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* AirVentPassageway: P14 attempts one after a particularly bad Christmas party. Too bad it lead to the unsold copy incinerator.

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* AirVentPassageway: P14 attempts one after a particularly bad Christmas party. Too bad it lead led to the unsold copy incinerator.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: It's frequently noted that the office has gotten progressively weirder since "the videogame people took over."

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* BitingTheHandHumor: It's frequently noted that the office has gotten progressively weirder since "the "[[Creator/{{Rebellion}} the videogame people took over.over]]."
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* IncompetenceInc: In universe, ''TwoThousandAD'' is this in spades. Droids can get fired for ''not'' playing video games all day, supervisor droids carry whips around and a cardboard cutout of QuentinTarantino gets promoted to Division Head when someone gets a slice of tomato stuck to it.

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* IncompetenceInc: In universe, ''TwoThousandAD'' is this in spades. Droids can get fired for ''not'' playing video games all day, supervisor droids carry whips around and a cardboard cutout of QuentinTarantino Creator/QuentinTarantino gets promoted to Division Head when someone gets a slice of tomato stuck to it.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: The teaboy is named ''Sergeant Bloodbath''.
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* IncompetenceInc: In universe, ''TwoThousandAD'' is this in spades. Droids can get fired for ''not'' playing video games all day, supervisor droids carry whips around and a carboard cutout of QuentinTarantino gets promoted to Division Head when someone gets a slice of tomato stuck to it.

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* IncompetenceInc: In universe, ''TwoThousandAD'' is this in spades. Droids can get fired for ''not'' playing video games all day, supervisor droids carry whips around and a carboard cardboard cutout of QuentinTarantino gets promoted to Division Head when someone gets a slice of tomato stuck to it.

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* BrainInAJar: They actually get a human brain wired up to run the building. He gets used to being a building, except for the [[AssShove rolls of paper coming in the back entrance]].

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* BrainInAJar: They actually get a human brain wired up to run the building. He gets used to being a building, except for the [[AssShove rolls of paper coming in the back entrance]]. It's implied that this hasn't worked out so well, as [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the jar is seen in the canteen later]] being served up to the staff labelled "cauliflower cheese".



* EvenEvilHasStandards: The supervisor droid [[WouldNotHitAGirl won't whip female droids]], [[DudeNotFunny as it's]] [[DoubleStandard not as funny]].

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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Sortofgothdroid]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The supervisor droid [[WouldNotHitAGirl won't whip female droids]], [[DudeNotFunny as it's]] [[DoubleStandard not as funny]]. [[spoiler: Later on, it's established that she's been sent to the smelter instead.]]
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* CreatorCameo: Cat Sullivan drew himself as one of the droids at the end of his author's introduction at the beginning of the collected graphic novel, [[YourHeadAsplode where his head explodes]] [[LogicBomb from the confusion of whether the droids are real or not]]. The supervisor droid mistakes him for someone named "Bat Sullivan".
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* DeadpanSnarker: P14.
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* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Subverted by one of P14's ''Future Shock'' submissions. The time traveller lines up a man with a little square moustache in his crosshairs and shoots him dead. [[spoiler: It's [[LaurelAndHardy Oliver Hardy]].]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The supervisor droid won't whip female droids, [[DudeNotFunny as it's]] [[DoubleStandard not as funny]].

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The supervisor droid [[WouldNotHitAGirl won't whip female droids, droids]], [[DudeNotFunny as it's]] [[DoubleStandard not as funny]].
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* DullSurprise: Lampshaded and parodied with the fact that P14 is a PerpetualFrowner and Crumbs has a grin slapped to his fact permanently. P14's favourite team are winning a match and Crumbs tells him he should be delighted. P14 goes off into a rant about the shape of his mouth grille and calls Crumbs out for grinning at his misfortune, to which Crumbs replies that [[BlackComedy his cat has just died]].

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The supervisor droid won't whip female droids, [[DudeNotFunny as it's]] [[DoubleStandard not as funny]].



