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Short Circuit

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Short Circuit	type	TVTItem
Short Circuit	label	Short Circuit
Short Circuit	page	ShortCircuit
Short Circuit	comment	Short Circuit is a 1986 film directed by John Badham and distributed by TriStar Pictures. It centers around a bleeding edge military robot who becomes self-aware. Dubbed "Number Five" (Tim Blaney), his first instinct as a sentient being is to invert the Killer Robot genre: he doesn't want to kill, and is hunted by the weapons manufacturer that made him. It doesn't slot easily into any one genre, instead toying with hard sci-fi, romantic comedy, tragedy, revenge drama, and slapstick (Number Five ignoring his laser cannon to sling mud at people).Number Five short-circuits during a routine maintenance check and flees his birthplace of NOVA Robotics. With mobile tank treads, hair-trigger tactile response, dodgy AI and packing serious heat, Five is the grandaddy of corporate liability. In a panic, NOVA deploys its private security force to recapture and/or destroy the robot while his original programmers (Steve Guttenberg and Fisher Stevens) try to stall them. Sure enough, Number Five pulls into a nearby town and befriends a Granola Girl named Stephanie Speck (Ally Sheedy), who mistakes him for an extra-terrestrial and NOVA for an evil government agency. Meanwhile, Number Five is adapting... learning... and willfully ignoring commands.Two years later, the movie got a sequel (Short Circuit 2). A third film was in talks afterwards, but was eventually canned due to scripts not meeting expectations. Johnny 5 would eventually return in a TV short named Hot Cars, Cold Facts with his having his own home and a car. Even though it was primarily an educational film regarding vehicle ownership and insuring, the comedy of the two movies remains.Pixar stated that Johnny Five provided some (unintended) inspiration for WALLâ€¢E, both in appearance and personality. A remake is being planned, but it is in the very early stages.
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Short Circuit / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Short Circuit / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: During Stephanie's impromptu news interview, director John Badham makes a cameo appearance as the news cameraman.
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Short Circuit / int_134ca130	type	Super-Reflexes
Short Circuit / int_134ca130	comment	Super-Reflexes: Besides being able to read a full book in seconds, Johnny can also fully disassemble a car in minutes and assemble a toy robot from parts in seconds, as well as react quickly enough to deflect incoming bullets with a hub cap. He doesn't do so good against any attacks he doesn't see coming, though.
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Short Circuit / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
Short Circuit / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: Number Five assimilates information at an insane speed, going through every volume of an encyclopedia within seconds. Notably, this doesn't help him learn morality; he's still got the mentality of a five-year old, just a very smart one. In particular, speed-reading the owner's manual for Stephanie's truck teaches him how to drive, but not how to obey traffic laws.
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Short Circuit / int_1495d0e6	type	Non Sequitur
Short Circuit / int_1495d0e6	comment	Non Sequitur: Shortly after Number 5 gains sapience and starts wandering around confused, its programmers are logged into its OS remotely and are trying to enter commands, to which it always just responds "Malfunction. Need input." Until finally it, out of nowhere, asks "Wouldn't You Like To Be A Pepper Too?", which completely baffles everyone. Newton guesses the robot is using its print scanner to read a sign somewhere, which turns out to be correct.
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Short Circuit / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Short Circuit / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Captain Skroeder and Howard Marner.
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Short Circuit / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Short Circuit / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: Invoked as a taunt to Number Five's pursuers.
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Short Circuit / int_1823d912	type	Noisy Robots
Short Circuit / int_1823d912	comment	Noisy Robots: Johnny 5 makes all kinds of noise when he moves around, but it's natural, since he's animatronic.
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Short Circuit / int_191babbc	type	Trampled Underfoot
Short Circuit / int_191babbc	comment	Trampled Underfoot: The opening shot shows a tank running over flowers. Number 5 learns about death when he accidentally tramples a grasshopper.
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Short Circuit / int_1ae6de50	type	Starring Special Effects
Short Circuit / int_1ae6de50	comment	Starring Special Effects: Despite the film's relatively low budget, the animatronics used for Johnny Five were top of the line and very impressive for the time. He was designed by Blade Runner legend Syd Mead.
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Short Circuit / int_1ce162d	type	Miraculous Malfunction
Short Circuit / int_1ce162d	comment	Miraculous Malfunction: Number 5 is struck by lightning, which causes a "malfunction" that gives it sentience.
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Short Circuit / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
Short Circuit / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: Crosby taking No. 1 (without permission) on his hunt for No. 5, causing Howard to wet his drawers some more.
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Short Circuit / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Short Circuit / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Newton and Ben. (Ben lampshades this a couple of times.)
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Short Circuit / int_1f0c1d33	type	Couldn't Find a Pen
Short Circuit / int_1f0c1d33	comment	Couldn't Find a Pen: With his voice box damaged, Johnny uses a rock to scrape out an S.O.S. on a brick wall.
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Short Circuit / int_1f42c032	type	Good Costume Switch
Short Circuit / int_1f42c032	comment	Good Costume Switch: Number Five loses the plate covering his "mouth" during his escape, making him look much less intimidating than the other SAINT prototypes.
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Short Circuit / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Short Circuit / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Skroeder's actions and attitude throughout the movie would all be completely within reason - if this were a sci-fi thriller, rather than a family comedy. Stephanie initially mistakes Number Five for an alien.
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Short Circuit / int_212da439	type	I Heard That
Short Circuit / int_212da439	comment	I Heard That: After Crosby shuts down Number Five to prevent General Ripper Schroeder and his troops from destroying him, we have this:
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Short Circuit / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Short Circuit / int_245cb69d	comment	Changing of the Guard: From Newton Crosby and Stephanie as the main human protagonists to Ben and (eventually) Fred.
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Short Circuit / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Short Circuit / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Johnny Five likes to list synonyms of words. This can be surprisingly bad-ass when he's really ticked off
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Short Circuit / int_270ed8b8	type	Candlelit Bath
Short Circuit / int_270ed8b8	comment	Candlelit Bath: Parodied:
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Short Circuit / int_274cf442	type	Credits Montage
Short Circuit / int_274cf442	comment	Credits Montage: The movie recaps Number/Johnny Five's escapades, including some deleted scenes (an encounter with a toy robot, for instance).
