WAIT... Whatever Did Happen To Robot Jones?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- RoBoT jOnEs!?!? Wait... do you even remember Robot Jones? Do YOU know whatever happened to him? Today, we are going to take a look at early 2000's show 'Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?' and maybe, just maybe, we can answer that question.
Written By: Jordan Fringe & Christine Parshall
Edited By: Jordan Fringe
Channel Art By: Jerry Meehan
Thanks so much for watching! Did you ever watch this interesting little robot show?
Meh
Yeh it's one of my favorite obscure cartoon shows
Eh not much but the animation reminds me of Schoolhouse Rock tho
I remember watching this as a kid, and man I’m so old, I’m going to be 27 soon
Oh I definitely did. I loved this show, partly because I love robots and partly because it was just so cozy.
I totally remember this show. It went off the air, and I would also make the same dumb joke with my friends, "Whatever DID happen to Robot Jones?"
I bet we all did that back then.
I’d make the same joke and literally nobody knew what I was talking about.
Same!
I remember one episode where the robot befriended a vacuum and it sucked away a female teacher's dress and all the boys were crushing on the teacher staring at her and there were those heart emojis lol
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I actually really love the retreaux-style of the animation. WHtRJ is a very unique show outside of the fish out of water premise. I think as a kid, I actually mistook it for an old cartoon. It captures the School House Rock style very well.
I thought the same. I assumed they were playing an older show.
I adore how everything tends to go “off-model.” No two shots look similar
And it was the last cartoon in history to ever use cel animation.
@@okjeffy6581 i thought it was Ed edd n eddy
@Alpha Lax I think edd used to but upgraded to standard animation around the back to school era of The show, this was the last show to be created in the early 2000ss
I love how the love interest is a dorky girl with a disability, when every other show at the time was making it the popular cheerleader type we knew the main character would never end up with.
That’s Shannon you’re talking about. Always hated her because of how he treated my boy Robot Jones. But now that I’m older, I can kind of see why.
And the show rarely put any focus on her disability, she's just like any other kid, with defects and problems, she wasn't perfect (hell she was far from that) but that was the point, she's just like any other kid, her disability doesn't make her special, and Jones, initially attracted to her 'cause her "special condition" ended loving her human and mundane self.
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I actually voted for Robot Jones in the Voice Your Choice, and remember being disappointed that Billy & Mandy won. Billy & Mandy ended up being a really good show though, so it ultimately was for the best.
HOW DID YOU VOTE?
both robot jones and billy and mandy shouldve been fully made 😭
@@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888 I believe you had to go on the CN website & cast your vote there
Bruh i wish i could vote, but i was a baby at the time 😭
@@luigihorror6455I was just being born into the world at the time
😂😂😂
I feel like one of the few kids who actually really liked this show when it came out. My friends were very "meh" about it.
I completely lost interest when they replaced the TTS voice. That was most of the humor.
That was me as well, really didn't like that voice change.
*RIGHT??!* 😒
Exactly!!!!!!!
Same deal with me, none of my friends liked it, but I loved it. I stopped watching when they changed the voices on all the episodes, I didn’t like the kids voice. Too bad there’s no way to stream it other than what’s on TH-cam.
I liked the show. Always watched it when it came on.
“Magnetohydrodynamics” is definitely what the M stood for. Robot’s next assignment was to study college students and as a robot would be interested in the motion of electrically conductive fluid-like systems.
I wasn't a huge fan of the voice change when I was a kid. But after I revisited some episodes as an adult, I kind of liked both voices (and don't really hate the second voice anymore) and I can see where those exes were coming from as well, but I still vastly prefer his original voice. Why not have a robot character....sound like a robot? Especially considering how this show is supposed to take place in a 1980s universe where a robot's voice is not expected to sound "humanized" yet.
My biggest problem with the voice change was really the inconsistency. It's kind of like how I also feel about the art style change between the two seasons of American Dragon: Jake Long... Both versions are fine in their own right, but the sudden change of voice or art style hurts a show's consistency with the fans. Why not stick to one or another thing in the first place? So that's really my thoughts on the controversial voice change.
