Is Gabaraisu a homage to SNL?

I'm sure it was just out of coincidence, that is unless Sugimori had a thing for SNL in the 70s.




Honestly, that skit wouldn't have crossed my mind. I don't normally call relations across huge gaps
such as a game and a decades old skit. Things like that don't rationaly connect.
 
Ash: Who is it?
Gabaraisu: Misty!
Ash: Hey...are you a Land Shark?
Gabaraisu: No, I'm May!
Ash: Okay! Come on....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
 
Well they have been paying homage to Turtle Island (Naetle and evos) and Chuchus (Wobbuffet) from Zelda, and Lakitus (Altaria and to some extent, Swablu) from Mario.... Who shall they spoof next?
 
Digital Flareon said:
Well they have been paying homage to Turtle Island (Naetle and evos)... from Zelda
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Uh, there's a lot of things with turtle islands. Watch Neverending Story sometime. Or perhaps read the myth about the world being made on the back of a turtle (I forget which culture the myth came from, some Native American culture I think).
 
Uh, there's a lot of things with turtle islands. Watch Neverending Story sometime. Or perhaps read the myth about the world being made on the back of a turtle (I forget which culture the myth came from, some Native American culture I think).
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Try Discworld. ;D
 
The concept of a shark that burrows through sand instead of swimming through water doesn't seem to be exclusive to SNL.

Well they have been paying homage to Turtle Island (Naetle and evos) and Chuchus (Wobbuffet) from Zelda, and Lakitus (Altaria and to some extent, Swablu) from Mario.... Who shall they spoof next?
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I hope you're not suggesting that Super Mario Bros was the origin of the concept of having a creature covered in clouds, because that's just a silly claim. And Wobbuffet predates the Chuchu's introduction in Zelda by a year.
 
no... I think that Wikipedia article is wrong. I'm pretty sure the idea for land shark really broke off of some kind of sand shark legend.
 
Zeta said:
The concept of a shark that burrows through sand instead of swimming through water doesn't seem to be exclusive to SNL.



I hope you're not suggesting that Super Mario Bros was the origin of the concept of having a creature covered in clouds, because that's just a silly claim. And Wobbuffet predates the Chuchu's introduction in Zelda by a year.
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Look at a Lakitu and and an Altaria and say that there isn't a difference.

Sorry about mixing up the introduction of Chuchus and Wobbuffets, but they do look VERY alike, down to the four roundly feet. Also, don't forget that the Keaton's Mask from LoZ: MM is a supposed spoof of Pikachu.

Wobbuffet was inspired by some comedian, wasn' he?
 
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Keaton was introduced in Ocarina of time as a clear spoof of Pikachu, yes. But any character that just happens to look similar to another character is not necessarily based on said character.

And a Lakitu is a turtle on a cloud. Just because Altaria is based on a cloud does not mean it has turtle features.
 
I'm pretty sure the Keaton was based off a japanese ledgend, not Pikachu (although, it could of been both).

However, the boy wearing the mask looks like James 0.0

And as people have mentioned, Naetle looks very simmilar to a monster in Mario and Luigi, a Turtle with a Sprout on it's head.
 
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no... I think that Wikipedia article is wrong. I'm pretty sure the idea for land shark really broke off of some kind of sand shark legend.
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I highly doubt the SNL writers were thinking that far into it. Jaws was the first modern-day blockbuster; the phenomenon of summer '75 just before the first SNL season started that fall. The idea that "the water isn't safe anymore" translated into the idea that you're not safe ANYWHERE from a Great White with a vendetta. And you can bet there were probably some illicit psychoactive substances involved, too. ;-)

Also, the sand shark family are so named because they spend most of their time at the sea floor as opposed to open water, not because they come up on land (which no shark does).

At any rate, Gabaraisu is a land-dwelling but definitely shark-like creature. The idea of "land shark" has embedded itself in popular culture since SNL, as Archaic hits upon. If not directly influenced by SNL, I do believe Creatures Inc. surely had the phrase "land shark" in their minds when they came up with Gabaraisu. This guy harks back to the creativity and fun of the first generation of monsters--and mesa like. :-D
 
Too me, Creatures Inc. had "Juptoru", "Samehada", and "SEXU!" when they made it. 8D
 
I'm pretty sure the Keaton was based off a japanese ledgend, not Pikachu (although, it could of been both).
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Seems like both. Keaton was actually a kitsune as seen in Majora's Mask, but the way people talked about Keaton like it was some fad involving children along with the coloration and ears seems like a deliberate Pika parody.
 
Yeah, that makes sense. The face was too close to Pikachu to be a coincidence.
 
What about the Weedle and those angry caterpillars with big-red noses and a flower on the head from the Mario's SNES game? Always I thought they were relatives at some point withing Nintendo offices :p
 
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