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No more danger, Will Robinson

20/01/09

Egofreaky

It's ok B-9, you're in a place where you there's no danger, and you don't have to flail your arms around no more *sniff*

It seems that B-Grade cult celebrities just can’t stop dying this year. I mean, we had the warlock from Fantasy Island, and Betty Page popped off only a week ago (I tried to write a post about it, but when it ended up being over a thousand words long and none of it seemed bad enough to cut, I figured it was too long for most people).
And now the traigc passing of Bob May, best known for playing Robot B9 in Lost in Space, died yesterday.

A lot of you have absolutely no idea who is, but you’d definitely remember him flailing his arms about as Dick Tufield (the voice actor) screamed “Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!” from somewhere off camera every time Johnathan Harris (Dr Smith) got close to Billy Mum (Will Robinson).

"Will, my dear boy, can you guess why my trousers are in absentia!?"

Frankly, the only danger in that show really was of the Doc getting far too sexually frustrated and getting it on with the kids. Whilst I cast no aspersions on Harris, who was a fantastic ham actor and amazingly heterosexual, you could never be too sure about what the Doc was into… But I digress.

B-9 was quite possibly the arcehtype for a lot of the other robots out there. Elements of his design and personality are clearly evident in other more modern and equally (if not more) famous robots, such as Marvin the Paranoid Android. Let’s face it, 1960s robots were clearly classy, even if amazingly useless in their design. I mean, why pretend to have legs if you’re clearly getting around on wheels? Surely caterpillar treads would have been far more efficient, and would have provided a base that allowed for storage of many more useful items, and possibly an armament.

Of course, the real tragedy is that now the B-9′s that you could purchase and own for yourself at www.lostinspacerobot.com have become that much more tragic and endearing.

I think the real tragedy is that no one has attempted to kill that stupid robot that’s Nova FMs logo.

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