History YMMV / WhateverHappenedToRobotJones

*** Would Shannon have shared the same fate as the rest of the human race or would Robot have spared her at the cost of becoming his love slave? A bad ending for her either way.

** In "Garage Band", Robot Jones is told by Dad Unit that he is "[[Website/GoAnimate grounded grounded grounded]]".

** A Creator/CartoonNetwork show with a nostalgic 80s vibe? [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow It will never catch on]].

* VindicatedByHistory: The show has gained a bit of a reputation among older CN fans compared to how it's been lingering in obscurity during the 2000's and early 2010's. Even then most viewers will find it [[SoOkayItsAverage average at best]].

** Also, there is debate over whether the AppleSpeak voice or Bobby Block's performance was better.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The show seem to be more popular and better remembered in Latin America than in America, to the point that the Latin American version of Cartoon Network still reruns the series every once in a while in the ridiculous hours of the night, something not even the American branch would do.

** In the episode School Newspaper there is a paper used for the title card. On the paper the headlines read, 'Robot Invasion' and 'Robot Burns School'.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JoshPeck voices Lenny Yogman in this series, several years before he found fame in ''Series/DrakeAndJosh''.

* FanonDiscontinuity: While series creator Greg Miller has [[WordOfGod stated]] that the series was intended to end with [[CruelTwistEnding Robot exterminating the human race]], many fans understandably disregard this.

* NeverLiveItDown: If you remember this show, you probably (still) hate the Yogman Twins for cheating the contest in "Cube Wars".
** The fact that Principal Madman resembles Adolf Hitler.

* VindicatedByHistory: Oh yes! The show has gained a bit of a reputation among older CN fans compared to how it's been lingering in obscurity during the 2000's and early 2010's. Even then most viewers will find it [[SoOkayItsAverage average at best]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:

** The show's title has become a PhraseCatcher whenever someone sincerely asks "whatever happened to..?".

* BrokenBase: Greg Miller stating that the series was intended to end with Robot Jones annihilating all of humanity. Some fans aren't surprised that the series would go that direction because Robot has been constantly picked on by humans and would likely snap eventually, while others don't agree with the idea due to it being dark even by a Cartoon Network show's standards and because Robot deciding to kill all humans contradicts the fact that he has human friends who are close to him and was even shown to be worried about Gramps Unit killing his human guests in the episode "House Party". Some fans argue that the planned ending might be a joke created by Greg Miller and isn’t necessarily true. However Greg Miller mentions the planned ending twice in the Facebook interview and appears to have really wanted to add it to the show at some point if it wasn’t cancelled.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some fans believe that Shannon's crabbiness towards Robot Jones is because she has personal problems that are affecting her more than she lets on. After all, no explanation is given for how she got a prosthetic leg. Of course there's always the fact Shannon started hating Robot after the events of "Jealousy".

** Robot Jones believing himself to have no specific gender due to being a robot could also be seen as a metaphor for being transgender.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The few who remember this show tend to mostly praise it because it was a ShortRunner that flew under the radar during its initial run. Those able to track down and watch it will admit that, despite having an appealing aesthetic and a few decent episodes, it was one of the more forgettable Creator/CartoonCartoons and that it's short run was justified.

* ValuesResonance: The episode "Gender" ends with Robot Jones declaring that gender in its entirety is pointless since boys and girls are the same nonetheless. A very forward thinking Aesop for a show made in the early 2000s.