Spud Muffin
- Spud Muffin is a member of the Greaser Gang from BotBots.
Spud Muffin is a really popular bot, bro. The "King of the Food Court" has been voted as Prom King and Deep Fryer Games MVP, amongst other things. He's quite proud of all of his achievements and often celebrates by going to the gym and doing some reps. He also despises the idea of being second place, and will use under-handed tactics to make sure he's number one.
Fiction
BotBots Official Sticker Book
Spud Muffin had the power of being good at everything. BotBots Official Sticker Book
BotBots cartoon
- Voice actor: Joseph Motiki (English), Niclas Mortensen (Danish), Timo Bakker (Dutch), Juha Varis (Finnish), Thomas Roditi (French), Jaron Löwenberg (German), Roland Czető (Hungarian), Warren Dsouza (Indian), Ery Putra Pradana (Indonesian), Paolo Vivio (Italian), Ahmad Azizi Abdul Karim (Malay), Gaute Boris Skjegstad (Norwegian), Mateusz Kwiecień (Polish), Márcio Araújo (Brazilian Portuguese), Sérgio Calvinho (European Portuguese), Ivan Porodnov (Russian), Jaime Roca (Castilian Spanish), José Gilberto Vilchis (Latin-American Spanish), Adrian Dima (Romanian), Kerem Doğutuna (Turkish)
One of the Hunger Hubs, Spud Muffin was the BFF of the gang's leader Burgertron... NOT. Actually a total faker, Spud Muffin despised his supposed bro, fuelled by resentment at being seen as a side-dish to Burgertron's main course, when fries were totally a main course of their own! This led Spud to decide his bro had to go, and one night when the Hunger Hubs were playing vent-sliding, Spud sent Burgertron sliding off-course into a different vent. The Goldrush Games - Part the Second The next night, after rescuing Ulf the Orange from a bin after she wound up nearly being drunk by the flesh being, Spud feigned ignorance as to his friend's whereabouts, Burgertron having wound up in the mall's Lost and Found office. Spud's attempt at getting rid of Burgertron succeeded beyond his wildest dreams when, on the way back to the food court with the Lost Bots, Burgertron broke The Sacred Rule of the Mall and revealed himself to the flesh creature. Spud therefore totally had no choice but to kick Burgertron out of the Hunger Hubs and become their new leader. Mall Than Meets the Eye
As part of the BotVids craze, Spud Muffin filmed a video for all his bros, bro-ettes and bro-dentities of him sofa-surfing. Later on, while he was minding his own business, he was struck by Kikmee. (Never) Be Yourself
With Burgertron gone, the Hunger Hubs revived his incredibly successful play I, Cheeseburger (now managed and directed by Spud Muffin, natch), having recast the title role. On opening night, a jealous Burgertron tried to storm the stage, nearly causing disaster. As Burgertron slunk away, he was confronted by an irate Spud Muffin, who admonished his bro for his uncool behavior. I, Cheeseburger
One night, a bird found its way into the mall, and eventually attacked the food court, scattering the BotBots there. Spud Muffin found the creature absolutely hideous (and not in the good way), and cowered under a table. When the Lost Bots showed up all dressed up in fantasy gear, Spud was even further baffled by the goings-on. After the Lost Bots shooed the bird away and out the skylight it had come in from, Spud and Ulf put an end to the celebrations by pointing out that Burgertron was the one who always left the skylight open, so the bird was his fault. Oh well. Live and Let LARP
Spud Muffin joined in the surprisingly successful and disaster-free whitewater escalator rafting event set up by the Lost Bots, and had a genuinely good time along with everyone else. So much so that he had to concede that maybe the Lost Bots had earned the chance to go to Bot Prom... but oh no, what about the security guard? Burgertron assured the Bots that they'd handle Dave, and thus a great night would be had by all. Shortly before the Prom, while walking with Ulf and Fottle Barts, he paused when the gals talked about possibly letting Burgertron back into the Hunger Hubs if Bot Prom went well, and darkly groused to himself that Burgertron would never return to the Hunger Hubs if he had anything to say about it. While his squadmates were unaware of this dark aside, it was witnessed by Dimlit and Jacqueline, but their warnings bounced right off the all-too-eager Burgertron, who didn't want to believe that his best spud would have turned on him. Spud Muffin later snuck away from the Prom to the mall's daycare area, where the Lost Bots had trapped a now-napping Dave in the foam block pit. Spud untied the safety rope and laid it back in the pit so Dave could pull himself free once he woke up and continue his nightly rounds... and thus the Lost Bots were blamed for the ruination of Bot Prom as it was hastily disassembled to avoid detection. And while Burgertron found french-fry grease on the safety rope afterwards On the Bot Prom Dance Floor, he could not deny that, as Ulf pointed out, Dave's atrocious eating habits and hygiene meant that it very realistically could have come from the human's greasy mitts.
