Mst3k Horror of Party Beach 8/10

[tripoli911]

So, Eulabelle discovered how to kill the monsters, forced that idiot to try New York to get sodium, and figured out where the monsters were. In short, she was the only competent character.

[eartianwerewolf]

*punches Hank and scientists* There should be a bigger effort to find these monters --- Ah well it is just old timey monster movie

[Yapshire]

Discussing the logic of this movie is like deciding which pile of dog crap has the nicest shape.

[SethraLavode99]

The deepest body of water and I haven't yet checked it. Those 3 girls were murdered there Duhr!

[bornimperfect]

SODIUM!

[vampirehunter42]

So did any super fans make a news letter called the "S.O.L. Post"?

[RingshadowCat]

It's not that easy to test water for radioactive content :\ Most geiger counters couldn't do it.

Baaah why do I bother. WOO.

[crazycat58]

Another bone of contention, how was the sodium in that beaker that Eulabelle dumped even in liquid form. Sodium sets on fire the instant in comes in contact with water and I doubt it was that hot in a glass beaker to be melted. Following that logic he had to be using salt water or some other ionic form.

[crazycat58]

If these monsters are weak to sodium in particular why didn't they just burst into flames in the ocean? The metal was obviously in solution when Eulabelle spilled it on the arm so it should do the job even in ionic form. I'd say that everyone could have just prevented this and carried sea water or, hell, even just a solution of salt water with them. -_-

[RichterTheEternal]

Uh...Why the hell did she drive to Fingal's Quarry alone and without a police escort?...Ah, yeah. That's right...Same reason why those air-headed girls earlier in the movie drove from a road and then into a middle of a forest...plot convenience.

[heartseed]

Interestingly enough it's the main female characters that do the most good in this movie. Eulabelle basically makes the discovery that sodium will kill the monsters, and makes that whiner Hank call the chemical suppliers. Elaine, despite being stuck as the DLI, finds the most obvious hiding place for the monsters, while the scientists just search watery places at random.

[TheGunboat]

Yea, I COULD call up the other people in the phone book for the sodium we need to kill the murderous fish-demons, but I'm too busy doing nothing...

[Kintoun2107]

OK. I officially think I've watched this one too many times. LOL.

At 0:20 the doctor is looking at a map of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, but then at 5:11 the "young" guy says he can be in Manhattan in an hour. Am I crazy or is that accurate?

Oh, and SODIUM!

[shandelear]

"Will there be a meat break sir?"

[Daelock]

Horror of Party Beach: The Adventures of Eulabelle

I'd watch it.

[livinintwilightzone]

I think there was an issue with the editing - say the montage should've come after the New Yorkers were killed - the sodium thing probably should've come a bit later...

[PikachuColoredPichu1]

Okay, so they found out sodium kills the monsters...WHY THE HELL HAVEN'T THEY USED IT ALREADY DURING THEIR ATTACKS?!

[hotpopcorncake]

I'm confused the monster come from the sea which have some salt, and you can kill them with sodium?

[ccjuju]

@hotpopcorncake Salt is Sodium Chloride, and very stable. Pure sodium reacts violently with water.

[Spameggssausage]

U Thant always get what you want

[TimelordR]

All this palaver about Sodium & Cesium, why is Potassium being discriminated against?

A bit of whimsy from a former Chemistry geek...

[pretorious700]

Now I know way more about sodium than I ever cared to...thanks MST3K geeks!!!

[Kinemacolour]

This is one of those movie that I almost like. I only wish Hank was gone.

[boiledcrap]

You gotta love these movies, cuz they aren't really movies, more like experiments before actual writing and acting came along.Of course nowadays we have movies that seem like movies, within movies: stuff you don't really pay attention to because its in the background.

[trapadoored]

@boiledcrap

nowadays movies are big hollow crap fests devoid of any heart or soul. At least movies like this can serve as quaint reminders of a simpler era. Movies today can only serve as loud overpriced garbage you have to worry about going to if your unfortunate enough to be "in a relationship" with someone.

[s1lverfalcon]

@trapadoored Ah, yes, the simpler days when black people in films were only subservient stereotypes, and female characters were really just a foil for the director to vent his sexual frustration.

...Wait, never mind. That could be any modern film.

[trapadoored]

@s1lverfalcon

No! a modern film would never feature a stereotype black person! We are living in the enlightened era of Big Mama's House my friend. And hip hop/rap culture luckily exists to further prevent white people from developing any preconceived notions regarding African American culture. 

[vlcupper]

@s1lverfalcon Definitely any Michael Bay "film."

[halfmanhalfmetal]

I love the conversation the detectives are having.

"Meat is good. I really like meat."

"Yeah, vegetables aren't so good, but meat is good."

[ChaoticYak]

It's the most obvious place, but we haven't yet checked it!

