Whatever Happened to Robot Jones

Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? was an animated television series on Cartoon Network that aired from 2002 to 2004.

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Animated - Television - Cartoon Network - 2002 - 2004

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The protagonist is Robot Jones (1st season: a voice synthesizer; 2nd: Bobby Black), a short automaton who lives in a small city in the U.S. during the 1980s (apparently — the animation style, clothing, and soundtrack all seem to indicate that decade; The Breakfast Club and Summer School are similar indications of this decade). Robot attempts to learn of human nature by attending Polyneux Middle School, where he meets three new friends: Socks (Kyle Sullivan), a taller boy with curly blonde hair; Mitch (Gary Leroi Gray), a headphones-wearing boy whose eyes are hidden by his long hair; and Cubey (Myles Jeffrey), a shorter boy with spiked black hair who wears big, square sunglasses and a Pac-Man t-shirt. He also meets Shannon (Grey DeLisle), a girl whom he likes (unrequitedly) for her large orthodontic appliance and metal prosthetic leg.

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Protagonist - Synthesizer - Bobby Black - Automaton - U.S. - 1980s - The Breakfast Club - Summer School - Kyle Sullivan - Blonde - Gary Leroi Gray - Headphones - Eye - Myles Jeffrey - Black - Sunglasses - Pac-Man - T-shirt - Grey DeLisle - Orthodontic - Prosthetic

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In each episode, Robot, usually with the help of his friends, gets himself into a situation brought on by his social ineptness and others' lack of understanding. At the end of each episode, Robot makes a data log entry, in which he states conclusions, usually incorrect, that he has arrived at on humanity.

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The opening sequence of the show, in which Robot Jones is assembled in a factory and then inserted into a schoolbus, was perhaps an homage to the opening sequence of 1980s children's show You Can't Do That On Television, which started with a similar animation of children being assembled in a factory and poured into a schoolbus.

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It was cancelled shortly after production began on its second season due to a sheer lack of viewers. The fact that robot's voice was changed caused dismay among fans of the show and is often speculated as the cause of its cancellation; although this change was made to pit the show against Nickelodeon's My Life as a Teenage Robot.

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Nickelodeon - My Life as a Teenage Robot

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