A Love Letter to Battlebots - Movies with Mikey

It's robot fighting time!
We know this one is a little off topic, but we needed a palate cleanser after Space Jam 2. Battlebots is our favorite sport here at Filmjoy and we want to tell you about it so we can nerd out together next season!
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0:00 Intro
2:09 Part One: An Abridged History of Robot Combat
6:45 Part Two: Deceptively Simple, Infinitely Complex
10:32 Part Three: Little Stories
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21:16 Credits
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[@bikershark9]

I'll always remember Jaime Hynamin creating Blendo, the bot so scary they gave him honorary first place two years in a row rather than let him fight. Be the reason a sport creates rules.

[@Randy14512]

I was sad that wasn't in the story time

[@alexprice5352]

Hey! Actual Battlebots competitor here! (I’m with the WCVII competitor, Horizon!) This is such an incredible video, and it brings me so much joy to see this wonderful sport being introduced so passionately to a new audience. ❤ it’s stuff like this that’ll get new eyes on the sport, and inspire new generations of builders to come❤️

[@filmjoy]

Awesome! Horizon was such a cool and fresh bot design. We hope to see more of you in the future!

[@justAguyDs]

RIP Grant Imahara, a great uplifting force to stuff like Batttle Bots.

[@josephhawkins7974]

One of my favorite things to do is listen to people pontificate about things they're passionate about. It doesn't have to be movies, sometimes I'm down to just hear you talk about how Battle Bots is totally awesome

[@davemcguckin8651]

It's important to note, on the UK version of Robot Wars, after a couple of series they dropped the obstacle course nonsense and it mostly became about straight combat (with the house robots causing chaos as an extra element of danger). Clarkson also left and was replaced by the much more enjoyable Craig Charles (of Red Dwarf fame) and is much more worth watching if you can find it.

[@ThePseudologist]

I grew up with the Craig Charles Robot Wars, it was fantastic

[@jackkain7141]

The Craig Charles episodes were the ones I saw, and they were always fantastic watches.

[@Daniel_Nye]

All series and then some are avaliable on Mech+ [not sponsored]

[@Poodlestroop]

Craig Charles’ era of Robot Wars was classic, and had some of the best competitors. Panic Attack? Razer? Chaos 2? All legends. I will never forget the moment when Hypno-Disc entered its first fight and *flayed its opponent alive.*

[@nathanyou1899]

As an Australian and therefore an objective outside observer I can confirm that Robot wars is vastly superior to battlebot in every way. Fight me.

[@SherlocksLeftNipple]

The fact that this video had an entire segment dedicated to praising DUCK! makes me unreasonably happy. Thank you for validating me in rooting for the little guy!

[@pinkoandthebrain5719]

As a rabid hockey nerd with no hockey to watch, I spent a lot of the pandemic asking myself the question "why do I get so much out of watching other people play sports?" And I eventually came to the same conclusion as this video: spectator sports create the perfect environment for emergent narratives and personal interest stories. From the fan's perspective, the athletic aspects of traditional sports (e.g., jumping high or running fast) have always been less important than the dramatic aspects. It's funny when people insist that Battle Bots or E-Sports can't be real sports, because-- as this video proves beyond any doubt --the they're 100% sports in the only way that really matters. They create spontaneous and candid drama.

[@demency2741]

I was fortunate enough to be in a Boston theatre watching this year's finale, with the huge crop of local bots competing. Incredible experience - you'd have thought you were at a Sox game, the way the crowd cheered and screamed and went berserk for every local bot winning. (And when what happened to Riptide happened, the entire theatre started screaming rapturously, it was incredible)

[@Gophersaurus]

Robot fighting has been a joyous part of my life since I was a kid. I used to get up at 6am on a Saturday to watch the BBC Robot Wars when it was hosted by Craig Charles, and was delighted when it came back a few years ago. I'm going to find some way to watch as much Battlebots as I can (from Australia) because one can never have enough robot fighting.

[@NaritaZaraki]

Watched this on Nebula when it first came out, and it has genuinely been living rent free in my head since. I don't understand how someone could get me to love and appreciate and get teary eyed over a thing I'd never heard of before ... but here I am. And I'm watching the video again too ... the magic of FilmJoy.

[@muddlewait8844]

I read this and my first thought was, “Nebula has BATTLEBOTS?!?”

