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Movie Summary  Movie: Gamera Vs. Zigra:  "Gamera is the friend of all children." This movie begs the question "How many Gamera movies does one civilization need?" Another Gamera vehicle in which aliens from the planet Zigra come to Earth in a spaceship that can turn into a giant can-opener monster. Zigra tries to enslave all of mankind and plans to use humans for Zigra food. The monster goes monster y monster with Gamera, and Gamera is left for dead on the bottom of the ocean. Kids Kenny and Helen bring Gamera back to life with the use of electricity, and Gamera and Zigra go at it again with Gamera victorious. This movie has a strong ecology message, and, indeed, it should be put in a compost heap. — Mary Jo Pehl Host Segments  Prologue:  Joel and the 'Bots have a root beer kegger (Tom is the keg) and they party down. Whooo!  Invention:  TV's Frank confesses he's a Stooge-aholic and so the Mads invent the Three Stooges gun to re-create Stooges fight choreography. Joel turns Crow into a delicious shish kebab.  Segment 2:  Crow and Servo make a model of Gamera to teach Joel how Gamera works. The diagram inside the model shows there's a spiral staircase, galley, and spare bedroom inside Gamera.  Segment 3:  The movie has traumatized the 'Bots, so they work through the pain with art therapy.  Segment 4:  Kenny and Helen (Mike Nelson and Bridget Jones) visit the SOL. They too are badly dubbed.  Segment 5:  The Robots and Joel each do their own version of the Gamera theme song. Joel does the theme à la Eeka Mouse, Servo lays down a hep groove, Crow raps about Gamera, and Gypsy presents an aria. In Deep 13, Frank and Forrester do their heavy metal version of the Gamera theme song.  Stinger:  "Smart guy...Who does he think he is, huh?" Reflections I have mixed feelings about the Gamera movies. On the one hand, their odd and vigorously depressing tone makes me want to step in front of a bus. Then again, their sheer length, mass, heft, volume, and viscosity overwhelm me, and they sit on my head, bouncing lightly up and down. It's an interesting conundrum. Actually, when we were informed that we could acquire the rights to the Gamera series, Joel, Kevin, Trace, and Jim jumped at the chance, as they had done them with great success at KTMA locally. Oh, to be so young and foolish! I remember the world before Gamera, when I was a sapling, still green in youth. There were concerts in the park—people seemed to laugh more then. So if you see me celebrate two birthdays, and give myself out as two different ages, one of them twenty-five years younger than I look—it's because my eyes were truly opened the day I saw Gamera, and the dewy patina of youth was washed away, and in its stead grew a hard reptilian shell that I wear to this very day. — Mary Jo Pehl