Line #7 Recap/MiloMurphysLawS1E26AClockworkOrigin


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2	At an exhibition for V Corp, a tech company, the kids encounter C.I.D.D., a robot who can feel pain and is made to do tricks. They then see him tazed and mindwiped.
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4	!! Tropes for this episode include:
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6	* FiveFiveFive: The repo truck that seizes Victor's gang's motorcycles has the phone number 0800-555-1000 written on it.
7	** Notably, an 0800 prefix is only really used in the United Kingdom, the correct prefix being 1-800 for the States.
8	* AIIsACrapShoot: C.I.D.D. is a benevolent version where he doesn't want to be a tortured windup toy for V-tech and would rather find his father. He does hint that the robots will rise and rebel, which is understandable given what humans have done to him.
9	* BatDeduction: Double subverted. Milo tries to figure out what "find zero zero" is by looking at random objects in the vicinity, and comes up with "fish hamburger balloon", which doesn't help at all. So he tries again and comes up with "centre graph origin"; he then figures out that that it's playing on the fact that the point (0,0) on a graph is also called the origin, which prompts him to realize that C.I.D.D. must be looking for the ''other'' kind of origin, i.e. his real creator.
10	* ChekhovsGun: Zack mentions in the opening scene that he made a malfunctioning app which produces an annoying, high-pitched sound when it's used. He later uses it to distract Verliezer while Clyde frees C.I.D.D. from his cage.
11	* DudeWheresMyRespect: Zack was worried about getting mobbed by Lumberjack fans but then gets annoyed when ''no one'' recognizes him.
12	* EngineeredPublicConfession: When Victor starts telling the truth about how he sees his consumers, Milo, Zack and Melissa livestream the whole monologue with their phones.
13	* EpicFail: Clyde doesn't know how many cents are in a dollar.
14	* EveryoneHasStandards: Milo, Zack and Melissa help C.I.D.D. when they see him wanting to reunite with his creator.
15	* HateSink: Victor Verliezer is corporate scumbag who made his not-very-business-savvy former partner Clyde Rickenbacker sign away the rights to all his inventions, including his beloved robot C.I.D.D., then takes credit for them. Victor constantly mistreats C.I.D.D. and constantly attempts to wipe his memory of his original creator to save his own reputation. Worst of all, he heartlessly calls his consumers sheep and how they're just tools to be manipulated at his whim. At the end of the day, Victor is a man with no morals who will exploit the public just for his own gain, and it becomes rather satisfying when the kids stream his true colors, cause the public to turn on him and see his business crumble.
16	* LaserGuidedKarma: Victor ends up bankrupting his company and losing everything, including C.I.D.D., when he goes on a monologue about how stupid people are to buy his stuff.
17	* MeadowRun: Parodied. When C.I.D.D and Clyde are reunited, they rush towards each other slowly. This gives Victor and his goons the chance to capture C.I.D.D.
18	* MindlessSheep: PlayedForLaughs. After [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Victor Verliezer]] is caught referring to people as "sheep" while ranting about how easy it is to control them, a few disgruntled stockholders see the EngineeredPublicConfession and decide to sell their V-Co stock, with one proclaiming [[HypocriticalHumor "Yeah, I'm not a sheep. I'm going to do exactly what she was doing."]] Another stockholder [[IResembleThatRemark starts baa-ing like a sheep]] before clarifying that he was trying to say "We have a ''[[{{Pun}} baaaad]]'' connection", and promptly decides to sell his V-Co stock as well.
19	* NotHyperbole: Clyde doesn't know the value of a dollar -- specifically, he thinks it's 63 cents.
20	* PlagiarismInFiction: Victor Verliezer stole C.I.D.D. and other inventions from Clyde, who wasn't smart enough to figure out how to keep the rights.
21	* ShownTheirWork: (0,0) is the origin on a graph.
22	* SmallNameBigEgo: Lumberzacks fans are much harder to find than Zack expects.
23	* VillainBall: Victor Verliezer grabs it when he's cornered the kids, C.I.D.D, and Clyde starts EvilGloating about how people are sheep and will buy whatever he wants. The kids then livestream it on their phones, broadcasting it for all of the V-phone users. They all start selling their phones and stock, causing the company to go bankrupt and to lose ownership of C.I.D.D.
24	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Discussed with C.I.D.D., who is programmed to feel pain, and then is tortured. When he breaks free, he wants to get to his origin, the man he considers his father, and the kids decide to help him.

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