Clogstopper

Clogstopper is a member of the Lost Bots from BotBots.

Clogstopper is a weirdo even by BotBot standards. Often ditzy and seemingly devoid of reservation or self-reflection, there's little he won't enthusiastically throw himself into, whether it's a new personal artistic project or a stopped-up commode. Or some horrible combination of the two. He sees himself as a "fixer", ready to tackle any issue, and while many BotBots are appreciative of his efforts in the end (ha ha), they'd rather he keep the details to himself.

And maybe bathe once in a while.

Fiction

BotBots Official Sticker Book

Clogstopper had the unfortunate power of being really stinky. BotBots Official Sticker Book

Musical Mall Madness

Musical Mall Madness

BotBots Mad Libs

Clogstopper was as a member of the Custodial Crew during Operation Spotless. He was tasked by Sergeant Scrubadub to make the drain squeaky clean. Get Down to Business

BotBots cartoon

You Are Not All Here

Voice actor: Christian Potenza (English), Jindřich Žampa (Czech), Mathias Klenske (Danish), Sedale Hoogvliets (Dutch), Jukka Nylund (Finnish), Oscar Douieb (French), Jan Andres (German), Ferenc Elek (Hungarian), Vaibhav Thakkar (Indian), Agathon Hafi (Indonesian), Stefano Sperduti (Italian), Myung-jun Kim (Korean), Aiman Afandi Mohd Nadzari (Malay), Jeppe Westerby (Norwegian), Józef Pawłowski (Polish), Yuri Chesman (Brazilian Portuguese), Michel Simeão (European Portuguese), Evgeny Tolokonnikov (Russian), Daniel Casanova (Castilian Spanish), Óscar Flores (Latin-American Spanish), Alexandru Robu (Romanian), Ludvig Törner (Swedish), Arda Kavaklıoğlu (Turkish)

Clogstopper was one of hundreds of ordinary items that were instantly transformed into tiny living robots thanks to a bolt of energon-infused lightning striking the mall. But unlike most of those hundreds of BotBots, Clogstopper was one of only four items to come to life within the mall's lost and found room. They stayed there in isolation, hiding by day, until Burgertron fell into their room through the air vents. Clogstopper "greeted" the newcomer by slamming into him in plunger mode (these four "Lost Bots" were not exactly experienced in social graces). But soon proper introductions were exchanged, and Burgertron told Dimlit, Kikmee, Bonz-Eye and Clogstopper about the big wide universe of the rest of the mall and the numerous "squads" of BotBots living within it... though Clogstopper mostly seemed terrified at the prospect of the mall map "knowing" where they were.

He joined the others on their journey outside the lost and found, where Burgertron introduced them to The Sacred Rule of the Mall: never reveal yourself to a human! The five attempted to make their way to the upper-level food court by "covertly" riding on the mall's incredibly, incredibly slow ride-around train to try and avoid detection from the night security "flesh being", the nemesis of all BotBot kind. It almost worked, but when they scraped the thing up the escalator into the second-floor food court, said flesh being was finally distracted away from his podcasts to investigate. The bots shifted to stuff-mode to hide, and while the odd collection of objects in the weirdly-upstairs train gave the flesh being pause (look, we're just calling him "Dave" from here on out, because that's his name), he was way more interested that one of the objects was an abandoned hamburger, aka "a free meal". Dimlit managed to save Burgertron from a messy devouring, and the other three fled the train unseen in the moment... but Dimlit's rescue had revealed the BotBots' existence to Dave (who then had to go return the train so his boss wouldn't get mad), and worse, all the other BotBots had seen it from the shadows! Thus, Burgertron was kicked out of his squad, and the Lost Bots were shunned. But, undaunted, they vowed that they would one day win back everyone's favor and be accepted by their peers. Mall Than Meets the Eye

Oh, it doesn't lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight!

