Tom Servo & Crow - Robot sidekicks on
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER
3000/COM/1988-96/SCI/1997-99, a sci-fi spoof that
was one of cable's hottest cult hits of the
1990s.
Cast of
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Tom Servo (voice of Kevin Murphy) was
shot into space by mad scientists and forced to
watch dreadful B movies with his friends, lab
technician Joel Robinson (Joel Hodgson later
replaced by Mike Nelson), the show's human host
and another robot named Crow (voice of Trace
Beaulieu).
Tom's body consisted of bits of an
old bubble-gum machine, a penny bank and a
flashlight. Crow's body was constructed from a
Lacrosse face mask, a plastic bowling pin and a
soap dish.
The robot's parts reflected the same
poor quality of the movies shown on the program
(for instance, Robots vs. the Aztec Mummy
(1959), and The Giant Spider Invasion
(1975).
Seen as silhouettes at the bottom of
the screen, Tom, Crow and Joel spoofed the
movies with a rapid fire delivery of hip,
irreverent one-liners. Tom and his sharp-tongued
sidekicks moved to the SCI-FI Channel in 1997.
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