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Things I liked from the movie:
Gamera doing gymnastics.
How naughty boys know how to fly space ships.
Gamera’s affinity for little boys in shorts.
Donuts.
Impressions
This is the goofiest movie in the collection. If I said that about another episode, I was wrong. In fact, this is the worst movie panned by the crew yet! Disclaimer. It’s got the goofy, dubbed, rubber-suited monster and the kids control Japan thing, but it’s even more than that. It’s got Japanese alien girls who eat little boys’ brains. It’s got a creature whose head is a knife! It’s got Gamera doing gymnastics! It’s got the Gamera song! It’s got officer Cornjob! Woohoo! A cornucopia of corn!
Synopsis
A spaceship lands on Earth apparently so the driver can take a leak in the bushes. He stupidly leaves the keys in it and the door open. We’ve all done it. But this unfortunate alien has the additional bad luck to have two of Japan’s naughtiest boys (and that’s saying a lot!) walk by in that brief moment. They hop into the space ship and fly it to our sister “star” named Terra that has been orbiting on the opposite side of the sun all these years and we never noticed. There they meet the only humanoid inhabitants—a pair of Japanese southern belles whose only purpose in life is to eat little boys’ brains. Gamera follows the boys to Terra in spite of a terrible oil-burning problem. In order to rescue them, he has to fight a knife-headed monster. He loses, then wins, Rocky style. During the fight, he does gymnastics on the uneven parallel bars. Eventually, Gamera takes the boys home to Earth where they presumably will terrorize everyone until they get hit by cars in a parking lot or something. Everyone lives happily ever after.
Host Segments
Opening: Crow and Tom are pretending to be having lunch at school and are eating lunches packed by their parents. Tom has an embarrassing note from his mother.
Invention exchange: The Mads invent dirty Rorschachs, Joel invents a collapsible trashcan.
Host segment 1: J&TB sing “The Gamera Song,” which I will never get out of my head.
Host segment 2: Joel tries to saw a Tom in half. He screams.
Host segment 3: a tribute to Richard Burton.
End: Joel and the Bots sing the Gamera song in “Japanese.” Mike on the ground tells fake anecdotes about famous show tune writers got their inspiration.
Stinger: "What a monster!"
Funny Riffs
The movie credits show: © MCMLXIX DAIEI CO. LTD.
Servo singing to the Nestlé's jingle: M-C-M-L-X-I-X / Daiei makes the very best
Joel: Movies — NOT!
Joel, Crow, Servo: Gamera! / Gamera! / Gamera is really neat! / Gamera is filled with meat! / We've been eating Gamera! (This is to the music in the movie, which is quite catchy!)
The brain-eating space girls return after the boys fall unconscious from eating drugged donuts.
Joel as Space Girl: Kids' brains taste better when they've been thinking about donuts.
Dr. Shiga: No. That's hard to say.
Joel: Looks like it's pretty hard to dub, too.
Cornjob: When I'm happy my glasses they always come down
Servo: ...and so do my pants.
Crow, as Guiron: I know, I know. Don't laugh, they made me in a hurry.