Episode 402: The Giant Gila Monster
First aired: Comedy Central on 13 June 1992
Availability: iTunes, Amazon Instant Video
Sit down. I have a story to tell.
The Giant Mexican Beaded Lizard would have been a better title. |
They never knew each other growing up. They never crossed paths. They never talked on the phone or emailed each other or sent each other text messages.
The only thing these two giant lizards had in common is that they were both giant lizards.
Until MST3K came along. Or, actually, after MST3K came and went. Let me explain.
Joel Hodgson playing Joel Robinson playing Frank Fontaine's Crazy Guggenheim |
So, they had to pull the release. They re-released it, but with The Giant Gila Monster
For fans that had already purchased Volume 10
He sings whenever he sings whenever he sings... |
Although you can't buy the Volume 10.2
Some people, collectors, I suspect, have them all. I know I do.
Oh, yeah. The movie. The episode. Let's talk a little about that, won't we?
The quality of the movie is bad. Technically, I mean. The sound is awful.
The tune that plays whenever the Giant Gila Monster is close by reminds me of the tune the evil spirit whistles on The River
The actors in the movie, whenever they decide to have a conversation, prop their leg up on something and place their elbow on their knee. I'm guessing the director had a little Captain in him. That would explain a lot. Servo has a Host Segment where he talks about this, and Cambot has a montage of all the scenes where actors do that.
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Got a little Captain in 'em? | Captain (image: CaptainMorgan.com) |
Art? |
Remember Episode 203: Jungle Goddess? The one where they did a Host Segment based on a 1950s sitcom, and at the end, Joel, doing his best Jackie Gleason, introduced Crow as "Art Crow!" -- similar to Gleason's "Art Carney!" introduction at the end of his show?
Well, a four-year-old saw that and thought that "Art" was Crows's first name. This reference will show up again in Season Seven, and continue through the end of the series. But now you know its origin.
This is one of the episodes I've seen before. I didn't see a lot of Joel episodes, but this one I did see. And, yes, I'd seen the movie before I ever saw the MST3K episode, so it was familiar the first time I saw it.
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