Memorable Robot "Sidekicks"?

[MacTech]

I've been watching a few of my old Sci-Fi DVD's when I started wondering, what were the most memorable robot sidekicks...

K-9; the first Robot Sidekick I remember from my childhood, the Doctor's Faithful Friend, and a very memorable robot in his own right
C3PO; never was a fan of Threepio, always seemed too prissy and panicky under stress
R2D2; the polar opposite of 3PO, cool and collected under stress, pity about the Astromech/human language barrier
Marvin the Paranoid Android; a classic, and easily in my top 10, even if he *does* have that terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side
Lucifer; Battlestar Galactica TOS- aside from the memorable voice work of Jonathan Harris, I never really liked Lucifer, toadying sniveling little weasel-bot

Gus (Tripping the Rift) an obvious parody of 3PO, and a much better robot sidekick, the biting sarcasm adds a lot to his character, plus his constant gender-preference confusion is always a tad amusing, i mean, a "closeted" robot is almost as funny as a Manic-Depressive robot
Bender "Bending" Rodriguez; easily in the top 10, a boozing, antisocial, kleptomaniac robot, after all, we all know that Bender is Great, Bender is Great, Benderbenderbender is Great!, and if you don't like it, you can bite his shiny metal ass (Gus would probably comply)
Gir (Invader Zim); what could be better than a Manic-Depressive robot, or a Closeted robot, or a klepto/antisocial robot?, how about an *INSANE* robot, completely unpredictable, chaos-theory personified, you never know from one second to the next how that malfuntioning S.I.R. unit will react

DRD-1812 and DRD-Pike (Farscape) DRDs (Diagnostc Repair Drones) are generally seen as disposable/ignorable aboard a Leviathan, but these two had personalities in their own limited way, Pike was damaged in his initial encounter with John Crichton (one eyestalk was broken) and he communicates in the "Captain Pike" method from ST-TOS, one blink for yes, two for no, 1812 was a rescue from the dying Leviathan Elak, John trained him to hum the crescendo bars from the "1812 Overture" and saw him as a pet, even giving him a custom French flag paintjob, 1812 was the closest thing to a "pet" John had in the Uncharted Territories
The Iron Giant; how cool would it be to be a young boy with your own car-eating/metal munching giant robot for a friend? pretty darned cool....

I'm sure there are some others I have forgotten, what are some of your memorable Robot Sidekicks

[Harmonious Discord]

Twiki - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Robbie - Lost in Space
Huey, Dewey, and Louie - Silent Running
Marvin the paranoid android - Hitchhikers Guide Guide To The Galaxy the original BBC production.

[Jerseyman]

I prefer the TV Marvin to the film one. In fact I thought the film was a mess. Whether it would have been any better with Douglas Adams still alive, I don't know but I think they stuck close to his ideas and a lot of those don't work well in extended film format. If there's ever a film of his novels though, Iain M Banks has brilliant robots in 'The Culture' so far advanced that spaceships themselves are individuals measuring kilometers in all directions and usually quite mad.

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

No contest: Ilda.

[jayjay]

The robot in Lost in Space was just "The Robot".

Robby the Robot was from Forbidden Planet.

[jayjay]

Irona, from Richie Rich.
Rosie, from the Jetsons.
Muffit the robotic daggit, from the original Battlestar Galactica.

[Quartz]

What's the name of the robot girl in Metropolis?

And there's Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.

[Kal]

Nono - Ulysses 31.

Walter the Wobot - Judge Dredd.

Kryton - Red Dwarf.

The Skutters - Red Dwarf.

If he counted as a robot, then Dwarf's Talkie Toaster would be on the list.

[jayjay]

Originally Posted by Quartz

What's the name of the robot girl in Metropolis?

Maria

[Uosdwis R. Dewoh]

C.H.E.E.S.E from the short lived cop show Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.

[Never Say Dice]

There was a mystery/detective show where they lived on a boat and one character was robot.
I can never recall the names. Sort of like Rockford, where every single week they would tell the pretty girl "We'll find your father's killer, but you have to stay with us on the boat to be safe" And then she is kidnapped from the boat. And the robot delivers the news and is there at the end for the final laugh.

[JThunder]

Originally Posted by Uosdwis R. Dewoh

C.H.E.E.S.E from the short lived cop show Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.

