List of characters from Mr. Show

This is partial list of characters that have appearead on the HBO sketch comedy series, Mr. Show with Bob and David from 1995 to 1998.

Recurring characters

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Ronnie Dobbs

Ronnie Dobbs (full name: Ronwell Quincy Dobbs) was a habitual criminal regularly caught in the act on Fuzz, a COPS-like program. He was portrayed by David Cross.

Ronnie was an alcoholic spokesperson for the National Entitilitus Foundation. He appeared in a PSA admitting that he was dying of the disease that had no known cause, cure, or even a basic understanding of what it was. He was unable to keep out of trouble and demonstrated a natural talent for attracting the attention of whatever local police force had jurisdiction over him. As his arrests mounted, so did his notoriety. He became the most arrested person in Fuzz history, often brought down after domestic squabbles with his girlfriend.

Dobbs' fortunes changed the day he met Terry Twillstein, (Bob Odenkirk) a cameraman for Fuzz and failed infomercial director. Twillstein was fascinated by Dobbs after noticing he was getting arrested in every city the show filmed in. This led to a strong bond where Twillstein promised to make Ronnie a reality TV star. A deal was struck with the producers of Fuzz, who agreed to create a show in which Ronnie would get arrested in every state of the Union, as well as France and outer space.

Ronnie's story was re-told and expanded in the movie Run Ronnie Run.

Terry Twillstein

Terry Twillstein (Bob Odenkirk) is foppish, manipulative, British television producer who discovers Ronnie Dobbs, and is always looking to use Ronnie for his success. In the Third Season he records, "Fuzz the Musical," starring Ronnie Dobbs, Tammy Dobbs, and police officers who have arrested Ronnie in the past.

Senator Tankerbell

Senator Howel Tankerbell is an ultra-Conservative Southern Dixiecrat Senator. He is portrayed by Bob Odenkirk.

Tankerbell is concerned about the proliferation of obscenity and indecency and subsequently, he sees it everywhere. He participates in a Government program in which certain artists are assigned Senators to monitor them. Tankerbell is assigned David and forces him to wear a tracking collar that shocks him if he attempts to step onto the stage to do the show. Tankerbell also considers art to be something that Government money is wasted on and speaks out against funding it.

Tankerbell appears to be easily "aroused and titillated" by innocuous objects with no inherent sexual value. He is fond of sharing a parable that has an overt sexual theme. There is a strong indication that he indulges at least one paraphilia. He has a ribald sense of humor that is occasionally playful and insulting.

• Transcript of sketch where Tankerbell explains the perils of uninhibited Government spending

Three Times One Minus One

Three Times One Minus One (T.T.O.M.O) is a fictional R&B duo made up of Pootie T. and Wolfgang Amadeus Thelonius Van Funkenmeister The 19th and 3 Quarters (Played by David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, respectively).

They are the performers of a song, "Eww, Girl", which is designed to promote literacy. In an interview on the WPCBCN (White People Co-opting Black Culture Network), both performers discuss the struggles of being white and borrowing black culture for their songs. The duo was honored at the Homage Awards (a send up of the Image Awards), which celebrates the borrowing of black culture by white entertainers. Their song "Goodbye 2 Everyone Ever" garnered them a nomination for a Teardrop Award (Saddest song) at the 24th Annual Song Awards - which they lost to Horace Loeb's "Heaven Better Save Some Tears."

Famous Mortimer

Famous Mortimer is the fictional director of several shows, music videos, and films appearing throughout Mr. Show sketches. He appears only once, as a backgound character. In his one appearance, he was played by comedian Patton Oswalt.

"Droopy"

Dirty and chronically congested, "Droopy" is likely a take on the "lazy twenty-something slacker" stereotype. He loves to messily eat chocolate and, for an unknown reason, wants to work at the front desk of his local museum, though he has few qualifications. Apparently he is the only friend of David Cross' insufferable luddite hipster character. He is played by Bob Odenkirk.

Note: "Droopy" is the name Odenkirk uses when referring to the character; in the show he is nameless.

Blueberry Head

Blueberry Head (played by David Cross) is a blue-haired prop comic, an obvious parody of Carrot Top

Single appearance characters

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Pit-Pat

Pit-Pat is the name of an amorphous, animated character seen in the "Commercials of the Future" sketch from season #1, episode 2. Pit-Pat's voice is supplied by Bob Odenkirk.

Odenkirk and David Cross play two ad men attempting to sell the Globo-Chem company ("Globo-Chem: We own everything so you don't have to") on a new mascot. David refers to Pit-Pat as a "magical, pan-sexual, non-threatening spokesthing!" The purpose of the mascot is revealed in the video advertisements that the ad men have created for Globo-Chem. Each ad features a Globo-Chem product or holding being demonstrated as well as progressively more insistent profanity. Pit-Pat appears at the end to squeal, "Take it from me, I love you".

• UnORIGINAL--transcript of sketch, other Mr. Show info

F.F. Woodycooks

F.F. Woodycooks is a character played by Bob Odenkirk, featured in the first episode of the second season. He hosts a show called "Take Back the Streets", which is similar in form to America's Most Wanted, but with several differences. When a suspect is apprehended, Woodycooks shakes his "Crime Stick" at their actions and refers to them as ding-a-lings. He also commonly refers to himself as "Me".

The character is based on Chicagoan J.J. Bittenbinder, an ex-cop who hosted a television show about crime safety. Mr. Show writer and cast member Paul F. Tompkins has said he was inspired to create the character after seeing an episode of Bittenbinder's show in which the host referred to a group of rapists as "goofs."

Woodycocks, unlike Bittenbinder, owns an Ice Cream franchise with three locations, or "precincts." His ice cream was the official ice cream of the Independent Nations Games.

