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** The first thing Tina-bot does in the city is walk up to a bystander [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay and inform them that she specifically needs their clothes, their boots, and their bike]].

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** The first thing Tina-bot does in the city is walk up to a bystander mannequin (that she thinks is a bystander) [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay and inform them that she specifically needs their clothes, coat, their boots, shoes, and their bike]].



* SkewedPriorities: Louise and Gene are worried about Tina... because she's too depressed to take them to get boba drinks like she promised. Linda is no better, being more concerned with finding out what to get Tina for her birthday. And Mr. Grant not only chose to use the school's money to buy the "Wow or Weird" touchscreen instead of textbooks, but talked his colleagues into going along.

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* SkewedPriorities: Louise and Gene are worried about Tina... because she's too depressed to take them to get boba drinks like she promised.promised and is due to receive a free extra-large drink on her next visit. Linda is no better, being more concerned with finding out what to get Tina for her birthday. And Mr. Grant not only chose to use the school's money to buy the "Wow or Weird" touchscreen instead of textbooks, but talked his colleagues into going along.along with it.
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* MediumAwareness: In Tina's story, Bob comments that the walls are reinforced with cement and the windows are bulletproof because they live in a horrible dystopian nightmare.

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* MediumAwareness: In Tina's story, Bob comments that the walls are reinforced with cement concrete and the windows are bulletproof because they live in a horrible dystopian nightmare.
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* NoodleIncident: When Bob yells upon seeing the bathroom graffiti, Linda thinks he fell in the urinal again.
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* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: Even though her upcoming birthday doesn't actually happen in this episode or the next (but was implied to be happening quite soon), Tina is still 13 years old in future appearances.

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* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: Even though her upcoming birthday doesn't actually happen in this episode or the next (but was implied to be happening quite soon), Tina is still 13 years old in future appearances.
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* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: Even though her upcoming birthday doesn't actually happen in this episode or the next (but was implied to be happening quite soon), Tina is still 13 years old in future appearances.
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** Buttard is overall an Expy of Rick Deckard, but he has the implanted memories of the company owner's niece like Rachel.
** Tina also serves as a composite of the replicant characters. She is trying to beat the system and live a normal life like Roy Batty, is subject to a test that identifies bots like Leon, becomes romantically involved with the officer assigned to catch her like Rachel, and is shown sleeping in an alley like Pris.

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** Buttard is overall an Expy of Rick Deckard, but he has the implanted memories of the company owner's niece like Rachel.
Rachael.
** Tina also serves as a composite of the replicant characters. She is trying to beat the system and live a normal life like Roy Batty, is subject to a test that identifies bots like Leon, becomes romantically involved with the officer assigned to catch her like Rachel, Rachael, and is shown sleeping in an alley like Pris.
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** Dr. Yap appears on a holographic advertisement, as both a CallBack to Tina's crush on him and a parody of Film/BladeRunner's famous shot of the massive geisha advertisement screen.

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** Dr. Yap appears on a holographic advertisement, as both a CallBack to Tina's crush on him and a parody of Film/BladeRunner's ''Film/BladeRunner'''s famous shot of the massive geisha advertisement screen.

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* TheCameo: [[Recap/BobsBurgersS8E4SitMeBabyOneMoreTime Kendra Stokes]] appears near the start of Tina's story.

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[[Recap/BobsBurgersS8E4SitMeBabyOneMoreTime Kendra Stokes]] appears near the start of Tina's story.story.
** Dr. Yap appears on a holographic advertisement, as both a CallBack to Tina's crush on him and a parody of Film/BladeRunner's famous shot of the massive geisha advertisement screen.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it. Instead, he prefers to go on about the touchscreen they got through the school's funding.

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* AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it. Instead, he prefers to go on about the touchscreen they got for it through the school's funding.funding. This influences Tina’s decision to destroy the touchscreen to put an end to “Wow or Weird” by the end of the episode.

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* CompositeCharacter: Buttard is overall an Expy of Rick Deckard, but he has the implanted memories of the company owner's niece like Rachel.

