Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
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| Genre | Science fiction comedy |
| Created by | Greg Miller |
| Developed by | Mike Stern Greg Miller |
| Directed by | Greg Miller (Season 1) Rob Renzetti (Season 1) Steve Socki (Season 2) |
| Voices of | Macintalk Junior (season 1) Bobby Block (season 2) Kyle Sullivan Gary LeRoi Gray Myles Jeffrey |
| Theme music composer | The Invisible Car |
| Opening theme | "Do the Robot" |
| Composer(s) | Greg Miller Mike Stern (season 2) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (26 segments) + 1 pilot |
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| Executive producer(s) | Greg Miller |
| Producer(s) | Rob Renzetti (Supervising Producer) |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Hanna-Barbera (pilot) Cartoon Network Studios |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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| Original network | Cartoon Network |
| Picture format | NTSC (480i) |
| Original release | July 19, 2002 – November 14, 2003 |
Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (usually shortened to Robot Jones) is an American animated television series created by Greg Miller for Cartoon Network, and the 12th of the network's Cartoon Cartoons. The show centers on Robot Jones, a robotic teenager attending a suburban middle school.
The series centers on Robot Jones (Macintalk Junior; Bobby Block), who, as his name suggests, is a robot who lives in a small city in Delaware, in a futuristic version of the 1980s. Robot attempts to learn of human nature by attending Polyneux Middle School, where he makes three new friends: Timothy "Socks" Morton (Kyle Sullivan), a tall boy who loves rock music; Mitch Davis (Gary LeRoi Gray), a headphones-wearing boy whose eyes are hidden by his long hair; and Charles "Cubey" Cubinacle (Myles Jeffrey), a shorter boy who loves video games and wears a Pac-Man T-shirt. He also meets Shannon Westerburg (Grey DeLisle), a girl he has an unrequited crush on, because of her large retainer and metal prosthetic leg.
In each episode, Robot, usually with the help of his friends, does whatever he can to fit in the human society, which sometimes goes awry and gets himself into situations brought on by his social ineptitude and others' lack of understanding. In some episodes, he gets into a conflict with genius twin brothers who look nothing alike, Lenny and Denny Yogman. At the end of most episodes, Robot makes a data log entry, in which he states what he learned that day and what conclusions he has arrived at on humanity.
The opening sequence of the show, in which Robot Jones is assembled in a factory and then inserted into a school bus, is an homage to the opening sequence of 1980s children's show You Can't Do That on Television, which starts with a similar animation of children being assembled in a factory and poured into a school bus. At the end of the intro where the title of the show is spoken, the "...Robot Jones" part is done by a Macintosh Macintalk voice known as Trinoids.
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