Being Optimistic - Robin from Paranoid Android

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Robin is a cartoon, created by Swedish Magnus Carlsson in 1994. Each episode is about 5 minutes long and things happen around Robin who is 21 and unemployed. His best friend is Benjamin. Robin loves hip hop, his cap, and to drink alcohol. In the nights, he has adventures with Benji and explore strange people, different vagrants and fat neighbours.

Radiohead discovered Robin on the English Channel 4. Thom and the other band members became really big fans of Robin and they asked Carlsson to make a video for a song on OK Computer.

Magnus' first choice after listening to Ok Computer was 'No Surprises', but afterwards he was happy it turned out to be 'Paranoid Android'. Carlsson said, "when I first got the song I spent a whole day listening to it in my office. I have a window where I see a bridge with lots of streetlights. I tried not to listen to the lyrics, and after spending eight hours looking at the bridge, I started sorting out something. Later I got a fax from Thom where he explained the song, and the viewpoints matched."

Thom said, "Robin is great. He is so much more then that kid who showers with the cap on. In him I see the totally innocents. Defiance his bad habits and the tuff, big city he lives in, he is soft and gentle. And what ever happens he never loses his temper. Nothing affects him. He gets bossed and makes stupid things. People convince him to swallow things and dance naked. Next morning he wakes up anyway and feels rather okay and has forgotten last night. I wish I could be like that. Just forget. Never really bother. It never works in the real world. When we record can I live like that. Just get drunk till I forget. And when I get to the real world, there is nuclear weapon, unhappy love, people who don't recycle their cans. Everything that can't leave me alone, and things that always are going to disturb me. "

Magnus also said, "I can understand that Thom identifies himself with Robin. He is rather an international figure. Me and Thom understand each other. We have never met, the connection is mostly by fax. Anyway I created the plastic Hollywood-world for Robin as Thom wanted the figure for "Paranoid Android" to move in."

A lot of unusual things happen in the Paranoid Android video; Robin goes to a bar where the band are and gets drunk, some guy chops off his arms and legs, robin plays ping pong with an angel, etc.

So, for all those people asking, the guy with the hat in the 'Paranoid Android' video is not Thom. It's Robin.