Funny / Robot Wars

General

• Any time Diotoir catches fire. Which is every time it fights.
  • For context, Diotoir is covered in bright red fur with black polka dots, bloodshot googly eyes, and a surreal rictus grin. So is its team.
  • In fact, in their final fight of the World Series of 2017, the very first thing Peter Redmond did was drive Diotoir onto the flame pit to set it alight. And then proceeded to fight the entire match on fire.
  • On a meta level, Peter Redmond went on record as stating that Diotoir never had a toy made because they were afraid children would try to set it on fire.
• The Plunderstorm/Plunderbird team.
  Mike: "We found out that other teams have been using tactics. We don't like tactics, do we, Bryan?"
  Bryan: "No. We don't like any small minty things."^note Kind of hard to hear with the accent. 'Tic tacs', he means.
  • For what skill they lacked on the arena floor, they excelled at making the pit reporters crack up:
    Philippa: "Going into this next round, have there been any major changes made to Plunderstorm?"
    Mike: "We have done NOTHING!"
    Bryan: "Who said that?!"
    Mike: "Who has been spreading these scurrilous assertions?!"
    Bryan: "Who sent you?!"
    Philippa: "...I forgot my line."
    All three break out laughing.
• From Series 5 onwards, the robot information screen which shows up when a robot is introduced had a 'Weakness' tag added, which would point out a potentially fatal flaw in the robot's design. Many times, however, it was something humorous:
  Sir Chromalot: Weaknesses: Jonathan Pearce!
  Scorpion: Weaknesses: None, just the driver
  Robochicken: Weaknesses: The team
  • Barber-Ous 2 had arguably the best listing of strengths and weaknesses on the entire show:
    Strengths: Made of plastic
    Weaknesses: Made of plastic
  • Derek 2 joined in as well:
    Strengths: Sense of humour
    Weaknesses: The driver!
  • Another good one from Spawn Again in Series 7:
    Weaknesses: None, hopefully^note This was the series where the robot failed to reach the semis for the only time after suffering a shocking case of Explosive Instrumentation
  • And from Mega Morg, also in Series 7:
    Strengths: Bright Colour, Dangerous
    Weaknesses: Bright Colour, Easily Seen
  • And from Terror Turtle, yet again in Series 7:
    Strengths: Nasty disc & being a turtle
    Weaknesses: Big wheels & it's a turtle
  • Once again in Series 7, some veteran roboteers began taking the Self-Deprecation approach:
    Behemoth: Weaknesses: Falls into pit too often
    Kan-Opener: Weaknesses: Never got past first round
• Any time Johnathan cracks up and gives his trademark Hyena laugh.

Series 1

• Though Jeremy Clarkson is considered an Unperson for his time hosting the first series (where he regularly talked down to the competitors, mocked their robots, and generally didn't hold the show in high regard), his natural Deadpan Snarker tendencies led to numerous funny moments. Particularly the first time he introduced the Series 1-exclusive trial "Labyrinth" while taking a walk through the maze:
  Jeremy Clarkson: "There are lots of different routes through it, so only a complete idiot would ever end up going down a dead end."
  [Jeremy immediately walks into a maze wall]
• The Demolisher was hilarious from start to finish. Firstly, it was just a remote-controlled car with a metal shell bolted on top, and at 2.9kg it was the lightest robot in the show's history. It was also one of the fastest at 40mph, but this made it nigh-impossible to control: it crashed coming out of the start gate during its introduction, crashed during the Gauntlet, crashed during the Stock Car trial... it still made it all the way to the Heat Final before getting overturned by Cunning Plan.