Shortly, Burgertron started the charm offensive by recruiting Fomo to shoot "BotVids" for each of the Lost Bots; short videos of Bots doing cool/funny things were all the rage at the moment. While all of the Lost Bots' videos were failures in some form or another, Clogstopper's was uniquely terrible in that he completely misunderstood the assignment and instead made a crudely-animated commercial for "friendship with Clogstopper", complete with a distressingly long list of potential side effects. As Burgertron despaired, Clogstopper alerted the group that he'd spotted Dave setting up traps in the south wing of the mall earlier that night. Burgertron was quickly inspired: if Fomo made a BotVid of the Lost Bots foiling the traps and saving all BotBot kind, surely they'd be welcomed back! But the traps turned out to be even shoddier than their BotVids, not even triggering when Clogstopper sampled the bolts Dave had set up as bait. Much to Dimlit's dismay, Burgertron had the Lost Bots rebuild the traps to spec so they could do their thing... and it actually went off (almost) without a hitch, Clogstopper using his plunger form to act as a springboard for Bonz-Eye's part. The Bots triggered the traps and escaped unharmed and undetected, ready to revel in the praise of the other BotBots... but Fomo had instead taken video of Sprinkleberry D'uhnut slipping on some spilled oil in the trap area, which he had decided was way funnier and much better #content. (Never) Be Yourself

The Lost Bots were interrupted on their mad scramble to attend Ice Cream-a-palooza by dramatic cries for help from Frostferatu, who had been taken from the sweets shop and placed inside one of the mall's vending machines, trapping him. While Burgertron was more than ready to leave the Draculaic dessert for his fellow Sugar Shocks to rescue, Clogstopper had earlier overheard Dave talking to his mother on the phone, discussing his big birthday night plans of having a fancy cupcake from the vending machine on his break. With Dave's break only twenty minutes away, Clogstopper, Kickmee and Dimlit were sent to distract and delay Dave while Burgertron and Bonz-Eye attempted to free Frostferatu. Clogstopper's idea of flooding Dave's office with sewage was roundly ignored, and instead he launched Kikmee onto Dave's keyboard, where she changed his pending online order of a Mega Shogun Raptorsaur to a thousand Mega Shogun Raptorsaurs with express shipping. The resulting customer service phone call bought their teammates some time (which they needed as they were not really progressing on the rescue thing), but eventually he was through the queue and grumpily headed out on his rounds. The trio managed to draw Dave's attention to a massage chair, and Clogstopper upped the intensity of the massage to keep Dave from getting "bored", which actually locked him into the chair, which bought the rescuers a little more time. Frostferatu was eventually freed, and the grateful cupcake offered the Lost Bots tickets to Ice-Cream-a-palooza as thanks. Unfortunately, the six arrived just as the event was shutting down. Escape from Snackatraz

When the Hunger Hubs were set to put on a performance of Burgertron's smash-hit stage musical I, Cheeseburger without Burgertron, the burger-bot was rightly steamed. A nonchalant Clogstopper said that it wasn't like they could put on their own competing version of the show at the same time so whaddayagonnado, which of course meant that that was exactly what Burgertron was gonnado. Three hours of frantic prep later, the Lost Bots' performance of The REAL I, Cheeseburger has attracted exactly one attendee, the dimly-curious Sprinkleberry D'uhnut, who wandered off after the Lost Bots' stage collapsed. When Burgertron's attempts to inject himself into the Hubs's play failed, the Lost Bots decided to cheer him up by putting on their version of the play once again back at the lost and found. I, Cheeseburger

It's an overflowing toilet of savings at MER-CHANTS!

The Lost Bots found themselves trying to un-stick Clogstopper from one of the mall's upper-level support pylons, after Clogstopper intentionally got himself stuck to it as part of his hobby of affixing his suction-cup noggin to the most un-un-stickable surfaces in the mall. While they were successful, it sent them freefalling to the lower level, and on the way down Burgertron discovered to his slow-motion horror that they were falling directly into the background of the many, many selfies Dave was taking with his phone camera. Luckily, Dave was quickly distracted by his midnight snack alarm, and ran to his office to indulge his sweet tooth, selfies unseen. Clogstopper launched Kikmee so she could snatch the phone while he played with his food, but she ended up ricocheting off the wall and right back into the Lost Bots. Also luckily, Dave passed out immediately after a few bites, letting Bonz-Eye take the phone with ease. The bots took the phone back to the lost and found to try and unlock it, which Clogstopper managed by inputting the security code "1111111", which actually worked, holy crap. Burgertron was able to quickly delete the incriminating evidence, but just as quickly, each of the Lost Bots found themselves absolutely enthralled by one of Dave's many phone apps; Clogstopper being enchanted by Mer-chants's mobile shopping app's low low prices and questionable questionable merchandise. This quickly led to a struggle as each bot wanted to keep the phone for themselves rather than return it to Dave, until the phone's battery ran out and they caught their own angry reflections in the glass. Realizing they needed to get rid of it lest it continue to corrupt them, they choose to throw it into the mall's incinerator. However, before the deed could be done, the phone revealed itself to be the BotBot Ring-A-Ling, who had been surreptitiously helping the Lost Bots all night (among other things, accepting Clogstopper's attempt at the phone password), and gave the lot a verbal what-for before returning to her place in Dave's pocket. Though it took Clogstopper until much later in the night for any of what happened to actually register with him. Phoning It In

