However, I've also learned that there are a lot of people out there, including those who also grew up with the show, who don't share my enthusiasm for it. In particular, many diehard Godzilla fans look at it as something of a stain on the character's image and one of the many examples in which America has bungled him in terms of adaptation (it's somewhat akin to how the 1960's Batman show was looked at for a while and still is, in some cases). And, despite all of the nostalgia I have for the show, I can easily put a critical hat on with it and admit that it's anything but perfect: the characters are two-dimensional, the plots are very repetitive, the show is often simplistic and kid-oriented in nature, especially with the presence of Godzooky, and Godzilla's own function is little more than that of an overgrown, loyal guard dog for the main human cast. So, in a way, I can understand why there are many who look down on it, and I will say that, if you didn't grow up with it, it likely wouldn't do much for you. But, as with the very upopular Godzilla vs. Megalon, given how much Godzilla has thrived in the decades since, I think people need to stop taking so many shots at this show and look at it as just an interesting and, truthfully, significant chapter in his history. Again, it has more than its fair share of flaws and I will point out as many of them as I can throughout this review, but it also has a genuine sense of good-natured fun and sincerity to it that I find irresistible and I also feel puts it in line with some of Godzilla's enjoyably campier films.
By the way, before we get into the real meat of the show itself, I'd like to point out that there were numerous different titles ascribed to it during its original broadcast history on NBC in the late 70's and early 80's. The Godzilla Power Hour was what it was originally called when it was first broadcast, as it was put into an hour long time slot with Jana of the Jungle, and then, it was re-titled The Godzilla Super 90 when it was given a time slot of an hour and a half when reruns of Jonny Quest were added into the mix. When the second season began in late 1979, plans to pair the show up with The New Shmoo and The Thing cartoons were dropped in favor of it being given its own half-hour time slot, where it was simply Godzilla, per the cartoon's actual name. Near the end of the year, it was paired up with the Super Globetrotters cartoon, resulting in The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour, and after actual production ended, it would be teamed up with Dynomutt (along with The Funky Phantom) and Hong Kong Phooey, where it was called The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour and The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour, respectively. It finally finished out its original run on NBC again as simply Godzilla before being removed to make way for The Smurfs (a show I never liked and now, I have another reason not to like it) and wouldn't be seen again until Cartoon Network and Boomerang played it, beginning in the 90's. I bring this up just to make it clear that I am well aware of the different names the show carried with it but I was not going to pull all of those in the post's title, for obvious reasons (I only put The Godzilla Power Hour up there because it's the most well-known of these time slot titles). I personally just call it the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla, which is another title I'm going to put in the tags list.
Something else you should know is that, as of now, only the first season has ever been released on DVD and you can only see the second one on streaming sites, the source of which are recordings from when those episodes were aired on Cartoon Network. So, you're going to see the quality of the images here fluctuate dramatically, with some being crisp and remastered, while others will look a bit blurry and washed out, though you'll still be able to make out what's going on in them, for the most part. I say "for the most part" because, in those season two episodes, scenes are sometimes so dark that you can't quite make out what you're looking at.
The idea of doing Godzilla as an animated series was that of Joseph Barbera, who was often on the hunt for new concepts for shows. He said in an interview that he'd wanted to do Godzilla for a while and, fortunately for him, he happened to be friends with Henry G. Saperstein, the American producer who had been instrumental in a handful of Godzilla movies, as well as other Toho monster flicks, getting released in the U.S. Through his good relations with the studio, Hanna-Barbera was able to acquire the rights to the character, and to act as the show's main producer, they chose Doug Wildey, who'd created Jonny Quest for them, as well as came up with the character designs. His involvement, which would eventually grow to include acting as story director for most of the second season's episodes and as recording director for the entirety of that season, would lead to Godzilla sharing a number of elements with that show, such as the aforementioned designs, the types of vehicles, the use of lighting and shading effects, and such. Also acting as producer was, fittingly, an American-born son of Japanese immigrants: Iwao Takamoto, who'd started off as an animator at Disney before joining Hanna-Barbera and acting in various capacities on a number of their shows. Most notably, he played a part in the creation of the character of Scooby-Doo. The series' episodes were directed by Ray Patterson and Carl Urbano, both of whom had been working in the animation industry since the 1930's, with Patterson starting out as another Disney animator, working on their shorts as well as on the movie, Dumbo, and then moving on to do the same on a number of Hanna and Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoons, while Urbano had been an animator on the other cartoons MGM produced. Both of them had a fair amount of directing experience when they took on Godzilla and would go on to have long and successful careers doing so. In the second season, they were joined by two other directors: Oscar Dufau and George Gordon. While Dufua's career in animation hadn't begun until the 60's, Gordon, like Patterson and Urbano, had been working since the 30's, significantly as a director on many, many theatrical cartoons up to the 50's before making the switch to television animation.
The show centers around the adventures of the crew of the Calico, an advanced research vessel, as they travel the ocean and come across various types of strange phenomena. The group consists of Captain Carl Majors, Dr. Quinn Darien, her nephew, Pete, and her research assistant, Brock, as well as Godzooky, Godzilla's young nephew. The characters are very similar to the main cast of Jonny Quest in regards to their roles, as you have a brilliant scientist in Quinn; a somewhat stern but ultimately likeable authority figure in Captain Majors, making him, like Quinn, also akin to Dr. Quest in that respect; a young, precocious, blonde-haired boy in Pete; an element of racial diversity with the African-American Brock who, like Hadji with Jonny, also acts as a buddy to Pete (he's similar to Race Bannon, as well, given how he's the most physically fit of the group); and a comic relief "pet" with Godzooky. The group often find themselves coming up against giant monsters and similar threats and, whenever they're in a real jam, call upon Godzilla to help, either with a signaling device that Captain Majors keeps with him, and of which they must have plenty of spares, considering how often it gets lost or smashed, or by having Godzooky yell for him. That's the basic structure and, admittedly, it can get repetitive, especially when you watch a bunch of episodes in a row, despite the sometimes interesting concepts of the antagonistic monsters. There are some breaks from the formula here and there, especially in the second season, such as the group coming across Atlantis, getting thrown back into prehistoric times, dealing with an experimental prototype of an aquaric harvesting machine that's gone berserk, and getting captured by a terrorist organization, but it always comes down to Godzilla having to save them, often engaging in some kind of climactic battle. I can see how the uninitiated could quickly lose interest with this premise but, while this is probably just nostalgia talking, I personally believe that the show has enough entertainment factor to make up for the repetitiveness.
In getting into the individual characters, you have to remember that it's Hanna-Barbera, meaning you shouldn't expect three-dimensional, deeply-conflicted personalities here. While the crew of the Calico are certainly likeable enough to where you don't want to see them get killed, they're very bland and don't have much to them at all. As the commander of the ship, Captain Majors (voiced by Jeff David), like I said, can be a bit stern but, for the most part, he's a pretty easygoing, laid back guy, one who definitely cares about the well-being of those on his ship and implicitly trusts Godzilla to come to their aid, as does everyone else. While he's the one in charge in terms of running the ship when they're out at sea, he more than gladly defers to Dr. Darien when it comes to scientific matters, as the situations often call for, since he'll be the first to admit that it's not his expertise. Quinn (voiced by Brenda Thompson) is just as brilliant as she is beautiful, though the show never makes it clear just what her field is. Offhand, I'd say she's a biologist but, as per usual with scientist characters, she's often portrayed as being adept in whatever expertise is called for: geology, seismology, physics, etc. As you can guess, she's the one who usually figures out how to defeat the antagonistic monster or resolve the dilemma they've gotten caught up in. Her scientific curiosity also sometimes puts her in potential danger, much to Captain Majors' concern, and while there is a hint of romantic attraction between the two of them, it's so vague that it's not even worth dwelling upon (at least the addition of a woman in the cast keeps people from seeing unintended homosexuality in it, as they often do between Dr. Quest and Race Bannon).
Despite being a young boy, Quinn's nephew, Pete (voiced by Al Eisenmann), is quite capable in a number of ways. Not only does he often help his aunt in her research when he can but he's sometimes shown doing various chores aboard the ship, as well as making lunch for everybody in one episode, taking down an S.O.S. message in another, and even steering the ship and flying the crew's minicopter in the very first one! Despite the dangers involved, he's usually more than willing to get in on the excitement but is often discouraged by the adults, who tell him that it's too dangerous; it usually doesn't stop him and Godzooky from getting into trouble, anyway. Speaking of which, Pete and Godzooky are really close buddies, even though Godzooky sometimes annoys him with his antics and his attempts to help, which usually result in him getting in the way. Moreover, Pete is able to not only talk to Godzooky but can actually understand what he means through his constant grunts and whines. He says in the first episode that it's more about trying to guess what he's thinking but Pete is able to translate fairly complex statements from Godzooky, as if he is speaking a language that Pete understands. And finally, there's Brock (voiced by Hilly Hicks), Quinn's research assistant and the Calico's ostensible first mate. Even amongst this group, Brock doesn't have a lot to him, other than being a likable, capable, and dependable guy. Sadly, other than the fact that he's the one black guy in the show, there's not much to say, other than Godzooky often aggravates him more than he does Pete.
From a design standpoint, Godzilla is a nice-looking show. As with Jonny Quest, Doug Wildey's human characters are both appealing and realistic in the way they look, with the only over-the-top one being the evil General Zador in the episode, Island of Doom, whose malevolence is depicted by his fang-like teeth. In addition, while the animation on the characters' movements, albeit better than some of Hanna-Barbera's other cartoons, is still fairly basic for the most part, with many repeated frames and movement cycles (it got a lot better as the show went on), their facial expressions and the way they change from one to the other tend to be quite good and more detailed than what you usually get with these cartoons. Shading effects and shadows are often used, though that's mainly when it comes to Godzilla himself, as the humans are all typically lit in the same, standard manner. The environments and backgrounds, while maybe not quite detailed enough to be worthy of being hung up in art galleries, also tend to look really nice. Due to a baffling stipulation by the network, which I'll get into later, there's not a lot of urban action in the show, with San Francisco and Washington, D.C. being the only major cities that are featured. Most of the stories are set on tropical islands, jungles and rainforests, deserts (both the sandy and rocky kind), icy areas like the Arctic and the Himalayas, and the middle of the ocean, and they all have an appealing feel to them. The first season had everything drawn in a harder, more contrasting manner, but when the second season rolled around, things looked softer. While the lighting is nothing special, scenes that take place at sunset, dusk, and night are drawn to represent the time of the day, with the sky either being painted a deep orange or purple or with everything being given darker shades to their colors, and there are some nice shots of the sun itself as it sets. And finally, as you can see, it's a very colorful show, looking very rich when viewed in a nice print.
I wouldn't go as far as to call the Calico another character, as you don't see much of it aside from the bridge and the deck, as well as the research lab and the hold, in some instances, and there's nothing that noteworthy about the way its interiors look (the shots of its body are instantly recognizable, though), but it's still a very significant aspect of the show, as it's basically the characters' home as well as their workspace. Besides being a big research ship, it's also a hydrofoil, able to travel at high speeds whenever the need arises, and it comes equipped with high-tech gadget and vehicles (again, not unlike Jonny Quest). The one that brings to mind Doug Wildey's most famous creation is the hovercraft, though this thing is more like a smaller boat that they use in order to reach shore rather than something that can hover across the ground. They also have a bathysphere that they use to explore deep fathoms, though more often than not, they use the ship's mini-sub when they traverse the ocean, and a mini-copter in order to travel vast distances on land. Godzooky often has to keep up with these contraptions by flying whenever they're in use, and in the first episode, he has to take to the air in order for the Calico to reach its maximum speed on the hydrofoil, something that's rarely brought up again.
A lot of fans hate this goody-goody depiction of Godzilla but what a lot of them seem to overlook is that, while he's the hero, he doesn't act like an exuberant, campy goofball like he did in a number of the films. In fact, there are very few funny moments with him period, as he's pretty stoic and all business whenever he's called into action. His brows are almost always lowered into a mean-looking scowl and he rarely gives a genuine smile (that first image you're seeing here is the closest he usually comes to one). What's more, he always goes right into dealing with the situation at hand, doesn't have much tolerance for Godzooky getting in the way when he's busy, often glaring and roaring at him to get him to leave, and when he's battling the other monsters, he's not throwing punches, doing karate chops, or overly athletic kicks, as he tended to do in the movies. In fact, the fights mostly consist of animalistic grappling (be prepared to see me use that term a lot in describing the fights), pins, and Godzilla using his special powers to beat his opponents back, which some people find boring but I think it's usually presented in a manner to make it exciting enough to where that doesn't happen. And as loyal to the Calico as he is, there was an instance in one episode where Dr. Darien had to take some skin samples from him and Godzilla didn't look too thrilled about it. They had to get Godzooky to settle him down, showing that, friend or not, he's still a giant beast who has a limit to how much he'll put up with.
Look-wise, I think they captured the essential basics of Godzilla's iconic design: a giant, anthropomorphic dinosaur resembling a T-Rex, with a long, powerful tail and several distinct rows of dorsal plates going down his back. The plates were what really got me hyped up as a kid; when I saw them, with that unmistakable shape to them, I knew for sure that this was Godzilla. Granted, he should have three rows rather than just one, specifically a large middle one and two smaller ones on either side, which was their standard look at that point in the films, and yeah, he's green, which he never was in the original movies, despite popular belief, but I can live with it. Plus, what other color were they going to give him? If they tried to give him the more accurate dark-gray color, I don't think it would have fit here and, in fact, probably could have come off pretty ugly and unpleasant to look at. Some complain that he's too fat but they seem to forget that, even in the movies, he has a bit of a belly on him, and he doesn't look much fatter here than he does there (okay, admittedly in some bits of animation, like in the second image here, he is a bit too tubby). One thing that is kind of weird and really stood out to me when I was a kid is how the shading on him leaves the lower section of his belly, extending all the way to the underside of his tail, a solid black. It's meant to suggest that the light's simply not reaching down there, which is punctuated in the instances where Godzilla ends up on his back and it's all green (sometimes, that's not the case, though), but as I said in the introduction, it looks like he's wearing black shorts (or, as my mom commented when she saw it, a diaper), a notion that's compounded when more of his belly and underside is colored black than should be. And finally, if you'll notice, his head has something of a dog-like look to it from certain angles, which is ironic since, in the later movies, they gave Godzilla a more cat-like face.
Radioactivity is not completely absent from the series, as some of the evil monsters are said to have atomic properties, but Godzilla himself doesn't seem to be a nuclear mutant as he is in the movies. Again, it's not surprising they went this route, not just because of the nature of the show but also because, by the end of the first series of films, his nuclear origins had been all but forgotten. Here, Godzilla is little more than just a simple, dinosaur-like sea monster, one who breathes actual fire out of his mouth (and through his nose, in one episode), like a dragon, rather than his iconic atomic blast, which fans tend to point to as another instance of him being dumbed down for American audiences. It never bothered me as a kid, since I didn't understand the nuclear angle and always felt Godzilla breathed fire anyway. In addition, he's also able to fire a pair of red, laser eye-beams, not unlike Superman, and making him come off even more like a superhero. Again, a lot of hardcore fans hate that addition but, while I do think it's kind of weird and inexplicable now, I've never minded it and, as a kid, I thought it was cool, to the point where I wished he did it in the movies (but, then again, I wanted him to every superpower imaginable when I was a kid).
Of all the aspects of this show that fans dislike, I don't think any get as much flack as Godzooky, Godzilla's goofball nephew. When Joseph Barbera first came up with the idea of doing a Godzilla animated series, Godzooky was not something he had in mind at all. Not surprisingly, he was the result of a stipulation imposed on Barbera by an NBC executive, one who asked him to lighten the show's tone up and make it much more kid-friendly than they had probably intended originally. I don't know how well Godzooky went over with kids at the time but, nowadays, he's pretty much loathed universally. In fact, I don't think it's a stretch to say that he's often met with about as much ire as other despised characters like Scrappy-Doo and Jar Jar Binks, with a lot of people being unable to enjoy the show because of his mere presence. It's true that he is often little more than a bumbling source of comic relief and, when I first started watching the show, I wasn't exactly enamored with him, but I've never hated Godzooky and I don't think he's as bad as people make him out to be. In fact, he serves a significant purpose to the group in that, when they need Godzilla but are unable to use the signaler, as he calls him in himself, and they also sometimes need him to tell Godzilla what has to be done. As pesky as he can be to them, there's no doubt that he's just as loyal to the Calico crew and often just as brave as his uncle (especially when it comes to Pete); sometimes, he gets himself in trouble and has to be saved but, more often not, he's the one helping them and saving their lives as much as Godzilla. Where he does get a bit annoying is when he gets in Godzilla's way when he's in the middle of a fight, something that did irk me when I was a kid, but it tends not to last long, as Godzilla often either roars at him or places him out of the way when he gets the chance. Some may find just that to be more irksome than they can stand but, if I were to be given the choice of Godzooky or Scrappy-Doo, the latter of whom I wanted to beat the shit out of even when I was a kid, I'd take Godzooky any day of the week. At least when Godzooky rushes in to try to fight the evil monsters, he quickly realizes he's outmatched and runs for it, something Scrappy never does.
Ostensibly, Godzooky is this show's version of Minya, Godzilla's son in the first series of movies, right down to the smoke rings he spews out when he tries to breathe fire (Godzooky apparently gets choked on them as well, often coughing after blowing some). However, while it's not made clear in the show, according to official sources, he's actually meant to be Godzilla's nephew rather than his son, implying that Godzilla had either a brother or a sister who's now no longer in the picture. What happened to Godzooky's parents is just as good of a question as who Minya's mother was in the movies or if Godzilla really is his dad, but the one I want answered is, what did Godzilla's sibling mate with to produce Godzooky? The reason I ask that are those wings he has on the undersides of his arm. They come in handy, as Godzooky is able to use his ability to fly to help his friends, but why does he have them? Did Godzilla's sibling screw Rodan or some other winged monster? Or are they just a surprisingly useful deformity or mutation? Who knows? It's obviously not something you're supposed to think about too hard but I know I'd really like to find out whose idea it was to give him wings. Godzooky's vocalizations were provided by Don Messick, who was basically Hanna-Barbera's answer to the legendary Mel Blanc and, among other things, the original voice of Scooby-Doo. The grunts, groans, and whines that he gave Godzooky have the same thick, animalistic texture he did for Scooby's voice (in the first episode, they were more throaty in how they sounded), and while not as memorable as Ted Cassidy's roars and growls, they do give Godzooky personality. Again, I'd much rather have that than, "Put 'em, put 'em up!", and, "Dah-da-da-du-dah-du! Puppy power!"
Toho may have given Hanna-Barbera the rights to Godzilla himself but the same couldn't be said for any of the other monsters that appeared in their films, meaning that they had to come up with their own opponents for the Big G to fight. While some were fairly ho-hum, many of the monsters they came up with had very interesting designs and concepts to them, with a select few being inspired by some of the kaiju they were unable to get ahold of. For instance, the very first episode featured the Firebird, a big, Pterodactyl-like creature that emerges from an erupting volcano; obviously, this creation was based on Rodan. The second episode featured the Eartheater, a subterranean monster that's literally devouring the city of San Francisco, one block at a time, using powerful soundwaves from the antennae on his head to blast his way through the ground. This monster is somewhat akin to Baragon, the dinosaur-like creature that was the antagonist in Frankenstein Conquers the World and had, at that point, appeared briefly in the Godzilla movie, Destroy All Monsters (he wouldn't actually battle Godzilla in a film until the 2000's). The Guardians of Ramal are a couple of stone, lion-like creatures that protect an ancient pyramid in the deserts of Egypt, blasting intruders with sandstorms that they can then change into icy blizzards. Their breath proves to be strong enough to freeze Godzilla solid at one point and they can also create giant hailstones to bombard him with. They could possibly be based on King Caesar, the lion-like deity of ancient Okinawa in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, but that might be something of a stretch. The Megavolt Monsters are a group of aquatic reptiles with powerful electrical charges running through their bodies, the source of which is at the bottom of a deep trench, in an area where the ocean is literally suspended in the air above the seabed. There are two small ones and a big one that attacks ships, including the Calico, as well as tangles with Godzilla a couple of times. The Seaweed Monster is basically what its name entails: a creature made out of seaweed, with the ability to reform itself from any piece that's blasted off. It shares some attributes with Hedorah, the Smog Monster, in that the ultimate monster is a result of all of the different creatures coming together and dehydration is the only way to ultimately kill it. Interestingly, it's suggested that it might have come about when some seaweed was exposed to radiation. The Energy Beast is a centipede-like, alien monster that feeds on electrical energy and is able to use it to create and throw glowing orbs powerful enough to seriously injure Godzilla when he gets hit by one. More significantly, he's able to shape-shift into other forms and takes on Godzilla's guise for most of the episode, making it look as if he's suddenly turned bad. This is very likely a reference to Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, the first act of which featured Mechagodzilla going on a rampage while disguised as the real Godzilla.
One of the more interesting monsters is the Colossus of Atlantis, though not because of his design, which kind of reminds me of Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons on steroids, with long, retractable arms with pincer-like hands and green eye-beams for weapons. Rather it's his backstory: he's the guardian of the ancient civilization but he's gone haywire and is now keeping the Atlanteans in the suspended animation they used to escape the earthquake that destroyed their city. He's also able to control the city's security systems, capturing and actually destroying the Calico(!), as well as imprisoning Godzilla in the same suspended animation, leaving the crew defenseless. In another episode, the crew finds an island with a powerful force field around it and they discover that its purpose is to keep in a bizarre, cyclops-like monster. Said creature is able to turn invisible and lift objects up with gravity beams he fires from his one eye. He could be based a little bit on Ebirah, the giant shrimp in Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster, as he has some crustacean qualities, like big crab claws for hands. One episode actually featured two monsters, each controlled by the Sirens of Greek legend: a Minotaur, which stalks people in an underground maze and a Chimera, a lion-headed, dragon-like creature. The Minotaur is a few feet bigger than Godzooky and is only a prelude to the Chimera, which the Sirens eventually bring under control and bond with to make him powerful enough to take on Godzilla. The Magnetic Monster featured in one episode could possibly have been inspired by Gamera, the giant turtle kaiju whose own film series served as competition for Godzilla from the mid-60's to early-70's. His overall body is like that of a giant sea turtle, albeit with a bird-like face and beak, a crown of spines on the back of his head, and what looks like a pair of antennae up near the front, all of which actually make him kind of freaky-looking. As his name implies, he has immense magnetic powers and is able to draw anything made of metal into his mouth, as well as use his power to deflect Godzilla's eye-beams. When he reaches the South Pole, he begins feeds on its magnetism and grows until he's big enough to tower over Godzilla, though this ultimately proves to be his undoing. The Breeder Beast is another monster that was inspired by Hedorah, as it's a huge, gelatinous creature that's made up of a toxic material and has contaminated sections of the ocean (at least, I think that part of the story is due to it). It comes ashore near Washington, D.C., where it feeds on a natural gas plant and becomes so bloated with explosive substances that it could destroy the city and the coastline with it if ruptured. Because of this, it manages to destroy much of Washington without being touched, feeding on the precious metals at the mint and becoming like a living nuclear bomb. Its eye-like nucleus is able to dissolve anything that comes into contact with it, it's able to do the same to buildings and vehicles it passes over, and after it feeds on the mint, it turns yellow and sprouts tendrils that it uses against Godzilla and the crew. The Wachuka is basically a giant Abominable Snowman, worshiped by a race of human-sized snowmen called the Wachuki in the Himalayas. He's the closest this show got to having a King Kong stand-in, or, in keeping with Toho films, the Gargantuas from The War of the Gargantuas.
The first season was where 90% of the show's most memorable monsters popped up, although it ended with an episode where the crew gets thrown back in time and has to deal with normal dinosaurs. Specifically, they deal with a Diplodocus, which Dr. Darien says, "Weren't too choosy about what they ate," even though they're known to have been herbivores, and an Allosaurus that Godzilla has to deal with. This was something of a sign as to where the second season would go with its monsters, as many of those episodes deal with simple giant animals. You had a valley full of giant insects, with the main threat being a big black widow that paralyzes and webs up Godzilla; various sea creatures feeding on a strange substance that makes them grow to huge sizes; and even a giant housefly (believe it or not, that episode is one of the best in the whole series). A giant squid and a giant octopus were also featured, the former being the creation of a mad scientist while the latter was simply released from the bottom of the ocean by the explosion of a torpedo, its presence rather unnecessary in context with that episode's actual story. However, the second season wasn't completely devoid of really interesting monsters. In fact, the fourth episode, The Beast of Storm Island, centered around one of the show's most memorable: Axor, an anthropomorphic, cobra-like monster who can fire energy bolts from his mouth, blow strong gusts out of wind out of an opening in his hood-shaped head, and has mind-control powers. He's enslaved a Canadian island's inhabitants and is forcing them to build a big temple for him around the pit where he gets his power. Yeah, a monster with a god complex! He manages to make Captain Majors, Dr. Darien, and Brock his slaves, forcing Pete and Godzooky to go up against him themselves while trying to get Godzilla's help. Another monster, the Power Dragon, seems to have been inspired by King Ghidorah, as he's a flying, serpent-like reptile that shoots lightning out of his mouth. He only has one head, unlike the three-headed Ghidorah, but like Ghidorah, he has a crown of horns on the back of his head and no arms, as his wings are his sole limbs, with claw-like appendages at their tips. A really bizarre monster appears in the episode, Moonlode: a bluish gray-colored humanoid creature with glowing spots all over his body that arrives from the moon on the night of an eclipse and begins pulling ships and other crafts down under the water with the gravity beams he produces from those spots. He doesn't really have a name but Brock, at one point, calls him the "Gravity Goliath." Regardless, I barely remembered this one from when I was a kid, so when I was rewatching the show, I had no clue what it was initially. The Golden Guardians are these gigantic, multi-armed statues that are controlled by the high priest of an Indian tribe through a mystical "Dream Stone." Besides their great strength, one of them manages to use the beams they fire from the green gems that serve as their eyes to drain Godzilla's strength and turn him into a golden statue! The last actual monsters that appear in the show are these red-colored, spiky reptiles that live deep within the bowels of the Earth, actually feeding on lava. They're rather derivative of the Eartheater and the Megavolt Monsters in terms of their design, habits, and origin. Plus, not only do they turn out to not be the cause of the crisis in that episode, as you would think, but they're so small when compared to some of the other monsters that they never even face Godzilla, making their presence more superfluous than that of the giant octopus.
During their adventures, the Calico crew run into other villains besides evil monsters, many of which have monsters under their control. In the first season, they ran into the Sirens of ancient legend, who control the Minotaur and the Chimera and are able to do the same to others through the strange singing they emit. They also have the power to turn people to stone and manage to put Godzilla to sleep, leaving the crew defenseless. And near the end of the episode, they combine their powers and become one, doing the same with the Chimera in order to give him the size and power necessary to battle Godzilla. The penultimate episode of the first season features the Wachuki, a race of snowmen who live in a tropical valley at the center of a volcano in the Himalayas. They plan to take back the land that they were driven from by humans, using an army of big, muscular snowmen to do so, as well as devices they've created that can freeze people into blocks of ice. The first episode of Season 2 featured Dr. Voltrane, a mad scientist who captures the Calico and creates clones of the crew, including Godzooky, in order to send them to a secret rendezvous with another scientist who's discovered a large deposit of oil beneath the sea, find out where it is, and steal it for his own purposes. Voltrane is like a James Bond villain in that he operates from an enormous ship akin to a supertanker, big enough to completely engulf the Calico (akin to the Liparus, the supertanker used by Karl Stromberg, the villain in The Spy Who Loved Me), and one of the features on the tanker is an aquarium full of piranhas, like Blofeld had in You Only Live Twice. He also has numerous clones of his daughter all over the ship, acting as guards and workers, and he's created a gigantic clone of a squid that he uses to do the real dirty work. The episode with the Power Dragon features the Cloud Dwellers, a race of people from an alternate dimension who attempt to escape the dragon by establishing a cloud-bound city on Earth. Initially seeming benevolent, the leader, Zaius, turns hostile towards them when Godzilla manages to vanquish the dragon, as he plans to make the two monster fights to the death, allowing him to conquer Earth and establish an empire. The Golden Guardians, as I said, are controlled by the high priest of an Indian tribe, using them to keep away strangers, who he feels will interfere with their old, ancient ways. In fact, his tribe would rather not be chained to these old ways anymore but he uses the threat of the Guardians to keep them in line. One of a couple of episodes that feature no monsters of any kind, Island of Doom, has the Calico crew captured by COBRA, a terrorist organization stationed on a heavily fortified island near Australia (this was long before GI Joe, by the way). As you might expect, they plan to conquer the world, using their stockpile of nuclear weapons to hold all major cities at ransom, unaware that their base's nuclear reactor is unstable and has the potential to explode and destroy the island, as well as produce fallout that could endanger the Earth itself. They're very similar to the Red Bamboo in Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster in that respect. And the final episode of the show had a race of icy aliens, led by a Commander Kyros, that planned to destroy the Earth by making it collide with Frios, an enormous, frozen asteroid, so they could repopulate it. That plot is similar to the Toho movie, Gorath.
Although doing Godzilla as a cartoon show has a lot of potential, given the character's popularity with kids and the freeing nature of animation, Joseph Barbera said that he and the production team ran into a major roadblock from Standards and Practices. They had to really tone down the violence and not allow any people to get killed, no doubt because of the adverse reaction some people had to the surprisingly edgy Jonny Quest a little over a decade before. This meant that Godzilla had to be portrayed as a noble, heroic monster rather than the force of destruction he started out as, which I feel would have been a given, considering that was the most popular image of him by this point and would have been the best way to go about adapting him into a kids-oriented show, anyway. However, it also meant that there could be no property damage or armed forces getting blown up, which is a big part of the Godzilla formula. Like I said earlier, to get around this problem, they set most of the stories in uninhabited places like islands, deserts, arctic landscapes, and the like, with only a couple being set in major cities or involving any sort of installations and in those instances, the antagonistic monsters are the ones who cause any sort of destruction. This isn't unprecedented, as some of the movies took place far away from any cities and the climactic monster battles often occurred in big, open fields rather than in the hearts of the cities, but it is odd that you don't see Godzilla in an urban environment more than you do. It's even more unusual that the military almost never gets involved in the battles against the evil monsters, as their presence is another big part of the franchise. That's one of the reasons why I like the episode Island of Doom as much as I do, as you get to see Godzilla getting shot at, hit with missiles, and bombed as he marches through the interior to save the crew from COBRA. It's the closest the show ever gets to feeling like the movies.
However, even though the destruction in that episode was probably allowed because Godzilla's fighting off an evil terrorist organization, no one actually gets killed, as they're all shown running for it. There's even one instance where Godzilla grabs a plane out of midair but allows the pilot to eject before he tears it apart. There are no human casualties at all in this show (save for a couple of instances that are questionable, which I'll get into later), with the villains almost always getting captured, and more often than not, the enemy monsters aren't killed but rather are either defeated in battle, trapped, or banished. Those that are destroyed are either so inorganic or don't feel much like animals that it doesn't come off as disturbing (like the Stone Guardians, the Seaweed Monster, the Colossus, and the Golden Guardians) or it's done in a way that isn't upsetting, like how Axor simply gets disintegrated by his own attack bouncing back at him and the combined Chimera and Sirens die when they fall off a cliff, into the ocean. Others are cured of their mutation, like the giant fly in MicroGodzilla, the oversized sea creatures in The Macro-Beasts, and even the Breeder Beast, which is revealed at the end to have started out as a tiny creature that got mutated by pollution. The only monsters whose deaths are kind of "ugh" are the Eartheater, who falls into San Francisco Bay and melts into mud, and the Magnetic Monster, who gets right over the South Pole and grows until his body explodes like a popped balloon! God knows why Standards and Practices let those by but, then again, the criteria of organizations like them and the MPAA has never made sense to me.
