Kaiju Cameos On Film & Television

[Type66maserraycannon]

In episode 9 of the classic anime comedy TV show THE DIRTY PAIR, the girls are sent to break up a conflict between two rival gangs, on a mining planet. One gang boss has a short guy that wears a 70s style Godzilla mask for a hench man. Later, when the dirty pair are surrounded by both gangs, their spaceship, the Lovely Angel (that packs a huge beam cannon) comes to their rescue. As it swoops down and focuses it's huge cannon on the bad guys, the ship emits Godzilla's roar.





"With no sword, she's just another hysterical female." Babo, from Caravan Kidd

[kaijufan1000]

i skipped most of the pages on this thread so i dont know if this has been mentioned:

In The Movie It! based off the Stephen King novel at the house of one of the main characters when they are adults there is a very large godzilla floatie in the persons pool. also not much earlier the character that owns the floatie was making fun of godzilla on his tv show.

[Figment]

In the Mecha Megas episode of Megas XLR, you can hear MechaG'74's roar

[The Great MM]

I was just watching "ROBOT CHICKEN" on Adult Swim... Kong made an appearance. He was on top of the Empire State Building swinging at planes and one ran into his...parts...

[juan]

I've three.


On an episode of my life as a teenage robot, Jenny the robot girl has to fight a giant building smashing sponge monster... whilst speaking Japanese! Something's wrong with her programming and she can't communicate to anybody! Except for the sponge monster's keepers. The Japanese tourists say that the sponge monster is their pet and that she has to squeeze the water from the sponge monster. She does so, washing cars and watering plants as she does so and the sponge monster is reduced to a tiny size and returned to his human family.

The next was in "Dinoworld" a book by Stephen Leigh. The 1992 edition on page 225 of chapter 22 has Jenny meeting a Gairk, a dinosaur man. It reads "The beast must have stood ten foot high, looking like a minature version of Godzilla dressed in someone's copper cooking wire.

The last was on "Walking with Cavemen" a documentary on the Science Channel. It speaks of the Java caveman and how he coexisted with the Gigantopithicus, a giant ape and the red ape chases them off its territory. The narration goes, "Its King Kong himself." Note, the ape was red furred... and its fossils were found in modern Borneo.

By sheer coincidence, "King King Lives" featured a female kong... from Borneo... with red fur.

Neat!

[nickverrochi]

i don't know if this is much, but Godzilla is mentioned in the movie "Troll"

when Tauroc is disguised as Wendy, he/she whatever it is is ripping apart the room. when the father comes him, it screams "ROAR I'M GODZILLA!"

[The Great MM]

Was watching "STATIC SHOCK" earlier and the two bad guys (some fire dude and Evon (?)) morphed together... when Static beat em they let out a slightly modified Goji roar.

[Bagoth]

I don't know if this is anything but if you listen you hear, a part of one of Godzilla's theme intrances.

[juan]

Today, March 3rd, while watching Animal Planet, there was "The Jeff Corwin Ecperience." The episode was "Six Days to the Dragon" and it was all about the Javan and Indonesian animals. While heading to Komodo for its famous dragons, Corwin was on the boat, off the coast and told us "We're heading towads the isle of the dragons where we'll meet... 'Godzillaaaa!!!'" (He was seemingly parodying Katagiri's death scream.)

Afterwards, when they went to a commercial break, we see a shot of Corwin looking at the lizards and says, "Size matters." This may or may not have been a tip of the hat to Zilla.

[juan]

While channel surfing yesterday, I came across the end credits for the for F-Zero Grand Prix and it spoke of next Saturday's Sonic X. (The 12th of March) It spoke of Egg Man's latest scheme and we saw...

MOGUERA!!!

Yes, it was Toho's crazy robot! I took notes to make sure I was sure, but it had the pod hands, the drill nose, the goggle eyes, wrinkled skin, tread feet, buzz saw back, etc. However, it was the Mysterian's Moguera. You could tell with the color scheme, green and tan, the exact same color scheme the Mysterian's Moguera had. Its not to odd. Sonic X is imported from Japan and perhaps the writer or animator just likes old Japanese sci-fi movies.

Check you local listings to see Moguera on Sonic X!

