Lights! Camera! Cobra!

"Lights! Camera! Cobra!"
Attribution
Writer(s)	Buzz Dixon
Production company	Sunbow Productions
Production code	#600-10
Season	1
Original airdate	October 10, 1985
General information
Continuity	A Real American Hero animated continuity
Series	G.I. Joe
Preceded by	The Phantom Brigade
Followed by	Cobra's Candidate
Lights! Camera! Cobra!

The Joes are hired as technical advisers for a Hollywood film, which unwittingly puts them in Cobra's sights!

Plot

Flirting and fighting

Appearances

Featured Characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

G.I. Joe	Cobra	Civilians
Ace (19) Blowtorch (14) Cover Girl (13) Dusty (12) Mutt & Junkyard (11) Recondo (10) Shipwreck (9)	Buzzer (8) Cobra Commander (hooded) (4) Cobra Officer (18) Cobra Troopers (17) Crimson Guard (15) Destro (3) Ripper (6) Tele-Viper (16) Torch (7) Zartan (5)	George Landisburg (2) Marty Goldblatt (1)

Featured Vehicles and Equipment

G.I. Joe	Cobra	Movie Props
A.P.C. Silver Mirage Skystriker XP-14F	Firebat (grey) Ferret A.T.V. H.I.S.S. Rattler Stinger Trubble Bubble	Cobra tank Helicopter

Notes

Animation and Technical Errors

• Near the end of the episode, a black male wearing Bazooka's uniform fires on the retreating Cobra forces.
• Dusty is shown with jet black hair at the beginning and end of the episode; all other times in the series he is portrayed with dirty-blond hair.

Continuity Errors

• Cover Girl is identified by Zartan as being a "make-up expert." Although she is a former model and shares her codename with a brand of make-up, Cover Girl is actually an armor specialist and mechanic. Lady Jaye is the Joe team disguise and make-up specialist, as featured in episodes such as "Money to Burn."

Quotes

"I've located the captured Firebat, it's... Commander, your hood. Put it on."
"(laugh) It takes a strong stomach to watch me eat; doesn't it, Destro?"
--Destro and Cobra Commander

"You expect me to talk, Cobra?"
"No, we expect you to fry!"
--Shipwreck and Cobra Commander

"Blast them into eternity! Scatter their bones at my feet!"
--Cobra Commander

"You saved me!"
"I saved a customer."
--Cobra Commander and Destro

Miscellaneous Trivia

• Zartan refers to his Ferret ATV as a "Python Cycle" before the race in the desert, which is the working name of the toy while it was in development and in the original series bible.
• Torch calls the police instead of doing the physical work.
• Near the beginning of the episode, Destro walks in on Cobra Commander eating dinner without his mask on. He is disgusted by what he sees and requests Cora Commander to put his mask back on. Cobra Commander quips "It takes a strong stomach to watch me eat, eh Destro?"
• Insults used this episode:
  • "Snake nose" Duke (movie character) to Cobra Commander (movie character)
  • "Moron" Cobra Commander's actor to Duke's actor
  • "Oddballs" Shipwreck about the Joes on the movie set (himself included)
  • "Play actor" Recondo to who he thinks is Zartan's actor
  • "Cheat" Someone in the barfight to Shipwreck
  • "Barnacle brain" Mutt to Shipwreck
  • "Fool" Cobra Commander to Zartan
  • "Crazy" Shipwreck to a coyote
  • "Slime back" Shipwreck to Buzzer
  • "Goons" Shipwreck to the Dreadnoks
  • "Landlubbers" Shipwreck to Cobra

Real World References

• Shipwreck goes "Meep Meep!" during the scuffle with the coyotes in the desert, like the Roadrunner from the Warner Bros. cartoons.
• The "you expect me to talk? / No I expect you to fry" exchange was a reference to the film Goldfinger.

Footnotes

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