I ran across this post in another forum and thought it was entertaining.
Even if you aren't a fan of Lost In Space you probably know how often Dr. Smith took the opportunity to insult the Robot.
Since "Lost in Space" has come up a couple of times in recent weeks, I thought I'd repost this. I've lost the name of the site this was posted on originally, and it appears to no longer be online anyway. (If anyone knows it, I'll add the link!)
That said........here is an alphabetical list of *every* insult Dr. Smith ever gave the Robot!
Each was usually preceded by "Why you...." and followed by "Save me,
William!"
Addlepated Amateur
Addlepated Armor Bearer
Aluminum Canary
Animated Weather Station
Arrogant Automation
As Protective as a Leaky Umbrella
Astigmatic Automaton
Automated Oaf
Babbling Birdbrain
Babbling Bumpkin
Bellicose Bumpkin
Big Mouth
Blithering Blatherskite
Blithering Booby
Bloated Blimp
Blundering Bag of Bolts
Blithering Bumpkin
Book-Making Booby
Broken-down Has Been
Brutish Product of the Mineral World
Bubble Brain
Bubble-Head
Bubble-Headed Booby
Bulbous Bumpkin
Bumbling Bag of Bolts
Bumbling Booby
Bumbling Bucket of Bolts
Bumbling Cracker Barrel
Bumptious Booby
Bumptious Braggart
Bungler
Bungling Incompetent
Cackling Cacophony
Cackling Canister
Cackling Clod
Cackling Cookoo
Cackling Coward
Cantankerous Clod
Cold Hearted Clod
Caterwauling Clod
Cautious Clump
Chattering Magpie
Clanking Clod
Clod-Like Collection of Condensors
Clumsy Clod
Clumsy Cloot
Clumsy Clump
Complete Moron
Computerized Clod
Computerized Clump
Confused Compass
Cowardly Clump
Cowardly Friend
Cumbersome Clod
Cumbersome Clump
Cybernetic Simpleton
Cybernetic Skeptic
Defective Detective
Dehumanized Lie Dispenser
Demented Diode
Deplorable Dummy
Deplorable Dunderhead
Despotic Dunce
Digitised Dunce
Dippity Dunce
Disreputable Dunce
Disreputable Dunderhead
Doctor Dunderhead
Dottering Dolt
Dottering Dunderhead
Dunce
Dunderhead
Elephantine Adam
Egomaniacal Eccentricity
Evasive Coward
Ferrous Frankenstein
Fiend in Tin Clothing
Floundering Flunky
Foolish Fop
Frightful Fractious Frump
Frozen Eskimo
Fugitive From a Junkheap
Fugitive From a Junkyard
Fugitive From a Scrap Heap
Fugitive From a Scrap Metal Yard
Gallumphing Gargoyle
Gargantuan Goose
Garrulous Gargoyle
Ghoul
Gigantic Gargoyle
Goose
Gregarious Gremlin
Hard-Headed Harbinger of Death
Hard-Headed Harbinger of Evil
Hardware Hyena
Hopeless Heap of Tainted Tin
Hulking Mass of Mechanical Ignorance
Hypertensive Hypochondriac
Ignominious Ignoramus
Ill-informed Ignoramus
Impersonal Collection of Inanimate Hardware
Incompetent Moronic Lump
Incompetent Walking Ingot
Incompetent Idiot
Incompetent Imbecile
Ineffectual Ineptitude
Inept Gold Bricker
Inept Idiot
Infamous Informer
Ingot of Ingratitude
Ingrate
Insensitive Brute
Insensitive Clump
Insensitive Idiot
Insensitive Machine
Insipid Ineptitude
Iron-Borne Ingrate
Irresponsible Winebibber
Jabbering Jackanape
Jabbering Jeremiah
Jabbering Judas
Jangling Junkheap
Jespoty Dunce
John Barley Corn
Judas
Juvenile Junkpile
Klunker
Know Nothing Numbskull
Laggert
Lamebrained Lump
Lead-lined Lothario
Lead-lined Lump
Lily Livered Lump
Lily-Livered, Lead-Lined Lummox
Little Mother
Ludricous Lump
Lugubrious Lagert
Lugubrious Lump
Magnificent Mobile
Malicious Moron
Mass of Fear
Mealy-mouthed Rogue
Meandering Mental Midget
Mechanical Dunderhead
Mechanical Friend
Mechanical Meddler
