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** The video game tournament takes place on "[[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley Day]]".

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** The video game tournament takes place on "[[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley Day]]"."Creator/AldousHuxley Day".
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** Progress has a large immigrant and refugee population living in neighborhood that look like TheThemeParkVersion of their countries of origin, likely a reference to EPCOT's World Showcase.

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** Progress has a large immigrant and refugee population living in neighborhood neighborhoods that look like TheThemeParkVersion of their countries of origin, likely a reference to EPCOT's World Showcase.
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* InterserviceRivalry: Between Moore & Less Detective Agency, Progress Security, and the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Progress Security looks down on Moore & Less for being private detectives who butt into their cases. The Sheriff's Department looks down on Progress Security for being private security with some police power rather than full-fledged cops.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Signal is a lot darker than the other installments and has a DownerEnding.
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* HotScientist:
** Liam Crawford was called the "Einstein Adonis" of Progress.
** Eve is apparently good looking enough to get a cocktail waitress job at the Temple of Heaven.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


* UncannyValley: InUniverse. How Tim views the jeepers.
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* CastFromMoney: Tim's stun gun fires electrified coins. The tokens made by the manufacturer work best but ordinary dimes work too.
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* LethalChef: Annie and Eve's Aunt Carol. Being in charge of the monorail system, Carol put more effort into timing and scheduling the courses of their dinner than in actually making them taste good.

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* LethalChef: Annie and Eve's Aunt Carol. Being in charge of the monorail system, Carol put more effort into timing and scheduling the courses of their last holiday dinner than in actually making them taste good.
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* HypercompetentSidekick: Eve to Tim. Eve starts the work day early and tries to have serious discussion about finances and office space. Tim wakes up late, lives hand-to-mouth with only a few hundred dollars in his account, and knows nothing about the financial side of running a business.

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* HypercompetentSidekick: Eve to Tim. Eve starts the work day early and tries to have serious discussion discussions about finances and office space. Tim wakes up late, lives hand-to-mouth with only a few hundred dollars in his account, and knows nothing about the financial side of running a business.

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* ShoutOut: Several in-jokes regarding Disney, especially the theme parks, as well as a few non-Disney ones.
** Progress has a large immigrant and refugee population living in neighborhood that look like imitations of their countries of origin, likely a reference to EPCOT's World Showcase.

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* ShoutOut: Several in-jokes regarding Disney, especially the theme parks, EPCOT, as well as a few non-Disney ones.
** Progress has a large immigrant and refugee population living in neighborhood that look like imitations TheThemeParkVersion of their countries of origin, likely a reference to EPCOT's World Showcase.


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** The plot of "Fair Weather Foes" centers around an air show, likely a reference to [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Skyleidoscope Skyleidoscope]].
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* RobotButler: Progress has General Purpose Robots or "jeepers", robotic servants that handle deliveries and other oddjobs. Eve has one she can control remotely, allowing her to explore the world outside while hiding in Tim's apartment.

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* RobotButler: Progress has General Purpose Robots or "jeepers", [[FunWithAcronyms "jeepers"]], robotic servants that handle deliveries and other oddjobs. Eve has one she can control remotely, allowing her to explore the world outside while hiding in Tim's apartment.
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* TheGlassesGottaGo: The owner of the Temple of Heaven tells Eve to get contact lenses if she wants to work there.


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* HotScientist:
** Liam Crawford was called the "Einstein Adonis" of Progress.
** Eve is apparently good looking enough to get a cocktail waitress job at the Temple of Heaven.

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* TheThemeParkVersion: Tim's description of the "International Showcase" modeled after various countries, specifically "Little Persia."

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* TheThemeParkVersion: TheThemeParkVersion:
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Tim's description of the "International Showcase" modeled after various countries, specifically "Little Persia.""
** Also, the "Oriental exoticism" of the [[DenOfIniquity Temple of Heaven]].
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* {{Nanomachines}}: Progress attempted to create these by creating regular robots and using a ShrinkRay on them. Eve's fiancé Albie disappears when one of these experiments goes wrong.
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* MoneyMauling: Tim owns a stun-gun that can be loaded with either specialized tokens or dimes, electrifies them, and launches them at the target.


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* StaticStunGun: Tim owns a gun that launches electrified coins.
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* DenOfIniquity: The Temple of Heaven, where Eve once worked as a cocktail waitress.
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* RobotButler: Progress has "jeepers", robotic servants that handle deliveries and other oddjobs. Eve has one she can control remotely, allowing her to explore the world outside while hiding in Tim's apartment.

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* RobotButler: Progress has General Purpose Robots or "jeepers", robotic servants that handle deliveries and other oddjobs. Eve has one she can control remotely, allowing her to explore the world outside while hiding in Tim's apartment.
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* TheThemeParkVersion: Tim's description of the "International Showcase" modeled after various countries, specifically "Little Persia."

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* HoldYourHippogriffs: [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toot_one%27s_own_horn "Not to wave my arms in front of my own theramin."]]

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* HoldYourHippogriffs: HoldYourHippogriffs:
** "What in the name of
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller Buckminster Fuller]]?"
** [[https://en.
wiktionary.org/wiki/toot_one%27s_own_horn "Not to wave my arms in front of my own theramin."]]

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