Calling the SyFy Channel, Part 1,359…

Updated on March 31, 2010 By Ken Begg 6 Comments

Seriously, these things write themselves.*

*Which is readily apparent if you’ve watched some of them.

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  • BeckoningChasm

    They actually had real footage of these guys on the “Planet Earth” BBC series.

  • I’ve seen 14 inch isopods from the ocean floor before, but 2.5 feet is impressive. I look forward to the news that the 2.5 footer is a hatchling, which would of course make the adults hundreds of feet long.

    Unfortunately, as obligate scavengers, when the super-isopod rises from the deep off the California coast, it will immediately make its way to the nearest landfill to dig up all the garbage. Maybe it will crawl through Sausalito on the way there or something. We can but hope.

  • BeckoningChasm

    If the giant isopods eat garbage, SyFy better put their original movies in a concrete bunker or something.

  • Marsden

    Wow, I need a 20 quart Lobster pot and a stick of butter, stat!

  • The Rev. D.D.

    Since it’s Siffy, I’m sure they’d make them embiggened by toxic waste or something, and it would also conveniently make them voracious carnivores. Their bigger size means their metabolic system needs more fuel than scavenging can provide, and thus they rise from the depths to feed….ON US.

  • Marsden

    I was reading a little, they actually voracious omnivores, so that isn’t too much of a strech as long as it’s underwater, there’s a video around showing a bunch of them gobble up a whale carcass. Maybe the our environmental irresponsibility would give them amphibious abilities, so they can stalk the streets. Maybe something to do with Mercury, yeah, that’s it.
    I can just see it, a suburban housewife opens the cupboard to get the kids’ cereal in the morning and a 3 foot long pillbug is in there and it eats her.