[Enshohma]

Here are two spoofs of Godzilla to make mentioned of;

In the episode "Blob, Thy Name is Envy" from the animated series of "Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot" artificial slime creatures who are mass marketed as "Squeaky Gleam" a sentient and highly effective cleaner, somehow falls in love with the female scientist that originally made it. And as such, these multiple blobs become jealous when any and all men court her and unite to become a giant angry entity. During one such attack, the scientist is unwilling on a date with a coworker and are at the movies. Playing on the screen is a monster flick starting a Heisei Godzilla somewhat disguised with red and black eyes and some horns on his face. Although "Big Guy" and Godzilla the Animated Series" where both made by the same animation department (let alone the same exact people) the usage of Godzilla's true Japanese likeness would have been a no-no. Hence the horns and changed eyes.

The second mention is Godzonka, an obvious spoof of Godzilla, despite a design that's more like a traditional fire-breathing fairy tale dragon that walks on all fours, from the episode "Menace from the Wax Museum" of the 1967 cartoon "Frankenstein JR". The story evolved the stylish masked villain Mr. Menace, who uses a trio of famous movie monsters and although the creatures where hiding out at a wax museum by day so to commit crimes at night, the beasts themselves were actually quite alive and not animated statues as the title and setting may imply. The other two Mr. Menace monsters aside from Godzonka where Gorillus, a Kong inspired brute and Cyclaws the Cyclops (most likely Ray Harryhausen inspire, even knowing the character was more like the title monster from 1957's "The Cyclops" and Prometheus from "The Odyssey".

[Figment]

In the book "Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman", there is a page on George and Harold spending the night after hypnotising their teacher in their treehouse eating snacks and watching a Japanese Monster movie on TV. The illustation on the page features Gamera as the Kaiju in the film. In fact, Dav Pilkey is a Godzilla fan, primarily of the Showa films, especially Godzilla VS Megalon for its sheer stupidity.

[juan]

There was one monster sighting. It was on March 10th (I didn't write the exact time ) and it was on Animal Planet's "The Most Extreme." It was the episode, "The Most Extreme Horrors" and early on as the narrator was speaking of scary animals we saw stock footage as we always do. However, the stock footage was from "Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" and we see the Cyclops (specifically its first scene in the movie), then the dragon in the dungeon, then the two of them fight, and then the two headed vulture.Keep your eyes peeled for more!

[juan]

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet...8/epid-349311/

That's what TV Tome has to say. It was the episode where Starfire found a pet in a giant maggot. At one point they were fighting the villain Jonny Rancid and his giant robot, Wreckzilla (though how an anti-social idiot like him could make something like it or buy it is beyond me). It was a robot armed with bristling weapons and was shaped like a Tyrannosaur.

There's also something else. The notes section on this claims that Silkie the worm is a tip of the hat to Mothra. Silkie starts out as a worm, turns into a giant moth monster...

I doubt that the resemblance was intentional but its there.

There's also something else. Today 3/14/05 at 8:45 PM on Discovery Channel saw a commercial for Immodium Anti-Diarreah. We see the final battle between Kong and Godzilla as they destroy the Osaka (or was it Nagoya?) Castle between them from "King Kong vs Godzilla"... though we only see it from Godzilla's perspective. The image is superimposed on somebody's aching stomach. It goes that with Immodium AD, you can send those fighting monsters away. It then shows a shot of Godzilla wading in the distance from Kong vs Godzilla.

[Kaiju_Sensai]

In the Tremors the Series episode "Blast from the Past" one of the hunters says later after unsuccessfully trying to capture the escaped AB

"There was enough tranquilizer in that dart to take down Rodan."

[juan]

Hiya gang. For a while now, I've been apprenticing with a teacher named Mr. Campbell and while going to Hudson Elementary, I saw that there was a grungy van near the school whose back window had a sticker that read

I [heart]--Ing Kong.

That was all. Odd, no?

[juan]

While at the pharmacy, I saw an issue of "Weekly World News," Earth's wackiest tabloid. What grabbed my attention, you see, was the cover. There was a giant Rodan like monster carrying away a plane! I read in and it said that a pilot had been flying over the Amazon when a giant Pteranadon with wings as wide as a football field picked him up in its talons!

I'll be the first to admit that it may not be a legitmate sighting, but its kinda neat!

