Film watched: Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster aka Ebirah: Horror of the Deep.
One of two Godzilla films riffed on the show—right after another Godzilla movie!
The Segments:
Prologue- Joel reads Crow and Servo's favorite bedtime story, The Velveteen Rabbit.
Segment 1
- Joel presents a mind reading guitar for people who can't actually play so they can make it big, provided they wear spandex and the appropriate facial grimaces. The Mads present their own squeeze toy guitars and, with their Gerry and Sylvia rocking along, perform "Plastic Man", and forget to actually name the experiment. As such, because Joel and the 'Bots wind up making it to the movie late, they fail to learn the title.
Segment 2
- Crow asks Joel about where exactly Godzilla came from, to which they and Servo perform the "Godzilla Genealogy Bop."
Segment 3
- Joel shows Crow and Servo a ramshackle model of famous buildings on Earth, poorly made out of random objects. Crow laughs, but he and Servo get worried about Joel's psyche, concluding he has Space Madness. With Gypsy's help, they destroy the miniature city both for his own good and to avoid being used as models themselves. Crow and Servo soon find Joel in the theater alone, where he got better.
Segment 4
- Dressed up like the Shobijin, Crow and Servo make fun of them and Mothra, to which Joel tells the two not to make fun of higher beings. Mothra herself contacts the Satellite, telling the two Bots to knock it off.
Segment 5
- Joel, Crow and Servo discuss examples of Beam Me Up, Scotty!, which lead into entries from the Cool Thing contest.
The MST3K presentation of Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster contains examples of:
- Call-Back/This Is Gonna Suck: When the boat crew start climbing:Servo: Uh-oh.Joel: Oh boy.Servo: Guess what guys.All: Rock climbing.Crewman!Servo: Look up here, Cesar Romero and Hugh Beaumont?
- When Ryota and Yata are on a model sea, Crow and Joel say it's "fakie"
- Cassandra Truth: Joel doesn't believe that Crow and Servo meet Mothra.
- Continuity Nod: Footage of Godzilla jumping off the island was reused later in "Godzilla vs. Megalon" which was featured before this one. Servo points this out.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: In a segment, Joel has succumbed to Space Madness, and has begun building horribly-designed models of famous buildings, even mixing up their names at points. This scares the bots, who fear being taken apart by Joel to be used for other models. They decide to put a stop to it by destroying all of his work.
- I'm a Humanitarian: At Ryota's boat,Crow: What a piece of junk. Oh, Steve is really delicious!(Joel and the Bots mimic eating noises)Joel: Hey, don't talk with Steve in your mouth.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The Red Bamboo are joked as such,Servo: Good shooting, you killed 8 of our men.[...]Joel: Shoot randomly! Wait, you're killing our own men!
- Late for School: Joel and the bots wind up taking so long to get to the theater, they completely miss the opening credits.
- Pun:Crow: How can something sarong feel so right?
- Running Gag: Since they missed the opening credits (and the Mads never mention the title of the film), Joel & the Bots keep asking what's the name of the film.
- "A planet where apes evolve from man."
- Whenever the camera pans to the clouds, the bots voice God, mainly complaining about the movie's slow pace.
- Shout-Out:
- Doubling with Running Gag, the Sea Hunt catchphrase makes another appearance.Godzilla! Mike Nelson!Crow: I grabbed a rock. And by time, my lungs were aching for air.Servo: Thank you Lloydzilla.
- "I! Am! Kirok!"
- "It's Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills in The Mothra Trap!"
- At one point Servo quips "Bird lives!"
- Doubling with Running Gag, the Sea Hunt catchphrase makes another appearance.
- Stock Footage: As this was the first film by Film Ventures Limited to be featured, the footage at the beginning is posterized scenes from Son of Godzilla. At least this time, it relates to the film than Pod People or Stranded in Space.
- Waxing Lyrical: When the film shows a temple,
- Wrestler in All of Us: Just like last time, Joel and the Bots play commentator to Godzilla and Ebirah's fight.Servo: Look at Godzilla go. I'll tell ya, there's no seafood lover in him.Crow: All these monster fights are rigged.
- Your Mom: At Godzilla and Ebirah's second bout.Godzilla!Joel: (To Ebirah) Well, your momma's a soft shell crab, how does that grab you huh?Ebirah!Crow: Oh yeah? Well your momma was Robert Oppenheimer.Godzilla!Joel: Well your father was a red lobster buffet! Huh?Ebirah!Crow: Your father was Raymond Burr!
