Bayou Broadcast: Bettie & Dale Watch The Fly (1958)

 ðŸŽ™️ Bayou Broadcast: Bettie & Dale Watch The Fly (1958) Filed from Dale's bunker, where the Abnormal Brain Jar glows green beside the popcorn bowl and transformation is always on the menu.

🧠 Your Hosts

  • Dale T. Doll: Horror's vinyl prophet, now sporting protective goggles and a flyswatter blessed by three priests.

  • Pretty Bayou Bettie: Southern Gothic comfort incarnate, with a basket of beignets and a bug zapper shaped like a cathedral.

🪰 Scene: The Bunker, Saturday Night with Svengoolie 

 BETTIE (unpacking snacks): "Dale, honey, I brought sugar-dusted wings—I mean beignets. And some holy water. Just in case." 

DALE (adjusting the brain jar's glow): "Tonight's specimen: Vincent Price dissolving into dipteran madness. Science without soul always ends in the web."

🔬 Movie Begins Andre Delambre's atoms scramble with a housefly's, leaving him with compound eyes and a hunger for sugar cubes. His wife must choose between love and the hydraulic press.

DALE: "See how the white-headed fly mirrors our scientist? Identity scattered across species. This is what happens when you play molecular roulette." 

BETTIE (during Svengoolie's rubber chicken break): "That tiny voice crying 'Help me!' from the web? That's every woman who's ever dated a workaholic. Trust me, sugar."

🕸️ The Fallout 

 DALE: "Price turns tragedy into poetry. The Fly reminds us that progress is just another word for 'things about to go sideways.'" 

BETTIE: "And always check the teleportation pod for bugs, darlings. I give it four compound eyes and a moment of silence for poor Helene."

📻 Next Week's Broadcast Dale and Bettie descend into whatever horror Svengoolie serves up—their brain jar collection growing, their commentary sharpening.



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