• Any voice provided by Trace Beaulieu other than that for “Crow” (There were no physical appearances by Trace other than as Dr. F.)
• Any physical appearance or voice provided by Pat Brantseg, other than as “Gypsy.”
• Any physical appearance by Paul Chaplin and any voice provided by Paul Chaplin other than for “Ned the Nanite.”
• Any physical appearance by Bill Corbett other than as “Observer” and any voice provided by Bill Corbett other than for “Crow.”
• Any physical appearance by Jim Mallon and any voice provided by Jim Mallon other than for “Gypsy.”
• Any physical appearance by Kevin Murphy other than as “Prof. Bobo” and any voice provided by Kevin Murphy other than for “Tom Servo” or “Wade the Nanite.”
• Any physical appearance by or voice provided by Michael J. Nelson prior to episode 512; any physical appearance by or voice provided by Michael J. Nelson other than as “Mike Nelson” subsequent to episode 512.
• Any physical appearance by or voice provided by Mary Jo Pehl prior to episode 701; any physical appearance by or voice provided by Mary Jo Pehl subsequent to episode 701 other than that as “Mrs. Pearl Forrester.”
• Any physical appearance by or voice provided by Frank Conniff other than as “TV’s Frank.”
• Any appearance by or voice provided by anyone else.
There were no “guest” appearances by Joel Hodgson (other than in episode 1001) or Josh Weinstein.
NOT included is any time a regular character is dressed as, disguised as or is impersonating someone else, i.e. Crow as Jay Leno, Frank as the Hypno-Helio-Static-Stasis doctor, Mike as the Frugal Gourmet, Servo as Steisand, etc. Also not included are the “Mole People” or the many voices of “Magic Voice.”
There were so many great ones, but my picks for the very best are:
• Mike as Jack Perkins in episodes 310- FUGITIVE ALIEN/701T- NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST
• Mike as Michael Feinstein in episodes 312- GAMERA VS. GUIRON/701T- NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST.
• Mike as Morrisey in episode 403- CITY LIMITS.
• Mike as Torgo in episodes 424- MANOS, THE HANDS OF FATE/508- OPERATION DOUBLE 007/523- VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS/614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL/620- DANGER!! DEATH RAY!/624- SAMSON VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN.
• Mike as Eddie Nelson in episode 821- TIME CHASERS.
• Jim as the voice of Monad in episode 706- LASERBLAST.
• Frank as Gooch in episode 202- THE SIDEHACKERS.
• Kevin as Santa in episodes 521- SANTA CLAUS/614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL.
• Bridget as Nuveena in episodes 524- 12 TO THE MOON/614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL.
• Paul as Pitch in episodes 521- SANTA CLAUS/ 614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL/ 701T- NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST.
• Mary Jo as Jan in the Pan in episodes 513- THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE/614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL/616- RACKET GIRLS.
• Bill as Krankor in episodes 816- PRINCE OF SPACE/819- INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN.
Honorable mention
• Beez as Steffi the Babysitter in episode 908- THE TOUCH OF SATAN.
• Jack Beaulieu was Old Forrester in episode 706- LASERBLAST.
• The late Humphrey the dog as the wolf in episode 904- WEREWOLF.
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One more, though it probably doesnt qualify, is Mike as Captain Janeway in Laserblast.
Trace as Mr. Spock on many riffs, such as “I’m not going back, Jim.”
Thinking about this topic really emphasizes for me how GREAT the show was the first few years when you had both Joel and Mike on the show. Joel’s creativity and exuberant style of humor coupled with Mike’s frequent and terrfic, well-played “guest” appearances as wacky and goofy visitors to the SOL or Deep 13 were a great combination. As good as the show was right up until the last episode, I never stopped missing the level it was at before show 513.
Any and all of the trailer park inhabitants.
Don’t know if the goofy country songs count as a guest star, but they WERE funny—-“When you killed me, I DIED…” — love that one.
On a related note, speaking of guest stars — for those of you who saw Cinematic Titanic’s Doomsday Machine: In the part where they were making fun of how the movie just changed acotrs at the end, who was the MSTerious stand in (with the Big Head) who took over for Josh for about half a minute?
HMMMMM…
actors, not acotrs.
Mike as Morrissey is probably my all-time favorite, because I’m just a wee bit obsessed with Moz. It made me laugh sooo much the first time I saw it.
The two other roles played by Mike that I love the most are whenever he’s Torgo (especially the episode – can’t think of the name now – where Torgo comes for a job interview at Deep 13) or Jack Perkins (especially the Turkey Day thing where Perkins gets drunk and hits on Bridget’s brilliant Mr. B)
I adore Mike as a host, but I almost prefer the earlier episodes just so I can see him in these little guest spots more often. That’s where he really shined I think. He’s a genius!
Mike was great in any of the roles he did. By far the best was Torgo. Leslie, I agree, the Torgo interview was my favorite appearance. The best part of that, though was when Dr. F gets frustrated at Torgo’s slow pace and hurries him up to sit down, and the Torgo theme speeds up. That kills me, every time!
Paul was also fun whenever he showed up.
Damn, Bridgett was fine! Mike Nelson, you lucky SOB!
No love for Robert Smith as Howard the Hunk in 803 The Mole People !? OK, not MY personal favorite, but as one of only 2 “real people” to actually guest star on the show*, I think he deserves at least a passing mention.
*Leonard Maltin being the other one of course ( already name-checked above in #13). Smith played for the OSU Buckeyes and for the Minnesota Vikings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_%28football_player%29
Hey, what about the guy who brought Mike and Tom Soup in “The Wild Wild World of Batwoman.” He was great! I wonder why we never saw him again.
I forgot: what about the episode where the original “observers” (mike and Paul) come back to extract revenge?
there is a nice number and ultimately the 2 observers end up as guys working on a “dairy Co-Op, in wisconson? “you gotta stop bummin smokes!”..what episode?
Tim Scott did a nice turn as Frank’s Miracle Growth Baby with the “Alien” teething nook and all that.
I really like Mike playing ‘Hugh Beaumont’ in two of the shows that starred Hugh Beaumont in the movies: ‘Lost Continent’ and ‘Human Duplicators.’ I particularly laughed when Mike as Hugh explodes in fits of rage over how people are concerned over ‘The Beaver’ and the fact his wife is not givng him any. As Crow put it “Always knew he was gonna blow..”
For Me, I gotta say Bridget as Lisa Loeb in episode 616.
After seeing that, it made me want to go out and buy one of her albums.