“ | (Gaos chows down on a hapless reporter)
Welcome to this week's edition of Eat the Press. |
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- Crow |
The Movie[]
- Main article: Gamera vs Gaos (film)
Synopsis[]
The giant turtle Gamera battles the bloodthirsty creature Gaos.
The Episode[]
Host Segments[]
Prologue: The Bots annoy Joel with raspy-voiced characters from pop culture.
Segment One (Invention Exchange): Gypsy does her impression of the NBC Sunday Night Mystery Movie. The Mads sport Self-Image Printers that reveal a person's true persona. 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 cool Gaos of their own, only to be sabotaged by Crow and Tom Servo.
Segment Three: The SOL crew attempts to put on the "Gameradamerung", but are interrupted by Movie sign.
Segment Four: Joel tries to spin plates as Gaos the Great on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Segment Five: Joel and the Bots 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.
MST3K 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
Trivia[]
- Michael J. Nelson wrote the plate spinning music, which he entitled: "Opus 4, Number 23, Plate Spinning Song"
- This episode aired sixth during Turkey Day '93.
Callbacks[]
- "Rex Dart, Eskimo Spy." (Godzilla vs. Megalon)
- "It’s pretty good!" (The Side Hackers)
Goofs[]
- Joel blows his reading of the name "Brenda Vacarro."
Obscure References[]
- "I love to laugh! Long and loud and clear!"
Crow quotes the Marry Poppins character Uncle Albert, played by Ed Wynn. Crow also imitates Wynn's distinct vocal style.
- "Mucilage tastes just like sweet honey!"
Mucilage is an adhesive made from vegetable gum or product.
- "What's the buzz? Tell me what's happening."
Joel says a lyric from "What's the Buzz" from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, albeit in a spoken word style.
- "My wings are like a shield of steel!"
The catchphrase of the obscure superhero Batfink, who would say this when using his metal wings to protect himself from danger.
- "I thought this was Ferris wheel's day off"
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 high school comedy starring Matthew Broderick.
- "No, Pterri, no!"
Pterri is a small, green, puppet pterodactyl from the children's live action show Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
- "Hey... Sticks Nix Hick Pix."
"Sticks Nix Hick Pix" was a headline from the July 17th, 1935 issue the Hollywood trade newspaper Variety. It indicated that rural areas (sticks) were not interested in seeing movies about rural America (hick pix).
- "Ultra Violet, she's here?"
Ultra Violet (Isabelle Collin Dufresne) was a photographer and artist who worked with Salvadore Dali and Andy Warhol.
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 Guiron, and Gamera vs Zigra. The set went out of print in 2015.
- The DVD includes Gamera Obscura: A Brief History by August Ragone and 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 |