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The Movie[]
- Main article: Gamera vs Zigra (film)
Synopsis[]
The giant turtle Gamera battles the shark-like creature Zigra.
The Episode[]
Host Segments[]
Prologue: Joel and the Bots throw a root beer kegger. Magic Voice gets drunk.
Segment One (Invention Exchange): Mads: The Three Stooges Guns, offensive and defensive; Joel and the Bots: Crow T. Shish-ka-bob.
Segment Two: The Bots show Joel their dimensional model that explains how Gamera works.
Segment Three: Shoebox dioramas depicting the Gamera movies.
Segment Four: Kenny and Helen, the children from the movie, visit the SOL. They're feeling really good!
Segment Five: Variations of the Gamera theme song, culminating in Dr. F destroying the control panel with his guitar.
Stinger: Fish Argument Theater comes to a climax.
MST3K Cast[]
Regular Cast
- Joel Hodgson - Joel Robinson
- Trace Beaulieu - Crow T. Robot / Dr. Clayton Forrester
- Kevin Murphy - Tom Servo
- Frank Conniff - TV's Frank
- Jim Mallon - Gypsy
- Alexandra Carr - Magic Voice
Guest Cast
- Kenny: Michael J. Nelson
- Helen: Bridget Jones
- Roadies: Jef Maynard and Kevin Murphy
Trivia[]
- Bridget Jones' first appearance on the show
- Tom again does an impression of Dr. Laurence Erhardt saying "Enjoy!"
- This episode aired thirteenth during Turkey Day '94.
- Frank first uses the moniker of TV's Frank in this episode.
Callbacks[]
- Tom sings the Wild Rebels song.
- "McCloud!" (Pod People)
Goofs[]
- Joel refers to this as "the last Gamera movie." However, in actuality, the last Gamera movie is 2006's Gamera the Brave, with the last Shōwa era Gamera movie being 1980's Gamera: Super Monster, which was not shown during the series' run.
Obscure References[]
- "He directed 'The Return of the Secaucus Seven Samurai'!"
- Return of the Secaucus 7 was a 1980 film about a group of aging former '60s radicals, directed by John Sayles. The Seven Samurai was a 1954 classic film by Akira Kurosawa.
- "Meanwhile, at Dollyworld(sic)!"
- Dollywood is a theme park in eastern Tennessee owned by Dolly Parton.
- "All the Canadian seals are on steroids."
- A combination of two different doping incidents from the Olympic Games. During the 1970s and 1980s, members of the East German women's swimming team were subjected to a regimen of anabolic steroids. Though accusations of doping were made at the time, hard evidence didn't surface until after the Berlin Wall fell. At the 1988 Olympics, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal in the 100 meters after he tested positive for stanozolol.
- "It's..."
- When the children come across the old man on the beach, Tom Servo makes a reference to Monty Python's Flying Circus - specifically the decrepit man, played by Michael Palin, who usually opened the show with the single word "It's".
- "Hey, it's Hot L Tokyo!"
- Hot L Baltimore was an off-Broadway play that inspired a short-lived sitcom in 1975.
- "Lorelei, let's live together!"
- "These Clare Prophet seminars are all the same!"
- Elizabeth Clare Prophet is the leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious movement that has been widely denounced as a cult.
- "Squirtin' a little KC Masterpiece on there!"
- KC Masterpiece is a brand of barbecue sauce.
- "Sisyphus, I presume?"
- Said as Gamera holds up a rock to shield himself from Zigra's lasers. Sisyphus was a man in Greek mythology who repeatedly tricked the gods, and after he died was condemned to spend eternity trying to push a boulder up a mountain.
- "Hell is for children!"
- A reference to the Pat Benatar song "Hell is for Children".
- "On the bottom of the ocean!"
- A reference to the Talking Heads song "Once in a Lifetime".
Video Releases[]
- Commercially released on DVD by Shout! Factory in August 2011 as part of Volume XXI, a 5-disc set along with Gamera, Gamera vs Barugon, Gamera vs Gaos, and Gamera vs Guiron. The set went out of print in 2015.
- The DVD includes a theatrical trailer.
preceded by: Season 2 | MST3K Season 3 | followed by: Season 4 | ||||||
1991 - 1992 | ||||||||
301 | Cave Dwellers | 1991-06-01 | 309 | The Amazing Colossal Man | 1991-08-03 | 317 | The Saga of the Viking Women... | 1991-10-26 |
302 | Gamera | 1991-06-08 | 310 | Fugitive Alien | 1991-08-17 | 318 | Star Force: Fugitive Alien II | 1991-11-16 |
303 | Pod People | 1991-06-15 | 311 | It Conquered the World | 1991-08-24 | 319 | War of the Colossal Beast | 1991-11-30 |
304 | Gamera vs Barugon | 1991-06-22 | 312 | Gamera vs Guiron | 1991-09-07 | 320 | The Unearthly | 1991-12-14 |
305 | Stranded in Space | 1991-06-29 | 313 | Earth vs the Spider | 1991-09-14 | 321 | Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | 1991-12-21 |
306 | Time of the Apes | 1991-07-13 | 314 | Mighty Jack | 1991-09-21 | 322 | Master Ninja I | 1992-01-11 |
307 | Daddy-O | 1991-07-20 | 315 | Teenage Cave Man | 1991-11-09 | 323 | The Castle of Fu Manchu | 1992-01-18 |
308 | Gamera vs Gaos | 1991-07-27 | 316 | Gamera vs Zigra | 1991-10-19 | 324 | Master Ninja II | 1992-01-25 |