# Most annoying robot sidekick
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 1, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962 "2011-06-01T14:34:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/1 "2011-06-01T14:34:22Z")
In the wake of the original “Star Wars” trilogy, pretty much every even remotely Sci-fi movie had to have a “cute” robot sidekick character as “comic relief.” By and large, they were all incredibly annoying. But which one did you hate the most?
For me, it was that clockwork owl from “Clash of the Titans.” A robot was completely out of place in the mythological fantasy context of the film, didn’t do anything remotely useful that couldn’t be done by anyone else, and just wasn’t funny or realistic looking.
For that matter, C3PO always seemed like a useless tag-along character, and was whiney as hell to boot.
For the record, I happen to think that Marvin the Paranoid Android was a brilliant, awesome robot. But I stuck him on the list because I didn’t want him to feel left out (his feelings are so easily hurt.)😛
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/2 "2011-06-01T14:41:49Z")
Where is this list? I don’t see a poll. The most annoying is K-9. I was very happy when Sarah stuck him in a black hole.
The original mini series Marvin was kind of clunky but the movie version was PERFECT. Depressed personality and body language but a super sleek form.
I loved the owl as a kid. Maybe it would bug me as an adult.
The rover in Planet 51 bugged me for some reason.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/3 "2011-06-01T14:43:10Z")
There can be only one!
Bidi-bidi-bidi.
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/4 "2011-06-01T14:44:30Z")
Bender Bending Rodriguez. Whattaya mean he’s not a sidekick, meatbags?
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### Author:  [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/5 "2011-06-01T14:53:31Z")
If the contest is open to webcomics, I’d nominate the robot in Questionable Content.
I mean, who else would tape a pic of a guy’s ex-gf’s butt and a fleshlight to itself and offer itself suggestively, after a break-up? That’s gotta be pretty annoying. 😃
[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1812](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1812)
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### Author:  [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/6 "2011-06-01T14:55:47Z")
C3PO by a mile. I wish Darth Vader or some other stormtrooper had reduced it to its constituent atoms and then flushed those into a black hole.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/7 "2011-06-01T15:33:35Z")
The Robot is a Class M-3 Model B9, General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot from Lost in Space was plenty annoying to Dr. Zachary Smith.
Why not on the list?
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/8 "2011-06-01T15:38:23Z")
Twiki by far.
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### Author:  [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/9 "2011-06-01T15:38:42Z")
Couldn’t they have found someone else to carry around Dr. Theopolis?
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/10 "2011-06-01T15:47:28Z")
> [@johnpost](#):
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> The Robot is a Class M-3 Model B9, General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot from Lost in Space was plenty annoying to Dr. Zachary Smith.
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> Why not on the list?
An unfortunate oversight on my part. You’re antipathy of this mechanism is quite logical.
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### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/11 "2011-06-01T15:48:26Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#):
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> Couldn’t they have found someone else to carry around Dr. Theopolis?
As a kid, I could never figure out why they didn’t just install Dr. Theopolis _in_ the Twiki body (and leave out the Twiki, uh, brain).
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### Author:  [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/12 "2011-06-01T15:56:34Z")
Twiki. C3PO is annoying, but it’s part of the plot. Twiki is annoying, with out the annoyance contributing to the storyline. They should have just duct taped Dr. Theopolis to a Roomba.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/13 "2011-06-01T16:20:54Z")
> [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](#):
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> C3PO by a mile. I wish Darth Vader or some other stormtrooper had reduced it to its constituent atoms and then flushed those into a black hole.
Heh. Or you could have wished Vader had never built him in the first place, right?
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/14 "2011-06-01T16:33:08Z")
Aside from Bender, we’re also missing the Lost in Space robot (and Robby the Robot for that matter), Robotman (and his strangely similar replacement E.B.), the Jetson’s robot maid, Data from Star Trek, KITT of Knight Rider fame (he’s technically a robot in the end analysis), Cameron from the Sarah Conner Chronicles, Bishop from Aliens, and that’s just off the top of my head.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/15 "2011-06-01T16:39:48Z")
Wish I’d checked the results before I voted, because HERBIE really needs some hate for taking the place of the Human Torch. Still, justice is being served by the results so far.
Bidi-bidi-bidi.
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### Author:  [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/16 "2011-06-01T16:47:17Z")
What’s the name of the anime about the two kids who travel back in time and witness Bible stories as they happen? They had an annoying robot who traveled with them that looked like a little red snowman. Actually it was the whole show that was annoying.
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### Author:  [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/17 "2011-06-01T16:50:38Z")
What about 7-Zark-7 from ‘Battle of the planets’? A robot so camp, he made C-3PO look like the fucking terminator
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/18 "2011-06-01T16:55:21Z")
I voted for V.I.N.C.E.N.T., if only for all of the annoying periods.
I knew a guy once, though, who could do a pitch-perfect “Bidi-bidi-bidi Fuck you, Buck.”
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/19 "2011-06-01T17:24:10Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> Aside from Bender, we’re also missing the Lost in Space robot (and Robby the Robot for that matter), Robotman (and his strangely similar replacement E.B.), the Jetson’s robot maid, Data from Star Trek, KITT of Knight Rider fame (he’s technically a robot in the end analysis), Cameron from the Sarah Conner Chronicles, Bishop from Aliens, and that’s just off the top of my head.
And Geoff Peterson. (Not that I’d vote for him.)
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### Author:  [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/20 "2011-06-01T17:31:04Z")
Twiki was really bad but then so was Buck Rogers. K-9 on the other hand was annoying in a generally good show. So K-9 sticks out more.
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