The Lost Bots later enjoyed free run of the mall's arcade, with an unlimited line of free games thanks to 24K-Bit. As Kikmee grew bored with winning everything, Clogstopper's eye for the unusual brought their attention to a dusty claw game under an old tarp. While Burgertron was far more interested in the old Costa Pasta flier attached to the machine and the tales of a legendary collector's cup within the abandoned eatery, Clogstopper and Bonz-Eye weren't feeling up to a rambunctious adventure and decided to watch Kikmee's attempts to win a plush snake in the claw machine. Despite their earlier disinterest, the trio and 24K-Bit came to Bugertron and Dimlit's rescue as the decrepit restaurant's kitchen (which was just next door to the arcade) began to crumble around them, and all of them made it to safety, with both the collector's cup and plush snake as trophies of their twin victories. The Lost Bots and the Claw Crusade

Yup, this is Canada, all right.

Having met Playgor Cardquest inside the game store, the Lost Bots (sans Burgertron) became enthralled with Live Action Role Playing, having an absolute blast stumbling their way through quickly-improvised campaigns (aka "the right way to play"). Clogstopper played as the dwarf wizard dragon pilot "The Dred Lord Gorp", searching for his family who were lost in the Dragon Syrup Wars (wars fought by dragons with syrup, not wars over syrup made from dragons, an easy mistake to make). Once again they declined Burgertron's offers of a big adventure, this time to discover the source of mysterious damages to the mall, preferring their play. But when the source of said mysterious damages, a bird that had gotten into the mall, began indiscriminately attacking BotBots, the four rushed in to help... while still in-character as their LARP personas, much to Burgertron's mortification. However, their in-character attempts to battle the bird actually proved super effective in helping to save the other Lost Bots, with Clogstopper's dragon-rider persona helping him keep the bird airborne long enough for Burgertron to join in as his own LARP character, eventually sending the bird back out the open skylight from whence it came. The Lost Bots were hailed as heroes... right up until Spud Muffin and Ulf the Orange noted that it was Burgertron opening the skylights to stargaze that let the bird into the mall in the first place, so praise rescinded. Live and Let LARP

When Bonz-Eye decided to journey to the weird and creepy Dark Side of the Mall in the hopes of finding her "original" squad, Clogstopper offered to join in, and not just because he liked checking out weird and unsettling places and the bathrooms within them. Bonz-Eye declined the offer, however. When she returned to the lost & found, Clogstopper offered to impress her newfound squadmates with a "pleasant symphony" (using a piece of cardboard on his suction-cup head to make a weird poppy-farty cacophony), but as it turned out, Bonz-Eye didn't have an original squad to impress, and she was actually fine with that. Though they were confused by her confession, they were all glad to see her back and gave her a big group hug. Lone Bot and Carb

The Lost Bots journeyed to the fancy-dancy Sunset & Van Ness to meet the love of Dimlit's life, only to find it was a mannequin (which Clogstopper accidentally knocked the foot off of). Though everyone was weirded out, both Clogstopper and Bonz-Eye felt they should just let it go, believing Burgertron and Kikmee's insistence that they put a stop to this would only do more harm than good. Clogstopper noted she seemed nice for an inanimate object, plus he'd "learned long ago never to take sides against love," a story we probably don't ever want to hear. As such, the two sat out the matchmaking mishaps, but were there to console a devastated Dimlit when his love "Jacqueline" disappeared. When Burgertron and Kikmee, who had been responsible for said disappearance, returned with the mannequin's head (having fallen off the body when the outbound truck it had been put on began to move out), the head finally introduced itself, the terminally-shy BotBot Jacqueline being just the mannequin's head. Dimlit in Love