[@NaritaZaraki]

@@muddlewait8844 😂

[@eelaypuff1739]

Absolutely fantastic video! Showing the Riptide vs Captain Shredderator fight under the line "Sometimes emotions run high" was a great Easter Egg for those in the know! There are a ton of local robot combat events happening all the time and at different weight limits that make it easier to get into. I actually just competed in my first event in the 1lb Plastic Antweight division last month and it was super fun!

[@TomJonty]

From Robot Wars UK, Bigger Brother weathering the storm of favourite Hypno-Disc through ingenious driving to drive them into the pit and make the Grand Final in the Fifth Wars is one of my greatest sporting moments of all-time. Made all the more dramatic as Bigger Brother was a team of a father and his two young children who were watching their machine be torn into for most of the fight. Robot Wars is definitely more extra and Pro-Wrestling Pageantry at times but robot fighting in general is very very good.

[@DangerDavez]

Been watching BB since it was on Comedy Central as well as Robot Wars. It's absurd how much it's evolved. The robots are so powerful and durable that it's scary. The builders and drivers are so skilled and well prepared. This season of BB was easily the best I've ever witnessed and their was not one bad match in the playoffs and it was great seeing a non meta winner this year.

[@Sandul666]

Same! I've been a lifelong robot fighting lover

[@Ahrpigi]

I started out watching the original British Robot Wars. I kinda miss the old, shitty, very amateur bots.

[@Sandul666]

@Ahrpigi same but I don't see the Clarkson hosted ones, but I did see the ones hosted by lister from red Dwarf (forget his name off the top of my name, Craig Charles I think)

[@katea6721]

agreed on the latest season, it was an absolute blinder! fantastic matches all round

[@SassyPants34]

Robot wars is like core childhood memory shit for me.

[@TripleDaddy]

When my boys were in middle school they were *obsessed* with Battlebots. It was a show we could all watch together and if a bot went airborne, one of them would leap out of their seat. Somewhere around here there is a tiny Witch Doctor and Tombstone. Good times.

[@astralax]

Craig Charles was the best presenter the British version ever had.

[@jonharvey6277]

True words, but who was the best bot of robot wars? And why was it chaos2 or hypnodisc?

[@wristofkings]

@@jonharvey6277 Razer and Terrorhurtz for me.

[@uhjn]

damn straight

[@allisonbergh4429]

Not bad for a total smeghead 😉

[@Ghost_Onthehill]

Agreed

[@EpicMEF]

My friends and I watch BB after a heavy or sad movie as a palette cleanser. Great for clearing the mind and putting a smile on our faces 😁

[@cherryr9285]

Love you Mikey, love you FilmJoy, Commenting to boost as much as I can

[@BigHenFor]

I watched Robot Wars on the BBC, and it was must see TV. Wonderfully cathartic, when the house robots got whacked, or the ingenuity on show just literally blew some opponent away. Lucky you keeping the flame alive.

[@JaxMerrick]

My favorite clip has to be Rory with Nuts 2 when he won the first match (I think it's his first match against Carbide). Just his "wot" face is still stuck in my head.

[@Quasmokay]

18:40 "hopefully a Battlebots video essay of unabashed love is a thing the world could use right now" yes, always, more please

[@WillDixonMusic]

Brit here! I was obsessed with Robot Wars as a kid, and even saw a rare live show at a local leisure centre (Stinger won). The show’s revival a few years ago was incredible, with the final episode (before it was cancelled again) being genuinely the best episode of television I’ve ever seen. Having said that, I’ve never seen any Battle Bots and am now VERY keen to change this. Fellow brits: any tips on how best to watch BB legally over here?

[@Adam-lw9il]

I've heard VPNs can help you buy seasons on youtube or Amazon, but I'm not 100% positive on how well it works. If you do manage to get ahold of it, you'll be happy to see some familiar faces from Robot Wars, there's a couple of British teams who competed in both shows.

[@233Deadman]

A couple of older seasons are on ITV 4 in the UK at the moment. Specifically the 209 and 2020 seasons (the latter of which is a little different for obvious reasons.) There's also a bunch of fights and such on the official Battlebots KZbin channel

[@RhysClark97]

I much prefer the British Robot Wars back when it was on the air personally, i prefered the ruleset, the house robots, the fact almost all the robots were being made by ex-enginiers in their sheds with the help of their kids. Even down to the time period where power limitations actually matters and we didnt have tiny batteries that could power everything.

