Review: The Cyanide & Happiness Show “High, Robot”

OVERVIEW
A community college student named Murphy constructs the perfect cannabis generating robot: Weedbot. But once he is imprisoned for its intended function, Weedbot must go on a journey to find his own purpose.

OUR TAKE

And that was the season finale, people! I really thought this was going to be some sort of fake out leading into the real last episode of the season, which would be more in line with the other finales in at least being a clear escalation of the stakes and scope. I didn’t expect it to top the epic wrap up that last season’s end was, but I at LEAST expected more than…pretty stale weed jokes to be quite honest. I mean, the episode isn’t really THAT bad on its own. If it were simply in a vacuum or placed more in the middle of the season, I might like it a little more. But as the last episode to a fair share of pretty good episodes, especially ones that all felt like respective book ends to the show’s more notable characters and INCLUDING something like “The Animator’s Curse”, which would have made a far more superior and poignant cap off to this season…well, it just brings this episode down as a result.

It’s also kind of frustrating that there isn’t much to say about this episode in particular BESIDES how bad it does at serving as a finale. I mean the plot is “ROBOT MADE FOR STONERS GOES ON PERSONAL QUEST TO REALIZE HE WAS MADE FOR STONERS”. Well, okay, there’s more to it than that, and there are moments of genuine amusement with him meeting the other robots and eventually going off in an Iron Giant style sacrifice (even though the idea that everyone would turn to crack if there was no weed is pretty ridiculous since there’s no way people wouldn’t go straight for prescription painkillers if they hadn’t already). But I would place this more “Strongbird” closer to the bottom of the list than I would put it as a good way to wrap the season. It’s not even as noticeably weird as “The Nine Ryans” or “The Good, the Butt, and the Tumbling”, which both at least embraced their sheer oddness to the point that you had to admire their confidence.

For all the good parts this season had, I have to say that landing on this really soured the overall mood of things. Again, it couldn’t have lived up to what the last few finales set up but there were certainly other options and this was not one of them. If this does end up being the final season of the series, I don’t think I’m going to be that upset, at least not after ending on this note.