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That's Amazing: Monster

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The setup

On the outback pop-science show That's Amazing, Carl Hooper's guest swears he met a terrifying monster, though the details keep vanishing.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Presenter Carl Hooper opens That's Amazing by promising a man who came face to face with a monster, then can't resist a cheap joke about the guest's wife and a fumbled line about his name. Dick Wellington solemnly explains that he lives on sacred, possibly haunted land and that, walking home from the pub one night, he met a half-spirit, half-snake, half-man bird. Under questioning the creature unravels: it was invisible, its fangs and claws were a guess, it made a terrifying silence and it left no footprint because it hovered. An exasperated Carl orders him off the show, but Dick keeps protesting, waving a photograph in which nothing can be seen and insisting the creatures are out there as he is chased out.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

So you saw and heard an invisible and silent monster?

No imprint. It was hovering.

I've taken a picture. It's really spooky.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

That's Amazing spoofed Australian pop-science magazine shows such as The Curiosity Show, with Simon Day's Carl Hooper as its presenter (Wikipedia: The Fast Show).

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