Origin of Crow's name

[cahvaydweller]

Sorry if this is an obvious question, but is the name Crow T.Robot supposed to be a parody of the actor Craig T. Nelson?

[Triple_sSs]

www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/brains/20q.html

Q. Why did you name Crow "Crow?"
J. The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it. I had a friend a friend in college who had a friend named Tommy Crow he had all these adventures with. I always thought that was such a cool name. Also the Jim Carroll Band had a song called "Crow" on the album "Catholic Boy." If you listen to the song, it's easy to picture the character of Crow.

[Mod City]

If memory serves, the T stands for "The" but I don't have a reference on that. And even though it's not his name, I like how Pearl used to call him Art, based on the Jungle Goddess episode. Still an all-time classic episode, for me, anyway.

[tygerbug]

From Wikipedia:

Crow's middle initial stands for "The". In episode #K19: Hangar 18, Joel stated that "Crow" was an acronym for "Cybernetic Remotely Operated Woman", but then claimed he built Crow merely to play this joke on him. Crow is also sometimes called "Art", primarily by late-series antagonist Pearl Forrester. This arose from a gag in episode 203, Jungle Goddess, in which Joel referred to "Art Crow" in a skit centered on the sitcom The Honeymooners; after Best Brains received a letter from a child who had evidently missed the cultural reference and labeled a drawing of Crow as "Art", the show's writers turned the name into a recurring joke.

[Mike Flugennock]

Well, according to the ACEG, the "T" stands for "The".

I hadn't heard the other stories about the origin of the name "Crow", but I'd always assumed it was because of his vaguely bird-like appearance.

But, hey, you learn something new every day.

Btw, that's one "O".

[Triple_sSs]

Listening to the song Joel mentioned, yeah it does remind me of Crow a bit.
And hey, apparently this is also were he got the upward-sliding "Crooooooow!" thing from. Cool.