Going back to the subject of the animation for a bit, I will say right here that Godzilla is one of the better animated shows that Hanna-Barbera produced during its classic run. Again, it was still pretty simple and a bit stiff for the most part, with many instances of odd, repeated gestures, especially in the first season, but it had more frames to it than in some of their past shows, especially the old Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound cartoons. As the show went on, the animation got much better, to the point where, during the second season, there are big sections in various episodes where it's remarkably fluid, such as in the whole opening scene of The Beast of Storm Island involving the Calico reaching the island and Godzilla's first fight with Axor. But, regardless, they still stuck to their cost-cutting practices of recycling frames, shots, and movement cycles, merely changing the setting to suit the scene. All of the main characters have shots of them while they're speaking that you see over and over again, even if the expressions on their faces don't match what's going on in the scene. For instance, in The Breeder Beast, there's a moment where they lay a trap for the monster and Pete, seeing that it's approaching, yells, "It's coming!", but the shot of him they used is one where he has this smile on his face, which doesn't feel appropriate for someone warning others of an approaching monster. You also tend to see the characters standing in the same stances (Captain Majors has one shot from behind that looks a bit feminine in my opinion, with slightly swayed hips), as well as moving in the same walk cycles. The same goes for Godzilla and Godzooky, even more so than the humans. You see the same shots of Godzilla repeated ad nauseam, as well as a distinctive walk cycle where he moves his arms back and forth in mid-air while basically throwing his legs out in front of him. Similarly reused shots include this one where he stomps towards the camera at a bit of an angle, lifting his arms up as he does; a moment where he roars at an enemy off-camera, the animation causing his head to look a bit too big, before he lunges forward; a side-shot closeup of his head as he moves it from one side to the other while roaring; a similar shot, only being done at an angle on his face; a low-angle one as he breathes his fire; and a handful of shots of him emerging from the ocean when he's called, including the one used in the opening sequence. Godzooky also has a number of distinct shots and movement cycles of him that are reused, like one where he's walking with a rather solemn expression on his face, flying with a worried expression, and running full-speed with a panicked face. The characters often shift from other bits of animation back into these reused ones and it's almost never smooth and natural in the way it looks.
No one's perfect but, even so, Hanna-Barbera had a good number of really bizarre and hilarious flubs in their shows over the years (there are some in The New Scooby-Doo Movies that floor me) and Godzilla is no exception. From weird animation and drawing mistakes to characters talking in the wrong voices, perspective problems, and plotholes, some of these goofs will have you scratching your head as to how they were possible. While I'll talk about any that I come across when we go through the episodes, here I'm going to talk about those that stand out to me so much that they deserve their own section. The one everybody who's seen this show notices is how inconsistent Godzilla's size is. Sometimes, he's able to lift the entire Calico in his one hand, whereas there are others people fit snugly in his hand. It doesn't end there, though, as there are different variables to each instance. In some cases, the Calico is absolutely tiny in Godzilla's hand, while other times, it takes up much of the space, and there are also instances where the little mini-sub fits in his hands as well. The same goes for when he lifts people up in his hands: in some shots, they're like ants compared to him, and in others, they're about as tall as his fingers. And these inconsistencies aren't something that change from episode to episode, mind you. The shots you see here of Godzilla picking up the Calico and holding Godzooky in his hand are all from the same episode. As a kid, you don't think about this at all, but when I heard other people talk about it, it really hit me just crazy this is. Speaking of Godzooky, he has similar size problems. Ostensibly, he's supposed to be ten feet tall but that changes depending on the scene. Often, he's too big to fit in the Calico's interiors, having to stay out on the deck or sleep down in the hold, but there are other instances where he fits perfectly fine. Also, Pete is depicted as not being much bigger than Godzooky's head, which makes sense, given how he's a kid, but there are some shots where the adults are dwarfed Godzooky, particularly one in The Eartheater where his head and head bigger than their whole bodies, as if he's twenty feet tall or more! There's an instance in another episode where Godzilla placed him back on the Calico and in the shot with the ship, Godzooky looked like he was half its size. And in instances where Godzooky carries the mini-copter on his back after saving it from crashing, he really looks a lot bigger than he should be.
Speaking of The Eartheater, that episode has what I think is the most egregious flub in the entire show. After they call Godzilla for the second time, it cuts back to show them attempting to flee from the Eartheater as he pulls himself out of the ground... but there's no background! They're supposed to be in the middle of the city streets but instead, they're just floating in a light-blue void. It looks as if they put in the sky, with its blueness and clouds, but then forgot or were just too lazy to add the buildings and road. What an inexcusable fuckup! And even worse, it happens again later on. This time, it's a big, close-up shot of the Eartheater, so it's not as noticeable, but it's still there. Granted, there are many instances where the monsters are moving like they're floating around rather than walking but those at least had the backgrounds. Another one that, although brief, I still laugh at when I see it is a shot of Pete in The Seaweed Monster. While the crew are having lunch, Pete brings Godzooky a big bowl of vegetables and, in a shot of him walking with it, his hair is suddenly brown instead of blonde. That coloar actually makes more sense genetically, seeing as how the brunette Dr. Darien is his aunt, but that, as short as it is, made me go, "Huh?!", the first time I saw it. Speaking of color mistakes, going back to The Eartheater, there's another moment where, while he's stopping when they're stuck on an out-of-control cable car, Godzilla's spines are colored the same shade of green as his skin, rather than the darker one that's normally used. It's only in the one shot but, as you can see, it makes look Godzilla really weird. In another episode, there's a shot where you can see the back of Godzilla's feet and they have the same clawed heels that Godzooky does, the only time Godzilla himself is ever depicted as having them. And finally, at the end of the first episode, Godzooky attempts to come in for a landing on the deck but comes in too fast and hits the water instead. When he pulls himself up on the stern, if you look closely, you can see some of the drops of water freeze in mid-air and one hand is completely soaked, while the other has no water on it at all. Again, a minor one but still noticeable.
The show had a very short but memorable theme song that played during its opening sequence: "Up from the depths, thirty stories high, breathing fire, his head in the sky, Godzilla! Godzilla! Godzilla!" It's a bit cheesy but still really cool, giving Godzilla a sense of might and power, as you see him explode out of the water and stand there, burning the title away with his fire breath, and you see some quick shots of the characters looking up at him in awe (though, Captain Majors and Dr. Darien look a little odd in their shot, especially the former). However, that feeling is completely derailed when the music suddenly becomes light-hearted and childish when Godzooky comes flying in, with the singers doing a 180 in their tone when they go, "And Godzooky!" You then see Godzooky attempt to land on the deck of the Calico, only to slip and tumble around before coming to rest up against the wall. I'm sure that a lot of people hate him simply for intruding on this otherwise epic intro but, hey, at least they let you know of his presence from the start, instead of keeping him hidden until the show begins. Plus, the song manages to redeem itself by ending on a shot of Godzilla's name with a flaming background, with the singers again saying it in a powerful, epic manner. An instrumental version of this song is Godzilla's leitmotif in the show, often playing when he appears and highlighting his actions and battles, emphasizing just how awesome he is. It's either played at a slow pace or a very fast, action-oriented speed, depending on the scene, but regardless, it always adds a sense of unstoppable strength and coolness to them. A modified instrumental version of the theme plays over the first season's ending credits, while the second one simply had what you hear in the intro, without the singing.
For me, the music, composed by Hoyt Curtin and William Schaefer, is one of the show's strongest aspects, as it hits the absolute right notes exactly when it needs to. The music for the battle and chase sequences is always exciting and thrilling (some of it was also used in The Challenge of the SuperFriends, which started airing the same year and also featured music by Curtin), the suspenseful, dire scenes are scored to some really urgent-sounding, orchestral pieces, and Godzooky's antics are set to really light-hearted, silly music, with a really funny one being this trumpet bit that acts as a kind of theme for him. I also always remembered the really creepy-sounding piece that played during some of the more mysterious scenes, which has an eerie, electronic sound to it; a lovely, wondrous horn theme for the shots of the Calico out at sea; and a rather forlorn-sounding string bit that sometimes played at the end of an episode, after the crisis had been resolved. Hanna-Barbera was known for reusing their music from show to show and some of the music used here was not only heard again in later shows but some of it possibly originated from other sources. Besides the music from The Challenge of the SuperFriends, I know I also heard some of these themes from The Scooby-Doo Show, which pertains to the late 70's Scooby cartoons that originally aired as part of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour and Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. Again, it was around the same time as this show and Curtin was the musical director there too, so it can't be a coincidence.
Normally, with television shows, I go through my favorite episodes, but since this show only lasted for 26 episodes, I've decided I'm just going to go through all of them, talking about their highs and lows, the good and the bad, etc. It means a lot more work for me and that this post was be ungodly long but, if you've been with me for a while, you'd know that, hobby or not, I go all out with this stuff. And if you've never seen this show but are planning to go watch it based on what you've read already, you might want to stop right here and jump to the post's conclusion, because this episode walkthrough ended up being more detailed than I originally intended and I basically spoiled everything. Not that this show is that intricate in its plots but still, it'd probably be best to read this after you've watched them.
The Firebird: Fittingly, this was the first episode that I watched with my cousin, Mikey, who was just as big a Godzilla fan as I was when we were kids. It begins on an island in the Aleutians, where a couple of scientists get the shock of their lives when the long dormant volcano suddenly erupts. As the whole island shakes from the tremors of the volcano blowing its top, the scientists run for the boat at the dock, only for a large wave to knock it down and send the boat drifting away. With the shaking becomes more intense and lava begins runs down the side of the mountain, they realize their only chance now is to radio for help, and as they do so back at their shack, the Rodan-like Firebird makes her first appearance by erupting from the volcano and screeching before sinking back down (you'll soon see why I refer to the Firebird as a female). After that, the show cuts to the Calico out at sea, where Pete finds Godzooky hanging off the stern of the ship with his feet, at an attempt at hide and seek. You then see that, because of his weight, the back of the ship is slumped down into the water, prompting Pete to tell him to get up on deck, which he does, allowing the ship to level off. Up on the bridge, Brock tells Captain Majors that he's getting a strange reading but, before he can elaborate, the ship starts rocking. Majors initially thinks it's Godzooky again but Brock says that it was an earth tremor that's set off some tidal waves. That's when they see an absolutely enormous tidal wave rising up and heading straight for them. With no wave to escape it, they realize they need Godzilla and Majors hits the signaler. Godzilla rises up out of the ocean from a high-angle shot (which is used numerous times throughout the show) and Godzooky frantically points out the problem to him. Godzilla quickly realizes what's going on, picks the Calico up in his hand, and lifts it above the wave, which breaks against his back, before placing it back in the water. Everyone is relieved and Godzooky flies up to Godzilla's face, only to be sent flying by a low growl that he makes. He lands in the water right beside the Calico, splashing Dr. Quinn Darien, Pete, and Brock as they stand on the deck. Godzilla reaches into the water, pulls Godzooky out, and places him on the deck, before heading back under the ocean (Majors makes a remark that Pete should at least teach Godzooky how to dog-paddle, implying that he can't swim, which he does perfectly in later episodes).
The Calico then heads to the source of the earth tremor, which they pinpoint as the island in the opening (Pete is actually at the helm, here). They then receive the S.O.S. from the scientists and Majors decides to get the Calico up to full-speed in order to reach them in time, ordering Godzooky to take to the air in order to ensure they're going as fast as possible. With him off the ship, the Calico is able to go at full-blast on the hydrofoil, with Godzooky initially just barely able to keep up. They reach the island and see the two scientists waving and yelling for help. Majors and Brock pick them up with the hovercraft and bring them back to the ship, right before lava engulfs the spot where they were standing. Once they're onboard, they decide that they need to find out what caused the eruption, as it could potentially start a chain reaction that would awaken every dormant volcano in the Aleutians. Quinn and Brock uses the mini-copter to get a closer look at the volcano, Quinn having a camera on her to take some pictures; apparently, neither of them see or hear the Firebird when she again erupts from the crater before heading back down. Back on the Calico, Quinn shows them a picture she took of some ancient tunnels that could lead to the core of the volcano. Despite Majors not being too keen on the idea of actually going inside a volcano, he, Quinn, Brock, and one of the scientists, Blake, take the hovercraft over to the island to do so. Godzooky is anxious to go with them, despite Pete telling him he can't, but while he's talking to the other scientist, who remained behind, Godzooky sneaks off and flies to the island, where the others find and enter the tunnel. Pete takes the mini-copter after Godzooky, thinking to himself that he needs to have a long talk with him some time, and on the island, follows his tracks into the tunnel. Inside the volcano, the group gets close to the core, while back behind them, there's a moment where Godzooky nearly falls over a ledge and into a fiery pit below. Pete catches up with him and is able to give him a pep talk enabling him to climb back up. The others, meanwhile, reach the end of the tunnel, finding an expanse of fire in front of them. Before they can take another tunnel that Brock points out, a tremor causes it to cave-in, giving them no choice but to press ahead.
While Pete and Godzooky continue looking for them, the group find a way around the fiery chasm and reach a tunnel that leads them to the volcano's central core. There, they find an enormous fissure beside a pit of lava and fire, and as they examine it, the Firebird emerges from the lava. While Quinn is amazed at the prospect of something being able to live in lava, Captain Majors is concerned with the fact that the creature has wings. Hearing the Firebird's screeching, Pete and Godzooky make their way to the core, somehow ending up on the other side of the pit. They're both horrified when they see the Firebird and they all come up with the idea of having Godzooky fly Pete over to where they are. It's a struggle but Godzooky is able to fly right past the Firebird, avoiding being swiped by her wings, and land on the ledge with the others. They then head back out, Godzooky's flying coming in handy again, and are soon putting out to sea on the Calico. As they leave, the volcano erupts again and the Firebird emerges, threatening to attack them. Majors signals Godzilla, who emerges from the ocean near the island and approaches it (the roar they used hear sounds like he as a sore throat and is straining to emit it). He and the Firebird face off with each other before she flies at him, firing heat waves at him from her beak. The fight has now moved to the island's shore, where the Firebird continuously circles Godzilla, who attempts to shoot her with his laser eye-beams. He ends up missing and the Firebird flies back into the volcano's crater. Godzilla runs at the side of the mountain, clawing through it while trying to get at the Firebird when, after a cut back to the Calico, she suddenly flies behind him and picks him up by his shoulders. She flies off with him, as he swipes at her from below before managing to wrench himself free, landing on the island hard enough to create a massive crack in the ground. The Firebird tries to come at him from behind again but Godzilla's ready for her this time, whacking her with his tail when she gets close enough. This knocks the wind out of her for a little bit and she seems warn out, only to get a second wind when Godzilla challenges her again. However, a piece of the ledge Godzilla is standing on crumbles, causing him to lose his balance and fall backwards into the ocean. The Firebird takes the opportunity and escapes.
The Calico tracks the Firebird to the Arctic, where the scientists believe she may be going in order to lay eggs. Upon arriving there, it doesn't take long for Godzilla to spot her, as she comes down to rest on an icy embankment. He pulls himself out of the water and heads towards her for the rematch. She tries to keep him back with a large blast of fire but he comes in and swipes at her, only for her to fly away and slice off the top of a pillar of snow with her wing. In the water, Captain Majors struggles to keep the Calico steady, while Godzooky flies off to try to help Godzilla. He ends up getting in the middle of the fight and Godzilla roars at him to get away. Instead, he dodges some flame fired by the Firebird and gets cocky enough to turn his back on her, resulting in her burning his butt as a result. Despite this, he doesn't take the hit and plays with the Firebird's flailing tail, dodging it as it swipes back and forth, only to then get pinned beneath it. Seeing this, Godzilla roars angrily and, when the Firebird takes to the air, he picks Godzooky up and places him on a pillar of ice. The Firebird then tackles him and they fall down into the water. Beneath the surface, Godzilla struggles and gets free of the Firebird's grasp, before chasing her through the water, as she seeks shelter in an underwater cave. Up above, the top of the pillar Godzooky's sitting on falls off and into the water (it suddenly goes from snow to rock), landing at the front of cave. This gives Godzilla an idea, as he pushes it in place in the opening, grabs another big chunk of rock, and covers the rest of the opening, sealing the Firebird inside. Letting out a roar, Godzilla then explodes out of the water next to the Calico and roars triumphantly. With the crisis over, it looks like everything's okay, until they see Godzooky is coming in for a landing. They try to warn him that he's coming in too fast but he ends up hitting the water and climbs up onto the stern, waterlogged. Irritated, Pete punishes him by not allowing him to come onboard, the episode ending with him having to sit in a small raft that's being towed by the Calico (kind of harsh for a little mistake, don't you think?)
The Eartheater: This episode has a pretty eerie opening, starting in San Francisco, where you see a building that's under construction suddenly get sucked underground. The same thing happens to an entire block elsewhere, with a large hole being left behind, and we then see the Eartheater down in the tunnels beneath the street, munching on the remains of the buildings. The Calico arrives at the city so Dr. Darien can speak at a scientific convention and Pete and Brock are trying to find Godzooky. With no sign of him on the ship, they figure he might out having a swim and call for him. The back end of the Calico suddenly lifts up, as Godzooky rose up underneath it, having heard their calls. Pete Godzooky to put them down and he does, splashing back under the water, soaking Pete and Brock in the process, and then flies up and lands on the deck in front of them. They tell him to be careful and he nods, before shaking off the water and soaking them further. In the next scene, as they approach the city, they notice how unusually quiet it is and then see that the Golden Gate Bridge is jammed with cars, all of them leading out of the city. They hear a bit of an evacuation message over the radio before contact is lost, when the bridge begins to rock and sway, apparently from the weight of the cars. Pete tells Captain Majors to call Godzilla and he does, the Big G emerging from the bay upon hearing the signal. Seeing what's happening, he heads towards the bridge, where someone recognizes him and says, "It's Godzilla! He'll save us!" The support cables start to snap and one of the bridge's supports crumbles. Godzooky takes to the air and flies over to Godzilla, who catches a big section of the bridge when it collapses. Holding it over his head, he carries it over to the other side of the bay, not noticing Godzooky, who flies up underneath the section and puts his finger to it, as if he's helping him lift it. He sets the bridge section down and the vehicles all drive away to safety, prompting him to let out a triumphant roar. Godzooky blows some smoke rings in response but gets choked on them, as he often does. As Godzooky flies back to the Calico, Godzilla heads back under the water, the crew cheering him. Later, they wonder what's happened and Quinn decides that they best figure it out soon.
Traveling the city streets in a small jeep, they see the extent of the damage, with some blocks untouched and others having collapsed down into the ground. The adults decide to check out one of the holes, Quinn telling Pete and Godzooky to stay with the jeep. The two of them are bummed, with Pete lamenting that they never get in on the action, when they hear what sounds like an approaching, pounding sound. It continues getting closer until the street splits open in various directions, with one crack spreading between Godzooky's feet. The adults watch as the two of them are swallowed up by the collapsing ground, the remains of a building falling over on top of them. The others attempt to clear away the debris, while underneath it, Godzooky has saved Pete from getting crushed by a large, steel beam. Pete tells them that they're okay and, with Godzooky's help, they're able to clear away the rubble. Once he's clear, Pete has them come down into the hole with him, as he points out a large tunnel leading down. They decide to go exploring using the jeep, with Godzooky following behind, and after a while, they hit the bottom of the tunnel, finding an even larger one. As they wonder what could be behind it, they get their answer when they hear that pounding sound approaching them, followed by the Eartheater smashing his way through the tunnel wall. Captain Majors promptly speeds the jeep back around to the passage they came through but the Eartheater uses the sound waves from his antennae to collapse the tunnel's entrance. Having trapped them, he moves in, Godzooky stomping up to him and trying to fight him. Quinn spots another tunnel but, before driving down that way, decides to make sure the Eartheater can't block their way again. He speeds around and drives right for him, turning on the jeep's high-beams. The Eartheater recoils from this, being used to the darkness, and retreats back into his tunnel. They take the opportunity to head back up, though Godzooky has the gall to yell a challenge at the Eartheater, running for it when he hears him howl from back in the tunnel. Godzooky carries the jeep back onto the street up top, but they soon realize they're not out of danger when the Eartheater follows them to the surface. Majors reaches for the Godzilla signaler but finds that it's gone, as he must have dropped it at some point.
The Eartheater pulls himself out of the hole and Pete tells Godzooky that he'd best call for Godzilla. He lets out a loud cry and Godzilla emerges from San Francisco Bay, heading for the city. The group then attempts to run from the Eartheater but the jeep's tires get caught up in the soft dirt, Godzooky having to push them loose from behind. He runs after them, with the Eartheater right behind him, and they head out onto the city streets. They hear Godzilla snarl nearby and Godzooky again calls for him, leading him to where they are, as well as to the Eartheater. When faced with Godzilla, the Eartheater runs for it and tries to block his path by smashing a building but this doesn't deter him at all. The Eartheater gets on his hind legs to fight but Godzilla hits him with his laser beam eyes, knocking him up against a condemned building. But, when Godzilla stomps towards him, he forces him back with his sound waves and blasts his way back down under the ground. Seeing this, Quinn says that they have to make sure he doesn't get away "next time," a statement that concerns Captain Majors. Back at the Calico, they unload some crates full of smoke grenades that Quinn plans to use to put the Eartheater to sleep until they can figure out what to do. Back underground, the Eartheater keeps blasting his way through and munching on whatever he can get, when he hears something. Following the sound, he's blasted by one of the grenades and moves back into his tunnel. Up top, Majors hears him approaching the hole he's standing next to and throws another smoke grenade, which explodes in front of the Eartheater, prompting to recoil from it as well and crawl through another tunnel. Brock throws another grenade down his hole, spraying the Eartheater with more of the smoke. Quinn feels they've done it, having thrown a grenade down every tunnel, only for him to emerge from the road behind them. As he attempts to free himself from the tight squeeze, Pete tells Godzooky to call Godzilla back to them. Hearing his cry, Godzilla heads back to the city, while the group runs to a nearby cable-car. The Eartheater gets right on Godzooky and he has to jump for the cable car, barely avoiding getting hit by one of his sound waves.
Godzooky lands on top of the cable car as it heads down a hill, while Brock tries to slow the car down but is unable to because of his added weight. It looks like they're about to crash but Godzilla lifts up the track and grabs the car, placing it back down on the road. He then faces off with the Eartheater again, shooting his fire breath at him, which he flees from. The Eartheater then shoots his sound waves and Godzilla dodges them, causing them to destroy a building behind him (said building has a sign on it that reads, DRINK BUTZ ROOT BEER). He grabs the Eartheater from behind and lifts him up, struggling with him, and then manages to get him down on the ground. The two of them roll around while fighting, kicking up a large cloud of dust that allows the Eartheater to get loose, and when Godzilla rises up and stomps towards him, he blasts him with his sound-waves. This hurts Godzilla enough to where he's able to escape. The group rushes to Godzilla, worried that he might be injured, but after Godzooky flies up and checks on him, he's able to assure them that he's fine. Godzilla and the group start searching the city for the Eartheater (Pete and Godzooky try to go off on their own at one point but are quickly called back to the jeep) but are unable to find him at all. Pete suggests that he might have gone back underground but, upon approaching the Golden Gate Bridge, they find that he's climbed up onto the one of the towers. Godzilla comes in and tries to get at him, firing his lasers at him, which he dodges and then shoots his sound waves back in response. Godzilla dodges these and shoots his lasers again, causing the Eartheater to begin to lose his grip. Godzooky flies up to the trapped monster and circles around him, when Godzilla fires his lasers one last time. This blast causes the tower to begin to crumble, and when Godzooky flies in and the Eartheater tries to get him with his tail, he causes it to collapse completely. The Eartheater falls down into the water and then emerges, only to have now become completely brown before disintegrating into nothing but mud. The city safe, the group says goodbye to Godzilla, who actually waves at them before heading back into the bay and beneath the water. The episode ends with Majors noticing that the Calico is dragging and they find out that it's because Pete is teaching Godzooky how to water ski!
Attack of the Stone Creature: They should have put an "s" on the end of "creature" in that title but, whatever. This also happens to be the first episode I saw from beginning to end as a kid. In the deserts of Egypt, an archeologist named Gordon Jarvis discovers the fabled pyramid of Ramal, which he's been searching for over many years. Climbing up the side of it, he causes the sand to slide off of it, revealing a large disc made of solid gold. The sunlight reflects off of the circle very brightly and he then hears a bizarre roaring behind him. A gust of wind blows away some sand dunes, revealing a couple of large, stone lions, the Guardians of Ramal, which happen to be alive. Jarvis watches as they approach and unleash blasts of sand at him from their mouths, one of them stepping on and crushing his jeep. Their breath then turns from sand to frigid blasts of snow and ice, sending Jarvis running. Elsewhere, the Calico is parked at the mouth of the Nile, where Pete and Brock decide to cool off by taking a dip. Godzooky joins them, only to hit the water hard enough to send all of it up into the air, much to their chagrin. Fortunately, it comes raining back down and they're able to get back to enjoying themselves. Jarvis then staggers in, pleading for help, and collapses. When Quinn examines him, she sees that he's suffering from what looks like frostbite, and he mumbles about the Stone Guardians. Later, as he's recovering, he insists that the Guardians of Ramal are what attacked him, though Quinn feels that they're simply legend. When he asked, he refuses to lead them back to the pyramid but does show them where it is, warning them not to go. Regardless, they fly the mini-copter to the site, and reaching the area, they get caught up in a sandstorm, which then changes into an icy blizzard. They lose sight of Godzooky and the rotors begin freezing up, forcing them to signal Godzilla. He emerges from the mouth of the Nile when signaled and heads towards their direction. Meanwhile, Godzooky ends up hitting the ground, while in the helicopter, Brocks spots one of the Guardians on the desert floor, but is unable to make out what it is. By this point, the blades have frozen and they start to fall to the ground. Fortunately for them, Godzilla catches the copter in his hand. Godzooky, meanwhile, tries to find his way in the blizzard, only to run into one of the Guardians, which shoots an icy blast out of its mouth. Godzilla has set the helicopter down by the point, when he hears Godzooky yelling for help and heads over to help him.
Both of the Guardians have now ganged up on Godzooky and are blasting him with their icy breath, him too scared to move. However, Godzilla appears behind them, getting their attention with a loud roar, and blasts his fire breath at them. He then roars at them and it's enough to make them retreat. After picking Godzooky up and putting him on a sand dune, out of harm's way, Godzilla blasts his fire breath again, hitting a spot in the sand in front of the Guardians. One of them responds by freezing Godzilla's hand with its ice breath, while Godzooky, in his excitement, tumbles over the edge of the dune. When Godzilla is distracted by this, the Guardians take the opportunity to allow the sand to cover them up. The humans then show up, just in time to see the dune Godzooky is leaning up against slide down on top of him, revealing the pyramid. Godzilla tries to figure out what happened to the Guardians, while Godzooky attempts to tell the humans of the battle they missed, showing Pete where it took place. Pete, however, doesn't see anything and believes he just imagined it. Quinn tells Godzilla that they're alright but he doesn't seem too set upon leaving, which Brock notices, saying he seems to be looking for something. Captain Majors thinks he's just making sure they're safe and with that, Godzilla heads back. Pete has to pull Godzooky back to the pyramid, while the others decide to dig the rest of the pyramid out to see if there's a way in. Some time later, after digging, the sand suddenly slides away, temporarily engulfing the adults. As they try to dig themselves out, they see that the slide revealed a good chunk of the pyramid, including the golden circle near the top. Behind Pete and Godzooky, the sand covering the Guardians starts to fall away. Quinn warns them that they're starting to slide off their dune (there was no ledge there before) and they move back, right into the statues. The two of them become frightened at the sight of the Guardians staring down at them, Pete yelling for the adults, but he soon realizes that the statues aren't moving and writes them off at just that. The others join them and Quinn identifies the statues as the Guardians of Ramal, though they believe that Jarvis imagined seeing them move as an illusion caused by the freak storms. They're about to get back to digging, when they see Godzooky heading towards a nearby oasis. Majors gives Pete some canteens to fill up for them there and in the next scene, he's doing so. However, Godzooky accidentally spills a bunch of water on him from out of his mouth, causing him to drop one of the canteens into the water. With no other choice, Pete wades into the water after it, only to get sucked into a whirlpool. Godzooky jumps in to help and reaches the whirlpool, only for Pete to get dragged under the water. He dives down after him but gets caught in the current himself. Back at the pyramid, the adults wish Pete and Godzooky would return with the canteens. Unbeknownst to them, the light reflecting off the golden circle on the pyramid revives the Guardians, who begin moving in on them from nearby.
Pete and Godzooky, meanwhile, end up being sucked inside the pyramid, through a pool in one of the chambers. Realizing where they are, Pete says they need to find a way to tell the others where they are. In the next room, they see two doors up ahead and Pete suggests they each explore one to see where they lead (the way they're designed, though, they look like they're two doors leading into the same room). However, Godzooky would rather they stay together and Pete acquiesces, both of them going through the passage on the right. In there, there's a moment where Godzooky's tail gets caught in an empty mummy case and, when he sees it, he panics and takes off running. He tries to go through a door up ahead but the case gets snagged lengthwise in the doorway, causing Godzooky to get yanked forward and then back ground, his tail acting like a rubber band. Once Pete makes him realize what it was, they try the other passage and find a large door that Pete figures might lead outside. Out there, another sandstorm has come up and the adults see that the Guardians are the cause of it. Their breath then turns into a blizzard and Captain Majors hits the Godzilla signaler. Godzilla again emerges from the mouth of the Nile and heads to the site, where the group is still getting blasted. They try to find a spot around the pyramid to take cover in, while inside, Godzooky pulls as hard as he can to get the door open. Pete yells for them and they realize that he's in the pyramid. Brock tries to find an entrance but the Guardians are no almost on top of them. As Godzilla continues stomping to the site, Pete, hearing the sounds of the Guardians outside, realizes that the others are in trouble and implores Godzooky to keep trying to open the door. Finally, it begins to give way and the others, seeing this, push on it from the other side, managing to get open so they can take cover. Undeterred, the Guardians continue blasting the doorway, which the humans try to push shut. They then heard Godzilla roar outside and Godzooky excitedly runs out there to watch the fight.
He ends up in the middle of it, between the Guardians while Godzilla roars a challenge at them. Godzooky then flies up into face but Godzilla lets out a roar that sends him flying down to the ground. Regardless, he keeps cheering for Godzilla, who gets blasted by the Guardians' icy breath. Reeling from this, he's still able to grab one of them and lift it off the ground, grappling with it. It smacks him in the thigh with its spiked tail but he manages to keep his grip and pins it down to the ground. The other Guardian comes running in from behind Godzilla, who gives it a face-full of his fire breath. Godzooky then runs in and spits his smoke rings at the Guardian, which responds by swinging the club of its tail at him, sending him bouncing across the sand. He ends up slamming into the side of Godzilla's face, causing him to lose his grip on the Guardian he had pinned. Seeing that Godzilla is none too pleased about this, Godzooky sheepishly crawls away. Both Guardians start bombarding him from either side with big hailstones they form with their breath in midair. Godzilla manages to stave them off and breathes his fire again, melting one Guardian's attempt to form one. However, they both concentrate their ice breath on him at once and manage to freeze him solid. With Godzilla now trapped, both Guardians move a great distance away from him and then rush at him from both sides. Godzooky runs after one, in a vain attempt to stop it, but just as they're about to converge on Godzilla, he manages to break free of the ice and dodge them. They smash into each other, reducing themselves into nothing but a pile of rubble, with only one head left intact. Roaring triumphantly, Godzilla heads back through the desert, the group cheering him as he goes. Now, Godzooky has courage, going up to the head and roaring at it. This causes the head to tumble to the ground, panicking Godzooky and causing him to flee back to the group, though he still tries to act tough by spitting some smoke rings at it.
