The Fastest Canceled Show EVER on Cartoon Network
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2022
- Robotomy is such a unique case study into a time when Cartoon Network was trying to blend their younger in age programing with their Adult Swim, older audience programing. This resulting in several shows at the time not lasting super long or getting enough eyes from either demographics. But one show over all the rest stood out for how fast the network dropped it, that being Robotomy. So today, let's take a look in what Robotomy was and why its downfall happened so quickly.
Written By: Jordan Fringe & Christine Parshall
Edited By: Jordan Fringe & Kate O.
Channel Art By: Jerry Meehan - บันเทิง
Thanks so much for watching! Have you seen Robotomy and if so, what did you think of this short lived Robot show?
I watched it when it came out but forgot about it
I remember that I really liked it, and was looking forward to more episodes....but then it just dissapeared.
The show gave me some "Whatever Happened to Robot Jones" vibes.
Ultimately, this show would have worked better on Adult Swim, with just a little retooling.
What a shame.
I liked the show when it was on. The theme song randomly pops in my head from time to time!
By the way, Superjail and Ballmastrz 9009 creator Christy Karacas was one of the main creative forces of this show. Heck, people actually mistake this show being created by him. World Leaders Entertainment then went into bankrrupcy after this show flopped, which explains why the last couple of Venture Bros. seasons were animated by Titmouse instead.
Most surprising thing:
Patton Oswalt played the thin robot.
The weird thing is, I actually remember watching this show when I was a kid. I really enjoyed watching this show due to my personal enjoyment of robotics.
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@@alpacadogg9422 yeah yeah...😒
I also enjoyed it
I pogged when I saw the thumbnail, because I remember seeing some of the only few episodes from that show.
It was enjoyable
The way I see it, this show is another indication that Cartoon Network made a mistake cancelling Toonami at that time. I know they've since brought it back on Adult Swim, but the thing is, the original Toonami was very "teen"-oriented. There was also the You Are Here block, which also catered teens and action, but it only lasted two years. I'm certain that shows like Symbiotic Titan and Robotomy would have lasted much longer had either of these teen-oriented blocks stuck around.
Yes I agree! Cartoon Network has always had an identity crisis about whether it wants to be kid friendly or appealing to teenagers. If they had just made a block for shows that were a bit more mature but not enough to be on adult swim, we could've salvaged so many great shows!
With some of those shows, I honestly forgot about them and dismissed them as a fever dream.
@Dylan Star me too but as mentioned on this channel before, it was a tax right off and so they legally can't- they can't even sell it
The Toonami hiatus wasn’t a mistake; people just needed to forget about TOM 4.0
Bring it back and target it at young adults.
The art style and animation are just oozing with Adult Swim. Particularly, this show looks almost exactly like Superjail.
Superjail characters are more colorful, but the outlining, sped up quick movement animation, gradual facial "bounce" to major character exclamations, faded backgrounds, yellowish and orange color palette, violence, jagged lines, extreme detail, single layer faint shading, squarish poses, plain circles for eyes, "sloppy" line edges, similarly thin line edges, occasional backgrounds/wide shots filled with moving characters, backgrounds being mostly composed of one of two colors while also being flooded with numerous lines, and little dots of detail are all on point.
Yeah. Superjail creator Christy Karacas served as co-executive producer and director on the show.
I was wondering if anyone else saw the similarity to superjail.
@@linustrate Ah, that makes a lot of sense.
I thought this was superjail
I'm glad someone else got SuperJail vibes off this.
Is there no hope for cartoons like this to ever rise up from the grave? I feel like Robotomy is a perfect example of a show that's in a grey area with an unclear target audience, I really think the concept and setting is very unique, and it's a bit disappointing to see potential just dwindle down due to poor timing and such.
Warriors Ethernal is pretty close I guess.