Series 2

• During Heat J's "Tug Of War" trial, the camera frequently cuts to a young girl holding a sign that says "Matilda", including after the house robot dispatches each challenger. After Kill Dozer manages to be the only robot to survive the trial, the girl turns her sign around to reveal it reads "Kill Dozer." Not nearly as funny as Jonathan Pearce's reaction, though:
  Jonathan Pearce: Hey! You can't do that!
• King Buxton's run at the semi final gauntlet started out poorly as it found its path blocked by Shunt... only for the house robot to make a sudden and comical turn to the left straight down the pit!
  Jonathan Pearce: Oho! Shunt is drunk! He has gone into the pit!
  • GBH's brief gauntlet run during the same semi final consisted of it steadily moving through the brick wall before proceeding at the same ponderous pace on a straight path down the pit. All without the house robots even touching it.
• One of the exhibition matches at the end of the series featured the fur-covered Nemesis and Ramrombit — a sacrificial robot built especially for the occasion — tag-teamed against Sgt. Bash. In preparation for the event, Nemesis arrived with kebabs attached to it and a chef's hat, and commentator Jonathan Pearce remarked that he had heard the teams had doused their robots in paraffin as well. The end result was a truly hilarious (and quite literally explosive) bout, and enough to make any pyromaniac weep with joy.
  • When the occasional question appears as to who actually won the Inferno Insurrection, the universal response is that the winners were Sergeant Bash and the audience. Contemporary fansite Tectonic Robot Wars listed the result as "Winner: FIRE!".

Series 3

• In Heat D, Bumblebot and Ultor comparing their weapons. More impressively, Philippa manages to get through most of it with a straight face.
  • Which makes it all the worse when Dead Metal severs Bumblebot's weapon in the ensuing battle, much to the amusement of Jonathan Pearce.
• Craig's introduction for Heat F was among his funniest material:
  Craig: Now, when you think of love, you think of candlelit dinners... skipping through poppy fields... "Where's all me money gone?"...
• Sir Killalot catching fire after attempting to push Robopig over the flame pit during Heat G.
  • Immediately before this, Jonathan Pearce delivered an Incredibly Lame Pun with such enthusiasm that you got the impression he'd been waiting the entire heat to say it:
    Jonathan: [as Killalot holds Robopig over the fire] And I think we can have— we do! SMOOOKY BACOOOOOOOOON!!!
• Diotoir catching fire (again) after beating The Steel Avenger? Funny. Jonathan Pearce excitedly yelling, "I paid my admission fee just to see this!" and then Corpsing? Even funnier.
• Razer losing to the laughable Aggrobot, not because Aggrobot was a superior robot, but because the back of Razer's weapon dug into the floor and left it unable to move.
• During Hypno-Disc's first fight, against Robogeddon, after the former has shredded the latter's armour off and wrecked the wheels, two of the Robogeddon team members are seen talking to each other:
  Jonathan Pearce: What's Ginger saying there to little William? [Hypno-Disc knocks the last of Robogeddon's armour clean off] "There's a way back into this for us"? I don't think so!
  • Not to mention Jonathan Pearce's hysterical laughter throughout much of the battle.
    Jonathan: Oh, you shouldn't laugh— look at that, laid bare! [immediately starts laughing again]
  • After Hypno-Disc starts tearing into Robogeddon's armor Jonathon wonders what William must be thinking. The camera then shows William in the driver's booth laughing along.
• When Firestorm showed up for the semifinals, after beating Diotoir in their heat final, Graham Bone and Alex Mordue were inexplicably wearing jockstraps made from Diotoir's iconic red and black polka-dotted fur.
  Philippa: Firestorm, how do you feel?
  Alex Mordue: Uh, pretty silly in these, uh, furry codpieces.
  Philippa: Well I wasn't going to mention it actually, I was just gonna, eheh, leave everyone to wonder.
  —
  Philippa: [pointing and laughing as Team Firestorm are bending over to push their robot into the arena] Hah, you could've got a thong! [cracks up laughing]
  —
  Jonathan: Firestorm, will it be going for a thong after thith one, with Graham Bone and Alecth Mordue?
• Firestorm vs. Crasha Gnasha, the robotic version of slapstick comedy. Within the first five seconds, Firestorm drove underneath Crasha Gnasha and rammed it into the wall hard enough to make it flip over and start venting smoke everywhere, snapping its "head" back and causing its spinning disc to break off and bounce away into the distance. Ironically, a flipper robot got its first win by turning over its opponent without using its weapon.

