I love how the title for Whatever happened to Robot Jones, is literally what everyone thinks when they think about Robot Jones. Like "Yeah, what ever happened to that show?"
I was literally thinking that same thing lmao 😂😂 almost like the title was a self fulfilling prophecy that the show was meant to be forgotten but also remembered years to come 😂😂
The aesthetic for this show was so unique & retro, making it like a School House Rock-era cartoon. Sheep in the Big City was another show at that same time that CN barely pushed but was so unique.
Sheep in the Big City was made by children's author Mo Willems, who is probably best known for "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" and "Elephant and Piggie".
The only thing I really remember about this show was that his voice used to sound more robotic, then a few episodes later he sounded more human lol. Oh and an episode where a kid says he was playing "Super Monkey King Jr". I laughed at the blatant ripoff lol
They actually pushed this show fairly hard early on, but it came out in a time before 80s Nostalgia was considered cool, and a lot of kids just didn't like it. Nowadays people appreciate the art direction and setting but the series is still dragged down by a weak main character. Robot is just a little too alien to be relatable. Maybe with more episodes they could have made something of it, but the mass rejection from the viewers is probably what made CN cancel the series.
Regarding "Robot Jones is a little too alien to be relatable": for what it's worth, there were moments in this show that absolutely shook me to my core. I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was in kindergarten, something that my mom absolutely refused to accept because "Nuh-uh! ThEy'Re tOo SmArT tO bE rEtArDeD!"and went as far as moving us out of the state to get me into a school system that would ask fewer questions, insisting to anybody who asked that I was totally fine and there was conclusively nothing wrong with me according to the last school, don't think about it. I was confused by so many things for so much of my childhood. That impression of looking at everybody else and wondering "What in the world could POSSIBLY motivate somebody to think or act so irrationally?" Just constantly getting chewed up for being honest with people in a "Why are you mad at me? I'M TELLING THE TRUTH!" kind of way. Getting teachers pissy at me because I was reading at basically an adult level by 1st grade and could call them out on dumb shit, while also being non-functional any time I had to cooperate with or even just be reminded of other kids existing around me. That was it. A lot of this show is like that, and that's what my childhood was. There's a bit in this show where Robot is having real, actual nightmares about dying in gym class because he keeps trying to tell the teacher that the shower is going to kill him, and the teacher is just ignorantly condescending "Shut up, dumb little idiot. I know for a fact that showers don't kill kids, now shut up and sit still while we throw your ass in the shower". That episode caused a legit mental/emotional breakdown for me, because I LIVED that. More than once. Cameras just freaked me THE FUCK out when I was a kid. I think it probably had something to do with the fact that pictures are too permanent. I can never go back and change that, and it fucking KILLED ME. I remember not understanding yet why it freaked me out, and begging people to listen to me, and having anxiety attacks because nobody would fucking listen. Just a bunch of "shut up, you whiny, shitty little idiot. Picture day's not gonna kill you. You're just thrashing around and causing a scene because you want attention." ... ATTENTION? FUCK! There are OTHER PEOPLE HERE! THIS IS HOW I DIE. AAAAAALLL of that is a really long way of saying that I think it's funny to find somebody who thinks "Yeah, Robot's just too different to be relatable", when I genuinely find this show too challenging for me to actually watch, and my reason is "It's just TOO REAL. It's honestly just too difficult for me to watch a show about exactly what my childhood was like. It's TOO accurate. Nobody understands me, I don't understand anybody else, I just don't belong here. Too real. Can't go back to that." Definitely not a normal experience. It's a very specific experience that's mostly unique to a person on a specific part of the spectrum in an environment where nobody respects that. I can see why that would be alienating to a general audience.
@@svierrodcuppycake3655 I've had that same thing (autism, kids not understanding me, teachers "cared" the best way a private school could) and yet something about this show *still* annoyed me as a kid.
@@eatatjoes6751 That's totally understandable. I don't think "relatable" and "enjoyable" are the same thing. My whole speech was more about how I found it funny that some of the things that might have made Robot Jones unrelatable to a normal audience were the same things that made the show difficult for me because I related to it *too much*. I can definitely see even other people on the spectrum finding this show boring or annoying or unrelatable or whatever else. I can't speak much for its defense; I can barely watch it.
@Imma Big God Now Naw, I don't think relating to Robot Jones makes you autistic. There's a dozen different reasons you might enjoy the show, or find Robot Jones to be likeable or relatable. I just wanted to share what *I* saw in the show. I felt so much like an alien or a robot or something like that when I was in school. I felt like I was in a place I didn't belong, for reasons I couldn't understand. Robot Jones hit a lot harder and closer to home for me than I think it was supposed to. I don't think it's bad or wrong to like this show or the main character, or if you DON'T like them. People should watch what they like. Try not to let my experience ruin anything for you.
