# Most annoying robot sidekick **URL:** \ **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:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/61 "2011-06-02T18:50:35Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > It’s almost not worth it, since you will all hate me, but I choose a write-in candidate: > > “Johnny-Five is alive!” Invalid. That’s a robot with human sidekicks. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/62 "2011-06-02T18:57:59Z")
> [@bup](#): > > R2D2 may have been cutesy, but he could also fix an X-wing’s mechanical problems in flight, hack the main computer of the Death Star, and kill people (I don’t think he was ever shown killing someone, but you know he could). > > Twiki was _useless_. Couldn’t do a damned thing. You are forcing me to dredge up memories I would rather not have in my head and I hold you responsible for the nightmares I will have tonight, but there was an episode of Buck Rogers where because of a shortage of pilots Twiki was put into a cockpit as a combat pilot. I remember him bleating in that horrible Twiki electronic voice “Eat lead, sucker,” (really illogical since their guns were lasers). It’s just one of those childhood memories you don’t easily recover from. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/63 "2011-06-02T21:04:16Z")
Oh lord, this is gonna mark me… Alpha 5, from the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, sidekick to the disembodied head that is Zordon. Take Twiki, and make it an order of a magnitude more insufferable, stuipid, and incapable. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/64 "2011-06-02T21:14:13Z")
> [@Tranquilis](#): > > Oh lord, this is gonna mark me… > > Alpha 5, from the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, sidekick to the disembodied head that is Zordon. Take Twiki, and make it an order of a magnitude more insufferable, stuipid, and incapable. Sometimes you have to suffer if you want to see Amy Jo Johnson in her Pink ranger costumer. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/65 "2011-06-03T11:27:51Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > …there was an episode of Buck Rogers where because of a shortage of pilots Twiki was put into a cockpit as a combat pilot. I remember him bleating in that horrible Twiki electronic voice “Eat lead, sucker,” … they are forgiven, if he was shooting ewoks. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/66 "2011-06-03T13:08:00Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > they are forgiven, if he was shooting ewoks. I really don’t think they’d have to: [STAR WARS: Endor Holocaust](http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html) ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/67 "2011-06-03T13:27:15Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Sometimes you have to suffer if you want to see Amy Jo Johnson in her Pink ranger costumer. Truth. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hogfather65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/68 "2011-06-03T15:29:58Z")
What about the pile of rust at the bottom of the heap - Metal Micky… Now that made Twiki look good… ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/69 "2011-06-04T17:48:23Z")
My vote goes to [Einstein the Motorcycle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7NDxr0_pSU) from _Warrior of the Lost World_. Everything he says is annoying in triplicate. As a corollary, this is what makes [Megaweapon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlHL8KuLcCs#t=3m18s) the most badass of all heavily-armored flame-throwing dump trucks. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/70 "2011-06-04T23:36:36Z")
K-9 is _not_ annoying, repeat NOT annoying. Anyone who picked K-9 for this poll is annoying. There was another robot on _Doctor Who_ who shows up on companion lists even though altogether it had maybe twenty minutes of screen time. And that was fortunate because it was a most annoying robot. Kamelion, remember him? What a stupid idea. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962/71 "2011-06-04T23:43:24Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > On the scifi series Lexx you have 790 the head of a robot that is programed to be in love with Xev, and hates Stanley Tweedle. No robot ever created is more annoying than this one. Didn’t it start lusting after Kai towards the end? That was worse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-robot-sidekick/583962.md?page=3)