The Natural Facts

**The Natural Facts** is the second half of episode 3 of Season 1. It aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on August 15, 2003.

## Synopsis

A snowball battle between Alex, Brad, and Cheese gets interrupted by a strange robot who wants to invite Alex into the all-robot Cluster as a new member. But the real fight starts when Alex shows that he's not interested in joining a robot race that plans to enslave humans for manual labor.

## Plot

The episode begins as a mysterious figure, soon revealed to be Brad sneaks up on to Cheese's battle flag. Suddenly as he is about to take it Cheese suddenly throws a snowball at him, causing him to fall down when he finally sees how big the fort is. Cheese states that it can withstand anything when he suddenly notices Brad sneaking in. Brad compliments it, then goes on not noticing his brother's annoyance.

Brad states that since he's the older brother, he's allowed to be the owner of this fort and promises that once Cheese wears the helmet then he can be in command. As he takes down the flag its then Cheese asks who the enemy is. Brad then goes to a small picture of Alex in the snow, then they notice him plowing around trying to locate them. Stating that they have the element of surprise they suddenly launch a snowball at him, followed by plenty of more afterwards until he decides to launch plenty of them back at them.

Alex is then put into the captains position as the two of them share a laugh. Cheese is upset that his fort got destroyed, stating that it took hours to build. Brad insists him to get over it while Alex apologizes, but a random robot suddenly appears. He claims to feel Alex's pain of having to deal with humans and invites Alex to come to Cluster Prime with him. Stating that he would be free and have a lot of fun there. He likes the theory, except for the enslavement of the human race. He refuses him, then is forced to dodge multiple attacks while fighting the red bug robot back. He notices that slicing his antennae isn't any good as he keeps growing more powerful instead.

The head flies off, to which Alex flies after it as he tells Brad and Cheese not to touch anything. Cheese accidentally falls inside and Brad deems these parts to be a very good fort. So Brad and Cheese then begin to do work on this new fort and in no time its complete. He notices a left-over arm and goes to get it. Tuck does not see the arms grab onto him and force him into the heads spot. Which then takes over him and steals Brad's hat.

Brad doesn't understand and tries to talk him out of attacking him. He then tells Brad to build a better snow fort but before he can finish the head returns. Taking both Brad and Tuck into his chamber when Alex appears and threatens to destroy him. But he cannot attack since they were inside of him and he would possibly harm them. Cheese tries to tell Alex something important but he is prevented from speaking.

As Brad panics about becoming a house pet for a robot, Cheese reveals he has a button on his back that would turn him off and Alex tricks it into bumping into the tree from behind. Which causes him to shut off. Cheese then puts on the hat and refuses to give Brad back the hat he stole from him while under the robots control. The episode ends as Alex sits and waits for the two brothers to stop bickering...

## Trivia

* This episode marks the debut of the Cluster robots.
* The robot receiving a 'Cluster Cremissimo' ice-cream is the robot brother (Brobot) from the series "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius".
* The robot says "Domo Arigato" which means "Thank you very much" in Japanese.
* As he says "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto", he is referencing a catchphrase in the song "Mr. Roboto" by Styx.
* Alex chopping off the robot's anntennae only for the robot to be made more powerful is a reference to the battle between the legendary hero *Hercules*, versus the many-headed surpent Hydra — when Hurcules chops off Hydra's heads only for it to gain more.
* Brad refers to the famous "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" quote from *Apocalypse Now*, replacing *napalm* with *robot*.
* This is the first episode to not feature Dr. Blackman.

## Home media

* Christmas Children's Favourites
* Alex Adventure - Season One