Mr. Robinson is the main protagonist of the Saturday Night Live skit "Mister Robinson's Neighborhood". He is a parody of Mr. Rogers, and likewise, the Saturday Night Live skit is a parody of Mister Roger's Neighborhood.
He was portrayed by Eddie Murphy who also played Rex Crater in The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Maximillian in Vampire in Brooklyn, Rasputia Latimore in Norbit, Vernest Brown in Harlem Nights, and Buddy Love in The Nutty Professor films.
Appearance[]
Unlike Mr. Rogers, Mr. Robinson lives in a ghetto. He often engages in behavior such as stealing from others (as he is unemployed), holding a dog for ransom (trying to persuade the dog's owner to give him one hundred dollars rather than fifty), having sex with his landlord's wife (who he refers to as Mrs. Landlord), and selling the child of his old love interest Juanita to the black market.
His landlord (who he refers to as Mr. Landlord) would in one episode try to evict him for not paying the rent, causing him to refer to him as a "scumbucket" and making it the word of the day.
Rather than teach children about the world idealistically as Mr. Rogers did, Mister Robinson instead teaches children about the world cynically, in one episode even telling them that their hopes and dreams were pointless due to the fact that they were unable to get a job in the economy.
Often his actions would anger Mr. Landlord and/or attract the police, who would begin knocking on his door. He would then leave his apartment using the fire escape.
In 2019, Mr. Robinson's neighborhood underwent gentrification which he now calls "squatter's rights" in his renovated building, and does some occasional porch poaching of packages like a TV that was bound for one of his neighbors. He later gets a visit from the same child, his illegitimate son, now grown up, wanting to meet him and escapes to report him to the police before bidding goodbye to the audience.
Trivia[]
- Mr. Rogers himself was not offended by the parody, considering it to be affectionate.
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