I was in the show's demographic aim when it aired, being a teen, and I was completely turned off by it. At that point in time, cartoons were ... for kids. Sure, there were some that were aimed at adults, on Adult Swim, but you had to go all out to achieve that. This wasn't a show that managed to do ... really enough of anything in any of the directions it wanted to go, hamstrung by its 11-minute run time. Every episode I remember watching was basically a generic school plot with wacky robot twist, and then slapstick humor in the form of robots being destroyed. If they brought it back with some refinement, I could see it doing well, I'm not saying there's no potential at all, but to say it was JUST bad timing is really understating what happens when you try and make a show too many different things at once. It felt watered down and less appealing than just most of the shows that were out at the time.
I actually loved Robotomy, but it felt like it was in no man’s land, too kid friendly for be on Adult Swim but too violent to market on Cartoon Network, hence the lack of promotion in 2010-11. My favorite episode is when Thrasher and Blastus were sent to the “Sunshine Room” for being non-violent
Kinda trippy it got the axe early while other shows like clone wars, mystery incorporated, and regular show were able to go on just fine.
@@sheridoncary2602 not sure why. As someone that enjoyed regular show. This show would’ve honestly fit perfectly in cartoon networks 2010s Thursday evening show schedule. But as you stated those shows most likely took up the spot and the show was forgotten about by the time Cartoon Network hardly had anything other than teen titans GO on re run. At that point Cartoon Network kinda moved away from tv shows like regular show, adventure time, and gumball and all became more kid friendly with their newer shows.
@@sheridoncary2602 Did you just diss the Clone Wars AND Regular Show? Bruh
@@kingtulip9444 no
@@sheridoncary2602 I'm confused then. Are you saying Robotomy was comparative to them then?
The sheer amount of disrespect CN has for robot-based shows is absolutely heartbreaking
Dumb question, but what was the others?
I think Sym-bionic Titan
@@diamonddrawsthegoat earliest one I can remember is What happened to Robot Jones.
Well Jenny the Teenage Robot was cool
@@bebeenderson7863 That one was on Nickelodeon, though. (But agreed; I still say "stretchy arm and extendo fingers" randomly out loud sometimes. That scene really settled into my childhood brain. 😂)
Honestly, the flaws of assembly line-based education systems and how poorly most bureaucratic structures treat children (and people in general) are definitely themes that need to be explored more often. A show like this definitely has a lot of potential, although it would definitely have to be targeted towards young adults, since most children aren't equipped to understand things like why they're forced to sustain an education system that isn't even designed to educate children in the first place (I personally had the misfortune of gradually discovering the flaws of the education system the hard way as a child)
This show would’ve definitely been more successful if it was broadcast to channels young adults watch (like Comedy Central, like come on Duckman was in Comedy Central in the 90s! It shared a similar art style too!)
I never knew about this show and I can't say it looks particularly appealing to me, but in general I like the idea of a cartoon blurring the lines between being for kids or for adults. There's too much stratification of entertainment for different age groups and I think it'd be really refreshing to see something that isn't strictly made for one demographic or another.
I could absolutely see this show being an in-universe cartoon in Futurama with the joke being that the excessive violence is considered appropriate for robot kids
They need to do this, fantastic idea homie
Ok but seriously, we need more modern era cartoons made SPECIFICALLY for teenagers. I feel like this demographic is really negletted nowadays, like if in society you're either a complete toddler who can't hear a single dirty joke or a grown-ass adult that can only watch extremely explicit cartoons. I never heard of Robotomy before but from what you said in this video it seems, indeed, a pretty interesting and promising tv series for teens, and I personally think it sucks that they cancelled it just because it wasn't appealing to the youngest.
With the popularity of anime nowadays it’d be hard for cartoons like that to be popular now. Adventure Time and Regular show came out just in time for example.
@@alexjv1370 yeah but a lot of teens are drawn to Japanese anime because teens want animation, but America doesn’t provide that quality animation specifically for teens. On the other hand, Japan has entire anime publishers made specifically for teens (shonen jump and shojo beat) It’s a substantial gap in the current American media market.
