Monsanto House of the Future Modernistic house on display in Tomorrowland at Disneyland from June 12, 1957, until December 1967. Built of plastics, the four-winged, cantilevered house featured the latest in furniture and appliances, along with intercoms and other gadgets that were uncommon in the homes of the time. By 1967, the future had caught …
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Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor Attraction in Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, which opened on April 2, 2007. Mike Wazowski, who has opened a comedy club, collects laughs that will generate electricity for the monster world of Monstropolis.
See moreMonster Sound Show Attraction opened at Disney-MGM Studios on May 1, 1989. Four audience members are selected to act as Foley artists and add eerie sounds to a creepy comedy film starring Martin Short as a deranged butler who tries to do in insurance salesman Chevy Chase. In the postshow area called Soundworks, guests can …
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Monsters, Inc. (film) Monsters, Incorporated is the largest scare factory in the monster world, and James P. (Sulley) Sullivan is one of its top Scarers. Sullivan is a huge, intimidating monster with blue fur, large purple spots, and horns. His Scare Assistant, best friend, and roommate is Mike Wazowski, a green, opinionated, feisty, little one-eyed …
See moreMonkeys Monkeys, primarily chimpanzees, were popular for a number of years in Disney features, including The Barefoot Executive; The Misadventures of Merlin Jones; The Monkey’s Uncle; Monkeys, Go Home!; Moon Pilot; Swiss Family Robinson; ; and Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
See moreMonkeys, Go Home! (film) A young American, Hank Dussard, inherits a large olive farm in Provence, France. Labor is too costly to harvest the olives, so Hank trains four chimpanzees to do the job, and thus incurs the wrath of the villagers. Eventually, the American foils a local labor leader, wins the girl he loves, …
See moreMonsanto Hall of Chemistry Display in Tomorrowland at Disneyland from July 17, 1955, until September 19, 1966.
See moreMonkey’s Uncle, The (film) Young Merlin Jones, the legal uncle of his chimpanzee Stanley, devises a “sleep learning” machine to sharpen his “nephew’s” intellect. When Midvale College footballers Norm and Leon are in danger of being scrubbed from the team due to poor grades, Merlin produces his sleep learning machine and the two muscle-bound students …
See moreMonk (television) One-hour television series about a brilliant but obsessive-compulsive private detective premiering as a two-hour movie on USA Network on July 12, 2002. In an unusual move, it was then picked up by ABC for airing on the network after its cable airing (the first 13 episodes), beginning August 13, 2002. Due to the …
See moreMoney for Nothing (film) When an unemployed longshoreman, Joey Coyle, finds a bag containing $1.2 million in unmarked, untraceable currency that has fallen off an armored truck, he attempts to keep it, only to find that the cash brings myriad unwanted problems. When a dedicated detective, Pat Laurenzi, begins to close in, Joey and his …
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