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Film watched: Gamera vs. Jiger
The Segments:
Prologue- Kinga is so excited at her streak of success that Pearl is actually concerned that she's taking on more than she can handle. She suggests that the two of them take a vacation through the Timebag to get some of the stress out, which Kinga reluctantly agrees to.
Segment 1/Invention Exchange
- The crew invents the Tele-Graph, a special lie detector designed to recognize if someone has actually been watching specific television shows or is just faking interest (or lack thereof) for discussion. The Mads present the Plasmanator, powerful enough to transform anything into the fourth state of matter in seconds for a delicious face-melting treat.
Segment 2
- Come to Expo Expo, a bright and glorious exposition dedicated to expositions and the exposition behind each and every exposition.
Segment 3
- Jonah and Crow enroll in Tom Servo's Roaming Multinational Accents for Children, where they learn to speak as adorably and incoherently as possible like any child in a badly-dubbed Japanese movie.
Post-Intermission
- The crew holds their final exam to master their new nonsensical accents. Jonah's caught cheating with rocks in his mouth.
Segment 4
- Dr. Donna St. Phibes returns with the results of the crew's physicals and x-rays. GPC is a pillar of perfect robot health, Servo is a mess of bones and has a bonsai tree inside him, and Crow ate a Magic 8-Ball thinking it'd make him more decisive. Jonah is shocked to find that he's actually an animatronic.
Segment 5
- The crew hold an Irish wake in honor of Jiger and drink and sing to her memory. Kinga puts Max in charge of Moon 1 while she's away on vacation.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Gamera vs. Jiger has examples of:
- Blood Knight: The crew exaggerates Susan's dislike for Gamera into her craving full-blown bloodshed at his expense.
- Call-Back:
- Bonesy feels hungry for turtle meat when Ardy flushes the movie.
- The crew happily cheers at the return of Cornjob from Gamera vs. Guiron.
- Dr. St. Phibes is eaten by the titular brain monster from The Brain, which was previously riffed in the 30th Anniversary live tour.
- Stock riffs:
- Creepy Child: Many of the riffs on Susan.
- Department of Redundancy Department: The crew's Expo Expo.
- Eaten Alive: Happens to Donna at the end of Segment 4 when she goes to feed the giant mutant brain in her captivity.
- Robotic Reveal: The results of Dr. Donna St. Phibes insurance-related physicals come back, and Jonah's X-rays reveal that he's animatronic, much to his confusion and horror. According to Dr. St. Phibes, a check of his family history revealed his father to be "Charles Entertainment Cheese".
- Running Gag:
- Plugging the movie's Expo at every available moment.
- Susan's inconsistent accent and her hate for Gamera.
- Shout-Out:
- The crew is reading a parody of the Choose Your Own Adventure books at the start of the Invention Exchange and lamenting over how every choice gets their character killed by spikes somehow. The cover even matches the design from the original series.
- "Jiger used Dash! It's Super-Effective!"
- "I'm the Baby, gotta love me! Not the mama!"
- "Buy my book! Buy my book!"
- "Shut up, Wesley!"
- Making the Transformers transformation sound effect when Gamera's head emerges from his shell.
- "Believe it or not, George isn't at home. Please leave a message at the beep."
- Baby Jiger's overly long death scene is compared to Paul Reubens in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- As the kids set up a large array of stereo speakers, Jonah suggests they're about to listen to Zaireeka.
- Their Irish funeral song for Jiger at the end of the episode makes mention of the Osaka PD Choir singing "Galway Bay".
- Take That!: Jonah's invention, the Tele-Graph, can tell when people are bluffing about watching television or not. When Servo brings up Vanderpump Rules, Jonah tries to lie and say he's never even heard of it, but is ashamed when the invention calls him out.Jonah: Okay, fine, I admit it! I live my LIFE by those rules — those Vanderpump rules! [machine dings] Yeah, see?! It's true, it's ALL true!
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Several riffs and a couple of host segments are dedicated to Susan's odd Scottish/English/whatever accent.
