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Robert has brief speaking parts in "[[Daria!]]" (in a chorus), "[[Murder, She Snored]]" and "[[I Loathe a Parade]]." He is a silent background character in "[[The Lawndale File]]", "[[Mart of Darkness]]" and "[[Groped by an Angel]]."
In his debut in "The New Kid", [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] sets him up with Daria on a double date - his payment being "you like sitting at the other end of our table, right?". Quinn hoped to get her in a good mood so that she will agree to give sports and clubs more pages in the yearbook. (The cover story ''was'' going to be that "I know this cute guy who's got a huge crush on you" - Daria immediately assumed this was a trick and the cover story changed to a chaperone date getting her curfew extended) Robert brings a set of note cards with "smart" conversation topics along with him, but when he asks about the yearbook Daria gets angry and exits the car. Daria notes she was suspicious when he kept calling her "Darcy". In punishment, Robert has to sit somewhere else at lunch for the next week.
Later, Robert tries to hassle "Darcy" and [[Ted DeWitt-Clinton|Ted]] at the arcade, though he can't remember why he thinks he needs to do this. ("I think it's important.") When Ted beats him in a sword-fighting game the two wind up bonding (along with all of Robert's bros) and basically forget about Daria ''entirely''. By the next day, Ted and Robert are firm friends.
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Robert's other main role was in "Daria Dance Party," when [[Kevin]] and [[Brittany]] go through a temporary break-up. Kevin makes the other football players agree not to date her, but Robert had been on vacation at DisneyWorld and did not know this rule, so Brittany invites him in order to make Kevin jealous. The two have a bad time - first because Kevin wasn't around to ''get'' jealous and then when Brittany finds out from her friends he dances like "a big geek" - though Robert tries to console her. ("I got you the wrong color corsage, didn't i?") However, when Kevin finally arrives Brittany begins kissing Robert, inflaming Kevin's jealousy and making him attack Robert. The latter seems to win the fight, as the episode ends with Kevin being taken to the hospital.
In "Murder, She Snored", Robert (along with the rest of the team) cheats on a History test and covers for Kevin, who stole it. He seems unbothered about getting an F.
==Personality and Interests==
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Predictably, per the TV series, he often calls Daria "Darcy" and says "ma'am" to all women. His primary interests seem to be football, dating girls from the Fashion Club, and screwing up to provide comic relief. [[Alternate universe]] versions of "The New Kid" will feature him, naturally. [http://web.archive.org/web/20110519180547/http://outpost-daria.com/fanfic/ea508_on_this_night_a_star_is_born.html Electronic Alchemy: On This Night, A Star Is Born] by [[The Alchemist]] explains his politeness with: "I went to Military School until I was thirteen," says Robert, explaining why he is so polite.
Occasionally he is called upon as a romantic figure - dating Daria again in [[Dennis]]' "[[Turnabout Confusion]]", dating a fed-up [[Stacy]] in [[
A number of fans assume that Ted is gay and have latched onto Robert as the most common male to pair him with, as in [[OverlordMikey]]'s "[[One More Round]]." This trope has been subverted in [[The Excellent S]]'s [[Lawndale Fighting Championship]] series where, teamed up as "Da Nice Guyz", they act comically friendly to each other and colour commentator [[Janet Barch]] implies that there is more to their relationship.
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