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:*''Title:'' "'''Crime e castigo... com queijo'''" ("Crime and punishment... with cheese") | :*''Title:'' "'''Crime e castigo... com queijo'''" ("Crime and punishment... with cheese") | ||
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:*''Title:'' "'''الجريمة والعقاب'''" ("Crime and punishment") | |||
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Revision as of 05:18, 1 August 2022
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 "I was hoping to come up with a question while I was objecting, Your Honor. ...I didn't." | ||||||
| "Crime and Bun-ishment" | ||||||
| Production company | Entertainment One | |||||
| Airdate | March 25, 2022 | |||||
| Writer | Alan Denton & Greg Hahn | |||||
| Directors | Paul O'Flanagan | |||||
| Animation studio | Boulder Media Studio | |||||
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Meat is murderER?!
Synopsis
Crime Solvers! There's no problem, no mystery they can't make worse solve with their unconventional skills! When there's no one else to turn to... no, really, when you have literally nobody else left to try... call on Lieutenant Johnny Beefstain, Detective Cherry Branch, Officer Lana Sportsgood, Police Chief Fartbottom, and the lovable Deputy Allbright! They are... Crime Solvers!
The Lost Bots have turned to """solving""" problems for the other BotBot squads in an attempt to get into their good graces, with the usual results. Returning to the Lost and Found on the Racer-Roni, they find Lolly Licks and Lady Macaron of the Sugar Shocks awaiting them. They have a big problem: Sprinkleberry D'uhnut is missing! The Crime Solvers agree to take the case!
Upon checking Sprinkleberry's last known whereabouts, Kikmee finds some spilled pink frosting and a lone sesame seed. The group follows the trail of frosting to the security office, where Dave... uh... keeps vigilant watch? Sure. Luckily, they're just in time for him to go on patrol (and probably take a nap), and have free run of the office to search for clues. Dimlit spots a donut-stained napkin in the tipped-over garbage can, raising the possibility that Sprinkleberry... was eaten! Dun dunn duuuunnnn!!! Checking the security footage reveals a disturbing (and weird) scene: a pink-frosted donut being pushed into the office by a toy car driven by... a cheeseburger?! Enraged at Burgertron for apparently committing such a heinous act, the Sugar Shocks demand justice by way of "The Food Court Court"!
Burgertron is taken to stand trial, and faces being removed from the mall forever by being placed on a delivery truck if found guilty. Vomit Comet of the Custodial Crew serves as judge, Spud Muffin is the prosecutor, and defense is provided by Dimlit and Clogstopper. Bonz-Eye and Kikmee ask their friends to stall as long as possible while they hunt for clues to prove Burgertron's innocence. Things immediately go south as Dimlit basically makes the prosecution's case for them, and the "notecard" Clogstopper hands him to shore up the defense proves to just be a taco coupon.
Back at the security office, Kikmee and Bonz-Eye can't find anything in the video helpful, so Kikmee takes another look at the napkin, only to notice a green sprinkle stuck to it... a color of sprinkle not found on Sprinkleberry! Realizing Dave likely ate a regular non-Bot donut, they reason the "victim" may very well still be alive somewhere in the mall.
The trial continues to go poorly, with members of the Hunger Hubs (and Clogstopper) acting as hostile character witnesses. Spud calls Burgertron to the stand, and despite his quiet reassurances to his old friend that there's nothing personal going on and he's just doing his job, he proceeds to loudly paint Burgertron as a homicidal maniac dead-set on wiping out everyone in the mall.
Returning to the point of Sprinkleberry's last known whereabouts on the second floor, Bonz-Eye finds a spread of seasoned salt on the handrail, which Kikmee promptly slips on. One dramatic aerial rescue later, the pair land on the ground floor safely, where they make a dramatic off-camera discovery...