Supd's next attempt to thwart Burgertron's redemption in the eyes of the other BotBots was particularly easy. While the Lost Bots had won the Ruckus Rally, Burgertron's Racer-Roni speedster they used was still technically registered with the Hunger Hubs, so Spud and Brock simply waited for the Hubs to be declared the winners on said technicality and scoop up the trophy. Womp-womp. The Ruckus Rally
When the Lost Bots's popularity reached new lows as they became the hilariously ineffective "Crime Stoppers", Spud hit on a new plan to get rid of Burgertron: setting up a pile of salty grease on a random banister in the mall, which a wandering Sprinkleberry then slipped on, causing him to fall and become trapped him in the daycare area. Then Spud set up evidence, including a stray sesame seed and a doctored video showing a burger shoving a donut into the flesh creature's office, so that it would look like Burgertron was responsible for Sprinkleberry being eaten alive. The Sugar Shocks demanded Burgertron be taken to Food Court Court, where a completely unbiased Spud Muffin served as prosecution for his bro. Despite his assurances he was just doing his job and there was totes nothing personal about what he was doing, Spud then proceeded to demonize his best friend as a complete psycho killer who wanted to waste every bot in the mall. However, before Burgertron could be sentenced to exile, Kikmee and Bonz-Eye appeared with a surprise witness: the very much alive Sprinkleberry! Of course, with Burgertron found innocent, this left the huge pile of suspicious evidence lying around needing to be investigated. Spud Muffin announced they'd look into all that for reals... right after a massive dance party. As he danced, shedding greasy salt everywhere, Spud Muffin quietly sang to himself about how he'd got away with things again... Crime and Bun-ishment
When the spoooOOOOOOoooky Specter Halloween store infected the mall, Spud joined with his fellow Bots to try and figure out how to stop its spread to other storefronts. They didn't really come up with anything. In time, the Lost Bots "beat" the store, and it was gone the following night... but Spud was more than willing to suggest they were to blame for the terror that replaced Specter Halloween: a store full of frozen tundra and red-clad bearded creatures. Spirit of Halloween
An uneventful night suddenly got super eventful when Snorg, glitched out on negative energy from Bonz-Eye's angry karaoke session, stole Dave's Scootmobile and ran rampage through the food court, blasting Bots with sonic booms and repeating Bonz-Eye's scream-sing digs at the other Lost Bots. Scared as he was of the carnage, he couldn't help but laugh at the hurtful things Bonz-Eye had sung. Once Snorg was calmed down and the Lost Bots had a round of apologies and reconciliations, Spud and Ulf sat baffled by what they'd witnessed. Rage Against the Karaoke Machine
Despite his issues with the Lost Bots, Spud was incredibly impressed when Clogstopper actually returned from having been "scanned out" (bought by a human and removed from the mall), and joined the others in trying to emulate the weird little Bot's "defective" ways so they too could be free of the fear of being taken away by humans in the daytime. Spud even crowned Clogstopper "King of the BotBots", a move the entire rest of the Bots (save the Lsot Bots, who Clogstopper was currently snubbing) were totally in favor of... until they all were forced to endure the plunger-bot's multi-hour one-bot puppet show To Unclog One's Heart. That was too much, and Spud revoked the crown, now realizing that Clogstopper wasn't returned for being awesomely powerful. Scanned Out
Commercial appearances
Goldrush Games Digital Commercial
Spud Muffin cheered with other members of the Greaser Gang for the golden Winner's Circle tribe. Later, an illustration of him as a french fry container appeared on the display behind the podium the Winner's Circle members stood on. Goldrush Games Digital Commercial
Toys
BotBots
- Blind Bag Mystery Figures (Single pack, 2018)
- Series: 1
- ID Code: 12
- Level: 2 Star
- Part of the first Series of BotBots, Spud Muffin is a 1-inch tall robot that converts into an order of French fries.
- Spud Muffin is available in the individual blindpacked assortment, and like all single-pack BotBots, is 1 to a case of 24.
- This mold was also used to make Brotato, and Energon the Nevergone.
- Greaser Gang (8-pack, 2018)
- Series: 1
- Level: 2 Star
- Spud Muffin is also available in one of the "Greaser Gang" 8-packs, along with Fottle Barts, Ms. Take, Nrjeez, Poo Sham, Pucksie, Raddhaxx, and Lost Bot Bonz-Eye.
- The only notable difference between the single-pack and multi-pack release is that the single-pack has production number stamping on him, where the multi-pack version does not.
- Arcade Renegades Surprise (16-pack, 2019)
- Series: 3
- Level: 2 Star
- Spud Muffin was also also inexplicably available in two of the six iterations of the "Arcade Renegades Surprise" 16-pack, found only in one of the eight blindpacked bubbles on the package. The ID code for each arrangement is printed on the back, just to the right of the team art next to Sweet Cheat (appropriate!).
- He comes in these blindpacked arrangements:
- 1: 24K-Bit, Laceface, S'up Dawg, Sheriff Sugarfeet, Skillz Punk, Spud Muffin, Sweet Cheat, Tangry Tart
- 3: 24K-Bit, Chilla Gorilla, Duderoni, Papa Click, Skillz Punk, Spud Muffin, Sweet Cheat, Wrist Banned
Notes
- Spud Muffin's name is a play on the term "Stud Muffin", a term used to describe an extremely attractive and popular (in a sexytimes sense) human male.
- Spud Muffin appears as a prop on the Decepticon snack table in the Transformers Stop Motion Netflix Anime shorts "Virtually Reality", "Haunting of Bot House", "Anime Attack!", and "The Bot Dance Off".
- Throughout the BotBots cartoon, Spud Muffin's pupils will occasionally lose the little triangular "cutout" sections that most all other BotBots' pupils have. Whether or not he has them seems to be random, and he seems to be the only character this happens to.
