one positive thing i'll say about robin is that she makes up one-half of the world class interviewing duo that is howard & robin. she is crucial in making a lot of celebrities feel more comfortable and drawing better answers out of them.

also i feel she always gives 100% to the show, which cannot be said of howard.

she was a lot less annoying before she started dating jimmy. now she's cocky as hell.

really, i find robin trys to take over some of the interviews herself. good point about some guests being more comfortable talking to robin though, hadn't considered that. I hope she gets her own talkshow and completely bombs.

I'm not a big Robin fan but anyone who doesn't think she adds to the show doesn't understand dynamics. She often provides a different perspective and that's created some classic arguments. The fact that she's reserved about her personal life just makes the occasional time they are able to dig into it that much more special. Her horses, her car racing, her boat, cats, Mr. X, her anal experience, being molested, girls night out, she's given us a parade of absurdities.

The show works because it's a mix of personalities with different perspectives. Howard is a hulking chess playing nerd dating a model. Artie is a longshoreman into sports and hard drugs. Robin is a pretend intellectual who thinks she's better than everyone. Fred does funny noises. Richard Christy a hard rock drumming hick with bad personal hygiene. Sal is an idiot's idiot.

Robin is actually the third biggest contributer to the show. You can't replace her with someone who's more "in tune" with the others or you lose an essential flavor. Would it be better if she wasn't in love with Howard and agreed with almost every word he said? Sure. Would it be better if she was more open? Yep. But she's most hated for a good reason, even for the haters losing her means no more joyful fun laughing at Robin's absurdities. I just love it when she pronounces something clearly a fact that she's obviously wrong about.

Edit: I shouldn't downplay fred too much. he's a great guitarist and on the extremely rare times when they get into his personal life (the Rainbow Room fight) it's always classic.

I disagree. I would put the following ahead of her:

Howard
Artie
Fred
Benjy- this one is hard to tell because we can never really know just how much of what Howard says/asks he writes, but people have said on the wrap up show on multiple occasions that Howard will use ~90% of what Benjy writes
Gary- He may not be in the studio but he books most of the guests and is involved with a lot of the bits, too. And I'd rather hear the whole crew ganging up on Gary than all of them ganging up on Robin anyday

And I'm not sure where I put Sal and Richard (as a team) vs Robin. They do a lot of work and just think that for every great prank call they get on the air there are probably about 10 that either don't work out well or are good but they can't get consent. They certainly work harder than Robin, but I'm not sure if I would put them as bigger contributers to the show or not

I still don't get what Robin does AT ALL. She reads the news. So does Langford. So does Lisa G. She's not some great, unique news entity. Even if you think she helps the interviews move along, don't you think there are a million people who could do that, too (and probably do it a lot better)?

Plus, the news is basically an afterthought now. Every day, we hear Howard say, "Anything else, Robin?" after every single story. No one looks forward to listening to the news...it's basically just the sign that the work day is almost over.

Robin's biggest edge is her loyalty and history with Howard. She felt betrayed back in the WNBC days and Howard will never throw her under the bus again. 20 years ago, Howard really needed her and she does have a gift of gab. Howard can't talk to Artie about certain topics for 30 minutes. Robin can BS well with Howard. She is making the money very like sports professionals. They sign a new contract based on their past performance.

Nowadays, Robin is a millionaire and lives a rich lifesytle. Her attitude is very different from 20 years ago when the whole team was united and had to fight for everything. You can tell she doesn't prep for the show that much. She doesn't even know who the guest coming in are most of the time. That would never happen back in the day.

Steve Lengford has a huge peeeeeeeeeeeeeeenis. (penis, penis).

Actually, the news at the end, and the discussions surrounding current events at the beginning, have always been my favorite parts. I wouldn't exactly consider it hard-hitting journalism, but stories about people getting bludgeoned at least create the opportunity for the Gilbert laugh to be played.

I like Robin. She has some really good lines on occasion that seem to go largely unnoticed. I even like her impressions, particularly of Scott the engineer.

I'd rather just listen to them shoot the **** between themselves instead of freak-show guests like Mark the bagger or Beet (totally overrated and uninteresting imo). But I suppose that is part of the shows' appeal; it has something for everyone. Some people really get a kick out of Richard and Sal's gay shenanigans, others enjoy Bigfoot etc...

LOL. Bigfoot!