Could you BE any more oblique?

[Alessan]

Data.

You know, from that TV show.

[Face Intentionally Left Blank]

Floyd, from Planetfall

Quite memorable, if you played the game.

[Face Intentionally Left Blank]

Originally Posted by Never Say Dice

There was a mystery/detective show where they lived on a boat and one character was robot.
I can never recall the names. Sort of like Rockford, where every single week they would tell the pretty girl "We'll find your father's killer, but you have to stay with us on the boat to be safe" And then she is kidnapped from the boat. And the robot delivers the news and is there at the end for the final laugh.

Riptide, and the robot was "Robozz".

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by Kal

Walter the Wobot - Judge Dredd.

Good call. What about Hoagy and Stogie, Sam Slade's constant bane from Robo Hunter?

[mbh]

Holmes, from Holmes and Yoyo. (Gads, I watched a lot of bad TV shows when I was a kid.)

Jaime, from Get Smart.

And I believe that in Lost in Space, the robot's name was "Robot B-9".

Would the Rapist Robots from Flesh Gordon count? Granted, they were the villain's sidekicks, rather than the hero's, but they certainly were memorable.

[Raguleader]

I'm fond of CHAS from Roughnecks: The StarShip Trooper Chronicles. He was in only one episode, a robot soldier designed to augment/replace the powered armored MI troopers. He's never all that popular amongst the group for various reasons, until he rescues Higgens from a pressure-release mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwVE_y1tMgk

"Get out of here, or we're both dead!"
"I was never alive."

[MacTech]

Smeg! I completely forgot about Krytie and the Skutters (Band Name!) Talkie, oh and I guess Holly/Hilly counts as well

Entering ShameMode™....

How about Abel, Kryten's long-lost "BroBot", the Otrazone-head, a "sidekick's sidekick" as it were

I wonder if Rimmer, being a hologrammatic simulation, would count as "robotic", he's certainly not a sidekick, more of a foil, (and a smeee-hee to boot...)

[beowulff]

Vandaleur's un-named android in Fondly Fahrenheit

[Shoeless]

Originally Posted by mbh

Holmes, from Holmes and Yoyo. (Gads, I watched a lot of bad TV shows when I was a kid.)

Jaime, from Get Smart.

And I believe that in Lost in Space, the robot's name was "Robot B-9".

Would the Rapist Robots from Flesh Gordon count? Granted, they were the villain's sidekicks, rather than the hero's, but they certainly were memorable.

I thought "Yoyo" was the robot.

And I always thought the robot on Get Smart was "Hymie". (Yeah, I know the pronunciation is similar... I just thought that was how it was spelled.)

[Vlad/Igor]

Not strictly robots, but there was Bishop from Aliens II, and Eve Edison (played by the delicious Yancy Butler) in Mann and Machine (briefly in 1992).

[dropzone]

Originally Posted by mbh

Jaime, from Get Smart.

That was "Hymie." It's more Jewish that way, and the humor in "Get Smart" was nothing if it wasn't Jewish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Adams Don Adams was only half Jewish and eventually went Catholic. Who knew?

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Bender.

The Superman robots from the comics in the 50s-70s.

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

Originally Posted by dropzone

That was "Hymie." It's more Jewish that way, and the humor in "Get Smart" was nothing if it wasn't Jewish.

Mel Brooks is Jewish???

[Intergalactic Gladiator]

7 Zark 7, from Battle of the Planets, who had his own robot sidekick 1 Rover 1. (Isn't that kind of like Goofy having Pluto for a pet?)

T-Bob from MASK.

And that robot from Galaxy Rangers.

Oh how I hate comedy relief robot sidekicks.

[jayjay]

Woofer & Tweeter from The Bugaloos.

[tattman40]

Anyone remember Small Wonder?

It had the little robot girl...terrible cheesy show.

[Der Trihs]

Megaira of In Fury Born and Dahak of Empire From The Ashes. They are AI driven ships, so qualify as robots if on a large scale.

Bolos as a group; sentient tanks ( more like land battleships, with nuclear guns ) designed with the ultimate Honorable Noble Warrior personalities.

[Half Man Half Wit]

Query: How come you meatbags haven't mentioned HK-47 yet?

[blondebear]

Robot roll call:

Cambot,
Servo,
Gypsy,
Croooww!

