andy kaufman wasn’t in many movies, so his legacy on the silver screen can pretty much be summed up with this classic bomb called heartbeeps (1981). from the imdb:

val and aqua are two household servant robots who start feeling emotions for each other. after falling in love, they decide to escape from their servitude and attempt to start a family of their own.

it’s like AI: the love story, featuring a robot named catskill, who I assume is the comic relief in a film about goofy robots. how could they go wrong? they had andy kaufman, bernadette peters, a retarded premise, awkward special effects, a hilariously meticulous score by john williams, randy quaid…

unfortunately, this movie’s failure killed the tony clifton movie, which was in development at the time. ah, well. it was nominated for an academy award for make-up, so at least somebody got something good out of it, even if it wasn’t andy.

and now, i’ll leave you with an incredible line of dialogue from the film:

susan: [talking to pet raccoon] it’s all right, rover. these friendly robots are obviously not mischievous trespassers.

truer words were never spoken.