Intro:  My favorite bot is Crow.  Crow, the majority of the times is able to always say his lines and make them funny, even if it’s a not-so-great riff.  Crow started out extremely cheap looking in the KTMA series, and his mouth could barely move.  So here’s my salute to Crow T. Robot

Made of: Tupperware, glow in the dark ping-pong balls, football (KTMA), soap dish

Full Name: Crow The (T.) Robot

First Episode Appearance: K00 - The Green Slime

Appearance: In Season One, Crow looked much like the one we know today, but in the theater, he seems to almost disappear sometimes, especially with the green theater seats. And in Seasons Three through Seven, Crow looked the same throughout, and in Seasons Eight through Ten, he looked slightly, very, very, slightly different.

Personality: In KTMA, Crow seemed to be just there, just there to sit in a theater for kicks, and the very poor ad-lib jobs by Trace didn’t help (in my opinion, Trace was the worst wisecracker in the KTMA saga).
     In Season One, Crow developed a new personality, instead of being just there, you stated to like the character, you started to see a new Crow, although he was still using a very weird voice that The Satellite News calls it Trace’s "baby voice".  And, in my opinion, he delivered the most convincing riffs in Season One, although overall the Season sucked.
     In Season Two, MST3K seemed to be getting on track, and especially Crow, who had now changed a bit from being a wisecracking piece of machinery into an actual character, who was witty, smart, and much more slick than seen in any of the previous seasons.
     In Season Four, Crow now had a sarcasm that I found very funny. Trace’s puppetry skills had improved greatly in Season Three (which is my favorite of the Joel era), and now the jokes were very slick (I must say that the really funny riffing didn’t really start in Season Three, but it was Godzilla vs. Megalon in Season Two when the riffing finally became hilarious).  Crow was still using the "baby-voice" but gave it a bit of a rest by the near-middle of the season, and he started to sound like the Crow we know from Season Four through Season Seven.
     In Season Four, Trace made Crow’s voice sound once again different, the speed I guess had changed, from KTMA through Season Three, it seemed to be just a bit more slow, but the tone and speed of Crow’s voice had changed a lot more than most MiSTies may think, it became faster, and more human-like.  Plus Crow seemed to move a lot more, they eyes, mouth, everything moved much more smoothly, and it became more than a puppet, but an actual person.  Crow had finally defined his personality in Season Four and he kept it the same.
     In Season Five, Crow was nearly the same as in Season Four, delivering the great jokes, and making us laugh, along with outstanding puppeteering.  Then Mike Nelson moved in.  Crow slightly changed again.  He seemed to be in charge along with Tom Servo, and they seemed to treat Mike a bit more as how Joel treated them.
     In Season Six and Seven, Crow, Tom, and Mike were equals, which I liked, because in Seasons One through Five, Joel seemed to be more in control of everything, and the robots were almost as though they were his kids.  In Seasons Six and Seven, the three seemed to all be equals.
     In Seasons Eight, Nine, and Ten, Crow went through his biggest change ever, he was now voiced and operated by a new person: Bill Corbett.  Many thought it would be impossible, many thought that it was absurd, I mean who could replace Trace as Crow?  Our beloved Crow.  Bill Corbett pulled it off, and had most MiSTies happy (although the MiSTies who had been long time fans seem to be a bit bias towards him).  Crow had changed greatly (for the backup story of why, go read a review of episode #801: Revenge of the Creature) because he was of course controlled by a new guy. Crow in Seasons Two through Seven showed a cleverness, a sort of wisecracking sarcasm.  Bill’s Crow, on the other hand, was much more goofy, with a sort of daft quality about him, yet delivering just as funny, if not funnier lines as the previous Crow.  I was one of the lucky MiSTies that saw the initial Sci-Fi episode Revenge of the Creature late, because if I had seen it before I saw my first Sci-Fi episode (which was Girl in Gold Boots), I might have hated the Sci-Fi Era as well.  Overall Bill and Trace are both great, and I enjoy each versions because they both have strengths, but they have no weaknesses, and Crow has remained my favorite bot from the show.