I remember one episode where the robot befriended a vacuum and it sucked away a female teacher's dress and all the boys were crushing on the teacher staring at her and there were those heart emojis lol
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I remember watching this show when it premiered. I liked this show as a kind and liked booth the voices of Robot Jones honestly. I sometimes wonder about the show and would like to go back and watch it. I just don’t know where to go to watch old cartoons that isn’t sketchy lol.
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You're welcome. 1:49PM 6/18/22
I'm pretty sure y can find some episodes on the internet archive
as of right now, all of the episodes are on youtube!
What's the play list?
Man I loved the way this show looked as a kid. It's like someone's sketchbook being animated.😄
A childhood friend of mine and I really liked this show, and we used to mimic his voice at each other. It definitely wasn't aired for very long. I couldn't tell you what happened in a single episode off the top of my head, but I remember loving the show. We were bummed when they cancled it.
Being fair, each episode was a dual-split: 10 to 12 minutes for Story A and then 10 to 12 minutes for Story B.
The three stories I remember most are, from least-remembered to most-remembered:
3. The Basketball one. Robot Jones gives himself modification/surgery to become tall enough to join the Basketball team.
2. The Garage Band one. Robot Jones and his friends start a rock band...but, as one expects, his friends care more about the popularity than actually practicing.
1. The one about Gender. As the first segment of the first episode of the second season, we begin with "class change". Robot Jones gets put into Home Economics (which even in the mid-2000's was a "GIRL'S ELECTIVE" since the projects involved cooking and sewing and other "household" tasks that "the wife should be doing for her working husband")...and is so good at the projects that the rest of the (almost-entirely-girl) class becomes Robot's friend.
Because Robot is hanging out with "the girls", his guy friends disown Robot as "a girl"...causing him to befriend the girls for a bit more and engaging in "girly" activities like make-overs and such, until said guy friends get jealous. Then the two factions of "Boys" and "Girls" try to fight each other for Robot Jones...and when he's made to decide he drops the bomb that they aren't actually that different, and I think either that he doesn't want to decide between the two groups or else can't decide between the two groups.
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... It's funny how that episode has stuck with me. But also (since coming out as non-binary) it actually makes a lot of sense. Like, very few adult media tried to have even side-characters explore their gender identity. So that this children's cartoon had its titular character put into words exactly how my 12-year-old self had felt for at least over 8 years at that point (and have consistently felt for the 18 years since)
Hell, if the Conservative "Christian Right" weren't legitimately using their "God Says X" rhetoric in an attempt to criminalize (if not legalize the murder of) trans-people for their just existing, one might almost describe this coincidence of me ever watching that episode as an "act of god".
And don’t forget the one with some naked Bri’ish dude and his dog.
I remember loving the show as a child, but ultimately missing it because of the weird times it would come on. When I talk about it today most people have no idea what I'm talking about. When I show them, they try and compare it to Jenny the teenage robot 😮💨
Youre posting twice a week? THANK YOU! Love your videos!!!
Thanks!! Yup twice a week for now
I love the style of this show. It’s very reminiscent of 70’s animated shows like School House Rock and Dr. Seuss cartoons
I was born in 1996 and didn't really watch a lot of episodes when it initially aired because of the time schedule, but could recall vaguely watching it. By the time I was 12 [2008] I was so interested in the shows art style that I watched episodes on TH-cam back when copystrikes weren't as strict as they are now. Maybe it was just the early hipster in me that liked saying "yeah I watch this old show" but I found it enjoyable. I may even find it even more enjoyable now as an adult to hear how innocently this robot describes what childhood/human kind is like.
I was also born in 1996, and rediscovered it in 2009 when I was 13. The backgrounds felt so weird but it made me wish I was inside of them. The backgrounds just looked so welcoming.
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@@spookychords4925 do you ever love a cartoons artstyle that you wish you were inside the backgrounds? I feel the same way everytime I watch this. And the music too.
"Change the robots voice, it's weird."
Execs completely missing the point of a show and having the irony go right past their head is a trope I'll never not find frustrating.
