Cartoon
The Fantastic Four

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Robut

Outfit: 60GB / 2.5 inch display screen / a joke about iPods the things

Tagline:  "BEEP BOOP GALACTUS HAVE SIGN OFF CHATROOM"

Plot summary:  On a mission to outer space, four astronauts are bombarded by cosmic radiation and become something FANTASTIC! Marvel at genius Reed Richards and his ability to stretch his body into almost any shape or length! Gasp in amazement as Sue Storm turns invisible before your very eyes! Tremble with excitement as Ben Grimm transforms into the ever-lovin', blue-eyed strongman of stone, the Thing! Piss yourself with glee as Johnny Storm is replaced by that thing that helps you win at Gyromite so little kids won't set themselves on fire!

H.E.R.B.I.E. (which stands for Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics) makes Neo-Tokyo E.X.P.L.O.D.E. with his fantastic powers of, uh, being a robot. That's how he contributes to the Fantastic Four, a team lead by A SUPER GENIUS who often BUILDS ELECTRONIC THINGS AND USES THEM. It's not really fair to call your team fantastic when you're three people and a thing you bought. It's like the Ben Folds Five. It's just wrong. And like the Ben Folds Five, H.E.R.B.I.E. put a generation of people to sleep and made them wish they had a better excuse to set themselves on fire. (more)

User Comments:  The idea for H.E.R.B.I.E. came from Stan Lee. Stan freaking Lee, the man who created Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men. He suggested a cute robot sidekick to round out the team. So, okay. After a few failed attempts it finally gets designed. By Jack Kirby. JACK KIRBY. The man who helped create Captain America and the Fantastic Four themselves. Those two guys put their heads together and came up with H.E.R.B.I.E. I don't know if they had "gone bananas" or what, but that'd be like finding out Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki got together and created "Rock-a-Doodle." You know that velvet painting of Elvis? Done by Picasso. And Jim Thorpe, I don't know.

A lot of people say H.E.R.B.I.E. is when the Fantastic Four cartoon jumped the shark, but I say, come on. The Fantastic Four cartoon jumped the shark when most of these shows jumped the shark: when you got too old to enjoy dumb shit. Who is judging the artistic merit of a cartoon anyway? Come on. Some of us have better things to do!

User Rating: 1.1/10 (4 votes)