that diver dummy is so goofy! I love it!

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Leave Blake! He's expendable! Wait, he didn't hear that did he?

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It’s a creepy alien earwig! #Monsterdon

Exploring the cavern, which is deeper than the Salton sea should be, we find a giant radioactive... salt crystal? Maybe it's an egg? They call it a "marine growth".

The boat people send a net to recover it.

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The Bends, the true monster of this film
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Alright, fam, I LOVE the monster. It's kinda creepy, kinda goofy, and everything I want out of 50s sci fi horror movies. Right up there with the Ants from Them! #Monsterdon

And the diver goes bug-eyed as the creature sucks the blood from his neck!

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Yeah, you don't have time down there because you are going to have to make a stop or get the bends
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHA
That rubber mask needs some botox real bad.
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Oo, Blake got shrimped! #Monsterdon

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OH NO IT SHRIVELLED HIM

The monster is shy.
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Excuse me, but that is mine...

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can i adopt the monster? #monsterdon

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wait aren't these divers going to get the bends if they 'bring her up quickly'?

Definitely a cute monster

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oh no its a caterpiller #monsterdon

Oh I'm sorry, am I bugging you? Bwahahaha!

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salton sea is only 51 at its deepest so something up #monsterdon

The navy is trying to unravel this mystery with another boat trip, sending divers to stare at rocks and check the seaweed for radiation. While doing that, they discover a cave, which they should obviously enter to search for treasure.

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Oh this is where Rover from The Prisoner comes from!

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MMMOOONNNSSTEEERRRR!

Monster sighting!

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You guys gonna just do a rapid ascent from 100+ feet? Or are you going to die down there and save yourself a case of the bends?

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That guy’s radio responses as a diver makes him sound extremely bored.

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Ooh, cave diving! Cave divers are important, they're needed to rescue stuck cave divers

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@Lazarou one they get started with it, they don't stop

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don't take any chances? Like diving in the water that keeps killing people?

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@UsagiTsukino Crazy kids.... #monsterdon

This OwnCast feed is having a lot of trouble with compression artifacts. Very pixelated.

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Weird how they're underwater but they sound like they're in a recording studio... #monsterdon

Back at the beach building, beach mom is distressed, possibly psychically aware that her daughter was eaten by a sea monster.

Then some little boys are playing outside, fighting over a navy cap. We follow them and find a uniform (from the disappeared random boy) and the dress (from the disappeared daughter).

Mom is sad and starts crying; but the army boys ignore her feelings to stare at more monster cum on a nearby rock.

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Try a reading... I recommend The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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He'd rather not conjecture. He's more of a hypothesis man, tbh #Monsterdon

@MatthewTitus88 its a perfect plan #monsterdon

Sir, initial reports show there's a flea on the tail on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole at the bottom of the sea

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What this scene really needs is some harpsichord music. #Monsterdon #TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld