I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.

Something I've wondered about before:

From whence came the movie and TV science-fiction cliché of giving robots and computers effeminate male voices (sometimes to the extent of making them outrageous gay stereotypes)? Did it start with Douglas Rain in 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Up to the late sixties there seems to be a marked tendency to give robots manly, Stentorian voices (Dick Tufeld on Lost in Space, say-- Dr. Smith was the robot's comic foil, not the robot). But androgynous computer voices in written science fiction certainly go back further than that, and "androgynous" might have turned into "effeminate male" in somebody's head (or "butch or schoolmarmish female," like the voice Majel Barrett was doing on Star Trek).

The many faces of Bob Hope

That Oddball Comics site has been running a series on DC's "Adventures of Bob Hope" comics. I think it's interesting that for the first decade-and-a-half or so, they're actually running as best they can with Bob Hope's on-screen comic persona, the "horny coward", as Shaw puts it; but toward the end, when they realize that Bob Hope has no youth appeal any more and add the character of "Super-Hip" (one of those bizarre old-man-imagines-hippie characters who infested sixties pop culture), they actually start drawing Bob Hope like a villainous character, or at least a disagreeable crank who is clearly not the hero of the piece.

As far as I can tell that never happened to the comic-book Jerry Lewis, who simply never aged.

And another thing...

You'll notice that Super-Hip is more the Austin Powers type-- '64 Beatle haircut, tight pants, Edwardian frilly shirt-- than the grimy, half-naked, love-beaded type often associated with sixties youth culture. There seems to have been a definite evolution in the image as time and the Vietnam war went on. (And of course much of the culture we associate with The Sixties was more early Seventies.) The decision in "Austin Powers" to go with the earlier icon was clever, since most people hadn't seen much of it in a while.