Line #17 WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges


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2	[[caption-width-right:248:The brain trust 2.0.]]
3	''The Robonic Stooges'' is a half-hour SaturdayMorningCartoon from 1978. The show is -- well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Film/TheThreeStooges receive ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' treatment in one of the strangest {{animated adaptation}}s ever. It originally aired as an extra segment on ''The Skatebirds'', but got its own half-hour timeslot, with edited reruns of ''WesternAnimation/ClueClub'', that lasted 16 episodes. Junk dealers Larry, Curly, and Moe bumble around as crime-fighters with special bionic powers, who get instructions from their exasperated boss, Agent 000.
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5	!!Tropes:
6	* AIIsACrapshoot: And how. There isn't an episode in the series that disproves it, although in largest part, the Stooges do bring in their criminals. Even 000 is surprised sometimes.
7	* AllBalloonsHaveHelium: In one episode, Curly inflates himself so he, Larry and Moe can escape a castle where all the exits are locked.
8	* AnimatedAdaptation: Of ''Series/TheThreeStooges''.
9	%%* BrainInAJar: Dr. Brainly's brain.
10	* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: L for Larry Fine, M for Moe Howard and C for Curly Howard. And that included the [[SceneTransition transition sequence]] (the [[IdiosyncraticWipes LMC wipe]] where each crest opened up and the C shattered to introduce the next scene).
11	* TheCameo: In another episode, WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo appears in a page of a paint-by-numbers coloring book. In yet another, Woofer and Wimper from ''WesternAnimation/ClueClub'' are seen on wallpaper.
12	* CatchPhrase:
13	** In unison: "Robonic Stooges... awaaaaaayyy!!!"
14	** Or when Triple 0 appears, any one of them will pipe up, "Oh-oh, it's 0-0-0!"
15	* EitherOrTitle: The final episode was "Stooges, You're Fired." Reference sources have the episode with the Either Or title "The Day The Mirth Stood Still."
16	* {{Leitmotif}}: The Stooges' most used theme song, "Three Blind Mice," is used in the opening titles and sporadically in the episodes when they appear.
17	* MediumAwareness:
18	** Zig-zagged in "Jerk and the Beanstalk": The Stooges are faced with dealing with a giant moth, so out at sea, Moe calls for the animators to turn the moth into a giant fish. They turn it into a shark.
19	** Earlier in the episode, Larry and Curly suggest retirement when they can't get rid of the moth. Moe digresses:
20	-->'''Moe:''' We haven't failed in thirty-two episodes and we won't fail this time!
21	* NotQuiteStarring: Sadly [[EnforcedTrope enforced]] by that time -- the last remaining original Stooge died three years earlier. Larry, Curly and Moe are instead voiced, respectively, by Joe Baker, Creator/FrankWelker and Creator/PaulWinchell.
22	* NumberOfObjectsTitle: When the segment broke off from ''Skatebirds'' to become a separate show, it was renamed ''The Three Robonic Stooges.''
23	%%* OnlySaneMan: Agent 000, though it's very sorely tested.
24	%%* ProjectedMan: Agent 000
25	* ShoutOut: In "Dr. Jekyll and Hide Curly", Dr. Jekyll turns the backs of the Stooges' heads into evil Hydes. Using a chemistry set, they try to make an antidote. On the first try, they turn the backs of their heads into the Creator/MarxBrothers.
26	%%* TakeOverTheWorld: Stock villain motivation, in particular, Professor Cluck.

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