Man this cartoons art style just makes me feel nostalgic lol., I was born in April of 1996, and this show was a mindblower. I saw an episode in 2002, and I completely forgot about it until 2009.
Before My life as a Teenage Robot, there was “what ever happened to Robot Jones” I have glimpses of this show in ads multiple times and I don’t remember what episode I watched but I saw this show once.
Remembered when I was little always wonder why they changed his voice from robotic to a different voice. Then also remembered his crush on Shannon that's about it. As I've got older I've seen every episode they aired and I can say it's a good cartoon from my childhood.
Knowing today's overly pc culture and how it is shoved down almost everyone's throats, it's probably better that it isn't. In fact I think it should be put onto streaming services instead so that more people can see how good this show was.
I remember this show no question asked. I even drew a picture of robot Jones, and showed it to my mother. She laughed her ass off sadly. But I loved this show. Didn’t really give it a second thought when it went off the air. Curse you puberty!
Great video! Loved this show! I have a similar memory of a cartoon from around that era. I think it was in the cartoon cartoon segments that originally had KND. I do hope I'll find that promo some day!
Oh man memories coming back to me. I remember this show. One of my favorite episodes is when a foreign exchange robot cones to the school and the principal actually liked him because he looked human and the girl robot Jones like was charmed by him. Of course typical he admits to Jones that he was a soy and that he got everything needed for blackmail and stuff and he leaves the school which upsets the braces girl and she likes I'll never speak to you again robot Jones, digital dork!!!!
That’s totally my memory of this show, waking up and it being on. I also feel like I nostalgia processed nostalgia different that I do now. And in a similar way what you described. The cartoon cartoon voice over really gives me good vibes
The title of the show is exactly how I feel about it. "What ever happened to the Robot kid show?" I remember when I looked into it again a while back, I was confused by the voice. The only version I ever heard was the Text to speech version. But yeah, weird show. Unique style. Never liked or disliked it. Was pretty neutral.
I'm only 4 years older than you. I love all the old cartoon cartoons Johnny bravo was my favorite!! Man hearing and seeing the old commercials and shows really brings me back. Reminds me of Watching old school cartoon network after school, trading pokemon cards and playing ps1 my neighborhood freinds. I wanna go back sometimes, shit was simpler.
Thanks for watching! I was originally going to upload this video on this upcoming Tuesday so it could be a week apart from my last upload, but I'm trying really hard to get back to weekend uploads. Copyright Claims tend to make that a hard thing to do, but fingers crossed! Do you remember Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? A surprising amount of my friends had no idea this show existed!
@DuskTilShawn After watching this video, I feel like writing a film adaptation of Robot Jones. I do remember watching the show and it's a damn shame that it's so obscure.
OMG, you just unlocked this memory for me too... I used to watch it late at night, and I remember I really enjoyed it, but I had completely forgotten how weird its plot was!
So many have forgotten this show but I remember watching the pilot and seen every episode it was so charming 😍 this show and my life as a teenage robot on nick and Futurama made me just love robots in tv shows ❤️
Read the thumbnail of the vid and already gotta give it a like, because my memories of this show is so faint it can only be described as something close to a fever dream. Like thats literally what I call it. Lol
I also have hazy childhood memories of this show which you just unearthed. Here they are before I google it and ruin the magic: 1) I LOVED the crude, hand drawn 1970s-ish aesthetic of the show as a kid. It stood out and made me obsessively try to watch the show, which wasn't easy because CN never aired it. I had an obsession with old electronics and video games growing up which the look of this show played right into. 2) The episodes that I can recall are the pilot, which I watched when it aired as part of that competition you mentioned, plus an episode involving a Rubick's Cube competition where some kids cheat and switch the colors. These might've been attached to each other. 3) CN made it really hard to watch this show. You never knew what time it would be on, when they aired it at all. I remember it being an absolute chore. Most of the time I did happen upon it, they were replaying the pilot. 4) I remember them changing the voice and HATING the new voice. He didn't sound like a robot anymore, which bothered me as a kid.
I have distinct memories of watching and enjoying it as a kid, but it wasn't my favorite thing ever. I was really big into the Cartoon Cartoons, so I know I was there when the pilot was picked up alongside Grim & Evil, and I regularly saw the series during its time on air. Once it ended and disappeared from the air, I never really thought much of it until years later when I realized and thought to myself "Oh yeah... whatever happened to Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?"
