The 1965 TV series Lost in Space, had a cast that included the Robot B-9, and Dr. Zachary Smith.

Dr. Smith is famous for hurling creative, alliterative insults at the Robot (often starting with “You…” or “Why you…”).

To prepare you early for the anti-anti-Clanker movement it is proper to have some colorful metaphors handy. Here is the complete documented list of every name-calling insult Dr. Smith directs at the Robot across the series:

•Addlepated Amateur

•Addlepated Armor Bearer

•Aluminum Canary

•Animated Weather Station

•Arrogant Automation

•As Protective as a Leaky Umbrella

•Assassin

•Astigmatic Automation

•Automated Oaf

•Babbling Birdbrain

•Babbling Bumpkin

•Bellicose Bumpkin

•Big Mouth

•Blithering Blatherskite

•Blithering Booby

•Blithering Bumpkin

•Bloated Blimp

•Blundering Bag of Bolts

•Booby

•Bookmaking Booby

•Broken-down Has-been

•Brutish Product of the Mineral World

•Bubble Brain / Bubblehead / Bubble-Headed Booby (by far the most common)

•Bulbous Bumpkin

•Bumbling Bag of Bolts

•Bumbling Birdbrain

•Bumbling Booby

•Bumbling Bucket of Bolts

•Bumbling Cracker Barrel

•Bumptious Booby

•Bumptious Braggart

•Bungler

•Bungling Incompetent

•Cackling Cacophony

•Cackling Canister

•Cackling Clod

•Cackling Cookoo

•Cackling Coward

•Cantankerous Clod

•Cantankerous, Cold-Hearted Clod

•Caterwauling Clod

•Cautious Clump

•Chattering Magpie

•Clanking Clod

•Clod

•Clod-Like Collection of Condensors

•Clumsy Clod

•Clumsy Clump

•Clumsy Cloot

•Complete Moron

•Computerized Clod

•Computerized Clump

•Confused Compass

•Coward

•Cowardly Clump

•Cumbersome Clod

•Cumbersome Clump

•Cybernetic Simpleton

•Cybernetic Skeptic

•Defective Detective

•Dehumanized Lie Dispenser

•Demented Diode

•Deplorable Dummy

•Deplorable Dunderhead

•Digitized Dunce

•Dippity Dunce

•Disreputable Dunce

•Disreputable Dunderhead

•Doddering Dunderhead

•Elevator Operator

•Evasive Coward

•Ferrous Fraud

•Garrulous Gargoyle

•Infamous Informer

•Insolent Hunk of Junk

•Lame-brained Lump

•Lugubrious Lump

•Mumbling Mass of Metal

•Nervous Ninny

•Nickel-plated Nincompoop

•Nincompoop

•Ninny

•Nondescript Ninny

•Noxious Ninny

•Obsolete Oaf

•Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal

•Overcautious Concoction

•Overgrown Ninny

•Oversized Oaf

•Parsimonious Puppet

•Pathetic Pomposity

•Pitiable Pipsqueak

•Plasticized Parrot

•Pompous Pipsqueak

•Pot-Bellied Prankster

•Pot-Bellied Pumpkin

•Powered Prankster

•Preening Popinjay

•Presumptuous Pipsqueak

•Presumptuous Popinjay

•Pretentious Popinjay

•Primitive Pile of Pistons

•Proverbial Neanderthal Ninny

•Puny Pipsqueak

•Pusillanimous Pipsqueak

•Pusillanimous Pinhead / Puppet

•Ridiculous Robot

•Silly Goose

•Silly Old Ninny

•Silly Sausage

•Silly Sloth

•Silver-Plated Sellout

•Simple Simon

•Snickering Cinderbox

•Sorry Specimen of Computerhood

•Steely-Eyed Sorcerer

•Stupid Friend

•Tarnished Trumpet

•Tattletale

•Terrified Mechanical Dunderhead

•Tin Monster

•Tin-Plated Fool / Fraud / Snitch / Tattletale / Traitor / Tyrant

•Tintinnabulating Tin Can

•Tiresome Thesaurus

•Traitor

•Traitorous Electronic Junk Pile

•Traitorous Tintinnabulation

•Traitorous, Tin-Plated Fugitive from a Junkyard

•Traitorous, Transistorized Toad

•Treasonous Tyrant

•Unctuous Underling

•Uncultured Clump

•Ungrateful Underling

•Ungrateful Wretch

•Unspeakable Insult

•Weakling

•Worrywart

•Worthless, Electronic Scrapheap

•Wretch

The frequently classics are: “Bubble-headed booby!”, “Garrulous gargoyle!”, “Tin-plated traitor!”, “Cowardly clump!”, “Babbling birdbrain!”, “Computerized clod!”, and “Primitive pile of pistons!”.

Stand ready!