K06 - GAMERA VS. GAOS

Genre:  Japanese Monster (1967, Color)

Synopsis:  This movie is riffed again on the show during its cable run, so read the write-up for ep #308 – Gamera vs. Gaos for a plot synopsis.

Don’s Review:  This KTMA episode features the third Gamera Monster movie, which follow the giant flying turtle as he fights a giant flying vampire bat like monster called Gaos.  In this earlier version, Crow is still frozen as a Christmas Tree, so Joel and Servo riff the movie alone.  And, like the previous episode, the riffing is extremely sparse, so that watching this episode isn’t a whole lot different from watching the uncut movie unriffed.  The host segments feature Servo receiving a new voice, this time it’s the deep Josh Weinstein Servo voice we’re used to.  Other segments feature the playing of fan answering machine messages.  One young fan invites Joel and the ’Bots to his birthday party, but they decline because they are stuck in space. (Servo, though, does give the boy some amusing birthday advice, see below).  So another KTMA episode that’s of interest mainly for the development of the show, but really is rather light on the laughs.
Trivia Note:  Servo’s advice to the Birthday Boy:

• Greet each day with a mighty roar

• Always know what time it is

• Wear Old Spice

• Walk briskly to and from your job and, remember, neatness counts

• Fill your head with candy

• You are how you look.  Me?  I’m a gumball machine.  I embrace that and my colleagues respect me for it.

Heed this advice, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll grow up to be like me, Tom Servo.

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