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Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Wimp“M Sipher” wrote in the comments for this week’s episode guide entry:
No, we haven’t, so let’s! Who’s your favorite wimp in an MST3K movie or short? I’m gonna have to go with Buzz from “Mr. B Natural.” Ineffectual and a little creepy, he’s really no better at the end of the short, except he can play an instrument. What’s yours? 119 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Wimp”Commenting at Satellite News
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seeing Boggy Creek’s Tim, i understand he and Crenshaw now have a nice little B&B down in the bayou. i’m not saying who’s the wife in that situation. you figure it out.
I actually have to defend a couple of the other choices I’ve read on here.
Trash – Indeed subcontracts everything, but he’s the one who gets back up and takes down Henry Silva after he gets shot. His overall body count isn’t very low either.
The Noodly Principal – I wouldn’t say he’s avoiding responsibility, but rather admitting that he can’t read teens’ minds and giving them a chance to state their own case would be fair to them.
I have to go with Mister Krassner from THE DEAD TALK BACK. I’ve said this before, but I just fell in love with the character. It’s like he’s the one who wrote the movie and he’s trying desperately to convince us he really is cool and smart and admirable, but his fundamental loser-hood keeps tripping him up.
Besides, does anyone else get the odd feeling he had a secret rendezvous with Pearl Forrester about forty-odd years ago?
Davey from San Francisco International. He facial expression never changes and it’s always that look of “what’s happening now? I’m going to miss my neo-rennisance lifestyle” God forbid he goes into the air force, one sign of actual combat and he’ll instantly surrender to the enemy!!
Billy Duncan in Laserblast. Just cause he gets teased by EDDIE DEEZEN!!
Sid Melton in Radar Secret Service, just a whiny little man. How the others in the gang put up with him, who knows?
The professor guy, father of future vampire woman, who has to call El Santo to do his work. And his indeciveness (come back again tomorrow, then leave again!!)
Thought this riff from Hobgoblins would be appropriate:
“You know, there hasn’t been such a glorious battle since the Arnold Stang-Wally Cox fight of 1958.”
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“does anyone else get the odd feeling he had a secret rendezvous with Pearl Forrester about forty-odd years ago?”
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Yes. It all makes sense now.
Btw, push the button, Paul.
There’s hardly anything to add. The kid from Cheating has already been brought up–did he mean to be dishonest? (Or is he just pure evil?) With all deference to Buzz from Mr. B Natural I nominate poor Johnny as the wimpiest kid in any of the shorts because he goes quietly along with his “new friend” Jim both when Jim’s pressuring him to blow off his homework (“you’ve got PLENTY of time!”) and when the ribcage-deprived freak is ordering Johnny not to attend his own disbarment. Seriously, Johnny, go to the damn meeting and defend yourself…but I guess he had to bathe Mother.
Jimmy Wilson of I Accuse My Parents may not be the wimpiest of MST3K wimps when it comes to getting things done–after all, he does manage to kill someone–but he deserves a special award not merely for being the biggest liar but also for being the only guy in all ten seasons who thinks that the first thing to do when chatting up a girl is to start telling her about his mother.
The biggest wuss in the history of MST3K also probably had the greatest payoff. The young man from the Violent Years who was kidnapped and then presumably gang raped by just the cutest bunch of gals a guy could ever ask for.
My first thought is and will always be Mikey from “Teenage Strangler”
2nd Johnny from “Time of the Apes” he whines and cries but… “I don’t care.”
3rd Derek the sensitive alien from Really Old “Teenagers From Outer Space.”
I know the question asks for favorite wimps, not cowards, but you have to admit that Paper Chase guy completely abandoning his girlfriend to Donald Pleasance was pretty classy.
Does anyone else think Paper Chase guy must be a
brother of Russell Crowe- whose mother once
commented that Russell Crowe was her favorite son
where as she cursed the day Paper Chase guy…
all the leaders of the world in Prince of Space…
aaawwww… Mackin!
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Kevin from “Hobgoblins”:
+20 PTS for the name Kevin
+10 PTS for sheer whininess
+50 PTS for the crappiness of the puppets he has to face
+15 PTS for being wimpier than the other two male characters, esp. the really wimpy guy
Honorable mention to the RV guys from Troll 2 – all of them.
The three nerdy geeks from Teenage Strangler, Village of the Giants and Final Sacrifice, no doubt about that!
Five wimps? In no particular order, these five spring immediately to mind.
1. Jo-dee, from A Touch of Satan.
2. Mayor/Captain Polk, from Gunslinger, though he does redeem himself to a degree by facing Miro armed with nothing but a pitchfork.
3. Festus, in Killer Shrews.
4. Kurt in The Brain/Head that Wouldn’t Die
5. Woodsy the Owl in Hercules and the Moon Men
Well I see a lot of people mentioning Troy(“The Final Sacrifice”)and Mikey(“Teenage Strangler”), but I don’t see much talk of my choice. Here it is, in my opinion the most spineless wimp off by far is—Danny!!!(“The Girl In Lovers Lane”). ….favorite Danny riffs “remember folks a backhand will knock him cold for hours” and “Danny likes ya mister”