[Shadow]

I don't know if this has been mentioned or not, but:

I was watching I Love The 90's: Part Duex and they featured Godzilla (the american version). They chatted about it for a while, and then one of the commentators started doing the "japanese person yelling Godzilla" impression. In the background they showed film featuring different kaiju (and strangely, none of them were Godzilla). it was Gamera, King Ghidorah, and Gorgo, in that order.

Just another random sighting...

[Kaiju_Sensai]

I like when the one guys said tha Godzilla 98 was a great example of how Americans can take something thats fun & campy in another country, and turn it into utter crap.

[juan]

A while back, I was reading the LA Times (for I live in southern California) and was looking at the funnies. It was a syndicated cartoon and it had collosal scaly foot of you know who that filled the enitre page and half the basketball court it was on. A few humans looked up and some looked down to see arms and legs sticking out from under the foot.

One person, holding the basket ball said, "That was a onesided match. Anyone want to guard Godzilla?"
I will look for the name of the cartoon if I can find it. If anyone else does, please leave it here.

[juan]

Last night I rented an old 80s movie called the Wizard. It featured Fred Savage as the big brother of a mentally disabled boy who risked being institutionalized. They run away and as they do so, Savage's character sees that his brother is almost a Wizard at video games and they decide to risk at all by going to "Video Armgeddon."

Thing is... the tournament is held at Universal Studios. (The film was made at Universal so, cheap self promotion) And at one point, the two brothers are escaping froma bounty hunter that's been after them and do by going on the tram, And as they go on the tram they see...

KING KONG!

Its the "Kong-frontation" section of the Tram and there's the robot Kong roaring and shaking the bridge and all that. They scream and run and everyone's cheering Kong. Its a fine machine... but they jump off the track and we see that its just a bust of Kong--below the chest, there's nothing but air. I know its just a ride but it almost feels wrong to see Kong like that.

[biochemitra]

In an episode of that old show "greg the bunny" the ape jumps onto this guy's shoulders and starts making roaring sounds until a guy starts hitting him with a plastic airplane, causing him to fall.

In "george of the jungle II" George ans ape land on the empire state building(the one in vegas) and ape says "What? You didnt think we were going to skip this parody did you?"

[juan]

I found a very interesting one in "Weekly Word News." It was May, ninth 2005.

On page seven of the "Dog of War" article it stated that while a dog show for US troops in Afghanistan, Mr. Parsely--a German shepard who had been banned from dog shows because of steroid use [see earlier issues]--was suddenly attacked by a tiny little poodle nicknamed Rambone.

The seemingly lopsided fight was cheered by US soldiers and one said:

"It looked like one of them Godzilla movies where he fights Mothra, y'know? But without those two little chicks singing."

Trained as a war dog, Rambone won the fight and is now being courted by the Defense Department.

[juan]

I found yet ANOTHER odd ball in Weekly World News.

Its one week after the Rambone story and it said that Gojira Mifune, who for years has played the Japanese Monsters called Morona is sueing Chujo studios for insurance money. He claims that wit all the injuries he's sustained in the rubber suit, he should be compensated.

It also went on to say that actors, including an Ultraman, were on his side and Chujo Studios are worried that Mifune will destroy them, this time for real.

Unless there's yet another Jaanese giant monster series that we're unaware of, this is clearly a bizaare spoof on Godzilla. But a funny one nonetheless.

[darthzilla99]

I don't know if this was mentioned,(too lazy to look through all the posts) but in the 80's teennage mutant nija turtles cartoon, when they are dealing with the zip alein thing in one epsoide, the zip makes an extra copy of itself whenever it eats metal. Then at one point a zip eats chocolet. dondoelo I think, trys feeding them chocolet again and when two eat it, the unite again.the turtles go out to get the worlds biggest chocolet bar and lure all the zip there. little did the turtles relize that the zip really combine together instead of just reuniting. All the zip eat the chocolet and form one gigantic zip that just now gets bigger everytime it eats metal.

Don says I think this was a big mystake. Then ralph says more like a king kong size mystake.

Also, in a fantastic four cartoon (can't remmber witch one.) it shows the thing and the human torch watching godzilla and king ghidora a few times.
If any of these have been mentioned, please forgive me.