Favourite assistants in movies

[Stumpy Pepys]

Kurt in The Brain That Wouldn't Die



Torgo in Manos: The Hands of Fate



Franchot in The Astro Zombies



Igor in Young Frankenstein

[hobbes]

The Minnions.

[Plato Shrimp]

Marlene, played by Irm Hermann in The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant

[Toby Gymshorts]

Marcella in Grosse Pointe Blank.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Why are all the "assistants" in the OP people with exaggerated physical abnormalities who were largely unsuited for the role and rude to their bosses? I've been an "assistant" on several occasions in my career and only a few of those things were ever mentioned about me.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Cato maybe wasn't an assistant per se, but deserves a mention for trying to kick the shit out of Clouseau at any and every opportunity.

[Tony C]

Muttley.

[Nefertiti2]

Muttley.

not a film

[3 Colours Red]

But it seems like somebody, somewhere wished there was a Wacky Races film so hard that they didn't let a little thing like it not existing stop them.

[Gangster Octopus]

Benson in Time Bandits.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Benson in Time Bandits.

"Show me...subscriber trunk dialling!"

[Stumpy Pepys]

Why are all the "assistants" in the OP people with exaggerated physical abnormalities who were largely unsuited for the role and rude to their bosses? I've been an "assistant" on several occasions in my career and only a few of those things were ever mentioned about me.

For two-and-a-half years I was a research assistant in a laboratory. However, I take no offence at being portrayed as a leering, sycophantic hunchback.

[Stumpy Pepys]

[Stumpy Pepys]

Muttley.

Pretty much all Hanna-Barbera leads had a sidekick .Yogi Bear (Boo-Boo), Dick Dastardly (Muttley), Touché Turtle (Dum Dum) … I could go on.

[Incandenza]

Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Big Lebowski


Erich von Stroheim in Sunset Blvd.

[Kowalski]

Derek Jacobi in Day of the Jackal

Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles

[Patrick Thistle]

not a film

He appears in Scoob!

Chewbacca gets my vote for best assistant.

Closely followed by Barf in Spaceballs. "Half man, half dog. I'm my.own best friend."