Who In This Beeotch Likes Sidekicks?

You also forgot Milhouse.

Plus Peter Lorre would have had no work once he fled the Weimar Republic.

I've always been more attached to the love interests really - who don't count as sidekicks. Maid Marian - until tony Robinson blew her out of the water - was a favourite of mine.

Erm... I think you'll find that those are not "sidekicks". I sidekick implies a certain amount of mutual respect, which villains are incapable of. Villains have MINIONS!!!

I've always wanted minions. Even though they screw everything up, leaving you vulnerable to all kinds of crap, it still looks cool to have them. Paul has minions. I'm jealous.

I am planning my next act of villainy as I write......

Kemo Sabay = cherokee for "The white fool has a tiny penis and blows skunks, which is by the way what he smells of and why..."

Tony Robinson in his hey-day of not being an archaeologist/Labour Party flunkey used his own position as Blackadders sidekick to pen an irreverant (for which read irrelevant) kids prog called Maid Marian and her Merrie Men. Said show posited that infact Robin Hood was a dumb cove and the chick did all the hard work. An amusing idea spoiled heavily by some sub-Helen Lederer playing the Maid, and a rasta Merrie Man. Him being black of course meant that every week there was a kids TV style rap written by whiter than white Robinson - usually about the joys of manure. Horrific stuff.

However, a villian needs a sidekick MUCH more than a "good guy" does. Where would Scott Farkus be without that little toadie cackling beside him? And Harley Quinn made the Joker a bit more enjoyable (though I am partial to the psycho-John-Waters panache that the solo Joker brought to the table).

Anyway, I've never tangled with Otis. I want to see what happens.

I have nothing to add; I just think that sentence should be repeated ad infinitum.

You are right on the old-school _Star Trek_ tip, though - even ciphers like Sulu and Uhura have their moments in the sun every so often. (It's what keeps them happy & docile.)

Saw an older episode of _Junkyard Wars_, co-hosted by Lloyd Llewellyn. He makes for a much better foil for Ms. Cathy "MARINE RESEARCH! WRITE SOME SONGS!" Rogers than that American twerp she's been galavanting around with in more recent skirmishes. I'm fond of the British art of understatement. Sad to see that Lloyd's entire filmography consists of _Red Dwarf_ & various tie-ins. British sitcoms are never, ever, ever, ever, ever funny.

And shouldn't you be on the Junkyard Wars board which incidentally ILE has now overtaken. That's right, we are more popular than a bunch of people talking about a bunch of people making machine out of rubbish. Phew!

2. What about Blossom's sidekick Six? Played by Jenna Von Oy, I was head over heals in love with her through my teens, like a prototype version of Willow syndrome, I even wrote her a fan letter once.

3. Odd: the rasta merry man was played by Danny John Jules, who played the Cat in early Red Dwarf.

4. Penfold was the best of all.

1. Channel 4 show Scrapheap Challenge co-hosted by Cathy Rogers from Marine Research.

2. You are a sad, sad man.

3. Not just early Red Dwarf, all Red Dwarf.

4. I agree.

Oh, and I still think Will Riker = classic. And Data. Not Chakotay though, he's shit.