Which one’s your favorite and why?
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Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Dweeb in a MSTed MovieWell, with “The Final Sacrifice” being this week’s episode guide entry, a movie that features a pretty major dweeb in young Troy, let’s hear about the many many dweeb we’ve encountered in MSTed movies.
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Mikey from Teenage Strangler, hands down. He led to some great riffing, but he was also whine-free for the most part. And he didn’t steal no bike, neither!
The all time lord god king dweeb in an MST3K movie is Mikey from “Teenage Strangler.” I don’t think anyone even comes close and I didn’t steal no bikes neither, Mikey did.
Darn! Beaten to the punch by a Grandma! I guess that makes me the dweeb of this site!
A 3rd vote for Mikey from teenage Strangler. Him and Troy represent the youthful dweeb pretty darn well. For a more adult dweeb, may I suggest Pumaman?
May I suggest Jimmy from I Accuse My Parents.
In considering a question like this I’ve always thought that
the wisest and best is to fix your
attention on the good and the beautiful, say comparing Mikey and Pumaman to a
picture of Tawny Kitaen and a plate of bratwurst.
As a Canadian, I must support Troy’s dweebage. It’s the law. :-)
Troy and Mikey are both dweebs but pretty young ones and therefore excusable. My personal favorite is Arch Hall Jr. from “Eegah” with a close second to director and star of “…Mixed Up Zombies” Ray Dennis Steckler (aka Cash Flagg). Luckily the Mads never got their hands on “Wild Guitar” which is directed by Steckler and stars Arch Hall Jr…that might have destroyed the SOL and all humanity with it.
One dweeb that immediately comes to mind is Engineer Parsons from Space Mutiny: “This is mutiny, this is treason, which I warn you I must report!”
I don’t know whether it’s the whiny voice, the receding chin, or the fact that he just laid there on the table and let MacPhearson inflate him to 35 PSI with his cane, but everything about Parsons just screams “dweeb”.
How about Winky from the Rocky Jones movies — Dweebs in SPAAACE!
Nice calls on Troy and Mikey. Eddie Deezen from “Laserblast” would be a solid choice (given his career of work.)
Does Jim Begg count? You could use either “Catalina Caper” or “Village of the Giants.”
Cabot’s sidekick (Whatney was his name??) from “Outlaw” was the ultimate adult dweeb, complete with inflated self-worth and womanizing skills (and to a lesser extent – Arch Hall in “Eegah.”
In a cameo appearance, the hotel jerk in the Beatniks. He sounded like a cartoon character- what a dweeb.
Joe Wilson from “This Island Earth”.
I would like to cast my vote for Mikey from “teenage strangler” and as runner up I would like to nominate Kyle from “Hobgoblins”. For an honorable mention I would also like to suggest Reggie from the short “begging responsibilities: taking care of your things” I know it’s Rifftrax but still a very good example of a classic dweeb.
Mr. Wilson from Final Justice.
well there’s Johnny from the ‘Cheating’ short. or is he just evil?
and of course EDDIE DEEZEN! from Laserblast
I would like to nominate Big Stupid’s protégé from “The Girl in Lovers Lane”, Danny boy. Although hopefully his experiences in the little town eroded some of that innocence and naiveté that contributed so heavily to his dweebiness. Also, in the cameo category, the guy who did the really lame foreign accents in “Ring of Terror”. I believe it was Servo who said: “Kill him!”
The big-chinned guy from Time Chasers, I think his name was Nick and he supposedly went to Castleton.
Can we nominate children? Kenny from “Gamera” is such a dweeb. He talks to turtles. He’s antisocial. He thinks Gamera is neat, even though he’s killing millions of Kenny’s fellow citizens. He expects heads of state and military leaders to listen to his whining (wait a minute, they actually do…..). Kenny’s not my favorite dweeb per se, that would be Troy in TFS, but he’s the one I’d most like to see eaten by a space alien/monster.
Eddie Deezen, the actor who usually played the dweeb, not playing a dweeb in Laserblast.
If we want to consider Rifftrax, how about that kid from Magic Christmas Tree?
How about Nick from “What To Do On date”?
Prince “But I’m a Prince” Senya from “Viking Women and the Sea Serpent” immediately comes to mind. So does Little Man, don’t recall his name, from “Gunslinger” and the entire cast of “Hobgoblins”.
Mickey, hands down is the whiner, I mean winner.
I’m going to nominate Todd from 317 – VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT.
He has a button collection, hangs out with girls, acts like a know-it-all, and gets his butt kicked all the time.
I’ll tenth (or whatever number we’re up to) Mikey and add my own suggestion: Watney from “Outlaw of Gor”.
I forgot all about “Tee” from Quest of the Delta Knights.
The “slightly larger” (than Carol) boyfriend in EARTH VERSUS THE SPIDER. He’s by no means a hands-down choice (Dark Grandma of Death beat me to that), but he is SO irritatingly good at annoying his girlfriend. In fact, he is SUCH a jerk most of the time that it’s hard to believe he has a girlfriend, or any friends! (This is the darker side of the Dweeb Spectrum, of course. I LIKE Mikey. I mean, he’s at least sensitive [witness his Streisand collection].)
