This MSDS sheet I found <https://www.fishersci.com/store/msds?partNumber=AC147930250&productDescription=FORMIC+ACID+98%25+25ML&vendorId=VN00033901&countryCode=US&language=en> says orally in rats it's 730 mg/kg. Admittedly if you were *attacked* by ants it would be delivered, like, intravenously or whatever. So scaled up to, like, me, it would beβ¦32 grams? #Monsterdon
those goggles whip where are my bugeyed spherical lab goggles #monsterdon
Tut tut, radiation all over, Tut Tut, 1945 tutut
The little girl's ... AUNT!
*music intensifies*
#Monsterdon #Them
@north Title drop! Woooooooo!
"If the 'Doctor' bothers you.....tough shit"
Pointing out EXACTLY where the nothing is
oooh tumbleweeds #monsterdon
One of the most fascinating discoveries I had while researching this era of giant monster movie was realizing that anxieties about women in the workplace were as strong, if not stronger, than the anxieties about radiation/atomic warfare/foreign invaders. All of these 1950's sci-fi movies are, in part, about how one balances the concept of capable, intelligent women in the workplace with the desire to hook up with them. #monsterdon
The goggles! They do nothing! #Monsterdon #THEM
okay then maybe some large animal tranquilisers are more the prescription then
#Monsterdon tomblweed
Poor Newt, she finally snapped back to life. #monsterdon
Didn't realize the little girl was a terf #monsterdon
title drop #monsterdon.
That little girl just Nailed that shot. Iconic. #Monsterdon #THEM
nobody is really dressed for the Desert, are they?
#Monsterdon always the hysteria about pronouns *smdh*
"I shattered what's left of that little girl's sanity so let's get out of here" #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon themthemthem π±π±
Time to play footsie with science. We're all grown ups here.
#Monsterdon #Them
I too am triggered by formic acid #Monsterdon
Hey there we go! #Monsterdon
Poppers? Is poppers isn't it #monsterdon #them1954
Titular line! Everyone drink. #Monsterdon
βͺ Time to make a little girl scream! β« #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon π !π !π ! π₯ π±
The cops call her 'miss', but her dad calls her 'Dr', right on, dad.
THEM!
oh her womb is wandering about? #monsterdon
#Monsterdon "all she needs is some acid to the face!"
This lady sure is throwing out a bunch of fancy-sounding words talking about the kid.
uh oh Pat, off on your own?
why don't we just whack her up with 20ccs of adrenaline?
His real name is Dr. Timothy Leary.
She said the name of the movie!
Can you imagine the audition for this girl's part? Just stare and keep staring please.
"They mostly come out at night. Mostly." - This girl here
Another woman! We are so close to a Bechdel pass! She only needs a name!
Only a severe catharsis could jolt me, too.
#Monsterdon i like this mans pocket hankie with the dots
"Let's see, 1945.. that was 9 years ago."
Dang, doing that kind of math in his head, he's TOTALLY a smart professor.
Science Pat is... A WOMAN?!?!?!!?!?! π΅βπ«ππ΅ππ³
#monsterdon they were CAMPING *there*?!
Coming in a bit late but I was watching it on the train so I'm on time in the movie
#Monsterdon
Dr. Pat, your dad is cramping my style!
"...the FBI has strict rules around all manner of ... footsie."
@Taweret Eh, that's what makes it safer. Ancient well understood tech.
Unlike a Boeing 737 MAX.
Disclaimer: I hold active US and Canadian pilot's licenses.
@CactuarJoe "A" sexy scientist? Aren't they all sexy?
ge-NE-tic-al-ly
Don't play footsie with me, as a matter of fact I resent it.
I don't want to shake hands with a snot napkin thanks #monsterdon
Misogyny into an advertisement woo
Everyone takes a moment to stare at a woman's leg. Well, that's soft porn in the 1950s I guess.
#Monsterdon
okay, i do like the way her father calls her doctor though. #monsterdon
βA friend of his who teaches at the collegeβ decribes most of my friends and colleagues. But we never get asked about these cool cases. #Monsterdon
Maybe it's just because we've watched so many Dracula movies, but I think that guy playing the scientific specialist would make a great Van Helsing. #Monsterdon #THEM
@nev @futurebird I wonder if there's an answer in here: https://www.chemicalbook.com/msds/formic-acid.htm
@forestine@sunny.garden Can you share? We all want an ant!
#Monsterdon #Them1954
Ah jeez, we've got a dame for these mooks to ogle for the rest of the movie.
#Monsterdon *gasp* a lady doctor!
I'm not scared of flying but I think I would be scared of flying in a prop plane
seems too primitive idk
"...I got a fever, and the only prescription is more ant bell!"
Well, she's no Miss Kitty. #monsterdon
Those goggles are pretty dope
Again with the heavy clothes... how are they not sweating thru their armpits?
mmmm legs. LMAO
shook hands holding a handkerchief in the shaking hand #monsterdon
Is that sound supposed to be coming from the ants? Or is it non-diegetic? #monsterdon
Oh lord, we got ourselves a sexy scientist. #Monsterdon
Edmund Gwenn will always be Santa claus as far as I'm concerned
This doctor is not going to survive. Calling it now.
Miracle on Area 54th Street.
In passing, we're in Otero county, New Mexico.
"Enough formic acid to kill twenty men."
#Monsterdon #Them(1954)
ant in French is fourmi #Monsterdon
Shelock Holmes has entered the picture!
#Monsterdon #Them
"When a glimpse of ankle was something shocking" was 1951 I guess π³
"I would like to fake illness to have sexual intercourse with that woman, grrrr"
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hahaha
#monsterdon
supercut of every time a guy takes his hat off and scratches his head at a real corker of a case #monsterdon
I'm Bob Graham, of the Cracker Grahams.
Formic acid- a simple acid used by many insects for defense. #monsterdon
And of course the scientist character has a pretty unmarried daughter #Monsterdon
"Enough formic acid in him to kill 20 men"
I have no idea how much that is. It sort of depends on whether you poured it on him or put it in his eyes, or up his nose, or he ingested it? Or breathed it in? There are many possibilities people!
oh lord, they sent dr doolittle. (-_-) #monsterdon
Hastily repainted plane...
For working at the department of ag, he certainly is used to having his orders followed.
That girl is surprisingly good for a child actor.
Enough formic acid in him to kill 20 men!
#monsterdon
The Music:
His neck and back were broken. No word yet on hisβ but I digress
Missed about 15 minutes due to paperwork bullshit, when does Peter Graves fight the giant grasshoppers? #Monsterdon (mst3k reference)
@JoeWynne the one cop who always says βEverything points to giant mutant antsβ was unfortunately on vacation #Monsterdon
πΆ Smokin' with the law menπΆ
#Monsterdon ok but how did grampa actually die. That was just a list of things
@diazona My eyes are growing heavy #monsterdon
20 minutes in and we've already got the FBI and the Army in on this.
Formic Acid!
βTell them Mister Ellisonβs vacation looks like itβs been extended indefinitely.β
WTF, man? Be a little respectful of the poor man who just died with his family.