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Thing-O-Matic
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A common way for mad scientists to name machines, devices, and gadgets: take the thing's function and add -O-Matic or inator to the end. These tend to do exactly what they sound like they do. Usually, they won't give any explanation at all how they do what they do, and no matter how outlandish the science, or specific the purpose, they won't be able to do anything else. See also Expo Label, Name-Tron, Advanced Tech 2000, Thing-O-Meter. Related to iProduct and all those others by way of Zeerust (and also, of all things, Radio Flyer toy wagons which came along in the '20s); in the golden age of the B-Movie in The '50s one of the latest gee-whiz technologies was automatic transmissions in cars, hence naming related to that. This item is available in the Trope Co. catalog. |
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Handy created a central heating unit for the Smurf Village called the Heatomatic in The Smurfs episode "It's A Smurfy Life". | |
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In the Clip Show episode, Doof believed the suffix was the reason of his failures so he gave an invention a name that ended with "non-inator". | |
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The card game Munchkin has an actual "O-Matic" card that improves whatever it's applied to. This can lead to devices like the Magnificent Hat-o-Matic, the Eleven Foot Pole-O-Matic, the Familiar-O-Matic, and the Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment-O-Matic. Also in the game the original "Stab-O-Matic" which allows one to backstab other players. You can technically make a "Stab-O-Matic-O-Matic" because of this. |
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Sonic The Hedgehog: Dr. Eggman/Robotnik's Eggmobile is also known as the Egg-O-Matic. In Sonic Spinball, he turned Mt. Mobius into the "Veg-O-Fortress" (an odd play on the Veg-O-Matic), and his Roboticizer was called the "Veg-O-Machine". |
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In a non-canon episode of The Simpsons, Abraham Simpson's spirit enters Moe's love tester machine and he becomes the Love-Matic Grampa. One of the comics also makes reference to the Baked Bean-O-Matic 3000 Electro-Flatulator. |
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Most every product offered by the Looney Tunes ACME Corporation. | |
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Space Station Silicon Valley has the Rat-O-Matic and the Doomsday-O-Matic Shrinkray. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life had the Suck-o-Matic vacuum cleaner. The word-O-word device was used commonly. It's not called O-Town for nothing, after all. | |
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The Dobie-o-Matic from the The Far Side | |
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In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers almost every Monster of the Week from before Lord Zedd's debut came from a machine named "Monster-O-Matic". | |
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The Forget-O-Ray from Can You Imagine That?. | |
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Gruntilda has a Big-O-Blaster (nicknamed B.O.B.) in Banjo-Tooie, which can remove and store life force. | |
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Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines: in "Ceiling Zero Zero," as Klunk is finishing an invention: | |
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Tomodachi Life has the Age-o-matic, a spray that instantly turns a kid into an adult, and the Kid-o-matic, which turns an adult into a kid. | |
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On Phineas and Ferb, all of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's evil inventions end in the suffix '-inator' (to the point where they do a Lampshade Hanging on it by Doofenshmirtz giving his weapon a name not ending in -inator, giving Agent P the reason for his not doing so by saying that he has worn out the -inator name too much). His first ever invention was just The Inator and his second was the Even-Bigger-Inator. He believed his second attempt to revert Earth's rotation would have a different result from the first one just because he added the suffix '-inator' to the invention's name. When wanting to be able to move them all more easily, he created the Move-A-Bunch-Of-Inators-Inator. In the Clip Show episode, Doof believed the suffix was the reason of his failures so he gave an invention a name that ended with "non-inator". The other evil scientists of the show follow similar naming conventions. Aloyse von Roddenstein uses -inizors (-izors for short), Dr. Diminutive uses -erators, and Professor Poofenplotz uses -ificators. But the generally accepted catch-all term is -inator. |
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Dr. Fred's Sludge-O-Matic in Day of the Tentacle, which had no purpose except to pump out a sufficiently impressive stream of toxic sludge. (No mad scientist's lab is respectable without one). | |
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Girl Genius has the Dropinator™ escape pod and the Voodoo-matic (patent denied). | |
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In an episode of ReBoot where Bob had to lead a team piloting a Humongous Mecha against a giant rampaging creature, Phong called for them to "Use the Matic!" The team was confused, however, leading Phong to explain that he created a Disrupt-O-Matic to disperse the Nulls making up the creature, only to realize it had been left behind in the hangar. Fortunately, AndrAIa was available to pilot it out to them. | |
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Examples from the Calvinverse: The Forget-O-Ray from Can You Imagine That?. Bungling Inventor Dr. Brainstorm invents the "Defeat-O-Matic" in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series. |
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The gadgets in Odd Squad usually have names that end in "-inator". | |
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The Sphere-O-Boom from Futurama. | |
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VeggieTales had the Forgive-O-Matic. | |
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Space Quest VI has the Crap-O-Matic adjustable bed, which Sharpei rests in. | |
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In Adventurers!, Khrima immobilizes Karn by sneakily deploying the Bindomatic Mark VII. | |
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Many of the inventions in the Wallace & Gromit films, such as the Knit-O-Matic from A Close Shave. | |
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There are two kinds of weapons in the Splatoon games named the Splash-o-matic and Sploosh-o-matic. | |
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Glider 4.0 has the Fed-O-Matic paper shredders. | |
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In Sonic Spinball, he turned Mt. Mobius into the "Veg-O-Fortress" (an odd play on the Veg-O-Matic), and his Roboticizer was called the "Veg-O-Machine". | |
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One of Edd's failed inventions in Ed, Edd n Eddy was the Opera-Matic. | |
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In what is probably a reference to Casey and Andy, this Lightning Made Of Owls strip. (And it mentions this page!) | |
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In one episode of Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures, Lemon Meringue orders a Salon-o-matic. Blueberry Muffin orders a Clean-o-matic from the same catalog. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Xander wonders why the inventor of the Du Lac Cross gave it such a weak name, and suggests 'The Cross-O-Matic' instead. | |
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In The Lorax (2012), Ted's family has an Oak-a-matic, the only tree with its own remote control. It has four settings: Summer, Fall, Winter, and Disco! | |
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Clyde Cosgrove's "Meal-O-Matic" from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. | |
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