Fr I’m 13 and I either watch stuff like South Park or powderpuff girls and I get made fun of for watch ppg bc I’m too old for it and the same people say I’m not old enough for sp wtf am I supposed to watch
Bro really said "negletted"
@@MrPortal sorry english is not my first language, I wanted to say something similar to "left behind" and I just used google translate
The show looks very visually interesting and well done artwise, and was (seemingly) casted and voiced well in addition to having a very interesting setting in general, so I persionally think if they leaned into the concept a bit more and put it on adult swim it might have had at least moderate success.
This is probably something I could have gotten into when I was younger. I've always dug shows with a darker sense of humor and violence played for laughs. Unfortunately since I was in my late 20s when this came out and my TV viewing habits changed so much this show never even blipped on my radar. This is the first time I have heard of it. Usually a show like this would have some sort of cult following but I don't think I've ever seen anything like that for it.
This show was a lost cause from the very start. It came out in the same era as Superjail, An Adult Swim show with the same sense of dark humor, excessive violence, and intense psychedelic scenes of everyone getting murdered.
Funnily enough, both shows were directed by Christy Karacas, the latter of which was also created by him.
So not only was he directing Superjail at the time, but also what was basically a "kid's" version of Superjail.
I KNEW IT LOOKED FAMILIAR
never saw robotomy but there were multiple moments during this video where I felt like the scenes playing were heavily inspired by superjail. not surprised at all to find out both shows had the same director
I remember that at some point way after the fact, Toonami actually showed a few episodes of Robotomy, and my first thought was "...this is just Superjail. This is just child friendly Superjail." Like, they look as though they even share an art team.
I thought that they had almost the same kind of animation!
I was waiting for this comment in the video but it wasn't. This literally shares panels with superjail, great catch!!
It was certainly fascinating to see the Superjail people worked a CN show .
Wow, that explains so much on why the two shows felt extremely similar
So that's why it looks familiar
No wonder, that show is exactly what came to my mind when I saw the action segments in this
Very obvious looking at it
I mean most people that work in AS worked in CN lmao
I missed those days when different CN shows had their own art styles and unique OBMs
This show has been in my head for years now, and I never knew it’s name so I couldn’t find it. Thank you for talking about this show I can finally rest
I really like the artstyle of this show, it is very detailed and the colors are pleasant to look at, despite the violent themes. You said that you wish the color pallete was brighter. I disagree. The colors really fit the grunge aesthetic of the show. Honestly, I wish more cartoons were experimental with their artstyles like this one.
This show was so fun, I remember when it was on Netflix for a brief moment but man I miss these thrashy robots
It reminds me of Robot Jones
Agreed, as an artist i really appreciate the muted palette
I love the arstyle. there might be a certain name to what it's called or what it's based on but I don't know. It kind of reminds me of robot jones and ballnastrz
It really reminds me of superjail
Thank you for talking about this show! My friends and I actually enjoyed the hell out of this show and it also got me into SuperJail which I also felt was underappreciated on Adult Swim
This has to be in the super jail universe, Crossover event?
This show always made me think of Superjail!, so I'm glad it got you into that show. :D
@Ahmed malake I’ve actually never watched that show as I no longer have cable or any streaming services, but I been meaning to check it out!
on a different planet but at the same time as the events of super jail? easily, 100%@@Quincyisim
I remembered really enjoying the edge this show had as a kid, especially with very restrictive parents who wouldn't let me go anywhere near the Adult Swim block it was nice having a cartoon show that respected my intelligence and had more dry wit, and I think it really influenced a lot of the comics and cartoons I made around that age. Where they'd be just safe enough not to get my work torn up and confiscated by teachers *and* sent to the principal's office, but still have edgier subtexts that my peers could enjoy.
As a kid who was starved for more mature entertainment yet had extremely restricted access to adult shows Robotomy just really scratched an itch for me.
