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Whatever Happened to... This /co/ Thread? Anonymous 06/16/2025 (Mon) 01:30:16 No. 52557
I will be making dedicated threads for the anniversaries of “The Forgotten 4 Cartoon Cartoons” and I’m beginning with my personal favorite (that 4/co/ hated for some reason). Data Log Entry: Today marks 25 years since the pilot of Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? first aired. The basic plot >It was about Robot Jones (duh) who gets sent to a human middle school by his roboparents, ends up getting abused by almost everyone. He befriends this dork and a gamer duo and falls in love with this cunt with braces and a prosthetic leg because he thinks she’s a cyborg. He has to deal with enemies like these jackass DEVO hat twins who live in the vents and want his brain for unknown reasons, his technophobic principal who’s literally Hitler and his teacher who’s a literal jerk to Robot because he’s smarter than him, making him mad at Robot. The series would have ended with him growing up and killing off humanity but that (unfortunately) never happened. The series had a really cool 80s aesthetic and Schoolhouse Rock-esque visuals. It was also notable for being the last cel animated American TV series for its entire run. The first season had a TTS voice but then in season 2, it was infamously replaced with some random kid. Final Analysis: a very underrated show, we will see what 8/co/ thinks of it >(TTS Dub) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqsbrEzyxiLEzxz9rP16NmueuyUjoN1Y0 >(Bobby Block Dub) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4zPNaTu0opSwqN7hAIddCb2hpl7e7jMk
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>>52557 >what 8/co/ thinks of it
>>52557 >Forgotten Four Let me guess, Robot Jones, Sheep in the Big City, Mike, Lu, & Og, and... I Am Weasel?
>>52560 4 is actually Time Squad. Wouldn't really consider Weasel forgotten considering it was Cow and Chicken's sister show, but CaC is more popular, so there's that.
>>52557 >The series would have ended with him growing up and killing off humanity but that (unfortunately) never happened. And I for one welcome our new Robot Jones overlord. I'd like to remind him that as a fellow disaffected social malcontent I can volunteer to herd fellow humans into the concentration camps. Just give me a robo-waifu and I'm ready to join the robot side.
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>>52572 CN robbed us so badly from that ending I would have loved to watch the ones who treated him wrong finally die. >we know how it was planned to end, BUT who caused it is what we don’t know <I have 4 (technically 5) culprits, VOTE NOW, VOTE NOW, VOTE NOW!
>>52601 The Yogmans are a strong contender with the possibility that one of their usual evil plans or general chicanery hurt someone in Robot Jones' family, but I'm gonna say it's Sharon. Her rejecting him one too many times and sending him into an incel rage to shame Elliot Rodger is the most likely tipping point for Robot Jones to go full Skynet.
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>>52603 >Robot Jones could've been the first Time Warner franchise to start this trend of "we live in a society" 20 years before Todd Phillips was someone in the industry besides changing GG Allin's soiled undies after getting wasted
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< The series would have ended with him growing up and killing off humanity but that (unfortunately) never happened. Is this "he is high in the park" levels of confirmed or is there an actual script? Its been ages since I watched it, but an episode of Robot's friends trying to talk him down from destroying the world would be funny.
>>52613 This was apparently mentioned in a Facebook interview. I can't access without an account and refuse to make one so can't confirm, but here's the link to it: https://www.facebook.com/OperationRobotJones I keep hearing this specific quote from the interview: >Q: Last Question:Whatever happened to him and Can you send me some animatics or concept art >A: ha!!! >if my sources are correct I think RJ is in an alternate universe 1990's rallying his robot army for an attack on the human race.
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Here are my favorite Non RJ characters >Dad Unit I am thankful he did not get redubbed in season 2, his TTS voice is already perfect and ruining it will ruin the line delivery. He’s also one of CN’s greatest dads IMO, even tho he destroys a lot of things, he found and beat up Principal Hitler and nearly destroyed Polyneux prison- I mean middle school. >Cubey ZOMBIES! They did NOT need to make him this adorkable, he is amazing and needs to be protected at all costs. He also has funny moments like the “15 CENTS!?!” moment. Only bad things I can say is he sometimes teases Robot (unintentionally) and that one time he gave his crush a letter and attempted to assault her. Overall my favorite of his 3 friends >Clancy Definitely the only nice staff member, he’s part janitor part safety monitor, destroyed the 4th wall TWICE and overall David Koechner did a great job as him (I would also respectively get a real life #1 Hat replica)
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Oh based, love this show and always have since it premiered as a series in 2002. Love the aesthetic and I especially love Robot himself, he's such a fun and lovable protagonist. >>52613 Greg Miller has stated several times (in a facebook interview and in a podcast, as well as on twitter) that he planned for Robot to grow up and overthrow humanity, meaning it probably would have happened when he was out of middle school. >I was working for Hanna Barbera at the time as one of the storyboard guys on 'Dexter's Lab'. CN was looking for new shows and asked the in-house artists to pitch some ideas. I originally pitched them a pirate show idea, but for some reason(unbeknownst to me) CN had a strict 'no pirate' rule at the time. But, they thought the idea was funny, and they thought I was funny, so they asked me to pitch something else. I had been toying with an idea about a robot baby who grows up to take over mankind (terminator style). I thought it should be done like 'the wonder years' as a kind of look back at what led up to the robot eventually wanting to destroy mankind.