The Megavolt Monster: This begins with a tanker cruising through the ocean, when it's suddenly hit by some electric voltage from beneath the water. A crewman is showing the captain the readings he's getting, when an aquatic creature repeatedly blasts the ship from below with electric beams until the main oil tank on deck explodes into flames. The crew has to abandon ship and, as they watch the burning wreckage sink beneath the waves, the creature, unbeknownst to them, swims back down into the trench from whence he came. When we get to the Calico, we get a moment where Brock admonishes Godzooky for getting muddy footprints where he's trying to swab the deck. He heads over to the other side of the ship, as Brock tells him, but steps on and crushes his water pail, irritating Brock even more. He's then called up to the wheelhouse by Quinn, where he learns about the ship being sunk over the Bali Trench by a lightning bolt... from under the sea. Quinn feels this could mean that there's an untapped energy source beneath the sea and the Calico heads for the area, arriving there the next day. Upon arriving, they find that the air around the spot is filled with electricity and Quinn and Brock use the bathysphere as a way to go down and investigate. On the way down, Godzooky jumps into the water with them and swims in front of them, surprising and then annoying Brock. Quinn manages to get him to go back up to the Calico, much to Brock's relief, and when he's gone, the energy level in the area suddenly spikes up. They think they're reaching the power source, only to find out that it's approaching them. They then see a glowing figure approaching them and Brock radios the Calico to bring them up but the message gets scrambled. Captain Majors and Pete are able to make out that they need to come up and the former starts the process. However, the slowness of the lift leaves them as sitting ducks, as the creature knocks the underside of the bathysphere when he swims past. He comes around for another pass and fire volts of energy at them, snapping the rope and sending the bathysphere plummeting downwards. With the monster's energy knocking out the radio signal, Quinn and Brock can do nothing as the bathysphere drifts down into the depths of the Bali Trench.
Up top, Majors, Pete, and Godzooky see that the bathysphere's line has been cut and soon see why when the Megavolt Monster rises up beside the Calico and begins wrapping his body around it. Ducking into the wheelhouse for safety, they see that the monster appears to be attempting to recharge his energy. That means it's time for Godzilla, and while Majors signals him, Pete goes to send Godzooky down after Quinn and Brock. Godzilla emerges, letting out a couple of really strained-sounding roars, and when the Megavolt Monster sees him, he unwraps himself from the Calico. Godzooky heads down after the bathysphere, while Godzilla grapples with the monster. But the fight ends abruptly, as the monster charges up his energy and blasts Godzilla, causing him to let go and enable him to escape. Despite his frustration, Godzilla sees that Majors and Pete are okay. Meanwhile, as Godzooky swims after them, down into the trench, Brock and Quinn approach the bottom, only to be surprised when they fall out of the water and into air. Hitting the ground, and after getting themselves together, they see that they're in a patch of land with the ocean suspended in mid-air right above them. Getting out through the hatch, they see a whale pop through the bottom of water above them, before heading back up, and they realize in a huge air bubble, the pressure of which is suspending the water above them. Quinn manages to make contact with the Calico, telling them that they're fine, with Brock adding that they're going to do some exploring, ignoring Majors' warning to stay with the bathysphere, as they don't know what's down there. However, they soon realize he had a point, as they run into a couple of Megavolt Monsters, who get between them and the bathysphere. They try to run for a nearby cave but one of the monsters fires an electric bolt from his tail, stopping them in their tracks. They corner the two of them, threatening to electrocute them, and Quinn tries to radio for help. Help does come, albeit in an unexpected form, as Godzooky reaches the bottom and falls in their midst, surprising the monsters enough to send them running. Quinn and Brock are happy to see them, but the elation doesn't later, as the monsters come back, forcing them to run for the cave. Godzooky breathes a bunch of smoke but only manages to cover himself in it and he's then forced to run for the cave himself. Despite this close call, and Brock's warnings, Godzooky peeks his head out of the cave a couple of times, getting blasted at and a large rock falling on his head from it. This forces him back into the cave. Quinn wonders what's keeping Majors and Pete.
Up at the surface, the two of them prepare to descend with an interesting bathysphere of their own: inside Godzilla's fist! On Majors' orders, Godzilla closes his hand around and begins swimming down to the trench. Down there, the monsters continue their assault on the cave, blasting the outside and the inside repeatedly with their volts and sending pieces of the ceiling coming down. It looks as if the group has had it, when the zapping stops. Looking out to see what happened, they see that the monsters have seemingly run out of power and, watching them walk away, they try to run for the bathysphere. That's when they see them recharging from an outcropping of rock that's bristling with energy. Now, glowing with electricity again, they turn their attention back on the group, who promptly run back to the cave. Much to their surprise, Godzilla appears, reuniting them with Majors and Pete. He turns his attention on the monsters and charges for them. They both fire their tail beams at him but he's able to block them with his hands and use his fire breath in response, though they dodge it hopping apart and then hopping back (it's an awkward bit of animation, actually). Quinn suggests they destroy the outcropping in order to neutralize the monsters' power, while Godzilla continues fight them. One shoots at him from the front, while the other tries to sneak up on him but he spots him and puts him in a headlock when he jumps at him. The monster charges up with energy, forcing Godzilla to let go, while the group tries to come up with a way to destroy the outcropping. With Godzilla too busy with the monsters, Brock has Godzooky fetch a tree trunk embedded amongst the rocks. Godzilla and the monsters trade blasts of fire and energy respectively, and when Godzilla rips a large boulder loose and tosses it at them, they blow it up in midair. At the outcropping, they place the tree trunk near it and Godzooky lands it on from above, the force of it sending the rocks flying. They tumble down into many pieces of debris but, by destroying the energy source, they also broke the air bubble. The ocean threatens to come down on top of them and they run to the bathysphere, while Godzilla and the Megavolt Monsters see what's happening, getting hit with big waves and ending up underwater. The monsters into an underwater cavern, while the group ducks into the bathysphere (yeah, the ocean is just coming down in sections, instead of all at once). Godzooky is dismayed to learn that there's no room in there for him, apparently forgetting that he can swim and breathe underwater. Within seconds, the whole place is underwater and Godzilla heads for the bathysphere, the monsters ducking back into their hiding place when he passes by. He takes the bathysphere's rope from Godzooky and they begin the swim up.
Upon clearing the trench, they run into the really big monster from before, who's still got a pretty strong charge. He hits Godzilla right in the face with his energy beam, causing him to drop the bathysphere, and Godzilla then swims up to fight him. Godzooky manages to save the sphere when it gets caught on the side of the trench, while Godzilla fends off the monster trying to strangle him with his tail, grabbing him, swinging him around, and flinging him. The monster charges back at him and the two of them struggle in the middle of the water, when he begins losing his energy. He starts getting smaller as a result, slipping through a headlock Godzilla has him in and quickly flees back down into the trench. Godzilla has a look on his face like, "What just happened?", but he decides to roar triumphantly, regardless. The ending has Quinn lamenting their having to lose the energy source but they find they have their own energy source: Godzooky, who's helping the ship along by swimming and pushing it from behind. An okay episode, but not one of my favorites.
The Seaweed Monster: The Calico is moored near the Sargasso Sea, where Quinn and Brock dive down to collect specimens of aquatic plants. For a moment, everything's fine and good, as they're swimming around, picking up plants from the seabed, until Brock sees that they're being stalked by a monstrous mass of seaweed that is actually a living creature, growing bigger from other strands of seaweed it absorbs into itself. Terrified, he swims away as fast as he can, the creature hot on his heels. He warns Quinn of it and the two immediately head for the surface, the monster still chasing after them. Up top, Godzooky ends up falling into the water when he leans over too far to look down at it (once again, splashing Pete with water in the process) and decides, as long as he's down there, to join Quinn and Brock in their dive. As he heads down, Quinn and Brock are swimming like mad from the seaweed monster, when it snags Quinn's right foot. Brock looks and sees that it's grabbing her everywhere it can with its multiple limbs. He swims back down, pushing Godzooky back when he shows up, and that's when Godzooky sees what's happening. Using his tail as a propeller, he zooms past Brock towards Quinn, when the monster rips the regulator out of her mouth. Grabbing onto a section of the monster and pulling on it, Godzooky manages to make it let go of Quinn. While he keeps it busy, Brock helps Quinn to the surface, sharing his regulator with her. Though Godzooky ends up snagged in the seaweed, he manages to break free and swim back to the surface himself. There, Captain Majors helps Quinn aboard the Calico, and as Godzooky flies up and onto the deck, she tells him of the monster. Majors is incredulous at the idea (rather odd for anybody in this universe to question the possibility of anything, don't you think?), but down below, the still growing monster begins swimming upwards, towards the Calico. Majors' skepticism soon goes flying out the window when the enormous monster is spotted on the sonar and then emerges right next to the ship. Approaching the ship, it grabs onto it with its various limbs and threatens to turn it over. Pete rushes out on the deck, where Godzooky has been cornered by the monster's tentacles and tells him to call Godzilla. Just as he's grabbed by the neck, Godzooky lets out his cry for help. This prompts the monster to let go of him and he puts Pete on his back and flies up, passing by the monster.
Godzilla comes up and quickly moves in on the Seaweed Monster, along with the Calico. There's a funny moment where Godzilla, after looking at the screen with an odd, "Huh?" expression on his face, is faced with Godzooky and Pete, who both tell him to get after the monster. Godzilla apparently doesn't like being ordered by a couple of shrimps and breathes on them until Godzooky is sent flying back. Godzilla gets down to business with the monster, shooting his fire breath at it but missing and hitting the water. He grabs it and hoists it out of the water, only for it to grab his legs with its tentacles and pull him under the water. The Calico sways back and forth from the swells caused by this, while down below, Godzilla struggles with the monster and blasts it with his lasers (which are see-through in this instance, rather than red). It quickly swims away, Godzilla losing sight of it, and he then surfaces beside the Calico, the crew thinking that he's won the battle. He heads back down below, as they cheer for him, and Captain Majors decides they'd better get farther out to sea. Before they depart, Quinn finds a piece of seaweed on deck and decides to study it. Later, they're moored next to an island, where Godzooky causes trouble for Pete as he's trying to fix lunch in the galley, accidentally splattering a frosted cake right in his face with a blast of his breath. Godzooky immediately runs for it when Pete yells at him. Meanwhile, in the lab, Quinn looks at the seaweed sample under the microscope and finds that the cells are unusually energized. She and Brock theorize that the energy being pulled together results in it becoming the seaweed monster, unaware that very thing is happening in a jar on the counter next to them. Down in the hold, Godzooky comes across another piece of seaweed, playing with it a little bit by smacking it with his tail, sending it flying next to a nearby crate. Godzooky takes some bows and heads to take a nap. Up top, Quinn and Brock leave the lab, and over time, the seaweed inside the jar grows and grows, until its tendrils start reaching out from the jar. While Pete calls everyone up for lunch, Godzooky is in such a hurry to get up there that he doesn't notice that the piece he found is growing rapidly as well. Pete takes Godzooky's bowl outside on the deck for him, where he ends up eating everything, including the bowl! As Quinn and Brock tells Majors what they discovered, suggesting that it could be due to radioactive exposure, they're unaware that the seaweed is continuing to grow and fill up the lab. After lunch, Quinn realizes she forgot to set the lab's timer and Pete says he'll set it for her. Arriving at the lab with Godzooky, Pete opens the door, only to be faced with the rapidly growing monster. It snags him and lifts him up into the air, as he yells for help.
Hearing Pete yelling for help, the adults rush out to the deck, where the monster has dragged him. Majors manages to pull Pete free of the creature and he and Brock push it over the side, into the water, avoiding being pulled over with it. Just when they think they're all safe, Godzooky frantically tries to warn them about something and Pete tells them that he's referring to more seaweed down in the hold. They rush down towards the hold, only to find another Seaweed Monster growing in a doorway (said doorway looks more like the entrance to the wheelhouse than the hold). Godzooky tries to face it but it quickly grows until it's too much for him, sending him running as it roars at him. They consider escaping with the mini-copter, when the monster suddenly jumps over the side and into the water. Wondering why it didn't attack, they then check the sensor scope and see that all of the creatures are coming together to form one big monster. It gets so big that it threatens the nearby island and Majors signals Godzilla. When he appears, they have Godzooky tell him what's going on. With the monster approaching the island, Pete tells Godzooky to tell Godzilla he needs to hurry. He soon gets the message, sending Godzooky flying back onto the deck with his breath, causing him roll and tumble until he comes to a stop (it's the same animation from the opening sequence). Godzilla starts heading to the island, with the Calico following (yes, earlier, they were moored next to it but now, they have to go a ways towards it), while down in the depths, the Seaweed Monster is now so big that it sends a shark swimming for its life. At the island, a lifeguard on the beach is having a pretty easy time, with nothing going on, but he then spots a mass of seaweed moving in. The monster then emerges, threatening some nearby swimmers, much to the horror of the lifeguard. Godzilla emerges nearby and lets out a roar, one of the swimmers recognizing him and saying that he'll save them. Godzilla dives back under the water and the Calico arrives in time to see him emerge in front of the monster, grabbing ahold of it, which it also does to him with its tentacles. While the crew watches, Godzooky, as usual, sneaks off and flies up to get a closer look at the fight, as Godzilla blasts the monster with his fire. He gets distracted for a bit when Godzooky flies up next to him and starts puffing smoke, prompting him to roar and send him away. The monster snares Godzilla's left leg but he manages to rip it off and leave it floating on the water. However, those pieces of seaweed join back together, grow, and then reform with the main monster. The situation seems hopeless, but Quinn finds a piece of dried up seaweed on the deck and figures that if Godzilla can get the monster on the land, the sun might completely destroy it. At that moment, Godzilla swipes it with his tail when it tries to jump him from the side and it dives down, only to ensnare Godzooky when he gets too close. Godzilla pulls him free and gets back to fighting, while the crew gets into the mini-copter and fly up. As Godzilla and the Seaweed Monster struggle with each other, Pete tells Godzooky to tell Godzilla to follow them to the island. He does so and Godzilla starts walking to the island, the Seaweed Monster still latched onto him from behind. At a couple of points, it tries to pull him back but he manages to keep going, reaching the land and following the copter.
He manages to get the monster far inland, when it attempts to hold him back by grabbing onto a rock. The effects of the sun start to show, as its arm smokes and crumbles and its color becomes much duller and less vibrant. It becomes more susceptible to Godzilla's fire breath, actually catching on fire, and it starts crawling away, continuing to smoke from dehydration. It tries to get back to the ocean but Godzilla chases after it and fires his laser beams at it. The monster rips up a tree and tries to use it to block the lasers but it ends up taking serious damage regardless, and as the sun continues drying it out, it burns away, until it's nothing but a big pile of ash. The ash blows away in the wind and Godzilla, realizing he's won, lets out a series of roars before heading back to the ocean himself and disappearing beneath the water. The mini-copter lands back on the Calico and Godzooky, who's now in the water himself, decides to go for a swim. Some time later, Pete becomes worried, as Godzooky has been gone for a while and fears he found another Seaweed Monster. Brock tells him not to worry about it, when a big chunk of seaweed suddenly pops up. Both of them panic, but then, it's revealed to just be Godzooky, with a bunch of kelp on his head, laughing at having fooled them.
The Energy Beast: At Sundance Mesa, an installation meant for converting the sun into electrical energy, a large meteorite crashes nearby one night. The place's two head scientists go to investigate and find an enormous crater but with no remains of the meteor, with the only thing at the bottom being a large crack. They then come across a set of huge tracks that lead away from the crater and stop at the base of one of a pair of pine-trees. Since it's late, they decide to head back and wait for daylight to get a better look. Once they've left, the one tree starts to glow and reveals itself to actually be a large, centipede-like creature that has the ability to take on other forms. Having reverted to his true form, the monster crawls off into the darkness. (This is an instance of the show tipping its hand way too early. Since we know that this monster has chameleon-like abilities, we can guess what's really going on later during the main section of the story.) The next day, the Calico is heading up the river called the Big Silty, when Captain Majors and Brock hear a loud splash outside. Pete tells them that Godzooky is diving for fish and he comes up, only to have a reed in his mouth, much to their amusement. A fish then jumps up in front of Godzooky and he dives down after it. Coming back up, he starts pulling up something black and stretchy. The others cheer him on, as he struggles with whatever he has... and then, they see that he's grabbed an inner-tube that's snagged on an underwater branch. They yell for him to let go but he keeps pulling until the branch snaps, the recoil sending him flipping across the water's surface and ending up on the Calico's deck. They then arrive at Sundance Mesa, admiring the dam that's used for hydroelectricity, when they spot the monster on the dam's left side. The creature, the Energy Beast, makes his way across the top of the dam, the concrete crumbling and cracking from his weight. Majors hits the Godzilla signaler, while the Energy Beast uses his pincer-like claws to cut open the roof of the building where the generator and turbines are kept. He begins feeding on the energy, which overloads the turbines, and he quickly grows much larger that he already was. That's when Godzilla emerges from Big Silty and he and the Energy Beast roar challenges at each other. He climbs up the dam's step-like fish ladder and once up there, he and the Energy Beast charge at each other. The beast wraps around his mid-section but Godzilla is able to push him off, sending him in retreat across the dam. Godzilla chases after him and tries to get him with his fire breath, but the beast dodges it and creates a massive ball of energy, throwing it at him. Godzilla dodges it and it blows up a big chunk of a ridge behind him. Walking after him across the dam, Godzilla manages to make the beast back away, but a section of it gives way underneath his foot, throwing him off-balance. This leaves him open for attack and the beast tosses another energy ball, this one scoring a direct hit and leaving Godzilla reeling. The Energy Beast takes the opportunity to run for it and the dam begins cracking from his weight, threatening to burst.
Godzilla climbs back down, clearly exhausted and in pain. He sits in the water near the Calico, looking very out of it, and as a kid, it was upsetting to see that he was really hurting, as he's usually portrayed as a big, tough guy who can take anything thrown at him. Pete tells Godzooky to snap him out of his stupor and, when he lets out his cry, Godzilla is able to shake it off and get back to business. Walking to the dam, he pushes a crumbling piece back into place and uses his laser eye-beams to seal up all of the other cracks (a very Superman-esque deed, wouldn't you say?), while the Energy Beast escapes into the countryside. With that task done, Godzilla slowly sinks back under the water, still not fully recovered from the powerful zap he took. Trying to figure out where the Energy Beast came from, one of the scientists decides to show the crew the meteorite crater. On the way, he shows them their solar panels and Godzooky ends up scaring himself with his reflection in the glass. Arriving at the crater, they figure that the meteor itself must have disintegrated on impact, and Martin shows them the tracks. Martin, however, is baffled when he sees that the tree the tracks led to the night before is gone, while the others figure the tracks may belong to the Energy Beast. At that moment, Martin gets a call from the other scientist, Nellick, on his walkie-talkie, telling him that there's trouble at the Mesa City power station. Arriving back at the control center, they're stunned when they see on the monitors that the station is apparently being attacked by Godzilla. Unsure why Godzilla is acting like the Energy Beast (see what I mean about the show having tipped its hand too early?), the crew decide to head over to Mesa City in order to try and lure him away. Using the mini-copter, they arrive at the power station and Majors tries to get him to leave with the megaphone. All he gets in response is an angry roar, so Quinn tries, telling him who they are and that Godzooky is there too. However, Godzilla ferociously swipes at the copter and does the same to Godzooky, sending him hurling through the air. Not sure what his deal is, they touch down nearby, as does Godzooky, and Pete tries to the megaphone. However, Godzilla completely ignores him and goes on feeding on the electricity. Since he won't listen to them, Quinn calls Nellick and tells him to divert the dam's energy away from Mesa City. He and Martin do so and, with no more energy to feed on, Godzilla stomps out of the station, angrily smashing and snapping anything in his way. Given his attraction to high concentrations of energy, Quinn asks Nellick if there are any other such installations in the area and he says that there is: the Crescent Beach nuclear reactor. She advises him to warn them to shut the reactor down but the phone lines were destroyed by Godzilla in his attack on the power station. Quinn decides they need to go and warn them themselves, though they tell Pete and Godzooky to go back to Sundance Mesa and wait for them. In the next scene, Quinn, Majors, and Brock fly to Crescent Beach and, sure enough, Godzilla is heading right for the reactor. After they set the helicopter down on a nearby hill, Brock suggests that this may be a different Godzilla, one that could have recently hatched. Quinn tells Majors to see if he reacts to the signaler but Majors doesn't, worried that Godzilla may attack them in response. Godzilla arrives at the station, tossing and smashing the cars in the parking lot, while Pete and Godzooky, having ignored their telling them to go back to Sundance Mesa, arrive, landing on a bluff overlooking where the mini-copter is set down.
Godzilla moves in on the reactor and Pete tells Godzooky to try to snap him out of it, like he did back at the dam. Godzooky lets out his signature cry, which catches Godzilla's attention, while the adults feel that they're now screwed. Godzilla moves away from the reactor... and another Godzilla, the true one, emerges from the nearby ocean and immediately challenges the imposter. (I don't know why but I just love how everyone thought Godzilla had turned bad, possibly from the attack by the Energy Beast, only for him to be vindicated through being revealed to have just been waiting to be called on, as always.) Everyone is flabbergasted that Brock was right about there being two Godzillas, while Godzilla immediately puts his doppelganger in a headlock. Pete and Godzooky join the adults, while Godzilla forces the imposter back with his fire breath. The imposter's eyes turn red and he fires a pair of jagged laser-beams at Godzilla, hitting him in the stomach. Godzilla ducks when he tries it again a couple of more times, one pair actually hitting the side of the reactor. The group still isn't sure which Godzilla is the real one (though it should be pretty obvious, by now), but Godzooky tries to find out by flying to the battle-site. He ends up between the two Godzillas as they face off, trying to figure which is the real one. The imposter outs himself by punching Godzooky away, landing him in a footprint on the beach, and he finds himself surrounded by them. The real Godzilla picks him up and sets him down safely on a ridge, before charging at the imposter. He crashes into the side of the ridge, getting buried in rubble and giving the imposter the chance to escape. Figuring he may be heading back to the dam, the crew decides to use the mini-copter to beat him there, while Godzooky gives Godzilla the incentive to break through the rubble and follow them by telling him where the phony Godzilla is heading. At Sundance Mesa, Quinn asks Nellick to show them how to work the controls on the solar energy collector.
Constantly looking over his shoulder, the imposter reaches Sundance Mesa, only to stop dead when he sees his reflection in the energy collector's panels. Touching the glass and looking behind, he grows further perplexed and enraged, hitting the reflection with his fire breath. When that does nothing, he charges and crashes through the glass. The real Godzilla shows up and drags him back out, grappling with him until he drops his disguise and reveals what anyone should have guessed: he's really the Energy Beast imitating Godzilla. Losing energy, he shrinks back down to the relatively small size he was before and slips out of Godzilla's grasp. He runs to the crater and crawls in, Godzilla right behind. He sticks his hand down into the crack on the bottom of the crater, only for the Energy Beast to snap back at him with his pincers. Undeterred, Godzilla forces the crack open completely, revealing a flying saucer that the Energy Beast quickly crawls into. Lifting it out of the crater, Godzilla throws the ship like a baseball, sending it flying up into the sky and out of the atmosphere. The crew cheers and Godzilla, now fully vindicated, lets out a satisfied roar. On the way home, the crew hears what sounds like Godzooky diving for fish again but now, he's actively after inner-tubes, using one as a raft as the Calico drags it on the stern. All in all, while it may not have reached its potential, this is still an episode I've always enjoyed.
The Colossus of Atlantis: As the Calico sails through the ocean, Pete is on deck, playing fetch with Godzooky... or, at least, trying to, as Godzooky grabs a small raft rather than the stick Pete threw for him. In the wheelhouse, Brock sees on the map that they're passing over the spot where Atlantis supposedly sank from an earthquake and they debate about whether or not the city was real (this was my introduction to the legend, by the way). Speaking of quakes, a strong one rocks the ocean floor and a huge structure begins rising up from it as a result. It's picked up on the sonar, heading right towards the Calico, and Captain Majors puts the ship at full speed to get out of its way; the recoil from him doing so flings Godzooky off the back! Godzooky manages to fly back to the ship, as the structure breaks the surface, revealing itself to be an entire, highly-advanced, city. They quickly realize that they're looking at Atlantis, which had been freed from the seabed because of the quake. At first glance, it seems deserted, but a tower with a screen of flickering colors on its front fires a ray at the Calico. The ray cuts the ship's power and begins dragging it towards the city. Unable to do anything to stop it, Majors signals Godzilla, who rises up and puts himself between the Calico and Atlantis. He braces himself with his left arm and tries to push the ship back with his right but the beam's strength proves to be a challenge even for him. Try as he might, he's unable to keep the Calico from inching forward, and Godzooky, wanting to help, flies up towards him. In a second, the tower fires another ray, this one right at Godzilla, causing him to vanish. With nothing to keep them back, the Calico is now pulled right for the city, getting sucked through an opening in the side of the city's base; because he was in the air, Godzooky manages to avoid being trapped with them. Stuck in a large space within the city, the crew is trying to figure out what happened to Godzilla, when the walls start closing in on them, acting as a large compactor. Just when it looks as if they're dead meat, Godzooky rips a hole through the ceiling and uses his tail to lift them up after they've formed a tower with their bodies. Nothing can save the Calico, however, as it's completely crushed by the walls. They're now stuck on Atlantis, with someone who clearly doesn't like visitors.
Needing to find Godzilla, Majors suggests they split up and search the city (where have we heard that before?) He takes Pete and Godzooky with him, while Quinn and Brock head off in the opposite direction. Coming across an old building that could have been governmental in function, the two scientists walk in, Brock commenting, "I hope we're not intruding." Apparently, they are, as a control panel on the way seems to relay a message to the tower from before, which lowers down to reveal that it's hollow and housing a large robot, the Colossus. He begins roaming through and scanning the city, while in the government building, Quinn and Brock find a room containing a supply of lens-like discs. Finding a machine where they seem to fit, Quinn places one in the machine and some screens lining the walls begin playing films. Quinn realizes that the discs contain chapters on the history of Atlantis and, on a hunch, puts in the last disc. Sure enough, it depicts the end of Atlantis, showing the quake that dragged the city down. In the film, a man named Kara-El (yes, I'm serious) tries to warn his people that they can use a time machine to escape but they panic and run for a building containing what they refer to as "sleep chambers." As the city rocks from the quake, the Atlanteans place themselves in suspended animation, right before it sinks beneath the waves (no matter advanced they were, there's no way they'd be able to get wide-shots of the city sinking and heading down into the seabed). Once the disc is finished, Brock finds a room containing the time machine that Kara-El was talking about. Meanwhile, out in the city, as the Colossus continues scanning the place, Captain Majors, Pete, and Godzooky find the building housing the still sleeping Atlanteans. When they leave the building, they see the Colossus as he passes by, and he turns his head and sees them. He immediately fires a ray from his eye, blasting a pillar as they run for it. Desperate for Godzilla's help, Godzooky calls for him from where he and the humans have taken cover but he's nowhere to be seen. The Colossus finds them and fires at them again, one of his beams hitting the ground in front of Godzooky, who stops and tries to fight. This results in him nearly getting blasted and he takes cover with Majors and Pete behind a shield. The ray deflects the shield and destroys a nearby building, revealing Godzilla within it. However, he's in suspended animation like the Atlanteans, and in no position to save his friends, as the Colossus moves in on them. They run for it, the Colossus' beams destroying the shield they were hiding behind, and Majors tells Pete that they need to find Quinn and Brock, as they're the only ones who could figure out how to awaken Godzilla.
Back at the history building, Quinn finds that the history discs also operate the time machine, enabling the user to step back into any point in time recorded on them. Once the machine is activated, Brock gets reckless and steps through the beam, with Quinn chasing after him. In a flash, the two of them end up back in the room and it seems as though the time machine didn't work... until they step outside and find the city now full of the Atlanteans. Unfortunately, they happen to have traveled back to the moment right before the earthquake struck. The city starts shaking and, as the Atlanteans panic and Kara-El tries to convince them to use the time machine to escape, Quinn and Brock try to make their way back to the building that housed it. The crowd of people, however, is too thick for them to push through and they end up in the building with the sleep chambers. With the Atlanteans using them to save themselves, Kara-El tells them it's now their only chance of surviving before going into one himself. With no other choice, Quinn and Brock put themselves into suspended animation, right before Atlantis sinks. In the present time, the Colossus is still after Majors, Pete, and Godzooky, firing his lasers at them. Ducking back into the building with the sleep chambers, they manage to lose the robot and worry about finding Quinn and Brock. That's when they see them in suspended animation in the sleep chambers. Pete tries to reach through the beam covering his aunt but gets a shock. They hear a voice that tells them their friends haven't been harmed and, after searching for its source (Godzooky pulls up the piece of floor underneath the chambers and searches), a holographic image of Kara-El appears before them. Introducing himself as Atlantis' chief scientists, and explaining that he's a mental projection from his sleeping body, he explains that he's the reason why their friends are in suspended animation. He then tells them that the Colossus suffered a malfunction during the quake and has now gone haywire, keeping them in their deep sleep for centuries. Moreover, the controls to the sleep chambers are within the Colossus, meaning the only way to awaken everyone is to destroy him. Knowing they need Godzilla, Majors comes up with a plan to get the Colossus to break through his suspended animation, one that involves Godzooky (he's more than game for it). Once they find the Colossus near Godzilla, they put their plan into action. Majors and Pete running out, getting the Colossus' attention, and having him chase them towards Godzilla. Pete then yells for Godzooky, who flies in, right at the Colossus' face. He tries to get him with one of his extendable arms but Godzooky avoids it and causes him to blow up a building with his lasers. They then tell him to get the Colossus to blast Godzilla. Godzooky flies around Godzilla and back to the Colossus, flying around his head, making him struggle to keep him in sight. Once Godzooky has his attention again, he flies back towards Godzilla and the Colossus fires his lasers, hitting Godzilla dead on. Godzilla awakens and, with some snarls, stomps towards the Colossus.
The two giants head towards each other, Godzilla blasting his fire breath and forcing the Colossus back a bit, though it doesn't stop his approach. Godzilla motions for Godzooky, who's hovering behind him, to leave the battle site, and Godzooky, despite some pouting is about to do so, when he warns Godzilla about the approaching Colossus. Godzilla dodges a charge from him, causing him to smash through a tower, and he extends his other arm, only for Godzilla to blast it off with his eye-beams. He then grabs the Colossus and starts grappling with him, when he shoots up into the air, whirls around wildly, and flings Godzilla off, right into a building. Godzooky comes flying in and tries to challenge the Colossus, only to get grabbed by his other, claw-like hand. Godzilla pulls him loose, ripping out the arm, and sends him flying on his way, but when he faces the Colossus, he's now sprouted five arms on either side of his body, sporting ten in total (at least, in this shot; it changes wildly between them). He grabs Godzilla with him and holds him tight, Godzilla struggling to get free and demolishing another building in the process. Deciding to use it to his advantage, Godzilla begins walking with the Colossus to the edge of the city overlooking the sea. Seeing what he's planning, the Colossus slams on his brakes but it doesn't stop Godzilla, who manages to dump him down into the water. Sinking down and floating back up, the Colossus short-circuits and comes apart, his head spinning off, his body sparking and smoking, and his gears whirring loudly, before he sinks down beneath the waves for good. Godzilla lets out a satisfied roar, as Majors credits him with using salt water to short-circuit the Colossus (I think he just threw him in the ocean to get him off of him and that ended up being a happy accident). In the next scene, it's revealed that the Atlanteans, as well as Quinn and Brock, have been freed from their suspended animation. It seems like a bittersweet victory, as the Calico is still gone, but Kora-El says that can be remedied with the time machine. He sends the group back to before the ship was destroyed, adding, "Then, my fellow Atlanteans and I will return to our home." With that, they're back on the ship, which now hasn't a scratch on it, though no effort is made to explain how Godzilla was able to back to this timeline (I'm assuming he did, since you don't see him again), or how everything they did wasn't undone by going back in time. In any case, they wonder what Kara-El meant by that last statement and they soon have their answer: a dome appears above the city and it lifts up into the air, revealing itself to be an enormous spaceship. A rather tacked-on and unnecessary revelation, am I right? Anyway, they fly off into the sky, as everyone watches, and Godzooky leans back so far to watch that he falls down into the water, much to everyone's amusement.