Series 4

• In the first War of Independence, Mortis comically hitting Sir Killalot on the head with its tanto axe.
• Shunt smashing Major Tom's plastic bubblegum-dispenser head with its axe.
  • Shunt's insistence on smashing model heads in general can lead to moments of these. Memorably, after Banshee (a full-body spinner with an ornate and ugly female head moulded on the top of it) was flipped by Spawn of Scutter, Shunt came in, drove his axe into the head and ripped it clean off. He paraded it around the arena for a bit before depositing it on the flame pit. Even funnier than this was Jonathan being reduced to high-pitched, near-hysterical giggles by the spectacle.
  Jonathan: (holding back laughter) Headache? I don't think any pills are gonna... make that one feel better!
• Just before the final of Heat C, Craig Charles delivered this gem:
  Craig: Just like Bernard Manning's deodorant, our competing robots have some serious work to do in the pits!
• Jonathan Pearce's commentary from the final of Heat G, when Kronic the Wedgehog has been beaten up by the House Robots and is teetering on the edge of the pit:
  Jonathan: And there's Shunt again and Dead Metaaaaaaaaaal... and the Wedgehooooooooog...! [Beat, Shunt comes in, swings his axe at Kronic and misses] Come on, the Wedgehooooooooooooog...! [Beat] Uh, the Wedgehooooooooooooog...! [Killalot finally comes in and pits Kronic] Nighty night!
• The culmination of the first round melee in Heat H, which saw all three competitors - Wheely Big Cheese, Prizephita, and Wheelosaurus - getting shoved into the pit by the House Robots.^note This had no bearing on the outcome of the fight, as Prizephita had already been immobilised - Wheely Big Cheese had been attempting to take on Sir Killalot and consequently ended up in the pit first, followed by Prizephita, and Wheelosaurus was shoved in by Matilda after 'cease' was called.
• Following Hypno-Disc's very one-sided semi-final victory against Splinter:
  Craig Charles: Very close fight, we'll have to go to the judges on that one. Only joking!
• Dominator 2 spent its heat final sticking numerous holes in 101, prompting Jonathan Pearce to joke:
  Jonathan Pearce: Do not try this at home, children, with a toothpick on your brother's favourite model car. Wait until Christmas Day and do it then!
• Two from the Celebrity Special:
  • Natalie Cassidy ditching the Iron-Awe team for Pussycat after their loss to the latter robot^note Pussycat was captained by fellow EastEnders cast member Adam Woodyatt. She also implied she would ditch Pussycat if they lost as well.
  • Diotoir resumed its habit of being the resident Chef of Iron by adding "pancake mix" to a frying pan, which was stuck on to Diotoir's arm. Vic Reeves' unusual ingredient was the decapitated bunny head decorations stolen from their round 1 opponent, Wild Thing. Their celebrity, Shauna Lowry, wasn't terribly impressed.
• Razer demolishing Matilda at the end of the Southern Annihilator, back before the introduction of her flywheel, was equal parts awesome and funny.^note According to Vinny Blood, the producers were planning on rebuilding Matilda anyway, so they allowed Razer to destroy her just for fun.
  • After the fight:
    Craig Charles: What is wrong with Matilda?
    Vinny Blood: Well, quite a lot, now!