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* CompositeCharacter: CompositeCharacter:
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Buttard is overall an Expy of Rick Deckard, but he has the implanted memories of the company owner's niece like Rachel.Rachel.
** Tina also serves as a composite of the replicant characters. She is trying to beat the system and live a normal life like Roy Batty, is subject to a test that identifies bots like Leon, becomes romantically involved with the officer assigned to catch her like Rachel, and is shown sleeping in an alley like Pris.
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* TempingFate: Zaff claims his contact in the company is very trustworthy and promised not to tell anybody he, Tina, and Buttard were bots on the run. Cut to a CoincidentalBroadcast about the three of them on the TV above their table.

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* TempingFate: TemptingFate: Zaff claims his contact in the company is very trustworthy and promised not to tell anybody he, Tina, and Buttard were bots on the run. Cut to a CoincidentalBroadcast about the three of them on the TV above their table.
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* TempingFate: Zaff claims his contact in the company is very trustworthy and promised not to tell anybody he, Tina, and Buttard were bots on the run. Cut to a CoincidentalBroadcast about the three of them on the TV above their table.
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* CompositeCharacter: Buttard is overall an Expy of Rick Deckard, but he has the implanted memories of the company owner's niece like Rachel.

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Louise likes robots that look like the {{Franchise/Terminator}} and ''are'' the Terminator.



* ShapedLikeItself: Louise likes robots that look like {{The Franchise/Terminator}} and ''are'' the Terminator.
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* FailedAttemptAtDrama: At the start of her first, ''Grease''-themed friend fiction, Tina (as "Candy") opens the doors to Wagstaff, blows a bubble with her gum and then spits it out on the ground. She immediately steps in the gum and gets it on her shoe.


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* ShapedLikeItself: Louise likes robots that look like {{The Franchise/Terminator}} and ''are'' the Terminator.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it. Instead, he prefers instead to go on about the touchscreen they got through the school's funding.

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* AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it. Instead, he prefers instead to go on about the touchscreen they got through the school's funding.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it. Preferring instead to go on about the touchscreen they got through the school's funding.

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* AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it. Preferring Instead, he prefers instead to go on about the touchscreen they got through the school's funding.



* EntertainmentAboveTheirAge: For once, Bob ''indulged'' in it as he stayed up late with the kids to watch the end of ''Film/{{Grease}}'' and the start of ''Film/BladeRunner'', the latter of which Linda acknowledges as not quite age-appropriate.

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* EntertainmentAboveTheirAge: For once, Bob ''indulged'' ''indulges'' in it as he stayed up late with the kids to watch the end of ''Film/{{Grease}}'' and the start of ''Film/BladeRunner'', the latter of which Linda acknowledges as not quite age-appropriate.



* SkewedPriorities: Louise and Gene are worried about Tina... because she's too depressed to take them to get boba drinks like she promised. Linda is no better, being more concerned with finding out what to get Tina for her birthday.

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* SkewedPriorities: Louise and Gene are worried about Tina... because she's too depressed to take them to get boba drinks like she promised. Linda is no better, being more concerned with finding out what to get Tina for her birthday. And Mr. Grant not only chose to use the school's money to buy the "Wow or Weird" touchscreen instead of textbooks, but talked his colleagues into going along.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it.
* BathroomStallGraffiti: Bob's storyline has him discover that someone wrote "Bob's is crap" in the bathroom and get upset about it.

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* AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it.
it. Preferring instead to go on about the touchscreen they got through the school's funding.
* BathroomStallGraffiti: Bob's storyline has him discover that someone wrote "Bob's is crap" in the bathroom and get upset about it. When Teddy discovers the "Bob's Burgers is Poop" scrawl, he too gets very upset.
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** Gene rants that "WesternAnimation/WallE is more human than all of you!"
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* WholePlotReference: Tina's featured erotic friend-fiction is a clear one to ''Film/BladeRunner'', inspired by the fact that Tina watched the start of the movie the night before she began the story. Several of the characters are stand-ins for the film's characters and even share similar names: Tina is a stand-in for Roy Batty, Jimmy Jr. is a stand-in for Rick Deckard (and has his last name changed to Butt-ard), and Zeke is a stand-in for Gaff (with his name changed to Zaff).

