History Headscratchers / ShortCircuit

**** Actually, the S.A.I.N.T. robots were designed to transport nuclear weapons, hence ''Nuclear'' Transport." It doesn't necessarily mean they're nuclear powered. It's possible that the laser weapons are either a) far too heavy for humans to carry around or b) too dangerous due to heat or contamination of some sort. Also in the second movie, Johnny 5 tells Ben that his new battery is an "improvement on your design. Cut the bugs out." meaning that his original battery was inefficient.

* One of the main characters is played by a white guy in {{Blackface}}. Newton Crosby is only satisfied that No. 5 is sentient after the machine laughs at a joke about how [[GreedyJew Jewish people are stingy.]] UnfortunateImplications doesn't cover it.
** It's not blackface.
*** "Sikhface" being as yet a fairly unknown term, "blackface" manages to get the image across while highlighting its cultural insensitivity. I stand by it.
**** It's not even "sikhface." It's a makeup job that attempts to make a white actor look like a South Asian character. Whereas blackface is a makeup job designed to turn a white actor into a stock ''caricature''. A white actor made up to look like a realistic black character (within the limits of makeup artistry) would not be blackface, either. It may be offensive, especially if played four laughs, but it's not even on the same ''planet'' as actual blackface.

** Dude, it's a comedy, not a cyber punk movie.

*** [[spoiler:Dude, DontExplainTheJoke!]]

* ''The year: 2011. Twenty-three years ago, SAINT No. "Johnny" 5 was legally declared alive and granted US citizenship. Three years ago, Ben Jahrvi's company -- formerly a manufacturer of children's toys, more recently a manufacturer of domestic and industrial robots -- closed in disgrace after accusations of robot slavery, and millions of sentient machines have entered society. However, anti-robot discrimination and violence are running rampant, and robots speak in hushed whispers of a savior named Saint John who will come and lead them to equality. Meanwhile, Jahrvi's factories have mysteriously begun operating again... and their new owner, a heavily modified SAINT-model robot, has plans that ''don't'' involve human-robot equality. ''Short Circuit 3.'' Revolution is not a malfunction.'' And they're doing a remake instead? Man, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot They Wasted A Perfectly Good]] CyberPunk [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Plot.]]

* ''The year: 2011. Twenty-three years ago, SAINT No. "Johnny" 5 was legally declared alive and granted US citizenship. Today, Ben Jahrvi's company -- formerly a manufacturer of children's toys, more recently a manufacturer of domestic and industrial robots -- has closed in disgrace after accusations of robot slavery, and millions of sentient machines are entering society. However, anti-robot discrimination is running rampant, and robots speak in hushed whispers of a savior named Saint John who will come and lead them to equality. ''Short Circuit 3.'' Revolution is not a malfunction.'' And they're doing a remake instead? Man, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot They Wasted A Perfectly Good]] CyberPunk [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Plot.]]

* Okay, elevator pitch.
->The year: 2011. Twenty-three years ago, SAINT No. "Johnny" 5 was legally declared alive and granted US citizenship. Today, Ben Jahrvi's company -- formerly a manufacturer of children's toys, more recently a manufacturer of domestic and industrial robots -- has closed in disgrace after accusations of robot slavery, and millions of sentient machines are entering society. However, anti-robot discrimination is running rampant, and robots speak in hushed whispers of a savior named Saint John who will come and lead them to equality. ''Short Circuit 3.'' Revolution is not a malfunction.
** And they're doing a remake instead? Man, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot They Wasted A Perfectly Good]] CyberPunk [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Plot.]]

* The year: 2011. Twenty-three years ago, SAINT No. "Johnny" 5 was legally declared alive and granted US citizenship. Today, Ben Jahrvi's company -- formerly a manufacturer of children's toys, more recently a manufacturer of domestic and industrial robots -- has closed in disgrace after accusations of robot slavery, and millions of sentient machines are entering society. However, anti-robot discrimination is running rampant, and robots speak in hushed whispers of a savior named Saint John who will come and lead them to equality. ''Short Circuit 3.'' Revolution is not a malfunction. And they're doing a remake instead? Man, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot They Wasted A Perfectly Good]] CyberPunk [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Plot.]]

*** That still doesn't quite explain why there are spares of the central memory module in the NOVA vans. The ''one part'' that is essentially irreplaceable, and yet there's at least one in the van, because Number Five was able to build a complete duplicate of himself--albeit admittedly, it was only programmed to run away while screaming
incoherently.

*** That still doesn't quite explain why there are spares of the central memory module in the NOVA vans. The ''one part'' that is essentially irreplaceable, and yet there's at least one in the van, because Number Five was able to build a complete duplicate of himself--albeit admittedly, it was only programmed to run away while screaming incoherently.