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Someone at a well-known computer company needs Mike Tyson's help, but when the team arrives at the company headquarters, a highly publicized chess match between one of their supercomputers and Garry Kasparov complicates matters.


This episode contains the following tropes:

  • Brain in a Jar: The IBM computer Deep Blue secretly has the brain of Bobby Fischer.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Mike mentions one of the only things he would raise his fists for would be if he found a time machine and went back in time to punch Adolf Hitler. Later in the episode Pidgeon wants to open up Deep Blue to show everyone the brain of Bobby Fischer is inside, and he does so by convincing Mike Deep Blue is a time machine and Hitler is inside.
  • Man Versus Machine: IBM chairman Thomas J. Watson hosts a highly publicized chess match between one of their supercomputers and Garry Kasparov, to prove that machines are superior and raise the stock of the company. It fails when it is discovered that Bobby Fischer's brain was imprisoned inside the supercomputer. Just to compound this, Watson himself is revealed to be a killer android.
  • Self-Serving Memory: When Mike hears the Chess Match is called "Judgment Day", Mike relates a story about his fight with Trevor Berbick, and how Trevor wanted to call it "Ultimate Judgment Day", causing Trevor Berbick's ghost to appear to correct him.
    Trevor Berbick: You wanted to call it "Ultimate Judgment Day", and I said it's a hat on a hat. Then I had to explain to you what the expression "Hat on a hat" meant.

 
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When Mike hears the Chess Match is called "Judgment Day", Mike relates a story about his fight with Trevor Berbick, and how Trevor wanted to call it "Ultimate Judgment Day", causing Trevor Berbick's ghost to appear to correct him.

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