The Art style and design of Robot is adorable and I could see it fitting in with Todays Cartoons if it just refined a bit and brought back.
But then again CN is making horrible choices and not letting actual good shows thrive like they did back in the 2000s
This show should’ve gotten more attention.
Ah, "Whatever Happened To Robot Jones" i loved that show when i was little, and watching this vid became a real nostalgia trip for me thank you so much for covering this show Jordan!!!
I really liked this show! I think this is what sparked my interest in this type of ‘genre’ because My Life as a Teenage Robot is one of my favorite shows of all time, lol.
So, you like shows about robots??
I distinctly remember seeing the pilot for this show and the gym episode. I loved it as a kid, but wasn't sure why.
Now, as someone who realized they spent their childhood masking their autism, I understand why Robot Jones is so relatable now. I also spent my school years, questioning interactions, wondering why things were the way they were. Maybe that's why I loved the show so much as a kid.
To this day it is not hard to remind my family of this show, all you need is to speak the mystic words: "What ever happenned toooooo" and in a robotic voice all siblings will respond "Robot Jones!"
Speaking of the voice I always preferred the M98 voice. You know that thing where you make something up to explain something and then end up forgetting you made it up in an almost Mandela effect way? I had sworn there was an episode to explain the voice change, one where Robot and his friends enter some sort of battle of the bands or music competition, but Robot's voice wasn't doing it so he and his friends messed around with his system to put in a more vocalist voice in there. Eventually only being able to Rock-sing when talking became a problem in his day to day life he tries to change it back but couldn't return it to the M98 voice and had to settle with the kid voice.
By the time I'd realized they'd redubbed the whole first season I was like ":0 b-but now the band episode won't make sense!"
I loved this show and it's art style when it came out. It definitely had a look and feel unlike anything else on the network.
It's still one of my favorite Cartoon Network shows of all time.
You've just unlocked a core memory in me.
I’m turning 27 this year - I was 6-7 when this came out and I loved it. I was drawing and have drawn since age 5 - and I was fascinated by recreating that cube shaped robot - over and over again - on paper. The art style was very inspiring, and the writing unique.
I love this show. The Rubix cube episode stays embedded in my brain
The naked British guy and the dog stuck with me
Don't remember a lot from the show but the music video "Nudist and Mr Pendleton" has been stuck in my head for 20 years.
Really like your style of unapologetic puns and the whole 'commercial break' thing you do as a breather in the video. Makes watching your channel feel like an 'experience' rather than the typical commentator on a YT video. Been a fan for a little bit now.
QUESTION: Do you fully rewatch the series you cover in a video before releasing them? How do you approach building info for the video?
Hands down a underrated show
I adored the hell out of robot jones when it was on TV, and I remember being sad when it never really aired again. It was a good cartoon that was both ahead, and too late for its time. Had it been released when there was a larger nostalgia base for the 70s and 80s it could have gained a better following, and the same could probably be said if it had been made earlier in the 90s instead of late into them.
I remember catching a few episodes of this as a kid with the original voice. Then months later I saw it was going to be on again but it was an episode with the new voice and I thought, this must not be the same show. The voices were so different!
never liked when they changed the voice
Robot jones was my first crush and was the first character I ever drew selfship art for, haha. He and his show have a very special place in my heart.
This artstyle is so wonderfully loose and expressive! Kinda reminds me of Schoolhouse Rock with a bigger budget.
I remember, "camping" in the living room as a kid. I pulled my lil pokemon tent up to the TV and passed out watching the growth spert episode. When I woke up, I too was a taller boi! It tripped me out. And, kept me the tallest kid in class for like... a year. So, big Ws all around.
Well, this was a nice surprise.
I was searching for “whatever happened to robot Jones” and discovered this video.
Certainly was not expecting to find such a recent video.
I remember this show had actor Rip Taylor as the math teacher Mr. McMcMc, Rest In Peace Rip Taylor
Just recently finished watching the show actually, seriously loved the Lavender Fudge Experience music video.