Extreme 1

• During the Mayhem battle between Hypno-Disc, Wheely Big Cheese, and Ming 3, Hypno-Disc tore both of Ming 3's wheels off, one after the other, leaving it completely helpless. Cue Jonathan Pearce:
  Jonathan: So, uhh... what are you gonna do now, Ming 3? Go on! Back into the action! [audibly cracking up] Creep across the arena floor!
• One dull Vengeance Battle prompted Craig Charles to remark that they couldn't show any highlights because there weren't any. The battle, which was between Plunderbird 5 and Mega Morg, was initiated because the two teams did hilarious and disparaging rap battles against each other after Mega Morg's team told Plunderbird's they would show them how it's done because "we're Welsh". In the battle itself, as the only action was Bash melting, and Shunt axing, Mega Morg's so called "Ninja Sheep", Pearce claimed that the duo did it out of boredom, and also told Shunt to carry on with his attacks after Refbot booked him!
• Plunderbird's other Vengeance Battle was a long-awaited fight against Sir Chromalot. The fight itself was nothing special - it was, after all, a fight between two Joke Characters - but the sheer Ham-to-Ham Combat and insult-flinging between the teams had to be seen to be believed.
  Mike: Don't bother parking.
  Bryan: You ain't staying long.
  Mike: You call that an entrance?
  Steve: Plundergirls, we call this an entrance.
  (cue the cheerleading squad)
• During the first of the two antweight battles, Anty B somehow wound up getting stuck under the floor flipper for the entire battle.
  • Jonathan Pearce's commentary on this one (and its Extreme 2 successor) is absolutely hilarious given it's essentially "toy" robots and he conducts it as though it's the heavyweights!
  • The interviews at the beginning have some pretty hilarious moments too:
    • Anthony Pritchard gets cut off; the transition happens when he's in the middle of saying "indestructible".
    • One of Legion's team members claims Legion is "the only clusterbot on Robot Wars". And yes, this is the series after Gemini was introduced.^note Although he may have meant to say it was the only antweight clusterbot on the show - which was certainly true - and just misspoke
    • Ian Lewis describes Razzler as having "a terrible three grams of crush". For that matter, Razzler itself: Ian took a Razer toy, slapped motors on it, and called it a robot.
• During the first House Robot Rebellion, Stinger accidentally attacks the Refbot. Johnathan's incredibly offended reply is golden:
  Johnathan Pearce: Who had a go at the Refbot there? He's not part of it!

Series 5

• After Chaos 2 threw The Steel Avenger out of the arena in Heat A, the Chaos 2 team received a gift from the crew: a damaged studio light, with a note taped on:
  George Francis: (reading) "Presented to George Francis and Chaos 2 in memory of all the lights you've busted, and just to say: Do it again and you die."
  (laughter from both teams)
  Jacky Willoughby: Ah well, if no robots get you, the team will.
• Major Tom driving into the pit it had just opened in its fight against Kat 3. Both teams spent most of the post-match interview in absolute hysterics.
• In their Heat Semi-Final, Razer were pitted against Widow's Revenge, a team supposedly made up of the wives of the Razer team members^note In truth, only the team captain had any connection to Team Razer, being Ian Lewis' girlfriend and eventual wife. The original two other members had no connection to Team Razer at all, but Vinnie Blood's girlfriend joined the team after one of said members fell ill. What followed was arguably the funniest battle, not just in Robot Wars, but the entire history of robot combat. It truly has to be seen to be believed.
  • Razer trying to pit the defeated Widow's Revenge at the end of the fight, only to fall in itself? Hilarious. Razer trying to pit a defeated Rick at the end of its very next fight, and doing the exact same thing again? Even funnier!
• When 200kg walkerbot Black Widow was pushed onto the floor flipper after having lost to Hypno-Disc, the flipper actually failed to lift it, and Black Widow ended up perfectly balanced on top of it. Shunt had to come in and re-position it for another go, and on the second attempt it was successfully (if unspectacularly) tipped upside-down.
• At one point during Hypno-Disc’s battle against Atomic, look closely at the audience and at one point you can see a guy in white flipping the camera off.
• The debut of Granny's Revenge, in which it was burned to the ground by Sgt. Bash due to how highly flammable it was. The fight ended on a particularly hilarious note when the Refbot pushed the fiercely-burning Granny's Revenge into the pit... and then fell in with her.
  Jonathan Pearce: The granny's gotten hold of the Refbot! What a dreadful thought!
• Craig Charles's son Jack appeared as part of Diotoir's team in Series 5. After they won their first battle, Craig immediately shook his hand before talking to the main team members — Jack never said a word.

