A film by Ingmar Bergman
Film watched: Godzilla vs. Megalon
Joel and the bots make fun of a Godzilla Movie that wasn't meant to be a Godzilla Movie.
The shot of Godzilla's awe-inspiring tail-slide dropkick to Megalon would be incorporated in the show's Title Sequence for three seasons (3-5).
The Segments:
Prologue- Joel and the Bots introduce an array of household tips, special guests, and other stories to be seen later.
Segment 1
- For this week's Invention Exchange, Joel and the Bots dress up in last minute Halloween costumes: Crow as a movie theater floor, Servo as a Face on a Milk Carton, and Joel as a pan of Jiffy Pop. The Mads also get in on the action, with Dr. Forrester as a foosball goalie and Frank as Geordi La Forge.
Segment 2
- While Crow and Servo look at incriminating Polaroids, they distract a nosy Joel by arguing about the "monsters" they created.
Segment 3
- The SOL crew proudly presents a montage they call: Rex Dart, Eskimo Spy!
Segment 4
- While shooting a commercial for their new popcorn, Orville Redenbacher and his grandson, played by Crow and Servo, take the commercial in a dark direction.
Segment 5
- Joel upgrades the 'Bots with new arms, Crow having a lobster claw and bent wire hanger, and Servo having a Swiss army knife and flamethrower. They also show off a dubiously-subtitled version of the Jet Jaguar theme song and read letters. Meanwhile, Frank cries over Super Mario Bros.
The MST3K version of Godzilla vs. Megalon provides examples of:
- Actor IS the Title Character: "Rex Dart is Eskimo Spy!"
- Big "SHUT UP!": When the kid tells Godzilla "bye-bye!" at the end, all three shout out "SHUT UP!" with Tom mumbling "Little twerp"
- Call-Back: During the first kidnap attempt, Crow tosses out a "HI-KEEBA!"
- Call-Forward: The Stinger, a replay of the scene where Godzilla jumps into the water, is Stock Footage from Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, which would be featured in the very next episode.note
- Combat Commentator: Joel and the Bots play this role when Godzilla and Jet Jaguar take on Megalon and Gigan.
- Face on a Milk Carton: Tom Servo's makeshift Halloween costume during the invention exchange.Servo: Have you seen me?
- Gag Sub: The Jet Jaguar Fight Song, written in Intentional Engrish for Funny and not matching the meter of the song at all.HE JOCK IT MADE OF STEEL
EATS SUSHI FROM A PAIL
JET JAGUAR? JET JAGUAR!
HE MOTHER NEVER REALLY LOVE HIM - A God Am I: In the Orville Redenbacher commercial sketch, the grandfather (Crow) yells "I'M THE GOD! I'M THE GOD!" as part of his rant at his grandson (Servo).
- Hates Their Parent: During the "Orville Popcorn" skit, Orville's grandson (played by Servo) tells his grandfather (played by Crow) that he hates him after being belittled by him.
- Heel Realization: After Godzilla is scolded for fighting dirty with a tree as if he was making a Face–Heel Turn in a wrestling match, Joel and the Bots voice him apologizing for his outburst before tossing it aside.
- I Have No Son!: During the Orville Redenbacher (as Orville Popcorn) commercial sketch, Crow (playing Orville) expresses a desire to disown his grandson (played by Servo) when the latter insults him. He later says that he "replaced" his son when he ended up in the poorhouse.
- In the Style of: The "Orville Popcorn" host segment is a heated dramatic duologue that wouldn't be out of place in a Eugene O'Neill play.
- Running Gag: The constant cracks about Hiroshi wearing Wayne Newton's jacket.
- Everyone's hatred of the laboratory stairs.
- The horrible, screeching dub on younger brother.
- The Seatopian Priest-King guy & his ridiculous outfit (complete with goofy Camp Gay Broadway/fashion-type references) and his resemblance to Tim Conway's Dorf.
- The Seatopian henchman being Oscar Wilde & Luciano Pavarotti. Especially heavy on the former.
- Crow speaking as Megalon in the manner of a Broadway/Vegas showman.Crow:(as Megalon during his big entrance) All right, forget everything you've seen until now. That's right, it's time for the headliner! For my first trick, I will use an ordinary metropolitan city...
- The climactic fight being called by J&TB as if it's a Professional Wrestling match.Crow: He's got a tree! He's got a tree! This is not the Godzilla we know, he's fighting dirty!
- Combined with Shout-Out, but whenever the characters say Roku-san's name, one of Joel or the bots would say "You don't have to put your red dress on."
- Shout-Out:
- Joel and the Bots sing the Speed Racer theme during the first chase sequence, they soon change the words to Mach Go Go Go! Doubles as Shown Their Work since the Japanese name of Speed Racer wasn't so well-known in 1990.
- "Hey! HAL is reading your lips!"
- "Look out, Herbie!"
- Jokes about Goro's resemblance to Elvis Presley are a minor Running Gag.
- The Jet Jaguar Fight Song says the robot's head looks like Jack Nicholson.
- Stylistic Suck: The Rex Dart, Eskimo Spy intro in the third/fourth host segment.
- Translation: "Yes": The Gag Sub of the Jet Jaguar Fight Song gets a whole extra verse out of the last two lines of the original song. Inverted by translating "DON'T TOUCH MY BAGS IF YOU PLEASE, MR. CUSTOMS MAN" after the singing stops.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Joel and the Bots admonish Godzilla for fighting with a tree, and they voice Jet Jaguar as being stunned at how he would fight so dirty.Servo: (as Jet Jaguar) Godzilla? A tree? That's not like you. Why?
- Wrestler in All of Us: Apart from the awe-inspiring tail-slide dropkick, parodied during the final fight, with Joel and the Bots serving as a commentary team and treating the fight like a professional wrestling tag match, complete with admonishments for Godzilla using a foreign object (a tree).Crow: He's got a tree! He's got a tree! That's not the Godzilla we know, he's fighting dirty!
Godzilla: (leaps from a cliff to the sea)
