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StoryBots Answer Time is a 2022 spin-off show based off the Netflix-original series Ask the StoryBots.The show focuses on the StoryBots Answer Team 341-B as they answer various questions from kids and celebrity guests like Danny Devito and Anne Hathaway.
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Bo’s World
StoryBots Answer Time has examples of:
- Art-Shifted Sequel: Answer Time uses a different artstyle for its 2D rigs, being more sketchy and expressive.
- Adaptation Inspiration: They still answer questions from children, however Answer Time includes more celebrity guests asking their own queries.
- 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.
- A Day in the Limelight: Each member of Team 341-B gets a chance to be the primary focus of an episode.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: After helping Miss Secret Agent Lady stop a laser, she asks this:Miss Secret Agent Lady: Hey. You wouldn't happen to know how locks work, do you?Bang: That, my friend, is a problem for another episode.(music stops abruptly)Miss Secret Agent Lady: Episode? What, is— Is this a TV show?
- Canon Foreigner: Everyone except Team 341-B, Hap, Franklin, Hub and Bub were created for the show.
- Company Cross References: A tiny reference to JibJab's previous edutainment app StoryBots Classroom can be seen on an office wall in one of the Word Swap segments.
- Extremely Short Intro Sequence: The intro is only 16 seconds long.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode has a single word title relating to the episode question like 'Multiplication' or 'Lasers'.
- Identical Stranger: Bing meets Eduardo in the 'Dizzy' episode, he has black eyebrows and a pencil mustache. Besides those accesories, he looks a lot like Bing.
- Irritation Nightmare: 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.
- My Card: Boop pulls out his identification card when intervened at Security Hardware Headquarters.
- Non-Standard Character Design: In the 'Budgets' episode there's a number-shaped StoryBot that can divide herself upon impact.
- No Animals Were Harmed: "No StoryBots were injured in the making of this program."
- Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: So that we understand what Boop is saying.
- Reference Overdosed: The 'Area' episode features Beep going to a convention full of references to game franchises such as Animal Crossing and Minecraft, as well as easter eggs to previous episodes in the series as video games.
- Shout-Out: When the number StoryBot is divided into two, she resembles the twins from The Shining.
- Sir Foolhardy exclaims "Great R. R. Martin!" when he finds out how food spoils.
- In 'Fractions', Bing meets the legendary Alabama Smith to ask for help with solving a hidden code.
- In one of the Space Bots segments, an elderly character falls over and shouts out "I've fallen and can't get up!"
from the iconic LifeCall commercial.
- Spin-Off: Of Ask the StoryBots.
- Truth in Television: Bing sits on a big yoga ball during work. Yoga balls can benefit people with ADHD as it helps them to focus more.
- Thanking the Viewer: The end credits include a special thanks to 'all the kids and grown-ups who have welcomed the StoryBots into their homes.'
- Whole-Plot Reference: The Space Bots segments are entirely based off the Star Trek franchise.
- If you've read this far we are very impressed. GOLD STAR for you!Always remember, the StoryBots love you.
