Dec 15
Marvin comments: Lord of the Rubbish Bins
Published 1962
(Average: 6.38 out of 10)
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Marvin comments: Lord of the Rubbish Bins
Published 1962
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December 15th, 2022 at 11:13 am
The robots are headed to a cliff to commit suicide like lemmings don’t. How do I know? They built one and this happened.
December 15th, 2022 at 1:10 pm
To be fair to the cover artist, they’ve most likely nailed the expression you’d be sporting if you’d constructed an army of robots put on an extravagantly poncy outfit including ugly bling to give them their orders, then watched them turn their back on you and trundle off before you can say a word to them.
I’d feel a bit peeved meself, and I’m sure it would show in my face…
December 15th, 2022 at 1:16 pm
Can’t fool me, that’s Kang.
Other half of the double. Robots vs mutants. I smell an MCU phase 7 movie.
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December 15th, 2022 at 3:26 pm
Too late, Robin realized that getting drunk and pushing random buttons in Batman’s time ship prototype was a bad idea…
December 15th, 2022 at 3:30 pm
For those of us who remember ‘Galloping Galaxies!’, the idea of a platoon of robots voiced by Kenneth Williams is vaguely appealing (and has to be better than Alan Tudyk’s crap ‘Briddish’ accent in ‘Andor’).
For those of us who remember Victor Lewis-Smith and his recycled jokes… ‘Ooh! Ooh! White wee–wee!’.
December 15th, 2022 at 6:13 pm
@Tat Wood
Incredibly NSFW Victor Lewis Smith gay Daleks clip below, as the Americans might be unaware of that stuff:
https://youtu.be/z3pHvH8sPT4
December 15th, 2022 at 6:14 pm
The Last Man in a Universe of Teapots
December 15th, 2022 at 7:23 pm
I see that being the Last Man (thus no one to impress) hasn’t caused him to lose his, er, distinctive styling.
Don’t we have an “arms akimbo” tag?
@Max: Poncy is the perfect word here.
@fred: So the other half of the book is worth reading.
Also, maybe back in 1962, but nowadays Kang’s established as a Black man.
@Emster: LOL. That outfit is definitely Robin-like. Good eye.
@Max: Thanks for the edification.
December 15th, 2022 at 7:57 pm
The robots are visibly shunning him for his lack of taste in clothing.
December 15th, 2022 at 9:19 pm
@Max: I was hoping to spare them that – they have a low enough opinion of us as it is. But here’s a robot who talks like Kenneth Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRQeXE-R4pc (Seppo Translation – he fills a cultural space somewhere between Paul Lynde and Tony Randall but he and his characters had a knack of abruptly reverting to cockney volgarity and semi-fake hissy-fits. And he did lots of children’s television, which is like Truman Capote being a regular on Sesame Street.)
December 15th, 2022 at 11:08 pm
Nah, these robots are too wimpy to go around yelling “Exterminate!” The most they can muster up is “Mildly inconvenience.”
December 16th, 2022 at 12:16 am
On first glance I saw a guy sneering at a lot of mid-century Christmas trees that he’d done a half-hearted job of decorating. “Let’s see if she asks me to decorate again next year.”
December 16th, 2022 at 12:21 am
Checking out the robot’s rear chassis, Ted realized he’d been the last man in a universe of robots a bit too long.
December 16th, 2022 at 11:10 pm
And just think: in thirty years, I can retire!
December 16th, 2022 at 11:11 pm
[Can’t delete previous entry. Bleagh.]
And just think: in thirty years, I can retire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJKcdlj-Uiw
December 17th, 2022 at 5:47 pm
@Nomad: GSS – I don’t remember that one from the show, but it brings back fond memories of parents laughing at jokes that the kids didn’t get.
December 17th, 2022 at 8:56 pm
@Nomad: Before there was a Simpsons’ reference for everything, there was Bugs and the gang. Still is.
Perfect visual match.