# Hymie the Robot, Dick Gautier, RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213 "2017-01-15T05:39:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/1 "2017-01-15T05:39:48Z")
[_Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dick-gautier-dead-get-smart-actor-was-85-964369) Shirley the intercom, Sid the coffee machine, Trudy the noiseless typewriter, and Rex the elevator are mourning his passing. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/2 "2017-01-15T05:41:45Z")
Anybody have him? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/3 "2017-01-15T05:42:53Z")
Oh, my goodness! He was one of the masters (in that role) of absolute deadpan comedy. He was a great counterpoint to Don Adams’ over-the-top mugging. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/4 "2017-01-15T06:00:52Z")
NOW Things Are Rotten. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/5 "2017-01-15T06:05:38Z")
He also did a pretty good job playing Batman in this 1974 [PSA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is5vIf7nwsU&app=desktop), replacing Adam West, who didn’t want to be typecast. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/6 "2017-01-15T06:06:18Z")
and as Robin Hood, the star of [_ **When Things Were Rotten** _](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO2Viv8dQJ4) ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/7 "2017-01-15T11:37:10Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > He also did a pretty good job playing Batman in this 1974 [PSA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is5vIf7nwsU&app=desktop), replacing Adam West, who didn’t want to be typecast. Wow, I would have never noticed it wasn’t Adam West. He deserves a hand for that one. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/8 "2017-01-15T12:59:34Z")
Hard to believe he was in just six episodes of Get Smart. “Shake, Hymie” mmm ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/9 "2017-01-15T13:29:48Z")
He was also the voice of Serpentor in the GI Joe cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/10 "2017-01-15T15:28:23Z")
“My father’s name was Hymie.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/11 "2017-01-15T15:36:07Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > and as Robin Hood, the star of [_ **When Things Were Rotten** _](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO2Viv8dQJ4) …with Misty Rowe as Maid Marion! Did he? My favorite Hymie line: Nice is nice but enough is enough! Didn’t Hymie run a decathlon (in business suit w/tie and street shoes), then ask the high jump to be raised and then cleared it from a squat jump? Let’s see Batman do that! ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/12 "2017-01-15T17:50:26Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Didn’t Hymie run a decathlon (in business suit w/tie and street shoes), then ask the high jump to be raised and then cleared it from a squat jump? Let’s see Batman do that! It wasn’t a decathlon; it was a USA vs USSR track meet where a couple of spies sabotaged some of the American athletes, so they had Hymie enter the high jump (he raised the bar to 9 feet, then squat jumped over it) and the discus (he threw it like a Frisbee out of the stadium). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/13 "2017-01-15T20:15:21Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > …with Misty Rowe as Maid Marion! Did he? I dunno, but I woulda. Repeatedly. If allowed, for the rest of my life. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/14 "2017-01-15T20:38:55Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > It wasn’t a decathlon; it was a USA vs USSR track meet where a couple of spies sabotaged some of the American athletes, so they had Hymie enter the high jump (he raised the bar to 9 feet, then squat jumped over it) and the discus (he threw it like a Frisbee out of the stadium). “Now competing in the high jump, for the West… _Hymie?_” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/15 "2017-01-15T21:04:04Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > “Shake, Hymie” “Shake **a leg** , Hymie!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/16 "2017-01-15T21:29:56Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > “Shake, Hymie” Damn, that scene cracked me up when I was a kid. Came into this thread just to mention it, but was beaten to it. RIP, Mr. Gautier. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/17 "2017-01-15T22:50:58Z")
Another fan of his work on _When Things Were Rotten_. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/18 "2017-01-15T22:54:40Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “Shake **a leg** , Hymie!” 😛 “Hymie, give me a hand.” \ ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/19 "2017-01-15T23:07:54Z")
His nephew went to my high school. Another fan of When Things Were Rotten. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213/20 "2017-01-15T23:17:21Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I dunno, but I woulda. Repeatedly. If allowed, for the rest of my life. :eek: Totally. I had _such_ a crush on Misty Rowe. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hymie-the-robot-dick-gautier-rip/777213.md?page=2)