Out of date phones start forming into robots and terrorising the neighbourhood.

Written and directed by series co-creator Jemaine Clement, this slice of Kiwi fun posits that obsolete tech is gathering up and creating super robots. As you’d hope, there’s a lot of inventiveness in the script (the mobile phones start trailing one another in the floor like a game of Snake) and as an added treat, Clement plays the voice of the lead Mobot.

We get to meet O’Leary’s mother (much to the officer’s embarrassment) where a trap is set by the cops to catch the delinquent tech in the act. There are some laugh out loud gags – Maaka reminding his officers that ‘Pepper spray is for assailants’ eyes, not for pies’ and Minogue sharing that his brother has a tattoo of his mother’s back on his face (rather than the other way round) – and a genuinely poignant moment when the Mobot realises it’s obsolete.

Verdict: As we near the end of Season Two, there’s no suggestion of a drop in quality or a lack of jokes. 8/10

Nick Joy