The Horror of Forgotten Island: Taylor's comet is passing by the Earth, causing a powerful, magnetic storm that the Calico is caught up in. The ship gets tossed around by big, powerful waves while lightning lights up the sky around it and it gets slammed against a reef. This tears a hole in the hull down in the hold and Godzooky, who's sleeping down there, is woken up when he gets sprayed by the water shooting in. Seeing what's happening, he runs to the hole and places his hand over it, managing to stop the flow. Up top, the crew desperately tries to find land but there doesn't seem to be anything within miles. Brock then sees something in the distance and it appears like another ship is heading straight for them. When they get close to it and cut the engines, they see that, rather than another ship, it's their own reflection against a large force-field. However, after a flash of lightning, the force-field shorts out, allowing them to continue on. Captain Majors decides to head for a nearby island so they can check out the damage they may have suffered. Said damage becomes all too clear when Pete, hearing Godzooky moaning and whining, goes to check on him and sees that they're taking on water. Godzooky keeps trying to hold the water back but, when it gets up to his waist, it explodes through the hole, rapidly filling the hold and forcing him to head up on deck. Knowing they need Godzilla, Majors hits the signaler, but nothing happens. The magnetic storm is interfering with the signaler, meaning Godzooky has to call him. He does and Godzilla, emerging from the water, picks up the ship, carries it over to the island, and sets it down on the beach. Now that they're safe, Godzooky flies up to Godzilla's head, only to get blown back by his breath. Godzooky flies into a palm tree, flung forward by the recoil and is then caught by Godzilla, who places him on the Calico's deck. The job done, Godzilla heads back out to sea, while the crew decides to go to bed and wait until the storm passes before beginning repairs. Little do they know that they're not alone, as a hideous, cyclops-like monster is shown to be watching them from a nearby ledge. The next day, the storm is gone and Majors and Brock figure they can repair the damage to the Calico's hull in just a couple of hours. However, Quinn discovers that the force field is now working again, meaning that they're stuck. To look for a solution, she decides to explore the island, taking Pete and Godzooky with her. On the beach, they find an ancient, strange-looking machine, and a few feet away, Godzooky finds a large footprint shaped like a hoof. As they look at it, the cyclops monster materializes behind them and threatens them with his big, crab-like claws. This is another instance of the show telegraphing something (in this instance, the monster's ability to turn invisible) they should have kept secret from both the viewer and the characters, as we'll see.
The monster has cut them off from the Calico, forcing them to run into the hills. Godzooky, as usual, tries to act all tough, stomping up to the monster like he's going to whoop some ass, but is sent running when the monster lifts his foot above him and nearly squashes him flat. At the Calico, Captain Majors and Brock hear Quinn yelling for them and rush to their aid, just as the monster has them cornered. He's distracted when he turns around and sees them, while Majors quickly hits the Godzilla signaler. But, while Godzilla surfaces and heads for the island when he hears the signal, he runs into an unexpected obstacle in the force-field. Confused when he sees his reflection in it, he starts pounding his fists on it, trying to get through, but nothing he does damages it in any way. With that, it's clear the crew are on their own. Quinn and Pete run for a small hole in the rocks but Godzooky is too big to fit through it, forcing him to take to the air. The monster turns his attention to Majors and Brock, trapping the latter against some rocks and threatening him with one of his claws. Seeing this, Godzooky flies in and distracts the monster, giving both Brock and Majors the opportunity to run for the gap where Pete and Quinn are. Godzooky keeps flying circles around the monster, dodging his claws, but when he gets too cocky and congratulates himself for his dodges, he gets snared. Unable to free himself, and the others helpless to do anything, Godzooky is carried down the beach, while Godzilla continues struggling to get through the force-field. The crew follows the monster's footprints into a canyon that dead-ends on the other side but are confused when they see no sign of him. They then see Godzooky in mid-air, having seemingly escaped, but the monster then materializes, revealing his cloaking power to them (again, it might have been better storytelling to keep that a complete secret until now, though it's not as big as a deal as the Energy Beast's imitation powers a couple of episodes back). After more struggling, Godzooky manages to free himself of the monster's grasp and fly down to the group. Then, something happens that confuses me: the monster starts grabbing boulders and putting up a barrier in front of him... or what it seems he's doing, at first. But they act as if he's trapped them in the canyon and take shelter in a nearby cave, hoping there's a way out on the other side. How is he trapping them if he's putting this rock wall up between him and them? And, what's more, it looks like they're the ones who are on the side of the canyon that leads back out to the beach, while the monster is at the dead end! Either I missed something, like him using his ability to get behind them and cut them off from the entrance, or this moment was really badly plotted. Regardless, inside the cave, they find carvings on the wall that Quinn interprets as saying that visitors from a distant galaxy landed on the island a long time ago and were attacked by the monster. She finds a carving of the ancient machine on the wall as well, figuring that it must work the force-field that surrounds the island, which the aliens put there to keep the monster from terrorizing the planet. They now know that, in order to escape, they need to turn the force-field off so Godzilla can get at the monster. However, while they were studying the carvings, the monster made his way around his barricade and reaches inside the cave with his snapping claw. It seems like he has them trapped, but Godzooky finds another way out on the opposite side of the cave. The crew runs out and back to the beach, as the monster realizes that he's lost his prey. Spotting them, he smashes through the barrier and chases after them, as they run to the spot where the force-field controller is. Desperate to get it to work, Quinn fiddles around with it, as the monster draws ever closer. She then finds a knob that's separate from everything else and turns it.
With that, the force-field disappears and Godzilla is able to make his way to the island, where he sees and faces off with the cyclops monster, the crew caught in the middle of it. Brock exclaims, "Better get off the fifty-yard line!" and they run for the Calico. Realizing that the monster could now easily escape the island, Quinn thinks she can come up with a way to reactivate the force-field will still enabling them to leave and she and Pete head for the ship's electronics room. Meanwhile, at the battlefield, Godzilla fires his lasers at the monster, only for him to dodge and cause them to blow up a tree behind him. Growling, the monster fires an eye-beam of his own, hoisting a boulder beside Godzilla up into the air. Godzilla catches it and throws it at the monster, who promptly knocks it out of mid-air with another beam. In the electronics room, Quinn tells Pete she's making a timer that they can use to get off the island and leave the cyclops monster behind, while outside, Captain Majors and Brock work to complete the repairs to the ship, as Godzilla keeps the monster back. He breathes his fire at him, while at the ship, the repairs are finished. Quinn tells Majors to prepare to leave, as she and Pete head to install the timer on the fore-field controller. That's when Godzooky makes the mistake of getting involved in the monster fight, hovering in front of the cyclops and taunting him. Godzilla pulls him out of the way before he gets snagged again and places him atop a palm tree, actually wagging his finger at him! The monster tries to attack again but Godzilla grabs his shoulders and flings him over him. He gets back up and faces Godzilla as he stomps towards him, only to disappear. Godzilla is clearly unsure what happened, while Quinn finishes connecting the timer to the machine, setting it for five minutes. They then see that the cyclops' footprints are heading inland, looking like he's running away. It looks as though Godzilla's won and he picks up Godzooky, who fell off his tree after getting too excited at his uncle having won the battle. Placing him on the deck, he then picks up the Calico and places it in the water. They start heading out to see, with Godzilla following, but just as it looks like they're home free, the cyclops monster emerges from the water in front of Godzilla. He immediately attacks Godzilla and turns invisible, tipping the scale in his favor. With two minutes left on the timer, Brock and Pete fly out to the spot in the mini-copter, where Godzilla gets blasted down by the still invisible monster. They even the field back up by pouring red paint on the monster, making him visible again (not unlike a moment in the Jonny Quest episode, The Invisible Monster, where the group does the same to make that creature visible). With that, and with one minute left, the copter returns to the ship, while Godzilla flips the monster over his shoulder, into the water behind him. He goes back to following the Calico, though the monster is following him, but then, the timer runs out and the force field reactivates, again trapping the monster within the island's boundary. Everyone is relieved to have made it, while Godzilla, after looking at his reflection again, ducks down back under the water. The episode ends with a scene at sunset where Godzooky shows Pete a shell he found on the island. Upon Pete's suggestion, he puts it to his ear so he can hear the ocean, only for water to pour out of it and onto him.
Island of Lost Ships: This episode is notable in that it's the first one where the threat is something other than a specific monster or a group of them. It also has a similar set-up to The Horror of Forgotten Island, right down to the Calico being caught up in a bad storm, this time while they're on their way to Greece. However, in this instance, the storm clears within a minute (a blessing, as the ship's rocking had Godzooky seasick!) but, as they come across an island, they hear a bizarre sound, akin to weird singing. In a not so subtle bit of foreshadowing, Quinn references the Sirens when Brock identifies the sound as singing, adding that they were only legendary creatures. Noticing that Captain Majors isn't steering them away from some oncoming rocks, Quinn goes up to the wheelhouse, only to find the door jammed and Majors staring straight ahead, in an odd trance. The ship hits the rocks and instantly stuck. Needing Godzilla to get them off the rocks, Pete has Godzooky call for him. Upon arriving, he lifts the Calico off the rocks, pushes them down (I can never tell if he does it with his foot or hand), and carries the ship over to the island's shore, setting it down near an old dock. While everyone thanks Godzilla for arriving just in time (they say, "Just in time!", a lot when cheering him), Majors snaps out of his trance and joins the others, telling them he doesn't remember anything after hearing that strange music. Godzilla heads back underwater and Majors tells them that, according to the charts, there shouldn't be any islands between them and the Greek mainland. While he and Brock stay behind to check the Calico for any repairs it may need, Quinn takes Pete and Godzooky with her to explore the island and try to find where they are. Heading up to where Brock saw some buildings earlier, instead of old ruins, they find some buildings that, while old-fashioned in design and architecture, looking awfully new. Exploring, they find a statue of a Minotaur in a large alcove and are then greeted by a woman in a toga who calls herself Morfeia. She says that she lives on the island by herself, never getting any visitors, and welcomes them to stay while they repair the Calico. She does, however, warn them to stay away from a pair of large doors in a small building nearby, and before Quinn can ask what's behind them, Morfeia disappears into thin air. While Pete and Quinn wonder what happened to her and what's going on, Godzooky gets the first real hint that there's something not right about the island, as the Minotaur statue starts to snarl and growl at him, prompting him to run.
Though they were supposed to meet up with Pete, Quinn, and Godzooky, Majors and Brock instead find their way into an underground area made up of dark corridors. How they go there is never explained at all. In any case, Majors is smart enough to tie one end of a rope to the wall so they can use it to find their way back. Outside, the others find an area overlooking the other side of the island and look down to see the eerie sight of a graveyard of lost ships. They also see another woman, who looks and is dressed similar to Morfeia, only with red hair, and when she looks up at them, her eyes turn completely red. Back in the underground maze, Majors and Brock have literally reached the end of the rope (or so Majors says, it looks like there are still three more loops left). Spotting daylight beyond a nearby doorway, they run for it, only to find a dead end, the daylight coming from a hole high up in the ceiling. They also make the grisly discovery of some skeletons in the corner and decide to head back to the rope. They then hear heavy breathing and growling echoing in the tunnels, followed by some unearthly howling (I can't stress enough how bone-chilling it sounds). That prompts them to quickly follow the rope back, only to reach there and find that the entrance is gone, replaced with another dead-end. Worse, the howling creature is still stalking them. Up top, while looking for Morfeia, the others find that the Minotaur statue is gone as well... because he's after Majors and Brock down in the maze. The two of them frantically run through the dark, trying to find the way out, but only succeed in getting themselves more lost. Fortunately for them, Pete hears them and then sees them down through an opening in the ground. He gets their attention and Majors asks him to find something to pull them up with. Godzooky uproots a nearby shrub, rips the leaves off, and sticks it down the gap. Majors helps Brock grab onto it so Godzooky can pull him up, only to turn and see that the Minotaur has found them. Godzooky manages to pull him up right before the Minotaur can grab him. After all the strange stuff they've come across, the group decides to leave the island as soon as possible. Morfeia then appears, saying she was hoping they could stay the night... or longer. Quinn turns down her offer but, when they try to leave, they find their path blocked by both the red-haired woman from earlier and a blonde one. The women tell them that they intend on keeping them on the island until sunset, when the island will disappear for a thousand years. However, when the group still insists upon leaving, the women each fire a beam at Brock, turning him to stone (Pete says they put him in a trance, though that's not the case). This act clues Quinn into something that's been clear from the start: these women are the Sirens.
In a panic, Godzooky runs for the doors Morfeia told them not to open and, ignoring the Sirens' warnings, unlatches it, revealing an enormous Chimera (he's so big, that there's no way he could fit inside this building, which looks about as small as a toolshed). Morfeia tells them they have no control over the Chimera, prompting Majors to signal for Godzilla. He emerges from the sea and comes ashore, to the sheer amazement of the Sirens, and they all watch as he faces the Chimera. Despite the monster's ability to breathe fire, Godzilla easily overpowers him, grabbing his front legs and then forcing him back into the building, closing the door upon doing so (most of the short fight happens offscreen, as you can hear some loud smashes while the spectators watch). With that done, Quinn thinks the Sirens will gladly let them leave, but that's not the case at all. The Sirens focus their power on Godzilla and hit him with their combined beams. Quinn exclaims, "They're putting him to sleep!" I don't know how she came to that conclusion simply from them zapping him but she turns out to be right, as Godzilla promptly loses consciousness and falls, leaving his friends at the Sirens' mercy. The group scatters amidst the buildings and the Sirens give chase. After a Scooby-Doo routine where Godzooky manages to fool them when they pass by standing still like a statue, and a moment where Pete hides behind the Minotaur statue, which suddenly reappeared, Majors gets cornered by all three of them and is turned to stone. Pete, Quinn, and Godzooky manage to duck through a doorway with a gate in it but Godzooky doesn't close it all the way. Seeing that the Chimera is still contained, the Sirens figure out where they went from the ajar gate and prepare to use their power on them. The group is shown to have wound up in the maze but, as they walk on, Quinn falls under the influence of the Sirens' singing. She walks back outside, Pete and Godzooky unable to do anything to help her that wouldn't endanger themselves, and is promptly turned to stone. Apparently, Pete and Godzooky are out of their range and so, they reawaken the Minotaur and send him into the maze after them. Lost in the maze, it doesn't take Pete and Godzooky long to realize they're being followed. They attempt to lose the Minotaur, only to come to a corner that he's just beyond and quickly run back. While hiding, Pete, seeing an open doorway, comes up with a plan and whispers it to Godzooky. In the next scene, Godzooky lures the Minotaur into the hallway and, upon losing him, Pete lures him into the room he spied earlier. In one shot, Pete was in a corner and then, the next time you see him, he's in the room's doorway; in fact, the background from that first shot looks like the same one they use for when he's in the room, watching as the Minotaur tries to get in. Unable to simply slip through the doorway because of his size, the Minotaur gets stuck and is pushed into it from behind by Godzooky. He slides across the floor and just barely misses Pete, who runs out the doorway. He and Godzooky manage to close and latch the actual door (which wasn't there earlier), the Minotaur's hand smashing through the grated window on its front. They then escape the maze by Godzooky's ability to fly, heading up through one of the gaps in the ceiling. However, he gets and has to pull himself out, landing and shrieking because of it, Pete having to promptly shush him.
The Sirens realize that the Minotaur should have caught Pete and Godzooky by this point and come up with the plan to destroy the Calico, using the Chimera to do so. Needing to combine their powers, they hold hands and concentrate, becoming one, extremely tall woman as a result. She then walks over to the doors where the Chimera is still struggling to get out and opens them, using her power to make him obedient and orders him to destroy the Calico. Pete attempts to wake up Godzilla, telling him that they're now controlling the Chimera, but this only rouses him a little bit. While that's going on, Godzooky distracts the Chimera by flying around, only to get grabbed while coming around for a pass. Pete tells Godzilla that Godzooky is in trouble and this is what fully awakens him, as he gets to his feet, roaring angrily. Seeing this, the Chimera tosses Godzooky aside, into a nearby pool. But, just as Godzilla and the Chimera are about to fight again, Morfeia declares that she and the Chimera will defeat him together. She grows even bigger and then becomes one with the Chimera, which grows until he dwarfs Godzilla. The two of them struggle and fall to the ground, when Pete sees that the sun is setting. He tells Godzilla he has to hurry, as the battle moves to the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea, Godzilla fending off the Chimera's own fire breath. Looking behind him, down at the shoreline below, Godzilla gets an idea and dodges the Chimera when he charges at him. The Sirens' screams can be heard as the Chimera falls down into the sea (the effect is more laughable than disturbing) and is immediately disintegrated. Apparently, they share the Eartheater's same weakness against water. As a result, the others awaken and not a moment too soo, as the island begins to disappear with the setting sun. They run for the Calico and Godzilla gives them a push into the sea, just before the island vanishes completely. The episode ends with Godzooky sounding he's seasick again but he's actually trying to entrance fish by singing like Morfeia. It seems to work, as the fish stare up at him, looking dazed, but he ends up falling over the stern and into the water, the episode ending with him frantically chasing after the escaping fish alongside the ship.
The Magnetic Terror: Despite its overall campy nature, some episodes of this show manage to have a real sense of urgency about them, making you realize that the stakes are really high, and this is one of them. In the Arctic, a pilot named Eddie is flying back to his outpost, when he runs into trouble. His plane starts being pulled down by an unseen force and he's unable to pull it back up, forcing him to bail out with a parachute. As he wonders what's happening while drifting down, the cause reveals itself to be a huge, turtle-like monster that actually swallows the plane whole before descending back beneath the water. Elsewhere, the Calico's experiments start going haywire from an unexplained, powerful magnetic force. While out on the deck with Godzooky (who's swabbing the deck with his tail), Pete sees Eddie coming down with his parachute and alerts the others to it. He ends up in the frigid waters and the crew sends Godzooky after him. Godzooky manages to pick Eddie up and carry him over to the Calico, as he panics that he's been captured by a dragon. Once he calms down and they get him inside where it's warm, Eddie tells them what happened to his plane, describing it as being pulled down by something like a big magnet, corroborating the magnetic disturbance they experienced earlier. He also mentions how he never heard the plane hit the water. The crew decides to take him on to the oil drilling outpost he was heading back to, when they run into the magnetic force again. They see on the radar that the source of it is bypassing the Calico and heading for the South Pole, specifically the oil outpost. At the outpost, the place begins to shake and the Magnetic Monster emerges from the water, to the terror of a man out in front of a building. The man warns his coworkers that they're in trouble, while the monster comes ashore and begins exerting his power on the outpost, drawing everything that's made of metal towards him and gobbling them up. In doing so, he rips the oil towers out of the ground, sending oil spewing across it and into the water. The men watch from a ridge as he literally devours the outpost.
The Calico arrives and everyone sees the monster, which Quinn identifies as the source of the magnetic power they've been tracking, which is just as powerful as the Earth's own magnetic field. The ship begins picking up speed and they realize that the monster is drawing them towards him. Even reversing the engines doesn't do any good, leaving them with just one option: Godzilla. Captain Majors signals him and he arrives, grabbing the back of the Calico and pulling it away from the monster. Excited, Godzooky flies up to Godzilla, only to get caught in the monster's magnetic pull and drawn towards his mouth (God knows why a magnetic pull would affect him; don't any of you dare make that tired joke about him having a lot of iron in his diet). Godzilla reaches out and is able to catch Godzooky and place him back on the deck, angrily admonishing him for his stupidity. Now, Godzilla goes after the monster, climbing up onto the island and facing him. He fires his laser beams at him, only for the monster to use his magnetic powers to deflect the beams, causing them to melt a snowdrift instead. Frustrated, Godzilla gets behind him and tries to pull him but he gets blasted with the magnetism, which zaps him in the face and knocks him back. Now truly enraged, Godzilla blasts his fire breath, which gets caught in midair by the monster's magnetism and recoils from the force in the form of big fireballs. One fireball hits and ignites all of the oil that's been let loose by the monster's attack, surrounding the Calico in flames. Seeing what's happened, Godzilla breaks off his fight and heads to the water, as the monster watches. Swimming beneath the fire, he swims at a very fast rate under the ring of it around the Calico, fast enough to create a whirlpool. Just when it looks like they're going to sink, Godzilla explodes out of the water, picking the Calico up in his hand, as the flames are extinguished. Everyone cheers at his success, as he puts the ship back in the water, but they then see that the monster escaped during the fire. Later, they track the monster heading to the South Pole, worrying that his power could blow it right off the Earth. Quinn suggests following him in the mini-sub but Majors nixes that idea, saying that he and Brock will do it, as she's needed on the ship, where she can figure out a way to defeat the monster. In the next scene, the two of them set off in the sub and pick him up on the scope, as he swims for the polar ice caps.
The Calico moors near the South Pole and, upon picking up the Magnetic Monster, Quinn decides that she and Pete are going to track him on the land, leaving Eddie behind to man the radio. They use the hovercraft to reach the land, with Godzooky flying after them. Meanwhile, the mini-sub is traveling beneath the ice caps, when they detect a disturbance on it. Suddenly, a big chunk of it shakes loose and falls down into the water near them, sending the sub tumbling downwards and knocking out its power, Majors unable to do anything to get the sub under control. They ultimately end up wedged in a crevice on an ice formation and, not only do they have no power, their oxygen will run out in thirty minutes. Up on the surface, the area around the ice caps shakes and Eddie runs to see what's happening... never to be seen again. Seriously, after a brief moment where he runs from the radio to see what caused the shaking, you never find out what happened to him and the other characters act as if he never even existed. This is one of those questionable instances of human immortality that I mentioned earlier, something that I wondered about even back when I was a kid. In any case, it becomes clear that there's no escape for Majors and Brock, as the escape hatch is jammed. Brock tries to contact the Calico but receives no answer, prompting Majors to suspect that Quinn and Pete left the ship. (See? At no point do they ask, "Where's Eddie?") Deciding that they need Godzilla, Majors hits the signaler but nothing happens. He declares the signal isn't getting through (though, they only waited a few seconds; give Godzilla some time to reach you) and Brock sees on the radar that the Magnetic Monster is heading right for them. They figure his magnetism is blocking the signal. Up top, the ice cap begins shaking as the monster gets closer to the South Pole, his power playing havoc with the pole's own magnetic force. The shaking gets so bad that the ice cracks behind them, Godzooky having to keep them from falling in, and they run for the hovercraft as pieces of the cap start breaking loose and falling into the water. There's a moment where, while running, Godzooky slips and slides across the ice, going right through a snowdrift and stopping just short of a hole in the ice. A curious walrus pops his head through the ice and sprays Godzooky in the face with water, before laughing at him by barking (they use a seal sound effect, though) and heading back down, leaving Godzooky confused about what just happened. Down below, it's no laughing matter, as tons of ice threaten to bury the mini-sub. That's when the Magnetic Monster appears on the other side of the formation it's wedged and begins pulling it towards him. Unable to get the motor going, there proves to be no way out for them and they end up inside the monster's gullet!
His appetite satisfied, the Magnetic Monster swims upwards and breaks through the ice cap, landing with a loud boom, the ice cracking under his weight (is it me or is he looking goofier as the episode goes on?) Hearing this and seeing the ice cracking, Quinn tries to make contact with the mini-sub. Amazingly, she manages to do so and, telling Majors what's happened, asks him if he's close by, not seeing that the monster is creeping up on them from behind. He responds, "Closer than you'd believe! We're inside the monster." He then tells how the monster's magnetism blocked the Godzilla signal, so Pete has Godzooky call for him. As he does, the monster descends on them, in a really creepy shot where his flipper-like fins are now shaped like clawed hands. Godzooky calls Godzilla again and he proceeds to make quite entrance, smashing up through the ice and landing in front of the monster, though the awesomeness of the moment is hurt by how he slips around. The two of them face off, with Godzooky, of course, having to get in on the action. Here's where the high stakes come in: Quinn worries about Godzilla attacking the monster while Majors and Brock are trapped inside him, while they insist that Godzilla go and ahead destroy the monster, given the threat he is to the world. The place continues to shake around the monsters as they battle, Godzilla shooting fire out of his nostrils, which the monster dodges. Godzilla manages to grab him and hold in a bear hug while lifting him up. However, the monster starts feeding off the South Pole's power and gets bigger, forcing Godzilla to let go and fall flat on his back behind him. While Godzooky cheers him on, Godzilla fires eye-beams, only for the monster to deflect them like before and cause them to blow up an ice ridge. He grows and grows, until he's absolutely towering over Godzilla and actually tries to draw him up to his mouth! Things seem absolutely dire now, as it looks like all they can do is run for it, with Majors telling Pete and Quinn over the radio to save themselves. Godzilla is having to avoid getting swallowed by the monster and manages to jump down to the ice, taking Godzooky with him as they follow Quinn and Pete. Quinn then gets an idea, that if they get the monster directly over the pole, he may get more power than he can handle. She yells for Godzilla to head in their direction and he does, fighting the monster's magnetic pull while still carrying Godzooky. The two of them manage to make it past the pole and the Magnetic Monster steps right onto it, expanding from the power intake until he literally explodes, sending everything that he's ingested flying through the air. This includes the mini-sub, which Godzilla catches in his hand, much to Majors and Brock's elation and to the relief of Quinn and Pete. Of course, the episode has to end with a gag by Godzooky. As the Calico heads home, Pete swabs the deck, only for Godzooky to use a magnet to draw his water pail around a corner. However, it hits a cleat and gets flung right at his face, snug on his snout. Pete comments that they seem to have their own Magnetic Monster and Godzooky just laughs as he pulls the pail off his face.
The Breeder Beast: This is another one where the stakes are really high and you get the urgency of the situation. It's also the only other episode where most of the action takes place in a major city, though it begins, as usual, out at sea. The Calico comes across the strange sight of what looks like smoke coming out of the ocean. Quinn and Brock take some samples of the water, while Godzooky notices that the birds flying through the air are covered in gunk. One of them runs right into him and, disgusted, he blows smoke at it as it sits in his hands. This causes him to sneeze and sends it flying, free of the crap that was all over it; it's all over Godzooky, now. Coughing from the smoke, Captain Majors asks those in the lab about the water but they haven't found anything out yet. The Calico then comes across a patch of ocean where the water is seemingly boiling, the ship rocking from side-to-side as it goes. Quinn, Brock, and Pete run up to the deck from the lab, where a wave washes Quinn overboard. It's Godzooky to the rescue, as he flies in, picks her up, and brings her back to the ship, where she's helped into the wheelhouse. There, as she tries to compose herself, she tells them that, as boiling hot as the water looks, it's freezing cold (the significance of this is never made clear). Majors steers the ship out of the boiling area, when something rises up underneath it, plops it back down, and sends it flying through the air. Godzooky gets thrown backwards and crushes a lifeboat, and when the Calico hits back down on the water, Pete nearly gets knocked overboard but Brock grabs him. That's when the thing that sent them flying emerges from the water and begins oozing over the bow, revealing itself to be a hideous, slimy creature. Brock and Pete call for Godzooky, who runs in and tries to push the creature back over the side. Getting his hands momentarily caught within its body, Godzooky pulls himself free and then tries to push it again, only to get both his hands and feet caught in it. Seeing that Godzooky is in over his head, Majors signals Godzilla, while Brock and Pete try to pull him loose with an anchor's rope. Godzilla then pops up out of the water and, seeing what's going on, grabs Godzooky and pulls him loose, placing him back on the deck. The recoil from it sent the anchor into the creature, which uses its glowing, eye-like nucleus to disintegrate it completely. By this point, the creature has revealed itself to be absolutely enormous, much bigger than the Calico, and when Godzilla grapples with it, he punches his fist right into it. However, the creature's nucleus moves down and zaps his hand, prompting him to pull it out. He then hits it with his fire breath and parts of its body actually explode in response, before it dives back down beneath the water with a big splash. It seems like Godzilla has won and heads back down under the water himself. (Incidentally, no more is made of the strange condition of the ocean they just passed through, so you don't know if it were due to the pollution that's ultimately discovered to have created the Breeder Beast or if the monster itself were the culprit. I always figured it were the latter, since Quinn says that she's never seen water that looked like that.)
Later, while Pete is washing Godzooky down, he finds some pieces of the monster and takes them to Quinn, to see if she can discover its origin. Looking at it under the microscope, Quinn deduces that it was made of some kind of toxic matter and proves how volatile it is by putting one of the pieces to a small flame. The piece instantly combusts. Wanting to make some more tests, Quinn tells Brock that they need to use the mini-copter to go to Washington to do so. Flying towards Washington, they're shocked to see the monster in the water, just offshore of a natural gas plant. Quinn tells Brock to take the copter down for a closer look and they watch as the monster begins feeding on the gas. She radios the Calico but the signal cuts out before she can tell Majors what's going on. Hearing enough to know there's trouble, Majors gets Pete to send Godzooky after the mini-copter, though he has to wake him up from a deep nap to get him going. Back at the plant, they believe that the creature is somehow distorting the radio signal and they watch as its body expands. Brock gets the helicopter too close to it and its growing body hits them from below, destroying their tail rotor. Fortunately for them, Godzooky arrives and catches them before they can crash, flying them back to the Calico on his back, copter and all. Once there, Quinn tells them that they need to call the authorities and, moreover, they can't let Godzilla get near it, as he could cause it to explode and incinerate the entire coastline. By this point, it's gotten so big that it resembles a nuclear power plant (I don't see that parallel but, that's the dialogue) and realize that it could potentially endanger the entire world. They call the military and general tells them that they're about to fire missiles at it. But, when he's told how dangerous that would be, he tries to contact the missile command and stop them (the man who ultimately orders the launch was sitting right next to him in the previous shot). However, he's not quick enough and the missles are launched. Now, they have no choice but to get Godzilla involved. Majors signals him and when he arrives, he comes ashore at the natural gas plant. Brock hears that Washington is being evacuated and Quinn tells him to tell the general they've sent for Godzilla, though she adds they have to make sure Godzilla doesn't fight the monster. At that very moment, Godzilla comes ashore near the Breeder Beast and, somehow, knows to stop the missiles from hitting it. He grabs them but the force of them sends him tumbling backwards, against the monster, which promptly dissolves the missiles. It then heads up a hill and Godzilla follows it, threatening it with his fire breath, and they pass by a freeway that's crowded with evacuating cars (Godzilla moves so fast in this shot that it's actually kind of funny).
