# Good twins/Evil twins **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584 "2009-01-09T21:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/41 "2009-01-11T16:24:03Z")
On **Magnum P.I.** it seemed they were always using the “twin” ploy or a twist on it. Higgins had two or three brothers who were virtually identical but markedly different in personality. There was that ensign who was either a twin or pretended to be a twin who reappeared in a couple of episodes. And don’t forget Morticia Addams on the **Addams Family** – OK, OK they were identical cousins. But the cool thing about them was that the evil twin was in fact the good twin or was it the other way around? In the film Smokey and the Bandit 3 (OK, there were only seven of us that saw that one) Jackie Gleason played triplets - oh, I forgot, all pretty bad, so no good. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/42 "2009-01-11T16:36:16Z")
Beverly and Elliott Mantle in **Dead Ringers**. Although, determining which was evil was kind of hard to always determine. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/43 "2009-01-11T23:23:32Z")
On the Flintstones, the Great Gazoo creates doubles of Fred & Barney. Only problem is, one always says “Yes-yes-yes!”; the other, “No-no-no!” And nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/44 "2009-01-11T23:45:53Z")
Maria and the Robot from **Metropolis**. > [@Aspidistra](#): > > And who could forget Arnold and Ace Rimmer? (possibly the only occasion I can think of where it’s the evil twin who’s the regular cast member) I bet if you tried really hard you could think of more. > [@Miller](#): > > Bender and Flexo from _Futurama_. Unusual in that the evil twin was the regular cast member. > [@mrpayday](#): > > The Dukes of Hazzard had Jefferson Davis Hogg’s twin brother Abraham Lincoln Hogg. > [@Antinor01](#): > > Of course Bart was the actual evil twin all along. That was the Simpsons episode that taught us that the left twin is invariably the evil one. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/45 "2009-01-12T07:40:48Z")
Sealab 2021 had bizzaroland evil twins Doesn’t Cartman have a good twin on Southpark? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/46 "2009-01-12T14:17:06Z")
Damn! [Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_twin) has an article on the “evil twin.” ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/47 "2009-01-12T15:34:59Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > On **Magnum P.I.** it seemed they were always using the “twin” ploy or a twist on it. Higgins had two or three brothers who were virtually identical but markedly different in personality. There was that ensign who was either a twin or pretended to be a twin who reappeared in a couple of episodes. They also had his buddy, Mac, get blown up in the Ferrari, then a Mac lookalike was featured in a later episode. On an episode of _The Incredible Hulk_, Bill Bixby played David Banner as well as some organized crime boss who wanted to use Banner as a decoy to get him killed. I think someone tried to dump concrete on Banner for a Hoffa kind of demise and he went all Hulky. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/48 "2009-01-12T16:49:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Doesn’t Cartman have a good twin on Southpark? Just in one episode, “Spookyfish.” There’s an Evil Kyle and Stan, and a Good Cartman, from another dimension. Never seen again. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/49 "2009-01-12T17:17:53Z")
In an episode ot the original _The Bionic Woman_, a Soviet spy is surgically altered to resemble Jaime Summers, and uses some kind of drug to simulate her super-strength. Also, the Fembots had android replicas of several O.S.I. personnel. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584/50 "2009-01-12T20:54:04Z")
The title character of _The Man from Atlantis_ had an “evil” twin. Who had travelled through a time warp and became a gunfighter in the wild west. (One of the wierder episodes in a show that was meant to be wierd.) None of them were twins or clones or anything, but in Edgar Rice Burrough’s novels, there seemed to be quite a lot of guys running around Africa who were dead ringers for Tarzan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-twins-evil-twins/480584.md?page=2)