Movie: (1956) When the chickeney Phantom of Krankor attacks Japan, a slim-hipped hero arrives to save the day.
First shown: 8/16/97
Opening: Crow and Tom’s “Dog and Bear” game gets out of hand
Intro: Bobo, then the Widowmaker, then the SOL are dragged into a wormhole
Host segment 1: M&tB are unstuck in time
Host segment 2: Mike is transformed into a small robot
Host segment 3: The wormhole deposits M&tB in a rather lovely sylvan glen
End: All seems normal again on the SOL (except for the presense of Krankor), but Pearl and Observer have arrived on Earth in Roman times!
Stinger: The Phantom says: “Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah!”
(334 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)
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• Bridget’s take on this episode is here.
• Of course, with this episode, into the wormhole we go. And while the “Roman times” story arc is, in my view, a mixed bag at best (more on that in the next installment), this episode, which takes place in the wormhole itself, is one of the best of season 8. The movie is profoundly stupid and feels very season-three-ish, the riffing is excellent and the host segments are clever and fun.
• This episode was included in Rhino’s The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 7.
• References.
• Is that “dog and bear” dialog from something? (A commenter suggested it was inspired by Jack London’s “Call of the Wild.”)
• “I like it very much!” became an immediate catchphrase and soon appeared on an MST3k bumper sticker.
• Some fans got a bit fed up with all the Japan bashing in this episode, and while I don’t agree that it was as bad as they made out, I WILL acknowledge that this show has FOUR “cram school” jokes.
• Did you enjoy the “Hardrock and Coco and Joe,” reference. Watch the whole thing here.
• Also: When there is a high-pitched, evil laugh, Crow intones “Rrrrraceway Park!” that’s a reference to radio commercials for this drag racing venue, (which is still in operation at this writing). I assume that riff came from Bill, who at this point replaced Frank as the source of East Coast references.
• Kudos to the Brains on getting the complicated time lag sketch right! That must have been tough to write! After the sketch, Mike and Tom are already in the theater and Crow, still lagging, joins them.
• Robot Mike does a theater segment. I like a nice detail on the Mike puppet in theater — he has a headset!
• Very typical of this show, when Mike returns as himself, he simply announces that he “got better.” Nuff said!
• Callback from the old days: a Gamera reference!
• Note that the door sequence leading to the “sylvan glen” segment ends with a real bone slamming over a wooden door. The segment is a little startling: It reminds you how studio-bound the show was. I don’t remember where I saw this, it may have been one of the Scifi.com IRC chats, but at some point one of the Brains said that the sylvan glen was only a short walk from the studio. I believe that. The area around the studio was definitely a mix of office park and what I presume was as-yet-undeveloped former farm land.
• That’s Bill as Krankor, or course.
• Cast and crew roundup: The producer of the American version, Walter H. Manley, did likewise for “The Green Slime.” Screen writer Shin Morita also wrote — dull surprise — “Invasion of the Neptune Men.”
• Creditwatch. That’s Kevin, of course, as Callipygeas (which roughly means “fat ass”) and Bridget as Favia. Kevin produced and directed. Andrea Ducane did hair and makeup for every season 8 episode except this one, when one Sharon Davis filled in. Mike Parker is back as grip (after two episodes off) and will be for the rest of the season. John Simms, who had an “SFX/foley” credit for six episodes earlier in the season, reappears as “boom operator,” which will continue for the rest of the season.
• Fave riff: “Oh, fer cryin’ out loud … EACH OF YOU…” Honorable mention: “Oh the inanity! Oh the Japanity!” “o/` Isn’t she lovely… o/`”
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Travis #47: So did THAT Raceway Park also have commercials on the radio that had a little chipmunk voice saying “Hahahahaha RRRRaceway Park!”? If so, perhaps it’s NOT an East Coast reference? There is a Raceway Park in NJ that ran those commercials when I was growing up. I perhaps foolishly assumed it was unique…
Hot on the heels of Riding With Death, yet another of my own personal Mike Top Ten episodes.
It’s hokey and cheap and silly but, unlike Neptune Men, remains tremendous fun thoughout thanks to the inspired presence of Krankor.
I can’t express in mere words how much I love, after all their panicky stupidity, the line “On their own, the giant infant scientists survived another minute, and then crashed.”
Adore this episode.
