Line #8 Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E16GameraVsZigra


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2	[[caption-width-right:319:It does sound like the Munsters song.]]
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4	->''"We all love you, Gaaameraaaaaaaa!"''
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6	Film watched: ''Film/GameraVsZigra''
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8	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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10	The latter episode is available in the Gizmoplex [[https://www.gizmoplex.com/mst3k/season:3/videos/mst3k-063-gameravszigra here]].
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12	!!The KTMA version of ''Film/GameraVsZigra'' provides examples of:
13	* CastingGag: Servo mocks the way one character laughs by comparing it to Dr. Erhardt's laugh. Erhardt and Servo were both played by Josh Weinstein.
14	* ContinuityNod: Crow has finally thawed out from the previous episodes where he was frozen to be the SOL's Christmas tree.
15	* ForeignRemake: Joked about, with mentions of the Soviets sending their own man into space to make him watch terrible movies.
16	* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Dr. Forrester and Dr. Erhardt could be seen during the show's opening theme song and occasionally as a still within the show, but they did not appear in person within the show itself until this episode [[AvertedTrope averted]] this.
17	* RunningGag: Whenever Joel or Crow compares Zigra's ship to a gumball machine, Servo will immediately try to throw in something to make the comparison seem like a good thing.
18	* StockFootage: ''Very Incredible Movie Theater 4'' is actually footage from J Elvis' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5oDf9rq5ZY&t=19m23s standup]] that was aired on the same night, but here as a {{Ruritania}}n comic.
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22	!!The Comedy Central Segments:
23	[[AC:Prologue]]
24	* Joel and the 'Bots are having a racucous party, with Joel even converting Tom into a root beer kegger.
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26	[[AC:Segment 1/Invention Exchange]]
27	* The Mads present [[Film/TheThreeStooges Three Stooges]] Guns to help recreate choreography from their films. For the party, Joel has turned Crow into rows of shish kebabs. It's also revealed that the crew are partying because this experiment is their last Gamera film, with Frank having spoiled Dr. Forrester's little surprise.
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29	[[AC:Segment 2]]
30	* Joel wants to know how Gamera works, so Crow and Servo created a helpful interactive and labelled model. Just don't ask what's behind the door inside him.
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32	[[AC:Segment 3]]
33	* Joel had the 'Bots create dioramas of their favorite ''Gamera'' moments. Tom created Baragon, Crow made Gaos, Gypsy's is incredibly abstract, and Joel himself modeled him and the 'Bots as a big loving family. Awww.
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35	[[AC:Segment 4]]
36	* Gamera has flown up to the SOL, and Kenny and Helen are riding on his back. A very awkward (and poorly dubbed) conversation follows.
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38	[[AC:Segment 5]]
39	* Each member of the crew performs their own take on the Gamera Song, with Joel doing reggae, Tom doing jazz, Crow doing hip-hop, and Gypsy doing opera before coming together as a barbershop quartet. Deep 13 follows suit by performing a heavy metal rendition of the song, before Dr. F smashes his guitar on the button.
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41	!!The Comedy Central version of ''Film/GameraVsZigra'' provides examples of:
42	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
43	** [[invoked]] The crew are amused by Gamera's xylophone skills.
44	--->'''Joel:''' Gamera, known as "Bags" to his friends...
45	** The gang's reaction to the long comic relief scene where the hammy concierge and the blue-collar truck driver squabble over who needs the fish more, the hotel or the local aquarium.
46	--->'''Crow:''' WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING!?
47	* BrawnHilda: Gypsy dresses in a Viking hat and pigtails for her big number in the final segment.
48	* CallBack: "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E12GameraVsGuiron We love you, Cornjob!]]"
49	* CoincidentalBroadcast: "Fish Argument Theater will be right back, but first, a scene from Plot Convenience Playhouse!"
50	* ContinuityNod: At one point Dr. Erhardt's nasally "Enjoy!" is riffed.
51	* DancePartyEnding: Something like that. In tribute to their final ''Gamera'' film, the crew each sing different versions of their already-existing version ("Gamera is really neat, Gamera is filled with meat, we are eating Gamera!") of the ''Gamera'' theme, ending with everyone singing a surprisingly affectionate send-off... and Clay and Frank promptly one-up them by doing a [[HardcorePunk hardcore]] [[ThrashMetal thrash]] version.
52	* EtherealChoir: One of the InTheStyleOf versions of "Gamera!" is done as a beatific choir, with Joel and the 'bots all leaning in together and harmonizing.[[note]]It's actually Kevin over-dubbed multiple times.[[/note]]
53	* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Not Lora Lee, but the Sea World employee who moons over dolphins rapturously.
54	* HongKongDub: Ruthlessly mocked in segment 4, awkward pauses and all.
55	-->'''Kenny:''' I'm feeling, really good!
56	* IndecipherableLyrics: Clayton and Frank's hard rock ode to Gamera.
57	* InterspeciesRomance: So she says, at least:
58	-->'''Helen:''' Gamera is my. Boyfriend! ''[[[HongKongDub lips continue to flap silently for several seconds]]]''
59	* InTheStyleOf: The final segment has the SOL crew perform reggae, jazz, hip-hop, opera, choral, and thrash punk versions of the Gamera Song.
60	* LoudGulp: Parodied when the crew do this during a reaction shot of two women listening to Lorelai's broadcast.
61	* MsFanservice: Many ''[[RunningGag many]]'' riffs are directed at Lora Lee's good looks. Especially when she turns up in a black bikini.
62	* RockersSmashGuitars: Dr. Forrester smashes his guitar on the button and breaks the panel at the end of the episode, resulting in static and a black screen before the credits FadeIn.
63	* RunningGag: Helen saying "Daddy, I want a Coke!", both in the experiment and in the movie itself.
64	* ShoutOut:
65	** Among many others, the old man in brown rags is compared to the hermit from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.
66	** The quip about Gamera being nicknamed "Bags" is a reference to jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson, who had that nickname first.
67	** They quote from "Once in a Lifetime" by Music/TalkingHeads at several points--after all, much of the movie takes place "at the bottom of the ocean!"
68	* StylisticSuck: Gypsy, having no limbs to mold the Play-Doh, had to leave it in its default cylindrical can shape, so we only have her word about what her diorama is supposed to represent.
69	* TakeThat: Many against Sandy Frank.
70	-->'''Doctor''':The brainwaves are not those of a normal human being, the activity seems to be reduced!\
71	'''Crow''': Oh, [[ANaziByAnyOtherName David Duke]]'s brainwaves.
72	* WildTeenParty: The SOL crew throw one at the beginning of the episode because this is the last ''Gamera'' movie they have to watch. [[TheVoice Magic Voice]] inexplicably gets [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on root beer]].
73	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Said verbatim by Servo when he sees the obviously-fake toy model of the lunar rover in the film's opening.
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76	->[[TheStinger "Big shot! Just who does he think he is? Huh? Hotel manager, indeed. I showed him!... Huh?"]]

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