Many kids will beg, plead, and annoy their parents into letting them get a puppy or kitten, but few have the skill or foresight to request the best kind of pet, a ROBOT. Just imagine how awesome your life would have been if you had thought to get yourself one of these useful and quirky companions.
GODDARD
Jimmy Neutron, a young genius inventor, created Goddard as a helping hand and best friend. One of Jimmy’s few inventions that doesn’t threaten to burn down the entire town of Retroville, Goddard can reportedly do 11,000,004 things. Goddard however is unable to clean up after his own “messes” (which are nuts and bolts).
GIR
In aiding Invader Zim’s quest to take over the Earth, GIR is at best a distraction. Often, he is the cause of Zim’s epic “Wile E. Coyote” failures. Despite his extremely convincing Earth disguise (a green dog suit with visible zipper) he is indeed a highly powerful yet malfunctional robot.
The Robot from Lost in Space
A Model B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, the robot from Lost in Space has no given name. The Robot is most famous for his catch phrase, “danger Will Robinson!” It seems that the fun of a robot slave was lost on the young Robinson who tolerated the robot as a kind of metal nanny rather than enlisting it into more mischievous purposes.
SPEED BUGGY
While a sputtering delivery of “Roger-Dodger!” and “Vroom-a-zoom-zoom!” may grate on more adult nerves, a talking, self driving dune buggy is just the thing I would have died for as a kid. Speed Buggy even had a remote control making him the world’s largest, most awesome RC car.
C3P0
So he’s a bit of a wanker, C3P0 is still a marvel of engineering from an 8 year old. R2D2 is obviously the preferred choice of the pair, but I would argue that C3P0’s personality make it possible that he can be classified as an actual “pet”, whereas R2D2 is a sassy service droid.
THE DINOBOTS
Big, metal, dumb as rocks. They are the Dinobots and Grimlock is their King! Much like GIR, they are often more trouble than they are worth to the Transformers who built them. The Dinobots combine the awesomeness of Dinosaurs with the sexy sleekness of Robots. One of my most epic dreams ever involved the decimation of my ninja enemies by my pet mechanical Brontosaurus. Mwa ha ha ha ha!!!
And all I ever got was this!!!?
“I love you.” Yeah, yeah. Come back when you can breath fire and/or open locked doors with mathmatical algorhthyms.
I know I must be missing some great Robot Pets, so please leave a comment if you can think of any more!
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