Following the stunningly-successful run of their escalator whitewater rapids ride, the Lost Bots gained a lot of goodwill from the rest of the BotBots, enough to get them invited to Bot Prom, the current most important event in all of BotBots history. Even the ever-out-of-synch Clogstopper could recognize the importance of this invite, going so far as to take a bath (once he found out what a bath was) and didn't put up (much of) a fight when Burgertron suggested the plunger-bot leave his hand puppet out of the festivities. He even helped spread the a trail of candy to lure Dave into the daycare area's foam pit, sending the security guard into a trap-nap and letting Bot Prom proceed uninterrupted. Donning his best bushy moustache and monocle for the festivities, Clogstopper was quickly approached by Sergeant Scrubforce, who mentioned that the Custodial Crew might just have a position open for an enterprising 'Bot. Unfortunately, Dave was somehow able to escape his cozy confinement and begin his nightly rounds, sending the BotBots scrambling to dismantle the Prom before they could be discovered, and sending the Lost Bots back into the position of social pariahs. Back at the lost and found, Clogstopper wasn't willing to let this crushing defeat bring them down, and brought some tunes out, and the Lost Bots had their own little dance party... unaware that they were being watched.... On the Bot Prom Dance Floor

The very next night, Burgertron brought the Lost Bots a flier for the Ruckus Rally, a no-rules race held on the rare nights when Dave was off duty, which he was that night thanks to a sudden bout of intestinal distress. Which Clogstopper witnessed. Poor Clogstopper. Any rate, Burgertron revealed the Racer-Roni vehicle he'd built before his exile, and held tryouts for both the driver and "launcher" (aka gunner) positions... both of which Clogstopper bombed out of, but he had fun, and that's what mattered to him. Bonz-Eye's dead-eye aim won her the launcher role, and while Kikmee proved to be an absolutely fantastic driver, Bugertron quickly vetoed that and set himself as the driver because it was his car. When the Racer-Roni wiped out and it looked like they'd be last place, Burgertron decided that Kikmee was their only hope to win. Clogstopper hit on the idea of using his plunger mode to latch onto the camera drone that was televising the race, weighing it down so Kikmee could jump on and ride it to swap places with Burgertron. While she then won the race in a photo finish, the Hunger Hubs ended up claiming the prize, as technically the car was still registered to them. But they didn't take the car after, so the Lost Bots decided to go ahead and use it for some joyriding, secure that they did in fact win. The Ruckus Rally

tonight's episode: TONIGHT'S EPISODE

With the Racer-Roni now theirs to run around with, the Lost Bots took to becoming the "Crime Solvers", there to help the other BotBots with their various problems, real or imagined, whether they wanted help or not (nearly always "not"). Clogstopper operated under the alias of "Sir Lawrence Attenborough III as Police Chief Fartbottom", which was only slightly more ridiculous than what the other four were calling themselves. They soon found themselves on a case someone actually requested their help on (as a literal last resort), as Lady Macaron and Lolly Licks arrived at the lost & found, needing help locating the missing Sprinkleberry Duh'nut. Clogstopper, as per usual, was less than helpful, even when the evidence pointed to Burgertron having set Sprinkleberry up to be eaten by Dave. The incensed Sugar Shocks demanded justice via "The Food Court Court", where Clogstopper and Dimlit tried to defend Burgertron's innocence while Kikmee and Bonz-Eye looked for evidence to exonerate him. Neither Dimlit nor Clogstopper did a very good job, obviously, and Burgertron would have been put on a shipping truck and exiled from the mall had the other Lost Bots not returned with a very-much-alive Sprinkleberry in tow. With Burgertron declared innocent, the questions as to all the mysterious circumstances of this possible frame job were quickly forgotten when Spud Muffin suggested a post-trial dance party!!! Even the Lost Bots couldn't resist the call of the conga line. Crime and Bun-ishment