[@karmachameleon326]

I started laughing out loud when “The Story of the Rake” appeared on my screen. I knew what we were talking about immediately, and it is an awesome story 😂

[@WitchDoctorTV]

Mikey, this video rocks! We noticed you used some clips from Pit Pass in there. That's pretty cool to see. Thank you for sharing your passion for BattleBots with your community. The friends and family that surround BattleBots are some of the best parts.

[@michaelwise4252]

I’ve been a fan of battlebots since the modern era started and I’ve even been lucky enough to have gone to a few filmings of the show and I was there for the end of duck against riptide and I cannot describe the realization that duck’s strategy is dead and too many robots hit harder than possible for duck to take too many of.

[@JustCuzRobotics]

Member of the Bloodsport team here! This is an awesome video. I would definitely recommend you check out NHRL and other smaller bot tournaments, its not that hard or expensive to even fight robots yourself! And if you ever wanna see a Battlebot up close, let me know.

[@ryanhunter5842]

Hey look it's Seth Schaffer!!

[@filmjoy]

omg we would love to! You can email us at info @ filmjoy.tv we want to see some fights live in Vegas next season

[@AnthonyHarrisTechrat]

Duck got ROBBED in that rumble with Bombshell and I am STILL salty about it.

[@carsonbailey7090]

I am overjoyed that my favorite KZbin channel is dedicating time and effort to one of my most beloved niche things. Hearing Michael talk about hypershock, or team wyachi is as sublime as it is surreal.

[@MagicSwordKing]

I just got back into Battlebots a few months ago after years away, and yeah, it's immaculate. Not perfect, no sport is ever perfect, but it is immaculate in concept and purity. There's a hell of a rabbit hole you can go down, I was watching a video on Tested's channel a little while ago about Blendo, the first full-body spinner in the original San Francisco Robot Wars, which was of course created by Jaime Hyneman and Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame. Grant Imahara's iconic robot Deadblow was a repeat champion in the Comedy Central era as well with its terrifying pneumatic titanium spike hammer. That's the thing about Battlebots, you may not realize it at the time but the people who do this sport are some of the coolest people you can conceive of and it's worth watching just to see what they come up with next.

[@calhoun24]

I admired and commend you for doing this episode. Sometimes, we need to do things becase we NEED to do it. Bravo, good sir. To those that watch, it's appointment television. Heck, I got my mom to start watching, and now we watch together when a new season starts.

[@CaseyBlase]

Oh man, I want a whole series of just the small stories! Bunny and striking it out on her own. Witchdoctor and the curse of 2nd place Brazil... everything about Brazil! The evolution of brushless motors!

[@kevinrooney3351]

Black Dragon vs. Ribbot in season 5 in 2020 was something out of a shonen anime. When you said "watch out for Brazil," that was the first thing I thought of, even if you were showing Minotaur there.

[@bacoose]

This was such a fun vid. It's neat to hear from someone who genuinely enjoys the sport. I have a bud who is on team free shipping and I hope he enjoys this love letter you've made

[@katea6721]

free shipping are so boss, i love that team

[@wristofkings]

Beautiful vid. The massive BB nerd in me wants to nitpick some of the details in this, but if it gets more people invested in my favorite sport of all time then it's an unqualified success. Thanks Mikey =)

[@anime0dude]

a few months ago a family member was in the hospital for a surgery and we were all in the waiting room watching tv waiting for any information and people would come and go changing the channel to random stuff until we saw discovery was running a battle bots all day marathon we put it on and slowly over the next few hours everyone in the waiting room was watching the battle bots tournament on the edge of their seats to see who would win this was a room full of people waiting to know if their loved ones were going to be okay all coming together cheering for robots fighting each other so yeah i agree battle bots is the best sport it took what was a super stressful day for all of us and made the time disappear

[@spikesmth]

I've been lucky enough to see BattleBots in person TWICE. First time was the original series around 2002/03, then when they rebooted it in the mid 2010s I got to see it again. I happened to be neighbors with the builders of the old-school Mauler 51/50, which they demonstrated at our town picnic one year, just liquefying some melons, nbd. The second version was definitely more tailored toward TV, lots of stops and gos, prompted cheering for B-roll, filming the hosts and interviews... but when the action was on, OMG it was so awesome. What isn't captured in video is the loud sounds that demonstrate the true power of some of these machines... sometimes it would shake the whole building. Everyone should experience it at least once.