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* WholePlotReference: Tina's featured erotic friend-fiction is a clear one to ''Film/BladeRunner'', inspired by the fact that Tina watched the start of the movie the night before she began the story. Several of the characters are stand-ins for the film's characters and even share similar names: Tina is a stand-in for Roy Batty, Jimmy Jr. is a stand-in for Rick Deckard (and has his last name changed to Butt-ard), and Zeke is a stand-in for Gaff (with his name changed to Zaff). The story even reveals that Jimmy Jr. is a robot, referencing the extremely popular fan theory that Deckard is a replicant.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Jocelyn is usually a better person than Tammy and if anything her nastiness is usually because of Tammy's bad influence, but in this episode she actively tears people down alongside Tammy and shows little to no remorse for such.
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** When Louise comments that Tina is still "in a huff," Gene calls Tina "[[Series/HRPufnstuf H.R. Huffnstuf]]."
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* MorphicResonance: Robot!Tina has her glasses and a yellow chip on her head where Tina’s yellow hairclip usually is. Robot!Tammy and Robot!Jocelyn have purple and green clips on their heads where they typically wear their scrunchies.
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* FunTShirt: Tina's shirt, which she proudly bought with her own money, has a picture of a horse and the caption "Clip Clop and You Don't Stop". Tammy and Jocelyn rag on it during their "Wow or Weird" segment, getting Tina depressed and setting up the main plot.


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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Tina's story moves to Bob's Burgers, she specifically mentions how it's not crap at all, referencing the graffiti in the bathroom. Later, when they talk about the secret escape tunnel, Story Gene says that he never used it to pee.

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* MediumAwareness: In Tina's story, Bob comments that the walls are reinforced with cement and the windows are bulletproof because they live in a horrible dystopian nightmare.



** The third Burger of the Day is the "[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Mad Flax Curry Road Burger]]".

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** The third Burger of the Day Day, featured in Bob's dystopian restaurant, is the "[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Mad Flax Curry Road Burger]]".
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* BathroomStallGraffiti: Bob's storyline has him discover that someone wrote "Bob's is crap" in the bathroom and get upset about it.


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* SkewedPriorities: Louise and Gene are worried about Tina... because she's too depressed to take them to get boba drinks like she promised. Linda is no better, being more concerned with finding out what to get Tina for her birthday.
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* WholePlotReference: Tina's featured erotic friend-fiction is a clear one to ''Film/BladeRunner'', inspired by the fact that Tina watched the start of the movie the night before. Several of the characters are stand-ins for the film's characters and even share similar names: Tina is a stand-in for Roy Batty, Jimmy Jr. is a stand-in for Rick Deckard (and has his last name changed to Butt-ard), and Zeke is a stand-in for Gaff (with his name changed to Zaff).

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* WholePlotReference: Tina's featured erotic friend-fiction is a clear one to ''Film/BladeRunner'', inspired by the fact that Tina watched the start of the movie the night before.before she began the story. Several of the characters are stand-ins for the film's characters and even share similar names: Tina is a stand-in for Roy Batty, Jimmy Jr. is a stand-in for Rick Deckard (and has his last name changed to Butt-ard), and Zeke is a stand-in for Gaff (with his name changed to Zaff).

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When Tina's new shirt is ridiculed by Tammy and Jocelyn in a Wagstaff News segment called "Wow or Weird," she turns to her erotic friend-fiction and writes about a futuristic world in which she is a robot.

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When Tina's new shirt is ridiculed by Tammy and Jocelyn in a Wagstaff News segment called "Wow or Weird," she turns to her erotic friend-fiction and writes about a futuristic world in which she is a robot. Meanwhile, Bob grapples with his self-worth after finding a series of demeaning messages in the restaurant's bathroom.



* TheBully: Tammy and Jocelyn basically use "Wow or Weird" to hype up themselves and presumed friends while being complete assholes to everyone else. Jimmy Jr. and Zeke even call them out on it after one of their segments calls out the former.

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*AdultsAreUseless: Mr. Grant is aware that Tammy and Jocelyn abuse "Wow or Weird" to be blatant bullies, but openly states he won't do anything about it.
* TheBully: Tammy and Jocelyn basically use "Wow or Weird" to hype up themselves and presumed friends while being complete assholes to everyone else. Jimmy Jr. and Zeke even call them out on it after one of their segments calls singles out the former.