I remember watching this when I was like 7 years old. I remember it being absolutely awesome even though the jokes fell over my head. I loved the visuals and the absurdity with it's violence. I wish it would've been brought to Adult Swim and expanded from there. Even as a child I still would've watched it from there.
wasn't the whole "ultra violence is ok as long as they're robots" thing at least part of the reason samurai jack took place in the future? I don't get why that was a seemingly big deal for this show but not that show.
Anyway I love robotomy and as much as I want more of it, it is kinda nice having another show u can just sit down and watch all of in under 2 hours. I've accepted it's just gonna stay dead. also ig I'm kinda nostalgic for that time when cartoon network was trying to appeal more to teens with this show, MAD, Adventure Time, Total Drama and esp Regular Show--even symbionic titan to an extent--using more "explicit"(?) language and humor than they typically would before or since.
Prolly the most stick-out episode to me is when thrasher and blastus get themselves sent to the special ed class with the nice robots only to find out nice robots get launched into the sun.
I think it had to deal with the fact that Samurai Jack normally wasn't AS violent as your regular Robotomy episode.
@@ExtremeWreck Also its thematic violence, Jack is usually fighting for survival.
Like the German release of Half Life
I ran into this one when full episodes were briefly hosted on Cartoon Network's website. It was an interesting sight that never left my memory, and I'm glad someone else remembered it.
I just finished watching this show thanks to your video reminding me of it, ha. I dropped my jaw several times at some of the jokes they got away with, it’s amazing and definitely made me laugh. It’s also just really visually appealing for me and it’s cool to see all the different robots. I definitely didn’t appreciate it as much as a kid/tween as I do now.
The director/creative director for this show is Christy Karacas, which is another reason I love it. Aside from creating Superjail, he also created Ballmastrz 9009, which I super recommend if this show catches your eye. (And which might also be an interesting video topic if you haven’t covered it yet, as I’ve heard nothing about it since the end of season 2 and what I presume to be the series finale. :0 )
Great video Jordan. Keep up the great work. Love your videos and personality.
This brought back some memories, I remember watching this with my friends when it was airing and always wondered what happened to it. If you’ve never seen it I would 100% look it up on TH-cam, some channels have uploaded multiple episodes to view and it’s honesty really cool, the animation still holds up.
Whatever happened to robot....tomy.
This is one of those shows that was a small memory in the back of my mind until someone brought it up again. I do agree that it did have an identity crisis on if it wanted to be an adult show or for kids (largely due to network demands), and it's just sad because looking back at it, it had potential
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My first Fringe video - this was well done. Very informative.
This show was so deeply in the back of my brain I'm surprised I even remembered ever seeing it. I never would have ever remembered it again if this didn't pop up in my recommended page. It felt like remembering a dream that I had that turned out to be real.
I remember when this show first aired and fell in love! Nowadays I find it's like a more (semi) toned down SuperJail, which another show I've come to love recently. The artstyle and violence is almost uncanny in how close they are.
idk if u knew but one of the creators of superjail was the director for robotomy, and I’m sure some other crew members were shared between them too
@@tiablue9106 I did not! That explains so much then haha
Robotomy is one of my favourite shows ever and although people might be upset that the show was short-lived, I think its small airtime is what adds to its charm and aesthetic of feeling a thing in the past.
I actually did remember watching at least one episode from this show when I was little. I thought it was okay when I first saw it and I didn't know what was really happening in the show either. But it's crazy to see it be canceled so quickly, the show had some potential, at least it would have more if it aired on Adult Swim. And you have a good point about the other robot shows, I only remember watching a few episodes of Robot Boy and then it was wiped from existence. I wonder how many more shows CN given this kind of treatment.
DUDE! I have been looking for Megas XRL for years! I only saw one episode when it aired almost 20 years ago but I couldn't remember the name or channel so I searched for it and asked about it on forums for years! and just right now your video game me the answer, Thank you.