[@Crocogator]

before I watch or even know if he's in there, I just wanna say RIP Grant Imihara. Dude inspired me as a teenager.

[@gustavohernandeza.890]

MIKEY: this one is for me ME: keep calm and let Mikey cook

[@honestiago4738]

Rake made me cry with laughter so thanks for that. You glossed over Robot Wars but honestly it hits the exact same beats and gives the same joy. Seeing teams grow up, in one case literal children growing up year on year, gave such a connection. The artistry involved in making the robots too. 20-odd years later and Diotor being set on fire or the beauty of Razor stay with me.

[@fredskull1618]

Hey Mikey! Your passion for BattleBots has genuinely ignited my interest in a sport I had never checked out before. I’m drawn to the engaging gameplay and the emotional stories of the teams you described, and I can see why you think it's the greatest sport in the world. I'll be tuning in to the next BattleBots event, because I’m eager to experience the excitement and creativity for myself.

[@edvaira6891]

This is just the Absolute PERFECT amount of Silly and ridiculous and just wonderful mixed up into twenty minutes of bliss! Thanks, Michael

[@matthewgatthew7984]

i am so glad i caught this on nebula last month. i had been a lifelong fan of this series from back when it was called Robot Wars, but hadn't watched it in almost a decade before seeing this video due to how many times it changed hands. a week or so after watching this i realized i was lucky enough to have a subscription to Max, and i have been catching up on all the discovery seasons with my boyfriend! thank you for bringing this back into my mind. it is our favorite sport and i am so glad to have it in my life again. long live duck, may hal rucker finally get his flowers once he drops psycho duck

[@xenodweeb6425]

I hope we get an ongoing series of Battlebots videos from Mikey like how Eyepatch Wolf will make a video about a certain saga of Wrestling every now and then.

[@yunisverse]

I adored Battlebots back in the Comedy Central days, and while I don't have much access to watch it since it's been revived i was so delighted to see it back on the air. I still have the old McDonalds Happy Meal toy they made of Diesector. My favorite was BioHazard, who is arguably the reason almost all bots have a self-righting mechanism on them nowadays; it was perfectly designed to get underneath the opponent and flip them over, and if they couldn't drive inverted they were doomed. It was so low to the ground, most bots didn't have weapons that could hit it, and eventually people started designing their weapons low with specifically BioHazard in mind. Untouchable and flipped the game on its head; that is BioHazard's legacy. All this to say, thank you Mikey for sharing this wonderful sport to so many, and bringing back these nostalgic memories. This one was for you, and it will hopefully bring many more eyes to this beautiful sport.

[@CJC_RW]

Nice video dude! I'm currently working on a retrospective series on the history of Robot Wars in the US and the UK, and I ended up interviewing Marc Thorpe as well as a bunch of other people who would make the jump from Robot Wars to BattleBots in the years come by! It's nice to see some kind of recognition of how great a sport robot combat is that isn't from someone deep inside the robot combat rabbit-hole (like me lol.) There's lots of great events held that have smaller weight classes where lots of the legends of BattleBots go to as well, NHRL being the one that stands out the most to me.

[@weirdosofsociety2237]

My soul needs a recurring 'Story Time with BattleBots' segment, I could listen to someone dissect this show for literally months on end. It's the show that has EVERYTHING.

