Cartoon
The Skatebirds
The Robonic Stooges
The Three Robonic Stooges
Animal
Insipid Gadget
Outfit: bowl haircut / suspender cape / underoos / cold outer shell of a dead man
Tagline: "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. You imbecile!" *smacks Dave*
Plot summary: Hanna-Barbera had a live
action show called "The Skatebirds" in which people would introduce cartoons and
act silly. But what was once silly became AN ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE.
In 1977 "The Robonic Stooges" were introduced. Written by a former Three Stooges
producer (and a son-in-law of Moe Howard), the five minute cartoons updated the classic
Stooge comedy of getting pissed and hitting each other by turning them into bumbling robot
super-hero crime fighters. What the purpose of this was and why the Stooges had to be ANY
of those descriptive words is beyond me and any upright-walking human being with the
capacity for cognitive thought. (more)
User Comments: The saddest thing about making Robonic Stooges is that these aren't
just dead men, but dead OLD men. If you're a mad scientist intent on creating cyborgs and
you send your deformed henchman out to dig up graves, what are the chances that the three
he chooses will be the Three Stooges? That's a
Fabio-hit-in-the-face-by-bird-on-roller-coaster level of devastating cosmic chance.
Maybe there were a group of scientists and surgeons who felt they owed the Stooges for
their contributions to humanity and could only repay them by giving them back the life God
had finally gotten around to yanking away from them. So it was like Robocop. Or the Six
Million Dollar Man. And the lesson we should learn is that the easiest way to rid the
world of crime is to rebuild every dead person as a robot, because once you've been
cybernetically brought back to life you have absolutely no other course in life but to
fight crime.
I would condescend on Moe for his generic super hero tights with the big M on the front,
but life is probably hard enough for him already. You've got the reality that if you fail
in your mission to stop crime or somebody decides to just put a computer chip in Jeff
Foxworthy's head you're going to be shut down. And it's also gotta be a drag to try and
surprise somebody with a double-finger poke to the eyes when you have to preface
everything with "Go Go Gadget."
All that withstanding, one of my life goals is to remake the "Three Robonic Stooges" as modern-day giant robot anime. Imagine the glee of seeing Robonic Moe get so mad about Robonic Larry putting his head in a vice that he uses a Tokyo-crushing cyber cannon to launch a pie going the speed of light at Larry's head. Then Larry could duck, and the pie would hit snooty old Constable Hooty P. Looty in the face and take his head clean off.
Adult Swim, are you reading?
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