I actually remember this show;
I remember that there was one episode where the Robot School took the robot equivalent of the special ed class ("Defectives" I think they called them) and were planning to cut costs by driving the space-bus into a star/ sun (if it was the star of their homeworld, it counts as its sun, right? I dunno), which our protagonists had somehow gotten onto, and yes, I know how horrible that sounds, but as Jordan mentioned, these robots basically operated under a low empathy, ultraviolent mindset where having humane or empathetic traits got you scrapped; for the Robot School Faculty, it was a simple financial decision, to anyone else, an atrocity.
In another episode, Thrasher and Blastus were trying out for the "Murderball" team, with Thrasher repeatedly dreaming about winning his sweetheart's love (and dragging her off to his mountain citadel, an oddly specific detail that repeatedly popped up in the episode), but because they're high-school dweebs with no athletic prowess, they instead get shady drugs from a creepy bot (I think it was supposed to be the janitor?), which cause them to become huge and more menacing versions of themselves, speaking in an unintelligible caveman-esque grunting. They are eventually placed under pressure by the school and their peers to keep winning the games for them, while the former is more suspicious of them, thinking they somehow cheated.The duo have to win the game, but they're also trying to stop once they begin to realize the "After-Effects" of the drug from repeated use (namely, that it makes you ugly and creepy, as the janitor-bot explains that he used to use it all the time when he was younger, treating the viewer to an unpleasant close-up of his time-worn, disfigured visage, and further informs us that he became the janitor when no one else would hire him; this understandably freaks out both Thrasher and Blastus, whom swear off the stuff).
It's been so long, yet I can still remember it quite well, if with some difficulty because, well, it was twelve years ago. I was still in Middle School at the time. I honestly kinda liked it because I was (and currently am) a major sci-fi aficionado.
This really unlocked a memory
I love this show. Especially since invader Zim didn't really have any new episodes at the time. This show's grotesque and violent jokes definitely scratched the itch I was missing from invader Zim. It wasn't perfect but I definitely liked it for what it was. Overall, I think this show was released at the wrong place and time. If it was released today I believe cartoon Network would give it a chance to shine.
YES, this is what I was going to say!! I never found another show that truly impacted me in the way Invader Zim did (and currently does). I'm still not over it 🥺
invader zim was cancelled 4 years earlier
Interesting that you mention Zim, it's the show I thought of when he talked about crossing the kid/adult audience. Invader Zim was DARK but balanced it out with absurdity and Gir being Gir. I think it took the best stab at a hybrid demographic cartoon I've ever seen.
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I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS SHOW FOR YEARS IT HAS BEEN A FLEETING MEMORY I COULD NEVER FIND ANY INFORMATION ON AND I WAS STARTING TO THINK IT WASNT REAL THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO
Funny enough i actually watched every episode when they first aired and then wondered why there werent any more, eventually forgetting its existence all together until now, wow. Excellent video!
This show was an absolute edgy-comedy-filled gem and it was an utter crime that it was cut down before it had time to grow into something even bigger.
This short-lived show will always inspire my sense of humor in my own work.
I remember finding robotomy on TH-cam, probably when I was about 15. I think that's really the perfect demo for it, and it's a shame that that sort of older teen demographic is so hard to market for. I think it's perfect for, like, ages 14-19.
Although animated properties about robots are often short-lived (save for Transformers), they've greatly inspired my own creative work, and for that, I really appreciate them. Who knows, maybe one day we'll get a robot cartoon that'll break the cycle.
Interesting premise. I'll have to see if I can find it somewhere to watch. As others have mentioned in comments - This just made me think of SuperJail. Would be interesting to know if there was any unique stuff to cover regarding that one.
I remember these guys, they popped up out of nowhere and then disappeared just as fast, but I remember liking the show. I can't help but feel like in a post Regular Show world, this would do pretty well. I think I actually watched all of it while it was streaming on Netflix. Weird I did that before I watched Regular Show.
