{"id":524,"date":"2016-01-21T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2016-01-21T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:52:11","slug":"episode-guide-416-fire-maidens-of-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Episode Guide: 416- Fire Maidens of Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Movie:<\/strong> (1956) Astronauts travel to a moon of Jupiter and discover a civilization populated almost entirely by women. Soon they’re battling a monster that has been terrorizing the settlement.<\/p>\n

First shown:<\/strong> 11\/26\/92
\nOpening:<\/strong> During a posture check, Timmy the dark Crow appears \u2014 and attacks Cambot!
\nInvention exchange:<\/strong> The Mads have the big checkbook, while Joel demonstrates cheese sneaker
\nHost segment 1:<\/strong> Tom wants to discuss double entendres, but Timmy acts out
\nHost segment 2:<\/strong> Joel tries to explain the twin-screw controller, but Timmy interferes
\nHost segment 3:<\/strong> Joel defeats Timmy in a battle to the death
\nEnd:<\/strong> Joel, Crow and Tom discuss the lessons they’ve learned, Joel reads a letter, and Timmy’s in Deep 13
\nStinger:<\/strong> It’s a secret passage miracle
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\u2022 What a great, great episode, featuring the truly inspired “dark Timmy” host segments. The Brains rarely gave us a complete story within the 15 minutes or so that the host segments run, and this is one of the funniest and most creative attempts. Witty and captivating all the way through. The riffing is, again, just what you would expect at this point in season four, when this team was firing on all cylinders. As for the movie, well\u2026you know, in the theme song when they talk about “cheesy movies”? This is about as cheesy as it gets.
\n\u2022 I would really love to see this one on a future DVD collection.
\n\u2022 References<\/a>.
\n\u2022 This was the second of two new episodes shown on Thanksgiving Day, 1992.
\n\u2022 Of course, for the one or two people who don’t know, Timmy is the Crow they use in the theater, painted black to make a nicer silhouette. But are they using two black Crows in the theater when Timmy sneaks in? I can\u2019t really see a difference in the silhouettes.
\n\u2022 Callbacks: Joel’s posture check during the opening is a callback to the \u201cPosture Pals\u201d short (shown in episode 320- The Unearthly). Crow is right, that is the same footage from \u201cKing Dinosaur.\u201d Joel says “tenperature” in segment 2, a callback to \u201cFugitive Alien.\u201d “I’m feeling REALLY good!” (Gamera vs Guiron). \u201cLawrence would you get back there\u2026\u201d (Catalina Caper).
\n\u2022 Last time I asked if “I prayed for a friend and he came” is from something. Commenters said it\u2019s from a Frankenstein movie.
\n\u2022 I love Frank’s zoned out expression when they first cut to Deep 13.
\n\u2022 I guess with the holiday season approaching, \u201cIt’s a Wonderful Life\u201d was on their minds \u2014 not only do they make references to it during the movie, but Frank and Dr. F approximate a scene from it during the giant checkbook bit.
\n\u2022 Dr. F is evil, so he pronounces “WimbleDON” incorrectly.
\n\u2022 Frank has a hilarious bit of business during the invention exchange: He needs to sign a giant check, so of course he needs a pen. He pats his pockets looking for a pen but can’t find one, then steps off camera and returns with a GIANT pen. Funny stuff.
\n\u2022 I wonder who art directed the costumes and set pieces in the blackout scenes after Timmy commandeers the twin-screw controller. The images are wonderfully surrealistic and also vaguely reminiscent of the Daffy Duck cartoon “Duck Amuck.”
\n\u2022 Tom still has the rotisserie in his head when comes back into the theater. Joel helps him out.
\n\u2022 Dopey movie moment: When they first encounter the girl being molested by the monster, the astronauts are at least 50 yards away and the girl is standing right next to the monster, but one of them calmly levels his revolver and shoots in their direction. He misses both of them, but either he thinks he\u2019s a REEEEALLY good shot or he\u2019s incredibly reckless. Or he\u2019s in a cheesy movie. Sheesh.
\n\u2022 That’s Jef Maynard running Timmy (he’s in the credits). In those days he tended to be their go-to guy when they needed somebody else in the puppet trench; later it was Pat Brantseg.
\n\u2022 Servo applauds several times in the theater. How does he do that with inoperable arms? (I know, I know.)
\n\u2022 Timmy enters the theater between segments two and three. When they come back from commercial he can’t be seen, but then he slowly reappears and then starts to creep over to attack Tom. This is one of only 14 times<\/a> someone or something other than Joel, Mike, Tom and Crow enters the theater.
\n\u2022 As Tom is attacked, Joel says “You didn’t tell us Tommy was in here…” He meant \u201cTimmy.\u201d They keep going.
\n\u2022 After Tom is attacked, Joel runs off left. Is that the only time he’s done that?
\n\u2022 Then-current reference: The then-controversial, now mostly forgotten book “Final Exit.”
\n\u2022 The fan letter read at the end of this episode was written by a woman who now uses the stage name Christmas Sagan, and is a member of the rock group Freezepop. Joel invited her to appear on the Thanksgiving marathon in 2015. She appeared again, and performed a cover of the MST3k theme song, during the live telethon in December of 2015.
\n\u2022 Cast and crew roundup: Art director Scott MacGregor also worked on “Moon Zero Two” and “The Million Eyes of Su-Muru.\u201d In front of the camera, Anthony Dexter is also in “Twelve To The Moon” and “The Phantom Planet.”
\n\u2022 CreditsWatch: Host segments directed by Trace (the first of three eps in this season). Jim Mallon directed most of the first half of the season but in the second half directing duties are being spread around. \u201cAmmendment\u201d is still spelled wrong.
\n\u2022 Fave riff: “Thank you, that\u2019s all.” Honorable mention: \u201cYeah, it\u2019s Nancy Kulp night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Movie: (1956) Astronauts travel to a moon of Jupiter and discover a civilization populated almost entirely by women. Soon they’re battling a monster that has been terrorizing the settlement.<\/p>\n

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