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Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Movie SidekicksAlert reader Chris writes:
Good idea! The one that immediately comes to mind for me is the insane Heathcliff from “Wild Wild World of Batwoman.” One long Charlie Callas impression, topped of with a big kiss! What’s yours? 141 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite Movie Sidekicks”Commenting at Satellite News
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Was “Droppo” from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians a sidekick? If so, that’s mine. Although I could just as easily pick the Jerry Lewis clone from Laserblast.
is Rowsdower or Troy the sidkick?
I nominate Baby Face from “Secret Agent Super Dragon”. That guy has so many gadgets, it makes you wonder why he didn’t just go into honest business instead of leading a life of crime.
Oh, and Ulysses from “Hercules Unchained”. Never before has a man so manly been so stringy.
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-up Zombies’ Harold, sidekick and thick-of-accent voice of reason to Jerry. Even the erudite Maoam Estrella, according to Mike, chided Harold’s articulation after his, “What do you think we came here for…to eat?” smack-down with her retort, “You talk funny, you feethy peeg”. Still, he was loyal, a great mechanic, had tall hair and did a great wildebeest impression.
Ralph Byrd’s character in Jungle Goddess is quite the sidekick for George Reeves as is Wonama as Montagretta also in Jungle Goddess
Episode 203 baby ! One of my favorite episodes – it is really excellent !
Wonama as Montagretta’s sidekick…why must always forget a word when I type soemthing, !@%% !!! :|
Going down the list of movies, I came across so many loathesome sidekicks that would take a long time to list (Buffalo Bill, Max Keller, Paper Chase Guy’s Bike), so I’m glad that’s not the subject of this discussion.
I finally thought of one I did like though: Hup, the platinum midget from Outlaw. He’s not much good in a fight, but he can shoplift reasonably well.
WooHOOOO! My favorite would be Buffalo Bill, there, Cupcake! Keep the bugs off your bumper and the smokies off your tail. I’m outta here!
Lobo!!! Tor Johnson claimed that Lobo from “Bride of the Monster,” was a whole different character than Lobo in “The Unearthy.” According to him: “One was mute..the other could speak. Time for to go to bed!” BTW, if you get the chance check out Ed Wood’s “Night of the Ghouls.” Tor reprises his Lobo (Bride of the Monster) role. It’s priceless! Cinematic Titanic or Rifftrax should look into this movie!!
Without question, Joe from “Racket Girls”…
Mike and the bots seemed to take a liking to him as well….
Thong from Cave Dwellers. Sooo cool! I love a laconic man.
I’m ashamed that I forgot about Thong. It was probably the fact that he didn’t have any lines that made him likeable.
Oops, I didn’t read the thread carefully! Well, Thong was cool, but maybe not especially wacky….so I’ll vote for the Fish Argument guy from Gamera vs Zigra.
Horatio in Hamlet.
I was gonna be a laconic man once, but you know, then I just thought, “well….”
No one’s said it, so I call TORGO!!!
Of course Torga is the most famous but Ortega’s my pick! Sidekick/henchman the same?
Wackiest….gotta go with Laserblast’s scene stealing Eddie Deezen. Quite a few candidates out there from Catalina Caper too.
The saloon owner’s toadie in Gunslinger.
If one may count the most prominent subordinate member of a team, let me nominate Rocky (again?) from the Fugitive Alien movies–suspicious, hard as nails, and utterly useless. Whether it’s suggesting that maybe a stranded astronaut should be left to die in space (“I think we should leave well enough alone”), threatening to kill his captain for being weak and old (“you’ll never survive this mission, so I’ll just have to kill you first”), threatening to kill the Cesar officer because he’s “an obstacle” to the mission that began with rescuing him from jail, and of course getting the crap beaten out of him by Ken twice and failing to kill him with a forklift, you can always depend on Rocky to do something dramatic, mutinous, and in the end completely irrelevant because Ken bails everyone out anyway.
Besides Buffalo Bill, Abbey was kind of a sidekick to Ben Murphy at least in the first epis… I mean in the first half of the movie Riding With Death. Which would be considered the sidekick in Giant Gila Monster? Chase or the Sheriff?
Oh, and I almost forgot squirrely little Joe from Racket Girls who goes all the way for his boss, taking a bullet for him. “Today the sidekick community mourns the loss of one of its greats.”
Would the little wimpy effeminate brother from Teen-age Strangler be considered a side-kick?
How about Winky from the two Rocky Jones movies? Annoying as can be, but he provided some prime material to riff on. Gay nightlife indeed.
I kind of like Phantom Plantet’s Makonen for his sappy drippy hippy speech about the good and the beautiful. Granted it’s a microscopic part, but he was wacky for an astronaut in my opinion.
Is Trumpy a sidekick? Probably more in the monster category, but he’s wacky (he can do stupid things!), that’s for sure.
I guess the sheriff from “Track of the Moon Beast” would be Johnny Longbow’s sidekick. I crack up at his bad acting, constant blank expression and the fact that he always has thumbs in his pockets.
Those are all great picks and I agree with every single one, but how can we leave Godzilla’s right hand man, Jet Jaguar out of the list? :cool:
Either Danny or Big Stupid from “Girl in lovers lane” (which one is the sidekick?) – love how Frank says Big Stupid will become “pure energy”
Since we’re in season five, I also nominate pile on pete as our favorite Cur’s sidekick too!
Pink-jacket-guy in Time Chasers is kinda wacky…
Lot’s of weird choices out there. Right now, I’m gonna go with the blonde in leopard-skin pants from WILD WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN. You definitly want her to back you up anytime you have a horseshoe tug-of-war situation…
I like Rowsdower’s sidekicks: Bottles of beer and a dirty old truck.