Robotomy was my favorite show when I was 11. I thought extreme violence was funny so I found the show hilarious. Looking at it now I realize how insane the animation was compared to other shows. It was like a child friendly version of SuperJail with its own aesthetic and feel to it.
God I remember superjail that was the shit back in the day
I remember Robotomy but it's strange how it was so short lived.
I watched this when it was premiering as a kid and I remember liking it. Shame that there wasn't more of it at the time but thanks for bringing out these memories
I mean, I think its clearly Robotomy as in Lobotomy. There seems to be no guy named Tommy (nor two Ms), and murderous robots sound more closer to a punny gory medical term of Lobotomy spelled the same way with an L. Still, awesome of you to cover this. Never heard of it, but it seems fascinating. The art style is amazing, its shocking it got greenlit, but yeah it also seems very flawed. I'm interested to look this up and see more about it.
I was just having a joke based on how the title card from the shows intro pronounces it, regardless if the joke is funny or not, that's what I was doing lol
Lobotomy
Robotomy
Art style partially influenced by Japanese manga artist
L/R confusion in Japan
GENIUS!!!
@@ExtremeWreck its probably more likely that they referenced lobotomies because they at one time were used as treatment for teens with mental health and or social problems, in some attempt to "fix" them. which fits in with the teens trying to fit in at school. and the violence of the setting. mirroring how horrid and needlessly torturous the process of a lobotomy was.
When I saw the promo art for this, I legit thought it was just Time Squad
I like the general tone of this video. Has a mix of informative and sarcastic tones.
I think this show came out around the time Total Drama Island aired which shared the same kind of idea of appealing to an older audience on CartoonNetwork. This show didn’t feel too mature, none so then other shows that aired after it like Regular Show.
Total drama aired around late 2007. This aired nearly four years later around when I think total drama had the new season with the new cast or something like that. It was definitely shows like regular show and maybe adventure time which actually aired around when this did but had way more popularity, regular show was just a result of adventure times success. But total drama island was more so another 6teen which I say this show was trying to imitate and maybe a tad bit of flapjack as well for its distant setting and era in the story
@@buincqv67 But 6teen bombed in the US afaik, Total Drama kinda took off on its own
I find this so fascinating.
I truly never heard of this series even though I watched the network all the time during its run.
Such a great video, thanks.
I remember actually liking this show and being bummed that it got cancelled lol
This review video was under my TH-cam feed from last week and it joged my memory I only say bits and pieces of it I have nothing to say about it but great video.
Oh wow, I actually met someone who had worked on this show! It was when I was at art school. He screened the unfinished pilot for us and we weren’t allowed to talk about it until the show officially aired.
Shame it got cancelled, the guy seemed genuinely excited to be working on such a new project. He walked us through the pilot and we ended up watching it several times. I remember getting pretty sick of it by the end of the class. Still, it was a really cool experience.
Thanks for reminding me this show existed! I had totally forgotten about this cartoon.
Do you remember what the pilot was like? I assume it's just an unfinished version of the episode Bling Thing which was the first episode made.
I love the art-style. It's my kinda atmosphere. The show oozes potential based on what I've seen in this video
I love John Gemberling. He deserved more from the industry.
I never heard of it…
I didn’t have cable at the time.
Very informative!
I actually really enjoyed this show as a kid, mainly because I was the edgy kid who stayed up past bed time and sneaked into the living room at night to watch adult swim just to see violence, this show was literally made for me. In all honesty I feel like the biggest reason it failed is that it wasn't advertised enough. I stumbled upon this show by complete accident when I left my TV on after the weekly adventure time/regular show new episodes had ended. I don't remember seeing any commercials for it, and almost no one at my school knew about it.
I discovered this show a few years ago by chance, and I loved it. All the things being pointed out as issues with the show were actually what drew me to it. It felt like this middle ground between Adult Swim and Cartoon Network, like it refused to be boxed in to either.
