Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? (pilot)

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'''Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? '''is the pilot episode for the series with the same name. It aired on June 16, 2000 at 9:00 p.m. during the Cartoon Cartoon Show. This is one of the eleven contenders for the Big Pick.

Synopsis
Robot Jones attends Polyneux Middle School to study humans.

Plot
The episode begins with Robot waking up. He says good morning to Mom Unit and Dad Unit. Mom Unit tells him to get his programming at "the public mid-level learning facility". Robot denies the request, but Dad Unit forces him to go. Robot sees the school bus and tries to talk to it, but the bus driver says that he has to enter the bus. During first period, Robot manages to answer all of the problems, and tells Mr. McMcMc that his math problems are too easy. All of the students laugh at him, causing Mr. McMcMc to send him to the principal's office. Principal Madman tells Robot that with just one more slip up, Robot will be sent to detention.

At lunch, Robot is charging. Principal Madman trips on Robot's charging wire. Everybody mocked Robot for it. Principal Madman gives him 3 months of detention, causing Robot to overload, which in turn, causes everyone to be scared. Principal Madman takes it back, and no longer gave him detention. Robot complains that humans are inefficent, illogical, and talk really weird. However, Robot meets Shannon and falls in love with her, due to her supplement of metal gadgets. Robot concludes that the female of the species is strange, and they need more study.

THE END

Characters

 * Robot Jones (debut)
 * Principal Madman (debut)
 * Mr. McMcMc (debut)
 * Mom Unit (debut)
 * Dad Unit (debut)
 * Shannon Westerburg (debut)
 * Bus Driver (debut)
 * Lenny Yogman (debut)
 * Denny Yogman (debut)
 * Socks (debut)
 * Mitch (debut)
 * Cubey (debut)
 * Lunch Lady (debut)

Gallery
The gallery can be seen here.

Big Pick (2000)
This show was nomineed to be the next Cartoon Network show. However it lost to The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, good news is that it got 2nd place ahead of a show called Lost Cat which place 3rd (created by David Fiess, creator of I am Weasel and Cow and Chicken which happend to premiere on the same day). It got 23% of the votes while Grim got 57%. Lost Cat got 20%. Grim got his show on Friday, August 24, 2001. Lost Cat never premiered because it didn't win. Robot Jones didn't win ethier but got its show a year later on Friday, July 19, 2002.

The transcript can be seen here.

General

 * The pilot would eventually win second place in the Big Pick, with the short "Meet the Reaper" getting first place. Despite this, Cartoon Network ordered a second pilot, and greenlit the series.
 * Timeline: Before every other episode of the series.
 * This is the only episode where Principal Madman is voice by Maurice LaMarche.
 * There were several changes from the pilot to the series, including the backgrounds being mostly white, Mitch, Socks, Cubey and the Yogmans having different designs, and different voice actors.
 * The pilot reaired on September 6, 2002 along with Electric Boogaloo and The Groovesicle.
 * When Greg Miller began production on the episode, he was struggling with directing the episode and making multiple errors with storyboarding and sheet timing. Following this, other storyboard artists and sheet timers had to remedy production for the episode before sending the animated cels overseas to Rough Draft Studios in South Korea for it to be animated.
 * This is the only episode in the entire series ever to be produced by Hanna-Barbera, and the only episode to feature the Hanna-Barbera logo with Robot Jones in it. A chicken squawk sound effect is used in this logo.
 * UK airings of every episode use the original credits sequence from this episode (including the original Robot Jones Hanna-Barbera logo at the end), unlike other international versions of the show that only used the credits sequence from Electric Boogaloo / The Groovesicle.