Dear #monsterdon, love y'all, even tho I don't participate. Did you know that William Goldman, author and screenwriter of _The Princess Bride_, wrote the script for "The Stepford Wives"?

It's true. And, in the book _The Princess Bride_, he is in LA doing re-writes for "The Stepford Wives" when he first orders S. Morgenstern's classic for his ten-year-old son.

(You would only know this if you'd read the novel, which, frankly, you should do, as it is richer and more amazing than the movie.)

Before the internet we had to go from person to person demanding recipes, lest we die. #monsterdon

Speaking of psychiatrists…

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@JoeWynne Katharine Ross also met her first husband on the set. Imagine trying to carry on a romance while filming THIS movie.

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That awkward moment when your cousin starts MLMing on Facebook... #monsterdon

Why is it the monsters you want to win never do but the ones you want to lose win?
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#monsterdon AND THAT'S A WRECK

This was indeed an accidentally good film, we done did it again. Nobody fucks off into the sea, the monsters won and walk among us. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats (2019) and also Invasion of the Body Snatchers (several versions INCLUDING the 1978 version with Donald Sutherland).

This one is going to stick with me, I think.

Thank you @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting! Thank you @Cherizilla for the bingo cards! Thank you everyone for a memorable evening.

Take the next bus outta town

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"She'll be like one of those robots in Disneyland."

Got it in one.

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Dammit Bingo. Gimme a few more squares. #monsterdon #monsterdonbingo

Have you tried turning her off and then back on?

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No sudden end this week. Very un-monsterdon like.

Gotta say, it could've used an Aztec mummy in the second act though.

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Why do I have such a horrible feeling about the friend
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“I lost my virginity to a trustworthy chemist” is how I’m starting all of my party conversations from now on. #monsterdon

This is Invasion of the Body Snatchers nightmare fuel of an ending
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This is so much better (and scarier) than the 2004 version. #monsterdon

"Why?"

"Because we can."

If this isn't the GOP platform I don't know what is.

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I KNEW he would use the kids as a tool
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#monsterdon "I think we ought to take a sample of the water ourselves, and take that sample to a trustworthy chemist." Erin Brockovich confirmed!!

#monsterdon "Ed has always hankered after a heated swimming pool. And now he's going to get it!"

Ed's going to get a crash course in mildew management, pool chemistry maintenance, and chlorine breakdown rates as a function of weather and solar exposure is what Ed's going to get

So she's been taken to the woman disposal center?

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#monsterdon oh herk, crystallized instant coffee and a 1l brown glass jar of Coffee Mate

_There_ is the horror genre coming in strong

Today, on Tradwives of Tiktok... #monsterdon

#monsterdon Oh no did we accidentally pick another movie that is Good, Actually™? THE HORROR

"Do you mind if I make a call?"
"Eat poker, creep."

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Stab him
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#monsterdon I don't know if it's just movies in the 70s in general or this movie in particular, but there's a real dearth of male characters who are not complete sleazeballs.

Is there an Aztec Mummy in this soon?

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Animatronics were very big in the 1970's and Westworld (1973) came out just a few years before this film.

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#monsterdon "I like to watch women doing little domestic chores."

Yes, I think about ten pitchforks ought to do the trick, as long as we can get a full barrel of tar heated up to fluid temperature before the feathers arrive

I would watch a whole movie about these ladies running off together and establishing themselves back New York
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She brought the fireplace poker? This is suburban USA, surely there was an array of handgun choices available, no?

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This is like the first monsterdon movie where waiting 95 minutes for an explicit monster reveal was good

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#monsterdon We've got another segfault. Wrong Java was installed. JRE 1.7a obviously.

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#monsterdon Genuinely chilling interaction in the kitchen with Bobbie there. Didn't even need the musical cues. 😬

"I've really got to go now."

No, it's already much too late. You fell for "We'll move in August."

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Leave! Run! Take ignorant gramma with you and move back to the city to open a detective agency. #monsterdon

#monsterdon "Once I get enough samples I aim to feed them all into a computer, and program it" LLM SCRAPER BRO, GET IM

Quick, ask her to divide 7 by 0!!
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So far the two non-Stepford women are sparkling conversationalists and a lot of fun. The men are drips and creeps. This is a super effective set-up for this movie
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@jchaven We SERIOUSLY need a Hats of Monsterdon photo gallery. So many hats.

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#monsterdon The Stepford Wives were designed by Siemens Nixdorf. They have an OBD2 port, just under the apron flap. You should see them empathize with an ATM with an empty cash cassette. It's a tear-jerker.

I hate it how it always rains heavily just when you've got a brain-swap lined up.

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I wonder how long the husband has known about the whole "new and improved robo-wife" thing? Because he's done a pretty good job of keeping his wife from outright leaving Stepford.

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#monsterdon "Well I'm not surprised, you're obviously a very bright woman."

And with just one subtle conversational beat between the characters that statement tilts from an expression of respect to a thinly veiled threat.

