213 - Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
Air Date	February 2, 1991
MST3K Director	Jim Mallon
Running Time	87 min.
Turkey Day(s)	November 28, 1991, 6pm
AKA	Ebirah, Horror of the Deep; Gojira--Ebira--Mosura: Nankai no Dai Ketto; Big Duel in the North; Big Duel in the North Sea; Ebirah, Terror of the Deep
Movie Director	Jun Fukuda
Year	1966
Cast	Akira Takarada, Hal Linden, Toru Watanabe
Preceded by	212 - Godzilla vs. Megalon
Followed by	301 - Cave Dwellers

Contents 1 The Movie 1.1 Synopsis 1.2 Information 2 The Episode 2.1 Host Segments 2.2 Obscure References 3 Trivia

The Movie

Synopsis

Some teenage boys and a bank robber on the lam end up on a mysterious south sea island where a totalitarian group has enslaved all of the natives. The teens summon Godzilla for help. Godzilla and Mothra (who have apparently signed a peace treaty) show up, and Godzilla battles the villains' giant crab monster Ebirah. After the villains' self-destruct device is triggered, Mothra runs an airlift to carry the natives away from the doomed island.

Information

The script for this movie was originally written for King Kong, but Godzilla had to be substituted when rights to Kong weren’t available.

The Episode

Host Segments

Prologue: Joel reads the Velveteen Rabbit and does all the voices.

Invention Exchange (Segment One): Joel shows off his Mind Control Guitar (“All I gotta do is add the appropriate facial grimaces, wear spandex, and meet with the ladies after the show!”). The Mads play their squeaky Doggie Chew Toy Guitars

Segment Two: Joel explains the very fictional origins of Godzilla with the song “The Godzilla Genealogy Bop”

Segment Three: Crow and Tom believe that Joel is suffering from space madness. They think Joel’s models of famous earth structures made from found objects are further evidence of his mental decline. So they destroy the models for Joel’s own good.

Segment Four: Despite Joel’s warning, Crow and Tom mock the Mothra twins, only to receive a visit from Mothra on the Hexfield Viewscreen! Fortunately, he’s a pretty mellow fellow. But later when the bots try to tell Joel about Mothra’s visit, Joel won't believe them.

Closing (Segment Five): Joel teaches the bots about famous sayings that actors didn’t actually say. They look at some “Cool Thing” contest entries. The Mads briefly consider the possibility of reviewing policy and instituting a change to a less hostile posture toward the crew of the SOL, but it doesn’t go anywhere.

Stinger: Everyone bows down before Mothra

Obscure References

• "This must be for the seafood lover in us."

A parody of the advertising slogan for Red Lobster r

• "You may find yourself living in a shogun shack!"

Joel is parodying a line from the Talking Heads song "Once in a Lifetime".

• "I'm hysterical... and I'm wet!"

A line by Leo Bloom Gene Wilder from The Producers after having a cup of water thrown in his face.

• "Hey! You got your backgammon in my money!" "You got your money in my backgammon!" -Joel and Crow

Joel and Crow parody the advertising slogan for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups .

• "Love is like a butterfly."

A lyric from the theme of the UK TV show Butterflies, taken from Dolly Parton's 1974 number one country music song, "Love is Like a Butterfly ."

• "Jacques Plante; the early days."

Jacques Plante was a legendary ice hockey goalie, best known for winning 6 Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens from 1953-1963 and for being the first goalie to wear a goaltender mask on a regular basis in regulation play. The joke is made when Ebirah (the titular Sea Monster) catches a thrown boulder in his claw, looking very much like a hockey goalie making a high, glove-side save.

• "Haven't we seen this before?"

Tom is referring to Godzilla jumping into the sea, which was reused (image-reversed) in Godzilla vs. Megalon. The scene was actually used as the stinger for the previous episode.

• "In 1971, a series of nuclear tests were done on Monster Island..."

A reference to the opening of Godzilla vs. Megalon . The actual opening references a nuclear test in the early part of 1971 whose effects were felt as far away as Monster Island.

Trivia

• Mothra is played by Michael J. Nelson.

preceded by: Season 1		MST3K Season 2					followed by: Season 3
		1990 - 1991
201	Rocketship X-M	1990-09-22	206	Ring of Terror	1990-11-03	211	First Spaceship on Venus	1990-12-29
202	The Side Hackers	1990-09-29	207	Wild Rebels	1990-11-17	212	Godzilla vs. Megalon	1991-01-19
203	Jungle Goddess	1990-10-06	208	Lost Continent	1990-11-24	213	Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster	1991-02-02
204	Catalina Caper	1990-10-13	209	The Hellcats	1990-12-08
205	Rocket Attack U.S.A.	1990-10-27	210	King Dinosaur	1990-12-22