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Short Circuit / int_275d1f27	type	Easily Detachable Robot Parts
Short Circuit / int_275d1f27	comment	Easily Detachable Robot Parts: Johnny 5 (and, presumably, every other SAINT robot) are built like this; each Nova truck is full of parts for them, and Johnny uses them to at different times replace an arm that went dead (which, apparently, was being held on at the shoulder joint by just magnets) and building an entire duplicate to get blown up by the military for him. Justified in that since he's a military model robot he'd have to be easily repairable and moddable, otherwise they'd spend too much time and money in fixing him out on the battlefield.
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Short Circuit / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Short Circuit / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Sandy, the woman representing the toy company Ben had a deal with, doesn't even notice his (poor) attempts at romancing her until Johnny bungles their date.
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Short Circuit / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Short Circuit / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: In this movie, Newton asks Ben where the hell he's from, since he's clearly not ethnically Indian despite the exaggerated accent. He claims he's from Bakersfield and his family is from Pittsburgh. This could be read as an admission that he's a white guy who's just eccentric, but the ending of the second movie shows he isn't an American citizen up to that point.
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Short Circuit / int_2a4222ff	type	Benevolent A.I.
Short Circuit / int_2a4222ff	comment	Benevolent A.I.: Number 5, despite being a military prototype programmed to destroy his enemies, has no desire to harm anyone or anything else. Shortly after he achieves sapience, he learns about the concept of death. He fears death, and reasons that if he fears it, then other intelligent creatures must also fear it, and since he doesn't want to die, then it cannot be right to take the lives of others.
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Short Circuit / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Short Circuit / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Fred seemingly owns only one — admittedly expensive — shirt, which he wears on a daily basis. This makes it all the more poignant when Fred tears his sleeve off without hesitation, applying it to Johnny's leaking battery.
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Short Circuit / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
Short Circuit / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Maybe not violent, but Sandy takes a level in badass when she believes Ben is in trouble, impressively decoding his voiceless-phone messages to use as directions, and demanding that the taxi driver break the law to move faster.
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Short Circuit / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Short Circuit / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: When the 3 other S.A.I.N.T.s attack Johnny 5, they state their orders are to capture him rather than destroy him and thus are likely not using full-power shots, which accounts for how he's able to deflect their tank-busting lasers with a rock.
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Short Circuit / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
Short Circuit / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: The SAINT units sure can dish it out with their lasers, but they lack any armor to speak of - probably due to being early prototypes; one expects actual military units would be encased in rather more protective shells without exposed equipment. They rely on effective offense to prevent damage before it can be dealt, and Johnny himself has pretty effective ways of protecting himself from a single threat using whatever's lying around; however, if there are multiple threats, or if an attack comes from an unforeseen location, they're surprisingly easy to take out - a few bullets damage Johnny 5 enough that he can be reached and shut down in the first film, and all it takes to take him out in the second is an axe from a direction he isn't expecting. Johnny himself has an easy time disabling the other SAINT units - some mud in the eyes, a basic rope trap and a sudden maneuver get them all out of the fight.
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Short Circuit / int_323cd680	type	Geek Physiques
Short Circuit / int_323cd680	comment	Geek Physiques: Ben and his bank robber counterpart, Saunders, are both portrayed as weaklings.
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Short Circuit / int_33a2f32f	type	Do Androids Dream?
Short Circuit / int_33a2f32f	comment	Do Androids Dream?: Though not focused in the same way as a robot becomes more than the sum of his programming due to an accident. The questions then are postulated for robot and viewer as to what makes a sentient sentient.
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Short Circuit / int_33db913f	type	Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Short Circuit / int_33db913f	comment	Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Howard theorizes the potential danger of having their laser-armed robot roaming free. The stereotypical Indian guy, Ben, hasn't really grasped the concept of discretion.
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Short Circuit / int_342ce4e6	type	GrowBeyondTheirProgramming
Short Circuit / int_342ce4e6	comment	Grow Beyond Their Programming: Number Five, after being shocked by lightning, spontaneously develops the ability to learn at an accelerated pace, eventually becoming fully sapient.
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Short Circuit / int_347c2	type	Inkblot Test
Short Circuit / int_347c2	comment	Inkblot Test: Administered to Number Five by Crosby as part of a Turing Test. Unintentionally, as it turns out. Newton intended (and indeed, initially got) a chemical analysis of soup poured on paper. Then Johnny interpreted what the actual blot looked like.
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Short Circuit / int_350aafa9	type	Eccentric A.I.
Short Circuit / int_350aafa9	comment	Eccentric A.I.: Number 5 is a cutting-edge military robot whose AI goes haywire after being hit by lightning, to the point he is no longer interested in being a weapon of war, and instead wants to learn more about life.
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Short Circuit / int_35e4fe72	type	Fakin' MacGuffin
Short Circuit / int_35e4fe72	comment	Fakin' MacGuffin: In the climax of the film, Johnny 5 makes a copy of himself to keep from getting destroyed by the army.
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Short Circuit / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Short Circuit / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Newton Crosby does this to his co-worker Benjamin Jabituya with his robotic hand. Benjamin asks Newton if he's showing the number of his IQ with that finger.
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Short Circuit / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Short Circuit / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: There is a lot of Thaddeus Harris in the character Skroeder.
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Short Circuit / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
Short Circuit / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: Apparently, knowledge is this to a newly sentient robot. Played for Laughs, of course.
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Short Circuit / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Short Circuit / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Inverted. There's nothing wrong with the AI until lightning gets involved. Even then, the AI is incredibly amicable and nonviolent, and takes some serious pushing (a major betrayal and very serious and brutal attempt on its life) just to move it from an Actual Pacifist to a Technical Pacifist.
