Godzilla in Popular Culture - Parodies

Parodies

• In Rugrats, a green T. rex with spikes named Reptar is a reference to Godzilla, makes frequent appearances; also sporting a Pteranodon ally, Dactar, which is a spoof of Rodan.

• The South Park episode "Mecha-Streisand" parodies the Godzilla series heavily, with celebrities such as Barbra Streisand as Mechagodzilla, Leonard Maltin as Jet Jaguar or Ultraman, Sidney Poitier as Gamera, and Robert Smith as Mothra becoming the giant Godzilla-like monsters. A later episode, Whale Whores, has Stan Marsh using a full scale model Godzilla to scare away Japanese whalers and fishermen who have been preying on whales and dolphins at local sea parks and aquariums.

• In The Simpsons episode "30 Minutes Over Tokyo" (Season 10, Episode 23, #AABF20), the family's flight home is briefly interrupted by a monster attack on Tokyo, featuring Godzilla, Gamera, Rodan, and Mothra. Another show by Matt Groening, Futurama, contains a Godzilla reference. In the episode "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", a "holophonor" opera (an opera played on a fictional holographic musical instrument) written by Philip J. Fry has a scene where Fry is being attacked by Godzilla.

• The Pinky and the Brain segment "Tokyo Grows" features a monster named Gollyzilla who periodically threatens Tokyo. The segment is frequently interrupted by cutaways to a Raymond Burr caricature saying "Yes, I see," a parody of the way Godzilla, King of the Monsters! interpolated footage of Burr reacting to events from the original Gojira.

• The first season finale episode of The Wayans Brothers titled Brazilla vs. Rodney (Brazilla being an obvious parody of Godzilla while the name Rodney being an obvious play on the name Barney) features Shawn and Marlon at a Japanese kid's birthday party dressed up as a mouse and cockroach while fighting another man dressed as a Godzilla-like dinosaur over a scale model city, scaring away all of the other people present and causing destruction similar to what is typically seen in Godzilla movies.

• In the game show, Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck one of the double whammys is a Godzilla-like whammy destroys a city. The whammy roars exactly like Godzilla's. A dollar bill yells out, "Aahhh, It's Whamzilla". Then it runs into the camera, which drops bricks on to the contestents head.

• In Austin Powers in Goldmember there is a scene in which they drive a mini cooper under a Godzilla statue which gets stuck and moves with them, people then shout run it's Godzilla but someone replies "It looks like Godzilla but due to international copyright law it's not!". A clear reference to Toho being so strict on protecting the copyright of Godzilla.