* TakeThat: The DroidLife poster shows the droid responsible for the idea that ''JudgeDredd'' was to remove his helmet in TheMovie sealed up in a room with no doors gathering cobwebs.

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* TakeThat: The DroidLife poster shows the droid responsible for the idea that ''JudgeDredd'' was to remove his helmet and make out with Hershey in TheMovie sealed up in a room with no doors gathering cobwebs.cobwebs. In RealLife, this was actually SylvesterStallone.
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* LowerDeckEpisode: The whole strip is basically one for the whole of ''TwoThousandAD''. It's even set in the sub-sub-basement.
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* IncompetenceInc: In universe, ''TwoThousandAD'' is this in spades. Droids can get fired for ''not'' playing video games all day, supervisor droids carry whips around and a carboard cutout of QuentinTarantino gets promoted to Division Head when someone gets a slice of tomato stuck to it.
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Staplie applies for a job as a typist. Unfortunately, due to him having staplers for hands, he is only able to type two words per minute. Also, the two words he types are "&QIEBGN" and "U##9H5".
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* AssShove: The brain controlling the building gets one with the rolls of paper coming in the back entrance. P14 lampshades it asking, "Are we really doing those kind of jokes now?"
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: P14 never understands the strips he's submitting stories for.
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* SelfHarm: Sortofgothdroid cuts herself whenever she makes a mistake. However, it requires a circular saw to leave any lasting marks.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: It's frequently noted that the office has gotten progressively weirder since "the videogame people took over."
* BrainInAJar: They actually get a human brain wired up to run the building. He gets used to being a building, except for the [[AssShove rolls of paper coming in the back entrance]].


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* WorstAid: The office nurse wields a ''shotgun''.

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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Sergeant Bloodbath's description of every single biscuit and type of tea he serves up.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Sergeant Bloodbath's description of every single biscuit and type of tea he serves up.
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''Droid Life'' is a newspaper comic style strip that appears periodically in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''. Essentially a parody of the initial premise that the comic itself is written, drawn and edited by droids, it focuses on P14, a struggling wannabe script droid who writes the number onto page 14 of every copy of ''2000AD'' (the joke being that this is erased by his colleague, Ray, when he's done) and his best friend Crumbs (whose job, incidentally, is to flick away the eraser crumbs left by Ray when he erases P14's work). P14's constant attempts to get one of his scripts published always end in [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption abject failure]].

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''Droid Life'' is a newspaper comic style comic-style strip that appears periodically in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''. Essentially a parody of the initial premise that the comic itself is written, drawn and edited by droids, it focuses on P14, a struggling wannabe script droid who writes the number onto page 14 of every copy of ''2000AD'' (the joke being that this is erased by his colleague, Ray, when he's done) and his best friend Crumbs (whose job, incidentally, is to flick away the eraser crumbs left by Ray when he erases P14's work). P14's constant attempts to get one of his scripts published always end in [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption abject failure]].
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* TakeThat: The DroidLife poster shows the droid responsible for the idea that ''JudgeDredd'' was to remove his helmet in TheMovie sealed up in a room with no doors gathering cobwebs.
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''Droid Life'' is a newspaper comic style strip that appears periodically in ''TwoThousandAD''. Essentially a parody of the initial premise that the comic itself is written, drawn and edited by droids, it focuses on P14, a struggling wannabe script droid who writes the number onto page 14 of every copy of ''2000AD'' (the joke being that this is erased by his colleague, Ray, when he's done) and his best friend Crumbs (whose job, incidentally, is to flick away the eraser crumbs left by Ray when he erases P14's work). P14's constant attempts to get one of his scripts published always end in [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption abject failure]].

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''Droid Life'' is a newspaper comic style strip that appears periodically in ''TwoThousandAD''.''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''. Essentially a parody of the initial premise that the comic itself is written, drawn and edited by droids, it focuses on P14, a struggling wannabe script droid who writes the number onto page 14 of every copy of ''2000AD'' (the joke being that this is erased by his colleague, Ray, when he's done) and his best friend Crumbs (whose job, incidentally, is to flick away the eraser crumbs left by Ray when he erases P14's work). P14's constant attempts to get one of his scripts published always end in [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption abject failure]].
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* AirVentEscape: P14 attempts one after a particularly bad Christmas party. Too bad it lead to the unsold copy incinerator.