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Short Circuit / int_42153b0f	type	Cloning Gambit
Short Circuit / int_42153b0f	comment	Cloning Gambit: During the movie's climax, Johnny Five uses his previously demonstrated repair skills to build a physical duplicate of himself, which he sends out for Nova Robotics to kill so they'd assume they got him.
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Short Circuit / int_426181b8	type	Do-Anything Robot
Short Circuit / int_426181b8	comment	Do-Anything Robot: Johnny has a parachute, an electric tool kit mounted on a "third arm" that can do everything from pick locks to whisk pancake batter, and a laser weapon powerful enough to blow up cars.
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Short Circuit / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Short Circuit / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Stephanie does this when she tries to convince Newton that Number 5 nearly drove her food truck off a cliff.
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Short Circuit / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Short Circuit / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: All the military robots. In the sequel, Johnny replaces his with a Utility Pack.
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Short Circuit / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Short Circuit / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Fred, when repairing Johnny in Radio Shack.
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Short Circuit / int_4cb0192	type	Utility Belt
Short Circuit / int_4cb0192	comment	Utility Belt: The combat robot Johnny Five has a waist-mounted rotating multitool containing, among other things, wire cutters, lockpick, and a soldering iron. In the second movie, he replaces his shoulder-mounted laser with a utility pack with a magnetic grappling hook, hang-glider, camera, and metal cutter.
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Short Circuit / int_4e6aab7a	type	Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip
Short Circuit / int_4e6aab7a	comment	Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip: Number 5 pulls this on Newton while Newton is looking over the changes to Number 5's wiring.
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Short Circuit / int_4e9224c9	type	Wallbonking
Short Circuit / int_4e9224c9	comment	Wallbonking: The SAINT units all have pre-programmed paths to take within the Nova Robotics compound, and all of them follow this path normally, except Number Five, who is not functioning properly. When the other SAINT units complete a corner turn, Number Five continues forward into the wall, much to his frustration.
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Short Circuit / int_5020cc4a	type	Blank Slate
Short Circuit / int_5020cc4a	comment	Blank Slate: Number 5 is a fast learner though.
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Short Circuit / int_509a7227	type	Pick Your Human Half
Short Circuit / int_509a7227	comment	Pick Your Human Half: Johnny looks very machine like but acts very human.
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Short Circuit / int_50f848cc	type	Technology Porn
Short Circuit / int_50f848cc	comment	Technology Porn: The opening sequence of the movie shows the construction process of the S.A.I.N.T. robot line.
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Short Circuit / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Short Circuit / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Newton calls out Howard Marner on this, claiming that back when they were both scientists, Howard would have realized the value of Johnny Five's sentience. Howard bluntly replies, "I'm a businessman. I'm not a scientist anymore." (The insanely high value that true AI would have seems to be lost on him, however).
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Short Circuit / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Short Circuit / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Stephanie. Takes in all manner of poor and homeless animals (and one sentient robot), runs a truck that she sells natural food out of, and expresses her deep displeasure with the military and their weapons.
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Short Circuit / int_541e7371	type	But I Read a Book About It
Short Circuit / int_541e7371	comment	But I Read a Book About It: Newton's response when Ben asks if he's ever seen a woman naked. Standard fare for Johnny-Five. With most of his fairly shortnote Four days by the time the movie gets to the climax. life spent interacting with only about a half-dozen humans in any significant way, the majority of his experience and knowledge comes from the piles upon piles of books he's read.
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Short Circuit / int_5517f7a5	type	Just Think of the Potential!
Short Circuit / int_5517f7a5	comment	Just Think of the Potential!: When asked by a Senator about the SAINT project's origins, Crosby lets slip the fact that he intended them as a marital aid. (Then again, he might've been trying to make a fool of Howard.)
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Short Circuit / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
Short Circuit / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: What Johnny wants to be, though NOVA trying to capture him in the first film (and later the bank robbers in the second) push him into Technical Pacifist when he's forced to defend himself. Tellingly, he only applies the absolute minimum amount of carefully-calculated force to preserve life.
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Short Circuit / int_56863152	type	Operation: [Blank]
Short Circuit / int_56863152	comment	Operation: [Blank]: An army general at NOVA's launch party is already fantasizing about deploying SAINT robots to nuke Moscow. "We call it Operation Gotcha Last."
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Short Circuit / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Short Circuit / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Newton Crosby ("Ph. Dork"). But he's Tony Stark when compared to his sidekick, an squirrely Indian man who thinks of nothing but sex. Number Five also qualifies, being that he's technically the youngest member of the cast.
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Short Circuit / int_5a59b3a1	type	Hulk Speak
Short Circuit / int_5a59b3a1	comment	Hulk Speak: Number 5's speech is initially a cross between this and Robo Speak, although he can also speak normally.
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Short Circuit / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Short Circuit / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Johnny spends the entire scene in which he receives a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown begging the goons to stop until they damage his vocal systems.
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Short Circuit / int_5db1c06e	type	Brownface
Short Circuit / int_5db1c06e	comment	Brown Face: Fisher Stevens, who plays Benjamin, is a White Jewish man, and not an Indian or Pakistani man, as he is cast here.
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Short Circuit / int_5e782d0c	type	Super Prototype
Short Circuit / int_5e782d0c	comment	Super Prototype: While the SAINT robots never enter actual production, so we don't know how the production model would stack up to the prototypes, the prototypes certainly perform very well in their demonstration. And Johnny outperforms three of the prototypes when they come to try and collect him.
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Short Circuit / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Short Circuit / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The movie has a recap of the story behind the end credits, including several Deleted Scenes (like the one with Number Five and a coffee-cup bearing robot).invoked
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Short Circuit / int_60fb6e02	type	I Am Not a Gun
Short Circuit / int_60fb6e02	comment	I Am Not a Gun: A military combat robot gains sentience, and this trope ensues when it reasons that it does not wish to die, so it cannot justify killing others because it knows what it means to fear death.
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Short Circuit / int_65244998	type	Lightning Can Do Anything
Short Circuit / int_65244998	comment	Lightning Can Do Anything: A single bolt is all that stands between a sufficiently advanced robot and sentience. Though it's nebulous if the lightning, the constant stream of random input at Stephanie's, or both made Number 5 truly alive.