I remember watching this show back when it came out. Used to watch a lot of cartoon network back then. I watched it during cartoon cartoon fridays. I only saw the first season. Never it without the TTS robot jones
Oh...my...God...I definitely remember this show but man that feels so long ago. Nostalgia just gives me a bittersweet feeling of well better days, thats just me.
Oddly enough I’m a year younger than you and I had a solid memory of watching this show. I don’t remember every episode but I do remember the main characters voice change. And some of its basic premise. CN was always experimental when it came to cartoons. But there were a lot of shows that virtually disappeared from people’s memories. Especially from around this era. Between this show, timesquad, sheep and the big city, Evil con carne, and Mike lou and og I almost never hear anyone saying anything about them.
I remember watching this show as a kid, this and Time Squad were some of my favorites, Im also glad to know that I wasnt crazy when I remember that Robot sounded more robotic in the beginning
I remember watching the pilot. I was in my late teens at the time and I liked that text-to-speech voice with Robot Jones. When I saw the revamped version, I was SO disappointed.
1:19 bro that’s crazy. That’s exactly how I came across it. I have very vague memories of the few episodes I watched but one I definitely remember is the episode where Jones couldn’t solve a Rubik’s cube because someone switched one of the colors on the corner.
Dude I remember this a lot. Like literally I watch the series with my siblings and man we had a blast watching this show a lot and my dad had it recorded on vhs. Dude what happened Shawn in the big city? Classic Cartoon Network promos.
I remember vividly watching this on Cartoon Network back as it originally aired. I was 4 years old when I would turn it on as it broadcasted. I still explicitly hear the kids asking so confidently... "Whatever Happened to..." Followed by a synthetic-filtered "Robot Jones?" Couldn't have had a better title, especially since I haven't seen it in over 20 years! (MAN, I feel old, and I ain't even 25!) I know very clearly that this show was no dream, but rather, a strangely fond memory in my childhood. I forgot the show name for about 14-15 years, but I never forgot this little ole robot. :)
Loved this show. Definitely another one of CN’s many underrated gems from the cartoon cartoon era. This show could’ve done well but as you said was always changing time slots. It never got the same praise as other more popular shows did like Dexter’s Lab, Cow and Chicken, ppg, courage, ed edd n Eddy, etc. These shows are all great it’s just that Robot Jones wasn’t granted the same success because it was never given the same push as the other shows did. Had it been pushed a bit more it could’ve become a big hit but sadly enough they wasted what could of been a great opportunity by not airing it a lot and not airing it at popular time slots. Had they given it more of push it could’ve become one of their biggest hits in fact it could of been their biggest hit they ever had but they failed to give it that opportunity. One of my faves for sure.
I always remembered the distinct art style of this show. When I first saw The Loud House, I knew there had to be a connection, and sure enough; Chris Savino did the Character and Prop models for Robot Jones.
I remember this show but had no idea it was picked up due to being part of a viewer vote contest. Truly was the kind of insanity you could get from such contests back in the day...good times.
I remember that cartoon. There’s a few other cartoons from Cartoon Network that seems to have been forgotten. Mike, Lou, and Og is another one that a lot of people don’t remember. Sheep and the Big City too.
Thank you! I thought I was the only one who remembers Sheep in the big city, I thought that show was enjoyable to watch. As for Mike, Lou, and Og I do remember watching a few episodes but never really clicked with me but it's a shame these shows were never given much time to shrine and were just axed with little to no fanfare.
Even though I didn't grow up with this show, the style is very reminiscent of School House Rock, which I DID grow up watching the DVD of. This seems like such a fun show, and I'm going to watch it as if it were my childhood :D
Whatever Happened to Robot Jones, Sheep in the Big City, Time Squad, Sitting Ducks, Pecola, Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi, Atomic Betty, Code Lyoko (And just Miguzi in general), The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, and Class of Three 3000. Those are all the (more or less) obscure shows I remember watching growing up on Cartoon Network from 2003- 2007.
that name is really fitting for the show lol, also I remember shows named "A Little Curious" "Mio Mao" "Dexter's Laboratory" "El Perro And El Gato" and more when I was 3-7
Dude, this cartoon never ever left my mind. I always watched this cartoon every time a new episode came out. I guess because I've always wonder what happened to this cartoon. Robot Jones is one of my favorite cartoon Robot protagonist along with Jenny from My Life As a Teenage Robot.
Oh I remember this show pretty well considering I haven't seen it since 2002. I also remember Robot's original voice which I wish they didn't replace unless they had to.
