Phoning It In

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"Phoning It In"
Production company	Entertainment One
Airdate	March 25, 2022
Writer	Taneka Stotts
Directors	Paul O'Flanagan
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio
Watch this episode on Netflix

The Lost Bots' attempt to prevent their exposure goes awry when faced with an even greater danger: cell phone addiction.

Featured characters

BotBots	Humans
Burgertron (2) Kikmee (3) Bonz-Eye (4) Dimlit (5) Clogstopper (6) Spud Muffin (7) Fomo (8) Ulf the Orange (9) Dinger (10) Ring-A-Ling (11)	Dave (1)

Notes

Real-world references

• The Lost Bots attempting to throw the phone into the fiery dumpster may be a reference to Frodo and Samwise attempting to throw the One Ring into Mount Doom in The Return of the King; Burgertron even refers to it as "the precious" at one point, a la Gollum.