[GuanoLad]

Sergeant Major Zero, from Terrahawks.

[Justin_Bailey]

Originally Posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew

Mel Brooks is Jewish???

Funny, he doesn't look Jewish...

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by MacTech

...what were the most memorable robot sidekicks...

Sidekicks? We're only good enough to be sidekicks, are we? "Yes, sir, bend a girder for you right away. sir." "Oh, don't get your hands dirty, let me weld that car chassis for you." "You guys stay in the shuttle, I'll go grapple that errant satellite."

But you sing a different tune when I try to date your daughter.

[Magiver]

Originally Posted by jayjay

The robot in Lost in Space was just "The Robot".

Robby the Robot was from Forbidden Planet.

Robby was also on Lost in Space (twice).

A very prolific robot career.

[dropzone]

And, for $50K, one had a choice for him, but Dopers don't leave that sort of change laying around.

[MacTech]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Sidekicks? We're only good enough to be sidekicks, are we? "Yes, sir, bend a girder for you right away. sir." "Oh, don't get your hands dirty, let me weld that car chassis for you." "You guys stay in the shuttle, I'll go grapple that errant satellite."

But you sing a different tune when I try to date your daughter.

If I *HAD* a daughter, and she was a Robosexual, I'd have no problem with that, mistreat her in any way. however, and you'd find your OS repartitioned, wiped, and restored, and your hardware melted down before you could say Clean Install....

[audit1]

PEEPO from 1970's saturday morning shows "Space Academy" and "Jason of Star Command"

[TWDuke]

Originally Posted by MacTech

The Iron Giant; how cool would it be to be a young boy with your own car-eating/metal munching giant robot for a friend? pretty darned cool....

Decades before I ever heard of the Iron Giant, there was Giant Robot, a movie about a giant robot named Giant Robot. (Wikipedia and IMDb insist it was a TV series called "Giant Robo," but my childhood memories will not be denied.) I based an imaginary childhood friend on it, for Pete's sake. (Although my giant robot was named "George.")

[jayjay]

Oh, gosh! How did I forget Frankenstein, Jr.?!

[born too late]

Clank from Ratchet &Clank videogame series

[justrob]

Where's the love for Twiggy from Buck Rogers?

[Bryan Ekers]

What was the deal with the little lightbulb guy that hung around with Gyro Gearloose?

[jayjay]

Originally Posted by justrob

Where's the love for Twiggy from Buck Rogers?

Twiki, and he's mentioned in post #2.

[garygnu]

Old B.O.B. and V.I.N.CENT from The Black Hole. Maximillian also qualifies.

[Don Draper]

Has nobody mentioned Bender yet?

H.E.R.B.I.E. - the Fantastic Four's li'l flying robot, who was created for one of many FF Saturday morning animated series, he replaced the Human Torch. Actually, he probably belongs on a list of "least loved sidekicks" somewhere between Jar-Jar and Scrappy Doo.

The Doctor ("Who" that is) had another robot companion Kamelion, who was only seen on the show twice because of mechanical difficulties.

Besides Twiki, there was another robot in the later episodes of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" called Chryton, who was apparently modelled after C3PO (in personality if not looks.)

[TWDuke]

Originally Posted by The New and Improved Superman

Has nobody mentioned Bender yet?

Post #1.

Besides Twiki, there was another robot in the later episodes of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" called Chryton, who was apparently modelled after C3PO (in personality if not looks.)

That would be Crichton, possibly named for The Admirable Crichton, not to be confused with Kryten.

[Marley23]

Originally Posted by dropzone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Adams Don Adams was only half Jewish and eventually went Catholic. Who knew?

He was infiltrating the Church to find a group of renegade priests who were going to kidnap the Pope.

...Would you believe he did it on a dare?

How about 'he really liked the sacramental wine?'

Originally Posted by The New and Improved Superman

Has nobody mentioned Bender yet?

Only the OP and one other poster. Bender would probably feel that was not nearly enough.

[poker in the rear]

H.E.L.P.eR

[kaylasdad99]

I just wish everybody* would stop calling Marvin "Marvin the Paranoid Android." That was a joke made by Zaphod Beeblebrox. And a dismissive joke at that. Just a one-off dismissive gag, everybody. Nothing to see here.

*Including the people who wrote the jacket copy for the books.