History WesternAnimation / Robotomy

* ScreamsLikeAGirl: Thrasher.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Much like ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', this show made Cartoon Network's already semi-reliable radar its bitch despite a short run. To list all of the offenses would take all day (and call for a separate page). To put it bluntly, watching this show will make you wonder why the infamous pilot short ''WesternAnimation/JoeyToTheWorld'' caused problems with Cartoon Network, but this show got greenlit for 10 episodes...''and'' the censors didn't seem to notice or care that the people they got to do ''Robotomy'' are the same ones behind the hyper-violent, hyper-gory, extremely tripped-out Creator/AdultSwim show ''Superjail!''.

* WorldOfJerkass: The inhabitants of Planet Insanus are [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] at best and [[TheSociopath sociopaths]] at worst. Though it makes sense since in [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Planet Insanus culture]], robots are actively ''encouraged'' to be AxCrazy [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]]. Any robot that is kind to people is treated as clinically insane and ostracized, if not outright exterminated, as the episode "No Child Left Benign" establishes.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The short cartoon showing how plants are dangerous showed a tulip ripping a robot child apart, one tree attacking four robots, another robot eating a dog that was urinating on him, and the Gore-Ax adding at the end of the film, "That tree stole a dog's identity and ruined his credit!"

* AlphaBitch: Maimy, to an extent. One of the most popular girls in school and just as violent and hot-tempered as every other robot. She also has an on-and-off relationship with RichBastard Megawatt, sees Thrasher and Blastus as "dorks" for the most part and has taken advantage of Thrasher's crush on her on occasions. In "El Presidente", she even started dating Thrasher when he became student body president, only to reveal that she only did it to become vice president and overthrow him.

[[ShortRunners Only lasted one season of ten '''eleven minute''' episodes]] because of high production costs and a lack of foreign investment to balance it out (no one outside of the United States wanted to even touch it because the amount of violence wouldn't make it past the censors). The show now has somewhat of a cult following, and had an [[SendingStuffToSaveTheShow unsuccessful Facebook campaign to save the show]].

%%* ComedicSociopathy

%%* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:The end of "Frenemy".]]
%%* HopelessSuitor: Thrasher to Maimy.

* BerserkButton: Quite a few of them.

* BrainBleach / {{Squick}}: The class's reaction to Dreadnot doing his stretching exercises while the class takes their No Child Left Benign exams.

* ComedicSociopathy
* [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Wo]][[WorldGoneMad rld Gone Mad:]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Planet Insanus]]

* [[CloserToEarth Closer To Insanus]]: Thrasher seems to have a little more sense than his best friend Blastus.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Sunshine class are a class of robots with "faulty psycho chips" who "get their own bus" and are exempt from taking standardized tests in school. [[SarcasmMode We don't see any parallels between this and a special-ed class]], do you? And it gets worse when Mrs. Crunshine reveals that [[spoiler:her mission is to dispose of non-violent robots who burden society with their feelings by shooting them all into the sun]].
** The "tonic" (a gross yellow slime that comes from a pipe down by the playground, smells and tastes like gasoline and feet, comes in jars, has pacifiers in it, and causes such lovely side effects as tremors, childhood memory loss, terror daydreams, hacking cough, loss of limb control, and slime leaking from the eyes) that the janitor gives Thrasher and Blastus so they can be mutilation ball stars is exactly like steroids or any other performance-enhancing drug (though there is no DrugsAreBad moral to be learned from this, besides a quick one from Tacklebot about how "Real alpha dogs don't need to drink stuff that comes out of a pipe at the playground").

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: The end of "Frenemy"]]
* HopelessSuitor: Thrasher to Maimy.