In the crowded streets of Washington, the crew drives through them in their jeep, Pete at one point having to stop Godzooky from riding atop a bus full of people... at least, that's why he thinks he flies off the bus and rejoins them. In truth, the bus comes to a halt when a car stops in front of it and he gets thrown clear through the air. Needing to reach Godzilla before he blasts the Breeder Beast (Quinn tells this to Captain Majors, as if he were the one driving the jeep, when it's actually Brock), they drive off the road and across the hills. They manage to get ahead of Godzilla and Quinn tells him to keep away from the monster, Brock adding that he stay with them until they need. Meanwhile, the Breeder Beast is wreaking havoc in Washington, leaving a trail of dissolved roads and buildings in its wake. A line of tractors gets into position to try to push the Breeder Beast out of the city, and when it approaches after dissolving some buildings, they put their plan into action. It seems to work at first but then, the creature's jelly-like structure pours up over the dozers, forcing the men to abandon them. One man almost doesn't make it but Godzilla picks him up and places him safely on the ground nearby. The Breeder Beast moves further into the city and Godzilla and the crew chase after it. Godzilla gets ahead of the jeep and confronts the Breeder Beast at the Capitol Building. It rips the top off of the building and flings it at Godzilla, who blows it up in mid-air with his eye-beams. As the crew rushes to catch up with him, Godzilla tries to lift the Breeder Beast up when it falls at his feet but it's able to fling him off, landing him beside the capitol. He angrily fires his eye-beams at it but it dodges them, angering him. Before he can attack again, the crew arrives and calls him off, telling him to let it go, which he does. Seeing a big steel nearby, Quinn comes up with a plan, though they still have to keep Godzilla back and have him help them with the net instead of fighting the monster. They get into position, Godzilla holding one side of the net, and when the Breeder Beast gets in the middle and tries to ooze through it, he runs with the net and grabs the other pole holding it. He pulls the net along, in an attempt to dump the Breeder Beast into the river, but it oozes through the gaps in the net and ultimately dissolves it. The net falls slack in Godzilla's hands and he discards it, watching as the Breeder Beast continues on through the city. Now knowing what else to do, Quinn figures the monster may be heading towards the mint, where it can feed on precious metals like gold and silver. They and Godzilla follow after it, watching as it slithers past the White House and on to the mint, which it engulfs.
The Breeder Beast changes to a golden color as it absorbs the metals, becoming very much like a living nuclear bomb. Quinn tells Brock to move in closer she can get some readings on it (a moment ago, she told him not to get too close, because of the radiation) and when they do, they see it sprout tentacle-like appendages out of its body. Brock throws the jeep in reverse but the tentacles reach out, grab the jeep, and lift it up. Seeing this, Godzooky calls for Godzilla, who comes in and pulls the jeep free. As he sets it down, Quinn again tells him not to fight the monster but he's forced to swipe its tentacles away when they come at him. Godzooky then comes flying in but Godzilla, not in the mood at all, roars loud enough to send him flying through the air and into a nearby tree. He then flings himself out of the tree, rounds the top of the Washington Monument, and flies back to the site, where Godzilla is facing off with the Breeder Beast. He ends up flying right into the tentacles and Godzilla tries to get him but it pulls him out of his reach. It does so again when he reaches down and then, other tentacles grab Godzilla's feet. This makes him lose his patience and he fires his laser beams, striking the tentacles. To everyone's surprise, the Breeder Beast doesn't explode but merely releases its grip. Quinn believes that it's learned to control its energy and when Pete asks where the control box is, that seems to spark an idea in Brock. Godzilla, meanwhile, manages to get Godzooky free with his laser beams and he lands on the street next to the jeep. Quinn then tells Godzooky to get Godzilla to aim his lasers at the Breeder Beast's nucleus. Godzooky relays the information to Godzilla but he apparently didn't understand, as he instead grabs the monster and pulls it up towards him, only for it to grab him with its tentacles and then engulf him with its slimy body. Pete tells Godzooky that Godzilla didn't understand and he then flies and speaks to his uncle again. This time, Godzilla gets the message and fires his lasers right at the nucleus. That does it, as the tentacles break off and another blast causes the Breeder Beast to crystalize. Godzilla lifts it above his head, studying it, and at the end of the episode, they decide to donate it to the Smithsonian. The creature's actual fate is revealed when Quinn scoops up some water near the rock and at the bottom of the glass is the creature, in its tiny, pre-mutated form (don't ask me what it's supposed to be, because I haven't a clue). Looking at it, Godzooky manages to intimidate it enough to make it hide in the corner. This makes him feel all tough and Pete can't help but laugh and say, "Our hero."
The Sub-Zero Terror: This story takes place entirely in the Himalayas, which should let you know right off the bat what Godzilla and the crew encounter. A group of scientists led by Dr. Rourke is trying to reach their basecamp before dark but their native guide, Ten-Sing, is reluctant to press on because of some red flags that he says are a warning of the area being the territory of a creature called the Wachuka. In short, the area's version of the Abominable Snowman, and outsiders are forbidden on the sacred ground. However, Rourke is unconvinced and insists that they must press on and find a source of geothermal energy hidden within the area. With that, they press on, and as soon as they pass by the flags, a sudden avalanche occurs and completely buries the basecamp they were heading for. As they wonder what the cause was, they hear a raspy howling and the yeti-like Wachuka is shown to be looking down on them from a nearby cliff. Following the opening, the Calico is shown to be travelling up an icy river in the region, but while the crew is warm in the wheelhouse, Godzooky is forced to stay out on deck, where he's about to freeze. When Pete calls him, Godzooky, in his excitement, runs across the deck and slips across it. Unable to stop himself or grab the railing, he flies off the ship and into the water. He then climbs back up onto the deck and shakes the water off of him. The Calico arrives at a village and are surprised to find Rourke waiting for them, when he should be up in the mountains. Later, in one of the huts, Rourke tells the group of the legend of the Wachuka and that it's believed to have caused the avalanche, writing it off as ridiculous (so, apparently, he needs his eyes checked, given how he and Ten-Sing both looked up to that ledge when they heard the Wachuka howling at them). Captain Majors suggests he take in a small party by helicopter and Quinn and Pete volunteer to accompany him. Rourke isn't so sure about this, saying the flight up could be dangerous, but he's assured that Majors can handle it. They prepare to depart, Rourke saying the good weather won't last, unaware that they're being tailed by a mysterious, hooded figure whose footprints in the snow reveal that he's not as human as one might think. Despite the supposedly "good" weather, Majors finds the winds to be difficult to deal with, and as he flies around the mountains, he considers staying with them; Quinn convinces him to go back, since somebody needs to return the helicopter. They then reach the landing area and they drop off Quinn, Pete, Rourke, and Ten-Sing. Majors and Brock head fly back to the village and continue up the river with the Calico.
On the way, they pick up some temperature spikes in the freezing water, making Majors think one of the geothermal energy sources is up ahead. They then come across a dead-end, with nothing but a waterfall ahead. Up top, the Wachuka creates a slide of snows and boulders and sends it tumbling right at the ship. Majors puts the Calico in reverse but it's slowgoing. Godzooky flies up on a ledge and attempts to top the slide. He manages to hold it back for a few seconds but it overwhelms him, becoming a full-on avalanche. Out of options, Majors signals Godzilla, who emerges from the river (I'm betting he hates it whenever they travel to some place cold like this). He leans his body over the awning, above the Calico, and breaks the avalanche with his back, when a chunk of a ridge breaks loose from the shaking. Godzilla grabs it, pushes it back in place, and uses his fire breath to seal the crack. Seeing this from the shore, the Wachuka isn't happy and lets out an angry howl. Godzilla hears it and stands up, sending chunks of snow and ice raining down around the Calico, as he growls and snarls, trying to find the source of the howl. Majors and Brock wonder what his problem is, when they hear the Wachuka. Godzooky pops up from under some snow he got covered in and flies up on the deck. The humans thank Godzilla for his help and he sinks back beneath the water. The Wachuka continues howling and then leaves. Brock and Majors wonder what the source of the sound was but, looking around and seeing and hearing nothing, aside from the wind, Majors figures that's what it was. They then see what looks like a cave in the cliff-side, exposed by the avalanche, and figure it may be the source of the unusually warm readings from before. Up in the mountains, Rourke's group is making good progress, when they come across a huge chasm. Trying to find a way around it, they find an ice bridge extending across it and carefully walk across, the bridge proving to be fairly fragile. Ten-Sing sees a couple of Wachuka flags near a natural corridor in the ice and proclaims they must not go that way. However, the ice bridge behind them cracks and collapses, leaving them no choice but to press on. Back with the others, they find that the opening in the ice is actually a drain rather than a cave and could lead to an underground hot spring. As they walk through it, they come across a big door, shaped like that of a safe, and hear the sounds of machinery behind it. Opening it up, they find a space that looks like a workshop, full of little figures that are basically miniature versions of the Wachuka.
As the other group continue their trek, they hear the Wachuka's howling, right before Ten-Sing suddenly disappears, seemingly pulled through the ice. They search for him, only for another avalanche to pop up and they duck inside a cave in the mountain. Though they make it, the avalanche seals them in and they have to hope the cave has another entrance. After some searching, they find one, but it's at the top of a very narrow and brittle path. But, with no other choice, they slowly make their way up it, their backs against the wall. There's one moment where the path under Pete gives way and he nearly falls to his death but Quinn grabs him and pulls him up. They then head out of the cave and into daylight. They're surprised to see what looks like Ten-Sing waiting for them at the bottom of the trail ahead of them and walk down to him. He ignored Rourke admonishing him for leaving them behind and motions them on. However, we see that the figure's eyes within his hood are an ominous red, revealing that it's not Ten-Sing. He leads them through the area, into another passage in the mountains, and to their surprise, he simply pushes aside another batch of Wachuka flags that they come across. Leading them further into the tunnel, ignoring Rourke asking him where he's going, they soon find themselves at the center of an extinct volcano, which has a warm, tropical valley, complete with smaller, smoking volcanos, the source of the geothermal energy they've been looking for (reminds me of the 1957 dinosaur movie, The Land Unknown). When asked where they are, "Ten-Sing" tells them, "In the valley beyond the ice, the place of the Wachuki," and discards his parka to reveal himself to actually be a small snowman. The group tries to run for it but a door comes down and blocks their way. Back with Majors, Brock, and Godzooky, they notice that the Wachuki are making some small sticks with red jewels on their tips. The three of them try to slip out but Godzooky ends up tripping into a barrel of jewels, causing a loud noise that gets the Wachuki's attention. They try to run back to the tunnel they came through but the entrance closes on them. They run in another direction, they Wachuki still after them. Meanwhile, Quinn, Pete, and Rourke are led to an Aztec-style pyramid which the one Wachucki proclaims to be their home. As they're led inside, the Wachuki tells them their history, about how they found the valley after being driven into the mountains and harnessed the heat from the volcano. He also tells them that they intend to take back their land, showing them the army of frozen, soldier-like Wachuki they plan to use to do so. They find Ten-Sing frozen among them and the Wachuki, taking out one of the sticks from before, says, "And there is room for more." He uses an icy blast from the stick to free the three of them, saying it will be the fate of all outsiders.
The other Wachuki are still after Majors, Brock, and Godzooky, barely avoid blasts from their freezing sticks. Reaching the end of a corridor, only to find a large Wachuki waiting for them, they split up, Majors going one way while Brock and Godzooky go the other. Reaching a steep drop off, Majors tries to call for Godzilla but gets frozen before he can. Elsewhere, Godzooky pushes Brock into a chamber and holds off the Wachuki himself, though he's not very effective with nothing but some air jabs and smoke rings. Needless to say, he gets frozen, and the Wachuki start searching for Brock. Disguising himself with a parka and hood (for some reason, the Wachuki don't find such a figure suspicious), he makes his way into the room where his friends are being kept in the ice. Having snagged one of the sticks, he uses it to unfreeze them but, unfortunately, he releases the Wachuki warriors as well (Ten-Sing is never seen to be unfrozen, so I guess he ends up dying in what's to come!) He tries to re-freeze them but the stick shorts out in his hand. They all run for it, out into the valley, where Quinn shows them the way out. The head Wachuki tells his minions to awaken the Great Wachuka, who promptly bursts his way through the door he's kept behind. They then signal Godzilla, only for the Wachuka to spot them and grab and lift up Quinn. Outside, Godzilla again emerges from the river and makes his way to the source of the signal. Back in the valley, the men are surrounded by angry Wachuki, while Quinn tries to get the Wachuka to put her down. Godzilla then finds a way to the valley and, looking through a gap in the wall, sees what's going on. He makes his way up the side of the volcano and climbs down through the crater. The Wachuka sets Quinn down on a ledge and begins fighting Godzilla. After some struggling, Godzilla pushes him and blasts his fire breath. The Wachuka tries to deflect it with a stone but the heat melts it in his hands. He then runs and tackles Godzilla, smashing his back into one of the smaller volcanos and causing it to start erupting as a result. The two of them continue fighting next to the flow of lava, which reaches the small river and creates a big cloud of steam. Godzooky flies up to look for Quinn, while Godzilla stops the Wachuka from grabbing her again. The ground gives way behind Godzilla and when the Wachuka charges him, he dodges and he falls into the chasm behind him. The others run for the entrance, where Godzooky also arrives with Quinn, and Godzilla smashes the closed door with his finger, allowing them to escape. As the Wachuki try to reorganize and the Wachuka climbs out of the chasm, Godzilla gets out of the volcano. He walks down the mountain, finds a large stone, uses a pronged log to lift it up, carries it back to the crater, and slams it down, stopping an impending eruption and trapping the Wachuki and Wachuka in there. He then lets the humans walk into his hand and carries them to the Calico, while Godzooky follows in the air. On the way home, the Calico is rocked by what Brock initially thinks is a tidal wave but it turns out to be Godzooky doing a backstroke, despite the fact that they're still on that Himalayan river. This is another episode that, all in all, is just kind of okay to me. If they were going to have Godzilla fight a legendary creature, I'd rather it have been the Loch Ness Monster rather than a giant version of the Yeti (funny enough, the series based on the 1998 movie would end up featuring Nessie in an episode).
The Time Dragons: Yeah, we've got another story that involves time travel here, people, so get ready for a lot of inaccuracy. While out at sea, Pete is painting the letters on a lifeboat, which he says is hard work (how hard can it be?) Godzooky then tries to help by drying the paint with his smoke breath but ends up sending both of them into a coughing fit. In the wheelhouse, Brock picks up a rapidly-moving blip on the weather radar. Captain Majors writes it off as just a flock of migrating birds, when they hear a warning to all ships in the mid-Atlantic about nuclear satellite that's fallen out of orbit. It then gives the estimated point of impact and, surprise, surprise, it's their exact position. As the satellite, which is drawn more like a meteor, heads towards them, Majors signals Godzilla. When he rises up and sees the approaching satellite, he reaches out to catch it. Pete tells Godzooky to warn him about how dangerous it is but it's too late, as it ends up falling right into his hands. It begins to explode in his grip, as the bulletin warned it might, and a strange, green-colored mist and dust envelops both him and the Calico. They all disappear from the scene and reappear elsewhere, Godzilla opening his hands and seeing that the satellite has disintegrated. The crew is surprised to see that they're no longer in the middle of the ocean; rather, they're in a tropical jungle. Quinn figures it has something to do with the satellite exploding, while Godzooky jumps over the side, only to land in a tar pit that the Calico is sitting in and get stuck in it. Godzilla sees the predicament he's in and pulls him out of the tar, placing him on the ground nearby. He then allows the crew to climb into his hand and he lowers them down to where Godzooky is. There, they inspect the jungle and Quinn examines a plant, which she realizes has been extinct for millions of years, meaning they've been thrown back into the past, the only "logical" explanation, as she says. Brock has a moment where he goes, "Wow, we've made an incredible scientific discovery!... and they're nobody to tell." They decide to take a look around, hoping to find a way back, while Godzilla goes off by himself. They come across a big body of water that turns out to be the Atlantic Ocean, when its coastline was significantly different. Pete asks how the place they're standing on could end up underwater and he gets his answer when a short earthquake rattles them. That turns out to be the least of their worries, though, as a dinosaur emerges from the water and heads to the shoreline. Quinn identifies it as a Diplodocus, which she also adds wasn't too picky about its diet. They run back to the jungle, right as the Diplodocus spots them and gives chase, snarling as he does. The group scatters to try to confuse the dinosaur, only for him to cut off Majors and Brock, forcing them to go their separate waves. The Diplodocus slams his snout into the ground while trying to get at them and, after spitting out the dirt, spies both Quinn and Pete, the latter of whom tricks over a rock behind him. He moves in to devour Pete, when Godzooky comes flying in and distracts him, giving Pete the opportunity to run for it. As the Diplodocus snaps at Godzooky, Majors decides to signal the heavy artillery.
After searching for them, the Diplodocus corners Quinn and Pete behind a large rock, when Godzilla comes in with a ferocious snarl, toppling some trees with his stomping. The dwarfed Diplodocus backs away a bit but then tries to stand and fight, snapping at Godzilla. But when Godzilla demonstrates his fire-breathing abilities, the Diplodocus decides he wants no part of this and retreats down the coastline. Everyone regroups, while Godzilla heads off into the ocean, apparently content with his new surroundings. They head back into the jungle, just in case the Diplodocus is foolhardy enough to try to mess with them again. While walking through, Pete gets separated from everyone else when he spots a butterfly, or what I think is one, fluttering around the jungle. He follows it to a large plant that's shaped like an upside down bell, where it appears to be getting nectar. Pete then says, "So, you are a plant, after all," which confuses the hell out of me. Does that mean that thing was actually a flying part of a plant? I didn't think that was the case but, in later shots of the plant, you can still the butterfly-like figure sitting on a stalk in the middle of the plant, so maybe they are connected. Either that or the animators forgot to remove the butterly in those later shots. Either way, this is another anomaly that confused me even when I was a kid. In any case, Pete prepares to rejoin the group, when the plant snags him with several vines from its base, first grabbing his legs and feet, followed by his arms and hands. To his horror, he sees a set of bones beside the plant, revealing that it's carnivorous. Elsewhere the group stops for a break, Godzooky getting caught between a couple of small trees, when they realize that Pete's not with them. The group splits up into pairs, Brock and Godzooky searching one part of the trail while Majors and Quinn take the other. However, during their search, the latter two fall through a patch of soft dirt and look up to find that it's a dug pit rather than a simple hole. Pete, meanwhile, is still struggling to get free of the plant, as it tries to pull him in to devour him and actually growls at him at one point. Back at the pit, Majors and Quinn find that, even as a human ladder, they can't reach the top and the dry clay walls are impossible to get a fingernail into. Deciding that they'll just have to wait until the others find them, they're surprised when a vine is tossed down to them. They get no response when they call for Brock and Pete but climb up the vine anyway. Once up top, they find who "rescued" them: a tribe of cavemen. Elsewhere, Brock and Godzooky hear Pete calling for help and run to his aid. Godzooky tries to go in and help him but the plant's vines grab his feet. Pete tells him that the plant won't let go until it's eaten something. Seeing a large rock nearby, Brock grabs it and gives it to Godzooky, who tosses it into the plant's "mouth" and shoves it in. Surprisingly, this satiates it and it lets go of Pete. Brock comments, "That dumb old plant doesn't know the difference between a meal and a stomachache." The plant then burps and Pete says, "No, but I think it's learning." They then head to rejoin Majors and Quinn.
Little do they know that they've been taken prisoner, the leader of the cavemen telling them that all captured strangers are made into slaves for their tribe. They run into Pete and Brock up ahead and the leader orders them to be seized. But then, Godzooky walks into view and the cavemen run off in fear, thinking he's a dragon, especially when he challenges them and spits some smoke. Brock and Pete untie Majors and Quinn's bound wrists and the former pats Godzooky on the head, thanking him especially. Seeing this from nearby, the caveman leader walks up and, calling Majors "Dragon Master," introduces himself as Torak, saying that they're welcome in his village. Realizing why he's had this complete change of heart, and telling Godzooky to behave himself when he yells at the cavemen, Majors says that they seem to be guests. Torak takes them to their village, which is really just a line of tiny, straw huts. He explains that they have to keep on the move in order to avoid the "dragons." Majors suggests they stay in a series of nearby caves but Torak says that his people believe the caves are haunted. Using his influence as "Dragon Master," Majors is able to convince them that the caves are safe and they begin moving into them. On top of that, they get to work in helping the cavemen fortify their new homes with planted posts that act as a blockade and helping them build and use a catapult, to which Torak exclaims, "It is a stick of great power!" Despite the fact that these actions are likely to have a negative effect on the flow of time, I find it kind of hard to get into this tribe's plight after it was revealed that they make slaves of any strangers they capture. When Quinn shows an interest in the petroglyph they were using as a target, Torak takes them into the caves to show them. While looking at them, Torak says it was made when he became chief, even though they didn't start living in the caves until after Majors showed them there was nothing to be afraid of! Moreover, he shows them a new petroglyph, one that depicts them and the Calico, even though the cavemen have never seen it. Brock comments, "Just wait until some archeologist finds this 70,000 years from now!" Now, we're suddenly back in the past 70,000 years rather than millions, as Quinn originally estimated from that long extinct plant, and, again, this could have serious repercussions on the flow of time. Suddenly, an earthquake shakes the cave and everybody evacuates. Outside, Torak says that he believes the caves' gods are angry with them but Majors assures him that's not the case and the caves are the safest place for his tribe. The crew, in turn, decides to head back to the Calico where they'll be the most safe.
On the way there, Majors says that Torak's people will be safe when the place is covered by the Atlantic since their caves are on high ground. Reaching the ship, they're ambushed by an Allosaurus and forced to run back into the jungle. Majors attempts to signal Godzilla but a earth tremor causes him to drop the signaler and he nearly gets stomped on by the Allosaur while trying to find it. Quinn tells Pete to run, as Godzooky calls for Godzilla. He promptly emerges from the ocean and comes ashore, challenging the Allosaur. The two of them come at each other and Godzilla swipes at the Allosaur's head before grappling with him. Another tremor opens up a big split in the ground, while everyone heads to the ship, Godzooky making a bridge over the tar pit for them out of a fallen tree. Godzilla gets pushed back by the Allosaur, which then charges at him but misses and falls. A glowing, gray ooze pops up from a hole in the ground, which Quinn identifies as pitchblende, i.e. raw uranium ore. Majors has them begin crossing the tar pit with the tree, when the Allosaurus spots them. Behind him, Godzilla curiously grabs a handful of the pitchblende and clasps it in his hand. He disappears into thin air and Quinn says that the uranium sent him back to their time. Now, there's nothing to defend them against the Allosaurus, until Torak and his tribe show up, using the catapult to pelt the dinosaur with globs of mud. Quinn tells Torak to use the pitchblende and he scoops it up and places it in the catapult. He flings it at the Allosaur, while the crew boards the Calico, Godzooky flying Pete to it. The Allosaur catches the pitchblende in his hands and it sends both him and the ship through the time warp. They end up right back where they started, specifically before the satellite hit. Godzilla and the Allosaur are facing off in the ocean, shoving each other in the opposite directions, as the satellite closes in. Pete has Godzooky tell Godzilla to get rid of the satellite without touching and, to that end, he blows it with his breath. The Allosaur catches it and it sends him back to his time, Godzilla letting out a triumphant roar. The episode ends with the Calico head for land, much to Brock's relief, only for him to worry when he sees that Godzooky has something glowing in his hands. I don't know what he thinks he has but he braces himself, only for it to turn out to some lightning bugs, proving they are indeed near land. (By the way, who exactly were the eponymous "time dragons in this story?)
Calico Clones: We're into Season 2 now, so prepare for the images throughout the rest of the review to not look as good as those in Season 1. While traveling through some thick fog on their way to meet up with Dr. Wayside, who's called them in because of an unspecified discovery he's made, an enormous ship akin to a supertanker appears behind the Calico. It makes the Calico look like an ant in comparison and an opening at the base of its bow swallows them, just as Quinn hits the Godzilla signaler. Godzilla then emerges from the ocean but, when he doesn't see the Calico anywhere, he simply heads back down. Inside the supertanker's huge hold, they signal for Godzilla again but, when he rises back up, he still doesn't know what to do, as he can't find them, and goes back down. Quinn explains the thickness of the ship's hull is scattering the signal around and confusing him. There's a moment where Godzooky flies up, only for a laser to suddenly blast up at him, forcing him back down. Captain Majors turns on a searchlight to try to see who's captured them, when a voice over an intercom demands they shut the light off. Majors turns the light off, only for the group to get knocked back by another beam. Waiting for their abductor's next move, they see a saucer-like object come flying towards them and douse them with gas, which knocks all of them out, including Godzooky. Much later, they awaken to find that each of them has a bandage on their arms, again including Godzooky, and they find that the skin underneath them has been scraped off. They also find that they're being kept in a glass globe inside of an aquarium, filled with toothy piranhas. The voice comes over the PA system, identifying himself as Dr. Voltrane, whom Quinn remembers was a biologist who, ten years before, was fired from his institute after a scandal that resulted in his experiments with human patients. Voltrane writes off those who fired him as fools who didn't understand his work and tells the crew of the Calico that they'll soon find out his reason for abducting them. Meanwhile, in his lab, Voltrane's female assistant, whom he simply calls "Number One," brings him the skin specimens taken from the crew. Once he hears that they are viable, he orders her to begin an incubation process and then orders his guards to bring him the crew. The globe in which they're being kept is lifted up and they're taken to Voltrane's laboratory by a group of women who all look exactly alike. On the way, Quinn suspects why that is but doesn't specify, and they also see that all of the water has been drained out of the chamber where the Calico is being housed. Majors signals Godzilla again, thinking it might work since they're in a different part of the ship, but like before, he heads back down when he can't find the Calico, seeing only the supertanker.
In his lab, they're introduced to Voltrane, who introduces them to Number One, adding that there are many of her who work on the ship. When asked if she can guess what she is, Quinn knows immediately that she's a clone; specifically, she's a clone of Voltrane's daughter. With that, he proclaims that he's figured out how to clone humans and then, Quinn realizes that he's taken skin samples from them so he can use their cells to create clones of them. Before explaining why, Voltrane shows them a small squid in a tank which he's cloned, saying that he's altered the clone's growth rate. He points them to a monitor that shows what's going on under the water near the supertanker and they see the squid clone, which is an enormous monster, as big as Godzilla. He tells them that the squid follows the ship and is programmed to follow his every instruction, just like his human clones. With that, Voltrane finally reveals why he's abducted and plans to clone them: he knows that the reason Dr. Wayside contacted them was because he discovered an immense deposit of oil beneath the ocean floor and so, he intends to send the clones in their place to get from him the oil's location. In fact, he's already created the clones and shows them to the crew, the sight of which makes their skin crawl. Though the clones' minds are clearly blank, Voltrane intends to program them to do what they need to get the location of the oil. As for the crew, he has the guards take them back to their cell in the aquarium, where he'll keep them until he figures he no longer needs them. Once they're out of the lab, he and Number One begin programming the clones. On the way to their cell, the crew attempts to escape with the Calico. They have Godzooky create a smoke screen so they can evade the guards and run for the ship, as the alarm blares. With more guards coming, Majors sends Brock aboard to try to radio Dr. Wayside while they hold the guards off but, there were guards on the Calico itself. They seize Brock and, as Voltrane tells them over the PA that there's no use resisting, the other guards grab the rest of the crew.
Back in their cell, Majors finds a small service hatch on top of the globe but it's too small for him to get through. However, Pete can fit through it and they then come up with a plan to trade places with the clones and escape the tanker on the Calico. Godzooky then gives Pete a boost through the hatch and swims up to the top of the aquarium and to the nearby control room, pulling the lever that hoists the globe out of it (by the way, the water does not pour in and drawn the others when the hatch is opened and Pete has no trouble at all with the piranhas in the aquarium). Once they're free, they sneak back to the lab and watch a window as Voltrane finishes programming the clones. They listen to hear the command he uses to make them obey, as he deactivates the computer and tests them to see how well the programming went. He asks them to identify themselves and they all do so in correspondence to who they're cloned from, albeit in flat, emotionless voices. They also know what their mission is and so, Voltrane sends them to board the Calico. On the way, they're intercepted by the real Captain Majors, who uses the same phrase that Voltrane did, telling the clones to do exactly as he says. It ends up working and they follow him to the aquarium cell to take their place; the others head on to the ship to meet up with him there. Voltrane has his guards let the water back in so the Calico will be floating again and the crew boards it, sending away the guards there. Voltrane orders them to take their stations and prepare to depart, which they do, while trying to keep from coming off as suspicious. He tells them their final orders, for them to seize Dr. Wayside as soon as they find out where the oil is and that he will dispense with him when he arrives. The Calico is then let out through the bow doors, everyone amazed that they managed to escape, but Majors knows that Voltrane will be livid when he eventually does find out that he's been tricked and try to recapture them. They race to reach Dr. Wayside before that happens. Back on the supertanker, Voltrane has the "crew" brought back to him, where he blackmails them into either working for him or being thrown to his piranhas. The clone Majors responds in affirmative but then, the Quinn clone asks about the mission and Majors says they've been waiting for his orders. Voltrane is confused about what they're talking about and when Number One checks the Pete clone's arm, he finds no bandage there. He realizes that he's been tricked and furiously orders all engines full-ahead, planning to recapture the crew. On top of that, he signals his huge cloned squid, ordering it to bring the Calico to him.
Going full-speed on the hydrofoil, they're only ten minutes away from Wayside, when they suddenly stop dead. It turns out that the squid has grabbed them from behind. Knowing they need Godzilla, Majors moves to get the signaler, but the squid's rocking the ship causing him to lose his balance and fall. Instead, Godzooky calls for Godzilla, but he then flies up and at the squid, puffing his smoke at it. As you can guess, the squid grabs him with one of its tentacles, but Godzilla then emerges from the water and heads right for the squid, which is holding up both the Calico and Godzooky. It drops the ship as Godzilla comes in and grabs for Godzooky, shaking the tentacle and making it release its grip. However, the squid then grabs onto Godzilla and manages to hold him. Godzooky comes back and Godzilla has to keep the squid from grabbing him again. It then drags him under the water but, within seconds, Godzilla rises back up, having tied the squid's tentacles into a knot. He tosses it a great distance, when they see the supertanker heading for them. Fortunately, Godzilla grabs its bow and flings it, sending it sinking down under the water. Voltrane and his clones manage to escape in a speedboat but they send Godzilla after them and he picks the boat up like it was nothing, as Majors plans to radio the coast guard to apprehend them. Finally safe, they head back on course to Dr. Wayside's drilling platform, where it turns out he was right about the large deposit of oil. It comes in as a gusher, drenching Godzooky, who's flying above the well out of curiosity. Covered in it, he lands in front of Pete, who tells him he needs a bath. Godzooky has his own solution, though, and flings the oil off, covering Pete in it, much to his disgust. Godzooky proceeds to give him a bath, licking him down with his tongue.
MicroGodzilla: This is an absolute favorite of mine, as the concept is not only brilliant (The Incredible Shrinking Man but with Godzilla) but also very different from much of the show's other episodes. It starts with some foreshadowing, as Quinn is looking forward to using her new heat-sensitive microscope, demonstrating its capabilities on a fly that buzzes into the room by locking onto it and pulling an image of it up on a monitor. Said fly heads into the galley, where Pete and Brock are trying to clean up but Godzooky is getting in the way (in a previous episode, he was too big to fit inside). He chases after the fly but ends up crashing into some silverware, pots, and pans, much to Brock's added annoyance. Suddenly, the ship tilts as it gets caught up in a sudden typhoon, even though it's the wrong season. Worried that the coral reef they've come out to study will rip up the ship, Captain Majors signals Godzilla, before he and Quinn get below with everyone else. Godzilla surfaces and carries the Calico out of the storm, only to be engulfed in a strange, pink-colored fog, the sight of which baffles everyone, especially Quinn. Elsewhere, Brock shoos the fly from before out of his face and it flies up onto the deck, into the fog. Landing there, it suddenly grows much bigger. Moving out of the fog, Godzilla sets the Calico down and heads back down after being cheered for his help. The crisis over, everyone gets back to work and back on course. At one point, Brock is looking for some lightbulbs and Pete opens up the storage room to find some, only to hear a loud buzzing behind it. The fly from before, now as big as a small bird, buzzes out and flies around them before heading back into the storage room. They call in Godzooky to help them catch it, but when he opens up the door, it comes right at him, its size startling him, and it buzzes around Pete and Brock. It's apparently grown even bigger in just a few seconds and Godzooky, again, tries to face it. He manages to chase it towards a trunk and Brock locks it in. They then go tell Majors and Quinn about it, and while the former says he would normaly be skeptical (like I said before, I wouldn't doubt anything in the world this show is set in), he's more inclined to believe them since more than one person saw it. They show them the trunk, where they can hear the muffled but loud buzzing inside, when the fly suddenly bursts out, now even bigger. It specifically targets Brock and Godzooky, constantly buzzing around them, even as they swipe at it. Pete figures it's because they were ones who targeted it earlier. Quinn figures it might be related to the pink fog from before, while Majors tries to throw a drape over the fly, which buzzes out the storage room door. Majors suggests Brock and Godzooky stay down below since the fly is targeting them, while he and the others go on the deck to call Godzilla to help them handle it. When they leave, the fly butts against the storage room door, trying to get at Brock and Godzooky.