[@henryfleischer404]

I should really watch that. My best memory from school was winning a robotics tournament in high school. The robots were in an arena divided by a central wall. Each side had some small football and soccer ball shaped balls. On the central wall was some goals. The goal is to put balls in your goals or on the enemy side. All robots shared the same tracked base design, but each team designed their own arm and grabbing mechanism. The ideal grabbing mechanism would be able to grab multiple balls of different sizes at once. Many teams went for simple hand-like designs, which were slow, finicky, and fragile. Others went for designs using rollers to pick up the balls, which were heavy and usually still fragile, but far more efficient and easy to design. The team that got second place used one of these, which had a tendency to break down the middle, but was otherwise great. Most teams also made theirs out of aluminum, and had parallelogram arm designs that were very light and easy to control. My team had a roller design with four wheels on the top part, and a bent sheet of steel bolted on for the bottom part of the grabber. Moving the arm too quickly would make the robot fall over, and not doing any control input would make the arm move down slowly. The arm was a single C-channel, mounted on a 1-speed gearbox we designed. If the robot turned quickly, it would twist about 30 degrees, and if it moved up too far, it would get stuck. But, the arm could pick up 2 balls at once, or a football and a normal ball. And, aside from getting stuck, it was extremely durable. I managed to fit a football in a goal not designed for it, and the only robot that could compete with it used a much nicer looking version of the same concept, that was lighter, and didn't want to twist itself apart or randomly move down. It came down to us winning by 1 point, after blocking the ball they tried to deposit on our side of the arena with our stuck arm. The ball fell down a couple seconds after the end of the match. We were also the only team without blueprints. We designed it as we built it, as I had taken auto shop, wood shop, and every metal shop class the school had to offer, along with a programming class. This is probably why it had so many issues, but my piloting skill barely made up for it.

[@VictusUnus]

One of my favorite moments was watching, I think Hypershock, attach a rake to their bot and used it to swat a flying minibot out of the air. My biggest issue is that the more wild bots are kind of disappearing in favor of the sheer power that are bar and drum spinners. Which is kind of why I loved Duck, which was just "lets build a ultra hardy bot and try to get the bar spinners to break themselves" Edit: lol should of watched the entire video first.

[@katea6721]

i dunno, the latest season's finale proved the worry that all robots will slowly become biteforce to be a little unfounded. yeah there was a bar spinner in there but one far from a standard design!

[@ianphipps8550]

I am an avid robot combat fan and this video reminded me why I love this show so freaking much. I've met many of the teams from the show as well as made my own 1lb robots that I fight on a semi-monthly basis. I've made many friends through this sport as well as brought people together through it. I vividly remember watching all of season one in a single day and getting my whole family hooked. I remember buying the toys that hexbug had made. I remember going to see my first IRL robot fights and wanting to build them. This sport is just amazing! Theres no mens or womens divisions. anyone and everyone can fight regardless of age, skill, intelligence, you name it. I LOVE BATTLEBOTS SO MUCH!!!

[@hip-hopanonymous5995]

NHRL (National Havoc Robot League) is like BattleBots and has its own meta and a lot of crossover. Recommended for fans of BattleBots. You get a little more behind the scenes and a little more intimate

[@BitzTeamHeatwave]

Been watching bc bb since 2016, love the sport of combat robotics and I know basically every show that has existed about it, as well as more finer details when it comes to building bots in lower weight classes and stuff, love this sport so much

[@dandischinosvarietyhour1655]

For anyone interested after watching this, theres plenty of robot combat on youtube! Smallee comeptitions as well as battlebots footage

[@PogieJoe]

My partner participated in battling bots at her school back in the day and her family goes back to support. It's so fun to watch live!

[@riusaldregan]

This video came out of nowhere for me and I'm super excited to watch it! I've been proselytizing BattleBots to all my friends for years and may actually be able to catch a Destruct-a-Thon show in a couple weeks!

[@cosmicphoto05]

I 100% agree that Battlebots is the greatest sport ever. I remember the original era on Comedy Central, and I don't have access to TV now, but based on what few clips I've seen, it's only gotten bigger and better. May it continue to go on for decades to come.

[@Sandul666]

I was so happy huge made it to the finals, he's my favorite one to break the meta

[@lachlandoig763]

My now fiánce and I began watching Battle bots on the first holiday we went on. It holds such a special place in our lives. We talk about strategy, our favourite bots and different configurations. I LOVE BATTLE BOTS ❤

[@TheCartoonRoundUp]

Battlebots and Robot Wars were things I remember watching and catching re-runs for all the time when I was younger, and I was absolutely first in line for the revivals. I'll admit to having fallen off the past two seasons (time and life is the equalizer of us all), but Robot Combat and Professional Wrestling have long been my favorite pieces of Combat Television to follow. I'm so glad to hear people talk about their love of this incredible, inventive sport. Also, just generally Mikey, I've been here for years and there's nothing that excites me more than an upload from y'all. So, I wanna say that if you haven't checked out National Havoc Robot League here on KZbin, I think it's the perfect bit of Robot Combat to fill the space between Battlebots seasons!

