| 1 | To cut back on money for employee drug tests, Mr. Burns replaces his workers with robots and keeps Homer on board as a possible scapegoat. |
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| 5 | !!Tropes featured: |
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| 7 | * ActorAllusion: All the robots are voiced by Creator/BrentSpiner, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration who's no stranger to playing artificial lifeforms]]. |
| 8 | * ContinuityNod: In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E21TheBartOfWar The Bart of War]]", Bart joined the Preteen Braves. This is brought up in this episode. |
| 9 | * JobStealingRobot: Burns fires everyone (except Homer) and replaces them with robots, which eventually (thanks to Homer) run amok. The unemployed and underemployed former SNPP workers come to Burns' rescue, and he rehires them all. |
| 10 | * ShoutOut: In one scene, Mr. Burns is reading Creator/TinaFey autobiography ''Bossypants'' |
| 11 | * TakeThat: |
| 12 | ** When Homer first sees the robots, he mistakes them for Comic-Con nerds. |
| 13 | ** The robots state that Film/{{Rudy}} was only put in at the end of a meaningless game. |
| 14 | * ToadLicking: Lenny licks a toad after a drug test held at the plant. |
| 15 | * ThreeLawsCompliant: The robots are so committed to protecting humans that they'll even stop Homer from having beer. |
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