Turns out I was wrong: it wasn’t Jonathan Harris, it was Hans Conried.
Am I the only one who found a likeness?

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I think the spunk monster had already been pretty much cooked (steamed) by the time the guns showed up.

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Big thanks to @Taweret for our special has-nothing-to-do-with-Easter Monsterdon Easter movie. Classic 1950s radioactive mutant animal(s) film.

We had smoking. We had coffee. We had a lot of exposition, little stock footage, and more than one monster. Monster(s) generated large amounts of spunk. Death count of nine. Minimal subplots. Reasonably dramatic final battle.

Aside from the titular monster, most memorable actor was the museum curator.

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And we're done! Ladybug girl can swim again.

The pen never got used.

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Glad he did think to wrap his hands in a towel while holding a thin flexible steam pipe ... be he'd still lose skin on his palms by then.

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Grabs a fire extinguisher - ignores the FIRE AXE RIGHT ABOVE IT

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Tension builder - will the rescuers stop for breakfast?

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Quick! Call 911!

The line's busy because SOMEONE is calling their mother AGAIN

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