I loved this show so much when it came out. I've always hoped this could get a revival. Thank you for posting this and all your videos. You just pulled me out of a really bad mood.
Can I just say I love your show, all of these wonderful reviews of cartoons and shows of the past. It lets me remember an easier time. And these reviews also thanks to your breakdowns allow me to show what I can to my kids to see if they'd be interested watching them. And thanks to you my 5-year-old loves The Secret Saturdays.
Thanks so much for the kind words! So awesome to hear that, glad they enjoy the secret Saturdays!
You’re a healer, Jordan. 😊
I often get huge dexter’s laboratory vibes from this show. Definitely a fun and underrated show overall.
I never caught on to the School House Rock aesthetic of this show as a kid (ever though we still very much did watch those tapes in school…👵🏻) but I LOVE that. I also never noticed that Shannon had a prosthetic leg! That’s very cool.
New core memory unlocked after seeing this again after so many years
If this video didn’t show up on my feed I could have lived the rest of my life forgotten about this show lol this is crazy
As a kid who was in the target audience at the time it was airing, the look of the show was unlike anything else. Loved it and always wondered why they pulled it.
I always remember loving this show as a kid. I loved the kooky hand drawn style and loved the characters. Also just realizing how inclusive he was including an amputee character in a main role. This show deserves to live on on like TH-cam or Netflix or something. Let it flourish now that it can be appreciated correctly and not bound by the shackles of the cable TV overlords
You talked about Robot Jones and Time Squad. Now the only two obscure CN shows that are left to cover from the late-90s/early 2000s era are Sheep in the Big City and Mike, Lu and Og!
OMG i loved this show!!
I'm so glad you exist to bring light to just about every cartoon I've ever watched as a kid in the early to mid 2000s.
Also yeah I remember watching both versions of the character's voice when they would show the same episode. The way it ended was super abrupt though which was kinda sad considering how unique this show was in its visual style and content. I personally really liked the hand-drawn, almost sketchy cell-to-cell animation even if it would have been more time consuming in the long run
Not just the early to mid 2000s, he is also doing late 2000s to early 2010s. But I agree with you.
I remember watching this show back when I was a kid. I enjoyed it so much that my grandma made me a tape of most of the episodes. One episode I remember was the Family Vacation episode, where Randy Savage played an angry biker. Thank you for taking a look at this show, and keep up the good work!
one thing i really enjoyed about this show, despite not watching it much, was the very retro 70's style animation, it reminded me of the old school house rock animations they would play in school for us, or the old dr seuss specials and that gave it a great charm
The frequency AND quality of your uploads is on another level! keep it up!!!
Thanks so much!
You know, a crossover between Robot Jones and Robotboy would be fun.
Robot jones would blow a fuse seeing how advance robot boy is.
whats funny about this show for me is that it popped up in my life when i began looking online for things to go with my fixation on robots- i found people made art of a funky little robot jones. i found that this series was perfect for me, and i was able to watch it online. i love this little robot guy, and honestly i was really into the whole idea of seeing the middle school life in the eyes of a robot. i would love to watch this show over and over, robot jones is just so neat. the artstyle is wonderful. i would be interested in a more complex dive into robot jones discovering more about human nature, honestly, because like. life has so much learning in it. i want to see him learn!
As an undiagnosed autistic, literal top-of-my-class-without-trying nerd/geek, and someone that while assigned-male-at-birth was so detached from the gender binary and "gender roles" since my youth that I idolized both Prince and Cher from musical and aesthetic angles since before I had begun puberty...
Robot Jones was one of the few "skit comedy" protagonists I felt a genuine emotional connection to. Hell, even Sheldon Cooper (from "The Big Bang Theory") can't boast about having such.
I didn't like the cartoon for some odd reason. I have no clue why, but maybe in the future I'd give it a rewatch.
I love robot Jones
Wow this tapped into my reserve databanks. Thanks for a blast from the totally forgotten or so I thought.
its a shame this was cancelled due to unpopularity and CN's handling of the show. as a young boy who had autism (and also loved robots) i could really relate to robot jones as I too had a hard time understanding social cues compared to most people. but i actually learned a lot from this show, which im thankful for now as an adult.
