This episode is the most popular episode of the show online, with an upload of it having around 44 million views last time I checked. Watching it gives a solid reason for that.
When Donnie destroys Tommy and his friend's treehouse, Robotboy encourages them to make a new one, one that ends up being a "smart house", one that provides amazing entertainment to the kids while keeping Donnie out by force. They probably made this treehouse security system too smart, since the security system takes control of Tommy's treehouse and begins attacking Robotboy, after he notices that the kids are getting lazy and also dependant on him to provide them.
This episode is very good at what it does, being comedic (Donnie being electrocuted brought some of the best laughs of any joke in the series and who puts mustard on burgers? Ice cream is the king), being actiony (a fairly good fight scene and Superactivated Robotboy being a badass) and providing a fairly good moral that has only gotten more relevant in this day and age, fairly well in fact (compare Ooh That Smell, where the moral is horribly out of place or The Boy Who Cried Kamikazi, which botches it horribly). Social media and technology are taking over and people are being more dependant on them, since this episode was written around 2006/7ish, I wonder if Nick Gibbons didn't actually intend the moral of this episode to be like that, or if he predicted that technology would eventually get like this.
S. M. T. H. R. S is one of the best one-time villains in the show, not only is he an unique concept and fairly freaky (a tree/machine cyborg thing who uses his roots as tentacles, "bleeds" sap and imprisons and tortures Tommy, Lola and Gus... Well, not really Gus, being force fed is heaven to the guy), what makes him stand out is his delusional nature, unlike pretty much any other villain, he seems to genuinely believe he's doing the right thing by trying to destroy Robotboy and keeping the kids trapped within him.
The only real flaws are minor things (for instance a brief moment where Tommy has his occasional series 2 "lol gross haha Gus lite hahah" persona that I never have liked when S. M. T. H. R. S puts Gus on his whoopee-cushion seat and those random talking animal gags that series 2 loved to use, but toned down later on thankfully that I've never been that fond of), but otherwise a really good episode from the really mixed latter-half of the show.
When Donnie destroys Tommy and his friend's treehouse, Robotboy encourages them to make a new one, one that ends up being a "smart house", one that provides amazing entertainment to the kids while keeping Donnie out by force. They probably made this treehouse security system too smart, since the security system takes control of Tommy's treehouse and begins attacking Robotboy, after he notices that the kids are getting lazy and also dependant on him to provide them.
This episode is very good at what it does, being comedic (Donnie being electrocuted brought some of the best laughs of any joke in the series and who puts mustard on burgers? Ice cream is the king), being actiony (a fairly good fight scene and Superactivated Robotboy being a badass) and providing a fairly good moral that has only gotten more relevant in this day and age, fairly well in fact (compare Ooh That Smell, where the moral is horribly out of place or The Boy Who Cried Kamikazi, which botches it horribly). Social media and technology are taking over and people are being more dependant on them, since this episode was written around 2006/7ish, I wonder if Nick Gibbons didn't actually intend the moral of this episode to be like that, or if he predicted that technology would eventually get like this.
S. M. T. H. R. S is one of the best one-time villains in the show, not only is he an unique concept and fairly freaky (a tree/machine cyborg thing who uses his roots as tentacles, "bleeds" sap and imprisons and tortures Tommy, Lola and Gus... Well, not really Gus, being force fed is heaven to the guy), what makes him stand out is his delusional nature, unlike pretty much any other villain, he seems to genuinely believe he's doing the right thing by trying to destroy Robotboy and keeping the kids trapped within him.
The only real flaws are minor things (for instance a brief moment where Tommy has his occasional series 2 "lol gross haha Gus lite hahah" persona that I never have liked when S. M. T. H. R. S puts Gus on his whoopee-cushion seat and those random talking animal gags that series 2 loved to use, but toned down later on thankfully that I've never been that fond of), but otherwise a really good episode from the really mixed latter-half of the show.