It’s crazy because I still think about this show often. Only seen it air twice as a kid and it still stuck with me they need to bring this fire ass show back
This show randomly popped into my head one day and I always ask whatever happened to it, I was shocked it didn't get picked up by Adult Swim after it got cancelled.
I barely remember the two main characters, so I probably flipped through it at one point and just decided it wasn’t for me. The style does strike me as an Adult Swim program, and I agree that it probably would’ve had better success there. Great video!
I was in college when this show came out. I was even going for an animation degree, which is why I kept up with cartoon blocks! I remember this show being pretty hilarious, but I was definitely more of the demographic they were aiming for at the time. Great episode! I had pretty much forgotten that this was a thing!
I only saw one episode and absolutely loved it as a kid, never thought I'd see them again
Oh my god this just unlocked an ancient memory from my childhood vault. I totally forgot about this show and i remember really liking it as a kid!! It really sucks that it got cancelled so soon :((
I saw one episode of this as kid and absolutely suppressed it for creeping me out. Thank you for unearthing this fever dream
This reminds me of another show released a couple years later, Problem Solverz. That one also felt like a show that would've worked better on adult swim, but by writing it for the normal CN block pretty much couldn't find an audience either. And at least this show had an appealing aesthetic, I remember being weirded out by seeing the Problem Solverz commercials ahead of its premiere.
That show gave me a headache with it’s flashing animation lol
While it would've been more at home at adult swim i say it still would've flop, it's over flashy colors and ugly character designs, and immature humor was it's downfall.
Fun fact...the Problem Solverz WAS originally for Adult Swim but changed for CN later. Regular Show had the same fate. It just was unusually successful.
Don’t remind me of those bright colours. Robotomy basically felt like Robot Jones but in high school.
@@JoJoOnTH-cam If Mr. Pickles can get 3 seasons, I'm 100% certain that Problem Solverz would be able to thrive on it.
This brought back a lot of memories. When I was younger I was confused why this was on cartoon network and not adult swim but either way it was an awesome show! I wish they would bring it back
Thank you thank you thank you for talking about robotamy I saw this come on right before adult swim in 5th grade and thought about it everyday it was so off from other shows I loved it especially with its school house rock like style I always thought it was a fever dream till a year ago and than this right here boy is that can’t believe I witnessed this air
I remember Cartoon Network making a REALLY big deal about this show's premiere which makes it even crazier how they ended up almost instantly abandoning the show. I thought it was very unique for the time.
This was an amazing show that deserved so much more attention than it got. One of my favorite shows from when I was a kid.
I never knew this existed! It's a shame they didn't continue with it, it looks amazing.
Thank you so much for helping me remember one of my favorite shows I couldn't remember the name symbiotic Titan
Thank you for covering the show, I see it rarely touched on! Although most people compare it to Robot Jones, this show always reminded me a lot of SuperJail. I remember even during both their airings I assumed that both shows were done by the same art team.
@Lena Lyons superjail started 2 years before robotomy
One thing about Robotomy that you may have not known about is that while it is not on any streaming service in America at this point, it is at least available on the Canadian streaming service, Teletoon+.
A couple weeks ago a 1 hour video with all the episodes of this show was recommended to me on youtube. After watching the whole thing, I got to say I really liked it. I wish we had more shows like this one nowadays
It's weird that he didn't mention that it was by the same creator as Superjail, Christy Karacas. The two shows have so many similarities it's uncanny. I always viewed robotomy as a superjail clone but the gore replaced with robot psudo-gore thus making it "child friendly"
they have different creators, Christy Karacas was the director for this show, tho. And they share other crew members like the music composer
This sound like a perfect example of a great show targeting the wrong audience. It would be nice to see more videos of great concept that was ruin as a result of something.
Yeah, probably would've been better on Adult Swim.
I remember loving this when it came out, but totally forgot about it until just now. Watching the clips in this video is bringing back such vivid memories. Also, the way you describe the show reminds me a lot of Super Jail, which i think is further proof it would have done far better on Adult Swim. The structures are different enough to make it not feel like a clone, in my opinion.
