For British TV, Harry Sullivan, one of the Doctor’s companions. As the Doctor said himself, “Harry Sullivan is an idiot!”
Okay, I got one that follows the 5 rules:
Samwise Gamgee
He’s that trustworthy friend that will do anything for you but likes to bitch and complain about it the whole time.
Snarf.
Potty mouth.
I nominate: Scrappy Doo. Even as a kid I knew he was poison to that show.
- SS
Andy Devine in every movie he was ever in.
And if you have any chance to reference him in the television show Wild Bill Hickcock it was delightfully painful.
Another delightfully painful sidekick performance was Oliver Hardy in The Fighting Kentuckian with John Wayne as the hero. It was just so wrong in so many places.
In literature it would have to be Dr. Watson and in Cartoons it would have to be Penfold to Dangermouse.
I am a big sidekick fan. As a child, I wanted to be one. I thought it was cool they got to go through all of the adventures and didn’t have to put up with the yuckie girls. Then later I noticed they often ended up with the more interesting girls and I thought that wasn’t so bad.
I thought sidekicks might make a come back after I saw Sahara, but no such luck.
A little note nere: Robert Blake’s first role in television (if you don’t count the Our Gang Comedies which actually were made for the movie houses) was as a sidekick. He was adult Red Rider’s child sidekick Little Beaver, riding around in breech cloth and moccasins and little else (now that I look back on that - there were so many sexual inuendos involved).
I can’t agree as far as Chris Tucker as Ruby Rod in The 5th Element. He was supposed to be incredibly obnoxious almost totally useless, and he’s not in the least bit a sidekick.
I liked Tucker in 5th Element, actually, including the parts where Willis would give one- or two-word replies to Tucker’s long elaborate intros, clearly just to piss him off.
I’d say he just about qualifies. Clearly Obi-Wan is the hero of the new trilogy, and (I haven’t watched Episode I since 1999 and don’t intend to, so I forget details), he spends a lot of time with him. Also implied is that if it weren’t for his antics in the robot-Gungan showdown the robots would have probably won the fight, the Trade Federation would have been victorious and Obi-Wan would have been executed.
Going for obscure, I nominate Newton the centaur from The Mighty Hercules, which I recall from its run in syndication.
The template for Short Round, surely!
(Wait… does TV count?)
That dumbass donkey in the Shrek movies.
Puke.
Chris Tucker was the one I first thought of. I hated his character.
Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) in 16 Blocks. Most of the movie was him babbling about God-knows-what in a high pitched, nasal voice. :mad:
First thing I thought of after seeing the thread title. I remember reading reviews of the movie that mention people cheering when the character died. To make matters worse, the end of the movies had the heroes leaving on a quest to revive him.
Ghod, he was like Jar Jar's more annoying little brother!All this hating on Short Round, I don’t understand it.
Jerry Lewis was the sidekick for Dean Martin in 17 movies from 1949 to 1956. NOBODY is more annoying than that. With 17 movies I’m sure there is one that fulfills all the OP’s criteria, I’m just not going to be the person to watch them all.
