Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S04/E16 Fire Maidens From Outer Space
Film watched: Fire Maidens from Outer Space
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation provides examples of:
- Bigger Is Better / Giant Novelty Check: Dr. Forrester's invention exchange, the Big Big Checkbook.
- California Doubling: It's unclear if the film actually does this, but the 'bots call it out anyway:
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Crow (in thick Texas accent): Welcome to London, Ma'am. |
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- Dark Is Evil: Timmy. The Timmy puppet is actually Crow's body double when watching the movies.
- Devil in Plain Sight: Timmy the Dark Crow. Only Servo is wise to Timmy's antics, and Joel seems particularly oblivious. It's not until Servo is kidnapped by Timmy that Joel and Crow decide to take action.
- Double Entendre: parodied:
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Say, does this TV have a remote? |
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- Crow doesn't quite get the concept.
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Crow: Grind her in the hi-- |
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- I See London: After Crow invokes this by name (during a blatantly fanservicey dance number), Tom pipes in with:
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Tom: [singing] Watching Underoos is fun! I can see the dancers' buns! |
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- Shadow Archetype / Evil Twin: Timmy
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Crow recognizes the Stock Footage of the rocket, in particular the landing sequence with patently see-thru trees: "What the -- King Dinosaur? That's from King Dinosaur! I'm leaving! [Joel holds him down] Grrr... under protest."
- Shout-Out: The final battle with Timmy the Dark Crow references both Aliens and Hercules And The Captive Women.
- Joel quotes "Step Right Up", by Tom Waits, in a sketch.
- During the Do Anything Lever sketch, listen closely to Joel, and you'll realize he says "It controls the tenpreture", a call back to the Engrish control panel labels in the Fugitive Alien movies from the previous season.