Line #16 Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E04GameraVsBarugon


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2	[[caption-width-right:313:Hey, it looks like a kid wrote this with a crayon.]]
3	Film watched: ''Film/GameraVsBarugon''
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5	This is one of the nine Sandy Frank Japanese films originally used for a KTMA episode that was riffed again a few years later on Creator/ComedyCentral.
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7	The Creator/ComedyCentral episode is available in the Gizmoplex [[https://www.gizmoplex.com/mst3k/season:3/videos/mst3k-051-gamera-vs-barugon here]].
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9	!!The Comedy Central Segments:
10	[[AC:Prologue]]
11	* Crow and Servo engage in that timeless debate: [[MediaNotes/ComputerWars IBM or Macintosh?]] Joel stirs things up by stating he prefers the Amiga.
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13	[[AC:Segment 1/Invention Exchange]]
14	* To promote Earth-friendly practices, Joel invents an audio-animatronic soda can which reminds you to recycle it. The Mads have the Disco-Cumber-Bubble-Bund; just put your knees together and ''squeeze''.
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16	[[AC:Segment 2]]
17	* The SOL crew airs a commercial for the 5,000-Piece "Fighting Men and Monster Set". Miniature Tokyo included. Tom is ''incredibly'' excited to describe it.
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19	[[AC:Segment 3]]
20	* The 'Bots, dressed as Kaiju, visit T.G.I. Tokyo's, a restaraunt where the desserts are shaped like buildings. Sadly, they don't offer separate checks.
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22	[[AC:Segment 4]]
23	* It's beach day on the SOL, and Joel discusses the ''Gamera'' films' stars. His examples are less than convincing as he vapor-locks again.
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25	[[AC:Segment 5]]
26	* Gamera actually had a hand in producing this film and other forms of media, explaining his [[DemotedToExtra minimal presence in front of the camera]], as Joel reveals in the book ''You'll Never Eat this Town for Lunch Again''. A 12-year-old fan writes a letter. Frank bought Dr. Forrester a copy of ''Literature/TheStand'', uncut, for his trip to the beach.
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28	!!The Comedy Central version of ''Film/GameraVsBarugon'' provides examples of:
29	* AccidentalMisnaming: Joel and the bots mishear "Kawajiri" as "WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry", because of the way it's pronounced in the English dub.
30	* CallBack: The Mads' Disco Bubble Cummerbund is the exact same as Joel's Bubble Cummerbund from back in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E07RobotMonster Robot Monster]]''. Joel doesn't protest this time around about their stealing one of his inventions, though he does note that it seems rather familiar.
31	** Joel imitates ''Series/ReadingRainbow'' host Creator/LeVarBurton while using an air filter for a [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration VISOR]]. Frank did the same thing in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E12GodzillaVsMegalon Godzilla vs. Megalon]]''.
32	* CelebrityResemblance: Joel goes insane and starts listing about a dozen of these. Gamera's resemblance to Karl Malden (especially his nose) is a RunningGag throughout all the Gamera episodes.
33	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When the missiles... er... ''rise'' from their launchers.
34	-->'''Tom Servo''': "''Good'' morning!"
35	* {{Doorstopper}}: ''Literature/TheStand'', specifically the "new uncut" edition that Frank picked up for Dr. Forrester's trip to the beach. It's thicker than Frank's head, and causes Dr. F to fall over when Frank gives it to him.
36	** Doubles as a TakeThat given that the "The Complete and Uncut Edition" was released the year prior and commercials for The Stephen King Library with that edition front and center would run during the show. [[https://youtu.be/-y92HmRY-bA?t=3125 Even during that episode's premiere.]]
37	* IKnowKungFu: Joel and the bots assume this about the Japanese people and act disappointed when the fight between Keisuke and Onodera is just a regular brawl.
38	** This also invokes the AllAsiansKnowMartialArts stereotype.
39	* LamePunReaction: It becomes a RunningGag while the cast watches helplessly as Barugon eats up the antagonist with his tongue.
40	-->'''Crow''': Well, that's it. We're licked.
41	-->(''Servo chuckles as Joel casually rips off Crow's arm again'')
42	-->'''Crow''': Sorry, SORRY!
43	-->(''Joel tosses the arm away'')
44	-->'''Servo''': That's what you get.
45	* MotorMouth: Tom in the first break from the movie provides an advertisement for a Gamera toy set and its disclaimer at a speed John Moschitta would be impressed with. The problem, though, is that poor Tom goes so fast he can't stop himself and is reduced to babbling 'Mommy! Mmmommy!'.
46	* RunningGagged: In this episode, Joel makes Crow stop using his recurring ''Sea Hunt'' riff ("By this time, my lungs were aching for air.") under threat of physical punishment.
47	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: During the last host segment when explaining why Gamera wasn't featured so much in the film, Joel presents some "behind-the-scenes books" explaining why, a few of them misspells Barugon's name as Bar'''a'''gon, a name which belongs to an entirely different [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baragon monster from another studio]].
48	* TakeThat: When Keisuke considers Barugon a punishment for his greed, Servo remarks: "So what's gonna happen to Creator/DonaldTrump?"
49	* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] Some of us still love our [[Platform/{{Amiga}} Commodore Amigas]].
50	* TotallyRadical: Forrester calls Frank and his bubble machine the future of ''HipHop''.
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53	!!The KTMA version of ''Film/GameraVsBarugon'' provides examples of:
54	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In addition to all of the other weirdness of the KTMA season, this particular episode sees Servo enter the theater on his own power, instead of having Joel carry him.
55	* SequelFirst: [[invoked]] This, the second Gamera movie, was the first one to be riffed by Joel n' the bots.
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57	->''[[TheStinger [Kawajiri crying over the "opal"]]]''

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