Mikey from Teenage Strangler by a landslide.
In order:
Stupid Robot in Robot Holocaust
Tommy Kirk in Catalina Caper
The square in Wild Rebels
Tommy in Pod People
Buzz
Droppo in SCCTM
Max Kellar
Max Kellar
The whenever I sing guy
The two creepy guys in Attack of the the eye creatures
Arch Hall Jr.
Jimmy
Wormy guy
Mikey
Wanda in Alien from LA (until the end when she is foxy)
The guy who keeps saying Cabot. He needs to be silenced
Pitch
Tommy Kirk again
Pasta flinging guy
The Hippie jerk in San Francisco International
Marvin in High School Big Shot
Jim Backus
All the Steves
Deathstalker
Eddie Deezen
The Leech Woman’s husband
Peter Graves
Krankor
Nick
Fingal
Puma Man
Jody
Troy
David Warner
Critter
Paul – every one of them
The worm face
Wouldn’t it be a much shorter list to pick the guys that weren’t dweebs?
Buzz from “Mr. B Natural”, especially early in the short. I don’t know whether Buzz gets plus or minus dweeb points for not freaking out and hiding under the bad when the pixie from Hell shows up. By the way, being named “Buzz”, a supposedly cool name? It’s not helping, kid.
#31
Breaking: Buzz Aldrin changed his name after seeing “Mr. B Natural”
saying: “To the Moon, Buzz.” :)
How about Johnny from IT Lives By Night? In between his batological studies and spelunking he was able to land a whisper-thin wife. Not bad for a dweeb. He must’ve learned something from his groovy, mustachioed, ski-bum doctor friend.
Mikey from Teenage Strangler. For a character that was supposed to be our hero, though, I say Derek from Teenagers from Outer Space.
# 8 I would love to see them do Wild Guitar!
Mikey! I’ll bet nobody said that yet! hee hee hee!
Best ever. 2nd best, Mike being turned into Mikey! lol
I’m going be unoriginal and just say Troy McGregor. At least he was brave, despite his noodley physique and age.
Since we have already addressed Mikey and Troy, I am going to go with the kid from the “Why Study Industrial Arts” short.
I’ll cast a vote for Dropo from SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS. He’s an adult that acts like an unattended child showing off at a party and yet we’re asked to find him adorable. I’ll also nominate Shim from the same film, the only creature on all of Mars capable of being outsmarted by him.
#26 Thanks for reminding me of Tee. His sense of authority among his older cohorts–coupled with his Holly Hobby fashion sense–is truly annoying.
I’ll give second place to whiny Buzz, but Troy is my favorite dweeb. Whatever his positive attributes, the riffs at his expense get me lauging every time.
I nominate Arch Hall Jr. from EEGHA…I do not know his character’s name in that movie…it is just that resonates dweebness all by himself.
All great answers! I think Troy is still the dweebiest of dweebs, but Tee and Engineer Parsons are both good choices too.
What about Lemminkainen? Hailed as a hero, but he fails in just about every way possible. Granted, maybe he’s a better hero in the actual Finnish stories, but The Day the Earth Froze makes him seem like such a dweeb!
Does Cornjob count as a dweeb?
Danny from The Girl in Lovers’ Lane. Totally dweeb.
His masculinity gets obliterated by the riffing of Joel&theBots.
“Bigs, should I have not put my head in the driver’s lap? Was that wrong?”
“What’s your name, kid?”
“Sex Poodle.”
Kevin from Hobgoblins. His rake fighting skills are abominable, and he can’t even master running like a bandy-legged old codger.
Oh, so many choices!
I think I’ll have to give my vote to Winky from the Rocky Jones films. I mean the name alone: Gahd!
#38 Droppo seems more of a spazz than a dweeb.
MIkey, Deezen, Marv from “High School Big Shot” and Tommy Kirk in “Village of the Giants”.
Plus as much as I love him; Krankor was a bit of a dweeb.
Oh and then there was the Del-Aires (the band from Horror at Party Beach) a trio of dweebs if ever there was one (but I still like their songs.
And last but not least the Ron Howard lookalike in “Squirm”. the tension is palpable; DID THE SHERIFF FINISH HIS SPAGHETTI!!!
Nick gets all the attention but pretty much the entire cast of Time Chasers was pretty dweebie.
Would Henry Krasker from “The Dead Talk Back” qualify as a dweeb? If so, he would have to be my favorite. I can’t explain why, but I just find that character to be strangely fascinating and likable.
I don’t think anyone has mentioned the little guy in “Hercules and the Captive Women” (the one that gave Crow an excuse to run the “It was Callahan! I have my rights!” joke into the ground).
Joe from Racket Girls and Franky from The Skydivers
(Mikey from Teenage Stranglers and Troy from The Final Sacrifice are probably the two biggest dweebs of them all though! Pretty tough to beat them.)
Honorable mention for the entire cast of The Creeping Terror