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Short Circuit / int_673b2da6	type	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
Short Circuit / int_673b2da6	comment	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Lightning in this case, but the effect is much the same. Downplayed, as while it gives him the capacity to learn outside his programming, it takes several days of absorbing information before approaching the intelligence of a human and being able to make moral choices.
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Short Circuit / int_67e82be2	type	Shoulder Cannon
Short Circuit / int_67e82be2	comment	Shoulder Cannon: Johnny Five and his brothers all have shoulder-mounted lasers.
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Short Circuit / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Short Circuit / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Number 5 makes the connection between a dead grasshopper and NOVA's intent to dismantle him:
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Short Circuit / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Short Circuit / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: Skroeder and his men are private security but their numbers and equipment make them more like a small army. Somewhat justified in that Nova seem to be a major technology contractor for the US military.
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Short Circuit / int_6cbcd596	type	Gangbangers
Short Circuit / int_6cbcd596	comment	Gangbangers:
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Short Circuit / int_6dafc69d	type	Decoy Getaway
Short Circuit / int_6dafc69d	comment	Decoy Getaway: Dr. Crosby's NOVA van happens to have enough spare parts for SAINT robots that Number Five builds a decoy. NOVA blows it up at the end of the film, with everyone thinking it's the real Number Five.
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Short Circuit / int_6df43486	type	Stereotypical South Asian English
Short Circuit / int_6df43486	comment	Stereotypical South Asian English: Part of Ben Jabituya's joke is that he speaks with such an exaggerated accent despite being born and raised in the US to American-born parents. The sequel retcons him into an Indian immigrant. Stevens researched the role quite extensively, hiring a dialect coach and even traveling to India to get the accent right, but today considers the role something of an Old Shame.
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Short Circuit / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
Short Circuit / int_6e27397	comment	Missed Him by That Much: Searching for the dying Johnny, Ben and the cops arrive at Radio Shack at the exact moment that Fred and Johnny exit the frame. This happens twice more during this sequence, though the final time Fred remained behind for Ben and the cops to find instead.
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Short Circuit / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Short Circuit / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: More along the lines of artistic license security guards and not the military. While Skroeder was entirely justified in tracking down a rogue robot with a laser weapon, not once do we see him or any of his men coordinate with local, county, State or Federal law enforcement or even mention calling them to warn of a potential danger to the public. As private security guards, they had no legal authority to block public roads, hold civilians at gun point, conduct a "precision operation" on private property or stage gun battles outside of the Nova Robotics grounds. In real life, had Skroeder done any of those things, he and his security people would've been arrested on the spot. Even at the climax where the US Army finally gets called in, there still is no sign of any law enforcement.
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Short Circuit / int_6eeaa3c4	type	Bus Full of Innocents
Short Circuit / int_6eeaa3c4	comment	Bus Full of Innocents: Howard is scared that the malfunctioning Number 5 might attack one.
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Short Circuit / int_6ef186d3	type	Speaks in Shout-Outs
Short Circuit / int_6ef186d3	comment	Speaks in Shout-Outs: Johnny Five does a lot of this, especially due to his exposure to television in the film.
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Short Circuit / int_6ffe0ae4	type	Wild Goose Chase
Short Circuit / int_6ffe0ae4	comment	Wild Goose Chase: Number 5 notices his Tracking Device and throws it into the pick up truck of an elderly couple. The soldiers in pursuit of him find the couple instead.
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Short Circuit / int_7204fa60	type	George Jetson Job Security
Short Circuit / int_7204fa60	comment	George Jetson Job Security: Happens to Newton Crosby, Ben Jabituya, and Skroeder:
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Short Circuit / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Short Circuit / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Skroeder is adamant about destroying Number Five at all costs and deliberately undermines and steps on the toes of others who are working on a less militant and violent approach. The truth is that the SAINT robots have MILITARY applications with a fully active laser cannon, you can even see the Oh, Crap! look on their faces when they realize he can use it freely. While the audience gets the benefit of seeing how benign and childlike Number Five is, the team they send in do end up provoking Number Five into a laser response. At the time who knows what else might have provoked the same reaction.
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Short Circuit / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Short Circuit / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Skroeder uses Newton Crosby as one of these in the film:
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Short Circuit / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Short Circuit / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Number Five maintains throughout the film that he is "alive". It takes quite a bit of persuading before everyone else agrees with him. The word is given special significance in all of his lines.
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Short Circuit / int_74ab25a4	type	Secret Underground Passage
Short Circuit / int_74ab25a4	comment	Secret Underground Passage: The tunnel connecting Ben's warehouse with a high-security bank vault.
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Short Circuit / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
Short Circuit / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: Johnny Five was created as a military robot, but decides that killing is wrong. He'll defend himself as necessary, using exactly as much force as required and no more. In the first film, armed with a laser weapon that can stop tanks, he uses very precise, low-power shots to distract opponents or render them incapable of harm, as when he cuts apart the drive shaft Frank was weilding. Ultimately, he prefers not to use his laser at all, subduing the three SAINT prototypes sent to recapture him by using the environment to incapacitate them then turning them off. By the second film, he's uninstalled his laser completely, and defends himself with his attached gadgets, robotic strength, and primarily his wits.
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Short Circuit / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Short Circuit / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Johnny outwits his evil twins by deflecting their lasers with rocks and blinding them with mud. $11 million well spent, Pentagon.
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Short Circuit / int_79cce27b	type	Law Enforcement, Inc.
Short Circuit / int_79cce27b	comment	Law Enforcement, Inc.: NOVA's private military.
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Short Circuit / int_7a555627	type	Honest Corporate Executive
Short Circuit / int_7a555627	comment	Honest Corporate Executive: Howard Marner, as he only sent out his military forces to capture Number Five as he believed him to be a dangerous robot with a laser cannon. However, Howard does view the sentient Number Five as another robot of his assembly line that has gone rogue and needs to be recaptured to reprogram and that fact he is Only in It for the Money.