[ironychan]

Wait, how did he pass the Guggenheim museum BEFORE the Met?

[DAVIDInitiative]

You need to tinkle, Fingal?

How 'bout some Pringles, Fingal?

[SgtHydra]

Hey, I didn't order the low sodium diet version of this movie!

[amcint01]

0:31 - "That's where Tina was killed that first night"

Wait, you meant right in the middle of the day in plain view of a crowded beach, right?

[TitusYorick]

You know what might've made the monsters go away? Confuse-a-cat

[felson99]

Let's review, 1.Women have been brutally killed, including Hank's girlfriend.2. The professor has discovered sodium will kill said monsters. 3.Our intrepid hero, the wanna be scientist has to be shamed into calling ALL the chemical suppliers by Eulabelle the maid??

Well Hank, I can see your point, it's just too much bother over a bunch of murdered women. Heck, they should have made Eulabelle the star of the movie!!!!!!!!!

[Tareltonlives]

@felson99 Eulabelle is the most effective, sympathetic, and heroic character in the film

[felson99]

@Tareltonlives She is the only real actor in the very bad movie!

[CoryTE]

No sir, I never knew the monster that well, but I'll do what I can to help you.

[Orbulas]

8:05 Finnegan's Rainbow? By James Pynchon? Isn't that the most difficult to read novel in the english language?

[snipetracker]

2:13 Mike says "sure" like that dope in the Clonus Horror. What a chestnut!

[eviljoel]

Eulabelle is the only character in the entire movie who has even a slight bit of competence, and yet it's the white "scientists" who get the glory. Even if they don't even seem to care that much about the whole man-eating monster situation.

[ChaoticYak]

Those frosted lips are radioactive.

Dubbed-Girl's scientist father reminds me vaguely of Gene Hackman.

[spectreblofeld]

They missed the opportunity to point out the fact that the dude went to pick up as much sodium as he could - in a tiny two-seater sports car. 'They actually had twenty-six barrels of sodium, but he could only fit one in the passenger seat...'

[Dulcimerist]

I looked up "cesium in water" on YouTube, and it scared me! 

[pretorious700]

This movies' big mistake was not having one character you hoped WOULDN'T be killed, and quickly.

[MagicalTrumpy]

@pretorious700 Eulabelle!

[Tareltonlives]

I love the Sodium running gag.

Was that straight sodium or a saline substance that Eulabelle killed the hand with? If its the second, why not just throw salt at it?

[happycappy723]

I just realized the protagonist's name is Hank Green....... DFTBA?

[themightycelestial]

I've got a buncha of sodium that's just laying here doin' nuthin'.

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

Her frosted lips are radioactive!

S-O-D-I-U-M.

[ManaAdvent]

"Western Island.....Western Island."

"It's over here in the East, right?"

"This lake is pregnant!"

"Do they try throwing Campbell soup? That's got a lot of sodium in it."

"Is New York closed for the day?"

"Catch me some lightning bugs when I'm out there."

"Okay lake, you can disrobe and hop on the table now."

[OzzyFan87]

I gotta say, its weird watching Fingal create his own world around him.

[ChaoticYak]

Fingal's Quarry

Stingle's Pulley

Pringle's Folly

Stinkle's Pinkle

Ringo's Fiddle

Hinkle's Stinkwad

Gingle's Mud fiddle

Seward's Folly

Finnegan's Rainbow

Stud's Lonigan

[nut126]

Wait...so if Eulabelle hadn't suggested that he actually put in a modicum of effort--Hardware "complete asshole" Hank just wouldn't have called the last few?! What a jerk.

[tehredmage]

@nut126 But calling on the phone is so tiring!

[Rita3500]

SODIUM!

[CosmosFever]

That doctor guy sounds like every Speed Racer bad guy :P

[AuburnRed1]

What kills the monsters????!!!!

Now only two of you will actually meet McGruff.

Any comment tadpoles, on the current crisis

No sirr I never knew the monster that well, but I'll do what I can to help you.

I would be curious how Screaming Mad at Monsters gets rid of monsters. :D LOL

How many more will die if I do a little bit of sight seeing, four or five at most?

Is the Krycek reference X Files or chess?

[ChaoticYak]

SODIUM!

Try sodium!

Sodium?

Sodium?

It's your plot point!

The stuff that burnt the monster arm?

SOOOODIUM!

"And sodium will kill them."

There. Yes! All right!

[HystericalWoman]

If it weren't for Eulabelle nothing would happen. Damn lazy white people.

[trapadoored]

should we dopple ourselves into fingles quarry?

[Tex2Nova]

"Western Island... western island... it's over here in the east, right?"