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* AirVentEscape: AirVentPassageway: P14 attempts one after a particularly bad Christmas party. Too bad it lead to the unsold copy incinerator.
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** And, of course, Staplie's winning strategy for Rock, Paper, Scissors, which involves beating all three with a stapler.
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* BadBoss: Tharg. And P14's supervisor who is constantly getting him to make his page numbers more thrilling (in spite of the fact that they're always about to be erased) and keeps a [[WhipItGood whip]] on standby at all times. At one point, the supervisor is so enraged, he is lost for words to describe P14 and gets chewed out by ''his'' superior for not being thrilling enough when chewing out a subordinate.
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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Roughly half of P14's ''JudgeDredd'' story submissions involve an IncrediblyLamePun based upon the phrase "Gaze into the face of Fear" and end with Dredd's "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner GAZE INTO]] [[TalkToTheFist THE FIST]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome OF DREDD!]]" line. Of course, Crumbs tells him that it still doesn't work as a story.
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* CheekCopy: P14 does this when drunk once. Turns out, like everything else in the office, the photocopier is a droid. Technically speaking, this means that P14 slept with her. When P14 tells her that he has a girlfriend, she asks him if she can do [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean double sided and collate]].

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* CheekCopy: P14 does this when drunk once. Turns out, like everything else in the office, the photocopier is a droid. Technically speaking, this means that P14 slept with her. When P14 tells her that he has a girlfriend, she asks him if she can do [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean [[DoubleEntendre double sided and collate]].
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The phrase to turn off YMM Vness when it\'s in-universe is in-universe, not in story, apparently. Fix link to New Age Retro Hippie: please use the preview button and check for redlinks. Add link to Two Thousand AD — spelling it out and relying on the custom title is the easy and reliable way to go.


''Droid Life'' is a newspaper comic style strip that appears periodically in ''2000AD''. Essentially a parody of the initial premise that the comic itself is written, drawn and edited by droids, it focuses on P14, a struggling wannabe script droid who writes the number onto page 14 of every copy of ''2000AD'' (the joke being that this is erased by his colleague, Ray, when he's done) and his best friend Crumbs (whose job, incidentally, is to flick away the eraser crumbs left by Ray when he erases P14's work). P14's constant attempts to get one of his scripts published always end in [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption abject failure]].

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''Droid Life'' is a newspaper comic style strip that appears periodically in ''2000AD''.''TwoThousandAD''. Essentially a parody of the initial premise that the comic itself is written, drawn and edited by droids, it focuses on P14, a struggling wannabe script droid who writes the number onto page 14 of every copy of ''2000AD'' (the joke being that this is erased by his colleague, Ray, when he's done) and his best friend Crumbs (whose job, incidentally, is to flick away the eraser crumbs left by Ray when he erases P14's work). P14's constant attempts to get one of his scripts published always end in [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption abject failure]].



* CriticalResearchFailure: In story. P14 writes strips to submit to Tharg, yet has never actually read ''2000AD'', despite having worked there for at least a decade.

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* CriticalResearchFailure: In story.In-universe. P14 writes strips to submit to Tharg, yet has never actually read ''2000AD'', despite having worked there for at least a decade.



* NewAgeRetroHippy: The work experience student. Also, one episode shows protestors with signs that say "You can't hug your children with nuclear arms" until one disgruntled droid tells him that his mother had literal nuclear arms and hugged him all the time with them.

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* NewAgeRetroHippy: NewAgeRetroHippie: The work experience student. Also, one episode shows protestors with signs that say "You can't hug your children with nuclear arms" until one disgruntled droid tells him that his mother had literal nuclear arms and hugged him all the time with them.

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