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2 [[caption-width-right:350:When you have a question, they'll answer it for you!]]
3[=StoryBots=] Answer Time is a 2022 spin-off show based off the Creator/{{Netflix}}-original series WesternAnimation/AskTheStorybots.
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5The show focuses on the [=StoryBots=] Answer Team 341-B as they answer various questions from kids and celebrity guests like Creator/DannyDevito and Creator/AnneHathaway.
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7[[https://youtu.be/m6IIbNLD76o Trailer]], [[https://youtu.be/oIRBHj7_wSM First full episode]]
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10Bo’s World
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12 [[caption-width-right:350:[[ExtremelyShortIntroSequence Ohhhhh~ magic, la-la, Unicorns, la-la, Bo’s World. Bo’s World!]]]]
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14!! ''[=StoryBots=] Answer Time has examples of'':
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16* ArtShiftedSequel: Answer Time uses a different artstyle for its 2D rigs, being more sketchy and expressive.
17* AdaptationInspiration: They still answer questions from children, however Answer Time includes more celebrity guests asking their own queries.
18** Answer Time features much more about the computers/environments the [=StoryBots=] live in. While the main series has sparing mentions of the going-ons in their lives, Answer Time expands on it with a computer city connected by tubes.
19* ADayInTheLimelight: Each member of Team 341-B gets a chance to be the primary focus of an episode.
20* BreakingTheFourthWall: After helping Miss Secret Agent Lady stop a laser, she asks this:
21-->'''Miss Secret Agent Lady''': Hey. You wouldn't happen to know how locks work, do you?
22-->'''Bang''': That, my friend, is a problem for [[ContinuityNod another episode]].
23-->''(music stops abruptly)''
24-->'''Miss Secret Agent Lady''': Episode? What, is-- Is this a TV show?
25* CanonForeigner: Everyone except Team 341-B, Hap, Franklin, Hub and Bub were created for the show.
26* CompanyCrossReferences: A tiny reference to Website/JibJab's previous edutainment app [=StoryBots=] Classroom can be seen on an office wall in one of the Word Swap segments.
27* ExtremelyShortIntroSequence: The intro is only 16 seconds long.
28* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode has a single word title relating to the episode question like 'Multiplication' or 'Lasers'.
29* IdenticalStranger: Bing meets Eduardo in the 'Dizzy' episode, he has black eyebrows and a pencil mustache. Besides those accesories, he looks a lot like Bing.
30* IrritationNightmare: Bing has a dream where he goes to an Over Budget Hotel surrounded by convoluted finance terms, he finds it so terrifying he runs out of the bank once he wakes up.
31* MyCard: Boop pulls out his identification card when intervened at Security Hardware Headquarters.
32* NonStandardCharacterDesign: In the 'Budgets' episode there's a [[AnthropomorphicTypography number-shaped]] [=StoryBot=] that can divide herself upon impact.
33* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: "No [=StoryBots=] were injured in the making of this program."
34* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear: So that we understand what Boop is saying.
35* ReferenceOverdosed: The 'Area' episode features Beep going to a convention full of references to game franchises such as VideoGame/AnimalCrossing and {{VideoGame/Minecraft}}, as well as easter eggs to previous episodes in the series as video games.
36* ShoutOut: When the number [=StoryBot=] is divided into two, she resembles the twins from Film/TheShining.
37** Sir Foolhardy exclaims [[Creator/GeorgeRRMartin "Great R. R. Martin!"]] when he finds out how food spoils.
38** In 'Fractions', Bing meets the legendary [[Franchise/IndianaJones Alabama Smith]] to ask for help with solving a hidden code.
39** In one of the Space Bots segments, an elderly character falls over and shouts out [[https://youtu.be/cwCtM6D4GOc "I've fallen and can't get up!"]] from the iconic [=LifeCall=] commercial.
40* SpinOff: Of WesternAnimation/AskTheStorybots.
41* TruthInTelevision: Bing sits on a big yoga ball during work. Yoga balls can benefit people with ADHD as it helps them to focus more.
42* ThankingTheViewer: The end credits include a special thanks to 'all the kids and grown-ups who have welcomed the [=StoryBots=] into their homes.'
43* WholePlotReference: The Space Bots segments are entirely based off the Franchise/StarTrek franchise.
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