Maaarge! The place looks like a pigsty!

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DON’T GO TO THE PLAZA
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She's going to end up like one of those pan scrubbers.

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Ah, liberal racism
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Trying to chat with the gals and got an unskippable ad

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Easy-On! The official sponsor of Stepford Men's Association

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Even in Stepford, they want to train the AIs on people for free.

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Even the ambulance is a station wagon
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Man, everyone is so skinny.

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I've never lived in the suburbs, do women just appear out the bush with dinner? Is this normal?
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Home cooking ladies just appearing out of the bushes with casseroles?

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I've just been handed a slip of paper that says Donnie Darko is an old movie and nobody young has actually seen it.

Okay, she's married to Sam Elliott, the guy with the mustache from Big Lebowski. You have seen Big Lebowski right? Please tell me people still watch TBL.

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I suspect my take away will be suburbs are bad
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I'd forgotten how well shot that movie is. that final pan for the reveal that just goes on and on is so effective

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A big floppy hat is not worth all this

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The end music being like something in a commercial for prozac or something is fitting.

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50's housewife shopping montage! That should have been a bingo square.

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#monsterdon _Walter protesting_ "There is a dog under the kitchen table!"

sir that is a small horse or possibly a llama, that creature is enormous and woolly

LOL! Amazing smash cut. #monsterdon

She's gone from loving him to being fond of him.

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Oh, this predates adblock

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Uh oh, robowife is glitching.

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So, the one guy worked at Disney? Did he work on animatronics, by any chance?

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"I like to watch women doing little domestic chores"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :possum:

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You may remember Katharine Ross from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Graduate if you're an old like me, or Donnie Darko if you're young.

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This was the perfect movie for us to welcome what 2025 has in store for American society #monsterdon

okay, that was fantastic.

I've seen so, so many movies & TV episodes made since then that have tried to be even vaguely feminist, even had women writers/directors/etc., and failed MISERABLY. How the fuck did a bunch of guys effortlessly pull it off in fucking 1975.

I mean it's hardly subtle, but not everything has to be, you know?

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The moral of the story is you can't wait for a family of color to move into your neighborhood and magically solve your entrenched social problems. That's not how real estate works #monsterdon

Boobs. Murderous boobs.

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Happy ending! Everyone is fine!

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“Because we can“ is pretty much the justification for a lot of what’s going on these days. #monsterdon

Seriously, when your subconscious tells you what is going on, believe it.

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Fuck him, get out
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Consider: having the kids read novels.

Or, uh, there's this new game they could play called Dungeons and Dragons...

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“Zoom”, “Zulu”, “Longing," "rusted," "furnace," "daybreak," "seventeen," "benign," "nine," "homecoming," "one," "freight car"

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Oh no, they got another one!!
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"I like to see my house looking nice."

That's one of the mantras playing repeatedly in her robot brain, right?

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#monsterdon Try the LACK OF BLINKING. Not even an approximation using a fast fourier transform or anything! Even trying! Just wide eyed, Belladonna enhanced emptyheaded polyester models.

We used to work out at the same gym as Tina Louise. She lived in the neighborhood. Really nice person.

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"I've just been so busy, with baking and all that." I hear you sister.

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"Whaddya say we go home and change INTO SOMETHING MORE LESBIAN?" "Absolutely."

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#monsterdon Loved the stratified cigarette smoke that lazily collected along the ceiling line. Like a jazz club... "You want to breathe, get on the floor!”

#monsterdon Now we know where Peanuts parents got the wah wah wah sounds. These guys have all the vocal stylings of the Hoover Tank Vac stuffed in the closet.

Take a picture, buddy, your robot copy will be more accurate. #monsterdon

Real nondigital photography, that involved actual work and equipment

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Stepford: Get injured here!!

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Coffeedon over here like "oh god Sanka that's the true monster of this movie"

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#monsterdon The town that Zoloft made. Everyone is on SSRI's, the good stuff, the good silenced chidlren barely awake Prince Valium style kiddos of the 70’s. You want something to cry about? I'll give you something to cry about!

1970s casserole... they should be playing horror music just for that #monsterdon

#monsterdon @k8eb is currently speculating whether prosthetic chest hair was involved in that neighbour-meeting scene.

And we start with a very typical new york street scene, and an awesome old imitation wood-finish stationwagon.

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@lytta @jonny @ricci I think it would be really funny framing if you had some (fictionally disguised) future Boston-Dynamics/Real Doll corporate merger and they came out with customizable models for both sexes. The humans don't actually get replaced, they get supplanted and the whole thing explores what needs a variety of people can and cannot get from a robot and everyone trying to figure out what real people are good for along the way.

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@davesdogmaggie Ira Levin was a fantastic novelist and a bunch of his books have been turned into good movies (Rosemary's Baby, Boys from Brazil, Sliver, etc.)

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If all of the women are traded for young, attractive robots, how will we ever discover the true purpose of the post menopausal woman? Checkmate, incels. #monsterdon