I had the weirdest dream ever last night. I dreamed I was watching a 'B' movie. You know, one of those horror/sci-fi flicks with an evil/mad scientist and all. In black and white. And I knew how it had to end halfway through.
See, there was this mad scientist. He created these intelligent little critters, which were supposed to look like humans, but instead looked like puppets. And given the movie, they probably were. These things were somehow vegetable-based. By which I mean that they belonged to the vegetable kingdom, and not the animal kingdom. However, they had one flaw. They needed some nutrient or something which was only present in human beings. Can you see where this is going yet?
Of course, the vege-people know this innately, but the scientist doesn't find out until it's too late. And then he promptly gets his life slurped out of him. Meanwhile, next door...
*insert ominous music here*
There were a bunch of people busily preparing for a Rube Goldberg contest. Which was going to be judged by Rube Goldberg himself, no less. Strangely enough, there were no signs of wacky inventions, but there were lots of people running around in various garden-like localities, getting slurped by the evil vege-people. Of course, this is where I realize: "They can't all die, someone has to escape and tell the army so they can drop a nuke on the town."
Which of course happens. One lucky girl escapes, is picked up by a dogsled team, and is taken up north over the border to some town on the Canadian west coast. I have distinct images of a map showing sled tracks from somewhere in northern Idaho to this aforementioned Canadian town.
The next scene is of the Mounties trying to convince the US government that America is in dire straits, and they need to drop a nuke on the little town which the vege-people are currently rampaging through. Shift to Some Place in Washington D.C., with everyone being extremely skeptical, and one man who happens to come from the little Idahoan town calling home to see what's up. Apparently they have videophones, because next we see a picture (apparently from Idaho) of a very large plant sprouting up and taking over the Earth with a voice in the background saying something about overthrowing Democracy. Because that is what all vege-people long to do. The Very Important People are immediately convinced there is trouble afoot.
The last scene I remember is of the helicopter carrying the nuke to Idaho.
No, I don't know why it was a helicopter.
And then I woke up.