Zardoz turned out to be a corruption of The Wizard of Oz. Does Toboz have a similar source? I can’t find an Oz-character name that fits, but maybe I’m missing something. If we asked Unity, she’d probably suggest “The Butthead of Oz,” but to me he looks like his name should really be Chip.
Possibly some relation to ‘Boz the Inimitable’, AKA (the early) Charles Dickens? I don’t know the “Sketches by Boz” well enough to comment on the potential linkages.
Personally, I think he looks like a Riff, but that’s probably due to the glasses.
I am he, Duty Engineer!
Foolish words … I don’t hear!
I snub you,
With your I.Q.
Far from mine!
To-boz says, do not dare to think!
You are just … a mere shrink!
Show respect!
Your intellect’s
Far from mine!
I control the engine that’s the heart of all St. Charlie,
And I scoff at all your worries and your fears!
I ignore your pu-er-il-i-ty
By humming with my fingers in my ears! (la la la … la la la!)
“Doody” jokes, heard them all before …
I have learned … to ignore!
Please, just go!
Your minds are so
Far from mine!
Yeah, Tip whiffed big-time here. He should have expressed it as a hypothesis! “My calculations indicate an 87% chance your power source has been tampered with”!
Zardoz turned out to be a corruption of The Wizard of Oz. Does Toboz have a similar source? I can’t find an Oz-character name that fits, but maybe I’m missing something. If we asked Unity, she’d probably suggest “The Butthead of Oz,” but to me he looks like his name should really be Chip.
Speaking as the forums admin, let’s just say that Toboz (or, Professor Zobot, as he is known on the forums) is… familiar.
EDIT: Obviously, I could be wrong. But, it’d be one heck of a coinci-kickinthepants-dence.
Possibly some relation to ‘Boz the Inimitable’, AKA (the early) Charles Dickens? I don’t know the “Sketches by Boz” well enough to comment on the potential linkages.
Personally, I think he looks like a Riff, but that’s probably due to the glasses.
Better watch your mouth, Toboz. Tip hit the last person who gave him guff over soft science his best shot and she still isn’t fully over him.
I have a suspicion about where the name comes from~ Even if I’m not right, the coincidence is glorious.
(TUNE: “Close To You”, The Carpenters)
I am he, Duty Engineer!
Foolish words … I don’t hear!
I snub you,
With your I.Q.
Far from mine!
To-boz says, do not dare to think!
You are just … a mere shrink!
Show respect!
Your intellect’s
Far from mine!
I control the engine that’s the heart of all St. Charlie,
And I scoff at all your worries and your fears!
I ignore your pu-er-il-i-ty
By humming with my fingers in my ears!
(la la la … la la la!)
“Doody” jokes, heard them all before …
I have learned … to ignore!
Please, just go!
Your minds are so
Far from mine!
Obviously ‘Toboz’ is just ‘Zobot’ backwards.
He needs to learn the difference between having contempt for those whose work he considers beneath him and simply having his head up his ass.
Interesting… I wonder if this is the cameo?
Aw man, if it is I’m gonna die again, aren’t I? That’d be like the third time!
Curse my scorn for everyone! Cuuuuuurse it!
If so, it’ll serve you right for turning your back on a Necrotic-American.
Also, BRAIIIIIIIIINS…
To-Boz? More like Toe-JAM!
Oh yeah, I went there. Whadda you got? BRING IT!
mnem
Somebody stop me. No, really. Please.
TOBOZ: Technical Organism Built Only for Zingers?
I suspect that UNITY watched “Wreck-It Ralph” recently.
Yeah, Tip whiffed big-time here. He should have expressed it as a hypothesis! “My calculations indicate an 87% chance your power source has been tampered with”!
Toboz?? Even if it’s a coincidence, I love it!!!
“Walk this way.”
And killing everyone in St. Charlie is a bad idea why?
Push him
Hail to the fire that runs the machine!