# Who are your 3 favorite sidekicks of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351 "2016-06-25T20:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/61 "2016-06-29T15:13:01Z")
Paulie Gaultieri/Tony Soprano ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/62 "2016-06-29T15:48:44Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > Andy Devine as “JIngles”, but I don’t recall which singing cowboy he sidekicked. Roy Rogers? \*“Hey Wild Bill, wait for me!” \* sponsored by… _Kell, Logs, Sugar Corn Pops Sugar Pops are tops!_ ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/63 "2016-06-30T20:12:42Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > \*“Hey Wild Bill, wait for me!” > > - > > sponsored by… > > \*Kell, Logs, Sugar Corn Pops > > Sugar Pops are tops!\* Someone listens to Radio Classics on XM, I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/64 "2016-07-01T15:20:35Z")
I’d like to change my #3 to Alan Davies/Stephen Fry. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/65 "2016-07-01T15:56:41Z")
Watson/Holmes Barney Fife/Andy Taylor Doc Brown/Marty McFly (not sure which would be considered the sidekick) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/66 "2016-07-01T18:36:32Z")
Holmes/Watson The Tenth Doctor/Donna Noble The Twelfth Doctor/Clara Oswald I have a really hard time thinking of Spock as a sidekick, or he’d be on the list. Honorable Mention: Harry Dresden/Mouse ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/67 "2016-07-01T19:40:13Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > Someone listens to Radio Classics on XM, I suspect. Nope. Never heard of the program, and don’t really know what XM is. I was born in 1950, watched a lot of TeeVee, and **The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickock** (or whatever it was called) was one of my favorite programs. Jingles yelling “Hey Wild Bill”, and that moronic Sugar Pops commercial, are my only intact memories. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/68 "2016-07-01T19:55:33Z")
Jack Burton ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/69 "2016-07-03T23:03:13Z")
Morty-from Rick and Morty Kick-Ass…from Kick-Ass ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/70 "2016-07-03T23:09:11Z")
What, no Ed McMahon? How quickly they forget! ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/71 "2016-07-04T19:13:46Z")
Andy Richter. ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/72 "2016-07-04T19:47:06Z")
Inigo Montoya \>\>\>\> The Man in Black/Dred Pirate Roberts/Wesley ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/73 "2016-07-12T11:02:09Z")
I forgot Marlin Perkins’ sidekick Jim Fowler on _ **Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom** _: **MARLIN VO:** I’ll stay here in the Land Rover, while Jim wrestles the fierce Bengal tiger! **JIM VO [AUSTRALIAN ACCENT]:** Mind you, Bengal tigers are tricky beasts … can’t take your eyes off 'em for a second! ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/74 "2016-07-12T14:04:04Z")
Hoppy Uniatz Bunny Manders Hawk ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/75 "2016-07-12T15:29:52Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I forgot Marlin Perkins’ sidekick Jim Fowler on _ **Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom** _: > > **MARLIN VO:** I’ll stay here in the Land Rover, while Jim wrestles the fierce Bengal tiger! > > **JIM VO [AUSTRALIAN ACCENT]:** Mind you, Bengal tigers are tricky beasts … can’t take your eyes off 'em for a second! Good one! When we were a brand new couple, Mrs. Cretin and I used to love that show for Perkins’ voiceovers. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/76 "2016-07-12T15:44:16Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Good one! When we were a brand new couple, Mrs. Cretin and I used to love that show for Perkins’ voiceovers. Did he \*ever \*get out of the Land Rover? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/77 "2016-07-12T16:02:49Z")
I am sadly disappointed that in a thread about favorite sidekicks, no one has mentioned the King, the Ol Gabberoo himself. Gabby Hayes Jay Silverheels as Tonto R. Daneel Olivaw ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/78 "2016-07-12T16:04:36Z")
Lewis for Morse Chet for The Hardy Boys Hadji for Jonny Quest ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/79 "2016-07-12T16:16:32Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Did he \*ever \*get out of the Land Rover? :dubious: 😕 I wanted to hear Jim say “Catch the damn cobra yourself!” ETA: I almost have my wife convinced to go with zebra stripes on her white RAV-4. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-3-favorite-sidekicks-of-all-time/758351/80 "2016-07-12T16:43:26Z")
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