Well, this one went south real fast. What was supposed to be a tribute to Lost In Space, (the original), and the impact it had on a lot of us went a little bit sideways. A guy on you tube sent me a link to a list, and i went searching for more, and here we go.
Forget John, and Don, and the rest of them. No need to discuss why a man would send his teenage blonde daughter into the desert with a pilot here, or a few other things.
This is about the true, the real, the one and the only Doctor Zachery Smith, the true hero of that show. And I can prove it.
If it hadn't been for Smith, the show would have maybe lasted a season. Therefore, Smith is the true hero, so pppttthhhhh. LOL.
Yeah I know, but we all came to love that lunatic, and he is seriously the most remembered cast member from that show, except for the Robot, and maybe Will.
But Smith's insults were one of the things we all waited for each episode, especially when they were aimed at the Robot. And basically they always were, except for a few times. However, here is a list, partial I am sure, of some of the insults he used for the Robot.
Animated Hunk of Machinery
Animated Weather Station
Arrogant Automation
As Protective as a Leaky Umbrella
Assassin
Astigmatic Automaton
Automated Oaf
Babbling Birdbrain
Babbling Bumpkin
Bellicose Bumpkin
Benedict Arnold
Big Mouth
Blithering Blatherskite
Blithering Booby
Blithering Bumpkin
Blundering Bag of Bolts
Booby
Book Making Booby
Broken down Has Been
Brutish Product of the Mineral World
Bubble Brain
Bubble Headed Booby
Bubble Head
Bulbous Bumpkin
Bumbling Bag of Bolts
Bumbling Birdbrain
Bumbling Booby
Bumbling Bucket of Bolts
Bumbling Cracker Barrel
Bumptious Booby
Bumptious Braggart
Bungler
Bungling Incompetent
Cackling Cacophony
Cackling Canister
Cackling Clod
Cackling Cuckoo
Cackling Coward
Cantankerous Clod
Cantankerous Cold Hearted Clod
Caterwauling Clod
Cautious Clump
Chattering Magpie
Clanking Clod
Clod
Clod Like Collection of Condensers
Clumsy Clod
Clumsy Clump
Clumsy Clout
Clunker
Complete Moron
Computerized Clod
Computerized Clump
Confused Compass
Coward
Cowardly Clump
Cumbersome Clump
Cybernetic Simpleton
Cybernetic Skeptic
Defective Detective
Dehumanized Lie Dispenser
Demented Diode
Deplorable Dummy
Deplorable Dunderhead
Despoty Dunce
Digitized Dunce
Dippity Dunce
Disreputable Dunce
Disreputable Dunderhead
Doddering Dunderhead
Doctor Dunderhead
Dunce
Dunderhead
Dundering Dolt
Elephantine Adam
Evasive Coward
Ferrous Frankenstein
Fiend in Tin clothing
Floundering Flunky
Fool
Foolish Fop
Frightful Fractious Frump
Frozen Eskimo
Fugitive from a Junk Heap
Fugitive from a Scrap Metal Yard
Fugitive from a Scrap Heap
Galumphing 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
Idiot
Ignominious Ignoramus
Ill Informed Ignoramus
Impersonal Collection of Inanimate Hardware
Incompetent Idiot
Incompetent Walking Ingrate
Ineffective Ineptitude
Inept Goldbricker
Infamous Informer
Ingrate
Inguitive Ingratitude
Insensitive Brute
Insensitive Clump
Insensitive Idiot
Insensitive Machine
Insipient Aptitude
Iron Born Ingrate
Irresponsible Wine Bevier
Jabbering Jackanapes
Jabbering Jeremiah
Jabbering Judas
Judas
Juvenile Junk Pile
Know Nothing Numbskull
Lead Lined Lump
Lead Lined Lothario
Lily Livered Lump
Lily Livered Lead Lined Lump
Little Mother
Lugubrious Lump
Lugubrious Laggard
Ludicrous Lump
Mass of Fear
Mealy Mouthed Rogue
Mechanical Meddler
Mechanical Misery
Mechanical Misfit
Mechanical Murderer
Meddler
Medical School Dropout
Mediocre Misfit
Mental Midget
Mess of Metal
Metallic Murderer
Myna Bird
Miserable Mass of Metal
Miserable Mechanism
Misguided Mechanical Misery
Misshapen Mummy
Monster
Monstrous
Mechanized Misguided Moron
Monstrous Metallurgical Meddler
Monstrous Mountebank
Mister Wrongway Computer
Mumbling Mass of Metal
My Brave Hero
My Insensitive Friend
Nattering Ninny
Neanderthal Ninny
Negligent Ninny
Nervous Ninny
Nickel Plated Nincompoop
Nickeling Ninny
Nincompoop
Ninny
Noxious Ninny
Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal
Obsolete Oaf
Old Booby
Overcautious Concoction
Overgrown Ninny
Oversized Oaf
Parsimonious Puppet
Pathetic Pomposity
Pedagogical Pipsqueak
Pitiable Pipsqueak
Palatalized Parrot