Judge Vomit is about to declare Burgertron guilty when Kikmee and Bonz-Eye interrupt with irrefutable proof of Burgertron's innocence: a very much alive Sprinkleberry! The pair lay out the scene: Sprinkleberry was wandering aimlessly when he slipped in the salt pile and fell into the day-care area of the mall, landing perfectly on a ring-stack toy, where he stayed stuck. Vomit Comet declares Burgertron innocent, there's celebrations all around... and Game Over openly wonders about the video "evidence", Lolly brings up the conspicuously-placed salt, and Burgertron points out this all smacks of a frame job. Spud nods and declares they'll look into it immediately after a post-court dance party! Even an irked Burgertron can't resist the lure of a good conga line. As the BotBots party away, Bonz-Eye can't help but notice that a boogieing Spud Muffin seems to be shedding salt....
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"Lost Bots! S'ank goodness! We didn't know where else to turn!"
"Literally. We exhausted all other options. You are last on our list. ...well, tied with 'giving up'."
- —Lady Macaron and Lolly Licks
Lolly Licks: What were you doing with Sprink?!
Burgertron: Okay, that is not me!
Clogstopper: I dunno, the resemblance is uncanny... that's a word, right?
"Defense? You may sp-EWWW up your opening remarks. BRURRF."
- —Vomit Comet can hardly contain himself
"Can't you see he's a monster?! A walkin' nightmare?! He'll wipe out the whole mall if we don't stop him! He'll melt you, he'll steam you, he'll replace you with a third-party controller!"
- —Spud Muffin works the crowd
"BoooootBoooooooooots!"
- —Sprinkleberry D'uhnut falls to his inconvenience
"Mm-mm-mm got aw-ay with it again—I mean, PARTY!"
- —Spud Muffin is lucky everyone else is tremendously unobservant
Notes
Continuity notes
- Stuff put on outbound trucks never returning to the mall was established in "Dimlit in Love".
- Spud Muffin being up to no good was first really broadly "hinted" at in "On the Bot Prom Dance Floor".
Real-world references
- The title is, of course, a play on Crime and Punishment, the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (and eleven billion movies based on the novel).
- The opening montage is a broad parody of '70s cop shows.
- Bonz-Eye's "actress" name, "Pamela Morita", is likely a nod to Pat Morita, best known as Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid.
- "The Food Court Court" opening is a parody of the opening of The People's Court, the progenitor of the innumerous "reality TV court" shows that have plagued American daytime TV since the early '80s.
Animation and technical errors
Trivia
The flames are hot but their heart is chill
Walk fast from that boring explosion
And don't think about the people you've killed
- Writer Alan Denton pointed to the opening montage as an example of his habit of attempting to figure out "the limit to how stupid the showrunners are willing to let us go" when working on a new show... and that BotBots might not have a limit.[1]
- The Lost Bots' "actor/character" names from the opening montage:
- Bugertron — Beefpatty Jones as Lieutenant Johnny Beefstain
- Bonz-Eye — Pamela Morita as Cherry Branch ("Detective" is spoken but not in the on-screen credit)
- Kikmee — Maria Delgado Herrera as Officer Lana Sportsgood
- Clogstopper — Sir Lawrence Attenborough III as Police Chief Fartbottom
- Dimlit — Madison Tyler Phillips as Deputy Allbright
- In the final still-frame of the "cooly walking away from an explosion in the background" sequence, Dimlit produces a second explosion from his top with a press of his chest-button.
- The security footage seen in this episode was filmed by Kevin Burke and Chris Wyatt on an iPhone in the Allspark Animation break room. And yes, that is a real burger and a real donut.[2]
- Frostferatu is the master of the dramatic faint.
- Spud Muffin telling Game Over that Burgertron would "replace [her] with a third-party controller" means that she's an official controller for some unnamed game system.
- The music playing over the end credits is the Crime Solvers theme song.
Foreign localization
French
- Title: "Cheeseburger sur la sellette" ("Cheeseburger in the hot seat")
Brazilian Portuguese
- Title: "Crime e castigo" ("Crime and punishment")
European Portuguese
- Title: "Crime e castigo... com queijo" ("Crime and punishment... with cheese")
Arabic
- Title: "الجريمة والعقاب" ("Crime and punishment")
