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Remember how I mentioned the show’s episodes after 26 got delayed by a week? Well that meant, by lucky coincidence, that this milestone episode with every Rider Mook (or more specifically, Shocker grunts, Destron grunts, Dogma Fighters, Crisis Empire’s Chaps, Makamou Ninjas, Salis Worms, Leo Imagin and Masquerade Dopants) aired exactly 40 years to the day the original episode of Kamen Rider (1971) aired. Sentai tried doing the same thing deliberately 4 years later, but ironically, the episode got delayed by a week, due to having an episode in February pre-emptied by live coverage of a murder.

And the reason we get so many seemingly random cameos (the fangirl who intrudes on the filming and the fat and skinny female grunts who make a Susan Boyle joke) is that their names (or in the case of the latter two, their comedy act’s name) contain the kanji for “thousand”.

And I mentioned that OOO’s action figure gimmick was the circle on his back, well here we see Birth’s. Namely, his armaments combine into a scorpion when not in use. Which honestly, I quite a clever way to avoid losing them.