Season Three Episode Eight: Gamera vs. Gaos
Network: Comedy Central
Riffers: Tom Servo, Joel Robinson, and Crow T. Robot
Mads: Dr. Clayton Forrester and Frank w/Assistants Gerry and Sylvia
Plot Synopsis: A volcanic eruption rouses a huge triangle-headed vampire bat monster called Gaos, a creature with an ultrasonic a devastating yellow beam with laser-like cutting power, and a craving for death and destruction. Giant heroic flying turtle Gamera appears and battles Gaos on two occasions, but he is forced to withdraw both times after being badly injured. Gamera is cheered on by a little kid named Eiichi. The military tries to burn Gaos with huge flamethrowers, but the monster's steaming armpits put the fires out. Scientists speculate that sunlight might be harmful to the giant bat-like creature, which would explain why it only appears at night. A plan to lure Gaos by placing a blood-like substance on top of a rotating restaurant is implemented. The scientists hope that the spinning action will disorient Gaos and that he will be unable to return to his underground lair when the sun rises. The plan works, at first, until the restaurant’s spinning mechanism breaks, and Gaos escapes. Gamera finally defeats Gaos by making him fly too close to the sun.
Host Segments:
Prologue: Joel is bemused that the Bots (and Magic Voice) have all decided to use raspy voices.
Segment One/Invention Exchange: Joel finally gets them to stop by having Gypsy do her impression of the NBC Sunday Night Mystery Movie. The Mads sport Self-Image Printers that reveal a person's true persona. Frank's a clown, Forrester is a woman. Joel makes a Fax Machine-Kleenex Dispenser and blows getting the cure for the common cold
Segment Two: Joel tries to demonstrate how the viewers can make a Gaos costume, only to be sabatoged by the Bots, though they both end in time out.
Segment Three: JatBs attempts to put on the "Gameradamerung", but movie sign stops them before they even start.
Segment Four: JatBs do a parody of the Ed Sullivan Show, with Crow and Ed Sullivan and Joe as Gaos the Great. Joel tries to spin plates, but fails pretty badly.
Ending Segment: JatBs ponder better ways to get rid of Gaos than the turntable-fountain of blood combo in the movie. Crow encourages viewers to send in ideas of their own.
Stinger: The comic relief guys make weird faces.
Review:
Unlike the previous Gamera film, we actually get to see Gamera for longer than a few seconds. We actually get three monster fights here (plus, for some bizarre reason, another monster fight at the very end of the film after the movie's over.) Problem is, the movie still sucks. How can a scrappy kid get permission to go damn near anywhere on a military base?
The riffing was good, though not great. The host segments were funny at least, and it seems like that part of the show is consistently good now that they've got experience making them. I'm glad we don't get any more of those demon dogs from the first season. Overall, good sequel to Gamera, though it doesn't quite hold water to the first (or second) one. 7.5/10
Trivia: This was another KTMA episode remade, just like the other two Gamera flicks and Time of the Apes. Seems like every Sandy Frank movie is being remade for this season...
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