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Short Circuit / int_7f9bfc3f	type	Human Mail
Short Circuit / int_7f9bfc3f	comment	Human Mail: Though not technically a human, Johnny Five mails himself to Benjamin in the city (with the help of Newton and Stephanie), after being rejected as an airplane passenger.
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Short Circuit / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Short Circuit / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Skroeder is quite the ham, played with a side of grits by G.W. Bailey:
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Short Circuit / int_85c1004b	type	Incredibly Obvious Bug
Short Circuit / int_85c1004b	comment	Incredibly Obvious Bug: When the protagonist #5 wanders off, its creator turns on its homing beacon so that his corporation can track it down. When #5 notices the beacon, it's about the size of an apple, with a prominent blinking light, easily detached and tossed into the back of some hapless bypasser's pickup truck. In this case, #5 was never intended to become self-aware enough to decide that the homing device should be gotten rid of, which may excuse its obviousness, but there is no reason a robotics company spending a fortune on a self-operating war machine wouldn't take care to integrate its homing beacon more effectively into the device. Even a prototype would have the homing beacon properly secured to prevent it from being knocked off during exercises — and a final production version would've been even more ruggedized.
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Short Circuit / int_862ea4c1	type	Easily-Overheard Conversation
Short Circuit / int_862ea4c1	comment	Easily-Overheard Conversation: The movie has the head scientist 20 meters away from the bureaucrat and calls him an idiot.
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Short Circuit / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Short Circuit / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: SAINT Number 4 is never seen after the introductory scene. It's never explained what happened to the loan shark Fred talked to after in the pool scene, though it's possible Fred already paid him after he got paid for the toy robots. We never hear of Los Locos again after Johnny helped them rip the radios off the cars.
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Short Circuit / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
Short Circuit / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: When stopped due to a tracking device in their truck the old couple immediately think about the "grass" they may or may not have in their glove compartment.
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Short Circuit / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Short Circuit / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Lampshaded when Newton asks Ben where he's from, and when he finds out it's Bakersfield asks where his parents are from. "Pittsburgh."
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Short Circuit / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Short Circuit / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: How Number Five deals with Frank. First, he reduces his Pontiac Firebird into its components. Then, he effortlessly deflects a volley of shots from Frank's hunting rifle with his own hubcap. Then, he uses his laser to melt Frank's boots, hat, and belt buckle into molten slag.
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Short Circuit / int_8941750b	type	Willfully Weak
Short Circuit / int_8941750b	comment	Willfully Weak: Johnny 5 is a military robot designed for combat. He has an anti-tank laser on his shoulder and could easily fry people and is shown in the sequel to be powerful enough to benchpress a car even in a badly damaged, weakened state. He could very easily kill people with little effort if he felt like it, but after realizing 'disassembling' people is wrong, he refuses to use lethal force and only uses as much force as he needs to when forced to fight.
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Short Circuit / int_8de7402d	type	Measuring the Marigolds
Short Circuit / int_8de7402d	comment	Measuring the Marigolds: Played with. Toward the end of the film, Newton is trying to figure out if Number 5 has really "come alive." He makes a Rorschach blot with paper and tomato soup, trying to see if Number 5 sees past the scientific to see the marigolds. It is foreshadowed earlier in the film that Number 5 has this capacity: though he regurgitates scientific information at the drop of a hat, he is also able to see abstract shapes in clouds, rather than just dismissing them as pockets of water vapor.
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Short Circuit / int_8e1aef2d	type	Reference Overdosed
Short Circuit / int_8e1aef2d	comment	Reference Overdosed: Johnny doesn't really know when to hold back. Then again, being as young as he is, he doesn't really have his own experiences to know anything beyond references.
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Short Circuit / int_9075ac17	type	Just a Machine
Short Circuit / int_9075ac17	comment	Just a Machine: The movie has this as its central premise. The robot can't be alive because it's a machine which aren't alive by definition. Never mind that it's now got free will and a sense of self-preservation, it's still just a machine... right?
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Short Circuit / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Short Circuit / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After NOVA security and the Army blow up what they think is Johnny Five and celebrate, Marner's Tranquil Fury at having years of research and funding sent down the drain, along with Skroeder's unrepentant reply of how he was only doing his job, force Marner to hint that Skroeder's days serving NOVA are through. Skroeder's facial response after hearing it clearly shows he's thinking "I'm fired, aren't I?"
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Short Circuit / int_94b78deb	type	Every Helicopter Is a Huey
Short Circuit / int_94b78deb	comment	Every Helicopter Is a Huey: Although the helicopter that chases down and destroys the decoy Number Five is not a Huey, but a JetRanger, this trope is lampshaded:
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Short Circuit / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
Short Circuit / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: Johnny Five's battery.
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Short Circuit / int_9538d01b	type	Super-Speed Reading
Short Circuit / int_9538d01b	comment	Super-Speed Reading: Johnny can breeze through books at a frightening rate, though apparently he's not programmed to re-shelve them.
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Short Circuit / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
Short Circuit / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: During the scene at the bar, the bartender breaks a bottle over a NOVA soldier's head and shoves him off her bar.
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Short Circuit / int_97550008	type	Turing Test
Short Circuit / int_97550008	comment	Turing Test: Used by Crosby to determine if Number 5 is alive. The Ink Blot Test and the fact that Number 5 has rewired his switches to a point where he shouldn't be operable begins Crosby's questioning that it's true but it takes a bad joke to convince him when Number 5 laughs at the joke.
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Short Circuit / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Short Circuit / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Mild-mannered, scrupulous Ben and slovenly, amoral Fred.
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Short Circuit / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
Short Circuit / int_9aa3d869	comment	Double subverted with the inkblot turing test mentioned above. When first asked "What do you make of this?" Five gives the literal answer: a chemical analysis of soup poured on paper, seemingly demonstrating Creative Sterility. But then...
