Mystery Science Theater 3000/Gamera vs. Guiron

Gamera vs. Guiron
Season 0, Episode 8
Airdate	January 8, 1989
Production Number	K08
Screenplay	Nisan Takahashi
Directed by	Noriaki Yuasa
Production Companies	Daiei Studios
Episode Writer(s)	Joel Hodgson
Episode Director(s)	Joel Hodgson
← 0x07 Gamera vs. Zigra	0x09 → Phase IV
Mystery Science Theater 3000 — Season Zero

Gamera vs. Guiron is the eighth episode of the zeroth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the eighth episode overall.

Guest Stars:

Plot Overview

The Movie

A mysterious alien saucer lands on Earth. Three curious children board the ship and it takes off to a planet on the other side of the sun. The aliens want to eat the children, but not before using them to summon the flying turtle Gamera. Of course, one of the children once again has a telepathic to Gamera and he arrives on the planet. There he is attacked by the alien monster Guiron. In one of most iconic images in Gamera movie history, Gamera swings on a bar to defeat Guiron. The day is saved once again by Gamera, the defender of children everywhere.

The Host Segments

• Opening Segment - The mad scientists have a crisis - they're all out of bad movies, They are forced between sending Joel "Star Wars" or "Jaws." Unfortunately for Joel, at the last minute they discover yet another Gamera movie.
• Segment One - Crow has a dream about being on Earth and the mad scientists being trapped up in space. He sends them "Planet Of The Apes" to watch over and over.
• Segment Two - Crow tells Joel and Tom Servo about the dream that he had. Crow and Tom Servo describe some of the more memorable dreams that they have had.
• Segment Three - Joel tells the bots about some of his dreams.
• Closing Segment - Joel and the bots perform a song about the Satellite of Love and promise viewers that there will be no more Gamera films.

Notes

• The Gamera exchange in the opening , while funny, makes no sense because Joel already announced that they would be viewing Gamera vs. Guiron in the previous episode.
• This episode is the first one in which no viewer calls are listened to.
• Gamera vs. Guiron was produced by Sandy Frank, who was very upset over the treatment of his films on the show. As a result, he refused to renew the rights for their broadcast and the episodes featuring his movies could not be re-aired once the rights expired.
• Gamera vs. Guiron is one of the KTMA episodes that was re-done in a later season (3x12 - Gamera vs. Guiron)

Arc Advancement

Happenings

Characters

Referbacks

Trivia

The Show

Behind the Scenes

Allusions and References

Memorable Moments

Quotes

• Joel: Sometimes I dream I'm a crane operator. Other times I'm standing in line for Metallica tickets.

Reviews

• Overall Grade: no reviews yet
• Review Breakdown: A+: 0 A: 0 A-: 0 B+: 0 B: 0 B-: 0 C+: 0 C: 0 C-: 0 D: 0 F: 0