YMMV / Robotomy

• Awesome Art: The colorful and detailed art and cool character designs make the show an eye candy to look at, at least when it's not being super violent.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • Blastus arriving to help Thrasher babysit by dressing up as a nanny and riding a motorcycle into Maimy's house before jumping off as the motorcycle crashes out the window. It's never mentioned again after Thrasher asks Blastus what movie did he see that would possess him to do that.
  • Blastus's cabaret-style chair dance after he tells Thrasher that he didn't spend four years of jazz and tap to hide in the shadows. While it does illustrate Blastus's character, story-wise, it comes off as something that could easily be a needless cutaway gag on Family Guy.
• Crazy Is Cool: Everything, but with special mention to the rules of Mutilation Ball.
  "There are 73,411 rules, but once you learn them, it's simple. The ball attaches itself to a player and begins consuming his fluids. Your teammates will mercilessly shoot you with lasers. That's why I suggest you burrow under the ground and suffocate the ball. Then again, I'm your coach and your coach is also trying to defeat you. Anyway, if the field feels like it, it will turn to lava and you'll have a jousting tournament. If not, you can choose to pass the ball or let it eat you, but you must do this above ground and before the dragons attack. See, it's all about strategy."
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The friendly, affectionate Weenus gets constantly beaten up and destroyed.
  • Someone dies or is horribly injured just about every 5 to 10 seconds, but gets better moments later.
  • Special mention goes to the "Sunshine Class", over-emotional robots who are treated like mentally-challenged children, who their teacher tries to kill by launching them all into the sun.
  • The janitor in the Mutilation Ball episode, who kidnapped the babies from a planet of blue balls and used the kidnapped babies as Mutilation Balls on Isanus, which plunged the blue-ball planet into a never-ending war just for fun — then gets mad at Thrasher and Blastus for killing the other blue balls because that means the end of Mutilation Ball games for good at Harry S. Apocalypse High.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Weenus, probably due to his Lethal Joke Character premise... and the fact he's a Cloudcuckoolander, a Mood-Swinger and totally adorable.
• Fridge Horror:
  • The Sunshine class is the Insanus equivalent to a class for mentally-challenged children. So what do you think about them being sent to the sun in a rocket now?. The very name "Sunshine class" becomes a fridge horrific Stealth Pun when you realize that the name both doubles as a typical name for a "special-ed" type class and it foreshadows how the class is going to die.
  • In "Field of Screams," it's revealed that the balls used for Mutilation Ball are actually the babies of a peaceful planet of blue balls that the high school janitor kidnapped for fun. Earlier, in the episode, one of the rules of Mutilation Ball was to burrow under the ground to suffocate the ball and get away from your teammates mercilessly shooting you with lasers, meaning that the robots are abusing and killing babies for sport.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In "Frenemy", Squeeker, a robotic bird who is an Affectionate Parody of Twitter is murdered by Frenemy to replace it. On July 23rd, 2023, the actual Twitter is rebranded into X, thence removing and replacing the original bird logo.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Cartoon Network generally doesn't have a good track record with robot cartoons, making Robotomy joining this list a darkly humorous continuing of the trend.
• Ho Yay: No, really, there are plenty of Ho Yay moments between the main duo, Thrasher and Blastus. They even have split heart necklaces!
• Memetic Mutation: Weenus's "Shadow Puppet Theater".
• Values Dissonance: As stated on the main page, the show was canceled after ten episodes due to countries outside the US finding it too violent and crude to air to children.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Where do we start? Rude language (like "crap", "sucks", "screwed", etc), a lot of Comedic Sociopathy, some sexual innuendo, and a lot of over-the-top violence. This show might've had a better chance of success had it been on Cartoon Network's [adult swim] lineup instead of CN itself, and it shouldn't be a surprise that one of the show's creators worked on Superjail!.

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