“I’m in space already DAMN” It bothered me that one non-sequiter really wasn’t, it sounded to me like one kid was telling the other, ‘if you’re afraid then go home’. As opposed to staying near an alien spaceship and not being so afraid. Anyway, I’m sure there’s a “Dr. Marken” in there, a dubbing error. Just like “killing diffren”, unless they thought “killing children” wouldn’t get past censors. The special effects deserve a special mention-I’LL THROW MY DOLL UP AT YOU. Ya’ scum.
“Your weapons are useless–but scare the crap out of me!”
This one’s a regular in the rotation, a rich slice of black-and-white low-budget made-for-TV badly-dubbed pain. With great sketches, to boot (and it’s worth mentioning that I always crack up at Kevin’s stilted, cheesy reading of the ultimate in deliberately lazy exposition lines, “Welcome…to Roman times!”) Five stars.
I leave you with this thought:
“That is one crafty parking meter.”
Love this movie. There are so many one liners that my son and I will say to each other from this movie:
Thats a toy I wouldn’t mind having, I like it VERY MUCH.
When Phantoms face is on all the tv’s
HAR, HAR, HAR…how are ya??
“Goodmorning gentlemen, welcome to my grandmothers living room.”
Mickey: Is that a Man?
Wally (crow): yeah..evidently..
All the other professors being “Mr. Rooney” look alikes. Lucille..
Does anyone else have the double feature dvd of the regular versions of Prince of Space and Invasion of the Neptune?
Unriffed POS is pretty good.
Yet watchin IOTN unriffed is like watching Manos unriffed, you kinda of want to rip your head off by the end.
Travis #47: So did THAT Raceway Park also have commercials on the radio that had a little chipmunk voice saying “Hahahahaha RRRRaceway Park!”? If so, perhaps it’s NOT an East Coast reference? There is a Raceway Park in NJ that ran those commercials when I was growing up. I perhaps foolishly assumed it was unique…
Those annoying ads STILL run in NJ during the Summer.
Such a fun episode…. of our lives.
“I’ll throw my doll at you!”
“I’m ashamed of my talk show.”
One of my all time favorite riffs is in this episode: The Prince spouts off his infamous line for the umpteenth time and the bad guys fire off a round of lazers at him, prompting him to duck and roll. Mike: “Your weapons have no effect on me but they DO scare the hell out of me!” :lol:
Bolem #13 “And speaking of old serials, a college roommate I watched this with had a theory that the appearance of Krankor’s chickenmen was a characature of how Asians stereotypically see westerners. If so, should Americans who grew up on Flash Gordon view Krankor as logical payback for our idea of Ming the Merciless? I’m not that well-versed in old serials/adventure comic strips, but his theory does make more sense the more I think about it…”
I’ve always believed that Krankor and his chickenmen were supposed to be caricatures of Americans, too. This film came out 7 years after the formal American occupation of Japan ended, and I think it reflects the frustrations and prejudices the Japanese felt during that time. And while I don’t think PoS was specifically lashing back at any single western production, I believe your friend is accurate in comparing Krankor to other racial stereotyped caracters like Ming the Merciless, Fu Manchu, or any number of evil German scientists (Batwoman’s Professor Neon, for example).
Unriffed POS is pretty good.
Yet watchin IOTN unriffed is like watching Manos unriffed, you kinda of want to rip your head off by the end.
Agreed. It’s one reason I don’t think Prince of Space and Invasion of the Neptune Men are really that much the same, despite the obvious superficial similarities. Ironically Invasion is a far more serious film: the scientists are competent, the aliens actually seem a little menacing at times, and while the costumed “Space Chief” looks as goofy as the Prince of Space he’s doesn’t act as goofy. As a result the movie is more boring than last week’s Wall Street Journal.
Easily a six out of five stars. A top episode all the way around.
My favorite riff is the one where the camera is fading from Dr. Mackin (or whatever his name is) and he gets this weird scowl on and Mike says “I’m goin’ to mess you up…ugh!” It just cracks me up.
Love this episode, The English dub sure sounds like a Speed Racer cartoon. Anyone know if they did it?
Love this episode. Just so much material for the Brains to use. And the sylvan glen host segment was a brave step outside the norm. I loved the unexpected squirrel/mouse/pulltoy that ran right in front of Mike as he was walking down the path.
At the risk of, yet again, overanalyzing a non-sensical plot, this film seems totally unsure of what role the various characters play.
