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Character Name: Tom Servo Character Series: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Character Age: 10 + about 500. It's a long story. Background: In The Not-Too-Distant Future, Next Sunday A.D...
When Dr. Clayton Forrestor and Larry Erhart captured Joel Robinson and shot him into space on the Satellite of Love, Joel discovered that the Satellite had a number of parts to use in building something for him. While he could have had control as to where the movies began and end, he used those special parts to make his robot friends - Crow T. Robot, Gypsy, Cambot and, of course, Tom Servo. Over the course of the years, Servo ended up getting a number of changes to him - a modified voice, a temporary new head (that proved to be more of a bother than not and others. However, Servo's life was flipped when Joel was launched out of the Satellite by Gypsy (mistaking an attempt by Forrestor and his new assistant TV's Frank to kill temp worker Mike Nelson) and was replaced by the aforementioned Mike.
Within two years of Mike being sent up, everything fell apart - for the bad guys at least. TV's Frank ascended to Second Banana Heaven while Dr. Forrestor's plan ran out of funding Forrestor pulled the plug and attempted to destroy the Sattellite of Love through reentry, but Crow and Tom were able to pull themselves out of it and shot themselves to the edge of the universe, becoming energy. 500 years would pass before Servo and the others would return to normal (well, five minutes for Crow, but this isn't his app, now is it?) and returned to Earth, discovering that it was overran by apes and the leader was Pearl Forrestor, Dr. Forrestor's mother. When a group of cultists discovered a powerful missle and accidentally had it armed, the crew of the Satellite escaped before the Earth was destroyed, but not before Pearl started chasing after him, taking Professor Bobo, the last ape with her. Throughout the Endless Chase, the group bounced from world to world (Mike accidentally blowing them up in the process, including the homeworld of the Observers, who professed that Servo himself was probably one of the most intellegent creatures they knew. Besides themselves, of course.) before ending up going through a wormhole and ending up in Ancient Rome, where Servo and the others were hailed as gods... until Bobo blew Pearl's cover. Thankfully (or unthankfully), the groups escaped and made their way back to present times.
(Servo's being picked up at the end of season 8 - "Space Mutiny") Personality: Between himself and his "brother" Crow, Tom is probably the more sophisticated of the theater-going bots. He has a sense of style and prestige that isn't really apparent with the other bots. Like his creator Joel, Tom tends to be the one to modify himself to suit his own needs and has even built a few things, like a "peaceful" Death Ray - which he promptly used to shoot Crow with. He also has a thing with science and knowledge, as he's done a planetarium show using his body (which Crow ruined with "Uranus" jokes), scolded Mike over poor encyclopedias and has even shown to be able to speak a bit of French (or perhaps Canadian French)
However, despite the more sophisticated tastes, he has a very petty and arrogant side. He's snapped at people for minor infractions and even attacked people because of those infractions. Most of those have been aimed at Crow, though. For example, Crow ruined a planetarium show with "Uranus" jokes. In retaliation, Servo attacked Crow with a biplane, shooting up his snazzy new car. He's even told Gypsy, when she made mention that she "doesn't understand", that "No one understands me. I'm the wind, baby!" As well, when Crow attempted to start working out, Servo ended up racing in incredibly buff and ready to rip the wind out of Crow's sails. He's even gone so far as to taunt Mike from time to time, such as Mike's admittance that he wet his pants during a 10K run when he was a kid and taunting him over destroying the Hubble Telescope. He's also been known to steal and use Mike's credit cards from time to time, much to Mike's annoyance. However, he doesn't do this to Joel, mostly because Joel's his creator and he holds him in a much more higher esteem than Mike, who's more of a brother figure to him.