I had somehow erased this show from my memory, the channel really be bringing back my childhood
I've been waiting for this episode! This is a show that I still think about randomly and I'm so happy you decided to cover it.
This show gaslit me a little bit as a kid. When it came out, its name made me think it was a callback to some previous show that used to exist. I was scratching my head trying to remember some other show about a "Robot Jones" character, but never truly came up with anything; even though i felt at the time that one should exist.
me too kinda. I thought it was some kinda continuation of a previous show or smth but every time I saw it it was never just "robot jones" always "whatever happened to robot jones", so I was like "how the hell should I know?? I've never seen this character before!" lol
Maybe a similar robot character appeared in Schoolhouse Rock…
The title of the show is fitting nowadays but yeah I remembered it. It was cool that the first season had an actual computer voice the titular character although I respect that they probably couldn't make it last without an increase in budget
I’m confused, how would using a computer-generated voice be more expensive than using an actor?
@@tiablue9106 I can't say for sure. Maybe they thought a voice actor could better emote than a computer generated one.
You scratched my memory with this and brought back a plethra of buried memories. Thank you and "curse" you.
Love this series 😩 Does anyone remember Code Lyoko? Used to love that show 👀😎
Video on that in August
@@JordanFringe94 🥰You are the greatesttttttt
I found out about this show in 2009/2008 when I was using cartoon network's flash based media player. Since my house didnt have cable I would watch episodes online through the CN video player. I ran out of episodes to watch and saw a picture and name among a list of other CN shows like totally spies and squirrel boy.
Of all the shows that could use a reboot, this is it.
My favorite aspect of the show were the ads where it was animated in a pixel artstyle. Especially the music during the ad, which was from the episode where the Yogman twins steal Robot’s brain to use in their machine.
I remember really liking the show when it first aired and being confused when they changed Robot's voice. I'd love it if the show ever did get a proper revival, but short of CN giving up the rights I sadly don't see it happening.
I loved this show. It taught me that if you swap two stickers on a Rubik’s Cube you can never fully solve it.
I grew up with this show but it’s been awhile since I saw it asp the TTS voice is so much better and fitting for robot Jones and the fact that this is a pencil mation show which is interesting in the early 2000s and despite the fact that this and the moxy show were forgettable was sad but at least thx to crossover nexus they put them back in the spotlight, keep up the great work for your vids btw.
I'm loving the extra video each week. Keep it up.
Recently subbed cause you make me remember soooo many childhood memories of these shows from when I was like, four!
Was watching some of your older videos and suddenly got reminded about a show I have never heard talked about called "Huntik: Secret & Seekers" (had to do a short google search cause the name completely slipped my mind) that I was shortly enamored with as a kid as well and saw you don't have a video on that yet, so here's to hoping one day :D love your videos keep up the good work
I never did watch the show when it came out. Nobody I knew, including myself, had ever heard of it. I did eventually see it when it re-ran with the cartoon cartoon show in the mid 2000s. I remember being happy when watching it as I think it was rare for that show to air reruns of Robot Jones and I only saw it when I was sick and had to stay home. It was good for what it was as the art style was completely different from the cartoons I was watching at the time. Thanks for making this video, I had almost forgotten this show and for answering the question to "what ever happened to Robot Jones?"
I remembered it. Couldn't tell you any specific episodes, but he and Jenny were both great figures in my childhood.
I was just honking about this show. I loved watching it growing up. Thanks for the brief memories dude.
The show may have been short, but it left a huge impact on me, to always being able to recall it. Especially given the name of the show, it may have been a play on words on the creator expecting it to get lost with the times.
Everyone forgets all the episodes were lost till A devitart group refound it
I'm glad someone is talking about it. I hardly ever hear people talking about it, sheep in the big city or "Mike, lu and Og" when talking about cartoon network shows.
I remember his voice being redubbed later on in the series
This was actually my favorite show for a long time, I was so upset when it was taken off the air.