Point #1 – When first introduced, Johnny calls Suzy “Mom” but later, as she is seen escorting the professor out to his car, she is briefing him on the notes she transcribed from a recent conference, stating “I think you’ll find everything is in order, professor.” Since the professor is clearly established as Johnny’s dad, and he calls Suzy “Mom,” does she call her husband “professor” and serve as his secretary? At first I thought it was just a choice for the English dub, to help explain her very traditional, servile attitude to her husband. But in another scene, Suzy is seen in the rocket lab wearing a lab coat saying “Prince of Space, he’s going AFTER THEM!” So now Suzy’s one of the scientists. To further add to the confusion, the professor states that “Suzy’s brother also deserves some of the credit, and he’s coming home soon” indicated that the walrus-faced “Bryce, when will I see you again!” scientist is her brother. Are Suzy, the professor and her brother all secret rocket-fuel researchers?! If so, why didn’t Krankor also kidnap Suzie, aside from the obvious chauvinistic explanation.
Point #2 – To further muddy up the character’s roles, the Professor states to Wally “Come, come my boy, you were a tremendous help to me in the laboratory, and your friend Dr. Cummings of America was also a great help.” WHAT?! Is Wally a boot-black or a high-ranking government scientist with international connections?! Didn’t they think it a bit suspicious than an un-educated shoeshine boy was able to assist them in making their secret rocket fuel? That would have put Wally pretty high on my “Secret Identity of Prince of Space” suspect list.
Hard to tell how much of this is problem with the dub or the original version of the film.
If I had to pick a favorite character in this film, I would pick the poor doomed fighter pilot. He’s the only one who affects an aura of dignity and confidence. Apparently he was too cool for the film, so they obliterate his character 30 seconds later with a pathetic, undignified death.
Even though the initials for this movie are PoS, I have to say that I LIKE IT VERY MUCH!
In addition to the gems already mentioned, my sister and I are often heard repeating another riff from this episode. Specially, after the rocket is destroyed and the authorities show up, Tom mimics the siren with “Ooooooh that’s a shame….”
It just cracks us up. Any time we hear a siren, one of us will usually say that or “Sooodium!”
Chalk me up as another fan who considers the time lag sketch a fav. I usually love it any time the Brains try something a little more difficult.
Somewhat off-topic, but when it comes to Japan-bashing, I was a little shocked at the abundance of Asian race jokes in some of the KTMA episodes. They really said some tasteless stuff in those days. “Are all million eyes of Su Maru slanted?” Stuff like that, though that example wasn’t the worst of them in my recollection.
Just my two cents before everyone gets all hopped-up over POS and Neptune Men.
This is the episode that told me everything will be all right after Trace left. My favorite at 5.0. Stupid, repetative, hammy and trippy. The host segments were snappy well written and cohesive. I have so many questions, somebody HELP me?
Krankorians (Krankorites, Krankorings,Krankhens, Kranks?)design space ships that span galaxies yet they have no idea on how to design landing gear? The best they come up with is to have their huge ship DRILL underground. They send up a loopy terrascope(?) AKA parking meter. They also have a tank that DRILLS underground? No wonders these Henmen waste a lot of fuel and needs Makins formula. Whats up with this?
How does a single bootblack make ends meet in 1960 Tokyo? He waltzes into the local orphanage and picks up two kids and puts them to work bootblacking. For meals he dumps them at the neighbors at meal times, leaves the kids alone at night when he has dinner with a ‘friend’ nor does he call them. He is a bachelor who skips around in a body stocking and a mask, disappears for hours and days at a time and wears baby hats on a jaunty angle on his head and they give this guy two orphans?
The planet Krankor was a trip, a very bad one! The Giant was about the lamest threat I have ever seen. The landscape reminded me of an Eskimo Pie ad.
How in high heaven did this film (by 1960 standards which allowed NO male genitalia displays) get by the sensors???!!! Unbelievable that this was released to the public and not one of the Henmen actors just put on some underwear. Were they ordered NOT to wear undergarments (yuck). I can’t believe that this was culturally acceptable practice? Somebody, lie to me on this?
That depressed, dull, unsmiling, loud, kid!? I can understand why the orphanage dumped him on Prince/Wally. That kid is easily a walking Buzz-kill. His determined, stone cold proclamation of elation expressed as
‘I LIKE IT VERY MUCH!’ sums up this episode quite nicely.
My POV:
This is the episode I would use to dismiss the claim that the Mike episodes were better at riffing and the Joel episodes were better in the host segments. I really liked the host segments in PoS: the riffing, not so much. But of course, this is my opinion after several viewings. When I originally watched it, it was one of my favorites. Perhaps it will be again. Funny how that seems to work.
