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The "New" Mads
Mrs Pearl Forrester
Pearl is the ring leader of the "new" mads.. She is the only mad to survive
from the Comedy Central days.. She made her first appearance in the middle of
the sixth season, and replaced TV's Frank after he left. Her first actual
appearance on the show was the special Thanksgiving version of episode 701
"Night of the Blood Beast".
Just the facts now, Pearl Forrester is played by Mary Jo Pehl, who has written
for the series for quite some time and has played various parts in the past..
Her reception on the show at first was.. Well.. Not very good, (that's putting
it mildly) but after Dr Forrester left and she took over, she's started to
come out into her own.
Mrs. Forrester (I shudder to think of the Mr Forrester) is much, much, more
evil than Dr Forrester ever was. Period. She is very, very, very evil. Heck
she strangled the second Dr Forrester, and once even un-plugged the power
on the SOL allowing alien life forms to try and infiltrate it.. She also
seems to have the power to control people like her pair of cohorts Professor
Bobo (see below) and the Observer. (again, see below) She occasionally
appears to have a soft-side, but it always turns away, she's pure evil in
every sense of the word..
In her two seasons she has tormented her son, along with Mike and the bots. (for some reason she knows Crow
really well and calls him Art..) Then at the beginning of the eighth season it
was revealed that she was cryogenically frozen and dethawed to become the
ape lawgiver, well, after Mike blew her planet up, she followed him from
planet to planet, picking up the survivors in her ship (A flying VW Bus called
the "Widowmaker") and sending movie after movie to Mike and the bots..
Professor Bobo
Dull witted Professor Bobo, heir to the lineage of Cocoa, Dodo, Lolo, and
Chim-chim, is.. Er, was the leader of the planet of the apes. He was until
the apes (with a big deal of help from Mike) destroyed their planet while
fooling around with a thermo-nuclear device (quote Bobo: "What ever that is.")
Well, as it turns out, Bobo is very stupid, and is not very clean.
Prof Bobo (A professor in what, I don't know) is played by Kevin Murphy (who
also voices Tom Servo) in lots of ape makeup. He's a new addition to the show
in this (the eighth) season. After his planet was blown up, he stowed away
in Pearl's ship, and has followed her around since.. Oh, but don't get Bobo
upset he'll... fling his... doodie at you. Oh, and supposedly, he requires
allot of cleaning... One shivers at the thought..
Observer
Observer belongs to another alien species that Mike has destroyed. Observer
is an... Observer, a species that was very very powerful and intelligent, but
not too bright at the same time. To quote a famous philosopher "Even the
most intelligent of creatures, can be down right stupid." The Observers
did everything with their mind, as so, they had no use for bodies (which they
had anyway) and thus had their brains in a jar that their bodies held. They
also had no need for food, they instead ate pills, how many pills? Several
bowls of pills a day, in other words, food.
This paticular Observer was the dummest of the Observers, Observer (played
by Bill Corbitt, who also voices Crow) actually had a lower test score than
Tom Servo, and had his brain chomped on by Prof Bobo.. He now flies around
with Pearl and Bobo in the Widowmaker going from planet to planet and force
feeding Mike and the bots movies.. Oh, by the way, that famous
philosopher is none other than MST's own Mike Nelson.. Go figure.
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