"Your partner died like fifteen minutes ago. Get over it."

#Monsterdon #THEM

"He's with the FBI so watch your language" Man even the cops STFU around the feds. #Monsterdon #THEM

Every movie has someone who has a scientist friend from the university and that’s a little too convenient. #Monsterdon

I have the feeling that everyone in this movie speaks really fast. Looks like a "Gilmore Girls" episode, but without all thos ereferences.
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"get to the verb" A+
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Doubt we're going to get a Bechdel pass tonight...

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15 minutes in. Good horror short.
But the comps continue, I am shocked we haven't had coffee talk yet.
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That's a venture brothers reference, they're all quiz kids!

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No cop is friends with a zoologist #cinemasins #monsterdon

Did he say "Quiz kids"? #Monsterdon

"FBI, so watch your language" 😂

Ah, the salad days.

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@steggy We ain't found shit. #monsterdon

@SnoopJ dont you suck up all the sugar you can and puke it back on the sugar pile back at base or idk how that works #monsterdon

Ben the cop was a very well regarded character actor with his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

James Whitmore:

https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6577-james-whitmore

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looked like a laptop that pops was working on

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Local and federal cops playing nice together in a movie? My how times change.

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#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

Someone made the District Office Otero County sign out of a piece of construction paper and taped it to the door

@paco Probably they got the giant ants to sit on the roof and swing the lights

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@RobynGoodfellow@mastodon.murkworks.net On it!

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@plaidtron3000 @Taweret in the eyes of the law when evaluating standing, i am an ant #monsterdon

Is that mauser from policy academy ?

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110 degrees, and they're wearing such heavy clothes as THOSE?

The past is the worst.

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They have told us if there was a maniac killer in this area. You idiot you're the cops you're the supposed to find that out first

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OH AWESOME, Mulder and Scully incoming! #Monsterdon

Pat, eh?

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They gave Ben the world's tiniest cup of water

#Monsterdon if I learned one thing from Phase 4, ants like deserts? (Desserts? Ah ah ah)

I want it technical

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Worst vacation ever.

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"Maniac armored like a battleship"

Oh, like Uwe Boll's only good movie?

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that "you're right" was peak "i'm too tired to argue with my boss" #monsterdon

That cop either has a *very* loud scream or a very well silenced pistol.

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Sucricidal Maniant, I'm thinking.

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You heard me. Comb The Desert! #Monsterdon #THEM

THEM hate sugar. Mystery solved. #Monsterdon

THEM squeaks ACAB
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@plaidtron3000 @Taweret in the eyes of the law when evaluating standing, i am an ant #monsterdon

@jonny @Taweret Jonny, I had no idea you were an ant. #monsterdon #them

Sure blame homicidal maniacs for everything!

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I am pretty sure I saw this a couple of times on WPIX back in the day #monsterdon

I may have to actually pay attention to this one

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So, is Ed dead or not?
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Hey! #FormicAcid /is/ how #ants make itching. I don't know what the #LD50 is though!

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@apLundell @Taweret Oh and there were ants in the sugar at the general store

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Pro #Monsterdon Tip: When you can't afford visual effects use sound effects to ...er...great effect

"Pork is a very sweet meat!"
-Babe mice

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@yogajedi
I think they used to run #Them! all the time on TBS or USA. I remember ads for it.
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weird wind chimes

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@Taweret the cops kidnapped a girl and found her trailer blown out with sugar, and then they found a blown out general store with sugar. there is no proof the ants are to blame for any of this and anyone else saying otherwise will be hearing from my attorneys because that is libel #monsterdon

I cackled at that one! ​:floofLol:​

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thank goodness, Ed has been eaten.

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Policeman's union is going to be pissed about this #monsterdon

#Monsterdon this sound is actually really comforting it reminds me of summer evenings in my parents' living room (crickets got in the walls and we couldn't get rid of them)

Stop it. Stop it seventeen year cicadas. You're so annoying! Stop that noise immediately!

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There's one cop who's feeling the pinch. #Monsterdon #THEM

@Taweret we didn't see it but ants ransacked Billy Quizboy's trailer and also the general store from Pettycoat Junction, also there's a "they only come out at night mostly" girl not saying much yet

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Oh, Cop #2 has volunteered to be the first on-screen death. Good job. #Monsterdon

so if the ants eat the crackers, they will be putting on the Ritz? #monsterdon

ritz crackers long-term product placement still paying off #monsterdon

Nooo get your hand out of there that's the ants' sugar now

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It’s looks like we’ve got a few sugar thieves on our hands, here. #Monsterdon

All these crime scenes have money lying around. The money did it, case closed

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First dead body found! (and, a steaming coffeepot)

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For people with no knowledge of sandstorms: you absolutely DO NOT GO OUT IN THEM. A real sandstorm will literally smother you.

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#HighPitchedStridulation #monsterdon

I guess the ants were inside the trailer and general store before thier rapid growth spurts. #Monsterdon

Somebody needs to replace the idler pulley on their 52 Ford. #monsterdon #them

@yatsu I had soursop ice cream from York Castle Tropical Ice Cream, mmm! Nothing to do with #Them!1954 , but nice pre-movie snack. #Monsterdon

Product placement! Ritz crackers on screen.

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🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 !

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High-pitched stridulation?
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my favorite l.a. river flick is tonight's #monsterdon feature. i'm so proud of our fictional first responders, from the beat cops to the army extravaganza. go ants go!

"Stay loose."

You got it, soul daddy. #Monsterdon

the presence of sugar is actually the opposite of proof of a giant ant attack in the same way that the presence of cash in the register is proof it wasn't a robbery. a giant ant would have eaten all the sugar! you all are jumping to conclusions #monsterdon

ugh. I got distracted with real life stuff. what's happened so far?

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Does anyone know why Ed and Ben were driving around the Mojave desert in the first place?

Big Sugar paid for this film? #monsterdon

Starting #monsterdon a bit late coming home from dinner

Man, they're more concerned about their fellow cop than #JeepersCreepers cops

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New Mexico has ants?

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We know this is fiction because the cops are so competent I am having trouble suspending my disbelief #Monsterdon

I'm thinking #Monsterdon #Them1954

WE HAVE ANTS!
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Give me sugar. In water. - Edgar

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The old man was attacked by Hercules! No poker around, so he had to bend the gun! #Monsterdon

Sleeping on the job, again! #monsterdon

multiple households with sugar? conspiracy!! #monsterdon

"This wasn't pushed in, this was pushed out!"

I'm sensing a theme.

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Well, y'all seem to have missed the party at Johnson's General Store, too.

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A few Terro ant traps and this whole movie's wrapped up #Monsterdon

It’s interesting to note, Them! was nominated for an Academy Award for special effects. #Monsterdon

"...sugar! Otherwise known as ant coke!"
"No one calls it that, Frank."

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"Dr. Adolf [something] addresses..."

Boy you think people would've stopped using that name by 1945 at the latest, I guess not

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The radio announcer isn't subtitled in this version so I can't really catch everything, but they mentioned "malaria" and "sleeping sickness" (both spread by insects) wiped out, so I'm guessing it's some freaky insecticide that ends up affecting the ants or something? #Monsterdon

Me at 15: "This wasn't pushed in, it was pulled out."

(sorry)

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*sigh* Yes wiping out these diseases would be amazing. But you did it with DDT!!! Let's go for better pharmaceutical interventions and/or genetically engineered mosquitoes instead, k?

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our first body #monsterdon

This is just like the last time i was in a bed bath & beyond #monsterdon

wow such detectives :blobrollingeyes:

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