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Short Circuit / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Short Circuit / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: It takes a lot of convincing before the human leads will concede that Number Five is alive and not Just a Machine. This is the main moral premise of both films, leading to the end of the second movie in which Johnny is publicly declared a sentient being and made a citizen of the United States. Tellingly, when forced to fight off an ambush by three other prototypes like himself (but not alive in the way Johnny is), he still does not fire on them or destroy them, simply incapacitating then deactivating them.
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Short Circuit / int_9c5ce9ed	type	Blunt Metaphors Trauma
Short Circuit / int_9c5ce9ed	comment	Blunt Metaphors Trauma: It's surprisingly not Number Five who has this problem, but rather the wacky Indian sidekick Ben:
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Short Circuit / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Short Circuit / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Johnny 5 mentions to Ben that he changed out his old battery for a new lithium-argon liquid battery. At the police station:
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Short Circuit / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Short Circuit / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Stephanie and Number 5 in the movie:
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Short Circuit / int_a06162e8	type	Phlebotinum Rebel
Short Circuit / int_a06162e8	comment	Phlebotinum Rebel: Designed as a military robot, Number (a.k.a. Johnny) Five gains sentience and decides killing is wrong.
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Short Circuit / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Short Circuit / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In this case: Robotic eye, meet axe. Ouch. See Family-Unfriendly Violence.
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Short Circuit / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Short Circuit / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: The movie has Come and Follow Me by Max Carl and Marcy Levy.
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Short Circuit / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Short Circuit / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Skroeder decides (without bothering to listen to the guy who built it or coordinate with law enforcement) that recovering Number Five requires loads and loads of military firepower aimed in the general direction of the robot regardless of the presence of innocent bystanders. Ironically, this sort of wanton destruction is precisely what Nova Robotics are concerned their missing robot might do.
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Short Circuit / int_a8c50563	type	Bathtub Scene
Short Circuit / int_a8c50563	comment	Bathtub Scene: The movie has Stephanie Speck relaxing in the bathtub as Number 5 comes in to show he is still alive.
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Short Circuit / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Short Circuit / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Probably originally meant for combat mode, Johnny's back-lit red "eyes" are usually a telltale sign you've managed to tick off the normally happy-go-lucky pacifist robot. Ben and Newton discover Number Five is right at their location on the scanner while at the gas station—The back door of their truck.
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Short Circuit / int_abe0f934	type	Dissimile
Short Circuit / int_abe0f934	comment	Dissimile: Fred explaining that he didn't "lose" Johnny Five. He just "misplaced him, y'know? Like your car keys."
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Short Circuit / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Short Circuit / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Too many to list, most notably Johnny's magnet and remote control.
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Short Circuit	hasFeature	Short Circuit / int_acecb17d
Short Circuit / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Short Circuit / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Johnny 5's realization that disassemble equals death. Fred and Ben realizing that neither one of them knows Morse code.
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Short Circuit / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Short Circuit / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Ben keeps calling Johnny "Number Johnny Five". He doesn't really seem to mind though.
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Short Circuit	hasFeature	Short Circuit / int_af616e40
Short Circuit / int_b1c2112	type	Tracking Device
Short Circuit / int_b1c2112	comment	Tracking Device: Johnny Five has a tracking device that he tosses into the bed of a passing pickup truck.
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Short Circuit / int_b2d8059f	type	Innocent Aliens
Short Circuit / int_b2d8059f	comment	Innocent Aliens: Subverted when the alien turns out to be a Ridiculously Human Robot, much to Stephanie Speck's disappointment.
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Short Circuit / int_b7efeb58	type	Magical Defibrillator
Short Circuit / int_b7efeb58	comment	Magical Defibrillator: One such is used to recharge Johnny Five's dying battery.
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Short Circuit / int_ba1463a5	type	Creation Sequence
Short Circuit / int_ba1463a5	comment	Creation Sequence: The opening credits show the creation of one of the SAINT model robots. The music gets also more elaborate while more and more parts of the robot come together.
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Short Circuit / int_bb76c854	type	Classified Information
Short Circuit / int_bb76c854	comment	Classified Information: When Stephanie first meets Ben and Newton, she asks them what the purpose of these advanced robots is (prototype weapons).
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Short Circuit / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Short Circuit / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not mistreat Johnny Five's friends, and do not treat him like a mere machine. He WILL find you, and he WILL deal the most humiliating yet nonviolent punishment imaginable. Stephanie's ex-boyfriend finds that out first-hand.
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Short Circuit / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Short Circuit / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: S.A.I.N.T. touches on nightmare fuel, given the root is Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport.. The SAINT series are nuke delivery platforms, designed (as explained at the start of the first film) to be para-dropped into enemy cities, use their maneuverability, intelligence, and weaponry to safely deliver their nuclear payload to their target, and then blow themselves up. note In other words: suicide bombers.
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Short Circuit / int_c38f4bee	type	Talking Lightbulb
Short Circuit / int_c38f4bee	comment	Talking Lightbulb: All SAINT robots are equipped with a mouth cover. Nr. 5 loses his one early in the film, revealing a series of LEDs that light up when he talks. Johnny 5 refers to them as "lip lights".
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Short Circuit / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Short Circuit / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: During the film's finale. Until the helicopter shows up. Fortunately, it isn't the real Number Five they blew up.
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Short Circuit / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Short Circuit / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The movie playing on the TV (in the scene where Number Five and Stephanie dance) is Saturday Night Fever, one of John Badham's previous movies.
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Short Circuit	hasFeature	Short Circuit / int_c75df49a
Short Circuit / int_c83d6a05	type	Tinman Typist
Short Circuit / int_c83d6a05	comment	Tinman Typist: Justified. One of Newton's side projects is teaching robots to play piano. And give the finger.
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Short Circuit / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Short Circuit / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: Strictly speaking, the "soldiers" are NOVA's security team and not proper military, but close enough. It's also implied that the actual army would happily use the robots as a new and better way to commit as many war crimes as possible. That was the marketing pitch, anyway; the army never actually bought them.
