@davesdogmaggie thanks for giving me something to pay attention to lmao #monsterdon

Oh no, honey, Frank is too old for you, you need to find a boyfriend your own age. #monsterdon

@jsadow I have people skills, dammit!

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#OfficeSpace

All space suits need more ruching.

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Are those stillsuits?

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"4.6 miles/second" is, uh, pretty hyperbolic 18,000 miles from the moon (in any direction)

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What a stitched together Frankenstein (‘s monster) suit #Monsterdon

Lunar Base 1... how many lunar bases do these astronauts have? #monsterdon

franks one crack
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Hoo boy. Your co-pilot is a flake. #Monsterdon

Can’t say I miss the office chairs.
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They’re in love, right? #Monsterdon

I'm sorry I'm just so bad at paying attention to the beginning of these movies where it's just a bunch of dudes doing expository dialogue...... #monsterdon

Is that a prototype of one of those 1970/80s "Sweat off the pounds" exercise suits? It's either that or a crappy stillsuit. #PhantomPlanet #Monsterdon

#monsterdon you have more technology today in the palm of your hand than this entire space program.

Gee willikers, better explain what's going on to fill in the audience! #monsterdon

I don't know what sort of fetish-ware Chapman is sporting but I'm here for it #Monsterdon

Rumors don't move around in space because there's no air to carry the sound. #monsterdon

Oh, I think "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place" was first said in this movie.

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Man they spent zero effort on getting him to, and launching that rocket. #Monsterdon

That outfit!! 😂

And just one crack.

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SLEDGE

HAMMER!

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More urgent fashion question, did they really put a catheter tube on the outside of those pants? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Frank already sucks.

#monsterdon popcorn asteroids?

What the fuck are you wearing, Frank? Is there space hazing? #monsterdon

Frank, clearly interrupted while performing with his modern dance troupe. #monsterdon

Oh my god, the full length view of the flight suit exceeds my wildest expectations. That's one fucked up outfit. #Monsterdon

DIFFERENT ROCKET SAME SET CHEAP MOVIE

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Frank only gets one crack.

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Interesting. Must have been a trend in film making in this era where the film title font was crafted to look like an element of the film…in this case a
rocky asteroid.

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Don't we all get just ONE crack! #Monsterdon #PhantomPlanet

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I don't think that space suit fits Sting the way it should. Something odd is happening below the beltline...

#monsterdon "sure sir, i'll go die, basically no reason"

"...that's all you get, one crack."
"That's all anyone gets, captain."

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Gosh, I hope he only gets one crack. Two cracks is one too many.

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That strap... gotta hurt
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"This is a capable base run by capable men"

Well there's your problem: lack of capable women and gender diverse people running things

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"One crack""
PHRASING...
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"Captan Chapman, report to the Colonel"

Uh you wanna let me know where he IS? Or do I just guess?
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FLOATING SPACE MONSTER has been predicted by jokey foreshadowing #monsterdon

The women, I take it, are not capable? They look insulted.

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Is that the pee-tube we're seeing coming out of his navel?

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what are the seams on these space suits holy heck #monsterdon

Chapman just got his hair did. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon attack of the mids????

@Configures @rallias Oh no it actually keeps going

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Oh, I think "It's almost too quiet" was first said in this movie.

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#monsterdon we're crashing into the piece of live crumble

THEY SAID IT #Monsterdon #thephantomplanet

#monsterdon alright alright, effing RELAX general

Some of the best sets in I don't know how many movies.

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"Nyes, sah." #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon THEY SAID THE NAME OF THE MOVIE.

Love the side eye between the two female military types #monsterdon

Getting strong feelings they did the audio after they did the video #Monsterdon

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We have the whole vastness of space and we seem to have had both rocket ships crash into a tiny floating puffy thing are we bad at our jobs or is it this 'mysterious' planet?

"This... mysterious object" almost lost that line there. #Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

they said the thing!

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@moira 1961 production quality, no doubt

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Just another day in the Space Force. #monsterdon

yeah capable men but are they capable of penetrating

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That ceiling is sponsored by Mekkano

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i wonder if my copy was colourized the old-fashioned way, rather than via AI. the colours seem stable so far #monsterdon

#monsterdon we have not control

The 60s! When space was controlled by BIG, PORK ROAST MEN #Monsterdon

We need to put "the guy in command has a pinky ring" on the BINGO

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My heart also pounds like a sledgehammer.

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"recording reproduction unit"
i will absolutely be calling my mp3 player that from now on. #monsterdon

@hollie lol wat

I'm bummed I missed that

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... is it just me or are those USAF uniforms just doormen jackets with rank sewn onto them? #monsterdon

My God, they must have blown the whole budget on hairspray. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon quiet and lonely out here, just like home

Say the title! Say the title!! #Monsterdon

Big enough to be a planet?? Pluto would like a word! #monsterdon

Air Force issued Lego snap-on hair style #003 #PhantomPlanet #Monsterdon

They're flying to a giant chicken nugget! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon why are their sleeves braided?

A piece of Cap'n Crunch the size a planet, you mean #monsterdon

the moon looks like the moon and those are some okay models. and I like the space station set

nice so far

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#monsterdon im here. love the dials and knobs

"Not to brag, but I'm the guy who exploded into the title card for Phantom Planet" he says, at all the parties

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THUNDERBIRDS ARE

actually not go, hang on a minute #Monsterdon

Running a few minutes behind for #Monsterdon oh no!

@LingLass I miss the bunkbeds though :'(

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THE PLANTOM PHANETTTT

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Can't tell if the opening credits are fogging up or I need to clean my glasses #monsterdon

Wow that was a short one. Nite all. #Monsterdon

I am a capable man who runs a capable base.

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To continue, we learn that this is 1980, and we see a rocket ship flying through space. We then see the bridge / cockpit / control room, where two right stuff looking astronauts are giving a report and repeating words that I probably learned from Kerbal Space Program.

Anyway, then they see a weird lumpy rock and it starts pulling them toward it, then they crash and probably explode. Which is a pretty good start, and how some of my Kerbal launch attempts end.

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Ah, they had a Selznick on narration. That explains it. #Monsterdon #NoItDoesnt

Hey astronauts, maybe you wouldn't have hit the space popcorn if you weren't making such cringeworthy pained facial expressions

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#Monsterdon THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

#monsterdon oh no! I think I saw this already on #RetroStrange. Pretty good though.

"Captain, sensors are reporting a shower of caramel corn in the middle of the credits!"

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"Dreary ol' moon" makes me think of the excellent and surreal fake movie sequence starring Hobie Doyle, in Hail, Caesar!

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we have this on DVD, and the hilarious part is that we have the exact same weird dashes hanging out at the top of the frame as the one on archive.org

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I wonder if it kettle corn in space #monsterdon