Don't ever steal a blind man's seeing-eye dog, it will really piss him off. Obituaries are the backbone of newspaper circulation. Everyone working in a newspaper office has a nickname. PG rated movie cameramen should watch those dipping camera shots in shower scenes. Killing a cockroach violates the 6th commandment.
Nerdy women change their appearance when the right man comes along.
If you want to lure a closet monster into the open, play it's death shriek on a xylophone. The United States Army can't aim worth a damn. A town can be evacuated due to closet monsters with no resistance whatsoever. The end of the world is no big deal. Working together, a biology professor and a reporter can construct a broadcast system and electricity field.