Geoff Peterson - Anyone?

Ha, I might just do that. I need to rummage to find out where my heat gun is first though as the jaws on my skulls are all a bit askew and I'm hoping if I can find the the *&#! heat gun it might tweak back into shape if I heat it a bit. I don't want to glue the teeth in until I do this step.

I was thinking, instead of a sound card, perhaps to make a Geoff Army truly funny would be to create a 'server' full of contributed Geoff sound files and let one of my old computers in the back of the closet connect to it and play random Geoff quotes from the net. It would be great to incorporate one of those old Classic Macs with an Ethernet card in it I've held onto for a quarter century into a Geoff!

After all even a card with a two dozen canned phrases can hardly encompass the aural awesomeness of all the crazy stuff Geoff says. "What the hell?" (can I say hell here?) "Yeah, got a place there! (etc)" and so on beyond the classic "OH MY!", "Is that - CODE?" or "BALLS!" There was a gold mine of crazy when "Khloe Bandaras" was the guest voice I'd want to have too.

Hey, if we are going to dream, dream big. Well unless Scotty tells me that would break tha laws of physics!
 
I have been thinking of this for a project for some time. So just did a search and I found this thread. Wow, and cool! Some inspiration has arisen.

I remember reading somewhere that Geoff's name tag was either patterned after, or was an actual name tag from, "The Price Is Right".

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The mohawk and skull always puts me in mind of the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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There have been at least 2 if not more distinct different "Geoff" name tags from pictures of him from the searches I've done. I think when the re-costume him it has probably gotten damaged or changed to freshen him up. Since the Price Is Right shoots in the same CBS Studios building I feel pretty sure the name tag comes directly from the show, though wouldn't be hard to replicate. My own Geoff replica is back burnered at the moment. I hope to get to him in the new year.
 
Yup, the name tag would seem to be the least difficult to source, or duplicate. The son of a friend of mine was on that show a few years ago. Hopefully he saved it. It would not be hard to get him to find the thing and maybe fax or email me a scan of it.
 
This is great! I love craig and geoff, and 9 times out of ten will stay up to catch them.

The moving arm was new at some point, it was a big deal that he could move it I remember. I think they update or add stuff to him to freshen the show like others said, quite often
 
The only thing I know about Geoff is that the arm and neck are apparently powered by tonegawa ssps 105 servos according to Mr Imahara.
 
That looked a bit staged, but it was very entertaining. Actually caught the show live but missed out on the opening bit. Thanks for sharing that link, rep points going your way!
 
BTW, since the "Bucky" skull/skeleton is appears to be quite common I noticed one in a rerun of House, MD last night and found a clip of the scene where the skeleton gets spectacularly trashed with a baseball bat by one of the women on House's new team:
House M.D. "Risky Business" - YouTube

Someone should bring this and any other scenes like it to The Late, Late Show's attention as 'examples' of Geoff's 'work' in other tv & movies because there must be a lot of them, not to mention that I assume there's probably and endless supply of them abused on Mythbusters over the years.

I also ran across this, the birth of the "I've got a place there!" bit that I remember laughing at last year I just had to share.
Geoff Peterson makes Craig Ferguson CRY! - YouTube

It occurs to me that I have an old iMac which I used do what I thought of as 'Stupid Computer Tricks' with MacInTalk on where I wrote an Apple script using MacInTalk more than a decade ago where I could say to it "HAL, get email" substituting the word "HAL" for the activate listening function for a script command from the default "Computer". With MacInTalk's extension running it would cause the iMac to await a command to run an AppleScript. I could say a pre-programed phrase and it would run that script to launch applications or play audio files.

So with that one script that would execute an AppleScript "HAL, get email" that would cause the old dial-up modem sequence to run, launch email and play an audio clip from "2010" where Douglas Rain as HAL would say "There's a message for you" from the film. It used to freak clients out who were gullible enough to think I had programmed the iMac into a HAL9000.

I'm thinking I could dust that old iMac off and rewrite some of those AppleScripts to do the same thing, like "Geoff" (to activate the listen for command) "have you ever been to" (to activate a pause so I could say a city name) and then it would play an audio clip of the whole "Oh hell yeah, I got a place there" bit on a Geoff replica. Since the info is that Geoff was originally activated using an iPad off-camera something like that has got to work pretty much the same way. Now that would really freak visitors to the office out! I guess I'd need some sort of midi-controller set-up to run with it to make the jaw servo move is some semblance of sync with the audio clip.

I must know how to build a servo for Geoff's head. Who has Greg Imahara's email address? ;)
 
Calufrax said:
You can actually get one cheaper than that:
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Yes, there is another site as well offering them for about $20.00. But by the time you add in shipping costs it really was something of a wash.

Loved the iMac idea. I have on order the plastic skull and have already begun looking for material to paint silver for use as a Mohawk. Thinking of ABS plastic over aluminum just for the weight. Jerking the head left and right likely would eventually loosen something with any sort of bulk to it.

I have an idea for the source of the eyes, but would like to have the Bucky skull first to compare sizes before divulging.
 
I was thinking of sandwiching styrene sheets or some such as well for the 'mohawk' instead of aluminum. My brother has a plasma cutter and some aluminum about that weight, but I'm judging that Geoff's mohawk must be might weighty. I'm thinking I can imitate the weld look between the mohawk and base that bolts to the skull with some of that epoxy putty and then paint the whole thing silver. I wonder how much structure was added with the Philips screws that are visible on the sides of Geoff's skull to support the mohawk?

It also looks like hinge point was made on the jaw to replace whatever comes to hinge the off-the-shelf Bucky skull. I'd love to have detailed specs or pictures to figure out how that works. Probably just have to experiment though.

The one thing looking at Geoff is I think he's painted down a bit grey possibly to prevent over-driven pixels if he was bright white on camera. I'm not sure if that's just primer grey which I kind of expect Imahara might have done in a rush to get him done or not. I was thinking of doing the skull on mine in light grey flat and masking off the teeth in glossy appliance enamel white paint.

I still have the wrong skull, my cheap $2 one I bought before Xmas at a salvage store. I'm still thinking of at least experimenting with all of it as a prototype of sorts before I try to get a real Bucky skull.

A couple of weeks ago I attacked it with a Dremel tool to get the detached teeth glued into it's jaws and boogered up part of the lower jaw which I filled back in with epoxy so I have to paint mine now.

I think whatever indicator lights are used to create the eyes, some Dremel cutting will have to be done in the back of the eye-sockets to get them in there, straight and leveled and secured. I've found a couple of how-tos for animating skulls on YouTube for Halloween and I may try to make a parts list for those and see what I can come up with. This has been kinda on my back-burner for a while.
 
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This is the Linberg models skull I'm working with, got the teeth in. Apparently it's either meant to be asymmetrical, or that's just the way whatever skull it was cast from was. The teeth aren't as nice, so this one will have to be Geoff's hillbilly cousin, Gomer Peterson perhaps?

Here's a link to installing servos into a Bucky skull which I think I will try to adapt to this one. Bucky Servo

Bucky skull
Budget Life Size Skull

There are some cheaper versions, but I'm not sure I'd risk them for the savings.
 
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