Sunday, August 3, 2025

Flopcast 691: Recycle Your Robots

If you've just been waiting all Summer long for The Flopcast's annual robot-themed Top 4½ List... well, first, what's wrong with you? Go to the beach or something. But also... here it is! Our theme this year is "recycled robots." Sometimes a robot would be designed for some movie or TV show, and then later repurposed for some other movie or TV show. Forbidden Planet's Robby the Robot is the prime example. Robby had a decades-long career popping up in one project after another. A few oddball robots even started making appearances in the real world, so you could meet them at nightclubs or shopping malls. We'll look at a few of these jobbing journeyman robots (four and a half of them, to be exact), and we have a special guest to show us the way. Our old pal Chris Cummins, host of Sci-Fi Explosion and expert on all manner of bizarro pop culture, is back! Chris knows a thing or two about weird robots. And now you will too.

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Show Notes

Hang out with Chris at Sci-Fi Explosion!

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Classic Brainiac: Underrated style maven?

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Top 4½ Recycled Robots

Robby the Robot, first seen in Forbidden Planet

Robot from Lost in Space

Nomad from Star Trek

Fubar, aka Foobie (jump straight to his appearance at The Yummy Awards)

Sico, aka Paulie's robot from Rocky IV