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>>52667 >but for some reason(unbeknownst to me) CN had a strict 'no pirate' rule at the time. Sure is funny how things go, eh?
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>>52611 >(RJ) How about another joke Shannon? <(SW) NO DORK, I THINK I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR STUPID JOKES! >(RJ) What do you get when you cross a constantly abused robot with a school that abandons him and treats him like trash? <(SW) Call the police! >(RJ) I’LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU GET, YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE! (kills Shannon) <(Cubey) ZOMBIES! That was awesome <(Madman) ROOOOOOOOOBOOOOOOOOT JOOOOOOOOOOOONES!!!!!!
>>52667 >>52780 Would any humans be spared Robot Jones's uprising? I could see Socks, Cubey, and Mitch (and maybe Shannon) being on his Do Not Kill List.
>>52668 >Skyler Page He made a video basically explaining how CN got raped badly, it was a matter of time of him finally snapping.
>>52786 >Socks, Mitch & Cubey: kept in a facsimile of their hometown with comfy living arrangements and visited occasionally, gilded cage situation >Clancy the janitor: working a meaningless but cushy job that amounts to paid retirement >Yogman twins: relegated to the uranium mines and fitted with cyborg implants to keep them alive if in horrible unending agony from radiation poisoning >Mr. McMcMc: forced to work at a research station and bullied by the robot scientists for being a brainlet relative to them, effectively a glorified court jester >Principal Madman: kept around as a puppet figurehead forced to appease Robot Jones daily on behalf of the last surviving humans >Shannon: too graphic to describe on a blue board in any kind of detail
>>52668 So the ONLY decent shows to come out of this mess was Hilda (If the memes are true) and MaoMao (Season Two, never ever). With honorable mentions to OK KO!, Mighty Magiswords, and Regular Show, which all apparently have their moments but are borderline "Not trash" at best.
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>>52804 I'd get rid of the entire Adventure Time branch due to Sugar.
>>52804 >Mighty Magiswords 5 TERABYTES OF CP
>>52804 >OK KO! That show has a literal episode defending furries, let it burn.
>>52810 >has a literal episode defending furries Nice, what episode? There's also a canon episode starring Sonic the Hedgehog. No joke.
>>52810 Funny you mention OK KO in this thread considering Robot Jones himself made a cameo in a episode and there’s a robot supposedly named after his crush? (is this confirmed?)
>>52668 Wild how the shows consistently get worse the lower you go down >>52667 Having a series where he's a adult and a villain would rock
>>52668 If I could snap Flajack from rhe timeline I would without hesitation
>>52667 I'm kind of tempted to draw evil Jones with concubine Shannon at his side. It's autistic but I can sort of imagine Jones' dominion leading to the future of Robotomy
>>53037 He has a cool design, go for it
>>53037 Do it. Give the people what they want.
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>>53273 Oh yeah, that design was used in a FusionFall project, not sure what became of it. I also remember a FusionFall reboot from a while back that got DMCA'd by CN that would have had Robot as an NPC, it's a damn shame it never came to be.
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>>53628 Holy shit, amazing work
>>53647 Thanks. I wanted to take my time with it. The fan design was just really well done.
>>53628 Looks good
>>53628 >implying Robot Jones wouldn't stick her with all sorts of gubbins to make her the perfect cyborg concubine for him Just kidding, it's a silly nitpick. Great work there, brother.
>>52557 >>52601 >>52630 >>52667 Now I'm remembering School House Rock.
>>53695 Truth be told I did consider it but I didnt want to take the time to think of said cyborg gubbins. I figured Jomes would be much more infatuated with her natural form anyhow.
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>>53628 This sketch is amazing, and so it gives an idea >pack up some drawfags because we should do some requests for the upcoming 23rd anniversary of the actual series. Any main character from the series is allowed, maybe some one time ones and background ones too No NSFW, keep that with the freaks at /r34/ And most importantly, come up with some great requests.
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>>53724 Here are color references for the main 4, robot’s parents and antagonists
>>53726 You forgot the school staff.