As well, he's very sensitive about his short-comings. Despite being a sophisticated robot, he's also very short. And his arms don't work. He's had a number of modifications done in order to make himself look taller (mostly by building up his hoverskirt) and tends to add in muscular arms from time to time. However, all of these changes are purely cosmetic and he's brought down to Earth very painfully (such as soothing him by forcing and rubbing Vasoline in his mouth for the skirting modding and by Gypsy kicking him in the back of the dome (again, don't ask)) and he's quickly back to normal before long. Abilities: Servo is basically a 1-2 foot tall robot made of a gumball machine top, a "Barrel Full of Monkeys" barrel, slinky arms that don't work and a hoverskirt. And he talks. And hovers.
However, Tom (like the rest of the series) runs on the MST3K Mantra (the last lyrics go "If you're wonering how (Joel/Mike) eats and breathes/and other science facts (La, La, La!)/Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show,/I should really just relax/for Mystery Science Theater 3000!" (TWAAANG!)"), which means if something odd and out of place happens, don't worry about it - the people running the show aren't. This is how someone like Tom can type on typewriters, pilot airplanes and spacecraft, build Death Rays and drive cars with ease when his arms don't work at all. Sample Entry:[Well, isn't this a surprise - hovering around Mayfield is a robot of sorts that looked like it wandered out of the junkyard. It might have at one time, who knows. Either way, his head darts back and forth, looking at the city around him.]
Bright, bland, the same thing. Jeeze, did that wormhole drop me off at the "Leave It To Beaver" set? Or even worse, one of those 50's informational shorts! Brr! [his body jerks around in a shiver!]
Mommy! Look! It's a pig!
[Servo turns to see one of the drone kids pointing at him. He's quite indignent at what he was just called]
A pig?! Well, I NEVER! I have you know that I am a robot and probably a lot more sophisticated than you are, you little brat!
And the pig talks! He's funny!
I am NOT a pig!
[Before Servo can go any further, he's cut off by the sounds of barking - a dog has taken notice of him and has decided the poor robot is going to be his chew toy!]
AUGH! RUN! MAD DOG! [and the little red robot hovers off at top speed, the dog running after it. People might find him a few minutes later, a happy chew toy.] I've never been so humiliated...!
Tom Servo | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Not Reserved!
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Character Name: Tom Servo
Character Series: Mystery Science Theater 3000
Character Age: 10 + about 500. It's a long story.
Background: In The Not-Too-Distant Future, Next Sunday A.D...
When Dr. Clayton Forrestor and Larry Erhart captured Joel Robinson and shot him into space on the Satellite of Love, Joel discovered that the Satellite had a number of parts to use in building something for him. While he could have had control as to where the movies began and end, he used those special parts to make his robot friends - Crow T. Robot, Gypsy, Cambot and, of course, Tom Servo. Over the course of the years, Servo ended up getting a number of changes to him - a modified voice, a temporary new head (that proved to be more of a bother than not and others. However, Servo's life was flipped when Joel was launched out of the Satellite by Gypsy (mistaking an attempt by Forrestor and his new assistant TV's Frank to kill temp worker Mike Nelson) and was replaced by the aforementioned Mike.
Within two years of Mike being sent up, everything fell apart - for the bad guys at least. TV's Frank ascended to Second Banana Heaven while Dr. Forrestor's plan ran out of funding Forrestor pulled the plug and attempted to destroy the Sattellite of Love through reentry, but Crow and Tom were able to pull themselves out of it and shot themselves to the edge of the universe, becoming energy. 500 years would pass before Servo and the others would return to normal (well, five minutes for Crow, but this isn't his app, now is it?) and returned to Earth, discovering that it was overran by apes and the leader was Pearl Forrestor, Dr. Forrestor's mother. When a group of cultists discovered a powerful missle and accidentally had it armed, the crew of the Satellite escaped before the Earth was destroyed, but not before Pearl started chasing after him, taking Professor Bobo, the last ape with her. Throughout the Endless Chase, the group bounced from world to world (Mike accidentally blowing them up in the process, including the homeworld of the Observers, who professed that Servo himself was probably one of the most intellegent creatures they knew. Besides themselves, of course.) before ending up going through a wormhole and ending up in Ancient Rome, where Servo and the others were hailed as gods... until Bobo blew Pearl's cover. Thankfully (or unthankfully), the groups escaped and made their way back to present times.
