While helping Franklin clean up his father's lab, Ronald and his pals stumble across a time machine. Hamburglar dreams up a crazy scheme to use the time machine to get out of cleaning and they end up getting lost in time. Their time travel adventures take them to prehistoric times where the time machine is nearly digested by a Tyrannosaurus and they meet their cavemen ancestors, the medieval times where they impress the crabby King Murray with a musical number to save captured Birdie, the wild wild west where they discover Hamburglar's ancestor Henry H. Burglar II, whom the residents mistake Hamburglar for, and the disco era of the '70s where they briefly encounter Mayor McCheese.

《酷斯拉》上映后，许多欧美影迷给了它一个绰号：GINO，意思是“GodzillaInNameOnly”。延续电影的剧情，美日的两家公司共同制作了《哥斯拉：动画系列》，总共两季，亚洲区HBO曾在2000年播出过中文字幕版。在此系列中，尼克·塔特普洛斯意外发现了那颗没有被摧毁的蛋，刚好此时蛋孵化了，刚出生的哥斯拉因为对尼克不小心沾到哥斯拉蛋的羊水产生了铭印而亲近他，后来更和主角们一起帮人类对抗接踵而来的其他变种怪兽。动画版的哥斯拉和电影版的不太一样，因为要面对多种不一样的怪物，就要拥有强大的力量，制作公司刻意使动画版的哥斯拉近似原版的哥斯拉，所以让它也可以吐出强力的热线，拥有日版一般坚硬的皮肤，导弹之类的武器已经无法伤他分毫。动画的剧情走向很好，对人类内心的黑暗也进行了刻画。比起索尼电影版《酷斯拉》更受原著迷的认同。

American animated television series

Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored to have been a witch.