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2	* MemeticMutation: "It's as big as a battleship!" "A bird as big as a battleship!"
3	* {{Narm}}: ''Boy howdy''. As noted in the header, Morrow later recalled how he snuck out of a screening humiliated after people burst into laughter when the monster appeared. He went home right away and [[INeedAFreakingDrink began to drink]].
4	** The fact that the bird is ''only ever'' described as being as big "as a battleship"/"a flying battleship".
5	* NightmareRetardant: The Giant Claw itself is about as scary as a half-eaten chicken leg. Just ''look'' at it.
6	* SoBadItsGood: There's some entertaining value to be found in all the SpecialEffectFailure.
7	* SpecialEffectsFailure:
8	** Apparently at one point Creator/RayHarryhausen was going to do the creature effects, but to save money a small shop in Mexico was contracted instead. Hence the laughably bad creature design and puppet.
9	** On a more mundane note, [[MonumentalView the matte painting of the US Capitol building through the general's office window is at a size and angle that implies that the general works in the statue of Grant on the National Mall]].
10	* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: The bird puppet was only added in post-production, so none of the actors actually knew it would end up looking so ridiculously goofy. Because of this, all of them treat the Giant Claw like it's a horrific monstrosity with a NightmareFace and not the reject muppet it really is.
11	* ValuesDissonance: The male lead spends much of the movie being casually dismissive towards the female lead, an adult scientist who is treated like a child by pretty much everyone. And guess what? She's also his love interest!
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