Dr. Peanut

Dr. Peanut is a fictional character who appeared in the eighth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a comedy television series that mocks B-movies. Played by Michael J. Nelson (who also played the character of Mike), Peanut is a sapient, speaking gorilla from several hundred years in the future, an homage to the film Planet of the Apes. He assisted Professor Bobo in the ape laboratory on Earth and appeared in the episodes in which Mike, Crow and Tom Servo riffed Revenge of the Creature, The Leech Woman, The Mole People, and finally The Deadly Mantis. Peanut was depicted as being less intelligent than Bobo, and, as a result, less-liked by Pearl.