Talk:Grape-Nuts Robot

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Current revision as of 01:40, 26 November 2025

[edit] Hyphenate?

Should it be called "Grape-Nuts Robot" instead of "Grape Nuts Robot"? The hyphen is visible on the front and top of the robot. --71.244.175.158 14:49, 30 Aug 2005 (UTC)

You're right, 71. According to this, there's definitely a hyphen. Good catch. — It's dot com 15:03, 30 Aug 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ceral?

On the third line of the ingredients list, it says "more ceral". Is that our typo, or TBC's? Could someone who knows how to decompile flash check it? If it's TBC's mistake, we should insert a "[sic]" or a note explaining that we've faithfully copied it.--Bobo the King 04:36, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

It's either TBC's mistake or TBC's purposeful mispelling, as zooming into the flash file says "ceral". Dr. Clash 04:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Food logo

Anyone else see a similarity to the Ford logo? Is this worth putting in the article? Scanna 02:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Robutt?

Memory tells me there was at least one scene in which it said 'robutt' but I watched through the links and didn't find it. Am I mistaken? — 99.255.181.67 (Talk | contribs) 14:50, 27 September 2019 (left unsigned)

Perhaps you're thinking of when Bubs and Strong Bad were trying to make it say "kiss my butt". Or maybe The Homestar Runner saying "robit" in 20X6 vs. 1936? DEI DAT VM^┌_{datvm center}\^{super contra}_┘ 19:48, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

[edit] Rename to "Strong Bad Robot"

Strong Bad refers to it as "the Strong Bad Robot" in its first appearance, it has "strong bad robot" written on it, and its file in robots clarifies without ambiguity that its name is indeed "Strong Bad Robot". Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 23:40, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, the blueprint reading "Name: Strong Bad Robot" is pretty unambiguous regardless of how prominently the "Grape-Nuts" label can still be seen. This is at least as obvious as Fan 'Stumes 2022 prompting the Wiki to change "Ted Averill" to "T'daveral"; even if "Grape-Nuts Robot" is more descriptive, we defer to TBC naming conventions even when it's less descriptive (e.g. "Intro"→"Old New Intro"). -- Bleu Ninja 18:04, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

I should note that in its debut email, Strong Bad refers to it as "that Grape Nuts robot", but even so, that seems more like a description than a name. Also if the page is moved to "Strong Bad Robot", it might be confused with the Strong Bad Dancin' Musical Nobot, but that's easily solved with a hatnote. In any case, "Strong Bad Robot" seems like the most appropriate name given its entry in the recent sbemail. DEI DAT VM^┌_{datvm center}\^{super contra}_┘ 19:50, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

In this case I think we should keep it Grape Nuts robot. It’s much more descriptive and unambiguous. But note that it’s also called Strong Bad Robot in the page text. -113.37.226.89 00:14, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Agree that it should be moved for the reasons listed by Gfdgsgxgzgdrc and Bleu Ninja. I would point out that TBC call it the Grate-Nuts [sic] Robot in the commentary for hiding, but I think a literal "Name:" label in an actual toon trumps that. Anyway, the robot is supposed to be Strong Bad, using his quotes and so on. It just happens to be made out of a Grape-Nuts box. — It's dot com 01:40, 26 November 2025 (UTC)