[Servocaster]

Stinkles Pinkhole

[AL52Dragon]

I'm pretty sure sodium will NOT react with sodium chloride as the two elements have come together in the first place because they create a balance of electrons, making it neutral. It would not react further with sodium. Normally, the natural chlorine levels of sea water are extremely low (about 1.8%), so the sodium would not be nullified and could still react.

[tehredmage]

Technically, there is a small exothermic reaction. Not as violent as seen here but yeah, there is a slight reaction... still annoyed with the pseudo-sciencing though...

[moewron]

@tehredmage It seems to me that getting annoyed at pseudoscience would preclude one from liking most of the MST3K movies.

[tehredmage]

@moewron Well, yes and no. I like making fun of the movie writer's lack of knowledge in... pretty much anything, but this particular movie is so cock-full of pseudoscience failure I just can't digest it. (seriously, Carbon-14? For genetics?)

[moewron]

@tehredmage Fair enough!

[bLuDcLoT06]

"Gingle's MudFiddle"

hahhahah

[Evilkritter]

The sodium song is beautiful!

They know that there is nuclear waste being dumped right in front of their port town, and they are surprised that there are negative consequences?

[MattChrisF]

"Western Island, Western Island..."

"It's over here in the east, right?"

[LightDeoxys]

Okay, why the hell aren't they using sodium?

[johnnyo3535]

"Now only 2 of you will actually get to meet McGruff"

[tb8202]

ummmm sodium... isn't that just salt?

[MagicalTrumpy]

Well I think sodium in its pure form is a metal that will explode in water different than table salt which is sodium chloride

[JollyJollies22]

@MagicalTrumpy MagicalTrumpy, you know so much! <3

[rowsdowr2]

@MagicalTrumpy Yup. That's what I was thinking. I think potassium (and is there a third one?) that is in the same category.

[AL52Dragon]

@tb8202 Sodium (Na) and chlorine gas (Cl) combine to form salt (NaCl)

[Tareltonlives]

@tb8202 Salt is a chemical compound of Sodium and Chlorine, NaCl

[JamesOhGoodie]

SOOODIUUUUUM!

[EnvoyTactic]

sodium mfs

[MrAmericanpatriot18]

so... monsters from the ocean are violently allergic to sodium, the ocean being made up of SALT WATER... that makes sense... lol

[NUTCASE71733]

Basic chemestry; Sodium alone will react to water. If sodium combines with chlorine, it becomes salt, and will lose it's volitile properties when in contact with water, thus makin git safe for us and other animals to ingest it safely.

[GusF]

Eulabelle has more sense than everyone else in this movie put together.

[BeeDub57]

"Do you know where they dump?"

"There's a loo on the ship, I imagine..."

[Capng123]

What is Crow singing at 09:23?

It's brain-gratingly familiar, yet I can't place it...

[ktiscaffeinated]

to me it sounds like the beginning of "mrs robinson" by simon and garfunkel.

[UnitLost78]

Yes - it's Mrs. Robinson. Towards the end of the "Graduate" there are several scenes that are just of Dustin Hoffman driving and they are playing the song over and over. Very reminiscent of that.

[HorusNikopol]

floating pig!

...

...what?

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

S-O-D-I-U-M.

The most obvious place but we haven't yet checked it!

[MisterRiffley]

only two of you will actually MEET MaGruff.

[johnnyo3535]

"Did you try throwing Campbell's soup? that's got alot of sodium."

[Jangobadass]

Fingle's Quarry

Named hero of "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"!

[kreugerpranka]

thats not till a later episode though

[Damaris1034]

Man, they REALLY wanted you to know that Hank was in NY.

[GrixieKong]

It's a little like "Girl in Gold Boots"

All right, keep it coming, movie. I'm STILL not convinced they're in LA yet!

[Oppledeldoc]

"That's where Tina was killed that first night."

As opposed where she was killed on other nights? Did she go on some getting killed TOUR of the area?

[araminta107]

"Ok lake, you can disrobe and hop up on the table now"

"Bigfoot... big purse!"

"Those frosted lips are radioactive!"

[Herr12]

This movie needs more SODIUM!

[ScaryCareBear]

S-O-D-I-U-M

'Sodium enters the movie' xD

[butchdeadlift10]

DO they think sodium is rare?

[skyemcleod1]

LOL: Re-sus-a-Annie drives to her next demonstration.

[alexiaNBC]

Another issue, weren't those creatures previously in SALTWATER, which is made of SODIUM? So shouldn't these guys have died the minute they were created?

Sorry, but even I must agree with the Chem major that the use of sodium alone in this movie is ridiculous.

[Tareltonlives]

Well, not quite, since the compound of NaCl nullifies Sodium's reactivity.

It's still stupid

[ReeperTheSeeker]

and they could have used any alkali metals! why the hell was sodium the only one thought of (although it is the most well known) why not caesium, fight radioactive monster with radioactive metal.