Panzic Poojaran

Panzic Poojaran is the name of a character played by David Cross. Poojaran is introduced at a press conference in a sketch called "Hunger Strike' that aired in Season 3, show 6. He has subsisted on nothing but water for 23 days and is making his first public appearance. His strike is to draw attention to the plight of his people, although "his people" are never specifically named. It is sponsored by Stenson's condiments.

He is swathed in the traditional garb of his unspecified homeland. He is exceedingly weak and easily distracted. He begins his speech with the simple plea: "I want the world to know...that I am so hungry". He becomes rather lost in the fantasy of eating something, anything, and his focus on his people wavers. His passionate plea for help for his people soon degenerates into illustrated examples of what he would eat that prove just how hungry he is. These include 100 buckets of water chestnuts, which he used to hate, and condiments that people at restaurants "put [it] in a glass and they dare their friends to drink it, and . . . they think it is funny. Right now I would drink it!! And I would thank them for it." He finishes his appearance by expressing his wish that if he dies, he wants to be buried in mashed potatoes ("The lum-lumpy kind with gravies and a gravy boat by the side and ya-ya little yams, too".)

• Script of sketch from unOriginal

Spank

"Spank" (played by David Cross) was a "performance" artist who was prevented from emptying his bowels upon the United States flag.

C.S. Lewis, Jr.

C.S. Lewis, Jr. (played by Bob Odenkirk) is a country-western singer resembling Hank Williams, Jr. and Toby Keith, who performs a pro-American/anti-moon song when the U.S. Government decides to use its technology to blow up the moon. When a chimp rejects pushing the button, an additional song is written mocking the chimp.

Bob Odenkirk revived the character in 2004 in a sketch presented on the BobAndDavid.com website, as a comment on the upcoming presidential election.

The Cock Ring Chicken

The Cock Ring Chicken is a mascot for a cock ring outlet store, whose catch phrase is "any-cock'll-dooo!"

Livingston Brewster

Livingston Brewster (played by David Cross) is a singer-songwriter based on Livingston Taylor, who performs the songs dedicated to the victims of The Devastator in episode 301 "Heaven's Chimney".

Kedzie Matthews

Kedzie Matthews, played by Tom Kenny, is an awful-but-immensely-popular comedian who temporarily replaced Bob during the opening sequence of episode 307 "Bush is a Pussy". It is speculated that he is a satire on comedian Dane Cook.

Bob Lamonta

Bob Lamonta (played by David Cross) An average guy who made a movie about his (made up) struggles through life. Having mentally-handicapped parents who are an embarrassment to him, he begins to run. He keeps running and running until he becomes an Olympic athlete and wins the gold medal. At his (movie) award acceptance speech, he reveals that it was all made up, except for the fact that he "had a mustache for a while, but it made [him] look gay, so... *schnick!*".

Fancy Pants

Fancy Pants was played by Bill Odenkirk, Bob's brother and writer throughout the series' run. He appeared in at least two episodes along with a mention of his name. All he did was walk across the stage during a live segment dressed up in a frilly "pirate's shirt" holding a hankerchief.

Borden Grote

Borden Grote was a method actor who was profiled by Bob Odenkirk on the third episode of the first season, entitled, We regret to inform you. He was played by David Cross.

Grote demonstrated virtually absolute dedication to his craft. He once empirically studied the psychology of crowds in order to play an extra in a crowd scene. He attended medical school for an exceedingly brief cameo in the Mel Brooks fiasco, Badman Whatever.

At the time of his appearance on the program, Grote was recovering from a frontal lobotomy, which he undertook in order to star in a film about mistreatment at a mental institution.

"Grass Valley" Greg Sniper

Grass Valley Greg (David Cross) invented the "delete" button and is the eccentric, over-enthusiastic CEO of the GV coporation ("Where ideas can hang out - and do whatever!") where his employees are paid to find new mistakes. The primary stockholder of Mr. Show, he often interrupts his employees, without prior warning, to take a break for Tofutti, an ice cream substitute. Anyone who refuses may be sent to care for Sniper's retarded goats at his ranch, Nannadu. Within one episode of Mr. Show ("If You're Going To Write A Comedy Scene, You're Going To Have Some Rat Feces In There"), he manages to go bankrupt thanks to, among other reasons, his campaign to legalize tomatoes. In the Mr. Show DVD commentary, Cross says the character was inspired when he read that Microsoft's Paul Allen regularly made his employees listen to Jimi Hendrix.

Willips Brighton

A thinly veiled parody of Brian Wilson, Willips Brighton (Bob Odenkirk) is nominated for a Teardrop Award for his song, "A Mouth Full Of Sores," about his struggle with herpes. He loses to Horace Loeb, who accidentally tosses his teardrop-shaped award into the chest of Brighton's son, killing him. This inspires Willips Brighton to write the song, "Ain't No Fun," which is nominated for the following year's Teardrop Awards. He and Loeb tie for first place, and Brighton stabs Loeb with the award in revenge.

Horace Loeb

Horace Loeb (David Cross) wins a Teardrop Award for his song "Heaven Better Save Some Tears," written in honor of his dead son (an obvious lampoon of Eric Clapton's "Tears In Heaven"). When he wins, he reacts overjoyously, and his acceptance speech is rather self-centered and excited, given the somber subject matter of the song. During his speech, he accidentally lets loose of his award, which flies across the room and stabs the son (Jerry Messing) of Willips Brighton, a fellow nominee. (Brighton is a parody of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.) Loeb is nominated the following year for his tribute to Brighton's son, "There's No More Room In Heaven," and he and Brighton both place first. Loeb's second speech is much like his first, until Brighton stabs him with the award. Loeb had produced a video to be released in the event of his death - a tribute, similar to his previous two songs, to himself.