Tragic Magic

Who wants to see some Vegas reject, trying to pass off a load of lame cardtricks as magic? - Gus

"Tragic Magic" is the 76th of the series and the 12th(b) of Season 3 of Robotboy. In this episode, Tommy and Gus visit a magic show featuring Felonious Hexx. When Gus makes fun of him through the show the magician transports him into his magical world where he's going to make Gus suffer.

Synopsis[]

The kids go to a magic show, where Gus mercilessly heckles the magician, Felonious Hexx. Unable to take it anymore, Hexx lures Gus onto the stage, wraps him in his magic cape, and sends him off to another dimension – a surreal, scary place with monsters and freaks. Tommy and Robotboy find a way to enter this other dimension and search for their friend. But will they find him before Hexx can finish him off with one last evil magic trick?

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Quotes[]

Gus: Thelonious Hexx...? Huh! Who wants to see some Vegas reject, trying to pass off a load of lame cardtricks as magic?

Tommy: You should really give this guy a chance Gus, he's supposed to be amazing! (he sees Gus sit down, putting a large load of food and drink into the seat next to him) Uh, you've got a problem.
Gus: You're telling me, I said extra butter!

Felonious Hexx: I am no longer Thelonious with a Th... I am FELONIOUS! With a F!

Trivia[]

It is extremely odd that this particular episode is placed after the episode "Nursing a Grudge", since this episode, was produced beforehand, has the boys meet Felonious Hexx for the first time ever, and shows why Hexx wants to get revenge on Gus.
It is rumored this episode was meant to be a 20 minute special episode.
The episode was written and made in September 2006, according to Matt Jones, the storyboard artist of this episode. According to Jones the deadline was "pretty tight" and Heath Kenny helped him out with a section, despite having a busy schedule of his own and helped to make this episode "extra special".
- Matt Jones: I spent September working at Alphanim in Vincennes, storyboarding an episode of Season 2. (Not Season 2, but series 2) I had a really enjoyable time working with the team. Series director is cartoon maestro Bob Camp, storyboards are supervised by Rich Codor. Heath, Richard & Baptiste and their design teams are doing REALLY stellar work & this season is going to look 'magnifique'.
Some of the storyboard scenes are different from the final episode.
- In the storyboards, Hexx summons a women instead of a tiger and preforms a magic trick on her instead of summoning elephants. It is unknown why the scene was changed.
- The scene where Tommy and Robotboy discover frogs who look like Gus and catch Robotboy with their tongues replaced another scene with cows who looked like Gus. It's unknown why the story changed and what the intentions with the cows were.

Goofs[]

Tommy deactivates Robotboy when he is going to look for Gus and puts him in his backpack. When he confronts Felonious and asks where Gus is, his backpack and Robotboy are missing. So when Tommy ends up in Felonious's pocket and he activates Robotboy, Robotboy couldn't be anywhere around.

In other languages[]

Int. Language	Int. Title	Translation
Dutch	Tragisch Magisch	Tragically magical
French	Thelonious magix	Thelonious magic
German	Tragisch magisch	Tragically magical
Spanish	Magia trágica	Tragic Magic
Polish	Nieudany pokaz magiczny	Unsuccessful magic show