[@noahwilson63]

I would watch battlebots while my newborn baby boy slept on my chest. Battlebots and monkey thieves. What a time to be alive!

[@willb.383]

I’m 33. I’ve been a fan of robot fighting (Wars and Battle) all of my life. I am not a perfect and consistently dedicated fan, but I absolutely love the sport and I really love that you love it too

[@daninjamonkey1]

no idea that Clarkson version of Robot Wars existed but over in blighty we have had proper destructive battles on the beeb

[@eatower2]

"So, maybe the thing i need to sell you on the sport is some stories about specific matches and the rise of robots through the years." WELL SIR, You are exactly correct. This is definitely what I was hoping for the most.

[@ThePlayerWithPaws]

Grew up watching Robot Wars and it really took off in the UK when Craig Charles was brought on to host. By then it had lost the obstacle course bits and focused on the bit everyone wanted to see, with the twist of having a house team to go up against that it was incredibly satisfying to watch get decimated by some new weird competitor. And through it all Craig Charles was genuinely enthusiastic about all the carnage and drama that unfolded. I may not go out of the way to watch Robot Wars or Battlebots anymore but damn do I remember it fondly. All the best to you and yours, Mikey. Keep doing what you do best.

[@mbryson2899]

I came for the absolute best opening theme in the business. And Mikey's voice (when we get around to building Thanatoria his would be the best last voice imaginable). And of course, for the "But did you know?" bits. I stayed to find out why a person of intellect and taste would be hawking for BattleBots. I left with a peculiar urge to watch the show. Nicely done!

[@Minihood31770]

My brother loved Robot Wars as a kid, but it stopped airing right as I was getting into it. (I'm not talking about the 2018 end, it did go on hiatus for the period where I was the prime audience) I've always enjoyed it when there's a re-run on, but I never really bothered to check out the US stuff. Didn't even know it was still going over there!

[@manjiimortal]

Oh yeah, I remember watching the Comedy Central version of Battlebots, and it was a blast back in 2001/2002. Remember the late Grant Imahara becoming champion with his pickaxe bot, Vlad the Impaler being a total menace, and Jamie Hyneman's bot being a destroyer a worlds inside the cage!

[@PaulAnthonyShortt]

I remember watching Robot Wars when I was 19. We just watched for the actual fighting at the end. A Battlebots binge is coming, I think...

[@AnAngelForsaken]

Thank you for talking about Battlebots! It’s amazing and stupid and hilarious all at the same time. I build robots in my spare time and one day I hope to get into beetleweight robot combat with my bro. Go Witch Doctor!

[@AvinZarlez]

When I watched this when it first came out on nebula, I immediately started watching BattleBots. I finished the latest season, and have been going back and watching all the other episodes. Thank you for getting me into a sport

[@Teoma1986]

Here almost first. Thanks for all the great viewpoints Mikey. Still love your views on Arrival which has been my favorite movie for quite a few years and counting now. Blade Runner 2049 came close. Dune is busy making its case. Still nothing came along to really top it. I consider any vote from you a recommendation for at least an interesting watch and any video you make worth it by itself. Thanks and here's my little push to give your videos more of the audience they deserve.

[@rachelespiritu4215]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one out here still loving Battlebots.

[@liamm7310]

This channel is truly a gift. Every time I give Mikey even minutes of time he manages to find ways to change my life for the better. Even with Battlebots, which, at the end of this video, turns out wasn’t even a challenge for him to do. Love you all, FilmJoy!

[@MisterFizzer]

Straight up, "sports are performance art" rewired my brain

[@Kry-Edge]

Mikey could make a video about a topic I care nothing about, like battlebots, and make it one of the most engaging and fun videos I've seen in the last months. Love ya tons dude

[@brysonlambes7175]

Eyyyyy, you mentioned the Huge catcher. That's one of my favorite moments and huge is definitely my favorite Bot.

