Hey Sick Kids, It’s Probo!
filed in General on Apr.28, 2009
There are a few really subtle things that I love about this video. First of all, this robot is supposed to cheer up sick kids in the hospital, but the only face it makes is the same face I made when I was eleven and my brother told me my dad got a vasectomy after I was born because I was a mistake. Just, confused, and a lot of blinking, then sadness and shame.
Secondly, I love that the guy who made the robot goes "I was watching ‘I, Robot’ and I thought, I should make one." Now I can go ahead and say a phrase I’ve been dying to say for three years, but never had the opportunity, namely "There’s two kinds of people in this world: people who have been inspired by I, Robot, and people who haven’t." Thank you very much, sir.
And lastly, if you’re going to make a creepy robot to hang around with kids, maybe don’t call him "probo." That sounds like he runs on some kind of battery system that can only be charged up by touching kids in their bathing suit areas.
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