This was a Sunday morning cartoon for me, still remember the house I’d watch it in
This was hard to catch on back then. I could never figure out when this show aired on cable. I really enjoyed it!
This was definitely one of my favorites when it aired growing up. I'm thinking the M on the shirt might be a school thing, Or a last initial in his full name.
Thank you for doing this episode !! I honestly thought I was the only one who saw this show going up !!
This show & Sheep In The Big City were always the shows they not too many of my peers seemed to remember
Bro, there's this cartoon about two stumpy looking kids (probably in junior high) with warped eyes, and the premise of the series being that they spend all day at the arcade and get into some arcade games themed sh*t ... I need the name of this show man, I'm dying here 😫😫
Just hearing the plot I already want a reboot where he goes to college and deals with those problems
I think the part of this show I remember most vividly is the between-episodes song they'd sometimes play called "The Nudist and Mr. Pendleton".
It's such a bizzare thing to attach to a children's show about a robot.
Totally forgot about this show. The early 2000s was my teen years, and when my family first got Cartoon Network. Good times.
So, I'm Autistic, but I was diagnosed when I was 18. I've been thinking about when I was in school and how I didn't fit in with other kids. I feel like this is allegorical to the Autistic child's life navigating school.
I'm autistic too. I think he was coded as a nd kid.
I did not know what happened to Robot Jones, but I do remember the show fondly.
For some reason, the most common episode I ever caught was some music video about a naked man and his dog that kept him censored. Or something like that. It was the whole episode. 😅
Thank you for all these videos...most of my friends don't remember most of the shows or even heard of them so all my jokes fall flat. I show them your videos and now they know I'm not totally crazy
Anyone else notice that changing the time slot on a struggling show NEVER actually helps. It's like when Cartoon Network would randomly show Zoids: Chaotic Century in the middle of the seadon for Zoids: New Century Zero, but wouldn't differentiate the two in the TV Guide menus, so it was a crapshoot of which show you were getting, and both series suffered for it.
I loved this show so much as a kid,I really do miss this amazing show
Robot Jones and Sheep in the Big City were two short lived shows that I loved. I’ve been waiting for this retrospective for 20 years.
I tried to find a video on SitBC from you after watching this and couldn’t find one! Would love to hear your review one day
This was definitely a show I'd file under "cartoons that I liked but didn't know why and also can't really remember much about" category of my childhood
The twins have DEVO HATS! 🤩
Been waiting for you to do this one. If anyone was gonna do this it was gonna be you!
I remember watching Robot Jones before the voice change and being confused and disappointed as a kid that it wasn’t the same.
Used to love this show as a kid. Between this and the Cubix video I'd say you're caitering to my robot obsessed heart as a child. You'd just need to talk about XR from Buzz Lightyear and/or the Iron Giant and you'd have all my favorites. XD
Robot Jones was an adorable cartoon! My favorite episode was the Rubik’s cube competition; I think his first name should be Mike or Melvin. Also really loved your responses that got me :3
I really enjoyed the little i remember of this show, including looking back at older episodes. it was just nice seeing a character who embodies the outcast, the awkward and nerdy of being a kid. sure, Robot isn't exactly a kid but the way he acts is like that of the new kid: joining the outcasts that accept him, making enemies with those that use him and falling in love with people who are cool in he's eyes. it's kind of sweet and, maybe this is just me, but it reminds me when i was new to a school. grant it, it was just 2nd grade and so on but i went through a lot in school i see with Robot. maybe that's why i remember this show: cause it was a show i grew up with during a time in my life i was dealing with the same issues.
It's always wild to look back at shows with a new look on your life cause it surprises you how relatable it is. I wonder if kids growing up with shows like Craig of the Creek will think 20 years later?
Found out about this cartoon two weeks ago, so lucky to have new cool video about it!
Maybe because of audience of this channel people will give a lil bit more attention to this unique show
I liked the style of Robot Jones. It's a shame that the network canceled the show because I really would have liked to see how it ended. Also, regarding Robot's actual name, maybe Mecha or Macro? Possibly Mac, like Macintosh or Mac and Me?