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Short Circuit / int_cc3e2c0d	type	Mistaken for Foreigner
Short Circuit / int_cc3e2c0d	comment	Mistaken for Foreigner: Played for laughs when Ben (supposedly an Indian) is asked where he's from:
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Short Circuit / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Short Circuit / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: Howard theorizes the potential danger of having their laser-armed robot roaming free.
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Short Circuit / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
Short Circuit / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Ben's "schematic drawings" that he offers to share with Newton.
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Short Circuit / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Short Circuit / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Howard is in charge of the efforts to recapture or destroy Number Five, but he doesn't understand Johnny Five is truly sentient, gets along fairly well with Crosby, is only bluffing when he holds Newton and Ben at gunpoint in one scene, and shows a sense of depression and sadness when it looks as if Johnny Five has been destroyed, and eventually fires Skroeder (The Heavy).
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Short Circuit / int_d21a93f4	type	Hand Gagging
Short Circuit / int_d21a93f4	comment	Hand Gagging: Shortly after Number 5 escapes, Ben and Crosby attempt to persuade their boss Howard Mariner to let them try to catch it instead of destroying it:
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Short Circuit / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
Short Circuit / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: The "Department of Car Stereo Repair".
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Short Circuit / int_d3ac5496	type	Colonel Bogey March
Short Circuit / int_d3ac5496	comment	Colonel Bogey March: As Number Five reprograms the robots at the roadhouse, he's whistling it.
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Short Circuit / int_d4349d5b	type	Insane Proprietor
Short Circuit / int_d4349d5b	comment	Insane Proprietor: Manic Mike, of the nearby Radio Shack. Which becomes plot-critical at an important moment.
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Short Circuit / int_d45383c9	type	Tank-Tread Mecha
Short Circuit / int_d45383c9	comment	Tank-Tread Mecha: Johnny 5 and the other S.A.I.N.T. robots use tank treads to move around.
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Short Circuit / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Short Circuit / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Disassemble" for "kill."
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Short Circuit	hasFeature	Short Circuit / int_d848560f
Short Circuit / int_d90ab0d2	type	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head
Short Circuit / int_d90ab0d2	comment	Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: "I've got an error message for you! I'll scramble your RAM!!" Quoted by Saunders, apparently unsure of how to properly insult a robot. Johnny is understandably less than impressed.
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Short Circuit / int_d935ee2f	type	Innocent Blue Eyes
Short Circuit / int_d935ee2f	comment	Innocent Blue Eyes: Johnny 5, naturally. Unless they turn red.
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Short Circuit / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Short Circuit / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Johnny Five repairs his weapons after being captured, his escorts (Ben and a guard) are alarmed, pull over to the side of the road, and take off after a brief debate.
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Short Circuit / int_dcd29760	type	They Would Cut You Up
Short Circuit / int_dcd29760	comment	They Would Cut You Up: "Disassemble" is an arc word in the film. Except that NOVA has little interest in Number-5's sentience; they see it as a bug that needed fixing at best and a potential threat to innocent civilians at worst. At no point in either movie does any organization have any deliberate intention of conducting any unpleasant experimentation on him — the movie was inspired by the idea that if a high-tech military robot really did come to life, nobody would believe it was alive in the first place.
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Short Circuit / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
Short Circuit / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: The film's credits play over snippets of various scenes, including scenes that were cut from the final movie, including Number Five playing with a model airplane, escaping a car crusher in a junkyard, and encountering an Omnibot 2000 (a toy robot that was made during that time) trying to serve him orange juice.
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Short Circuit / int_e1ba59f3	type	Voice Changeling
Short Circuit / int_e1ba59f3	comment	Voice Changeling: Johnny, like most self-aware robots from the Eighties, can mimic anyone's voice.
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Short Circuit / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Short Circuit / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Stephanie, and later, Johnny Five.note ''Most'' living things, since Stephanie draws the line at snakes.
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Short Circuit / int_e294a0be	type	Our Souls Are Different
Short Circuit / int_e294a0be	comment	Our Souls Are Different: Number Five gets struck by lightning, there is a glitch in the programming and he gains a soul.
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Short Circuit / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Short Circuit / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Double subverted with the inkblot turing test mentioned above. When first asked "What do you make of this?" Five gives the literal answer: a chemical analysis of soup poured on paper, seemingly demonstrating Creative Sterility. But then... Other times. Johnny 5 falls headlong into this. He tries to cook Stephanie breakfast, literally following the instructions. He beats pancake batter until smooth (not caring that he's splattering it all over the kitchen and himself), and "for crisp yet moist potatoes, brown on one side then turn over." He browns the cardboard box the potatoes are in on one side, then turns the entire frying pan over.
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Short Circuit / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
Short Circuit / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: Personality-wise, not appearance-wise.
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Short Circuit / int_e49a80fb	type	Technical Euphemism
Short Circuit / int_e49a80fb	comment	Technical Euphemism: The robot whom the story revolves around accidentally squishes a grasshopper and wants it reassembled. He's told that it can't be done because it's dead and dead is forever. Later, when one of his human friends is being shot at by the villains, he freaks out and screams over and over, "No disassemble Stephanie! No disassemble Stephanie!"
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Short Circuit / int_e4d8fcc4	type	Escaped from the Lab
Short Circuit / int_e4d8fcc4	comment	Escaped from the Lab: In the opening of the movie, Johnny Five escapes from a robotics lab.
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Short Circuit / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Short Circuit / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Newton Crosby and Skroeder, respectively played by Steve Guttenberg and G. W. Bailey, of Mahoney and Harris from Police Academy.
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Short Circuit / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Short Circuit / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Johnny 5 takes a lot of abuse in the movie, but always dispenses justice and emerges with a nonsensical catch-phrase and good attitude. He may not be indestructible, but his optimism is.
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Short Circuit / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
Short Circuit / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: When Stephanie Speck calls Nova Laboratories on the phone, saying that she would want to speak to "one of your head warmongers", (she is of course taking the piss), the person receiving the phone call calls Dr. Marner "Dr. Warmonger" before correcting himself and handing Dr. Marner the phone.
