Yes. All I remember from Riptide is the opening credits montage and the robot would always fall off the boat into the water. I remember thinking how badass a water-proof robot must be.

Remember the nerdy sidekick who always broke his thumb because he put it inside his fist whenever he hit someone? Don't know if he was waterproof, though. But isn't it strange that we all wanted the robot instead of a nerdy sidekick? Does that mean we're bad people?

And how about the robot dog on Battlestar Galactica (a truly horrible show)? Damn, I always wanted one of those. Or at least to train Richard Hatch to fetch.

And the robot Twikki on Buck Rogers. Wanted one of those, too.

Well, the nerdy sidekick guy got killed by Alice Cooper in Prince of Darkness. So I'd rather have the robot.

I haven't seen POD in years, but I picked it up the other day on DVD and intend to watch it sometime this week.

I saw POD recently. I didn't like it as much as when I first saw it. They should put Alice Cooper in more bad guy rolls he was pretty cool in it.