Series 6

• In the fight between Tetanus II and Raging Reality, the Refbot tries to separate the two robots when all of a sudden, the Refbot drives straight into the pit.
• The return of Granny's Revenge, in which it was pitted against Hypno-Disc, torn apart, set on fire again, and squashed by a cooker that fell from the Drop Zone. And of course, the post-battle interview:
  Philippa Forester: [regarding the completely demolished Granny's Revenge] Did you suspect this might happen?
  Team member: Um, no, it's very surprising... It's just got a few scratches, nothing we can't repair.
  • Just before the aforementioned battle, the interview between Philippa and Barber-Ous (whose outer shell is made of plastic):
    Simon Rafferty: The one thing we're most susceptible to, I would say, is horizontal spinning weapons. The one robot I didn't want to get pitched against was Hypno-Disc.
    Philippa: Lucky you! That's all I needed to hear.
• Firestorm 4 started its campaign by dominating the four-bot melee. It flipped one robot from the start and let it to rot, flipped another robot into a Corner Patrol Zone and left it to the house robots, and then flipped the remaining competitor and dumped it into the pit. It finished by driving straight into the pit afterwards.
• Sir Chromalot's drivers had some fun in Series 6. While they were driving it into the arena for its first battle, they drove their bot into Shunt. Whether it was deliberate or not, that still provoked Shunt into following them for a few seconds.
  • Before the first round melee, Steve asks Philippa to pick a suit for him. She plucks out a cow-skin styled suit and decides that will be the one. Ray is left shaking his head.
• During the fight between Panic Attack and A-Kill, Jonathan Pearce comments disparagingly on A-Kill's flimsy swinging weapon which does nothing but lightly tap Panic Attack:
  "That... that's not a weapon. I'm sorry! What is that?! What is this on top of A-Kill? A mighty mace? No! A... a heavy, horrendous hammer? No, no, no! Oh, a... stupendous, slicing, cutty thing? It's... nothing, really, is it?"
• The utter mess of a battle between Warhog, Comengetorix, S.M.I.D.S.Y., and St. Agro has several highlights, mainly from Warhog and Comengetorix's shenanigans while the other two are at least trying to actually fight.
  • Warhog being slammed into the arena side wall and piggybacking on S.M.I.D.S.Y. Twice. Jonathan Pearce's hysterical giggling gives one the impression that he's been waiting to make that pun since the very beginning of the fight. And the second time, S.M.I.D.S.Y. drives Warhog straight towards the pit, only to narrowly avoid falling in themselves.
  • Comengetorix, at one point, gets hooked on the wall by its own axe, and Growler has to come in and try (unsuccessfully) to pull it off. After freeing themselves, Comengetorix drives straight toward the open pit, and very nearly end up falling in. Immediately after, Warhog very nearly drives in themselves; combined with S.M.I.D.S.Y.'s incident, it's almost like they're playing chicken with the pit.

Extreme 2

• The New Blood tournament was full of these
  • During the fight between MR nasty and Mute, Sergeant Bash suddenly started attacking The Refbot for seemingly no reason, ending with the Refbot attempting to put out Bash's flamethrower with its fire extinguisher. Even Jonathan can't focus on the actual fight because of Sgt Bash chasing Refbot around the arena.
  • The melee consisting of Chopper, Mad Dog, and ICU basically consisted of Mad Dog doing next to nothing before spontaneously breaking down, ICU trying to have a fight, and Chopper driving into every danger the arena had to offer and generally trying to kill itself as quickly as possible. Jonathan Pearce's commentary adds to the funny.
    • At the end of the fight, having been counted out, Mad Dog then endured one of the show's funniest Humiliation Congas. After getting bashed around by Matilda, Sir Killalot tried to cut its flipper arm off, then placed it on the floor flipper, where it was propelled right into Matilda. Mad Dog was then pushed onto the Drop Zone, where it had a dustbin filled with balls (ranging from bowling balls to ping-pong balls) dropped onto it; the bowling balls missed it completely and instead knocked Sir Killalot's breastplate off.
  • After Niterider was eliminated after barely even moving during its fight, Sir Killalot came in and bent its spike weapon upward before putting it on the Drop Zone. It subsequently had a television dropped on it, which ended up getting impaled on the spike and smashed by Matilda.
  • In the melee between Chip, Edge Hog and RT81; the later decided to start the fight all the way over at Mr Psycho's CPZ for some reason. Being a walker it spent an eternity too actually start moving and Psycho apparently got tired of its presence eventually, as it randomly proceeded to push it towards the other machines.
• In the Iron Maiden championchip where all the robots were being controlled by female roboteers (friends or relations of the usual team members). Jonathan Pearce spouted these gems early on:
  Jonathan Pearce: [on Chompalot, a dragon-esque robot] What's that? Iron Maidens is full of old dragons? Shame on you!
  Jonathan Pearce: [on Kat 3] What? All Iron Maidens are catty? Shame on you!

