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Movie Summary  Movie: Gamera Vs. Gaos:  The title tells only half the story. This taut action drama examines the shifting social fabric of a Japan torn between its ancient call for order and tradition and its economic need to keep pace in a world market. But mostly it's scenes of two guys in rubber suits fighting, alternating with scenes of men and women looking up and saying "Ahhh" and "Ohhh, Gamera. Ahhh." There are many scenes where stuff happens that isn't two guys fighting in big rubber suits, but nobody was paying attention so we have no information on that. Frankly, I think they were just trading in on the Gamera name. — Mike Nelson Host Segments  Prologue:  The Robots take on raspy-voiced personalities like Lucille Ball and Harvey Fierstein.  Invention:  The Mads invent printers that show people your self-image. Joel combines the fax machine and tissue paper. He gets a tax from Linus Pauling. Joel peeks at his own boogers.  Segment 2:  Joel shows kids an easy craft project so they can make Gaos at home. The Robots toss out useless and dangerous suggestions to the kids.  Segment 3:  Our pals are about to do their version of the Götterdämmerung, when they are interrupted by movie sign.  Segment 4:  They mock up an Ed Sullivan show with Joel spinning turtles like plates as Gaos the Great (cue up the "The Plate Spinning Song").  Segment 5:  They come up with different ways to snuff Gaos, then entreat the audience to send in their own suggestions.  Stinger:  Our comic foils embrace in terror. Reflections For whatever reason, toolmaster Jef Maynard asked the writers to go light on props as they wrote the sketches for Gamera Vs. Gaos. Maybe he wanted to sleep that week, I don't know. We took this very seriously and decided to write a sketch where we never really got to the sketch at all. It would use props we already have lying around, and best of all, it would be very funny. Somehow, the sketch we never got around to involved the Götterdämmerung, which needed some fairly heavy costuming, and also we'd need a deus ex machina, which would actually lower from above, and a curtain and some special lighting. I believe Jef actually ended up putting in four hundred hours that week. — Mike Nelson