# Sidekicks
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [June 10, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559 "2017-06-10T01:26:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/1 "2017-06-10T01:26:39Z")
Name the hero/superhero/protagonist that the sidekick in question is paired with.
I’ll start with a tricky one, because it could have 2 answers: Dum Dum.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/2 "2017-06-10T02:37:53Z")
Fred Flintstone (The Great Gazoo [Gesundheit])
Easy one: Sim sim salabim.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/3 "2017-06-10T04:07:06Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Fred Flintstone (The Great Gazoo [Gesundheit])
Sorry, but Fred Flintstone wasn’t the GG’s sidekick, and that was just an insult and not what he was generally known as.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/4 "2017-06-10T04:36:34Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Name the hero/superhero/protagonist that the sidekick in question is paired with.
> I’ll start with a tricky one, because it could have 2 answers: Dum Dum.
[Touché Turtle.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch%C3%A9_Turtle_and_Dum_Dum)
Dum Dum was voiced by Alan Reed, the original voice of Fred Flintstone, BTW.
(God, I’m old.)
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/5 "2017-06-10T04:45:39Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> [Touché Turtle.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch%C3%A9_Turtle_and_Dum_Dum)
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> Dum Dum was voiced by Alan Reed, the original voice of Fred Flintstone, BTW.
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> (God, I’m old.)
That’s correct.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/6 "2017-06-10T04:55:55Z")
Are we supposed to mention another sidekick when we give our response?
Droop-A-Long.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/7 "2017-06-10T05:13:28Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Easy one: Sim sim salabim.
Wasn’t that something Hadji used to say in Jonny Quest?
And if I’m right, my entry is Weevil.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/8 "2017-06-10T11:34:38Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Wasn’t that something Hadji used to say in Jonny Quest?
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> And if I’m right, my entry is Weevil.
I would count that as a good guess to a bad clue, because the clue is supposed to be just the name of the side kick, not something he/she does or says.
And yes, after you name the hero/superhero/main protagonist, to continue the game you should give the name of the next sidekick.
edited to add: If it’s the same Weevil I’m thinking of, then the answer is Dirty Duck.
Baba Looey is my sidekick.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/9 "2017-06-10T18:30:07Z")
Quick Draw McGraw (aka El Kabong) had Baba Looey for the sidekick.
For at least one episode: Expendable Boy.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/10 "2017-06-10T21:55:02Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Quick Draw McGraw (aka El Kabong) had Baba Looey for the sidekick.
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> For at least one episode: Expendable Boy.
Are you perhaps referring to _Expendable Lad_?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/11 "2017-06-10T22:34:27Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Are you perhaps referring to _Expendable Lad_?
Yep. I blame it on my increasingly faulty memory. “Lad” it is.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/12 "2017-06-10T22:45:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Yep. I blame it on my increasingly faulty memory. “Lad” it is.
That’s o.k.-I’m kind of a Freekazoid when it comes to those cartoons.
The Spoiler is one of a long line of sidekicks that worked for this next character.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/13 "2017-06-13T01:04:48Z")
Batman.
Next up, Zook.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/14 "2017-06-13T02:05:50Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Name the hero/superhero/protagonist that the sidekick in question is paired with.
> I’ll start with a tricky one, because it could have 2 answers: Dum Dum.
2nd Answer: Nick Fury.
Monk.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/15 "2017-06-13T04:35:27Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> If it’s the same Weevil I’m thinking of, then the answer is Dirty Duck.
Correct.
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Monk.
Doc Savage
New sidekick: Lothar
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/16 "2017-06-13T04:52:38Z")
Zook- J’onn J’onzz(Martian Manhunter).
Lothar-Mandrake the Magician.
Next up-Woozy Winks.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/17 "2017-06-13T04:57:40Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> 2nd Answer: Nick Fury.
Good catch.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/18 "2017-06-13T05:00:51Z")
Do you want Monk’s sidekick? That’d be Natalie or Sharona. Or did someone have a sidekick named Monk?
We should be orderly. Name a sidekick, answer the question, and name another one. Unless you answered the previous one, you don’t get to post.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/19 "2017-06-13T05:05:20Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Do you want Monk’s sidekick? That’d be Natalie or Sharona. Or did someone have a sidekick named Monk?
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> We should be orderly. Name a sidekick, answer the question, and name another one. Unless you answered the previous one, you don’t get to post.
I believe it was done correctly-Monk was the sidekick of Doc Savage, and the next sidekick was Lothar.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidekicks/788559/20 "2017-06-13T16:12:02Z")
Woozy Winks? That would be Plastic Man.
Next: Ebony White.
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