I saw a single episode of this show when I was in 2nd grade. it was valentines day and I went home early because I was sick, while I was waiting for my mom to get medicine I was sitting on a chair and watching TV. it was a brief period where we could afford to have more than public access and it was in the 2000s but I don't know the exact year. maybe 2006-2008. I don't know the episode ether but it always sat in the back of my head for a while until this failed cartoon about robots in highschool made me remember it. then it faded until Lost Media became a widely discussed topic a couple years back, when talk about the episodes of WTRJ with the T-T-S voice made me remember once again. I was a geeky kid that loved robots so if I wasn't sick and could focus I would have loved it.
I remember every cartoon I saw on Cartoon Network as a kid which is a miracle since I can barely remember anything else from that time. I’m both happy because I got to see it’s golden age and sad because now everything is trash.
The same thing happened with the video game "Remember Me" and it has such an ironic name, but to a lesser extent because it was was recently maybe ten years ago instead of 20 years ago.
I’ve never heard of this show before but it sounds and looks awesome plus I like the ending they were planning on but never got to. I hope that show gets a reboot someday.
I have similar situation. Growing up, I had periodically seen a show called "Might Max." For whatever reason, I only ended up watching this show when I was at my friends house. I have no idea why it ended up that way, but it did. Fast forward several years later, and then I have some vague memory of a cartoon of some kid with maybe a magic hat, and some bird owl thing. Then my friend reminded me that it was in fact, a show that we had watched back in the day. Even after seeing the intro and clips of it, I could not for the life of me remember ANYTHING about the show except for what I already mentioned. It's a strange phenomenon for sure.
I have a memory of my great grandma flipping through channels at the house we originally lived in when I was about 2 or 3. She eventually clicked on this movie where this boy was pleading for his life to some slime monster and then it turned him into a ball of slime. I think there was a witch and some little girl too. All I remember is that it disturbed me as a child and ever since then I’ve been trying to find this movie to no avail. This happened in either 2001 or 2002.
This was one of the few shows on at 5am for me in Texas. It was also during a weird time with the 3D cube animal show, Sheep in a Big City, and Hamtaru. No one ever knows about the animal show :/
I love how the title for Whatever happened to Robot Jones, is literally what everyone thinks when they think about Robot Jones. Like "Yeah, what ever happened to that show?"
It's almost like they knew the cartoon would be lost
I was literally thinking that same thing lmao 😂😂 almost like the title was a self fulfilling prophecy that the show was meant to be forgotten but also remembered years to come 😂😂
That title is way to true.
Sheep In The Big City is another criminally forgotten Cartoon Network show.
Agreed
One if the best.
I'm not a mad scientist, I'm an angry scientist ANGRY!
I forgot about this one. I didn’t see much but I remember it being pretty good
The Ranting Swed would have something to say about this.
The aesthetic for this show was so unique & retro, making it like a School House Rock-era cartoon. Sheep in the Big City was another show at that same time that CN barely pushed but was so unique.
Sheep in the Big City was made by children's author Mo Willems, who is probably best known for "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" and "Elephant and Piggie".
@@MusicMan32K I found that out only after rewatching some last year & noticing & it blew my mind. His work is hysterical
It's nice to see someone finally talk about this show. I was starting to think this and Sheep In The Big City it were all a fever dream.
The only thing I really remember about this show was that his voice used to sound more robotic, then a few episodes later he sounded more human lol. Oh and an episode where a kid says he was playing "Super Monkey King Jr". I laughed at the blatant ripoff lol
The drawings are sooo nostalgic feeling! It’s like a Scholastic book fair book drawings!
They actually pushed this show fairly hard early on, but it came out in a time before 80s Nostalgia was considered cool, and a lot of kids just didn't like it. Nowadays people appreciate the art direction and setting but the series is still dragged down by a weak main character. Robot is just a little too alien to be relatable. Maybe with more episodes they could have made something of it, but the mass rejection from the viewers is probably what made CN cancel the series.
Regarding "Robot Jones is a little too alien to be relatable": for what it's worth, there were moments in this show that absolutely shook me to my core.
I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was in kindergarten, something that my mom absolutely refused to accept because "Nuh-uh! ThEy'Re tOo SmArT tO bE rEtArDeD!"and went as far as moving us out of the state to get me into a school system that would ask fewer questions, insisting to anybody who asked that I was totally fine and there was conclusively nothing wrong with me according to the last school, don't think about it.
I was confused by so many things for so much of my childhood. That impression of looking at everybody else and wondering "What in the world could POSSIBLY motivate somebody to think or act so irrationally?" Just constantly getting chewed up for being honest with people in a "Why are you mad at me? I'M TELLING THE TRUTH!" kind of way. Getting teachers pissy at me because I was reading at basically an adult level by 1st grade and could call them out on dumb shit, while also being non-functional any time I had to cooperate with or even just be reminded of other kids existing around me. That was it. A lot of this show is like that, and that's what my childhood was.