(Servo's being picked up at the end of season 8 - "Space Mutiny")
Personality: Between himself and his "brother" Crow, Tom is probably the more sophisticated of the theater-going bots. He has a sense of style and prestige that isn't really apparent with the other bots. Like his creator Joel, Tom tends to be the one to modify himself to suit his own needs and has even built a few things, like a "peaceful" Death Ray - which he promptly used to shoot Crow with. He also has a thing with science and knowledge, as he's done a planetarium show using his body (which Crow ruined with "Uranus" jokes), scolded Mike over poor encyclopedias and has even shown to be able to speak a bit of French (or perhaps Canadian French)
However, despite the more sophisticated tastes, he has a very petty and arrogant side. He's snapped at people for minor infractions and even attacked people because of those infractions. Most of those have been aimed at Crow, though. For example, Crow ruined a planetarium show with "Uranus" jokes. In retaliation, Servo attacked Crow with a biplane, shooting up his snazzy new car. He's even told Gypsy, when she made mention that she "doesn't understand", that "No one understands me. I'm the wind, baby!" As well, when Crow attempted to start working out, Servo ended up racing in incredibly buff and ready to rip the wind out of Crow's sails. He's even gone so far as to taunt Mike from time to time, such as Mike's admittance that he wet his pants during a 10K run when he was a kid and taunting him over destroying the Hubble Telescope. He's also been known to steal and use Mike's credit cards from time to time, much to Mike's annoyance. However, he doesn't do this to Joel, mostly because Joel's his creator and he holds him in a much more higher esteem than Mike, who's more of a brother figure to him.
As well, he's very sensitive about his short-comings. Despite being a sophisticated robot, he's also very short. And his arms don't work. He's had a number of modifications done in order to make himself look taller (mostly by building up his hoverskirt) and tends to add in muscular arms from time to time. However, all of these changes are purely cosmetic and he's brought down to Earth very painfully (such as soothing him by forcing and rubbing Vasoline in his mouth for the skirting modding and by Gypsy kicking him in the back of the dome (again, don't ask)) and he's quickly back to normal before long.
Abilities: Servo is basically a 1-2 foot tall robot made of a gumball machine top, a "Barrel Full of Monkeys" barrel, slinky arms that don't work and a hoverskirt. And he talks. And hovers.
However, Tom (like the rest of the series) runs on the MST3K Mantra (the last lyrics go "If you're wonering how (Joel/Mike) eats and breathes/and other science facts (La, La, La!)/Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show,/I should really just relax/for Mystery Science Theater 3000!" (TWAAANG!)"), which means if something odd and out of place happens, don't worry about it - the people running the show aren't. This is how someone like Tom can type on typewriters, pilot airplanes and spacecraft, build Death Rays and drive cars with ease when his arms don't work at all.
Sample Entry: [Well, isn't this a surprise - hovering around Mayfield is a robot of sorts that looked like it wandered out of the junkyard. It might have at one time, who knows. Either way, his head darts back and forth, looking at the city around him.]
Bright, bland, the same thing. Jeeze, did that wormhole drop me off at the "Leave It To Beaver" set? Or even worse, one of those 50's informational shorts! Brr! [his body jerks around in a shiver!]
Mommy! Look! It's a pig!
[Servo turns to see one of the drone kids pointing at him. He's quite indignent at what he was just called]
A pig?! Well, I NEVER! I have you know that I am a robot and probably a lot more sophisticated than you are, you little brat!
And the pig talks! He's funny!
I am NOT a pig!
[Before Servo can go any further, he's cut off by the sounds of barking - a dog has taken notice of him and has decided the poor robot is going to be his chew toy!]
AUGH! RUN! MAD DOG! [and the little red robot hovers off at top speed, the dog running after it. People might find him a few minutes later, a happy chew toy.] I've never been so humiliated...!