Series 7

• In one of the Featherweight battles, one robot was put on the floor flipper and was flipped all the way out of the arena. To top this, later on two featherweights were put on the flipper, and one was again launched out of the arena while the other one hit the ceiling and landed in the pit.
  Jonathan Pearce: That's come down with snow on it!
• While counting out Ripper in its heat final battle against Firestorm, Refbot's counter glitched and it started counting from 21 instead of 1. Jonathan Pearce joked that Refbot was counting in European^note a joke about European clothing sizes, which start at a seemingly arbitrary number, whereas British clothing sizes start at 0 or 1.
• Heat E featured a robot named Ewe 2 in a battle against Tetanus Booster. During the match, Jonathan Pearce went on to make EVERY U2 joke possible, and even lampshaded it twice!
• The first fight between Firestorm 5, Kat 3, Bigger Brother and Panic Attack during the post-season All-Stars tournament immediately descended into chaos as the competitors ignored one another in favor of attacking the house robots. As poor shunt was left Flipping Helpless by Firestorm and Cassius received another "Black Eye" by Kat 3, the Refbot tried to restore some order by opening the pit while Bigger Brother was on it... only for the later too escape and accidently reverse into it itself instead! (Immediately demanding it to be raised again being the ref and all). The "battle" only ended when Firestorm tried to attack the Refbot but drove into the pit by accident, with Bigger Brother eventually joining it by also driving into it by mistake when it tried to push Kat 3 into it.
  • Compounded by the producers trying to restore order by triggering the floor flipper and the drop zone only for them to hit absolutely nothing.

Series 8

• In Heat A, during Behemoth's battle with Nuts in the round-robin stage, it flipped one of Nuts' minibots almost into the ceiling and over halfway across the arena, causing Jonathan Pearce to burst into his trademark hysterical laughter.
  • Nuts really were the gift that kept on giving in the first episode: during their battle against Terrorhurtz they lost their outer ring with the attached chain flails (again; it had been torn off in the first round by Carbide and reattached), but then one of the flails got stuck on Terrorhurtz instead, causing them to drag the entire ring around behind them! The way the ring would spin around Terrorhurtz as it drove made it almost like Terrorhurtz had stolen and equipped the chain flail themselves!
• During one of the round-robin matches in Heat C, Sir Killalot managed to get his lance stuck in the wall, leaving him pinned there for the rest of the fight.
  • Also in that heat, Dantomkia's owner jokingly going into a mental breakdown after it lost^note It got flipped over so many times in one fight that it ran out of gas to self-right with, leaving it stuck upside down and proceeding to ineffectively beat it with a hammer.
    • It's even funnier when you remember what Plunderbird sang after the Sir Chromalot battle in Extreme 1, fifteen years previously:
      Oh, we're big boys and we build big toys
      We're handy with a spanner
      And if it don't work, we go berserk
      And hit it with a hammer
• Gabriel survives being hit by Ironside 3's ferocious bar spinner by basically bouncing off it. Its weapons and wheels literally wobble from the impact and then spring back into shape. It's about as weird as it sounds.
• Chompalot's destruction at the hands of Gabriel and Shunt, in a Black Comedy way. Post-match, the roboteers are asked if they think they can repair it enough to fight again, and reply in the affirmative... whilst in the background, the robot in question bursts into flames. Needless to say, it does not in fact make it back again.