* SadistShow

-->'''Gore-Ax''': No, no, no, no. This isn't the movie that makes you hate plants; it's the one that makes you ''stupid''!
** This is then proceeded with another TakeThat, when Thrasher is forced to watch a video about [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends talking trains]]. It ends up getting Thrasher thrown into a mental asylum.
* TemporalParadox: Occurs in the first episode. [[spoiler: Thrasher and Blastus end up having to destroy their past selves in order to protect the "space-time containment".]]
** [[spoiler:CONTINUUM!]]

* WidgetSeries

[[ShortRunners Only lasted one season of ten '''eleven minute''' episodes]] because of high production costs and a lack of foreign investment to balance it out (no one outside of the United States wanted to even touch it). The show now has somewhat of a cult following, and had an [[SendingStuffToSaveTheShow unsuccessful Facebook campaign to save the show]].

!!!This show provides examples of:

Take the robotic idea of a New York Times Bestselling Children's Book author, add the creative juices of some the geniuses behind WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}, and make it fit for primetime. What you get is ''Robotomy'', a show about two teenage robots (Thrasher and Blastus) and their attempts to get through high school. Taking place on a robot planet called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Insanus]], the cast of characters include a SadistTeacher, a homicidal SpoiledBrat, and a bi-polar LethalJokeCharacter. Something is destroyed every other second, and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar some of the jokes make you wonder if the series would have been better off on]] Creator/AdultSwim.

The show did reappear on the short-lived revival of ''CartoonPlanet'' between 2012 and 2013 and the entire series was on Netflix until early 2015. On Janaury 9, 2015, the series premiered on the Canadian version of Cartoon Network (not Teletoon; a Cartoon Network feed that's available in Canada).

[[ShortRunners Only lasted one season of ten '''eleven minute''' episodes)]] because of high production costs and a lack of foreign investment to balance it out (no one outside of the United States wanted to even touch it). The show now has somewhat of a cult following, and had an [[SendingStuffToSaveTheShow unsuccessful Facebook campaign to save the show]].

** This is then proceeded with another TakeThat, when Thrasher is forced to watch a video about [[Main/ThomasAndFriends talking trains]]. It ends up getting Thrasher thrown into a mental asylum.

[[ShortRunners Only lasted one season (which only had ten ELEVEN MINUTE episodes)]] because of high production costs and a lack of foreign investment to balance it out. The show now has somewhat of a cult following, and had an [[SendingStuffToSaveTheShow unsuccessful Facebook campaign to save the show]].

[[ShortRunners Only lasted one season (which only had ten ELEVEN MINUTE episodes)]] because of [[http://www.michaelbuckleyonline.com/s/Howdy%21/Entries/2011/1/24_The_end_of_Robotomy.html high production costs and a lack of foreign investment to balance it out.]] The show now has somewhat of a cult following, and had an [[SendingStuffToSaveTheShow unsuccessful Facebook campaign to save the show]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Much like ''TimeSquad'', this show made Cartoon Network's already semi-reliable radar its bitch despite a short run. To list all of the offenses would take all day (and call for a separate page). To put it bluntly, watching this show will make you wonder why the infamous pilot short ''WesternAnimation/JoeyToTheWorld'' caused problems with Cartoon Network, but this show got greenlit for 10 episodes...''and'' the censors didn't seem to notice or care that the people they got to do ''Robotomy'' are the same ones behind the hyper-violent, hyper-gory, extremely tripped-out Creator/AdultSwim show ''Superjail!''.

* XMeetsY: ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' meets ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'', and every "two losers in high school try to be like the cool kids" TV show (or film) ever.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Sunshine class are a class of robots with "faulty psycho chips" who "get their own bus" and are exempt from taking standardized tests in school. [[SarcasmMode I don't see any parallels between this and a special-ed class]], do you? And it gets worse when Mrs. Crunshine reveals that [[spoiler:her mission is to dispose of non-violent robots who burden society with their feelings by shooting them all into the sun]].

* BearsAreBadNews: The credits of the penultimate episode show how the robots establishing a new Insanus on a planet inhabited by CareBears went. [[spoiler: It didn't end well.]]