While engaging in kids-menu hang-gliding, the Lost Bots discovered a new store in the mall, the horrendous Spector Halloween. The dimly-lit interior and cackling apparitions guarding its entrance terrified the bejeezus out of the Lost Bots, though Clogstopper admitted "I might be kinda into that". He soon found out no, he probably wasn't, when the store disgorged a horrific monster into the mall (actually Dave in a bad werewolf outfit), sending them fleeing to the safety of the lost and found. The next night, they discovered Spector Halloween had actually taken over the stores next to it, and seemingly consumed Dave, spitting out another terrifying monster (Dave in another bad costume) right before their optics. As the rest of the BotBots tried to figure out how to handle the growing scourge, the Lost Bots decided to take the fight to the store, with Kikmee believing that the key was defeating the "boss", a giant spider in the very back. Dimlit chickened out at the last minute, and Clogstopper managed to get his head stuck in one of the many many many pumpkin-shaped doodads... which again, he admitted he was kinda into. The arrival of a third monster (again Dave, now in a costume that was doing active harm to him) sent the Lost Bots scrambling and trapped in a web, but a completely terrified Dimlit rushed in, accidentally blinded the creature and sent it stumbling into the boss spider, and freed his teammates. As Kikmee predicted, the next night, the store was gone... but had been replaced with something just as sinister. Spirit of Halloween

Clogstopper was assigned lookout duty as the Lost Bots attempted to butter up Knotzel so she'd attend their karaoke party. However, he got distracted by his clone (no, not merely his reflection, those two guys look nothing alike), and while he was engaged in his endless vendetta, Knotzel came close to being snatched up by a hungry Dave. Luckily, Dave's inability to properly use the robot arms on the new mall scootmobile kept her uneaten, but very miffed, so it was a "no" on the party. The Lost Bots went to karaoke anyway, which ended when Bonz-Eye's private rage-singing overloaded karaoke-bot Snorg's circuitry, sending him on a rampage. The Lost Bots followed in hopes of stopping him, even as he commandeered Dave's scootmobile, which meant they were all present when Snorg started replaying Bonz-Eye's frustrated rants concerning her fellow Bots. In Clogstopper's case, it was his penchant for using vile-smelling sewer water as his eau de toilette, though he was more embarrassed at having to admit it wasn't "expensive" than anything else. As Bonz-Eye neutralized the problem by singing a slow, heartfelt song about her feelings and how much she genuinely loved her fellow Lost Bots, Clogstopper was so moved to tears he could even share a nice moment with his clone (again, not his reflection, please stop confusing the two). Rage Against the Karaoke Machine

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Commercial appearances

Clogstopper crawled out out from one of the dark cubby-holes of Lost and Found. Official Digital Commercial

Toys

BotBots

"You clog 'em, I clear 'em!"

• Sugar Shocks (5-pack, 2018)

• ID Code: 54
• Series: 1
• Level: 1 Star
• Known designers: AJ Piejko-Brown (packaging), Ryan Glantz (instruction designer)

Part of the first Series of BotBots, Clogstopper changes from a toilet plunger into a small robot and back.

He was available in the blindpacked portion of one of the "Sugar Shocks" 5-packs, along with Lolly Licks, Ms. Take, Shredder Jack, and Sippy Slurps.

This mold was also used to make Dingledeedoo, Goldstopper, and Grunge Plunge.

• Greaser Gang (8-pack, 2018)

• Series: 1
• ID Code: 54
• Level: 1 Star
• Known designers: AJ Piejko-Brown (packaging)

Clogstopper was also available in one of the "Greaser Gang" 8-packs, packaged with Angry Cheese, Batsby, Fottle Barts, Goob Toob, Sippy Slurps, Sticky McGee, and Venus Frogtrap.

• Jock Squad (8-pack, 2018)

• Series: 1
• Level: 1 Star
• Known designers: AJ Piejko-Brown (packaging)

Clogstopper was also also available in one of the "Jock Squad" 8-packs, along with Fit Ness Monster, Fottle Barts, Goob Toob, Grit Sandwood, Laceface, Nrjeez, and Point Dexter.

Notes

• As revealed in the BotBots Official Sticker Book, Clogstopper is a lost member of the Toilet Troop.
• His name may be a play on "clodhopper", an older slang term for a clumsy, awkward person.
• Clogstopper's static art depicts different coloring and appearance then his toy. He has brown "skin", a grey chest, and the red parts on the toy are more orangish. His facial features also show a grey patch over his left eye and a bit of an underbite with a tooth sticking out, giving him something of a zombie-like appearance.
• While Clogstopper appears in the double page spread and has a collector card with his fellow Lost Bots in the Lost Bots storybook, he does not actually appear in the story at all.

Foreign names

• German: Stöpsel (cartoon)