When Godzilla arrives upon hearing the signal, they're shocked to find that he's much smaller, as he's not towering over the Calico like he should be. Quinn figures the pink cloud is responsible for this as well and says they need to help him; however, they can't do anything with that fly around. Pete suggests they get Godzooky to have the fly follow him to Godzilla and they put that plan into motion. Godzooky heads up onto the deck and the fly, seeing him, gives chase. Godzooky flies up to Godzilla, the fly buzzing around his head, annoying him to where he tries to catch it. He manages to grab it and fling it through the air. Once it catches itself, it decides it's had enough and flies away. With that problem out of the way, they get back to finding out what's wrong with Godzilla, Quinn deciding that she needs to run some tests. Getting Brock's medical kit, she has Godzilla pick her up in his hand, where she prepares to take a skin sample. However, Godzilla lets out a growl, showing he's not too thrilled at the prospect, but Pete has Godzooky tell him that it's fine and when he does, he relaxes. She's then able to get her sample and he places her back on the ship, where she heads to the lab. While the others keep an eye on Godzilla, she studies the sample under a microscope and says that it'll take time to isolate what's causing him to shrink. They also figure that the fly, wherever it is, is getting bigger, and it most definitely is, as it's hovering nearby, watching the Calico. By this point, Godzilla has shrunk down that's he only a little bigger than Godzooky and they're actually able to bring him onboard with the use of a crane. He lets out a growl of frustration and fear over what's happening to him, with Majors suggesting that everyone best stay out of his way. Majors then tells Quinn how small he's become and she realizes that, at the rate he's shrinking, he'll become subatomic by 4:00 that afternoon. In other words, she only has a limited amount of time to find a way to cure him. Later, Pete comes running to Majors about Godzilla, who's now small enough to lie on top of a crate on the deck. He also makes a sound that comes across as ill and Majors figures he's been out of the water for too long. He picks him up and tells him, "After all the times you've held us in your hand, Godzilla, this is certainly an unhappy switch." Little do they know that the ever-growing fly is still hovering and watching them. They put Godzilla in a fish bowl down in the hold, figuring he'd be safe there, and leave to go help Quinn. In actuality, they should have had somebody stay behind and keep an eye on him, because a rat climbs up onto the table where he is and threatens him.
Ignoring his snarls, the rat climbs up onto the bowl's rim and swipes at him. He grabs its foot and pulls on it, accidentally overturning the bowl and tumbling out in front of it. He and the rat charge at each other, Godzilla putting its head in a lock, and they tumble across the table in their struggle (in a brief but very effective shot, you can see their shadows on the wall as they fight). He manages to fling the rat off of him and send it sliding into the bowl but it charges again and knocks into him, sending him sliding across the table and over the edge. It climbs down after him but he fires his laser-beams at it and when it still doesn't give up, he pushes a pyramid of paint cans over on it, sending it running. Out on the deck, Majors finds Pete by himself, worried about Godzilla, when Godzooky pops out of the water and does his best imitation. It doesn't do much to lift their spirits. In the lab, Quinn has just about figured out the element that caused Godzilla to shrink but finding a way to get him back to normal is another matter entirely and she only has a couple of hours left to do so. Up in the air outside, the fly continues to follow them, while back in the hold, Godzilla climbs back up on the table where the fish bowl was. Up in the wheelhouse, Majors spots the fly on the radar, as it simply hovers instead of attacking, as if it were waiting for something. Meanwhile, Godzilla is now small enough to stand on the eraser of a pencil that's hanging over the table's edge. His weight causes it topple over and he falls, landing in a spider web. As he struggles to get free, the spider comes after him, prompting him to burn the web with his fire. He falls through and lands on a toolbox below, but the spider follows after him. He shoots it down with his lasers and jumps on its back when it hits the floor, only to get slammed against the side of the box. The spider then shoots its web at him, tangling him up, and he shoots his fire in response, but it does nothing to stop it. On the deck, Pete finds Godzooky looking very glum and worried about Godzilla. He suggests they go check on him and head down into the hold, only to find the overturned bowl. Looking around, they find him as he's trying to fend off the spider, Pete putting his hand between it and him, sending it running. Pete assures Godzilla they won't let anything happen to him and then, with Brock's help, they pick him up with a pair of tweezers, plopping him into a petri dish of salt water. Seeing how small he is now, Quinn knows she must work faster than ever, despite how tired she is after all the work she's done. She's not about to let him down and there's only one hour left.
Now, the bacteria in that water are a threat to him, as they swoop down on him. One slams into him and tosses it out of the water and through the air. He fires his lasers at another that threatens him, only to burn a hole through the wall of the dish. All of the bacteria gang up on him but he's able to chuck them off of him and then grab one and throw it. The bacteria run for it but that's when he gets caught in the current of the water leaking out through the hole, ending up in a drop that splats on the table beside the dish. At this point, Majors sees on the radar that the fly has stopped fooling around and is heading for the Calico. Fortunately, Quinn has found the missing element and she says that she can get Godzilla back to normal if they can hold the fly off for a little bit. Majors takes to the air in the mini-copter to lure the fly away but when he finds it, he sees that it's much larger than the copter. It starts chasing him through the clouds and Godzooky, seeing this, flies up to help him. Down in the lab, Quinn prepares to reverse the shrinking process, but when she tries to find Godzilla under the microscope, she sees that he's gone. Spotting the hole, she realizes he could be anywhere. Brock suggests using the new heat-sensitive microscope, and while Quinn tries to find a way to convert the cure into gaseous form, he searches for Godzilla using the microscope. It doesn't take long before he finds him and they prepare to cure him. Outside, the fly continues chasing Majors but the mini-copter's engines are about to reach their limit. Godzooky then distracts the fly and it comes after him, chasing him down to the water, where he takes cover. On the ship, Brock carries the growing Godzilla to the side and tosses him overboard. Within seconds, he explodes out of him, back to his normal gigantic size, which he's clearly very happy about. He stomps up to the fly and grabs it, forcing it down, and throws it over his shoulder. He fires his laser beams when it tries to come at him and getting hit with them stop it in mid-air, as he tries to get at it. In order to get the fly back down to size, they put the compound they used on Godzilla on the ends of some signal flares, planning to fire them so it would turn to gas and affect the fly. Brock and Godzooky offer themselves up as bait, standing on the deck and yelling at the fly, which stops fighting Godzilla and comes right for them. When it gets in range, Majors and Quinn fire the flares, which hit the fly straight on. As it approaches the ship, it quickly shrinks back down to its true size right before it reaches Godzooky. It buzzes around his head and he spits his smoke at it. The crisis finally over, Godzilla heads back under the water. The episode ends with Brock, Pete, and Godzooky walking along the deck, as they talk about how they need to go back to the mainland for supplies. They then hear a buzzing behind a door and fear that it's the fly. Opening it, though, they find that it's just Majors using an electric razor. When he asks what's up, Brock goes, "Uh, nothing sir. Just... never mind," and closes the door, leaving Majors wondering what that was about. Again, great episode.
Ghost Ship: It's not what you might think. The episode begins with some of Godzooky's tomfoolery, as he shakes a potted tree on the Calico's deck, trying to get ahold of a coconut growing from it. Pete spurs him and he shakes it until he sends it flying off the tree, crashing through the window of the wheelhouse and landing on the map on the table that Captain Majors happens to be looking at. Quinn tries to settle him down from his anger over this, when it suddenly gets really cold, especially odd since they're in the tropics. An eerie fog rolls in, obscuring Majors' vision, and as Brock checks the radar, he sees something large right ahead of them. Majors reverse the engines to avoid a collision but it's too late, as the Calico's bow slams right into the object, which turns out to be an iceberg. They hit it with enough impact to sheer a lot of the ice and get wedged into its side. Once everyone is sure they're alright, they manage to free themselves by going in reverse at full power. Majors and Brock go forward to check for any damage to the hull and once they see there's nothing but a few bangs, they get the shock of their lives when they see a submarine frozen in the ice; moreover, it's a German U-boat from World War I. Majors figures it must have gotten caught up in the ice while patrolling the North Atlantic before part of the berg broke off and drifted down to where they are. Curious to examine the sub, they call up Godzilla to melt the ice and also have Godzooky explain to him to be careful not to damage the sub while doing so. He gets to work, blasting the side of the berg with his fire, slowly but surely melting away the ice. It's then revealed that the sub is packing a rather large torpedo underneath it and, with a couple of more blasts, Godzilla completely melts the ice and frees the sub. His job done, he heads back under the water and Brocks decides to fly the mini-copter over to the sub, Pete coming with him to take pictures. Inside the sub, the power comes back on and German soldiers who've been in suspended animation from the cold awaken. Completely unaware of what's happened, they believe they've broken free of the ice and that their mission is still on. Hearing the sound of the Calico's engines over the sonar, they spot it with the telescope and the captain, Schmidt, believes it to be an Allied supply vessel and that capturing it would be a real coup. They man their battle stations, as the mini-copter takes off and flies over to the sub. Hovering above it, Pete prepares to get some aerial shots, while on the Calico, Majors and Quinn see the sub's crew climb up top and aim their guns at the copter. With one shot, they blow its tail rotor clean off and send it spiraling down into the water next to the sub. Schmidt orders them brought aboard, declaring them to be prisoners of war, and has them taken below. They then point their guns at the Calico and Schmidt tells them over a megaphone that they're going to board, adding that the ship will be sunk if they resist. With no choice, Majors tells them over his own megaphone that they won't resist and to send the boarding party.
Once aboard the Calico, Schmidt introduces himself and his executive officer, Krieger. He declares them to be prisoners of war and when Majors tells him that America and Germany are not at war, Schmidt doesn't buy it, saying his radio informed that the U.S. joined Britain against Germany. They realize they still think World War I is going on because of the suspended animation they've been in and, just as Schmidt makes intentions to take command of the ship and sail to Germany known, Majors decides to ask him what year it is. Schmidt, of course, believes it's 1918 and Majors breaks it to him that not only was that over sixty years ago but that Germany lost the war. Schmidt isn't too thrilled about that statement but Quinn offers to show them things on the ship that didn't exist back in 1918. They go along with it, while onboard the sub, Brock and Pete try to convince the sonar operator that the U.S. and Germany aren't at war and that we weren't attacking them when they approached in the mini-copter, but he doesn't believe them. On the Calico, they show Schmidt and Krierger a television set and turn it on to a weather broadcast. Both of them are astounded by this, initially thinking it's a talking film, but Majors tells them it's like a live radio broadcast, only with pictures. When the weatherman mentions a satellite, they explain to Schmidt what that is, they're even more dumbfounded, thinking it's impossible. Majors asks about the last thing they remember before being trapped in the ice and Schmidt tells them that were sent north for a secret attack on an English battleship, carrying a new, one-ton, heat-seeking torpedo. The ice closed in on them and the last thing he remembers is how cold it got; Quinn explains that the low temperatures kept them alive until they awoke in modern day. Faced with all of this, they have no choice but to realize that they're telling the truth. Krieger then panics when he sees Godzooky and when Quinn says he's their pet, he goes, "A pet?! We have no such pets in Germany!" Knowing they've made a mistake, Schmidt tries to use the radio to order Pete and Brock released but when he does, the sonar man tells him that the torpedo has become active, after years of the locking mechanism having been eroded by the salt water. Once loose, it'll head straight for the Calico and destroy it. With that, Majors gets the Calico at top speed on its hydrofoil, just as the torpedo launches. Despite how fast they're going, the torpedo is still after them and keeps on them, even when they make a sudden turn. As it closes in, Godzooky flies off the stern, lands on the torpedo's front, and tries to turn it. Needless to say, it's too much for him and he gets flung off, into the water. You know what this means. It's time for Godzilla. He immediately pops up open hearing the signal and swims towards the Calico. After being startled by Godzooky, the Germans just about crap themselves at the sight of him, but Majors tells them he's their friend. Godzooky then warns Godzilla about the torpedo and he reaches in and grabs it just as it's about on top of the Calico. The ship deactivates the hydrofoil and Godzilla dives down with the torpedo, taking it to the bottom of the ocean. Schmidt, however, tells Majors that the torpedo self-destructs if it doesn't hit a target within five minutes of launch, meaning it could blow up right in Godzilla's hand. There's doubt as to whether he could survive something like, and they don't let Godzooky go down and warn him, fearing he could die as well. Godzilla reaches the bottom and, after looking, finds a place to throw the torpedo. But when he does, it explodes, sending him sailing backwards and bashing the back of his head against a rock wall, knocking him out. Up top, they see a big geyser from the explosion, a big wave rocking the Calico, and they wonder what happened to Godzilla. They allow Godzooky to go down and find him, while they head to the sub to check on Pete and Brock. Down in the depths, where Godzilla lies unconscious, a giant octopus emerges from the hole the torpedo left in the rock wall and makes his way to the surface, right for the submarine.
Atop the sub with the sonarman, Brock and Pete are wondering about Godzilla themselves, when they hear a low groaning. They see the octopus' head sticking out of the water next to them and run below as he begins to ensnare the sub with his tentacles. While Godzooky looks for Godzilla down in the depths, the Calico comes across the octopus as he's holding the sub in one of his tentacles, squeezing and pulling on it. Majors aims the Calico at the octopus and comes at him at top-speed, slamming into the side of his head. This does nothing but annoy him, and he smacks the Calico aside with a tentacle. At this point, Godzooky has found and roused Godzilla, who follows him back to the surface. Godzooky pops up and lands on the Calico's deck, flinging the water off of him, and Godzilla surfaces right at that moment as well. Quinn then has Godzooky tell him that he needs to get the sub away from the octopus. Hearing this, Godzilla storms towards the octopus and blasts him with his lasers, prompting him to dive down, taking the sub with him. Godzilla dives after him, along with Godzooky, and they can only hope that he reaches the before the octopus goes deeper than 100 meters, where the pressure will be too much for the sub. Inside the sub, they can hear the walls straining, threatening to pop, and the sonarman tries the engines but the octopus' grip is too much for the engines. Leaks begin to appear all over the walls but just when it looks like they're done for, Godzilla reaches them and grabs the sub, trying to pull it free. The octopus grabs his neck but Godzilla zaps him with a laser, making him let go and swim for it. Godzilla lets the sub go and head back to the surface, while he tangles with the octopus. He gets hit in the face with ink (remember, this is an octopus, not a squid) and the octopus grabs him and pulls him down to the ocean floor. The sub pops up on the surface, much to everyone's relief, but they know that Godzilla must still be fighting down below. The octopus drags him across the ocean floor and Godzooky comes in and tries to free him from the tentacles, only to get swiped away. This distraction allow Godzilla to get free and he proceeds to tie the octopus' tentacles in a knot, shove him back into the cave he came out of, and use his lasers to seal the entrance. Godzilla roars triumphantly and heads back to the surface, followed by Godzooky. Both of them emerge near the Calico and it becomes clear that the octopus has been defeated. Godzilla then heads back down, and the episode ends with the Calico taking the sub and its crew back to Germany. Out on the deck, Brock and Pete talk with Quinn about how Godzilla saved them and the former tells Godzooky that did well too. This compliment receives him some nice, wet licks. An okay episode but, as I mentioned earlier, the octopus feels random and tacked on; at the least the squid monster in Calico Clones was set up fairly early on. I guess they felt they needed something for Godzilla to fight but I think they would have been better off having the second half of the episode be about the search to find Godzilla after the torpedo blows up, maybe with the use of the submarine. And isn't kind of weird that the sub only had a crew of three? It may have been on a special mission but I'd think you'd need more people to successfully run one. Moreover, when they prepare to attack the Calico, Schmidt mentions Krieger having a crew but they and the sonarman are the only people you see. Maybe the other guys were still asleep somewhere in the sub.
The Beast of Storm Island: This is another really good episode (albeit with a lot more noticeable flaws than MicroGodzilla), and it starts with an exciting sequence. Off the Canadian coast, the Calico is caught up in a storm and, in search of land, they head for nearby Storm Island. While Pete and Godzooky, who were on deck, get below, they approach the island and have to squeeze through some reefs in order to reach it. Brock acts as a lookout for Captain Majors as he makes the perilous move through them and they manage to get by them without a scratch. Reaching the shore, they find a bunch of abandoned ships there, when a ragged-looking man in torn clothes shows up, yelling for help. He walks up to the side of the ship and Godzooky pulls him up and sets him on the deck. The man immediately says that they must leave before a being he calls Axor finds out about them. Just as they're about to ask who Axor is, the beast shows himself, stomping towards the beach, preparing to attack. (This whole opening is played to the instrumental version of Godzilla's theme, even though he hasn't appeared yet, which is kind of odd. Also, it and the next sequence features some of the show's best animation, and it abounds throughout the episode at large.) Majors immediately gets back in the wheelhouse and tries to turn them around, but it becomes clear they need Godzilla. Quinn hits the signaler and he immediately pops out of the sea, while Axor fires bolts of energy from his mouth at the escaping ship, one of which hits the stern where Pete is. Godzilla comes ashore and he and Axor start fighting, Axor shoving into him and the two of them grabbing and pushing each other, Godzilla grabbing the top of Axor's head. As the ship heads out, Quinn asks the man what Axor is exactly and who he is. In the middle of their fight, Axor turns his attention off Godzilla and focuses on the Calico, specifically on the man, and fires a purple-colored ray from his eyes. The ray hits the man before he can identify himself and his eye turns completely golden, with a purple glow in the middle. He loses consciousness and falls to the deck, while Axor simply leaves, heading back inland. Godzilla heads back under the sea, while the crew decides to head to the Canadian mainland in order to get the man to a doctor. That night, Brock is at the helm, when the man, who's sleeping beneath the bunk that Pete's in, gets out of bed, and heads to the wheelhouse. He manages to take control of the ship, tying Brock up in a chair behind him, and turns it around to head back to Storm Island. When Brock asks him why, the man answers, "Axor is calling, and Axor must be obeyed." The next morning, a violent shaking and the interior of the ship getting tilted wakes everyone up. Getting on deck, they see that they're aground on Storm Island, and checking on Brock, they find him tied up. As they untie him, he tells them about how the man jumped him and ran ashore when they landed, adding that he had a strange look in his eyes and that he was suddenly loyal to Axor. Majors decides they better go ashore to find what's going on, when Pete and Godzooky both sneeze, the latter blowing some charts off of a desk. Quinn, thinking they caught colds from the storm, tells them to stay behind. She, Majors, and Brock head inland and, reaching a peak, see a gigantic temple being built by a bunch of people who are acting like they're in a trance. But, when they head down for a closer look, they're confronted by a group led by the man from before. He orders the men to seize them and, when Majors tries to signal Godzilla, the man wrestles the signaler from his hand, throws it to the ground, and crushes it with his foot (how many times does this make that that thing has either been lost or crushed?) He then orders them to be put to work in building the temple.
Back at the ship (which looks like it's in the water, when it's supposed to be up on the land), Pete and Godzooky, the latter of whom has laryngitis from his cold, decide to pass the time in waiting for the adults by playing catch on the beach with a Frisbee. But, while doing so, Godzooky catches it on his tail and ends up spinning it to where, when he flings it, it arcs and lands on top of a hill, namely the same one the adults were on earlier. Pete goes up there to get it and spots the temple, and he and Godzooky overhear the man preparing to lead a group to the ship to capture them. When he says that Axor will be pleased with five new slaves, Pete realizes the others have been captured and the two of them head down to the temple to help. Down there, the adults are led inside the temple which, as Majors says, makes the pyramids of Egypt look feeble by comparison (by the way, they're being led by the man from before, who's supposed to be heading the group to capture Pete and Godzooky, and he has a new voice as well!) Outside, Pete and Godzooky sneak into the temple when the coast is clear and they're also stunned by how big the place is on the inside. Heading to where the light gets brighter, they peek around the corner to see everyone, including Majors, Brock, and Quinn, standing at the edge of a huge pit that has rays of light and steam emitting from it. The man who led them actually prays to Axor, saying, "Axor, we, your slaves, ask that you guide these wrongdoers onto your true path." Axor appears in the pit and hits them with the enslaving rays from his eyes, instantly making them his servants, as they creepily say, "We live to do your bidding, mighty Axor." Hearing this, Pete tells Godzooky they need Godzilla but, because of his laryngitis, Godzooky isn't able to cry loud enough to do so. His attempts don't go unnoticed, including by Axor, who blasts a gust of wind out of the opening at the front of his head's crest. It kicks up a lot of dust and both of them sneeze, giving themselves away. In a second, Axor seemingly has them trapped but they find an opening in the wall to their right and slip through as he closes in. Elsewhere, the man tells Majors, Brock, and Quinn to find and bring Pete and Godzooky to Axor. The two of them make it back to the Calico and Godzooky manages to push it into the water, tripping and falling into the water himself from the exertion. He flies onto the deck and the two of them are about to leave (who's manning the wheel?), when Axor appears on the shore and blasts his wind at them again. The wind arches around in front of the ship and creates a tidal wave that brings them right back to the shore, much farther than they were before. Majors, Quinn, and Brock show up and Pete apparently forgot they'd been enslaved, as he thinks they escaped, until they surround him and make it clear that they intend to take him to Axor. He actually says, "Oh, no! You're Axor's slaves, too!", and I'm thinking, "You literally saw and heard him take control of their minds!" And what, Axor was too lazy to get them himself when he blew the ship back onto the island? In any case, Godzooky sees a couple of men coming with a net but he takes to the air and manages to avoid being ensnared. They decide to leave him for later and take Pete to the temple. There, he's led inside and the entrance closes behind him. Godzooky, however, sees this from nearby and attempts to sneak inside by trying to lift the heavy door up.
Inside, Pete is brought before Axor and is blasted with the slave ray... but nothing happens. Axor is enraged at this and the man who brought Pete in grabs him when he tries to escape, when Godzooky manages to get inside by using his strong tail to lift up the entrance. He scoops Pete up in his arms and runs for it, Axor firing his energy bolts at them as they go. They stop for a breath and Pete figures that his cold must have blocked Axor's mind control ray (boy, talk about convenient). Axor comes in, looking for them, and they again have to run, this time being forced to hide in the pit that the monster materialized in earlier. Axor heads for the pit but not to search for them; instead, he starts breathing in the vapor that's emitting from it, using it as a means to recharge himself. But then, Pete sneezes, giving them away, and Axor reaches in for them, destroying the ledge they're standing on with his hand. They fall to the bottom and Axor fires his energy at them, creating a big crack in the ground behind them. The vapor then starts having its energizing effect on Pete and Godzooky, to the point where they become super-powered. Axor reaches in and grabs Godzooky, hoisting him up out of the pit, but gets a nasty surprise when he uses his new power against him. Godzooky manages to uppercut him with a whip of his tail, causing him to let go, while Pete actually does a powerful leap up to the top of the pit. Godzooky flies back at Axor and, for the only time in the whole show, manages to breath real fire like Godzilla, blasting Axor in the side of the head with it. He then flies down at his foot and tries to lift up his middle toe. He strains to do and succeeds, only to nearly get crushed when it comes back down. He flies back up to Axor's head but the power he gathered turns out to be short-lived, as his fire turns to little sparks and then back to smoke rings. He has to avoid Axor's swipe and flies down to Pete, who tells him to call Godzilla. He's now able to do so after having been in the pit and Godzilla, upon hearing him, emerges in the bay and heads for the island. Soon, the three of them, Axor included, hear him roar outside the temple, as he stomps toward it from the shore. Deciding he'd rather deal with the bigger problem, Axor heads outside and Pete and Godzooky follow him. Axor smashes through the front of the temple, as Godzilla comes in to fight. Nearby, the still entranced Majors, Quinn, and Brock see Godzilla, with Quinn seeming to remember him.
Axor fires his bolts at Godzilla, who dodges them and they destroy a pile of rocks next to his right leg. When he gets closer, Axor unleashes his wind and manages to blow him back, along with some huts nearby. Getting his balance back, Godzilla rushes at Axor and grabs him, the two of them twisting and turning as they struggle with each other. Godzilla smashes a corner of the pyramid with his tail and Axor, seeing this, pushes him aside and runs to the spot. He tries to clear away the rubble, as he's been cut off from his source of power, but Godzilla blasts his fire breath, getting his attention. Cornered and desperate, Axor fires his bolts at Godzilla again but either dodges them or swipes them out of thin air. Axor then attempts to enslave Godzilla but, even though the rays hit him dead-on, he's unaffected and advances on Axor again, blasting at him with more fire. Axor gets out of the way and the fire, inexplicably, creates a mirror out of the stone wall that was behind him. The two monsters grapple with each other again and Axor throws Godzilla into the mirror. He again charges up his slave ray but Godzilla dodges it and it bounces off the mirror and hits him. This mistake proves to be fatal, as Axor disintegrates from it. Godzilla lets out a satisfied snarl and Majors, Quinn, and Brock show up, now free of Axor's enslavement, and say it's thanks to them, as well as Godzilla. There's a cool low-angle shot of Godzilla standing over them and roaring triumphantly, with his fists raised in the air, looking a bit like they're worshipping him like they were with Axor earlier. All of the other men become freed of Axor's control as well and, as they prepare to leave, Majors tells them that they'll radio a ship to take them home. On the way out, Pete tells them about how great Godzooky was when he had super power and he's acting all tough, air-boxing. But then, he sees his shadow on the wall and freaks out, running and hiding. He calms down when he realizes what it is and Majors comments, "Well, he'll be a real Godzilla some day," and Godzooky drives home the point by letting a howl, trying to imitate Godzilla's roar.
The City in the Clouds: I was going to start this with a remark about not expecting Lando Calrissian to appear here but I then remembered that The Empire Strikes Back hadn't been released at this point and abandoned it. An English cargo ship runs into a low-hanging mass of black storm clouds and are then attacked by a flying dragon monster that attacks by shooting bolts of electricity out of his mouth. A direct hit from one knocks out the ship's electrical systems and the crew is forced to abandon ship as the dragon comes back around and fires again, sinking the ship, before disappearing back into the clouds. Elsewhere on the Calico, Pete and Godzooky are polishing the ship's railing, but Godzooky has bent down the center of his railing. In the wheelhouse, Brock spots what looks like a big storm on the weather radar, only it's not moving. Captain Majors since it's not that unusual for storms to stall over the mid-Atlantic and Quinn is actually interested in approaching it, seeing it as the perfect opportunity to test their new meteorological equipment. In a second, they come across the storm, which has developed a tornado-like funnel that's spinning the ocean below it into a large whirlpool. They get caught up in the current and Majors swerves the Calico around to dodge the pool. A sudden flash of lightning seems to knock out their power but the entire interior of the wheelhouse is covered in a red glow, as electrical currents run through the equipment. It turns out that the engine has been cut, as the entire ship has been engulfed in the energy, and now, there's no way for them to escape the whirlpool. Even the Godzilla signaler has been zapped and they quickly have Godzooky call for him. He rises up next to the ship, scoops it up in his hand, and places it away from the whirlpool. However, he himself gets caught in the current and he tries to swim out of it but the current is too strong for him. Even he swipes at the storm cloud when he approaches it but he's ultimately swallowed up by it. Now, nothing can save the Calico from being sucked in and they're lifted up through the inside of the funnel. Afterward, they suddenly stop moving and it seems like they've run aground on an island hidden in the mists beyond the storm. They head out to find Godzilla. Godzooky howls for him a couple of times but they get no response whatsoever, so they now have to search for him. It's then revealed that the reason why Godzilla didn't respond is because he's stuck in the center of the storm, tumbling endlessly through it. Back with the group, as they still have no luck in finding him, Godzooky takes a step and appears to fall through the ground. But, when they look through the hole he went through, they see him grasping onto the edge of a cloud, suspended above the ocean; they're literally on top of the storm. Slipping off, Godzooky uses his wings to fly back up and rejoin the group. Quinn then spots an actual city in the clouds nearby and they push through the mist to the entrance. But, upon getting there, it looks like they got separated from Pete and Brock and Majors sends Godzooky to find them.
Searching the city, Quinn and Majors find a pair of towers with electrodes atop them. Walking on, they don't see that a pair of people, a man and a woman, materialize in-between the towers and spot Quinn and Majors. Elsewhere, Brock and Pete find a building that's full of big, power generators, and when they walk through it, a panel opens up at the end of a tube in the ceiling and Pete is drawn up to it in a vacuum of air. Quinn and Majors then meet the two people who came through the portal, the man introducing himself as Zaius, the ruler of the "Cloud Dwellers," and the woman his daughter, Anthea. They explain that they're prepping the city to receive the rest of their people, as they live up in the clouds of an alternate dimension and are moving to this city on Earth. Zaius leads them to a large monitor, where he learns there are others, and an alarm goes off in the generator room; Zaius sends Anthea to see what's going on. Meanwhile, Godzooky follows Brock and Pete's scent trail to the generator room and runs in to see Pete being drawn to the ceiling. He grabs ahold of him and pulls him from the vacuum, only for it to start sucking him up along with Pete. Back with the others, Zaius shows them an image of his people on the monitor, explaining that they're trying to escape a creature called the Power Dragon, which is attracted to large concentrations of energy. He lets more of his people through the portal and Quinn figures that the Power Dragon could come through the portal just like them. On cue, a storm cloud develops in the sky above the city and the Power Dragon, who somehow arrived without the portal, comes screeching out, blasting buildings with his lightning bolts. Zaius attempts to stave him off by using a golden ring, a "thought amplifier," he wears on his head which increases his mental powers, but it's no match for the dragon's bolts. Majors hits the Godzilla signaler but he's still trapped in the storm and is unable to help, as the Power Dragon continues wreaking havoc, vaporizing buildings and sending the people running in a panic. Zaius admits there's nothing he can do, as Majors wonders where Godzilla is. Back in the generator room, Pete and Godzooky are about to be sucked up through the ceiling, when Anthea arrives and switches the vacuum off. Introducing herself, she reverses it and brings them back to the floor. They rejoin the group, watching the Power Dragon's attack on the city, and Pete bets that Godzilla could handle him. Hearing Quinn mention his believing swallowed by the storm, Anthea changes the image on the monitor and shows them Godzilla, as he's still tumbling around inside the storm. Anthea says they can release him and, pushing some buttons, Godzilla is suddenly sucked up to the top of the funnel and emerges from the clouds next to the Calico. Now free, he heads over to the city, as the Power Dragon descends on the group. Hearing him roar, the dragon turns around to face him and the two rush at each other. After some grappling, Godzilla tosses the dragon over his shoulders, landing him on his back. Knowing he's outmatched, the Power Dragon flies off into the sky, as Godzilla lets out his triumphant roar. With that, they believe the Cloud Dwellers can finish their migration and Majors asks Zaius to show them the way out. However, Zaius, upon seeing Godzilla's power and knowing that he comes when he hears the signaler, has the guards seize the group and bring him the signaler. Seeing this, Godzilla tries to intervene but he blunders into the portal and Zaius sends him away to their world. He has the portal closed and proclaims that, once he has the signaler, "No one will stand between us and our new, Earthly empire."