There's a bit in this show where Robot is having real, actual nightmares about dying in gym class because he keeps trying to tell the teacher that the shower is going to kill him, and the teacher is just ignorantly condescending "Shut up, dumb little idiot. I know for a fact that showers don't kill kids, now shut up and sit still while we throw your ass in the shower". That episode caused a legit mental/emotional breakdown for me, because I LIVED that. More than once.
Cameras just freaked me THE FUCK out when I was a kid. I think it probably had something to do with the fact that pictures are too permanent. I can never go back and change that, and it fucking KILLED ME. I remember not understanding yet why it freaked me out, and begging people to listen to me, and having anxiety attacks because nobody would fucking listen. Just a bunch of "shut up, you whiny, shitty little idiot. Picture day's not gonna kill you. You're just thrashing around and causing a scene because you want attention." ... ATTENTION? FUCK! There are OTHER PEOPLE HERE! THIS IS HOW I DIE.
AAAAAALLL of that is a really long way of saying that I think it's funny to find somebody who thinks "Yeah, Robot's just too different to be relatable", when I genuinely find this show too challenging for me to actually watch, and my reason is "It's just TOO REAL. It's honestly just too difficult for me to watch a show about exactly what my childhood was like. It's TOO accurate. Nobody understands me, I don't understand anybody else, I just don't belong here. Too real. Can't go back to that."
Definitely not a normal experience. It's a very specific experience that's mostly unique to a person on a specific part of the spectrum in an environment where nobody respects that. I can see why that would be alienating to a general audience.
@@svierrodcuppycake3655 I've had that same thing (autism, kids not understanding me, teachers "cared" the best way a private school could) and yet something about this show *still* annoyed me as a kid.
@@eatatjoes6751 That's totally understandable. I don't think "relatable" and "enjoyable" are the same thing. My whole speech was more about how I found it funny that some of the things that might have made Robot Jones unrelatable to a normal audience were the same things that made the show difficult for me because I related to it *too much*.
I can definitely see even other people on the spectrum finding this show boring or annoying or unrelatable or whatever else. I can't speak much for its defense; I can barely watch it.
I actually enjoyed this show
@Imma Big God Now Naw, I don't think relating to Robot Jones makes you autistic. There's a dozen different reasons you might enjoy the show, or find Robot Jones to be likeable or relatable.
I just wanted to share what *I* saw in the show. I felt so much like an alien or a robot or something like that when I was in school. I felt like I was in a place I didn't belong, for reasons I couldn't understand. Robot Jones hit a lot harder and closer to home for me than I think it was supposed to.
I don't think it's bad or wrong to like this show or the main character, or if you DON'T like them. People should watch what they like. Try not to let my experience ruin anything for you.
Man this cartoons art style just makes me feel nostalgic lol., I was born in April of 1996, and this show was a mindblower. I saw an episode in 2002, and I completely forgot about it until 2009.
May 96 for me and I used to watch this show a lot.
Isn't it ironic it's called "whatever happened to robot Jones" now years later we're actually asking whatever happened to the show
Its like the creator knew this would be a forgotten show in the long run
The prophecy is true
He's probably still stuck in that locker. Lol
I remember seeing a video a decade ago asking the exact same thing
Thank you so much for that cartoon cartoon intro, man it gave me chills. Love the video, subbed
I loved this show, always thought that the Shannon character was kinda like their version of Gretchen from Recess
Dude I faintly remember this show. I remember my dad ordering pizza and I was sitting on the couch watching this
Before My life as a Teenage Robot, there was “what ever happened to Robot Jones”
I have glimpses of this show in ads multiple times and I don’t remember what episode I watched but I saw this show once.
I'm 26 and I definitely remember watching this show, and if I remember correctly, I enjoyed it.
I watched it but they kept moving it around. So I knew the end was near. I loved the animation. That's part of why I liked it so much.
I'd convinced myself this show was just a recurring childhood fever dream!
SAMEEE. lol
The 2000's were a fever dream.
How come no one ever talks about Lloyd in Space??? I loved that show!
Omg finally someone is covering this!!!! I remember this one vividly but literally no one else does!!!!!
Remembered when I was little always wonder why they changed his voice from robotic to a different voice.
Then also remembered his crush on Shannon that's about it.
As I've got older I've seen every episode they aired and I can say it's a good cartoon from my childhood.
Honestly the ending sounds kinda sad, like what would have driven Robot to that point?
This show is so underrated!! I hope it gets rebooted
Knowing today's overly pc culture and how it is shoved down almost everyone's throats, it's probably better that it isn't. In fact I think it should be put onto streaming services instead so that more people can see how good this show was.
