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Movie Summary  Movie: Gamera Vs. Barugon:  A positively Sandy Frankish dubbed Japanese film in which Gamera staves off an attack by Barugon, a monster that spews a freezing vapor. Some spelunkers come across what they think is a giant opal—it turns out to be an egg with Barugon inside it. Barugon grows and grows and grows and, as one character says, "The monster can destroy anything with his tongue!" A plan is devised to lure Barugon into the ocean with the help of an enormous diamond. Gamera, in a cameo appearance, comes to the rescue and it's the monster fisticuffs of the century as Gamera and Barugon go head to head in the film's exciting conclusion . . . well, conclusion, anyway. — Kevin Murphy Host Segments  Prologue:  Crow and Servo are in the midst of a user interface war: Macintosh versus IBM.  Invention:  An audio-animatronics soda can on the Satellite of Love helps expand people's consciousness about the recycling movement. Disco's back and Deep 13 has the disco cumber-bubble-bund just put your knees together and squeeze.  Segment 2:  The SOL presents the 5,000-piece Fighting Men and Monster Set, complete with a miniature Tokyo. About the time he says "pose in the nude with the Frisky Kitten Review" the wheels start to come off, and Tom ends up crying in Joel's arms. Poor dope.  Segment 3:  Crow and Servo visit TGI Tokyo, a restaurant featuring desserts shaped like houses. Servo's and Crow's faces are awfully and inexplicably weird.  Segment 4:  Joel, Tom, and Crow enjoy a day at the beach on the Satellite of Love; Joel shows them all the movie stars from the Gamera movies, including Edward G. Robinson and Elvis Costello.  Segment 5:  Joel, Crow, and Tom talk about the making of Gamera movies. You can read all about it in Barugon's book, You'll Never Eat This Town For Lunch Again. In Deep 13, Frank gets Dr. Forrester an uncut copy of The Stand for some light summer reading.  Stinger:  Jocular sweaty guy gets stung by a scorpion. Reflections This is the second time the cumber-bubble-bund made its appearance in the series (see episode 0107 - Robot Monster) and we thought we could mask it by giving the invention to the Mads and making it a disco-specific cumber-bubble-bund. Well, it didn't work that well as a prop, and setting up the mirrored ball and the lights took forever, and well, sometimes you just plumb run out of ideas. Still, Frank and the knees, and the juicy bubble thing, it was funny after all, and we didn't break the show. Not that time. — Kevin Murphy