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What I learned from C.H.U.D.....


These are always fun to do.

If you want to appear tough, eat someones quarter.

Always keep a vintage samurai sword laying around your apartment.

When your daughter is tugging on your shirt, you better see why.

Always bring a flame thrower.

If pushed for an excuse, give an acronym that stands for a monster, not for the toxic goo you left laying around.

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The NYPD tend to leave their doors unlocked with keys in the ignition.


"I've been living on toxic waste for years, and I'm fine. Just ask my other heads!"

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We don't have to listen to the lunatic ravings of this paranoid hippie.



"I'm a werewolf and I have an appetite for vampire!" - Theodore, Tales From The Crypt Season 2

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If a wheel of your car gets stuck in a manhole, your car will EXPLODE.

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Cops can recognize each others wives, even from their severed three-days-in-the-river, bloated, mangled heads.

Exposure to toxic waste can, in just two short weeks, make your eyes glow, meld your fingers into talons, give you an extendable neck, make you flameproof, bulletproof, (alas, not gasproof,) and very partial to human flesh. (Apparently, judging by the hundreds of similar films we have seen, this REALLY is true...)

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To be fair, the chuds aren't really bulletproof, they've just got much stronger constitutions. The halfway-CHUDified homeless guy took two slugs and died. I think they probably have a lot of anatomical redundancy, back-up vitals and such.

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Flashlights are optional in sewers and tunnels; there's plenty of ambient light.

CHUDs are able to sense the most dramatically appropriate people to eat. Even if there are better, easier targets closer to ground level, a CHUD will still go after the protagonist's girlfriend even if it has to get through the barricaded door of an upstairs apartment.

"Tailing" someone means running along right behind him.

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"Some places have already quit lotteries." "Nothing but trouble in that."

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Maybe it's because the CHUD caught her scent from when she was messing around in the basement, or the people below had much sturdier apartment doors? For all we know, it did take out the other apartment members as quickly and quietly as it dispatched the policeman.

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Not to mention: who is to say that the CHUD who attacked Kim Griest (John Heard's girlfriend) hadn't already eaten both cops AND the mom and her kid?

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Roaming predators that live below-ground will often store smaller kills by hanging them from a ceiling fixutre in a basement, rather than stashing them in their lair, or eating them and abandoning what's left over.

I learned that people are highly incredulous and doubtful when a captain of police in new york mentions that murders have been occuring.

I learned that a policeman will be highly amused by the story of an obviously traumatized, wandering and abondoned six-year-old girl who is frozen by a state of shock.

I learned that a frightened amature model with a decorational sword can slay monsters that large groups of armed policemen are helpless against.

I learned that if a subterranean monster with huge ears and glowing eyes gets into your house, you should turn off the lights, because that will make it easy for you to hide and not be detected.

I learned that if there are 9 sewer manholes in an area, only 2 of them will go anywhere.

I learned that pumping the sewer full of gas after sealing off two manholes will take care of all dangers, all possibility of exits, and kill all CHUD present immediately, even if it's been established that they can get out in many other places.

I learned that there is no legal difficulty involved in filling a sewer of the busiest city in america with explosive toxic gas and shutting down one of the busiest subway systems in the nation.

I learned that life is hard for people named Derek.

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LOL, these are hilarious xD xD LOL!!

"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.

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Daniel Stern really cares about the homeless, so much in fact that he too refuses to bath or shower to make them feel good about themselves.

"That fart was so deadly Jack Bauer should have been called to stop it!" -Me

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Apparently flames from an exploding car which is standing over a manhole which comes from a sewer filled to the brim with gas does not have any further consequences. (i would have expected that all the manholes in the nearby area would have flames shooting out of it, especially since most gasses expand when they ignite)

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LOL!!

"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit me!"- Hudson in Aliens.

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-Careful, sticking a wire hanger in a shower drain can make it shoot out BLOOD!

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I'm your average ordinary everyday, jorgeegeetooo!

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It's important to bring classified documents to a meeting where you're trying to deny everything written in the documents.

If some monster bites a hole in your leg the size of a soccer ball, just put a blanket over it and you'll be fine for at least a week.

John Goodman is in every movie ever made.

Monsters won't go after people on the ground floors of apartment buildings. They like to go up to about the 5th floor.

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I've learned that in certain parts of Manhattan, which is part of the city that never sleeps; there are quiet streets at night so you can get taking.

My job is to inform, not persuade- Dan Rather

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I learned if you want to intimidate somebody swallow a quarter.

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You can eat a quarter if you want but the guy in the film ate a dime. That was the price of a pay phone call in the early 80's.

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I hear that when planning the upcoming remake, producers wisely realized that most kids these days have never seen a pay phone. Thus, the scene is altered when the tough guy takes Shepherd's iPhone and swallows it whole, NOM NOM NOM.

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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.

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