[@frankmummert5932]

My family went to a live taping back in 2001 (I think?) back when Comedy Central hosted it. They filmed the entire season over 3-ish days. I remember 3 things: (1) This season was filmed on Treasure Island near Alcatraz. The San Francisco 49ers cheerleaders came to do some promos. Suddenly, everyone was very interested in football. Even my mom was like, "They have been bouncing around for 2 hours. How are they still gorgeous? Not a drop of sweat or a hair out of place." She then went and talked with them. Turns out the answers are "training" and "hairspray". (2) One of the bots eliminated in the pre-lims was call Tortoise. It was a giant spinner bot, with like a massive spinning stew pot as it's armor/weapon. I believe it was Vlad the Impaler that took it out. They hit so hard that a hooked blade (think raptor claw-sized) from Tortoise embedded itself in the bulletproof Lexan plexiglass. Without the plexiglass, that thing would've killed someone about 15 feet behind me and to the left. They had to keep the filming schedule up so, while they tried to source a new sheet of Lexan, they just put duct tape over the hole. The whole crowd on our side just started chanting, "Duct tape! Duct tape!" They asked us to stop because they couldn't use that audio without explaining it to the at-home crowd. Everyone was so polite and well-behaved that we actually stopped the chant. (3) "The Man Show" did a remote segment during filming. I got to meet Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla. Not long after that, their political ideologies went in such wildly different directions that I think that was probably one of the last times they were in a room together.

[@MinmiGamer]

I’ve been watching battlebots since 2015 and it’s one of my favourites shows ever

[@Maxpower2017]

The story of Duck made me feel things. Excellent work, Mikey! You continue to astound.

[@BorderlineBinge]

Mikey, do you want a Rock em Sock em robots movie? Because this is how we get a Rock em Sock em robots movie

[@Ahrpigi]

RAKE! That is indeed hilarious and has helped make my day, thanks Mikey!

[@MattPerrin]

Didn't realize they brought BB back, and I'm now in an all night binge watch of the new series... I should go to bed, but it's awesome seeing this again!! 😅

[@Flash5Cartooning]

Hey, man. Just discovered your channel (loving it!) and guess what? I wrote "Battlebots: The Official Guide" way 'back in 2002.

[@brentmcdowell9]

30 seconds in and I am giving my like. BattleBots got my family through COVID with a weekly injection of Joy. Thank you!

[@devinbarnes6094]

got back into battle bots this year after finding out it was on max. used to watch as a kid on comedy central. love it and the channel.

[@Applesauzified]

As soon as this popped up in my feed I stopped what I was doing so I could watch. One of my favorite channels covering one of my favorite things? Hell yeah

[@lilyoftheveil666]

Honestly this is a lot of why I love professional wrestling. The athleticism, the high drama, it's all so beautiful.

[@arenhill1557]

Captain of the team that runs Tantrum and Blip here, appreciate your support!

[@FireFan44]

This was a lovely surprise to see, thank you for making this

[@philopharynx7910]

Most sports are mere stylized simulations of violence. Battlebots brings actual violence to it. It is truly the greatest sport.

[@gypsieking3280]

Great episode as always

[@fishflop_]

Great video, Mikey. When I was a kid, I used to watch the old Comedy Central run with my brother and dad. It's been fun to return to the show after all these years. About halfway through the first new season on Max.

[@Psywak]

Love it when this channel teaches me about something I knew absolutely nothing about

This is a crossover that I didn't expect, but wholeheartedly support.

[@Super0Toaster]

Thank you for getting me to rewatch this series. Blast of nostalgia as soon as i started the video. Oh, and one fun fact, did you know that there was a Battlebots board game? it was silly as hell!

[@lizagna7172]

I remember loving the battle bots show when I was a kid

[@jm1695]

The YT algorithm has been feeding me Battlebot shorts for weeks clearly in preparation for this.

[@xtyccox]

This is exactly what I needed right now. Thank you

[@Turtburglers]

This video genuinely did get me into battlebots and im so glad it did. This truly is the greatest sport

[@phangkuanhoong7967]

never knew BB existed and didn't expect to love it instantly. thank you so much for this!

[@RobStevens64]

Been binging BB on Max since catching this video on Nebula. Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm, Mikey! It's honestly a little tough watching them get blown to smithereens when you start to anthropomorphize these things.

[@layersofirony]

I've been watching Battlebots since season 1 on comedy central. I love it, I'm glad other people love it too. So much fun