I wrote this a while back and it never really took off traffic-wise, but it still makes me laugh. Does not compute: The 10 most annoying kid + robot team-ups grew out of a lunchtime conversation with Nick about how lame Scott Trakker and T-Bob were. It was primarily fuelled by my longstanding hatred of Telemachus, and features a bunch of irritating little terrors and their sidekick metallic morons.
So are all crime-fighting/spacefaring kids annoying? Only when they’re a genius and there’s a robot involved, clearly. Inspector Gadget is technically a cyborg, not a robot, which may explain why Penny is so great at solving crimes, all the while stirring new and unfamiliar longings in our pre-adolescent loins. But here’s the true, undisputed daddy of kids with robot sidekicks, the exception that proves the rule by stealing the rule’s money and having his pet cyborg killing machine shoot the rule in its rule knees.
Also I should point out, having now become a massive fan of Wil Wheaton, that Wesley Crusher and Data were annoying because of the sappy crap they had to spout, when they were both awesome in so many ways. That is all.
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