The only wack packer I like. Something about the guy and his voice. Totally hilarious. The call where Bigfoot talks to himself is one of the best pieces R&S have ever done.

I can't stand Robin, but I guess part of the charm is that she is wrong about so much stuff. I think the show would be kind of interesting with someone who would actually stand up to Howard on occasion, like when he ridiculously claims to have invented the idea of using a lie detector for entertainment or every other thing on TV.

Jeez, when anyone on the show outside of Artie (and if it ain't about the 70s and 80s Giants and Yankees even he is pushing it) try talking about sports it is horrible, especially Robin who has no clue.

I like Beet, Ralph, Eric the Midget, most of the regulars. Not really interested in the parts with hot chicks, listening to them on the radio just doesn't do anything for me, and the interviews with them are rarely interesting.

The interplay of the staff is the highlight.

Wrong. Fred, Benjy et all don't have a 45 minute segment every day and barely speak during the show. I didn't say Robin was the 3rd best contributer, I said biggest contributer. If you lose Robin you change the show dramatically, and it might not be for the best. She probably actually is 2nd in contributions since Artie is usually asleep.

If she was to be replaced I'd like to see someone like Elliott Spitzer in her chair. Some blue blood with an attitude, totally different than everyone in the room. Of course Elliott would last only about 10 minutes but it would be a classic ten minutes

Like the newsman in the Private Parts movie? Classic.

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Well I don't see how I can be wrong, it is just my opinion, and clearly our opinions on this matter are very different. Just because they don't have active speaking roles doesn't mean they don't contribute, it may be a talk show but that doesn't mean you have to be talking to be contributing and helping to make the show better. And it's not just Benjy but Fred feeds Howard lines during the show as well. In fact this reminds me of a nice little one liner that Artie hit Howard with a couple months ago when they were doing the Grandma Caprio and Beth on the phone bits. Howard was creaming Artie so Artie said, "I wish Beth had two writers feeding her lines right now, too."

The whole Robin issue has always seemed to draw a line between fans of the show. It seems like it's pretty even as far as people loving her and hating her. I don't even hate her, I just feel she adds less to the show than the rest of the people. I ask you this though, imagine for the rest of the year you had to listen to the show without either Fred or Robin, and the things they do don't get replaced by a newcomer. So you have to listen for the rest of the year with no Robin's news segments and her constant interruptions during interviews, or you have to listen to the show without all of Fred's great sound drops and impressions. Which do you choose?

And as an aside, how can someone screw up such an easy job as much as Robin does. All she does for her news bits is print up articles and read them off, and she can't even do that right. She constantly messes up information. One really bad time that happened was in the past 6 months or so. She read a story about a teenage boy that survived a 2hour plane flight to Moscow when he was hiding inside the wing of the plane. However, she read it saying the boy was outside the plane holding onto the wing, and she believed it to be possible. Robin is a ******

I'm guessing Artie will be back once the vacation is over. He went to Amsterdam with the crew for the bachelor party, and they way they described it made it seem like he was feeling better and ready to come back. Probably for the best because I doubt they could find anyone else to offer chicks money to **** on the spot like he does. I find that highly entertaining for some reason.

I was wrong, i.e. not clear on what I meant. What I meant was she is third or maybe 2nd in speaking presence, and that swapping her out would be a big change that shouldn't be done lightly.

And the plane story is a perfect example of Robin's genius. The fact that she thinks she's smarter than everyone else and doesn't understand how stupid she was there is LOL funny.

Robin is my favorite target on the show. The song parodies, her relationship with Jim, "Girls Night Out"...it's all radio gold. I could listen to Howard quizzing Robin on GNO for an hour a day.

BIG BLACK BEAUTIFUL TITS!

I want your brown mound, Robin, brown mound
Let me lick it, Robin, up and down, brown mound

I want your brown mound, Robin, brown mound
Let me lick it, Robin, up and down, brown mound

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GBA223_D0tY

I'm pretty sure long drawn out part is muff, not mound, at least that is what I am hearing.

My brother and I were singing Boss N* for days around the house. Luckily we were able to contain it to just in house singing though

After clicking the link, I'd have to agree.

lol, just when I was enjoying Dio's "Last in Line" repeating in my head I'll now be stuck with this all day.

http://bleedingdeacons.com/Double%20...o%20intro).mp3

A couple more reasons why I like her.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gZ-GU2bkCZo&feature=related