Finally someone makes a vid about this, I could’ve sworn I was the only one who remembered this. Robotomy was super weird to me but I still enjoyed it as a kid so it’s good to know about why it got cancelled super quickly
I love the youtube channels that give light to old cartoons everyone might not know about. Kinda cool to think people who enjoy this stuff (me included) are keeping this stuff alive.
Me and my friends were really into this show when it dropped. We kept saying it was superjail only with robots now and imo was funnier since it was on a kids/pre teen block. Sucks it got canceled so fast tho. I try to rewatch it every few years so it can still feel new to me
Ah the Superjail for kids!
Ok but seriously I was barely in high school when this was airing, use to actually enjoy watching this show due to that connection SJ! connection and just the stupid pointless violence.
Like right off the bat I loved the designs and animation too. It was just all too fun.
Granted it FELT like it wasn’t suppose to be on CN due to the level of robot violence lol
It reminds me how in some shooters or just violent games in general throughout the decades would sometimes have a “kids mode” where the gore and blood could be switched on or off.
This is what it felt like to me at least, as If you switched off the gore from SJ! and would instead swap it out with robots.
Weird explanation yeah but you get what I’m saying.
I honestly wondered how long this show would go on if it didn’t end the way it did.
Like it just felt different from what was playing at the time. Nothing groundbreaking of course but still different.
You need to do videos on: Mummies alive, Historia, street sharks, and biker mice from mars.
And i wasn't sure if you did one on swat kats, but that too!!
The fact that I don’t even remember seeing this show air is crazy to me
I think I watched a few episodes of this show when it came out, but I kind of forgot about it until now. It's too bad it got cancelled, it seems like it could of been a very solid series if it had some more love.
It's nice to finally have some closure on what happened to this show. I loved watching this as a kid when it was airing and was really disappointed when it just dropped out of existence on the network. I wish it had more time to develop the concept and sort out the target audience it deserved better.
This video unearthed this memory from my brain. I don’t remember much from the show, but I do know I liked it
I think this show deserves another chance to live! I love it so much and I think Robotomy deserves another chance! BRING BACK ROBOTOMY! 🤖
#BringBackRobotomy
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But there is, its called RObotzi.
I never saw a single episode. I only saw promos of it and mistook "Bolt & Blip" as a spiritual successor to it!😮💨😅
My parents were going through a divorce when this show came out. Just listening to you describe it in the opening makes me feel like i would totally watch this when it came out if I wasn’t moving so much :( . Will edit during the end of the video if my opinion changed
Edit: I feel like I would’ve tuned in. I feel like I would’ve been at the right age to understand the adult jokes
I've never heard of this but it looks like somethin I would have really really liked when it aired. I'd still like to see it if I could find it any where actually. I love the art style !!
I love the art style for this show so much...
I remember enjoying the show and wondered why it was cancelled, but knowing now that it's creators didn't really seem to care about it, expensive animation, and something of an identity crisis makes it surprising to me that the show ever saw the light of day
i love how the art style and animation always looks like SUPERjail! i remember seeing this show as a kid and then seeing superjail on adult swim when it premiered, always thought they looked similar.
great vid ever hear of a show called "bunny maloney" aired in 2009 on Kabillion, remember it being a fun time and the antics always wild. was like a team protecting a city with a giant robot type deal (if memory serves) was alot going on with that show.
I love all things Space Ships🚀 or Robots 🤖
I didn't know the show existed so thanks for sharing. Did this Robotomy ever make it on DVD?
Loved this show, my friends loved this show, she even had the whole series on her ipod and kept it for as long as she could. Wish it wasn't cancelled.
I remember this show premiering! I can see your point about it being in the wrong programing block, even as a kid it felt more like an adult swim show to me.
I actually remember this show, not much but now I'm tempted to watch it again
Thank you for reminding me this existed. I loved every episode