@Hodon Yassin, same.
*it wont*
Thoses cartoon bumpers gave me goosebumps cartoon cartoon and what a cartoon was my life back then
I remember this show so fondly. It was so weird and retro and visually unique and that always felt so charming to me.
robot jones was one of the first characters i drew as a child. i still remember that i was mad that it didnt look like the cartoon
This and Mike, Lou,and Ogg were just the best
MIKE LOU AND OGG ON THE ISLAND!!!! DAMN THE NOSTALGIA
Time Squad was awesome too.
@@riskvideos time squad was the best
Yes!
@@riskvideos DUUUUUDE YES
I remember this show no question asked. I even drew a picture of robot Jones, and showed it to my mother. She laughed her ass off sadly. But I loved this show. Didn’t really give it a second thought when it went off the air. Curse you puberty!
Great video! Loved this show! I have a similar memory of a cartoon from around that era. I think it was in the cartoon cartoon segments that originally had KND. I do hope I'll find that promo some day!
Never saw a single episode, but I knew instantly what it was from the Thumbnail.
Oh man memories coming back to me. I remember this show. One of my favorite episodes is when a foreign exchange robot cones to the school and the principal actually liked him because he looked human and the girl robot Jones like was charmed by him. Of course typical he admits to Jones that he was a soy and that he got everything needed for blackmail and stuff and he leaves the school which upsets the braces girl and she likes I'll never speak to you again robot Jones, digital dork!!!!
I remember being creeped out when his voice was changed from an appletalk voice to an actual voice actor
That’s totally my memory of this show, waking up and it being on. I also feel like I nostalgia processed nostalgia different that I do now. And in a similar way what you described. The cartoon cartoon voice over really gives me good vibes
The title of the show is exactly how I feel about it. "What ever happened to the Robot kid show?" I remember when I looked into it again a while back, I was confused by the voice. The only version I ever heard was the Text to speech version.
But yeah, weird show. Unique style. Never liked or disliked it. Was pretty neutral.
It's considered lost media. The text to speech episodes
Yeah this show definitely falls under the category of "Was this real?"
I'm only 4 years older than you. I love all the old cartoon cartoons Johnny bravo was my favorite!! Man hearing and seeing the old commercials and shows really brings me back. Reminds me of Watching old school cartoon network after school, trading pokemon cards and playing ps1 my neighborhood freinds. I wanna go back sometimes, shit was simpler.
I remember this show , I loved it , thanks for bringing it up .
Wow, I totally forgot about this show. Thanks for the trip down memory lane
I used to watch this along with class of 2000 when i spent the night at my grandmas...it gives me fond memories
wow those cartoon cartoon bumps, put me right back on my grandmas floor, staying up later than i should, drinking chocolate milk....just good times.
Thanks for watching! I was originally going to upload this video on this upcoming Tuesday so it could be a week apart from my last upload, but I'm trying really hard to get back to weekend uploads. Copyright Claims tend to make that a hard thing to do, but fingers crossed!
Do you remember Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? A surprising amount of my friends had no idea this show existed!
@DuskTilShawn
After watching this video, I feel like writing a film adaptation of Robot Jones. I do remember watching the show and it's a damn shame that it's so obscure.
The show's name is fitting nowadays.
Oh dude I remember watching this show almost every time it came on! I loved watching every minute of this show!
OMG, you just unlocked this memory for me too... I used to watch it late at night, and I remember I really enjoyed it, but I had completely forgotten how weird its plot was!
One of my favorite shows growing up. :3
So many have forgotten this show but I remember watching the pilot and seen every episode it was so charming 😍 this show and my life as a teenage robot on nick and Futurama made me just love robots in tv shows ❤️
Read the thumbnail of the vid and already gotta give it a like, because my memories of this show is so faint it can only be described as something close to a fever dream. Like thats literally what I call it. Lol
One of my favorites
The longer I watched this the more memories of this show came back
I loved that show. I wish it would come out on dvd or something. With BOTH voices!
I’d buy it.
I also have hazy childhood memories of this show which you just unearthed. Here they are before I google it and ruin the magic:
1) I LOVED the crude, hand drawn 1970s-ish aesthetic of the show as a kid. It stood out and made me obsessively try to watch the show, which wasn't easy because CN never aired it. I had an obsession with old electronics and video games growing up which the look of this show played right into.
2) The episodes that I can recall are the pilot, which I watched when it aired as part of that competition you mentioned, plus an episode involving a Rubick's Cube competition where some kids cheat and switch the colors. These might've been attached to each other.
