YMMV / Mystery Science Theater 3000 S04 E16: Fire Maidens of Outer Space

• Funny Moments: As an airplane makes a time-consuming landing... "Please remain seated until the movie grinds to a complete halt."
  • (A Sexy Secretary spends several on-screen minutes climbing down a staircase and opening, then closing a pair of gates to take a seat by two male scientists, who were watching every second.)
    Joel: (as scientist) Thank you, that's all!
  • The creeeeeaak noises Joel and the bots make every single time she opens the gates.
  • "My pants are split? Everyone saw?"
  • "Pad pad pad pad pad 'em, pad pad pad the film!"
  • (Girl screams then turns away and sobs) Crow: "I'm such a bad actress!"
• Just Here for Godzilla: Quite unusually for the series, the host segments completely steal the show from the movie riffing, with a genuinely suspenseful story arc that even intrudes into the theater.
• Moment of Awesome: Joel and Crow defeating Timmy, ala Aliens.
• Narm: They don't even bother to pretend that TV's Frank getting his finger bitten off by Timmy is just Frank hiding it behind his palm. It's not even the right one^note Timmy clearly bites the tip of Frank's pointer finger, but as he shows his hand to the audience, it's the thumb that's "gone".
• Nightmare Fuel: The opening sketch which ends with Timmy growling menacingly before attacking Cambot, as a terrified Magic Voice demands to know who he is.
  • The first few times Timmy appears in the theater are pretty creepy too. He comes in from the opposite side, and doesn't really do anything except sit there, watching the movie and occasionally look at Joel and the 'Bots, but after the Cambot thing, you know he's there to do something. Then, after Servo shoos him away the first time, he comes in again, slowly and silently rising into view in the seat right next to Servo. It was unnerving, especially because you sort of forget about him as the episode goes on and don't expect it.
  • Because of the silhouette, it's difficult to tell exactly which way Timmy is facing and at times it seems like he's staring backwards toward the audience.
• Padding: And padding, and padding, and padding, and padding...
  Crow: Cy Roth had to pad the film just so he could get to the parts that had more padding!

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