H.E.L.P.eR, from the cartoon Venture Brothers

Are any of you guys familiar with the cartoon on Cartoon Network's [adult swim] block, Venture Brothers?

I love this cartoon servant robot.  He is a typical servant robot with wheels for feet, a jut mandible, button/light bulb eyes, of course with an expressionless face.  That doesn't mean he lacks feelings.

I haven’t watched enough of Venture Brothers to know exactly what H.E.L.P.eR’s role is in the Venture family, except that for the cartoon he can be a source of comic relief. He is such a lovable robot character. He speaks in beeps that have different inflections and tones, I’m guessing to make words and sentences. And what’s funny is, anyone can understand what he says, even if he doesn’t speak in actual words.

This past week was the part in the previous season when Brock Samson’s [bodyguard license?] expires and he’s being sought after by this other organization. Brock had to start leaving after fixing [some other machine, I forgot] and H.E.L.P.eR didn’t want Brock to leave, so he made believe he needed to be fixed to. Brock knew that H.E.L.P.eR was fine, and when the robot saw that, he went to Brock and gave him a hug. Aww, a robot hugs! He must feel that a separation of a friend is unpleasant. Does H.E.L.P.eR have an emotion chip or what?  It seems he certainly developed attachments to the humans he works with.

Later the Venture family and Brock were in an airplane and the plane had to land, but the landing gear was damaged. H.E.L.P.eR went on his own and climbed to the bottom of the plane and acted as landing gear, and he made this prolonged beep sound that suggested he was in pain. After all, his feet/wheels were being scraped off by the friction. He didn’t have to do that, but he believed his humans would have better chance of survival if he stepped in to help, even if it cost parts of him. Awww! :3

I hope he makes more appearances in the upcoming new episodes this season. He always seems to get maimed or destroyed, and then is rebuilt as if nothing happened to him. In one other Venture Brothers episode, in a space station of a sort, Venture brothers Hank and Dean thought that there was a ghost or boogey man walking around, and they thought that it killed their father. When they found this monster covered in a white sheet, they beat him up. It turned out to be a very lost and confused H.E.L.P.eR blinded by the sheet. Dean and Hank couldn’t even hear his beeps of distress and never realized it was him. He appeared okay later in the episode. I haven’t seen it in its entirety for a long time.

So H.E.L.P.eR is one of the robots I admire because of his apparently robotic form, his selfless acts, and his hilariously awkward situations. And his beeps.