Prince of Space has always been one of my faves. The movie is so silly, the dubbing wretched, the riffing great, and the host segments memorably funny. In fact, the out-of-sequence host segment is my all-time favorite. I had to watch that half a dozen times to really appreciate how cleverly they interacted while out of phase, which just made it all the funnier.
As a fan who started watching during Sci-Fi’s re-runs this was a favorite from around the begining for me.
The time-lag sketch kinda sorta reminds me of the deja vu scene in the “Future Echos” episode of Red Dwarf.
He’s PRINCE of watching his SPACE cushion!
A really fun episode.
You can say the Roman Times skits were a mixed bag, but at least it gave us some Mary Jo/Bridget time.
Personally, I loved the Observers, and think they should have stayed there longer.
One of the top 5 All time great episodes.
This is my favorite episode, hands down. It’s nothing short of masterful to me. It just kills me from start to stop.
There’s so many to choose from, but I think “I’m ashamed of my talk show” and “After that dog!” always manage to make me laugh the hardest.
This one is my ultimate pick-me-up when I truly need it.
One of the best (top 5) episodes pretty much ever .I agree about Giant Spider Invasion giving it a run for its money in Season 8.
One reason: I actually remember seing this back in like 1960 when I was a kid and thinking it was cool!
The lines/riffs a prime
“A Rare Godzilla Free Day” . is my Widows start WAV.and Krankors Laugh is my log off .WAV
The whole “Monet in paris ,the japanese dog “ruff-aroo” and “After that dog!” crack me up every time.
The gang was “on” in their segments:all.
from Bobo having to “you know..go” to chicken puppet and the arrival in “Roman Times”
added to the general psychotic Krankor and minions and well it doesnt get much beter than this!
Seriously, guys, I want my chicken puppet.
Although I’m a dedicated Joel fan,
this is my fave of ALL the episodes !
It skips rather well.
The first time I saw the scene where Prince dogfights the giant was one of the few instances I literally fell over laughing. I live close enough to Detroit that the waddling lower half of the monster being met with “Cecil Fielder!” struck a chord, but “Now I’ll swing around and take a crack at that nasty plaque”, was the one that floored me, and must therefore be my pick for fave riff.
“What, is he escorting them to the county line?” is my runner up. That preceding initial attack from the parking meter that vaporizes everything but hats was actually a decent attempt at a ‘War of the Worlds’ homage, IMHO.
Their saying his saucer looks like an upside-down covered wheelbarrow sort of leaves me with two more questions:
1.) 3 shows later, do the ‘bots ever point out how the lower/front half of Space Chief’s flying death-car looks like a tiny rowboat pointed backwards when seen from below? Their respective kitbashed vehicles make for another amusing parallel between our wispy heroes.
2.) Since the “handles” in front clearly look like they’re supposed to be gunbarrels, how come our Artist only seems to fire weaponized negative scratches from the wheel/node on top?
I LIKE IT VERY MUCH.
I have always loved Prince of Space, but I especially grew to cherish it when Sci-Fi was coming to the end of their MST repeats (they showed repeats for what, five years after the show was canceled?) and they seemed to only have the rights to a few episodes. One of them was Prince of Space (another was Invasion of the Neptune Men if I remember correctly) and so they seemed to show it every few weeks or so. It seemed like it was at least once a month. And I’d always watch it, even if it was just on in the background as I was doing something else. It’s still one of the MST episodes I find myself watching most often today.
I’ve had RHINO Vol. 7 for some time, but this is the first time I pulled out Prince of Space on DVD. As many will remember, PoS ran a lot during both the original run and the 5 years of reruns. I will always buy the DVD sets, but there are a few episodes that I’ve seen so many times that I need to give them space. :wink:
I did enjoy this episode VERY MUCH!
All my favorite riffs revolve around the giant.
“He obeys my slightest command!”
“…Like ‘wander around aimlessly’ and ‘gain weight.'”
Damn, now I gotta watch it again.
The Mike puppet was too too cute. Will look for the scampering chipmunk/ground squirrel next time.
I have always enjoyed when the guys interact with the action on the screen; Joel ‘running’ on a road scene in Warrior…, ducking under swinging gates etc. M&TB trying to avoid the Henmen’s areas were just priceless as were their comments about it. Phantom giving his henchmen Henmen 4 hours off was just so weird?!