3) CN made it really hard to watch this show. You never knew what time it would be on, when they aired it at all. I remember it being an absolute chore. Most of the time I did happen upon it, they were replaying the pilot.
4) I remember them changing the voice and HATING the new voice. He didn't sound like a robot anymore, which bothered me as a kid.
I'll never forget this show. The Nudist and Mr. Pendleton and Robot Jones' parents attacking...classic
That show was my childhood and I miss it dearly.
Ayee i jus subscribed and i was also born in jul of 94. Keep up the cartoon videos love remembering how great all the cartoons were growing up
I have distinct memories of watching and enjoying it as a kid, but it wasn't my favorite thing ever. I was really big into the Cartoon Cartoons, so I know I was there when the pilot was picked up alongside Grim & Evil, and I regularly saw the series during its time on air. Once it ended and disappeared from the air, I never really thought much of it until years later when I realized and thought to myself "Oh yeah... whatever happened to Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?"
I still ask myself “Whatever happened to robot Jones?”
Yooo you just launched me back to 5-6 years old yo 😭 I remember watching it early early sunday mornings while my parents was still knocked out lol
the amount of goosebumps i got from the cartoon network bumps just now was crazy lol
I remember watching this show back when it came out. Used to watch a lot of cartoon network back then. I watched it during cartoon cartoon fridays. I only saw the first season. Never it without the TTS robot jones
Oh...my...God...I definitely remember this show but man that feels so long ago. Nostalgia just gives me a bittersweet feeling of well better days, thats just me.
Oddly enough I’m a year younger than you and I had a solid memory of watching this show. I don’t remember every episode but I do remember the main characters voice change. And some of its basic premise.
CN was always experimental when it came to cartoons. But there were a lot of shows that virtually disappeared from people’s memories. Especially from around this era. Between this show, timesquad, sheep and the big city, Evil con carne, and Mike lou and og I almost never hear anyone saying anything about them.
I remember watching this show as a kid, this and Time Squad were some of my favorites, Im also glad to know that I wasnt crazy when I remember that Robot sounded more robotic in the beginning
Awww man this show was a trip! It was really fun.
I remember watching the pilot. I was in my late teens at the time and I liked that text-to-speech voice with Robot Jones. When I saw the revamped version, I was SO disappointed.
1:19 bro that’s crazy. That’s exactly how I came across it. I have very vague memories of the few episodes I watched but one I definitely remember is the episode where Jones couldn’t solve a Rubik’s cube because someone switched one of the colors on the corner.
i love love loved the art style of this show! i remember how it looked like School House Rock
Honestly, I remember being a big fan of this show and the theme song always pops up in my head still
I very distinctly remember watching most of these pilots and the advertisement encouraging you to vote
Dude I remember this a lot. Like literally I watch the series with my siblings and man we had a blast watching this show a lot and my dad had it recorded on vhs. Dude what happened Shawn in the big city? Classic Cartoon Network promos.
I remember vividly watching this on Cartoon Network back as it originally aired. I was 4 years old when I would turn it on as it broadcasted. I still explicitly hear the kids asking so confidently... "Whatever Happened to..." Followed by a synthetic-filtered "Robot Jones?" Couldn't have had a better title, especially since I haven't seen it in over 20 years! (MAN, I feel old, and I ain't even 25!) I know very clearly that this show was no dream, but rather, a strangely fond memory in my childhood. I forgot the show name for about 14-15 years, but I never forgot this little ole robot. :)
I remember watching this and really liking the show. I also remember the music video also
Loved this show. Definitely another one of CN’s many underrated gems from the cartoon cartoon era. This show could’ve done well but as you said was always changing time slots. It never got the same praise as other more popular shows did like Dexter’s Lab, Cow and Chicken, ppg, courage, ed edd n Eddy, etc. These shows are all great it’s just that Robot Jones wasn’t granted the same success because it was never given the same push as the other shows did. Had it been pushed a bit more it could’ve become a big hit but sadly enough they wasted what could of been a great opportunity by not airing it a lot and not airing it at popular time slots. Had they given it more of push it could’ve become one of their biggest hits in fact it could of been their biggest hit they ever had but they failed to give it that opportunity. One of my faves for sure.
I always remembered the distinct art style of this show. When I first saw The Loud House, I knew there had to be a connection, and sure enough; Chris Savino did the Character and Prop models for Robot Jones.
Used to love this show as a kid, wish there was more episodes
I remember the rubrics cube episodes so vividly. I loved this show
I remember this show but had no idea it was picked up due to being part of a viewer vote contest. Truly was the kind of insanity you could get from such contests back in the day...good times.
