The Unnatural History of Dr. MedusaSaurus Ph.D.

**"The Unnatural History of Dr. MedusaSaurus Ph.D."** is the second segment of the twenty-fourth episode of the first season of *Hamster & Gretel*, and the forty-seventh episode overall. It is paired with "Nano a Nano" and premiered on Disney Channel on October 14, 2023.

During a Saturday trip at the Horsegobble Natural History Museum, a peculiar paleontologist with dinosaur bones for hair has broken out of a tar pit and is seeking revenge to the museum's current owner.

## Plot

Bailey brings Gretel to the Horsegobble Natural History Museum to see fossils, much to the latter's disinterest. However, the aliens mistakenly awaken palentologist Dr. MedusaSaurus and animate dinosaur fossils, with which she terroizes the museum. Kevin sends Hamster to help Gretel once he learns about the situation and informs her that he will come along later on.

When Hamster arrives, he and Gretel get to work defeating the dinosaur fossils, but they prove to be too difficult for them. Gretel then calls Kevin, who informs her that the metal plates used to connect the fossils are magnetic. Hamster and Bailey use a giant magnet powered by the minivan's battery to catch the fossils, rendering Kevin unable to assist them. Dr. MedusaSaurus reveals that her plan was to seek revenge on the museum founder, Melvin Horsegobble, she was the one who discovered the fossils, and that her real name is Julie Jennings while Horsegobble was merely her intern who had knocked her into a tar pit contaminated with toxic waste and left her in suspended animation for the past 30 years. Realizing his mistake, Horsegobble has the museum renamed after her and his findings relinquished to her.

## Cast and characters

* Meli Povenmire as Gretel Grant-Gomez
* Michael Cimino as Kevin Grant-Gomez
* Beck Bennett as Hamster
* Priah Ferguson as Bailey Carter
* Carolina Ravassa as Carolina Grant-Gomez
* Debra Wilson as Michelle Carter
* Lexie Schoaibi as Julie Jennings/Dr. MedusaSaurus
* Stephen Root as Melvin Horsegobble

### Additional voices

* Brock Powell as Bad TV Cook, Male Paleontologist
* Carolina Ravassa as Female Paleontologist
* Dan Povenmire as Male Alien
* Debra Wilson as Old Lady
* Dee Bradley Baker as Susan, Skeleton Dinosaurs, Old Man
* Eric Bauza as Museum Boy
* Romi Dames as Female Bystander
* Joanna Hausmann as Female Alien
* James Adomian as Gary
* Lauren Tom as Museum Girl

## Running gags

### Image scene transitions

Bailey and Hamster
(used to transition to Bailey and Hamster in the applied science wing of the museum)

## Transcript

*Click here to read the full transcript of **"The Unnatural History of Dr. MedusaSaurus Ph.D."**.*

## Background information

### Trivia

* Writer Joshua Pruett originally drafted this episode with the title "The Horror of Dr MedusaSaurus and the Unnatural Natural History Museum of Horrors". It was initially pitched with a different premise as well, in which Dr. MedusaSaurus used a power-imbued rock pick or shovel (a la Thor and his hammer Mjölnir) to not only reanimate the skeletons of dinosaurs and ancient animals, but also turn fleeing people into fossils. The initial pitch also notes that Dr. MedusaSaurus was not appreciated in her own time, and takes over the museum, with the intent to force the world to revere her.
* This is the third episode where Carolina appears without Dave ("Romancing the Scone", "An Arthouse Divided").

### Allusions

* ***Batman* (1966)** - During the song Bone To Pick, some of the attacks by Hamster and Gretel are followed with a cut to a title card with the appropriate (pseudo) onomatopoeia, similar to various fight scenes in the 1966 live-action *Batman* television series.

### Errors

* On the Disney Branded Television press website's October 2023 Programming Highlights press release, this episode is referred to as **"The Ultimate History of Dr. MedusaSaurus"**.
* When Jennings asks Horsegobble if him taking credit for her life's work wasn't an accident, the frame of Bailey's glasses appear to not be colored in.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.dgepress.com/disneybrandedtelevision/pressrelease/october-2023-programming-highlights/
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/disneybeat101/status/1700201279534829781
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/zombietardis/status/1724829575786713488
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://twitter.com/zombietardis/status/1724831098545586646