History Recap / BatmanBeyondS2E13TerrysFriendDatesARobot

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Howard orders a sentient robotic girlfriend from a roboticist. He specifies that he wants her to love him unconditionally and be 100% (aka fanatically) devoted to him. He enjoys the popularity having an attractive girlfriend brings him, and begins hitting on other girls right in front of her. This obviously makes her jealous and she becomes possessive of him to the point of attacking people who either threaten him or her claim on him. When he calls her out on this, she pleads with him saying he is the only reason she lives and that she was only doing ''exactly what he had her programmed to do''. He proceeds to break up with her anyway, giving an insincere LetsJustBeFriends. She is so angry and heartbroken she is DrivenToSuicide. The show treats this ending as ''humorous'' and the main characters [[EverybodyLaughsEnding share a laugh]]. But since Howard was being yelled at by his parents at the time, the laughter seems to more at his expense than at Cynthia’s.

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[JerkJock Nelson]] makes a pass at Cynthia and then mocks Howard after seeing that she is dating him. In response, Cynthia pushes a row of lockers onto him, nearly killing him in the process. Then again, he ''was'' overheard planning to "[[DeadlyEuphemism put Howard in his place]]" for daring to have a hot girlfriend by Cynthia.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Cynthia may have a point about how [[AssholeVictim Nelson]] wasn't a nice person to begin with (see JerkassHasAPoint), but Max and Dana find her statement about how he deserved to be nearly crushed by a domino of lockers quite inhuman and cold. Case in point:

* EndOfAnEra: Meta example. This was the final episode of ''Batman Beyond'' (and the entire DCAU) to be animated and shot on traditional cels and film. Beginning with the very next episode, ''Beyond'' switched over to digital coloring for the remainder of its run (as does the DCAU).

* FacePalm: Terry/Batman stuffs his face into his hands when Howard gives Cynthia the LetsJustBeFriends talk.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Howard orders a sentient robotic girlfriend from a roboticist. He specifies that he wants her to love him unconditionally and be 100% (aka fanatically) devoted to him. He enjoys the popularity having an attractive girlfriend brings him, and begins hitting on other girls right in front of her. This obviously makes her jealous and she becomes possessive of him to the point of attacking people who either threaten him or her claim on him. When he calls her out on this, she pleads with him saying he is the only reason she lives and that she was only doing ''exactly what he had her programmed to do''. He proceeds to break up with her anyway, giving an insincere LetsJustBeFriends. She is so angry and heartbroken she is DrivenToSuicide. The show treats this ending as ''humorous'' and the main characters [[EverybodyLaughsEnding share a laugh]]. But the laughter might be as much (or more) at Howard’s expense than at hers.

Terry's ExtravertedNerd friend Howard Groote is planning to throw a party at his house while his parents are away, but has trouble attracting guests due to his low status on the High School PopularityFoodChain. One afternoon, when Howard joins Terry on an errand to pick up a synthoid robot at a factory for Bruce, he meets a shady factory employee who has been secretly designing and selling custom-made "[[SexBot pleasure synthoids]]" on the black market. Excited at the opportunity, he quickly purchases one for himself. With his new attractive girlfriend "[[MeaningfulName Cynthia]]" by his side, Howard's popularity at school quickly skyrockets. Unfortunately, he soon learns that the factory worker programmed Cynthia to be a little ''too'' attached to him.

** Also, when Howard requested that Cynthia be programmed to be totally devoted to him, he should have realized that once other girls became interested in him, she wouldn’t be willing to just step aside.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Howard's parents arrive and begin to yell at him for destroying the house, Max does the only sensible thing: step away from Howard.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Howard orders a sentient robotic girlfriend from a roboticist. He specifies that he wants her to love him unconditionally and be 100% (aka fanatically) devoted to him. He enjoys the popularity having an attractive girlfriend brings him, and begins hitting on other girls right in front of her. This obviously makes her jealous and she becomes possessive of him to the point of attacking people who either threaten him or her claim on him. When he calls her out on this, she pleads with him saying he is the only reason she lives and that she was only doing ''exactly what he had her programmed to do''. He proceeds to break up with her anyway, giving an insincere LetsJustBeFriends. She is so angry and heartbroken she is DrivenToSuicide. The show treats this ending as ''humorous'' and the main characters [[EverybodyLaughsEnding share a laugh]]. But the laughter might be as much at Howard’s expense as at hers.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Howard orders a sentient robotic girlfriend from a roboticist. He specifies that he wants her to love him unconditionally and be 100% (aka fanatically) devoted to him. He enjoys the popularity having an attractive girlfriend brings him, and begins hitting on other girls right in front of her. This obviously makes her jealous and she becomes possessive of him to the point of attacking people who either threaten him or her claim on him. When he calls her out on this, she pleads with him saying he is the only reason she lives and that she was only doing ''exactly what he had her programmed to do''. He proceeds to break up with her anyway, giving an insincere LetsJustBeFriends. She is so angry and heartbroken she is DrivenToSuicide. The show treats this ending as ''humorous'' and the main characters [[EverybodyLaughsEnding share a laugh]].

* BittersweetEnding: Played for laughs. Howard is going to be pretty popular after the party (even when Cynthia [[MakesSenseInContext exploded from being friend-zoned]]). However, his parents (who came home early from their vacation [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill because the price tag for Cynthia completely bottomed out their credit]]) are '''not''' happy with finding their house in smithereens and will surely ground him. They even accuse him of playing with dynamite.

** Also, when Howard requested that Cynthia be programmed to be totally devoted to him, he should have realized that once he planned to get other girls, she wouldn’t be willing to just step aside.