I also noticed that the Japenese make-up and costumers have a ‘gift’ of just grabbing anything in the store room and make it culturally alien. The Phantoms mustashe appears to be glued on upside down for example. He also wears a short cape and lace tutus to denote his power and authority!? Of course we have the no underwear rule in effect as well (bbbrrrrrrr). In Fugitive Alien we have star wolves wearing curly blond wigs under their helmets and a commander who wears tons of makeup (TammyFaye magnitude, God rest her soul) with a nazi helmet. Star Wars should have put Vader in heavy make up like this guy as he was evidently the inspiration for him.
Possibly my favorite episode ever. But my favorite episode ever changes from time to time, so I’ll say (conservatively) PoS is one of my top five of all time.
“Wally’s got some stones to mess wid me.”
Ah, Captain Manikoti…
“I understand you’re stuffed with cheese.”
“There is dog hair all over the car why do you think that is HMM?”
This is probably my favorite episode – the jokes are above average throughout.
My favorite riffs:
“So no accumulated memory whatsoever.”
(I fell off the couch when I heard that for the first time. It has almost the same effect now.)
“Each of you will enter a space capsule.”
“What?”
“Oh for crying out loud, EACH OF YOU WILL ENTER A SPACE CAPSULE.”
(Hysterical! Probably my favorite MST3K line of all time)
I neglected to say how I love this movie. It’s the first episode I ever saw, having just read a good write-up about the show in TV Guide, and within 5 minutes I was fumbling for a videotape to start recording. I have watched this episode countless times and, like a few others on this board, I have given it a “rest” for a while, because I simply know the lines too well.
Still, it’s certainly one of my “desert island” episodes, if ever I should need them.
Definitely in my top five of all episodes. Hell, it’s probably in my top three, with upcoming episodes Space Mutiny and Time Chasers right next to it.
I always thought the needling of Japanese culture was in good fun, just like the Canadian riffs during Final Sacrifice, the southern slams during Squirm, the British jokes during the first chunk of season 9, or the numerous Midwestern putdowns during… well, nearly every episode.
The wormhole was also inspired, and I only wish they reused it for sketches during their return trips through it.
The riffs that have stuck with me are Crow humming the Bob Newhart Show theme during a similar establishing shot, and the famous “Our virtual pets have turned on us!” line. Or was that from Neptune Men?
Just to be different I’m going to say how much I dislike this ep… :twisted:
Actually, no I’m not.
This one is a classic and in my top twenty.
I watched it for the first time in a while earlier in the week. But something odd did happen this time. I noticed a slow spot a little bit after the middle of the ep, once they get to Krankor’s planet, I think. There is a short stretch where I started to think the riffing (so so brilliant in the first half) is about to fall flat…
But Mike and the bots pulled themselves out of it. And they seemed to do it (I don’t want to get too analytical here) by going for a more “physical” kind of riffing than in the first half of the ep…that is, just riffing on the physical actions of the goofy aliens, and turning the whole thing into a “Duck Soup” type farce. You can really sense the Brains struggling to keep up the momentum in the second half, they really really seem to want to flee the theatre when they joke about doing so, but they pull it off and it’s one of the great ones. But my point is this ep seems to have two sides to it, at least to me. Didn’t notice on the first bunch of viewings.
I love seeing Mike and the bots out in the real world. It’s disconserting and surreal in the way those shifts in old British television shows are–when they go from video shot studio interiors to outside film…
“Woody Allen asked me out!”
A+
Once showed this to a friend, who perfectly timed a question about the function of the antennas on all the headpieces; as soon as he finished his sentence, on a close up of Krankor, Mike quipped, “Hold on, I’m pickin’ up a Dodgers game…”, a case of perfect synchronicity.
Still, there seemed to be some signifigance to PoS shooting the tips of the chickenmen’s antennae to make them fall over from collective headaches, like it destroyed their equilibrium or something. Part of the premise lost in the dub/condensing, or a last minute editing decision to play down the violence of the hero actually shooting them?
