Monsters are at large! Or at least money-grubbing vultures are, ready to pounce on the burgeoning cable television boom, as highlighted below in this fairly groovy smear ad hatched by theater owners back in 1971.
Alas, cable television did rise and take over, and some would argue it indeed abominable. But as time rolls on, and everything's ultimately eventual, so too will be the demise of cable.