Worst droids in films?

[Heebie]

I’ve just watched Silent Running and couldn’t really get over how useless the droids (or drones, as they called them) were. They had less personality than Red Dwarf’s Scutters! I just looked on IMDB.com and it seems I’m actually in the minority there as people seem to find them sweet.

Are there any worst droids out there in the universe?

 

[Interference]

They were cute and twee just when droids needed to be cute and twee, and you must have at least stifled a tear when Bruce Dern says his farewell to Dewey just before - actually, that's near the end, ain't it, so -- um -- spoiler? ....

Worst droid ever is Tweeky in the Buck Rogers TV series. Worst ever!!

 

[Heebie]

They were cute and twee just when droids needed to be cute and twee, and you must have at least stifled a tear when Bruce Dern says his farewell to Dewey just before - actually, that's near the end, ain't it, so -- um -- spoiler? ....

Worst droid ever is Tweeky in the Buck Rogers TV series. Worst ever!!

I was more concerned with the 'double amputees' apparently stuck inside them to move them around.

Biddie, biddie, biddie!

 

[Interference]

But Heebs, think! There can't be much work for double amputees, even in the movie industry. Artoo and the circus is just about it.

 

[Heebie]

But Heebs, think! There can't be much work for double amputees, even in the movie industry.

I heard amputees made a killing (poor choice of words) in the opening D-Day scene in Saving Private Ryan!

 

[Interference]

I actually know one who regularly gets his legs hacked off in costume-drama battle scenes.

 

[Heebie]

I actually know one who regularly gets his legs hacked off in costume-drama battle scenes.

I hope he tells the other combatants that he 'comes apart'. I can see a look of horror on their faces if they chop at him with a plastic prop-sword and he loses both his legs.

 

[Rodders]

Yes, i'd agree that Twicky was an appallingly useless robot. Didn't he have a female robot counterpart?

 

[Dave]

Yes, i'd agree that Twicky was an appallingly useless robot. Didn't he have a female robot counterpart?

Unfortunately, I think you are correct; in one episode I remember there was.

But weren't there some things even worse in Disney's 'The Black Hole'?

 

[Ursa major]

It has to be Twiki from the Buck Rogers TV series.

 

[Tillane]

But weren't there some things even worse in Disney's 'The Black Hole'?

Bob and Vincent, if memory serves - Bob being voiced (appallingly) by Slim Pickens. They'd definitely get my vote - though Jinx from Space Camp would run them very close.

 

[Urien]

The robot dog thing in Battlestar Galactica (original series).

 

[Ursa major]

I don't recall that, Urien, which may be just as well.

 

[Dave]

Ah yes! Boxey's robot dog, Muffit II. That beats all the rest so far. Twiki was a Maria in comparison!

So, can there really be anything worse?

PS. This should have been a Poll. I could still add one - (I think! I'd have to start another thread with a poll and merge them together.)

 

[Urien]

Alas, you need to see this...




Say hi to Muffit II

 

[Urien]

BREAKING NEWS

 

[Ursa major]

Are you perhaps an evil spirit sent to torture my soul, Urien?

For now I do remember Muffit and I wish I didn't.




And Dave is correct: however irritating Twiki was, it was no match for Muffit.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Marvin was SO depressing

 

[clovis-man]

Bob and Vincent, if memory serves - Bob being voiced (appallingly) by Slim Pickens. They'd definitely get my vote...

I agree. Two floating trash bins with googly eyes.

 

[Quokka]

Poor Muffit, all he needs is the right owner.