Number 26 jogged visions of that sheriff from Blood Waters of Dr Z although its tuff to distinguish who was the lead in that one, never mind side kick. Not sure how that movie got around that sheriff calling African American FishnGame guy BOY repeatedly in a thick southern accent either? It may have been a cut scene that explains their seemingly friendly relationship although when it first occurs, the sheriff is spinning the chambers of a drawn handgun. I was struck dumb by this scene for its sheer audacity
Zurella from “Merlin’s Shop Of Mystical Wonders” …though which chin she should put her hand on is still a mystery.
I second the blonde in leopard skins from “Batwoman”. …I think I’m a chronophile for her.
Fats from “Wild Rebels.
Thong from Cave Dwellers. …and though she didn’t do much, the female one (Daughter of the boring guy) looked pretty good anyway.
The helicopter pilot in Mitchell. Had little screen time but was easily more likable than the main.
Merlin from Santa Claus.
Froggy from Laserblast. BULLY EDDIE DEZEN FOR THE WIN!
That’s all the ones I can remembe.r
I like Monk from “The Phantom Creeps”. Having seen the whole serial it’s amazing how Monk put up with it all. If anyone has a chance, watch the last episode of that. It is hilarious all by itself.
Let’s not forget Gammera’s sidekick Kenny. (and Kenny’s sidekick, Tibby) I can’t believe that a robot has just sung a love song to a turtle.
Quite obviously Torgo, the Master’s sidekick, is my favorite.
Einstein, the talking robot bike from Warrior of the Lost World comes in second.
Vadinho from The Pumaman is a close third. I also like Kobras’s second in command, Rankin, who just can’t seem to make his mind up at all when committing crimes.
How about Cook and Landis from Red Zone Cuba. From the outskirts of Folsom Prison to the Shining Path fantasy camp to the Bay of Pigs to dining on frog legs to a tungsten mine they accompanied Griffith on his way to Hell (with a penny and broken cigarette) even while he was throttling them. Now those are true sidekicks!
Since so many others have been mentioned, I’m gonna go with Harold from The Incredibly Strange Creatures.
“Whadyatinkwecamherefortoeeeat?!”
How about Lassie, I mean Shep from “The Painted Hills”? Dogs can’t be leads and she was at least ten times smarter than any human.
If we’re allowing evil sidekicks, I’d have to go with Lydia’s imp (played completely over the top by Billy Barty) in “The Undead.”
He doesn’t say a word, but he’s such an amusing goofball – AND he does the Curly Shuffle when defeated!
“I’m an imp!”
#33 cmwaters: I had to look up “chronophile” (though I had guessed correctly).
You poor dope, you’re looking at the wristwatch? I’d certainly be a something-phile for leopard girl, that’s for sure.
How about Tim “Third Nipple” Thornton from Boggy Creek II? He spent the entire movie removing and putting on his shirt, and was so skinny and frail, you could actually count his ribs. RIBS! That’s what I’m hungry for!
It’s hard to beat Torgo, but if shorts are
included how about Coily the Spring Sprite? :shock:
I’m gonna throw a couple of other “shorts” sidekicks into the ring:
1) Emo, the overenthusiastic Seminole sidekick from Catching Trouble
2) Pops, the insane, kerchief-wearing, front porch-sitting, lemonade-sipping fellow from the Hired! shorts.
Now, talking sidekicks, I think the icky elf guy qualifies from Girl in Gold Boots, at least during the drug heist. He then up and kills his partner in jail! How zany is that? :-)
Pink Boy from Time Chasers, Troy/Rowsdower from The Final Sacrifice, Buffalo Bill from Riding With Death, Thong from Cave Dwellers, Max Keller from Master Ninja, and, of course, Vadinho from Pumaman.
Best sidekick? TV’s Frank hands down!
My favorite is def. Buffalo Bill <3
Oh, and does the Emo Phillips guide from Catching Trouble count? And how about Hugo the Dummy – or would Varelli be the sidekick?
In no particular order:
-Joe Don’s lady-cop partner, Sargent Elaine Bennis, from Final Justice.
-Do Banjo and Fats from Wild Rebels count?
-I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned Cooch (that’s GOOCH!!!), JC’s bussom chum who promises to get Rommel. He will get him. He will get HIM. He WILL get him.
-Leo’s even greasier concierge Marty from the GIrl In Gold Boots.
-Ms. March’s “gigalo” Victor from the Atomic Brain (honorable mention: Dr. Otto’s lackey, the Stephen Stillsesque dog-man).
-The assistant with the loooong death scene from The Brain That Wouldn’t Die.
-Rick, who was technically Aram Fingal’s sidekick in Overdrawn At The Memory Bank.
Haven’t noticed it so far in my quick glance at the list but I’ll throw in Sid “Monkey Boy” Melton for adding that sidekicky element to Radar Secret Service and Lost Continent.
While he wouldn’t place in the top (bottom?) 100
listing, is there a more irritating sidekick then
Tim (a.k.a. Chuck Pierce) in Boggy Creek II
repeatedly showing off his (physique?)? Was
there ANY woman viewer who found this “exciting”? :roll:
I can’t go for sidekicks like Heathcliff or Droppo who shamefully wallow in their own jackassery just to get a little face time. They just try way too hard. I like a sidekick who’s wackiness is just part of their nature.
Buffalo Bill from Riding with Death: Overacting? Sure. But I can see him freaking out like he does in the stinger when he’s at home and finds a spare can of Old Mil in the back of the fridge.
Tor Johnson: Whether he’s henching for Bela Lugosi or John Carradine, it’s hard to find a more bumbling, lumbering, mumbling mouth-breathing sidekick. Unless…
Torgo: I don’t want Joe Cocker as my bellhop, Torgo. I just want you.