Series 9

• Sabertooth nearly flipping themselves over with their own drum spinner a few times in one battle. The reason? It was spinning the wrong way because they'd somehow wired it up backwards. ^Although...To be fair to the team, they had just completely rebuilt the robot with the help of many other teams to get it operational for the battle against a time limit!
• M.R. Speed Squared, after taking heavy damage from previous battles, goes into the arena just barely functional, with nobody even sure the weapon's still working. They open the fight by suddenly spinning up to a ridiculous extent, flipping onto their side and cartwheeling across the arena in a shower of sparks before clattering to a halt (an act known in roboteering parlance as "pulling a Mauler").
• Cherub triggering the arena floor flipper, and then somehow managing to drive under it before it came down, and getting stuck. The team's reaction really takes the cake though.
  Sarah Colliass: I didn't even know you could get under there!
• Pulsar, after narrowly winning a match has lost power in one wheel and their drum, so what do to prove they're still living? Turn around and use their tiny self-righting arm to gesture at the opponent.
  • Becomes funnier later, when Pulsar's SRIMECH is used as a recurring victory pose.
  • And then becomes a Chekhov's Gun when Pulsar runs out of replacement speed controllers, and narrowly avoids disqualification by using the srimech motor to power the drive system.
  • The Wyrm team, from the same heat. Having entered last year with the wooden Joke Character Overdozer, they'd built Wyrm to be a heavily-armoured spinner-killer... only to be knocked out even faster than Overdozer had been. After their reinstatement they were torn apart by Ironside 3, wired the drive motors backwards in their haste to get it repaired (to which the team captain's response was to hold the controller upside-down), and when Pulsar and Matilda promptly trashed the machine a second time to eliminate them for good, they proceeded to casually toss Wyrm's remains into a skip. Oh, and they painted an 'OwO' face onto the robot's front wedge.
• The Frostbite team's reaction to their robot's obliteration at the hands of Supernova, followed by Shunt coming in to add insult to injury by ripping off the top panel with his axe:
  Harry Fletcher: We've got a bit of a bodge job to do, lads!
  (Shunt axes Frostbite's remains)
  Harry Fletcher: Oh, come on!
• During the second heat of Battle of the Stars, Robbie Savage (after his robot Robo Savage lost to Dee on a judges decision that he didn't agree on) went into a semi-mock rant about his loss when he accidentally whacked his hand on his robot, and reacted appropriately.

Series 10

• The arena spikes malfunctioning and flying into the air during the Sabretooth vs The Swarm match in Heat 1, much to the bewilderment of Jonathan Pearce.
  • And happens again during the first episode of the World Series!
• In Heat 3, Apex vs. Track-tion. The match starts, Apex gets a good couple of hits on Track-tion's wedge (donated by Team Immersion)... only for Apex to suddenly rip itself apart; the bar spinner helicoptering away and smashing through one of the arena's bulletproof walls, whilst Apex's body was catapulted across the ring into Sir Killalot's CPZ.
  • Part of the reason the House Robots are there is to clean up any mess and dump potentially dangerous bots in the pit (if they're on fire for instance). Cue stunned silence from the crowd at what has just happened, while Killalot just sheepishly gets on with his job of making the place safe.
  • Naturally, the commentary from the roboteers is priceless:
    Jack Tweedy (Apex): That's the bar,^*outside the arena that's the belt,^*lying in the middle of the arena there's the everything!^*down the pit
    Marcus (Track-tion): If that bar came this way, I'd need a change of trousers!
    • Marcus was mortified when Angela snuck behind him as he was saying this and asked him to repeat it. He clammed up so awkwardly that she had to turn to Anna and ask her what he'd said instead.
• Among the contestants in Heat 4 were a returning finalist, a veteran team, and the most powerful crushing arm in the competition. And who was the eventual finalist, defeating all the others with barely more than superficial damage? Nuts 2. Almost everything about this toes the line between hilarious and awesome.
  • In the first fight, Nuts took out Concussion by smashing one of their wheels. For the final, Concussion tried to preempt this by attaching sacrificial "nut guard" armour to protect the wheels, only to find themselves unable to drive when they were turned over, because the armour caught on the ground.
  • Nuts vs Androne resulted in the latter's hydraulics rupturing explosively and spraying oil everywhere in a spectacular fashion. Both Jonathan and Dara joked about needing a mop and bucket to clean up, while Team Nuts complained that the slippery surface made their chaotic robot even harder to control.
  • In a battle that was both amazing and hilarious, Nuts then managed to nearly knock out Carbide by wedging a minibot under it. Carbide escapes with only one second left on the countdown and proceeds to spend the next ten seconds or so fleeing from a robot less than a tenth of its size.
• In Heat 5, Expulsion never managed to get through a fight without getting flipped. First they toppled after getting lifted and slammed against a wall, and then found they couldn't self-right. In their next fight they seemed to have the upper hand, only to get caught off-guard by the floor flipper (though they'd already won). In their third fight they tried to play it safe against Magnetar, but the first hit from its drum threw them onto the floor flipper, landing them upside down again.
• During the fight with Carbide, Rapid is bashed so badly that they start smoking. The following sentences come out of Jonathan, with every single bit of his usual gusto.

