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Lights! Camera! Cobra!14th of 55 episodes in Sunbow season 1. Written by Buzz Dixon. First aired October 10, 1985.Previous episode: Operation Mind Menace Next episode: Cobra's Candidate |
The director of a movie about the G.I. Joe team insists on hiring real Joes as technical advisors, as Cobra discovers that among the film's authentic equipment is a captured Firebat with a homing device programmed with the location of Cobra Headquarters. Zartan is hired to steal or destroy the Firebat. The Joes prove poor advisors as Shipwreck darts off to Hollywood and Cover Girl follows, leading to a fight in a pool hall that gets them arrested, along with Torch who is tailing them. Zartan lures Dusty and Recondo into the desert where they end up stranded, but he fails to destroy the Firebat during his mission.
Released, Shipwreck and Cover Girl find the missing Joes, but Dusty is hospitalized and Shipwreck ends up in the Firebat, whose homing device activates, taking him to Cobra Headquarters where he is held captive. Cover Girl disguises Recondo as Torch and demands a prisoner exchange, while simultaneously the Dreadnoks spring the real Torch from jail. When the Joes' ruse fails, Cobra attacks the studio but is driven off by Joe reinforcements. The movie crew films the battle and places it in the movie, but the Joes are snubbed at the premiere as the director thanks only his parents for their inspiration.
Appearing Cast and Equipment
| Featured Characters | |||
| Shipwreck | 288 seconds | 35 lines | Joe consultant on movie set, in Trubble Bubble, captured by Cobra; at premiere |
| Cover Girl | 183 seconds | 23 lines | Joe consultant on movie set, in Silver Mirage and Trubble Bubble, leading hostage exchange, at premiere |
| Cobra Commander | 181 seconds | 22 lines | portrayed in movie, commissioning Zartan, torturing Shipwreck, in Firebat with Shipwreck as hostage |
| Zartan | 170 seconds | 20 lines | aborting bank theft, racing Joes, sabotaging movie set, on Ferret rescuing Torch |
| Mutt | 139 seconds | 9 lines | on movie set, guarding Firebat, freeing Shipwreck; at premiere |
| Recondo | 131 seconds | 13 lines | Joe consultant on movie set, in Silver Mirage racing Zartan, disguised as Torch; at premiere |
| Blowtorch | 122 seconds | 4 lines | Joe consultant on movie set, flying Rattler to search for missing Joes, at premiere |
| Destro | 98 seconds | 11 lines | leading Firebat attack on movie studio, rescuing Cobra Cmdr |
| Dusty | 89 seconds | 8 lines | Joe consultant on movie set, hospitalized after hyena attack; at premiere |
| Buzzer | 86 seconds | 6 lines | aborting bank theft, sabotaging movie set, on Ferret rescuing Torch |
| Torch | 83 seconds | 4 lines | aborting bank theft, following Shipwreck, jailed, rescued by Dreadnoks |
| Junkyard | 81 seconds | with Mutt on movie set, attacking Ripper, guarding Firebat; at premiere | |
| Ripper | 74 seconds | 3 lines | aborting bank theft, sabotaging movie set, on Ferret rescuing Torch |
| Background Characters | |||
| Duke | 33 seconds | (silent) | portrayed in movie; actual character does not appear |
| Gung-Ho | 14 seconds | portrayed in movie; actual character does not appear | |
| Snake Eyes | 7 seconds | portrayed in movie; actual character does not appear | |
| Bazooka | 1 second | (silent) | seen fighting in studio battle (19:56) |
| Ace | 0 seconds | 1 line | leading Skystrikers at studio battle (audio only) |
| Troops Appearing | |||
| Cobra | 68 seconds | 1 line | portrayed in movie, capturing and torturing Shipwreck, in Firebats at studio battle |
| Crimson Guard | 18 seconds | 1 line | capturing Shipwreck, reporting to Cobra Cmdr |
| Greenshirt | 15 seconds | portrayed in movie; present at studio battle | |
| Cobra Officer | 9 seconds | torturing Shipwreck | |
| Tele-Viper | 5 seconds | 2 lines | informing Zartan of prisoner exchange |
| Vehicles Appearing | |||
| Firebat | 124 seconds | one on movie set, sought by Dreandoks; others used to attack movie set | |
| Trubble Bubble | 57 seconds | taken from studio to search for missing Joes, used to fend off hyenas | |
| Silver Mirage | 49 seconds | seen on movie set, used to race Zartan and follow Shipwreck | |
| Ferret | 44 seconds | seen on movie set, used by Dreadnoks to rescue Torch; called a "Python Cycle" | |
| Skystriker | 8 seconds | used to defend movie studio | |
| Stinger | 5 seconds | seen on movie set | |
| V.A.M.P. Mark II | 5 seconds | seen on movie set | |
| Rattler | 4 seconds | taken from studio to search for missing Joes | |
| A.P.C. | 3 seconds | seen on movie set | |
| M.O.B.A.T. | 3 seconds | seen on movie set | |
| Armadillo | 2 seconds | seen on movie set (5:20-21) | |
| H.I.S.S. | 2 seconds | seen on movie set (5:24-25) | |
| R.A.M. | 2 seconds | seen on prop lot, colored as a Silver Mirage (11:23) | |
| Non-Toy Characters: Actors playing Cobra Commander, Duke, Gung-Ho, and Snake Eyes; Marty Goldblatt, George Lanceburg, cameramen | |||
| Non-Toy Equipment: movie tanks, helicopters, and truck; Dreadnoks' armored car | |||
Misc. Notes
- On the DVDs from Shout! Factory, this episode is included in the Season 1.2 set (Disc 5, Episode 7).
- First Appearance: Tele-Vipers; the Firebat.
- The Ferret is once called a Python Cycle, a name that appears on early production sketches of the vehicle. Note that the Trubble Bubble has its early three-engine design. However, the presence of Silver Mirages, Dusty, and a miscolored Bazooka, as well as a grey Snake Eyes outfit, indicate that the episode was produced after, or concurrently with, The Pyramid of Darkness.
- Dusty is mistakenly colored as Spirit in a far shot just before Zartan challenges him and Recondo to a race.