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Movie Summary  Movie: Gamera Vs. Guiron:  I really hate this movie. Two boys, Tom and Akiyo, find a spaceship and fly it away. Gamera is trying to guide them back to Earth when a remote control directs them to another planet, Terra, on the opposite side of the sun from Earth. The only inhabitants are two evil women who plan to eat the boys' brains and then use the knowledge that gives them to take over Earth (I think). They have a blade-headed monster named Guiron, whom we see slicing a "space-Gaos" into steaks. But Gamera shows up, fights Guiron, and saves them. At one point Gamera swings from a bar like a gymnast, ha-ha. There's also a sister, a couple moms, and a cop named Cornjob, but they never figure in. I really hate this movie. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Servo and Crow compare school lunches. Servo's shy about a note from his mother, but reads it: "I love you, you make me so proud." Crow reminds him Servo doesn't have a mother, and he breaks down.  Invention:  The Mads show their "racy Rorschachs," centerfolds for Psychology Today: "Turn-ons, group therapy, and big pecs." Joel has a collapsible garbage can, for campers. As occasionally happens with these inventions, it's a pretty good idea.  Segment 2:  Joel, Crow, and Servo sing "The Gamera Song." "Gamera is really sweet, he is filled with turtle meat, we've been eating Gamera!"  Segment 3:  In Joel's "World of Bemusement and Childlike wonder," he prepares to saw Crow in half. Crow walks in, ruining the reveal.  Segment 4:  Since one of the kids looks vaguely like Richard Burton, the SOL presents "The Life of Richard Burton." Crow plays Burton, Servo plays Elizabeth Taylor and Lee Majors. "We salute you-one of the good dead ones."  Segment 5:  Everybody on the SOL sings a more boisterous version of "The Gamera Song." Michael Feinstein visits Deep 13 and thoroughly explores the song: "Gamera is the latest thing / he fills the world with spring spring spring..." The Mads are charmed, then kill him.  Stinger:  The two boys: "What a monster." Reflections I really hate this movie. Ah, Japan. Better the Gamera series than the Bataan Death March, I suppose, but not by much. Same basic motivation really. This show was done right before I started working here full-time, and I visited the set the day the host segments were taped. I spent most of my time wandering around not knowing what to say, much as Mary Jo does now after three years on the job. Host Segment Four is almost four minutes long. We allege that Richard Burton might have enjoyed a drink now and again. — Paul Chaplin