In the middle of his battle against FOXHOUND, Snake encounters a cyborg ninja, who thirsts only for battle. This mysterious figure turns out to be Grey Fox, Snake's former FOXHOUND comrade who defected to the enemy and fought against Snake in Zanzibar.

However, there are often scenes where the frame rate of the animation far exceeds the norm of the rest of the work. These are commonly called money shots, where more effort is put into the animation of one scene to give it emphasis over the rest of the work. Animator Yasuo Otsuka was the pioneer of this technique.

Typically the judges express disgust or dismay or suppressed laughter. Some poor performances have attained notoriety on their own; these have included season two's performance of Madonna's Like a Virgin by Keith Beukelaer and season three's rendition of Ricky Martin's She Bangs by William Hung.