Like most teenage boys, Robot Jones attends school, does his homework, hangs out with his friends and has a crush on a girl. Unlike most teenagers, he is 3 feet, 8 inches tall, weighs 500 pounds and has a 9,468 mega-volt memory. Robot Jones is a spunky young robot trying to cope with life, fit in with humans, and, most importantly, survive the pit of adolescence hell known as junior high. Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? premiered on Cartoon Network in July of 2002.

     The series was created by Greg Miller at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, CA. Miller has also previously worked on Cartoon Network favorites Dexter's Laboratory and Cow and Chicken. Robot Jones was originally a pilot Greg submitted into "The Big Pick," an annual animation contest to find the next Cartoon Cartoon series, back in 2000. Two years later, the short would be made into a half-hour long series.

     In the retro-1980 future where the series takes place, robots have become commonplace. Mechanical butlers, electronic plumbers and robo-bartenders are part of everyday life, but Robot Jones is a different kind of machine altogether. He is an experimental prototype designed to interact with humans on a personal level. Though programmed with basic emotions, Robot Jones doesn't quite have a handle on dealing with them and thus, tends to be more overly dramatic and socially awkward than other teenagers. 

     Surrounded by his antiquated and embarrassing robotic family, nerdy friends like Socks, Cubey, Mitch, his crush Shannon, and his nemeses Lenny and Denny (the Yogman Twins), Robot Jones conquers the drudgery of the sixth grade. Not without his own merits, Robot happens to excel in gym class, runs for class president and dreads open house night at school. 

     In late 2003, the first season of Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? was re-dubbed to replace the electronically generated voice of Robot Jones. Instead, a new child voice actor (Bobby Block) was used over all of the original episodes and during the second, and last, season of the show.