Character
Roberto
Roberto in Futurama (1999), played by David Herman.
Roberto is a knife-wielding robot with a documented psychiatric file and none of the impulse control you'd hope for in a machine built with a blade for a hand. He turns up wherever chaos or violence is needed, usually escaping some institution, laughing manically, and stabbing first. Calm is not a setting he has.
The joke is structural: a robot should be predictable, and Roberto is anything but, which makes every appearance a small jolt of anarchy. David Herman plays him with a cackling, unhinged glee that never asks for sympathy, just commits fully to the bit, and the show wisely uses him in small, sharp doses rather than wearing out the gag.
Roberto (b. 3001) is a recurring character in Futurama. He is a mentally unstable robot who enjoys stabbing people and objects, as well as robbing banks. He is regarded as being mentally unstable and has been seen in the Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots multiple times, threatening both patients and doctors with knives, as well as escaping at least once.
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Futurama1999