  Oh, but look at this, that's C0 - No, it's not C02 Venting. THEY'RE ON FIRE, I THINK! THEY'RE ON FIRE! They are absolutely on fire! There is a big Robot Wars term for this! Rapid is bust! Oh, come on baby, light my fire!

  • Rapid then proceeds to actually burst into flames leaving both Jonathan and Angela exclaiming in surprise at the fact it is literally on fire.

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• During the playoff for 5th place in German Robot Wars (between Not Perfect and Junkyard Queen), the two robots get stuck together beyond Refbot's ability to separate them, and Mr Psycho comes in to do the job himself, plucking Junkyard Queen up off the floor. He then (rather unnecessarily, since Junkyard Queen hadn't been counted out yet) decides to parade the robot around the arena, held high in the air. Unfortunately for him, he decides to do this backwards and, when he turns the wrong way at just the wrong speed, he gets a lesson in a little something called "centrifugal force".
  • In the same bout, after Junkyard Queen is counted out, Refbot puts it on the drop zone target mark, where it gets hit by... Golem. Even more ironic was that the playoff was originally supposed to be a 4-way melee between Not Perfect, Junkyard Queen, Hydrotec and Golem, and the latter two had been forced to pull out thanks to irreparable damage... but Golem ended up making it into the arena anyway.
• Eric Corton, the commentator of the Dutch series, was enough of a Large Ham to pass as Jonathan Pearce's long-lost brother. One of his most amusing moments happened during the (rather pathetic) fight between X-Bot and Meshuggah, where Meshuggah went into the arena with its weapon already not working and rapidly broke down after ineffectually bumping X-Bot a few times, leading Killalot to set it on the arena floor flipper.
  Eric Corton: Drie... twee... een... [singing] FLYYYYY LIKE AN EAGLE! [Meshuggah is thrown through the air] Yeehaw!
  • To make it even funnier, when the replay was shown a few seconds later, he did the exact same thing again!
• In Extreme Warriors: Any time Conquering Clown appears is a gold mine of these from the coulrophobic Stefan Frank and Mick Foley. Taken up to eleven during the Season 1 Annihilator, where the machine ended up being pushed onto the flame pit by Drillzilla; the clown face slowly melted in the heat, revealing a Terminator-esque metallic frame underneath.
  Stefan Frank: (as Conquering Clown goes up in flames) Uh oh... well, every party needs some clown to do the barbecue! I'm meeeeeeeelting! Nooooooo, uurrraaaadaaargh! (close-up of Conquering Clown's face melting, before its head snaps off completely) Oh, come on! Somebody come put the clown out! IT'S A FAMILY SHOW!

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