I remember waiting for this show to end so I could see other stuff like Johnny Bravo
I remember that cartoon. There’s a few other cartoons from Cartoon Network that seems to have been forgotten. Mike, Lou, and Og is another one that a lot of people don’t remember. Sheep and the Big City too.
Thank you! I thought I was the only one who remembers Sheep in the big city, I thought that show was enjoyable to watch. As for Mike, Lou, and Og I do remember watching a few episodes but never really clicked with me but it's a shame these shows were never given much time to shrine and were just axed with little to no fanfare.
There are so many things that came on cartoon network that I've forgotten about. But I do remember the Carot Top Show. Or, something along that name
Even though I didn't grow up with this show, the style is very reminiscent of School House Rock, which I DID grow up watching the DVD of. This seems like such a fun show, and I'm going to watch it as if it were my childhood :D
I loved this show so much. I miss it.
I remember this cartoon when it was on Cartoon Network and usually during Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. It was a cartoon I actually liked.
Whatever Happened to Robot Jones, Sheep in the Big City, Time Squad, Sitting Ducks, Pecola, Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi, Atomic Betty, Code Lyoko (And just Miguzi in general), The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, and Class of Three 3000. Those are all the (more or less) obscure shows I remember watching growing up on Cartoon Network from 2003- 2007.
I missed this show so much after it died. And it didnt die when it got canceled, it dies when robot Jones voice changed.
Yes I do, I love Robot Jones sooooooo MUCH!!!!!
Man I loved that show. I still love it I just haven't found a place to watch it
that name is really fitting for the show lol, also I remember shows named "A Little Curious" "Mio Mao" "Dexter's Laboratory" "El Perro And El Gato" and more when I was 3-7
Dude, this cartoon never ever left my mind. I always watched this cartoon every time a new episode came out. I guess because I've always wonder what happened to this cartoon. Robot Jones is one of my favorite cartoon Robot protagonist along with Jenny from My Life As a Teenage Robot.
Oh I remember this show pretty well considering I haven't seen it since 2002. I also remember Robot's original voice which I wish they didn't replace unless they had to.
I saw a single episode of this show when I was in 2nd grade. it was valentines day and I went home early because I was sick, while I was waiting for my mom to get medicine I was sitting on a chair and watching TV. it was a brief period where we could afford to have more than public access and it was in the 2000s but I don't know the exact year. maybe 2006-2008.
I don't know the episode ether but it always sat in the back of my head for a while until this failed cartoon about robots in highschool made me remember it. then it faded until Lost Media became a widely discussed topic a couple years back, when talk about the episodes of WTRJ with the T-T-S voice made me remember once again. I was a geeky kid that loved robots so if I wasn't sick and could focus I would have loved it.
I remember every cartoon I saw on Cartoon Network as a kid which is a miracle since I can barely remember anything else from that time. I’m both happy because I got to see it’s golden age and sad because now everything is trash.
The same thing happened with the video game "Remember Me" and it has such an ironic name, but to a lesser extent because it was was recently maybe ten years ago instead of 20 years ago.
The one thing I remember the most about this show is how Jones' dad would say "LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER" 3 times in a row
I’ve never heard of this show before but it sounds and looks awesome plus I like the ending they were planning on but never got to. I hope that show gets a reboot someday.
I have similar situation. Growing up, I had periodically seen a show called "Might Max." For whatever reason, I only ended up watching this show when I was at my friends house. I have no idea why it ended up that way, but it did. Fast forward several years later, and then I have some vague memory of a cartoon of some kid with maybe a magic hat, and some bird owl thing. Then my friend reminded me that it was in fact, a show that we had watched back in the day. Even after seeing the intro and clips of it, I could not for the life of me remember ANYTHING about the show except for what I already mentioned.
It's a strange phenomenon for sure.
I have a memory of my great grandma flipping through channels at the house we originally lived in when I was about 2 or 3. She eventually clicked on this movie where this boy was pleading for his life to some slime monster and then it turned him into a ball of slime. I think there was a witch and some little girl too. All I remember is that it disturbed me as a child and ever since then I’ve been trying to find this movie to no avail. This happened in either 2001 or 2002.
I remember seeing people talking about it being obscure online. Then recently I watched through the sopranos and it was featured briefly on a tv lol
I remember the contest and I remember wanting robot jones to win, and being upset when kids next door won instead
I would watch this. Its got good humor, good representation, good story line.... The older animation style isnt half bad, either.
This was one of the few shows on at 5am for me in Texas. It was also during a weird time with the 3D cube animal show, Sheep in a Big City, and Hamtaru. No one ever knows about the animal show :/
this and sheep in the big city felt like fever dreams but i remember both of them
I LOVED Robot Jones!!