This movie missed out on being poetic.

my apologies, i really should just relax, but caesium is an awesome metal and should get some screen time. youtube it, the explosions it makes will cause any water based monster to shit their flippers.

[grausammesser]

not to completely defend the movie, but the raw sodium would have to be kept in oil in order to prevent it from reacting with the water vapor in the air. Of course, this is assuming that when it was tipped allt he oil got out of the way immediately.

caesium does get ragged on a lot. they just ahve to give it a chance and im sure it'll live up to their expectations.

And why stop there what about francium?

also ChemE major here. How are those exact numbers over in pure chem? Yes, thats envy

[MagicalTrumpy]

all i know is that the pure sodium blows up up in water and that's cool. I'm sure someone already pointed that out.

[DrWhiggs]

@grausammesser Settle down, dude, take a meat break.

[Nickzilla22]

lol... truer words never spoken...

FOR CAESIUM!!!!!!!

[ReeperTheSeeker]

this movie is pissing me off now. First, the sodium the maid spilled was in a compound implying that the sodium does not need to be in it's raw state to kill the monsters, so it would be easier to find, like, SALT. Second, even if they did need the raw metal sodium, if they made public this knowledge i'm sure plenty of universities and factories would help out with all the MURDERS that happened.

sorry, i am a chem major so it's only natural for me to explode like a monster hand.

[nschleh]

Why don't they just use sodium to kill the monsters?! Why can't they just go grab some salt? That's sodium! Or, more specifically, sodium chloride. Why did it take so long to get to the point that you could just call somebody up to get sodium?

[USSJaneway]

SODIUM!!!!!

[SAGEBOT500]

0:22

Aw hell naw! These mooks are supposed to be from Massachusetts? Now I'm really upset.

Also, SOOOOODIUM

[RusselBertrand]

lula bell...BUT MISS SCARLET I DON"T KNOW NOTHIN BOUT BIRTHIN BABIES

[StoneColdSergio]

The moral of this movie:

SSSSSSSOOOOOOOODDDDDEEEEEUMMMM­MM.

[johnnyo3535]

Now only 2 of you will actually get to meet McGruff.

[livinintwilightzone]

"Western Island..."

"It's over here in the east, isn't it?!"

[mishkin13]

So I was just thinking... If sodium is what kills the monsters. And they live in the ocean. And the ocean contains tons of sodium chloride. Wouldn't they just melt as soon as they were formed? Gotta love old-fashioned 1960's radiation, they just don't make it like they used too.

[soulhunger1]

No. NaCl is just salt, it doesn't react with water. Sodium the metal does. The guy said that the reason the sodium worked was because it reacted with the water in the monsters, implying that he was talking about the metal sodium, which doesn't occur naturally on Earth (it has to be removed from molecules containing sodium by using various processes).

But yeah, the "science" so far has been pretty pathetic either way.

[mishkin13]

Ah, I see. Thanks. Chemistry was never my strongest subject. Makes sense though, I figured that would be a pretty glaring plot hole for even such a cheesy movie as this. Great MST3K episode though =)

[livinintwilightzone]

LOL! I was just thinking that same exact thing about the ocean. Hey hey wait a minute...maybe that's why they avoid the word SALT?

[StoneColdSergio]

Sodium. Sodium.

It's your plot point, sodium

SODEEEUMM

S-O-D-I-U-M.

[Adamguy2003]

I loved that part!

[durane42]

I love Mike's Clonus reference at 2:16. "SURE!"

[Dragmack]

ringo's fiddle.

[durane42]

I was expected a "Fingal's Dopple" joke. That's what I get for watching the episodes out of order, I guess.

[GrixieKong]

I didn't want to Bingle or Bobble the Fingal Dopple.

You make me Tingle, Fingal. Fingal, are you single? Give me a jingle!

[MagicalTrumpy]

wants some pringles fingal?

[knightclawer]

"Try Sodium!!!!" LOL

[thedaemonforever]

Nothing says "strong male lead character" than a guy who whines to the maid about nearly giving up on his search for the "ace in the hole" (ie. Sodium. LOL) to stop the antagonists that are KILLING PEOPLE as he speaks. And he get additional minus points for ASKING POLITELY to this chemical company, instead of demanding during this crisis.

[Cheshirecat55]

"Hey, this is YOUR plot point."

[fkovacs1]

" Will there be a meat break, sir?"

"She's wearing her Eddie Bauer rugged hiking skirt-fully lined."

[chinesecommunist]

"I have here a list of meats I'd like to read"

"And meat recipies"

[HayesAJones]

"It's over here in the east, right?"

"This lake is pregnant."

"Uh, any comments, tadpoles, on the current crisis?"

"Dead."

[toughpunkchic1625]

Sodium!!!