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Short Circuit / int_ea5b420d	type	Disarm, Disassemble, Destroy
Short Circuit / int_ea5b420d	comment	Disarm, Disassemble, Destroy: A villain pulls a gun on the Johnny 5, who takes it out of his hand and destroys it.
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Short Circuit / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Short Circuit / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: He starts as just a number, but gives himself the name Johnny Five. Ben calls him "Number Johnny Five".
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Short Circuit / int_eb24d076	type	Freud Was Right
Short Circuit / int_eb24d076	comment	Freud Was Right:
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Short Circuit / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Short Circuit / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Stephanie's ex-boyfriend from the first movie.
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Short Circuit / int_eea921b7	type	Late to the Punchline
Short Circuit / int_eea921b7	comment	Late to the Punchline: To test Number 5's sentience, Newton Crosby tells a rather tasteless joke. The robot is stumped, and Netwon takes it as evidence that he is not as "alive" as he thinks. Just when he's about to remark on it, Number 5 blurts out "I GET IT!" and starts snickering. Crosby is astounded, and instantly sides with him and Stephanie against his bosses.
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Short Circuit / int_f03aae7f	type	Your Other Left
Short Circuit / int_f03aae7f	comment	Your Other Left: When Number Five drives Stephanie's truck he drives it on the wrong side of the road. Stephanie shouts at him to drive on the right side of the road, but he keeps misinterpreting the meaning of right to mean "right, correct, functional".
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Short Circuit / int_f07250e2	type	That Cloud Looks Like...
Short Circuit / int_f07250e2	comment	That Cloud Looks Like...: Number 5 doing this provides one of the first clues that he's become truly intelligent and self-aware. Later his creator invokes the trope with an Ink Blot Test. He starts by describing what it is (tomato soup on a newspaper, so a list of its ingredients), but immediately seagues into what it look like-resemble, proving his sapience.
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Short Circuit / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
Short Circuit / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Captain Skroeder stops at nothing to capture and destroy an escaped piece of military equipment. Initially his actions are sane and reasonable (this is a robot with an armed laser) but he ultimately Jumps Off The Slippery Slope. The creators admit that Skroeder would have been the hero were this a straight Killer Robot film. But it isn't, thus he's not.
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Short Circuit / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Short Circuit / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: "Wouldn't You Like To Be a Pepper Too?" Radio Shack doesn't just sell electronics. It SAVES LIVES.
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Short Circuit / int_f6507695	type	Everything Is Online
Short Circuit / int_f6507695	comment	Everything Is Online: Johnny Five can access any electronics remotely with a transmitter in his head. He can also control cars, cranes and other things that (at the time the films were made) didn't even have any electronics controlling them.
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Short Circuit / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Short Circuit / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Skroeder seems rather obsessed with food... Number Five having to throw out the driver's seat from any vehicle he swipes.
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Short Circuit / int_fa6c9370	type	Three Stooges Shout-Out
Short Circuit / int_fa6c9370	comment	Three Stooges Shout-Out: Johnny Five re-programmed three of the pursuing prototypes in the film so they acted like Larry, Moe, and Curly.
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Short Circuit / int_fb5ab090	type	Loan Shark
Short Circuit / int_fb5ab090	comment	Loan Shark: Fred uses one to sponsor his business with Ben, with thirty days to pay up. When the jewel thieves first confront Fred and Ben with ski masks, Fred first thinks it's the loan shark's henchmen. Ben's ignorance of the term leads to the following line:
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Short Circuit / int_fbfe572b	type	Alternative Turing Test
Short Circuit / int_fbfe572b	comment	Alternative Turing Test: Johnny 5's sentience (versus his non-struck-by-lightning brethren) is hotly debated, with the military who created him hell-bent on getting its "property" back and the heroes trying desperately to prove that he is "alive". Ultimately, he is able to prove his sentience through an inkblot test (during which he not only identifies the chemical makeup of the blotting material but is able to recognize the blot's resemblance to other things) and displaying a sense of humor (telling a joke, in response to which he laughs once he gets the punchline).
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Short Circuit / int_fcbcc221	type	Robot Buddy
Short Circuit / int_fcbcc221	comment	Robot Buddy: Number 5/Johnny 5 is an artificially intelligent military robot designed to be dropped behind enemy lines during a nuclear exchange and deliver a tactical nuke to a high value target. When he is hit be lightning it imbues him with an innocent, curious, childlike personality that quickly becomes a wise-cracking pop culture junkie. He also develops a tremendous respect for all forms of life.
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Short Circuit / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Short Circuit / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Johnny and Ben. You do not want to be around Ben if something's happened to Johnny on your watch. And it's an equally bad idea to take Johnny lightly. With as nice and sweet as he can be, it's easy to forget Johnny is a military grade robot designed for combat.
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Short Circuit / int_fcf6bca9	type	Robosexual
Short Circuit / int_fcf6bca9	comment	Robosexual: Number 5 hitting on Stephanie in the tub.
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Short Circuit / int_fd5ce6a3	type	Robot Names
Short Circuit / int_fd5ce6a3	comment	Robot Names: The robots belong to the SAINT (Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transport) line, but each one is simply known by its model number. The main character is Number Five, who gains sentience from being struck by lightning. At the end of the movie, he decides to give himself a human name, choosing "Johnny" from the pop song "Who's Johnny". But he thinks it sounds cool to keep his number too, so he settles on "Johnny Five"
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Short Circuit / int_fdbdc112	type	Practical Effects
Short Circuit / int_fdbdc112	comment	Practical Effects: Almost all of the film's special effects budget was eaten up by the Number 5 animatronic, so most of the effects were practical by necessity. For example, Number 5 flipping pages while Super-Speed Reading was done by blowing air across the book to rapidly turn the pages, and Number 5 repeatedly flipping a coin was achieved through some clever editing of a single shot of footage.
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Short Circuit / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Short Circuit / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: One of the phrases that Johnny passes to Ben during his date with Sandy is translated by Sandy as "Your mother sleeps (makes love with) with my dog". At the movie's climax, Johnny uses the same phrase to taunt a crook.
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