"Robotboy" Ooh That Smell (TV Episode 2007) Poster

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2/10
One of The Worst
vuzalwuzal23 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This episode is series 2 Robotboy doing what it does best, being a betrayal to what it used to be and not even well at that; phoned-in action, forced grossness, dumb and random humor that makes no sense and doesn't fit.

After Tommy makes Robotboy a nose, he finds out he doesn't smell of anything. After some fart jokes, he decides to try and get a smell of his own. The episode seems alright so far, but for some reason, Robotboy decides to get help from a bunch of criminal babies, because that's what I first think of when I want to get an oder of my own. They convince him into freeing them under promise of giving him a smell, but this obviously doesn't pan out because body oders don't work that way- I mean they double cross him and use their freedom to wreck havoc, what follows is some rancid-smelling writing and out of place drama with Robotboy getting punished for freeing the babies. The dumb criminal babies steal Tommy's birthday cake (if its his birthday, his mother's, or not I don't know) and seemingly wanting to beat them up (he literally puts his hands together in that sort of way in fiction when someone's gonna kick some ass) he goes after them... and almost gets dropped to his death by them. Gus gives Robotboy back his nose to find them and he saves Tommy and imprisons the babies again. Cue out of place sentiment moment and more fart jokes.

The worst part about this episode? What makes me hate this episode more than I would if it wasn't there? They thought they should tack on a moral about making mistakes in this episode about criminal babies and make it a key part of the episode. It's not even played ironically at all, they expect me (and everyone else) to take everything relating to it seriously (specifically Tommy being mad at Robotboy for freeing the dumb criminal babies, punishing him (because if someone frees a bunch of dangerous criminals no more TV for them) and the scene at the end where Robotboy breaks his own nose to punish himself for causing the conflict of the episode I guess and the ensuing chat with Tommy) when it's an episode about dumb criminal babies. Imagine taking a Ren and Stimpy episode but tacking on a seriously-played moral lesson, it just doesn't fit at all.

And the dumb criminal babies themselves are just plain characters, they are not good villains at all, like it's not even funny, it's just lame and not in a funny way, but a boring sort. What do smells have to do with criminal babies in the first place? The "Robotboy gets a nose" stuff was seemingly either only just an excuse to start the dumb baby stuff or they couldn't be bothered to think of something better, this episode wastes of a plot and tricks you into seeing dumb baby criminals instead.

Oh and Robotboy has been shown to smell before and after this episode, so there was no point to making this.
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