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Cartoon
The Godzilla Power Hour
Godzilla and the Super 90
The Godzilla Show
The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour

Animal
Child in a rubber suit



Outfit: wings / protruding green ass-member

Tagline: "Roar," which translates into, "HEY GODZILLA COME HELP US KTHNXBYE."

Plot summary: "The Calico" is a research vessel that investigates mysteries that leave them face to face with giant dangerous beasts. Like every single mystery. You'd think these people had pissed off Rita Repulsa somehow and she was making sea urchin grow 400 feet tall with her magical javelin throw from the moon. Thankfully the crew manages to rescue a large dinosaur-thing called Godzooky, who turns out to be the nephew of the mighty Godzilla, famed biter of trains and stomper of Tokyo.

So now instead of doing any actual research, the Calico ends up baby sitting Godzooky as he has wacky hijinks until a giant monster shows up, which gives the Zook a chance to call out his uncle, who spanks the Seaweed Monster or Cyclops or whatever with his nuclear fire breath. How Godzilla manages to show up instantly regardless of the Calico's location and how in the hell Godzilla's family tree is organized is beyond me, but it's good to know that family values and big brother mentoring are being observed and respected by horrible nuclear accidents. (more)

User Comments: Godzooky is commonly referred to as Godzilla's "nephew," without regard to the actual Godzilla films, which featured both a Godzilla Jr. and a different "Son of Godzilla" (named Minya). "Nephew" tells us that Godzooky is the son of one of Godzilla's brothers and sisters. We're to assume that the siblings are the same abomination as Godzilla, therefore we're left to explain the wings in Godzooky's armpits as a result of crossbreeding. So either nature and atomic radiation evolved Godzooky's ability to fly to compensate for his huge lizard ass, or Godzilla's sister has been getting porked by Mothra.

Without hyperbole Godzooky ranks as one of if not the worst character in Hanna Barbara and animated history. I'm talking Scrappy-Doo levels of bad. He added nothing to the show but meandering ignorance meant to kill time before Godzilla could stand up out of the water and fight something. For example, there's an episode where the Calico crew stumbles upon a mystical island, where they are lured in by sirens and turned to stone. Godzooky gets away only to be chased through a maze by a werewolf. God, how does this even happen? Even Scrappy had to stick to basic script concepts. If Shaggy and Scooby were fleeing from pirate ghosts (or ghost pirates), Scrappy did something relating to or of said pirates. He didn't get his own B-story where he battles a cyborg whale. Godzooky did.

And I hate him.

User Rating: 0.9/10 (99 votes)