Godzooky creates a big cloud of smoke, enabling them to escape. Zaius, Anthea, and the guards chase after Majors, Quinn, and Brock, while Godzooky has Pete with him up in the air. They follow them, as Zaius uses his mental powers to create a crack around where the adults stand, trapping them. Majors isn't too keen on giving Zaius the signaler but, when he threatens to crumble the platform beneath their feet, Majors knows he's been licked and hands it over. The three of them are subsequently placed in a building that Zaius seals with his mental power, as Zaius plans to lure the Power Dragon back to fight Godzilla to the death; he also decides to look for Pete and Godzooky in the meantime. Inside their prison, it looks like there's no way for them to escape, but they see that Godzooky and Pete are hovering above them, having come through a hole in the ceiling. They flew back to the Calico to grab a rope, which everyone uses to climb out through the hole. They then come up with a plan to get Godzilla out of the alternate dimension and take back the signaler. In the generator room, Anthea raises the power necessary to open the portal and Zaius is about to head back to the square to prepare to invade Earth. Hearing some rustling nearby, he believes it to be Pete and tries to goad him out by saying he'll take him to his friends. It turns out to be Brock, who distracts him long enough for Majors to rush in and grab the signaler. The two of them run for it but Zaius curls up a section of the road, blocking them. Zaius moves in on them, but Godzooky trips him with his tail, causing him to lose his thought amplifier, which Brock grabs. They meet back up with Quinn and Pete at the monitor, preparing to open the portal and bring Godzilla through. Suddenly, the Power Dragon appears and rushes at them. On top of that, he destroys the portal with his lightning bolts, seemingly trapping Godzilla in the other dimension forever. He moves in on the group, singling out Brock when they scatter, and they realize he wants the thought amplifier. Brock tosses it to Quinn and the dragon promptly turns on her. Majors tells her to put it on and use it bring Godzilla there. She concentrates and, sure enough, Godzilla reappears, along with the portal. He moves in, as the dragon is about to attack Quinn, and dodges some lightning from the him. He then starts backing away, leading the dragon out of the city, and taking a blast to the torso in the process. The two of them grapple again, Godzilla forcing the dragon down to the ground, and they see he's trying to get him to the eye of the storm. Zaius and his men resume the chase, pursuing them to the Calico, Godzilla too busy with the dragon to be of any help. Both of the monsters tumble into the eye, Godzilla falling down into the ocean below, while the dragon is shorted out and disintegrated by a blast of lightning. As a result, the Cloud Dwellers' storm is itself neutralized and they're flung back to their own dimension, while the crew runs back to the Calico. The storm breaks and they head back down the funnel. On the way home, they realize that without the thought amplifier, the Cloud Dwellers will never be able to return for another invasion attempt. They then wonder if the amplifier can work down on Earth but Godzooky ends up sitting on and flattening it, leaving the answer a mystery, the episode ending with him playing around with the donut he's now made out of it.
The Cyborg Whale: This is one of several episodes where there's no monster of any kind to speak of, making it stand out. Out in the ocean, the Calico has a rendezvous with a large craft called a cyborg whale, which dwarfs the ship when it rises up in front of it. The sight of it frightens Godzooky but they tell him that it's not a living thing but rather is a harvesting machine made to farm the ocean floor. Still in its prototype stage, Brock and Pete swim out to it in order to perform some tests. Godzooky is eager to go with them and jumps on the rubber raft they lower into the water to make their way over to the whale, only to get flung up into the air and slam back down on the Calico's deck on his back. He damaged the raft while jumping on it and so, they have to take the mini-copter to the whale instead. Landing on top of it, they see that a storm is rolling in but Brock says they have time to do what they need to do. He opens up the hatch leading down into the whale's insides and they climb down, in the midst of its computer banks and control panels. Brock begins testing its functions, including laser drills that are to be used in mining the ocean floor, when it suddenly shakes. Climbing outside, they see that they're caught up in a violent storm and run for the mini-copter to try to make it back to the Calico. Before they can take off, the others on the ship try to warn them not to fly because of the lightning, but they can't hear them and take off anyway. On the way over, the lightning knocks out their tail rotor and they start falling out of control towards the ocean. Captain Majors signals Godzilla, who rises up and promptly catches the copter in his hand. He places back on top of the whale and Brock and Pete disembark in order to take cover within the whale. The mini-copter ends up sliding off and into the water, while the Calico is also in trouble from the storm. Pete tells Godzilla to help the Calico and after he dives under the water, he and Brock take cover within the whale. At the Calico, Majors does what he can to keep the ship steady, while Godzooky tries to pull up the anchor. Godzilla pops up next to them and, seeing what the problem is, dives under the water beneath the ship and smashes loose a section of rock that the anchor is snagged under. He starts pulling the ship behind him, dragging it out of the storm. Back at the cyborg whale, Brock heads to the power room in order to reduce the flow until the storm passes but the door latches itself just as he reaches it. He tries to open it, thinking it's simply stuck, but even he and Pete pulling together can't make it budge. He heads to an exit door across from them, only for it to lock as well. As they wonder what's going on, the whale takes a direct hit from the lightning, throwing them to the floor and setting the computers on fire. Fortunately, there's a fire extinguisher and Brock grabs it and puts out the fires. But, they're far from out of trouble, as the lights go out and the whale starts to move on its own.
Later, once the storm has passed, Majors and Godzooky manage to fix a radio antenna that was toppled by the lightning, hoping to contact Pete and Brock. When they try, they get nothing but static, and when they reach the spot where they left it, they find it gone, Godzooky unable to see anything up above. Quinn theorizes that if the lightning damaged the whale's computer, it could be heading back to the main computer center, which is at Honolulu. Elsewhere, the whale breaks the surface and the lights inside come back on. Checking the video screen, they see that they're on the ocean, moving, but don't know where. Brock confirms what Quinn figured: the computer is out of control and there's no way to stop the whale. Meanwhile, at the control center at Honolulu, the professor behind the whale sees that it is heading back there but it's not responding to the main computer's commands. In this berserk state, it could easily level the harbor and Majors tells the professor to shut down the computer. He does so but it doesn't stop the whale, as it's moving under its reserve power and is heading right for an island. Majors prepares to call Godzilla but Quinn stops him, saying that if he attacked the whale, he'd injure Pete and Brock inside it (to which I'm thinking, "Why not just have Godzooky tell Godzilla the details, like you always do?"); in short, their hands are tied. Inside the whale, Brock and Pete find they can't do anything to stop the whale and they see on a video screen that they're heading for the island in question. As they approach it, Brock gets an idea to alter the frequency of the whale's audio alarm system so it matches Godzilla's frequency and, as a result, call him. As he puts the wires together, the whale heads for a canoe of Hawaiian natives and they're forced to jump into the water, as it plows through the boat. Godzilla, having heard the frequency, rises from the ocean and sees the whale. At the command center, Godzilla appears on the screen with the whale and Majors and Quinn realize the danger Pete and Brock are in. The whale comes in and knocks Godzilla to the side, throwing Pete and Brock to the floor inside. Now enraged, Godzilla runs the whale down and grabs the whale's tail, only for one of its lasers to fire and make the tail too hot for him to hold onto. He prepares to fire his own lasers back at it and inside, Brock and Pete figure out that he doesn't know they're there. Brock uses the frequency from before to tell him and Godzilla powers down his eye-beams. The whale starts heading for the island again and Godzilla rushes ahead of it, quickly smashing a canal through one part of it to the next. The whale passes through without harming anyone but now, it's back on course to Honolulu.
Onboard the Calico, Quinn tries to make radio contact again and, this time, because the whale is close, she's able to reach Pete and Brock. They tell them that they're locked inside the whale, they can't stop it, and Godzilla can't do anything as long as they're stuck inside. Quinn and Majors decide to send Godzooky to get them out of the whale before it enters Honolulu harbor and send him on his way. When he finds the whale, he sees that it's heading for a cruise ship. He tries to warn a couple of tourists on the deck but the man is more interested in snapping pictures of him; his wife, however, then sees the whale coming right for them. Godzooky promptly calls Godzilla, who surfaces next to the ship and quickly lifts it out of the whale's way. As he places it back in the water, the one guy goes, "They'll never believe this back home!" Godzooky heads to the whale to rescue Pete and Brock but Brock finds that the exit door is still locked; the whale also fires one of its lasers at him. Brock contacts the Calico, telling Quinn what's going on, and she tells him that, after looking through the whale's diagrams, she's found another way out. As the whale keeps heading for Honolulu, Brock removes some grating and says they can get out if they reach the seawater processing vent. They start crawling through the duct, while outside, the whale continues firing its laser at Godzooky. They reach a room filled with ankle-high water and Brock reaches for an emergency release lever. The emergency release turns out to be a geyser of water coming out of the whale's top, like a spout, and it lifts them up to where Godzooky is able to catch them. Seeing that they're safe, Majors sics Godzilla on the whale. Rising up and approaching the whale, he sees that it's heading for a beach full of oblivious people. He roars a warning at them but they don't hear him, and with the whale drawing closer, he roars again. This time, the beachgoers see the whale and run for it, as Godzilla moves in to intercept it. He fires his eye-beams at it but its own lasers cut them off in mid-air. He then tries to block it from the beach but it slams right into him and knocks him aside. It then heads for a harbor patrol boat and its occupants dive for the water, right before it hits the boat with its laser and rams into it. The boat's wreckage manages to stop it for a second but it still goes on. It looks as if the situation is hopeless but Brock comes up with an idea and asks Pete to have Godzooky tell it to Godzilla. When he gets the message, he runs after the whale, grabs its tail, and bends it completely to one side. The whale starts going in a circle, which it will keep doing until its fuel runs out. Godzilla then heads back down and Godzooky takes the boys back to the Calico. Later, they watch as the whale is brought into the harbor in order for the damage to be repaired, the professor saying that it won't be junked. Pete asks if it's completely safe now and the professor answers, "Except for a few automatic reactions. Why?" Pete points to Godzooky, who's flying around the whale curiously, when its spout sprays him and sends him into the water. He pops back up and lets out his own spout of water, out of his mouth.
Valley of the Giants: This is the episode that I first saw a glimpse of when I was really young and discovered that there was an actual Godzilla cartoon. A construction crew in Africa, working on a highway, blasts open a large hole in a cliff-side, from which emerge a colony of giant ants that drive the off workers so they can have their way with the now abandoned camp. Elsewhere, the Calico is heading down a river, past the areas that have been travelled, and it starts to shallow. As a result, Godzooky has to take to the air so the ship will float better. While in the air, he tries to land on what he thinks is a large rock in the water but it's actually a hippo that's none too pleased about him landing on him. As he flies away from him, the Calico hits a sandbar, forcing them to go forward on foot. They soon come upon a waterfall and have to climb up alongside it, while Godzooky simply flies straight up, only to whack his head on the underside of an overhanging protrusion of rock. Reaching the top of the falls, they find that the river feeding it up top leads into a valley. As they travel through it, they notice how odd the "trees" look and discover that they're actually normal grasses, weeds, and flowers that have somehow grown to a huge size. Captain Majors becomes concerned about the possibility of there being giant insects as well and he turns out to be right, as an oversized dragonfly swoops down at them. The buzzing suddenly stops and as they wonder what happened, they see that the dragonfly has become ensnared in a big spider web. In an instant, the spider comes at them from the ground and Majors tells everyone to head back to the waterfall, as he signals Godzilla. Godzilla doesn't even rise up out of the water this time; he's just there and begins wading through the river, towards the source of the signal. The spider is right on the crew's tail and Godzooky, as usual, tries to stand and fight, only to run for it when he sees that he's no match for it. The spider corners them, while Godzilla comes across the Calico and then climbs up the waterfall nearby. He makes his way through the overgrown grass and confronts the spider, which jumps at him. He catches it in mid-air but it manages to pin him to the ground, threatening him with its poisonous fangs. He grabs a nearby log and uses it to block the fangs when the spider tries to bite him, giving him the opportunity to shove it off. Tossing aside the log, which has a smoking bite mark in it, he blasts the spider his with his fire, sending it in retreat. A big beetle then comes charging at the group but Godzilla grabs it and easily sends it flying through the air. The spider climbs back up its web, seemingly given up, and the crew decides to get back to the Calico. Godzilla, however, appears to be attracted to the valley and heads off into it, walking into a river at its center. On their way back to the entrance, they hear an explosion and the opening is blocked by a rockslide. Now, their only choice is to follow the river through the valley and hope it leads to another opening. After some following, they find a fork in the river; Brock and Godzooky take the path on the right, while the others take the left.
Walking their path, Majors, Quinn, and Pete come across some large flowers, but unfortunately, some large bees are there as well. One swoops at Pete before grabbing and flying off with Majors, and another makes off with Quinn. As he's being carried, Majors hits the Godzilla signaler and he emerges from the valley's river. But, as he makes his way to the shore, he's being watched from nearby by the spider. In seconds, it jumps on his back, delivers a bit, and jumps off, slamming Godzilla against a fallen tree. Godzilla instantly succumbs to the venom and passes out, leaving him defenseless as the spider starts webbing him up. Elsewhere, Brock and Godzooky find that their fork dead-ends at a small spring, when a giant Venus flytrap grabs Brock and starts to close its jaws around him. Meanwhile, Pete, having followed the bees, watch as they take Majors and Quinn into their hive. He tries to climb up to the hive but is unable to get traction on the dirt leading up to it and slips down, dangling over a pit where an ant lion is waiting for him. Inside the hive, a bee seals Majors and Quinn inside a honeycomb and they feel that Godzilla is their only hope, unaware that he's now completely webbed up by the river. Back with Brock, he yells for Godzooky's help and, after a failed first attempt, he manages to force open the Venus flytrap's jaws enough so he can slide out. They hear Pete yelling for help nearby and follow the source, finding the giant beehive and the ant lione trap Pete is dangling over. Brock has Godzooky grab a loose vine for a rope and, as Pete slips further down towards the ant lion, they use it to pull out, the insect's mandibles just missing him (it would have been more efficient and quicker to have Godzooky swoop in and grab him). He then tells them what happened to Majors and Quinn. Figuring they can't go through the opening without being grabbed, they decide to try to smoke the bees out, with Godzooky, of course, being the smoke machine. The plan works, as all the bees are forced out and, as Godzooky keeps puffing, Brock and Pete run in, though they're faced with thousands of honeycombs to search through. Conveniently, they see their silhouettes behind one cell and use some rocks to try to rub through the wax. It takes some time but they manage to rip their way out and escape the hive. Unfortunately, Godzooky is out of smoke and the bees begin to return, sending them running into the jungle. Once they've taken cover, they wonder why Godzilla didn't respond to their calls. Majors tries to the signaler and then, Godzooky calls for him but they get no response, as he's still unconscious from the spider's venom. They know that he has to be in trouble and, moreover, the valley is slowly being flooded, as the rockfall earlier cut off the river's flow.
They trek through the valley's higher grounds, only to stumble across a giant ant colony, which has raided the equipment and supplies from the construction site at the beginning of the episode. Knowing that means there has to be another entrance somewhere, they decide to go look for it and try to sneak out without being discovered by the ants. They duck down in one spot when a hunting party returns to the nest and retrace their path, hoping it will lead them to another entrance. Coming upon a lake, they see a normal-sized bee, but when it flies into a ray of sunlight peeking through the strange, orange clouds that hang over the valley, it grows as huge as the bees from before. Quinn figures the combination of the light and the clouds must cause some strange reaction within the insects. Since that normal bee must have come in from outside the valley, they figure the other entrance can't be far. On the way to it, they come across Godzilla, wrapped up completely, save for his head. Initially unsure of what happened to him, they know when they see the spider bite on an exposed part of his arm. While Brock and Majors start cutting away the webbing, they send the others ahead to find the exit. But, on their way, they come across more ants and a scout spots them. Quinn and Pete go to run for it but Godzooky tries to fight the ant. Hoping that he can bluff it long enough for them to escape, they start running again, but when Godzooky joins them, the ant is right behind them. As if that weren't bad enough, the spider descends from above. Back at Godzilla, Majors and Brock find trying to cut him loose to be slowgoing and tedious, when they hear Quinn calling for them. It turns out, the ant and spider have them trapped. Godzooky flies up to the latter and lures it away, but he ends up getting caught in its web. Majors and Brock reach Quinn and Pete, telling them to come on, as they watch Godzooky struggle as the spider closes in. Pete, naturally, doesn't want to abandon Godzooky, but at that moment, Godzilla awakens. As the ant chases the humans and the spider is almost on Godzooky, Godzilla tries to burst through the webbing and ultimately uses his eye-beams to burn it loose. Removing himself from it, he walks in and pulls Godzooky out of the web. Setting him down, the ant decides to get out of dodge, while Godzilla confronts the spider. They grab at each other and Godzilla gets thrown back, the impact of him hitting the ground causing a rockslide that covers the exit they were going for. Godzilla comes back and tosses the spider, only it lands in a shaft of sunlight and grows even larger. Now bigger than Godzilla, it comes at him and lunges at him, but he shoves its right front leg in front of its mouth, causing it to bite and envenomate itself. It collapses and Godzilla rolls its body into its own web. The problem solved, Godzilla carries the crew back to the Calico, smashing through the rocks blocking the waterfall, and placing them on the deck. But just when it seems like the insects can escape the valley, Godzilla puts the stones back into place and melts them together with his fire breath, ensuring that they can't ever escape (this was the first bit I ever saw of the show). On the way back home, it's revealed that Brock is bringing back a souvenir from the valley: a banana as big as a person. I'm not even going to ask how he managed to find and bring it back but, regardless, he plans to show it off to people... and then, Godzooky eats it.
Moonlode: I don't have a clue what that title even means and it's appropriate, as I barely remembered this episode when I revisited the show. It's the night of an eclipse of the moon, though Godzooky couldn't care less, as he's sleeping in a hammock on the Calico's deck and is only awakened when Captain Majors lets out a signalling horn. The ship is approaching a new, high-tech undersea laboratory, where Quinn and Brock are stationed, prepping to get some photos of the eclipse. The Calico docks at the sealab's mooring and Quinn deploys a large, underwater starscope that surfaces near the ship in order to take the lunar pictures. They're get to some very detailed images of the moon with it, being far away from anything like haze, smoke, or lights that would obscure it. But, as they watch, a quake seems to shake the moon, spewing lava and smoke. In addition, a mountain-sized piece of the moon breaks free of the gravity and drifts into space. When they monitor its trajectory, they see that it's coming at the Earth and it's going to hit just a few miles from where they are. Quinn tries to warn the Calico but it's too late, as on deck, Pete and Godzooky are watching as it comes right for them. It hits the water not too far from the ship and creates a gigantic tidal wave, while down below, a piece of it hits and shakes the sealab. Needless to say, they need Godzilla's help with the wave, and when they summon him, they reuse the animation from The Firebird of him picking the Calico up, holding it above the wave, and breaking it with his back. He then sets the ship back down in the water and submerges. However, Majors' instruments in the wheelhouse are going haywire and he receives an S.O.S. from a cruise ship that's being pulled under the water, a shot under there showing that a weird beam is doing so. Having heard the signal, Quinn confirms the cruise ship is in the same area where the piece of the moon came down, and then, they get another mayday, this time from an Air Force jet that's pulled down, the pilot having to eject. As they continue monitoring what's going on, they get yet another S.O.S. and Quinn has Brock check the starscope monitor. When he does, they see a series of flashes coming from the moon, which Quinn theorizes are a stream of energy being directed at the Earth. Majors contacts Quinn and tells her that there's a rise in the gravitational force where the object hit, while she tells him what's happening with the moon. She and Brock head to board the Calico, using the bathysphere to surface. But, when Pete swings the crane to lift the sphere aboard, Godzooky gets in the way and gets knocked into the water. In spite of this, he flies up out of it, brings the crane's hook down to the bathysphere, and it attaches it. Quinn tells him, "Good work," and Godzooky actually flexes a muscle in his left arm in response!
The Calico heads to the spot, their gravity readings increasing, and the ship picks up speed, even though Majors slacks off on the engines. They're caught in a gravity beam, which pulls them up onto the hydrofoil and towards a large whirlpool. Majors reverses the engine but it does no good, and Quinn sees that everything is being pulled into the gravitational field. They continue approaching the whirlpool when, at the center of it, a bizarre monster emerges. Quinn tells Majors to signal Godzilla and when he emerges, he again picks the Calico up and places it out of the pull of gravity. Godzilla then sees the monster, which is being energized by the moon and fires beams from the glowing spots on his body. Godzilla jumps in at him but gets tossed aside and the monster uses his gravity rays to pull him into the whirlpool. He manages to temporarily remedy this by giving the monster a taste of his laser beams but he just starts using the gravity rays again. Godzilla appears to gain an advantage, grabbing the monster's hands and firing his laser beams, while the monster counters with his own lasers. The eclipse has begun and the monster's power considerably weakens as a result. Godzilla manages to shove him off during their struggle but when he goes to attack, the monster suddenly disappears (they say he slipped away in the eclipse's darkness but no, he flat-out disappeared). Confused, Godzilla searches through the water around him and the crew sees that the whirlpool is gone as well. The monster's source of energy has been temporarily cut off and Majors tells Brock to tell the Navy and the Coast Guard that they can conduct rescue operations while the eclipse is in action. Godzilla heads back out to sea. The Calico heads back to the sealab to put into motion a plan to stop the moon monster before his power returns. Down in the lab, Quinn tells Brock her plan is to lure the monster to the sealab by baiting him with the mini-sub and get him in range of their force rays, which she hopes will neutralize his power. On a monitor, they see that the eclipse has ended and another eruption is occuring on the moon. Pete is eager to go with Brock on his luring trip in the mini-sub but, naturally, his aunt isn't having it, although he is allowed to check the sub over while they plot Brock's course. While checking the sub's controls over, Pete accidentally hits the ignition button and the sub heads out, Godzooky swimming after it. He swims up to the sub's window and Pete can do nothing but wave to him.
Pete contacts the adults and tells them he accidentally launched the sub. Quinn tells him to come back but Pete is confident he can do it, until he gets caught up in the monster's gravity beams. Now, they have no choice but to let Pete go through with the mission, with Quinn telling what he needs to do. It isn't long before he sees the monster, peeking out from behind some rocks, and Majors tells him to bring the sub back to the lab at once. He manages to swing around and escape the pull of the gravity, Godzooky swimming alongside him, when the sub slows down. Quinn tells him to kick in the afterburners, which give him a strong boost, but the monster grabs him in his gravity beam again, drawing him in towards his mouth. Godzooky grabs the sub's front and pulls on it, managing to keep the monster from pulling it on towards him. In his pulling, the rock he's using to brace his feet with comes loose and flies up, cutting the beam and allowing the sub to shoot forward. Godzooky gets slammed against a big piece of coral but quickly rejoins the sub, heading back to the lab. The monster chases after them, walking along the ocean floor, and approaches the zone where they can use the force rays on him. Pete and Godzooky make it back to the lab, the monster arriving right afterward, and he fires his gravity beams on a section of the lab. He's not yet in range of the force rays and they have to wait, while he tears a piece of the lab off and draws it towards him. He then approaches further and gets in range. Brock hits him with the first two force rays, following that up with the other two, but they need more power in order for it to really work. The monster does tire from this assault but immediately gets a second wind. So, they call for Godzilla again, only for the signaler not to work, as the monster's gravity aura is blocking it. They send Godzooky out to find him and he surfaces to do so. He doesn't even have to howl, as Godzilla pops his head up by the moonbeam powering the monster and Godzooky tells him what's going on. They both head down towards the lab, where the monster is still being bombarded by the force rays but is breaking through them, even though they're at full power. The monster focuses his gravity beams on the area of the lab where they are, threatening to rip them loose from it, when Godzilla arrives. He gets the monster's attention by blasting his leg with his eye-beams and the two of them start fighting, the monster managing to pick Godzilla up during their struggle and throw him, even though Godzilla whacks him with his tail. Godzilla comes back with more eye-beams, hitting the monster in the face and weakening him enough to where he can come him, grab him, and throw him up. The monster surfaces and gets caught up in the moon's gravitational force, as Godzilla watches. He's pulled back to the moon, disappearing with a bang, and the moon itself returns to normal. They hear from the Coast Guard that all of the survivors have been rescued, and when Godzilla heads back down, Godzooky excitedly follows after him, waving. He then swims back to the lab and gets right up to the top of the now underwater starscope, mugging for it. He ends up losing his balance and falling down, landing outside the lab's window, as everyone just watches.
The Golden Guardians: In the Indian jungle, a team of archeologists are confronted a native high priest, Bot-Lam, who accuses them of searching for a fabled golden treasure, though they insist they aren't. Bot-Lam warns them that they will be driven out by "the Guardians" if they don't leave at once. They write this off as superstition but then, when they're about to turn in for the night, they hear the sound of smashing and ripping. When they look out their tent, they're stunned to see that their camp is being attacked by a living, four-armed, golden statue. After it leaves, stomping and throwing anything it can grab, they decide that even if there is a treasure, it's not worth dying trying to find it and will leave come dawn. As they make this decision, the statue watches from a nearby rise, letting out an eerie, howling moan. The next day, the Calico is traveling down an Indian river, when Pete and Godzooky spy a family of elephants. Curious and excited, Godzooky flies towards them, coming upon a lone baby elephant, which sprays water in his face with his trunk, prompting him to fly back to the ship. The Calico comes across the camp, where they were to meet with the scientists, only to find that the place has been torn apart and the scientists are gone. Worried about the party, they search the camp and the nearby ruins, where they're spotted by Bot-Lam, who decides he must summon the Guardians. As the crew wonders what happened to the archeologists, they get their answer when one of the Guardians comes stomping down the hillside, heading right for them. They run back to the ship, Captain Majors signalling Godzilla on the way, only for them to be cut off just when they're about to reach it. Fortunately for them, Godzilla rises up from the river next to the Calico and watches as the Guardian picks the ship up and starts pummeling it with its fists. Godzilla rushes in and confronts the Guardian, causing it to drop the Calico back into the water. He fires his eye-beams, only for the Guardian to shoot its own, green-colored beams, the two of them meeting in midair, with Godzilla's lasers being cancelled out. Godzilla charges, grabs the Guardian, and wrestles it to the ground, the impact shaking and cracking a wall behind the group. Everyone runs but Godzooky freezes up in fear, trying to catch the falling section of wall, and Godzilla has to save him. Because of this distraction, the Guardian manages to escape, apparently just disappearing. His foe gone, Godzilla heads back to the river. Majors and Brock decide to check the Calico for damage, while Quinn and Pete search the ruins again with Godzooky.
Following a stone staircase, they find more Guardians or what looks like just a bunch of head figures. Nearby, they find a shrine to the Guardians and as they investigate, Pete separates from Quinn and Godzooky, being drawn to a big, diamond-like stone that radiates a type of energy. Approaching it, he gets sleepy and touches the stone, falling into a dream-like state where he sees the Guardians. On cue, one of the Guardians rises out of the spot where it's buried up to its head, looming over Quinn and Godzooky from behind (they're apparently deaf, as they didn't hear the racket it made). Meanwhile, at his village, Bot-Lam tells his people that these strangers threaten their old ways of life and makes it clear to one who differs with him that the Guardians can be sent against him as well. Getting their obedience, he declares that they will go to the Calico and capture them. Back at the ruins, Quinn and Godzooky spot the Guardian standing over and also see Pete nearby. They're forced to run for it, the Guardian giving chase, and when it traps them, Godzooky yells for Godzilla. When they see him emerge from the river and head ashore, Majors and Brock realize something must be wrong and decide to follow him. However, they run into Bot-Lam and are captured by the group he's leading. Godzilla arrives at the site and his presence catches the Guardian's attention. The two of them charge at each other and grapple, while Quinn tries to snap Pete out of his trance. The Guardian then breaks free of Godzilla's grip and blasts him with its eye-beams. The beams appear to drain him of his strength, forcing him down to the ground, and then starts coating his body in gold. He tries to fight against it but is quickly covered in the gold completely and frozen in place. That done, the Guardian moves back towards the others, as Quinn keeps trying to wake Pete up. It smashes through a bridge to get at them but just as it's almost on them, she finally wakes her nephew up. He tells her that he dreamed about the Guardian turning Godzilla to gold and she shows him that it was no dream, pointing to Godzilla as he stands nearby, covered in the gold. She then shows him that the Guardian is now back in the ground from which it came and figures the stone made what he dreamed a reality. They head back to tell Majors and Brock what's happened, Godzooky at one point getting too close to the dream stone for comfort, but find the Calico abandoned when they reach it. They think they finished the repairs and went on into the jungle, deciding to take a nearby trail to see. Meanwhile, at the village, Majors and Brock are being kept in a cage that's set in a spot where deep circle is dug in the ground around it. Locking them, Mot-Lam asks them where the others are and Majors tells them they've gone downriver to look for help. Mot-Lam has his men search the jungle, while he plans to go and have the Guardian join the search. To ensure that Majors and Brock can't escape, Mot-Lam has the bridge crossing the pit pulled back and that's when they see it's full of tigers, who start trying to climb their way up.
Quinn, Pete, and Godzooky come across the now empty village and, seeing Majors and Brock in the cage, rush to help them. Spotting the tigers in the pit, Quinn has Godzooky fly over to the cage and carry it back over to them. He then easily crushes the lock on the cage, allowing them to get out, and Majors promises to catch him a big fish when they're back out at sea. Quinn tells them what happened to Godzilla, adding that the Guardian's ray seems to work in the opposite manner of his laser-beams, and Majors theorizes that another laser could restore his strength. Brock figures they could use the Calico's communications laser and beat it at Godzilla after refiguring it. While they head back to the ship, at the shrine, Bot-Lam uses the dream stone to awaken one of the Guardians in order to have it search for the crew. It rises up and walks into the jungle, passing by the gold-coated Godzilla. At the Calico, they raise its radio tower until Brock is able to see Godzilla, when the Guardian explodes out of the jungle. With no time to lose, they hit the power and the laser envelops Godzilla. They get no reaction and they're just about of juice, as the Guardian closes in on the ship. But then, Godzilla's strength is restored and he breaks free of the gold with a loud roar. He immediately makes his way down the hillside, stopping the Guardian from destroying the Calico. It fires its beams at him again but this time, he dodges them and it destroys one of the ruins' walls behind him. It approaches Godzilla, blasting its lasers at him, and the two of them then move in on each other, the old, stone walkways crumbling under their feet. While Godzilla battles the Guardian, Majors tells Quinn what Bot-Lam said about the dream stone and, knowing exactly what that is, she and Pete lead him and Brock to it. At the shrine, Bot-Lam decides to awaken the other Guardians and they rise from the dirt, heading in to help the one, which manages to lift Godzilla and toss him. On their way to the shrine, the crew sees that all but one of the Guardians has been awakened, and that one rises up as soon as they reach it. They duck into the shrine to avoid being trampled and find Bot-Lam there. But, before they can wake him up, the one Guardian throws a large stone at them, which shatters into a bunch of pieces, one of which smashes the dream stone. However, they're surprised when the Guardian doesn't go back to its resting place and Bot-Lam explains that he can't control the Guardians without the dream stone. It then heads down the mountain, joining the others as they move in on Godzilla. Knowing there's no way he can fight all of them at once, Godzilla backs up and lures them into a marsh, where they get stuck in the mud. He climbs out at the other end and, just as they're all about to fire their rays at him, he blasts them with his fire breath (which I just realized he hasn't used in the last few episodes), melting them into a big pool of gold. With that, the Golden Guardians have been defeated for good and Godzilla roars triumphantly. Later, as they're about to depart, they learn that the tribe is happy to be free of the Guardians, Bot-Lam admitting that he was wrong in his devotion to the old ways. Now, they plan to use the big pool of gold to build a new future for them. On the way home, Brock tries to catch the fish Majors promised Godzooky, only to get a bite and then lose it for the third time in a row. As you can guess, Godzooky has been snatching the fish away from Brock all this time, much to his frustration: "Godzooooky!"
