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Servo's appearance has changed over time.

In the pilot for MST3K, the robot who would become Servo was named " Beeper ," who just spoke in beeps that only Crow could understand.

He was an all-silver robot vaguely shaped like the ultimate Servo, with funnel-shaped shoulders, silver rubber tube arms, and a small fishbowl for a head.

He was renamed ' Servo ' after a vending machine called the Servotron.

Sometime between the pilot and episode # K03: Star Force: Fugitive Alien II Servo's head was replaced with the now-familiar gumball machine for most of the series.

( MST3K archival site mst3ktemple. com presents a substantive argument that this replacement was probably done before or during episode # K01: Invaders from the Deep, based on an analysis of related set and costume changes.

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