Moving on:
Like most of my friends, I’m a big amime fan, so it used to bug me a bit that the Brains routinely dismissed all anime and manga as “violent porn cartoons/comics”. But then I realized that being a fan of “anime” in general likely has much to do with growing up in the ’80s, when Voltron and especially Robotech gave kids a glimpse of a world across the pond where cartoons had much more intelligent and mature stories than our beloved toy-commercials, if only we could peel back the veil of edited content, dubbed cop-outs (fortunately they were only robots, I can see their parachutes, good thing it’s Sunday, that was Sven still alive with brown hair and NOT his brother, and the SDF2 was destroyed before the camera could pan over and verify its existence), and unrelated cartoons getting smished together to be long enough for syndication. However, after that decade or so of video companies importing and translating the cream of the crop, so much has been imported in recent years that said cream is often drowned out by the deluge of pocket monster/gaming tie-ins and other such generic crap that even Adult Swim is running out of decent new stuff to air. It’s only natural that the Brains would just reference the handful of stand-out older Japanimation shows that aired in their youth/adolesence, and the horrors they’ve heard of hentai, since that’s all that would stand out in your mind if you “weren’t there”, so I’m not complaining.
I only typed all that to preface how shocked I was, albeit pleasantly, at a joke made while the masked Krankorians in that car are spying on “Shoe Shine Boy” (was this released before Underdog debuted? I digress…) Just what is Tom saying as that guy reads his newspaper: “they shelled Nagomu again last night”? Because the first several times I watched this, it sure sounded like, “They shelled an ohmu again last night”.
If the latter, I believe that must be a reference to ‘Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind’, arguably Hayao Miyazaki’s best movie, partly because it managed to have a strong environmental message without beating the viewer over the head with it. Ohmu (can’t remember if I’m spelling that right) looked like enormous horseshoe crabs with compound eyes on their front half, and people harvested their hard shells to make impregnable armor. The riff may have been inspired by the way the henchmen’s masks bulged in and out, reminiscent of gas masks worn by some characters in contaminated areas of Nausicaa’s post-apocalyptic world.
I really hope I heard “ohmu” right, as that must mean there was a Miyazaki fan amongst the SciFi era Brains! Of course I probably didn’t, or ohmu may have some more widely known meaning I’m unaware of, but what the hell-of-needles, it still makes me feel good.
This episode has one of my catch phrases for people asking how I am; “I’m having a rare Godzilla free morning.” Paraphrased and all that. For some reason I thought Sonny Chiba was the lead character and then my meds wore off. Great episode and a very clever lagged skit.
“Jimmy Osmond!” i agree with other posters that there isn’t too much Japan bashing in this. there isn’t nearly as much as IotNM and they could have really gone nuts with that one. and the Japanese do kinda deserve it on a daily basis. a great job riffing on this one. the roman times theme is a little tiresome considering how long it lasts. but i really do enjoys this one.
I’m dazzled that my WardE contribution was linked (Dog & Bear dialog). That was one of the first things I ever did on my first PC, and it’s still out there. I’ve wondered for 10 years now about the literary allusion…Call of the Wild is the first time anyone has ventured a guess, and it’s as good as any.
Possibly my favorite all-time episode; definitely in the top 3. I use the phrase “easily bamboozled” all the time.
A good friend of mine holds up Prince of Space,the movie itself, as a perfect example (not a horrible one, a perfect one) of one of the most persistent flaws in a lot of Japanese pop-action-fiction, particularly those aimed at kids and teens. And it’s all embodied in the Prince of Space himself.
Why is he so unstoppable? He’s just right out of the gate inherently better than these alien invaders he’s never encountered at every turn, despite their ability to beat the snot out of everyone else on Earth. He’s the ubermensch, and that’s all we apparently need to know. There’s never a moment of doubt in anything he does. He just plows through everything with his betterness, only at best a glancing nod at cleverness being how he wins… mostly it’s just because he’s Better.
This general theme pops a lot in action anime, it seems, symbolized by the BURNING HEART-O I MUST SUCCEED OVER 9000 HEART OF THE CAAAAAARDS. Granted, more of these “heros” get the snot beat out of them a lot, but still, as a general rule, victory comes from Super Sayining through things, or marginally obvious jabs at “smart” fighting. (Or, nonsensical “wait, what?”, but we’ll leave that alone.)
There’s no drama to be had here… but tons of comedy. this episode is easily in my top 5 all-time MSTs.
#93:
I believe they where talking about Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo, who had 1 good year with the Los Angeles Dodgers and then for the rest of his carrer he did nothing spectacular, and was not particulary good
Is this the one with the “Hitler Building”?
Just stunning….
^Hitler_Building
Negative. That’s “Invasion of the Neptune Men”. But seriously, you have earned the right to get these two confused.