# Memorable Robot "Sidekicks"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417 "2009-08-23T20:31:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/21 "2009-08-24T00:33:52Z")
> [@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.) ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/22 "2009-08-24T00:58:00Z")
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). ---
**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:** [August 24, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/23 "2009-08-24T00:59:21Z")
> [@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. [Don Adams - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Adams) Don Adams was only half Jewish and eventually went Catholic. Who knew? ---
**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:** [August 24, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/24 "2009-08-24T01:01:08Z")
Bender. The Superman robots from the comics in the 50s-70s. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/25 "2009-08-24T01:01:33Z")
> [@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_??? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/26 "2009-08-24T01:14:42Z")
[7 Zark 7](http://www.geocities.com/botp77/7zark7-10.jpg), 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](http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9766/tbob1ns.png) from MASK. And that robot from Galaxy Rangers. Oh how I hate comedy relief robot sidekicks. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/27 "2009-08-24T01:21:27Z")
[Woofer & Tweeter](http://www.bugaloos.com/wfr-twtr.jpg) from The Bugaloos. ---
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/28 "2009-08-24T01:22:40Z")
Anyone remember Small Wonder? It had the little robot girl…terrible cheesy show. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/29 "2009-08-24T01:23:04Z")
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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(tank)) as a group; sentient tanks ( more like land battleships, with nuclear guns ) designed with the ultimate Honorable Noble Warrior personalities. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/30 "2009-08-24T01:28:03Z")
Query: How come you meatbags haven’t mentioned HK-47 yet? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/31 "2009-08-24T01:46:11Z")
Robot roll call: Cambot, Servo, Gypsy, Croooww! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/32 "2009-08-24T01:55:07Z")
Sergeant Major Zero, from Terrahawks. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/33 "2009-08-24T02:06:39Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Mel Brooks is _Jewish_??? Funny, he doesn’t look Jewish… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/34 "2009-08-24T03:34:01Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/35 "2009-08-24T03:36:35Z")
> [@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.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot) ---
**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:** [August 24, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/36 "2009-08-24T04:11:19Z")
And, for $50K, one had a choice for him, but Dopers don’t leave that sort of change laying around. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/37 "2009-08-24T05:38:10Z")
> [@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… ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/38 "2009-08-24T06:21:44Z")
PEEPO from 1970’s saturday morning shows “Space Academy” and “Jason of Star Command” ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/39 "2009-08-24T09:31:50Z")
> [@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.”) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-robot-sidekicks/507417/40 "2009-08-24T12:05:40Z")
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