Pompous Pipsqueak
Pot Bellied Prankster
Powered Prankster
Preening Popinjay
Presumptuous Popinjay
Presumptuous Pipsqueak
Primitive Pile of Pistons
Proverbial Neanderthal Ninny
Puny Pipsqueak
Pusillanimous Pinhead
Pusillanimous Pipsqueak
Pusillanimous Puncher
Pusillanimous Puppet
Puselous Tyrant
Quivering Quintessence of Fear
Ramshackle Romeo
Real Great Goose
Ridiculous Robot
Ridiculous Roustabout
Ridiculous Ruin
Robust Rockhound
Roly Poly Rowdy
Rusty Rasputin
Sanctimonious Scatterbrain
Scurrilous Scatterbrain
Sententious Sloth
Sickening Cybernetic
Silent Sentinel
Silly Goose
Silly Old Ninny
Silly Sausage
Silly Sloth
Silly Looking Bucket of Bolts
Silver Plated Sellout
Simple Simon
Snickering Cinder Box
Sorry Specimen of Computerhood
Steely Eyed Sorcerer
Stupid Friend
Stubborn Clatterbrain
Tarnished Trumpet
Tattletale
Terrified Mechanical Dunderhead
Tin Monster
Tin Plated Fool
Tin Plated Fraud
Tin Plated Tattletale
Tin Plated Tintinnabulation
Tin Plated Traitor
Tin Plated Tyrant
Tintinnabulating Tin Can
Tiresome Thesaurus
Traitor
Traitorous Tintinnabulation
Traitorous Tin Plated Fugitive from a Junkyard
Traitorous Transistor Toad
Treasonous Tyrant
Uncultured Clump
Ungrateful Underling
Ungrateful Wretch
Unspeakable Insult
Unxious Underling
Weakling
Worrywart
Worthless Electronic Scrapheap
Wretch
And of course we all remember Dr. Smith's versions of "Spare me the...." or "Spare me your..."
Here is a list of some of those as well.
Accurate
Appraisals (1)
Apologies
(1)
Asinine
Ad-libs (1)
Asinine
Advice (1)
Asinine
Axioms (1)
Bullring
Dramatics (1)
Caustic
Comments (1)
Conundrums
(1)
Dire Doubts
(1)
Direful
Doubts (1)
Dull Cliches
you learned at you mother's knee (1)
Explanations
(1)
Fancy
Rigmarole (1)
Feeble
Attempts at Humor (3)
Feeble Jokes
(1)
Gratitude
(1)
Inane
Innuendoes (1)
Insulting
Innuendoes (1)
Moralizations
(1)
Moralizing
(1)
Obtuse
Opinions (1)
Opinions (1)
Platitudes
(1)
Pleasantries
(1)
Poisonous
Barbs (4)
Poisonous
Platitudes (1)
Ridiculous
Remarks (1)
Scientific
Lectures (1)
Technicalities
(1)
Unfunny
Jokes (1)
Vivid
Recollections (1)
Warnings (2)
Womanly
Intuition (1)
Youthful
Enthusiasm (1)
So in conclusion, his most famous line has brought him immortality after all.
"Never Fear, Smith Is Here." And so he shall be, forever.
Thank you Jonathan Harris.
6 comments:
The numbers in ()'s are how many times it was said. As for the insult list itself, I couldn't find an agreement anywhere on how many times it was said.
And to be honest, even if I had the time to sit down and watch them all right now, I'd forget to keep track of them anyway. I'd be so busy laughing my arse off, I'd lose track and be starting over every half hour.
Smith was someone you loved to hate...for me, I could tell what the tone of next week's show would be by how loud and drawn out Smith's scream would be. If it was long and drawn out horror then you knew you were in for some good stuff next week for sure!
My only bad moment with the show was when Harris and Mumy did an "anniversary" show...No one looked like they wanted to be there and the robot was a tattered mess. They hadn't even bothered to prep the damn thing...whoever was doing the robot was out of sync with the voice. The quips Harris was so well known for seemed strained and contrived, the cuts were great and I loved the history but with both stars obviously working for a paycheck just left me tired and sad
Mummy especially. Harris was old, and you could see there he didn't look in to good of health.
Can't say for sure of course.
Someone I did admire was Jonathan Frid, (the one and only Barnabas in my book). He kept going to the Dark Shadows conventions until his health finally stopped him.
He was one of the few that stayed with his fans throughout the years.
Forgot to mention, it's on metv on Saturdays at 8. They'rein the 3rd season now though. When things really went from crazy to batty.
OFF TOPIC! lol I think before science fiction really set its hooks in me, I was a closet Dark Shadows fan. Yeah Frid was the man for one reason, he owned his character. There was never any question that he owned this complex and mysterious person.
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