*{{Cliffhanger}}: The erotic friend-fiction ends with Tina separated from her allies (who are being surrounded and/or restrained by authorities), Bob's plotline ends with him questioning his self-worth and the bathroom graffiti remaining unsolved, Tina's plotline ends with her vowing to permanently end "Wow or Weird" [[WellIntentionedExtremist by any means necessary]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Gene and Louise still haven't gotten their boba]].
*DisproportionateRetribution: Teddy vows that when he finds the bathroom vandal, he'll lock them in his truck and do ''something'' to them. We don't hear the rest of the threat before Linda cuts him off.



*InnocentInnuendo: Gene's verse of the ending song is him lamenting that he never got to "taste those balls".



** The Burger of the Day is the "[[Literature/TheJungleBook Leek-y Tikki Tavi Burger]]".
** Tina-bot walks up to a bystander [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay and informs them that she specifically needs their clothes, their boots, and their bike]].
* StageWhisper: Tina's birthday is coming soon, and Bob and Linda try to discuss what they should get her... right in front of Tina, who lampshades that they are not being very quiet
* WholePlotReference: Tina's featured erotic friend-fiction is a clear one to ''Film/BladeRunner'', inspired by the fact that Tina watched the start of the movie the night before. Tina is a stand-in for Roy Batty, while Jimmy Jr. is a stand-in for Deckard (and even has his last name changed to Butt-ard).

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** The first Burger of the Day is the "[[Literature/TheJungleBook Leek-y Tikki Tavi Burger]]".
** **The second Burger of the Day is the "[[Literature/TheAgeOfInnocence Sage of Innocence Burger]]".
**The third Burger of the Day is the "[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Mad Flax Curry Road Burger]]".
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Tina-bot walks does in the city is walk up to a bystander [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay and informs inform them that she specifically needs their clothes, their boots, and their bike]].
* StageWhisper: Tina's birthday is coming soon, and Bob and Linda try to discuss whisper among themselves what they should get her... right in front of Tina, who lampshades that they are not being very quiet
quiet.
* WholePlotReference: Tina's featured erotic friend-fiction is a clear one to ''Film/BladeRunner'', inspired by the fact that Tina watched the start of the movie the night before. Several of the characters are stand-ins for the film's characters and even share similar names: Tina is a stand-in for Roy Batty, while Jimmy Jr. is a stand-in for Rick Deckard (and even has his last name changed to Butt-ard).Butt-ard), and Zeke is a stand-in for Gaff (with his name changed to Zaff).
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When Tina's new shirt is ridiculed by Tammy and Jocelyn in a Wagstaff News segment called "Wow or Weird," she turns to her erotic friend-fiction and writes about a futuristic world in which she is a robot.
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!!(Eighth) Grade Troper:
*TheBully: Tammy and Jocelyn basically use "Wow or Weird" to hype up themselves and presumed friends while being complete assholes to everyone else. Jimmy Jr. and Zeke even call them out on it after one of their segments calls out the former.
*CallBack: One of the "Wow or Weird" segments focuses on [[Recap/BobsBurgersS9E20TheGeneMile Jimmy Jr.'s admittedly-strange running style]].
*TheCameo: [[Recap/BobsBurgersS8E4SitMeBabyOneMoreTime Kendra Stokes]] appears near the start of Tina's story.
*EntertainmentAboveTheirAge: For once, Bob ''indulged'' in it as he stayed up late with the kids to watch the end of ''Film/{{Grease}}'' and the start of ''Film/BladeRunner'', the latter of which Linda acknowledges as not quite age-appropriate.
*PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The episode title is a reference to both ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'' and ''Franchise/BladeRunner''.
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**Bob and the kids stayed up late to watch the end of ''Film/{{Grease}}'' and the start of ''Film/BladeRunner''.
**The Burger of the Day is the "[[Literature/TheJungleBook Leek-y Tikki Tavi Burger]]".
**Tina-bot walks up to a bystander [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay and informs them that she specifically needs their clothes, their boots, and their bike]].
*StageWhisper: Tina's birthday is coming soon, and Bob and Linda try to discuss what they should get her... right in front of Tina, who lampshades that they are not being very quiet
*WholePlotReference: Tina's featured erotic friend-fiction is a clear one to ''Film/BladeRunner'', inspired by the fact that Tina watched the start of the movie the night before. Tina is a stand-in for Roy Batty, while Jimmy Jr. is a stand-in for Deckard (and even has his last name changed to Butt-ard).
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