The Macro-Beasts: The Calico is on its way to an island that was created only ten years before by a volcanic eruption in order to pick up some date from its scientific station. Brock and Pete take the dinghy over the island and they allow Godzooky to come as well, provided he doesn't get in the way. However, on the way there, he accidentally sprays them with water that he spits out of his mouth and then gives them a shove that lands them on the island's shore. They have him stay with the boat while they go after the data tapes. From the Calico, Quinn and Captain Majors see a plume of smoke rising from the water out in front of the island and it proves to be another volcanic eruption. In seconds, the island is shaking from it, as the new volcano blows its top, and Brock and Pete head back to the dinghy. Godzooky watches the eruption from the beach, when a big crack that appears in the ground next to him sends him flying up in the air. A much large crack appears in front of Pete and Brock and they rather stupidly try to jump it, only to fall down its center. They land on a ledge and Godzooky attempts to get them out, only to lose his balance from the shaking and fall on the ledge with them. The fissure then starts to close up on them, as fireballs from the eruption rain down on them. They seem to have forgotten that Godzooky can fly, because Pete tells him to call Godzilla. He pops out of the ocean, heads to the island, walks into the interior until he finds the fissure, and, after forcing it open, picks them up his hand and pulls them out. The fissure closes back up and Godzilla carries them back to the Calico, which he also picks up and carries away from the eruption for good measure. Later, after the eruption has subsided, Brock, Pete, and Godzooky, standing on the deck, are surprised to see a school of oversized seahorses swimming by, and they then see a jellyfish that's much bigger than the Calico floating next to them. Brock calls Majors and Quinn out so they can see it and she theorizes that the eruption might be connected to it. They decide to make an aerial search with the mini-copter and when they do, Quinn and Brock see more giant sea animals, such as a crab, an eel, and a turtle below the surface of the water. Flying around the new volcano, they see a purple-substance pouring into the water from a crater, in its side. Having a hunch it may have something to do with the giant sea creatures, they decide to go back to the Calico and use the mini-sub to get a sample. On their way back, they're dogged by a giant manta ray, which is now able to take to the air. Quinn contacts Majors and tells him to call Godzilla. Before he can arrive, Godzooky flies up and tries to save Quinn and Brock himself. He grabs the ray's tail and tries to pull it, only for the tail to snap out of his hands. When he tries it a second time, he gets flung off and lands in the water next to the Calico. The ray comes after the mini-copter again and smashes its tail rotor with its wing, sending it spiraling down to the water. Fortunately, Godzilla pops up and catches the copter in his hand and then places it back on the Calico. The ray comes flying in and he swipes at it before blasting his fire at it. The ray then shows it can shoot back, firing an electric beam from the tip of its tail but Godzilla isn't affected and punches it, sending it back into the water.
Onboard the Calico, it dawns on them that the giant sea creatures could wreak havoc if they got into the shipping lanes. Quinn still needs a sample of the substance from before, even though they could very be a danger to the mini-sub. She and Brock head out in the sub, passing by a big starfish and heading through a coral reef to reach the volcano. Approaching the crater, they see a fish feeding on the substance and it grows rapidly while doing so. Quinn theorizes that it's a combination of the liquid and the heated water from the lava. She swims out to get a sample of it, but catches the attention of a large crab. It tries to get at her on her way back to the sub, grabbing her left leg and pulling her fin off, but she manages to climb back into the sub with Brock's help. They head back to the sub, but the crab is chasing after them and it manages to get the sub in its claw. It starts to drag the sub back and when Quinn tries to radio for help, it snaps the antenna off. Now, it proceeds to grab the sub again and squeeze, before picking it up and carrying it to its lair. Brock hits the afterburners but the crab just holds onto the sub. The engines are about to overheat, when the afterburners make the sub too hot for the crab to take and it lets go, allowing them to speed off and head back to the Calico. Back onboard, Quinn puts the substance through some tests and finds that it's basically a type of superfood. She demonstrates how effective it is by putting some of it in a bowl of water with a goldfish, which becomes almost too big for the bowl. She then pours some ice water in and the fish shrinks back down to his normal size. Still concerned about the giants getting into the shipping lanes, Majors comes up with the idea of corralling them in a nearby reef by using the mini-subs (they conveniently have two in this episode), equipping them with electric shields to act like large cattle prods. As crazy as it sounds, Quinn figures it's worth a try.
Majors and Brock man the subs, while Quinn and Pete keep up an aerial view in the mini-copter, with Godzooky helping. They spot a herd of giant seahorses and use the subs' electric shields to head them over to the reef's opening. One seahorse strays off but Brock goes after him and is able to get him to turn around and rejoin the roundup. They manage to get them into the reef without any other hiccups. Majors them send down Godzooky to guard the entrance and he pushes a large rock in place to block it. Pete spots two separate schools of giant sharks and squids to corral and they get to work, herding them together. Majors goes to get a stray shark back into the school but upon being shocked, the shark smacks the sub with his tail and sends it flying backwards through the water. Seeing this, Godzooky swims to Majors' rescue, as the sub becomes wedged between some rocks. Meanwhile, Brock keeps the other creatures moving along, as Godzooky pulls and ultimately uses a large piece of coral to wrench the sub loose. Majors rejoins the roundup, which now includes giant swordfish, while Godzooky swims ahead to reopen the corral for them. Now, a school of giant electric eels is heading their way and upon hearing the news from Quinn, they head to deal with them. They approach them cautiously from behind, knowing how dangerous their voltage is because of their size, and Majors has to again deal with a stray. This eel isn't too happy when Majors' sub zaps him and he returns the favor by blasting him with his own charge. This destroying his shield, leaving a big black mark on the sub's front, and he warns Brock to back off. Too little, too late, as all of the eels blast them with their power, and now, they need Godzilla. Rising up, he then swims down to where they are and uses his eye-beams to back them off of the subs. Blasting them again, he sends them swimming to the corral in a panic, Godzooky almost not opening it up in time. Godzilla takes over placing the rock back in front of the entrance and surfaces next to the reef. A manta ray, likely the one from before, flies out of the water and heads for Godzilla, smacking him in the face with its tail. When it comes back around for another pass, he grabs it and the two of them struggle in the water, before he grabs it and throws it. It comes back around, smacking him with its tail again as it passes, but he grabs its tail, twirls it around, and flings it back into the corral. Though that problem has been solved, the animals are still growing and will soon burst out. Unable to stop the superfood from getting into the water, Quinn decides they have to cool the water to stop them from growing. How do they plan to do that? Send Godzilla to the South Pole to fetch an iceberg, of course!
Once he has the instructions, Godzilla sets off for the South Pole, while the crew monitors the corral. While he's gone, the creatures continue to grow, threatening to break out of the reef, while at the South Pole, he finds an iceberg and carries it back to the area (God knows how he kept it from melting during that long journey back). He's just in time, as the creatures are starting to get through the reef's walls. Lifting the berg up, he slams it into the center of the corral and it works instantly, as the animals all shrink back to their normal sizes. His job done, Godzilla heads back down under the waves. Later, aboard the Calico, Pete brings in a seahorse, a normal-sized one, that he and Godzooky caught and puts him in a fish bowl. However, when Godzooky leans in to have a closer look, he knocks the beaker containing the last of the superfood into the bowl, causing the seahorse to instantly start growing. Quickly, Godzooky runs to another part of the ship and comes back with a tray of ice cubes. He shakes them down to the seahorse, which the seahorse takes in through his mouth, and he instantly shrinks back to normal size. Pete compliments Godzooky on that bit of fast thinking.
Pacific Peril: We go Hawaiian for the opening of this one, as it starts with this classic ukulele piece that's been heard in a number of Hanna-Barbera cartoons that have been set there. However, this lovely serenity doesn't last long, as a volcano institute is getting reports of an outbreak of volcanic activity that's spanning the entire world, with new volcanoes reported in some countries while well-known ones are erupting for the first time in years (one of which is Mt. Fuji!) As the scientists wonder what the cause could be, the volcano on their very island begins to erupt, and they realize that until they find the cause, no city in the Pacific is safe. Elsewhere, on the Calico, Pete and Godzooky are playing fetch with a wrench of Brock's, Pete throwing it into the water and Godzooky jumps down after it. In the wheelhouse, Brock hears something weird on the sonar: a wailing sound. Not sure what it is, they turn on the underwater camera and see the source of the sounds: Godzooky, and Brock isn't happy to see that he has his wrench. They have more important things to worry about, though, as they're heading for the center of the volcanic activity, a stretch of the ocean where the Pacific plate meets the Asian landmass. As they approach the spot, Brock picks up something else on the sonar and the ship begins to rock from an undersea quake that's happening right below them. The waves become bigger and more violent, meaning they need Godzilla. They call him up and he arrives in time to see a truly gigantic wave heading right for the Calico. He quickly looms over the ship and breaks the wave with his back, but then, another, even bigger quake, rocks the seabed. A new, underwater volcano erupts from the ocean floor, which starts to crack open, and Quinn figures that the source of the volcanic activity is down there, beneath the fault line. The ocean gets back to normal and they decide to see what's going on with the mini-sub. Quinn and Brock take the sub down to the ocean floor, only to find that the fault line has closed itself back up. They do, however, find the volcano and decide to go in through its mouth! (Quakes or no quakes, that is not only guaranteed death but just flat-out stupid, besides.) They head down into its depths, when an aftershock signals another eruption, which seals them inside the volcano. The volcano explodes out of the ocean, right in front of the Calico, which ends up running aground on its side.
In the bowels of the volcano, the water has drained, leaving the mini-sub high and dry and forcing Quinn and Brock to walk. They decide to try to find where the water went in order to find a way out, when they come upon a fork in their path. They decide to take the left path, unaware that they're being followed by a large, spiked, lizard-like creature. Outside, Majors tries to find a way to get in the volcano and spies a vent on the side. They try that and, while walking across the rocks towards the vent, Godzooky gets ahead of himself and runs, causing him to slip and fall flat on his face. He's fine, though, and they go on through the vent; just beyond it, they find the mini-sub. Finding it empty, they gone ahead, trying to find Quinn and Brock, and then they come to the fork. They decide to try the right path, but Godzooky appears to smell Quinn and Brock's scent on the one to the left, when hears the raspy growling of the creature from earlier. Pete calls for him and Godzooky heads down the right path. Up ahead, on the left path, Quinn and Brock hear Pete calling for Godzooky and head back the way they came, only to run into the creature, which can breathe fire. They run back the way they were going, the creature chasing after them, only to find that the tunnel leads to a chamber where more of the creatures are feeding on a spring of lava. One of them hears them and begins approaching. Elsewhere, Majors, Pete, and Godzooky are walking their path, which is alongside a stretch of water, when they hear Quinn and Brock calling for them. It sounds like it's coming from up ahead and, after climbing a steep passage, they find a tunnel that leads them to a chamber full of crystals, which Majors believes are created from minerals dissolved in the river they passed and are now under. Some liquid drops from the ceiling and builds into more crystals, at amazing speed. Needing to get out, Pete has Godzooky attempt to break through the crystals up ahead but they're as solid as rocks. Majors goes to signal Godzilla, when an aftershock causes him to lose the signaler. He goes to grab it but more crystals spring up in the spot where it fell, blocking him from getting it. Pete has Godzooky calls for him and he emerges from the ocean outside the volcano. Seeing the Calico but finding no one inside it, he gets a big surprise when the ocean floor cracks between his feet and he's dragged down into it, the fissure closing up above him (that's where he stays until the end of the episode). Also, Quinn and Brock are now completely surrounded by the fire-breathing creatures.
In the crystal chamber, the crystals are growing so quickly that it's filling up all available space. It becomes clear that Godzilla isn't able to help, so they have to help themselves. Majors asks Pete to see if he can reach the signaler, the high frequency of which might be able to shatter the crystals. Finding it, he stretches with all his might and manages to grab it and pull it out. Handing it to Majors, he hits it and the signal vibrates and shatters the crystals. They then see another passage, which they take, hoping it will lead them to the others, while below the ocean floor, Godzilla is pushing the walls apart to keep them from closing in on him. Meanwhile, back with Quinn and Brock, they try to escape but one of the creatures blasts its flame breath at him, trapping them against the wall. Majors call down at them from above and Pete sends Godzooky down to distract the creatures. He manages to drive one away, while another gets after him, only to run out of fire. Seeing this, they manage to run by another that's already used up his fire and make their way up to where Majors and Pete are, Godzooky rejoining them. Wondering where to go, Brock spots something down a path to their right, which is revealed to be a Jupiter probe rocket that went down in the area the previous year. Believing they could use it to escape, they head towards it, finding that it's beyond a rock bridge extending over a pool of lava. Majors goes across first to test it and it holds up. Quinn goes across next, followed by Brock, and then Pete. A piece breaks off underneath his feet and he just barely manages to hop across without falling. Watching the creatures down below, they know they'll have to go around the lava in order to reach them and make the most of the lucky break by heading on for the rocket. Godzooky steps across the gap in the bridge, when the section behind him crumbles and he has to scramble to avoid falling. Reaching the rocket, Quinn feels it's a test model from the 1960's whose guidance system malfunctioned and retro-rockets kept it going down until it got wedged under the earth. Looking at the walls the rocket is wedged between, they see that it's right where the plates come together and the pressure it's producing is the cause of the outbreak of volcanic eruptions. Meanwhile, Godzilla finally manages to push apart the walls trying to close in on him and tries to find his way out. Back at the rocket, they find an open hatch in the nose cone and think that if they can get the engines working and repair the guidance system, they can ride the rocket back to the surface while stopping the eruptions. One problem: a fire-breathing creature is inside the rocket. While the others lure it out, Brock slips inside to get the rocket running again. There's a moment where Quinn falls and the creature corners her, but Godzooky distracts it long enough for her to escape. It swipes at Godzooky and shoots its fire at him, and they then see that the others have made it around the lava pool.
The rocket then fires up and they all run for it, the creatures right behind them. Godzooky, however, can't get through the hatch (even though one of those creatures, which are a lot bigger than him, was able to just a few minutes ago) and the rocket's remaining fuel is running out fast. Majors tells Godzooky to follow them through the hole the rocket makes. The rocket blasts forward, the two plates rejoin, and it burrows through the earth. Godzooky stops on the rim of the hole it left behind, when the creatures close in on him. That's when Godzilla arrives on the other side of the wall and punches through it, grabbing Godzooky and pulling him out, away from their fire breath, prompting the creatures to run for it. The rocket continues heading down, as the earth shakes around them from the plates pushing back together, and Brock is unable to correct their trajectory because the guidance controls are locked. They break through the ground and then through the roof of another chamber. Hearing this, Godzilla sits Godzooky down and breaks up through the roof of that chamber, seeing the rocket up above him (yeah, the physics and trajectory of these scenes is all messed up). They're surprised to run into him down there but it's a welcome surprise, as he pulls the rocket out and then rams it upward so that it heads back to the surface. The rocket comes up through the ocean floor and they then use the nose-cone to shoot their way back to the surface of the water. They're able to get back to the Calico and get it out to sea, somehow getting off the side of the volcano without Godzilla's help. As Pete wonders what happened to Godzooky, Godzilla's hand pops up from under the water, holding him. He lets him fly back to the deck, where he drenches Pete as he shakes the water off. The place starts shaking again and it looks like another eruption is coming, when the top half of the volcano explodes apart, revealing Godzilla to be the cause (no clue how he pulled that off). The crisis over, the Calico heads for Hawaii and they're glad that there's not a volcano in sight. The ship starts rocking but it's not another quake; it's Godzooky practicing the hula, complete with a grass skirt! Now, there's an image that's definitely worth a thousand words, and he's accompanied by that same ukulele piece that opened the episode.
Island of Doom: Near Australia, the Calico is awaiting the approach of a new weather satellite that will be the first to take weather pictures of the entire South Pacific. However, the satellite also happens to be in the vicinity of an island that's home to a terrorist organization called COBRA, headed by General Zador. When it gets within range, they fire a missile at the satellite, which heads up through the atmosphere, its nose disengaging from its body at it homes in on its target. Brock spots the missile on the radar as it heads for the satellite and they watch they radar as it gets blown to pieces. When they're back on course, Pete and Godzooky are down in the ship's hold, cleaning up. Pete suggests they get rid of some old vegetables they're keeping down there in some crates but Godzooky won't hear of it, as he runs to the crates and throws his arms around them protectively. Pete has no reason not to let him have it and Godzooky starts chowing down. Meanwhile, Brock and Quinn trace the missile's projectory and find the island that it came from. Majors alters their course to go to the island and see what's happening. At COBRA's headquarters on the island, Colonel Varna announces to the grand council that they've destroyed the satellite and their existence is still a well-kept secret. Zador goes on to say that their stockpile of nuclear weapons is almost complete and they will soon be able to hold all of the world's major cities for ransom. Back at the Calico, when they reach the island, they pick up some strong readings of radiation and Quinn feels that the cause might be a uranium freighter that disappeared in the area the year before and that it might have been hijacked. Realizing that whoever is on the island shot down the satellite to keep from being discovered, Majors realizes they're onto something that could put the whole world in danger. He has Brock contact the Australian mainland and notify the authorities, but the radioactivity blocks the radio signal, leaving them on their own. On the island, during the grand council meeting, Varna is told that a ship has been spotted nearby and upon relaying it to Zador, he asks how what she suggests they do. She decides to activate the mine shield that surrounds the island and Zador gives his approval. On the Calico's bow, Pete and Godzooky spot the mines in the water ahead and Pete warns Majors. Ordering everyone on deck, he has Brock and Quinn check the portside and aft respectively for mines. When they do, they find that the mines have surrounded them. Majors calls Godzilla and when he arrives, Pete has Godzooky tell him to be careful with the mines. He seems to get the message and picks up a mine that comes close to floating against the bow but, after looking at it curiously (look how thoughtful he seems in the one image), he touches it and it blows up in his hand. Now knowing how serious they are, he scoops all of the mines up in his hand and punches them, blowing them all at once. Having saved them, he heads back under the water.
After that, Majors and Brock take the hovercraft to photograph the island's coastline and when they head through a lagoon, they find the shoreline dotted with armaments like enormous guns and missile launchers, and around back of the coast, they find an atomic reactor. They decide to go in and have a closer look, but are spotted by a couple of men by one of the guns, who alert Colonel Varna and the shore patrol. Majors and Brock head ashore and, reaching the reactor, they find an electrified fence around it with the COBRA insignia on the gate, as well as on the back of a patrolling soldier's uniform. Knowing how dangerous they are already, he knows it's doubly so if they have atomic weapons at their disposal. Instead of heading back with their film, they decide to sneak into the reactor, while Varna tells Zador that the intruders will not leave the island alive. Inside the reactor, they look through a window at the core, which has bubbling ocean water pumped in around it from below. They're spotted by some guards and Majors hits the Godzilla signaler but, like with the ship's radio, the radioactivity blocks the signal and they're surrounded and taken prisoner. Zador is then informed of their capture and, upon learning they saw the reactor, he has them sent to the base's prison tower. Back on the Calico, Quinn, Pete, and Godzooky know that something's wrong, since Brock and Majors have been gone for a long time and they head to the island with the mini-sub. In the tower, Brock and Majors contemplate what may happen to them, while the others arrive on an end of the island that seems deserted and head into the interior. However, in doing so, they trip a laser alarm and the whole base knows they've arrived. Turning on the video monitor in one part of the base, Varna and another man spot them and she orders a fully-armed team to be sent after them. A couple of soldiers manning a really armed vehicle finds them and they run for it, only for Godzooky to go back and try to fight them. He gets rockets fired at him in response and, after dodging them, he rejoins the others, only for them to be cut off by a tank that plows through some trees. In an instant, they're surrounded and taken prisoner themselves. They're put in the tower with Majors and Brock, where Zador refuses to believe that they're oceanographers, as they say. He all but says that he's going to have them killed for being spies, when he's contacted on his personal radio and is told that the main coolant pumps at the reactor have broken down. He orders the reserve pumps to be activated and the main ones to be repaired at once. They leave their prisoners in the cell, who know that if the island is destroyed by the reactor blowing up, the fallout would be catastrophic. They need Godzilla, but when Godzooky calls for him a couple of times, nothing happens, as they're too far inland for him to hear. However, Godzooky finds he can bend the bars in the window and heads out to find Godzilla, while at the reactor, the scientists learn that the reserve pumps are unable to handle the load of the whole reactor.
Alright, so far, the episode has been interesting because of the lack of a monster and the threat being an organization of terrorists (or criminals, as Majors delicately put it earlier), albeit still nothing special because of how two-dimensional the villains are. However, this is where things get awesome, as we dive into a sequence that's probably my favorite of the whole show, is Godzilla at his most badass here, and the closest it came to feeling like the movies. My words really don't do it just; you just have to see and hear it for yourself. Godzooky flies out to the sea and calls for Godzilla, who rises up and follows him to the island. His presence doesn't unnoticed, as Varna tells Zador about his approach, and when he sees him on the monitor, Zador orders all of the island's defenses to be used to stop him. An alarm blares through the base and when the crew sees Godzilla approaching, Brock proclaims, "If General Zador, he's sure got one now!" Godzilla heads towards the shore, where the shore batteries all fire at him, Zador giving them the order to fire at will, but he just wades through their onslaught and, as the soldiers run for it, trample the batteries with his feet and tail. Despite this first defeat, Zador is sure they have Godzilla now, as he heads into the mine field. He just marches through the field, the mines exploding all-around him, and he then comes across the missile site. He takes a missile to the chest but it does nothing to slow him down (during this whole sequence, the instrumental version of his theme song is playing, making him feel all the more awesome). Zador now sics all of the base's artillery on him and he's hit repeatedly with shells from tanks, missile launchers, and big guns. He does recoil from the onslaught at one point but he advances on the tanks, crushing them with his foot, and just keeps wading through the firepower that's being thrown at him. After another awesome shot of him walking, with explosions all-around, he hits one of the big guns with his eye-beams, melting it instantly, and does the same to another with his fire breath. All those gunners are now running for it, as the base's airforce comes in to battle. They buzz around him, firing missiles, but they're little more than flies and he swats at them, sending one plummeting down to the sea (you see the pilot eject, though). He catches another and, after the pilot ejects, he rips its wing off and tosses it aside, before advancing on the airport. The tower is evacuated, Godzilla then using his eye-beams on it, causing it to rock back and forth, and he walks past it, his tail knocks it all the way over. He now heads for the main section of the base, crushing the headquarters under his foot, while at the reactor, the reserve pumps have failed and the scientists evacuate, as it's about to blow. Godzooky arrives back at the tower with the others and Godzilla soon follows, pulling the tower out of the ground, ripping the top off, and allow them to step into his hand. Quinn sees that the reactor is about to blow and Pete has Godzooky tell Godzilla he needs to cool it down however he can. Once he's told, he sets the group down and heads for the reactor. He literally rips it loose from the building and tosses it into the nearby lagoon, where it's impossible for it to overheat, and he follows that up with his eye-beams to further neutralize it. Godzilla has triumphed, having saved his friends and the entire world. On their way home, they hear that a UN task force is on its way to arrest the members of COBRA. Pete finds Godzooky back down in the hold, eating the old vegetables again, though he denies doing so... until a case of hiccups gives him away.
The Deadly Asteroid: It figures that the very last episode would center around the entire planet coming close to being destroyed. At the North Pole, a spaceship appears, frightening some Eskimos using a dogsled (something else may happen but, unfortunately, a part of the episode is missing from the source I used). Elsewhere, Godzooky helps Captain Majors get back aboard the Calico after having used the hovercraft. Later, as the ship heads out, Majors tells his crew of the UFO sighting. Brock thinks it may have just been a meteor but Quinn tells him of strange happenings involving rapid drops in temperature, such as snow in Florida and Panama. They head north to find out what's going on and on the way, they find some buoys that are stranded on some rocks, as if the ocean level dropped dramatically, which could happen if the Earth began to freeze. Later, they pass by groups of dolphins, walruses, and blue whales swimming south, apparently frightened of something. After that, they come across a collection of large icebergs, unusual because of how far south they are of the Arctic, as well as a big wall of ice, coming off as if another Ice Age is happening. The ship is soon surrounded by the ice, which closes in, threatening to crush it. They need Godzilla and signal him. He makes a great entrance by smashing his way through the ice and Godzooky flies up to tell him what's going on. He then makes his way through the ice, smashing it out of his path, at one point using a big chunk of it like a hammer, and, reaching the Calico, he picks it up and smashes away the ice. He sets the ship down in a safe spot and, his job done, he heads back under the water. However, they can't get past a big barrier of ice in front of them and, instead of having Godzilla break that for them as well, they the explorer sub (a bigger sub that has never been mentioned before now) under the ice. Going through a passage, they see fish frozen in the ice, hinting that the water frozen instantly, and they surface in a big ice grotto. Heading to the shore and securing the sub (which is now a "mini-sub" again), they leave Brock behind as a guard while they see what's ahead. On the way, Godzooky slips and falls on top of Pete, who is not only unhurt but says that it's his fault, though I don't see how that could be. In any case, they come upon a spaceship that's apparently made completely of ice. Walking over to one of the ship's windows, he calls the others over, and when they look in, they find that the ship is manned by aliens who themselves are icy in nature. Opening up a vent on the ship, Majors intends for him and Quinn to go in and find out what the aliens are up to, while Pete and Godzooky wait outside. He tells them that, if something should happen, they're to get back to the sub and have Brock radio for help. In the ship, the aliens, whose leader is Commander Kyros, begin a test, which Majors and Quinn witness the start of, while back at the mini-sub, Brock is discovered by some guards and frozen solid by their weapons. The aliens are priming a large magnet-like device and Majors and Quinn overhear them say that, within five hours, the planet will be frozen solid and will be prime to become their new home. Quinn hears them mention "Frios," an icy asteroid the size of the moon and it hits them that they're bringing it down on Earth. The two of them try to run for it but are spotted and Kyros, instead of having them frozen, traps them in the ship and takes them prisoner. Seeing this through the window, Pete and Godzooky run to tell Brock.
Kyros tells Majors and Quinn that they've focused the Earth's own gravitational force to bring Frios to it. When Majors says that would destroy every living thing on the planet, Kyros answers, "What does it matter? We will replace them with much higher lifeforms: our own!" Meanwhile, Pete and Godzooky head back to the mini-sub, only to find the frozen Brock. Their only option now being Godzilla, Pete tells Godzooky to swim out and bring him. Godzooky is reluctant to do this, because of how cold the water is, but Pete implores him and he bites the bullet and swims back out, coming up next to the Calico. Landing on the deck, he calls for Godzilla, and tells him what's going. Godzilla smashes his way through the ice, Godzooky flying after him, and soon finds and breaks through the ice to the area where the mini-sub is. However, the ice aliens are waiting for him and they blast him with their weapons, managing to freeze him as well. Godzooky tries to escape but he's frozen as well, crashing and rolling down the hillside into a snowball, stopping beside Brock. A high-pitched, ringing sound echoes through the air and Kyros declares, "You hear that, Earthlings? Frios, it is coming!" All hope seems lost, as we get our first look at Frios, as it tumbles down through space, towards the planet. As it approaches, disasters plague the Earth: the oceans drain and freeze up, earthquakes happen everywhere, etc. Meanwhile, as Pete attempts to unfreeze his friends, Kyros can only marvel at the oncoming asteroid. When asked why he wants to sacrifice all life on the planet, he answers, "You see why we ice creatures must conquer, and you Earthlings must fail. You speak from... warm emotion. We have none." Quinn responds, "Then we can only pity you." Using sunlight reflected off of a window panel he detached from the mini-sub, Pete manages to unfreeze Brock. He tells him about what's going, about Frios, and that Godzilla has been frozen as well. Feeling they can unfreeze him as well, Brock leads Pete to the mini-sub. Frios continues its approach, its gravitational pull uprooting and destroying landmarks like Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, and the Sphynx, which gets lifted up and tossed onto the tip of a pyramid! In the spaceship, Majors tells Quinn he has got his hands free and spies one of the aliens' freeze guns, thinking he could reverse its effect. Grabbing it, he turns a dial on it and tests it on a guard that comes at him, melting him into a puddle of water. He uses it to melt Quinn's icy handcuffs and they run through the ship, but upon hearing about it, Kyros sends his men after them.
Using the mini-sub's exhaust and channeling it through a sort of hose, Brock aims it at Godzilla, hoping to unfreeze him. The place shakes, as Frios is only a few minutes away from impact, but once the exhaust hits full power, the ice surrounding Godzilla finally melts. He growls and beats his chest upon being set free, and it seems like they can now save the others. That's when it hits them that they haven't seen Godzooky lately and Godzilla realizes that he's inside the big snowball nearby. He uses his fire to melt him out of it and Godzooky happily flies up to Godzilla, who comes off as more affectionate towards him than he's ever been. They then start heading to the ship, where Majors makes one last attempt to reach the magnetic generator's controls. He manages to pull a lever but is spotted and runs for it, managing to create a distraction when his and another guard's weapons hit each other in mid-air upon firing. He and Quinn take cover when Kyros sends more guards after them. Seeing this from outside, Pete has Godzooky tell Godzilla that they need his help and he blasts the ship's side with his eye-beams, burning a hole in it. Majors and Quinn run out, but Frios is basically on top of them now. Quinn figures they could reverse the magnetic generator like Majors did with the ray gun and, to that end, they have Godzooky tell Godzilla to lift up the spaceship and turn it upside down. He stomps over to the ship, while Frios wreaks more havoc, and finds more icemen waiting for him outside it. They blast their freeze rays at him but he tears off a chunk of ice and uses it to shield himself. He then throws the chunk at them, sending them fleeing and ignoring Kyros' orders to fight him. The chunk blocks the hole he made earlier and Godzilla grabs the spaceship, lifting it up above his head, turns it upside down, and slams it back on the ground. This does indeed reverse the magnetic generator and send Frios hurtling back out into space, passing the moon as it goes. Their plan foiled, Kyros activates the ship and they leave the atmosphere. Majors is sure they won't see them again, now that they know about Godzilla, and everyone agrees, with Godzilla actually modestly chuckling about it! On the way home, they see that the ocean has unfrozen and all the animals from before are heading back home. Pete says it's thanks to Godzilla, as well as Godzooky, and he gets a couple of big licks on the face for the compliment.
Whew, that ended up being much longer and more detailed than I intended it to be. But, I'm glad I did it, because I know if there's any other place that has so much time devoted to this show. In any case, as you can tell, I really adore this cartoon. Yeah, it has flaws up the yin-yang, from story errors, plotholes, and two-dimensional characters to animation errors and a repetitive formula, and a lot of my love for it could come down to pure nostalgia, but I do think it has some genuine merit. It has instances of surprisingly good animation, the characters are pretty likable and their designs are appealing, it's visually lovely and has vibrant colors (the first season does, anyway), Godzilla himself comes off quite well, a number of the antagonistic monsters are memorable, some of the stories are engaging, the music is pretty cool, and the show, overall, has a real sense of fun and adventure about it. If you didn't watch it as a kid, you're not a fan of Hanna-Barbera, or a real stickler when it comes to elements of the character being translated, you're likely going to think much of this show. But, if you just want a good time and some light-hearted adventure with the King of the Monsters, you could do far worse.
One of the best Godzilla cartoons ever made considering that it was the first one ever made! Add to the fact that it was created by Hanna Barbara makes this cartoon even more iconic and unforgettable!
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