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>>52667 Felt like doodling that 1988 version of him
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>>53733 Here’s the faculty. I was pretty hesitant on this one cuz i couldn’t find a good Mr. McMcMc render, but I think this would do for now
>>53724 Im open to any requests anons might have. Drawing evil Jones led me down this rabbithole of an idea for a huge fusionfall-esque narrative following CN's forgotten legacy characters in some screwed up timeline lorded over by a fusion of Him and Aku. Time Squad and the Megas crew would be the only ones unaffected by the chronological disaster, and it would fall to them to fix everything. Jones would be one of the big bads, possibly a general for the Alu-Him fusion. Idk Im spitballing mostly.
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>>53755 Here’s a few goofier requests Cubey, but he’s shaped like a cube A comic of Madman getting fired after the kids start learning about WWII and they instantly notice who he looks like >if the show was on adult swim, that would 100% be a plot they’d do” The Gamer Duo (cubey and mitch) hoping to get the new Dot-Man and Monkey Kong games when they really get pics related
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>>53756 Sorry for the wait. I meant to get around to these sooner but life got in the way.
>>53868 Not the requester but love these!
>>53868 >Cubey lol
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>>53868 >That Madman "Clancy, we need to cook."
>>53868 Oh now they'll confuse Madman for the OTHER fascist leader if he removes the glasses and hat (and if he's bald)
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>>53868 Original Requester here, these are amazing and i decided to make a colorized version of the first one I actually have a few more requests that hopefully could get done by the 19th >the yogman twins listening to bevo (oh and denny’s energy dome falls off from lenny abusing him with a whip while singing along) >clancy entering a digbuild movie screening in one of the classrooms and getting popcorn and roosters thrown at him during the rooster rider scene >what socks’ little brother most likely looks like (we never see him but socks did mention him in garage band) >mr werkaut finding out robots and water don’t mix by looking it up on one of those crappy 80s computers (how has madman not destroyed the computer lab) >socks but he’s shaped like a sock
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>>53892 I'm happy to deliver. There's tons more I wanted to get to. Hopefully I can find the free time this weekend. >>53913 I based that Madman off the iconic Civ meme incase it went over people's heads. I was tempted to draw another Madman based off the unimpressed Hitler meme from a few years ago but I couldnt make it look right. >>53896 Dont thank me, thank the original requester for that gem of an idea. >>53900 >Madman White should I give this one a spin next? >>53936 Excellent job coloring Cubey! I'll try and get to those next few requests later this week.
>>53956 >Madman White Yes, absolutely give it a shot
>>53956 one based off of this would also be funny >>52780
>>53868 Nice art, do you have any socials?
>>53036 Hey man, I thought Flapjack was alright :,(
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>>53936 >>53959 I have a few irons in the fire. I tried covering as much ground as I could today. I also have something special for the weekend. Hopefully I can get it finished early
>>53966 Not really. I've been trying to get something going over the past year on twitter but I've been dragging my feet on the effort. These days it's hard to discern what the best place to post art even is. I usually just post anonymously on various chans.
>>54049 third one’s caption reminds me of that one marmaduke meme >YOU WERE A DOG ONCE, A DOG!
>it's officially been 23 years...
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>>54055 Do you think I should give it another shot? Sort of ended up looking like Movie Bob. >>54086 >>52780 Thankfully I just finished this.
>>54090 Yes, (and maybe add clancy as jesse)
>>54086 Crazy to think about, I remember watching it the day it premiered... time flies.
>>54100 I tried coming up with some rough compositions and its not coming out right. I'll have to stick a fork in it. I was hoping more anons would appreciate the comic. I have one more digital piece on the back burner but Im not sure if its worth posting. Anyways happy 23rd anniversary to Robot Jones.
>>54129 I have 2 guesses for what the second digital one is A. Madman Gets Fired B. Clancy Deals With The DigBuild Movie Chaos
>>54090 She got what she fucking deserves (:
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>>52667 >1992 Jones Wait a minute!
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I have always really loved RJ's design, it's simple, but cute and memorable.
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apparently, people on xitter are saying she looks like the deer from deltarune.
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>>54127 Same. It feel really weird. >>54831 It's nice and simple, not too complex. The animation style especially makes it look like something out of a schoolbook which fits the whole show's aesthetic even more. >>54952 >tall, lean figure >oval face shape >freckles >medium-long hair >buck teeth >antlers/braces jutting out from head like a pair of antlers Yeah, I can see it.
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>>54049 I would love to see a grown up Socks exposing Brian Peck’s criminal pen pal because his voice actor did exactly that on Quiet On Set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hulYhXEyNdA
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found this gem on halfbred /co/
>>55400 Stay there faggot.
>>55400 Love it


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