Mechanical Misery
Mechanical Misfit
Mechanical Monolith
Mechanical Moron
Mechanical Murderer
Meddler
Medical School Dropout
Mediocre Medical Misfit
Mental Midget
Metallic Ham
Metallic Monstrosity
Metallic Murderer
Metallurgical Friend
Miserable Mass of Metal
Miserable Mechanism
Misguided Moron
Mechanical Misery
Misshapen Mummy
Monstrous Mountebank
Mechanized Misguided Moron
Monstrous, Metallurgical Meddler
Mr. Wrongway Computer
Mumbling Mass of Metal
My Insensitive Friend
Myna Bird
Nattering Ninny
Neanderthal Ninny
Negligent Ninny
Nervous Ninny
Nickering Ninny
Nincompoop
Ninny
Noxious Ninny
Obsolete Oaf
Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal
Old Booby
Overcautious Concoction
Overgrown Ninny
Oversized Oaf
Parsimonious Puppet
Pathetic Pomposity
Pedagogical Pip-squeak
Pitiable Pip-squeak
Plasticized Parrot
Pompous Pip-squeak
Ponderous Plumber
Pot Headed Prankster
Pot-Bellied Prankster
Pot-Bellied Pumpkin
Powered Prankster
Preening Popinjay
Presumptuous Pip-Squeak
Presumptuous Popinjay
Pretentious Popinjay
Primitive Pile of Pistons
Proverbial Neanderthal Ninny
Puny Pip-squeak
Pusillanimous Pinhead
Pusillanimous Pip-squeak
Pusillanimous Puncher
Pusillanimous Punkah
Pusillanimous Puppet
Pusillanimous Tyrant
Quivering Quintessence of Fear
Ramshackled Romeo
Rattletrap
Real Great Goose
Ridiculous Robot
Ridiculous Roustabout
Ridiculous Ruin
Robust Rock Hound
Rolly-Poly Rowdy
Rusty Rasputin
Sanctimonious Scatterbrain
Scurrilous Scatterbrain
Sententious Sloth
Sickening Cybernetic
Silent Sentinel
Silly Goose
Silly Old Ninny
Silly Sausage
Silly Sloth
Silly Stupid Lovable Old Ninny
Silver-Plated Sellout
Simple Simon
Slick Sophisticated & Charming Companion
Snivelling Cinderbox
Sorry Specimen of Computerhood
Stalwart Companion
Stalwart Sortie
Steely-Eyed Sorcerer
Stubborn Clatterbrain
Stupid Friend
Tarnished Friend
Tarnished Trumpet
Tattletale
Terrified Mechanical Dunderhead
Tin-Plated Fool
Tin-Plated Fraud
Tin-Plated Snitch
Tin-Plated Tattletale
Tin-Plated Tintinnabulation
Tin-Plated Traitor
Tin-Plated Tyrant
Tintinnabulation Tin Can
Tiresome Thesaurus
Traitor
Traitorous Electronic Junk Pile
Traitorous Tin-Plated Fugitive from a Junkyard
Traitorous Tintinnabulation
Traitorous Transistorized Toad
Transistorized Tiger
Treasonous Tyrant
Trusty Aid
Tyrannical Tin Plate
Tyrannus Thesaurus
Unabridged Dictionary
Unconscious Concoction
Unctuous Underling
Uncultured Clump
Ungrateful Underling
Ungrateful Wretch
Unspeakable Insult
Weakling
Worry Wart
Worthless Electronic Scrapheap
Wretch
Wrong Way Computer
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
aTOMiC wrote:For some reason "Bubble Headed Booby" has never left my mind since I was a kid.
I can see him saying that too!
I looked up "John Barley corn" because I had no idea what it meant:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barleycorn
I thought it was interesting and accurate for Dr Smith to call the Robot that.
After reading that wikipedia entry I'm up to speed on "John Barley Corn" though I can't ever remember Smith using that phrase. To be fair I haven't consistently watched the program in about 20 years or so. I have a few select episodes on dvd/vhs but certainly not the entire series.
As I watch episodes on cable I'll be listening for JBC.
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
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