Robby the Robot
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Sep 18, 2026
Mark WinkworthHOST
It was a crazy looking thing right out of Forbidden Planet.
Mark WinkworthHOST
Remember Robbie the Robot? Wild.
Mark WinkworthHOST
Originally, I think it was made for oil rig diving.
Mark WinkworthHOST
That's
Leo LaporteHOST
Yes
Steve GibsonHOST
... and Robby the Robot.
Leo LaporteHOST
Yep, Robby the Robot.
Steve GibsonHOST
You know, Anne Francis-
Leo LaporteHOST
Yes
Leo LaporteHOST
Yes
Steve GibsonHOST
... and Robbie the Robot.
Leo LaporteHOST
Yep, Robbie the Robot.
Steve GibsonHOST
You know, Anne Francis-
Leo LaporteHOST
Yes
CharlesHOST
Um, and also this, uh, the ro- reas- probably one of the reasons why the, um, the description mentions the robot first is the robot is famous.
CharlesHOST
Uh, Robby the Robot.
CharlesHOST
That's, you know, the ro- and I, the, in the movie, the movie's not called, the robot's not called Robby.
CharlesHOST
It's like, that's the, the, uh, got, it got a movie spinoff.
Steve GibsonHOST
Oh, Forbidden Planet, of course.
Steve GibsonHOST
Morbius and Robbie the Robot, Anne Francis, Walter Pigeon, and of course, Leslie Nielsen was a teenager back then.
Steve GibsonHOST
It was hokey, but
Leo LaporteHOST
it was a
Miss CrystalHOST
Never seen that one? There was a movie called Robots, I think for kids.
DebbieGUEST
Who is Robbie the Robot?
Miss CrystalHOST
Robbie the Robot?
DebbieGUEST
Yeah, I've heard of him.
Miss CrystalHOST
Is that the one that kicked the child?
Miss CrystalHOST
It's unplugged, 'cause I'm not trying to have it kill me in the middle of the night.
Miss CrystalHOST
I see the way it gets caught up on the carpet and just wants to chew the carpet to death.
DebbieGUEST
Now, here is Robbie the Robot.
MelvinAUDIENCE
and goes to this planet.
MelvinAUDIENCE
And on the planet, there's only two people, a beautiful, well, there's a professor and his beautiful daughter and Robbie the Robot.
Walter SterlingHOST
And Marianne.
MelvinAUDIENCE
That robot was in four movies.
MelvinAUDIENCE
Real quick, a rocket leaves the Earth... and goes to this planet.
MelvinAUDIENCE
And on the planet, there's only two people, a beautiful, well, there's a professor and his beautiful daughter and Robbie the Robot.
Walter SterlingHOST
And Mary Ann.
Walter SterlingHOST
That
MelvinAUDIENCE
A beautiful, well, there's a professor.
MelvinAUDIENCE
and his beautiful daughter, and Robbie the Robot.
Walter SterlingHOST
That
MelvinAUDIENCE
robot was in four movies.
Nick PapagniHOST
You have to figure it out, and it's not easy, you know, bending down all day.
Nick PapagniHOST
Someday Robbie the Robot will be out there picking cantaloupes someday.
Nick PapagniHOST
I don't know when that's going to come, but as Ryan Jenkinson said, it's here before we know it.
Josh McGillHOST
Robbie the robot.
Josh McGillHOST
I love that, Nick.
Josh McGillHOST
You're going to be in charge of naming the robots in the future.
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