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** Eve's aunt Carol is introduced in the ChristmasEpisode (Christmas Carol).
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** Tim goes to a local theme park and mocks a corporate-sponsored, animatronic-hosted attraction that [[InUniverse treats]] [[TechnologyMarchesOn Chimes (mobile phones) like an exciting new futuristic technology]]. This is likely a satire of the Motorola-sponsored Communications Dream Forum.

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** Tim goes to a local theme park and mocks a corporate-sponsored, animatronic-hosted attraction that [[InUniverse treats]] [[TechnologyMarchesOn treats [[{{Zeerust}} Chimes (mobile phones) like an exciting new futuristic technology]]. This is likely a satire of the Motorola-sponsored Communications Dream Forum.

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** At one point, they see a tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus locked in combat, a reference to Ride/EllensEnergyAdventure.

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** At one point, they see a tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus locked in combat, combat in a video game, a reference to Ride/EllensEnergyAdventure.


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** Bonnie, the owner of a local GreasySpoon, is a reference to [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Bonnie_Appetite Bonnie Appetite]].
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* DomedHometown: Progress is encased under a dome. This protects them from rain but makes thunderstorms unbearably loud.

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* DomedHometown: 55% of Progress is encased under a dome. This protects them from rain but makes thunderstorms unbearably loud.
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** Tim goes to a local theme park and mocks a corporate-sponsored, animatronic-hosted attraction that treats [[TechnologyMarchesOn Chimes (mobile phones) like an exciting new futuristic technology]]. This is likely a satire of the Motorola-sponsored Communications Dream Forum.

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** Tim goes to a local theme park and mocks a corporate-sponsored, animatronic-hosted attraction that treats [[InUniverse treats]] [[TechnologyMarchesOn Chimes (mobile phones) like an exciting new futuristic technology]]. This is likely a satire of the Motorola-sponsored Communications Dream Forum.
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** 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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** Tim goes to a local theme park and mocks a corporate-sponsored, animatronic-hosted attraction that treats [[TechnologyMarchesOn Chimes (mobile phones) like an exciting new futuristic technology]]. This is likely a satire of the Motorola-sponsored Communications Dream Forum.
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* TheHeavy: Julia Io is the main recurring antagonist, though she seems to answer to someone else.

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The story begins with the murder of scientist Liam Crawford at the hands of what appears to be a robot. Private investigator Tim E. Less becomes entangled in the investigation when his girlfriend's sister Eve, who was dating Liam, becomes implicated.

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The story begins with the murder of scientist Story arcs include:
* ''Murder In Progress'': Scientist
Liam Crawford is murdered at the hands of what appears to be a robot. Private investigator Tim E. Less becomes entangled in the investigation when his girlfriend's sister Eve, who was dating Liam, becomes implicated.
* ''Fair Weather Foes'': Tim and Eve are hired by the City's Weather Control Department to investigate attempts to sabotage their weather controlling equipment.
* ''The Signal'': A ChristmasEpisode. Eve's aunt Carol, who works on the city's monorail system, is haunted by mysterious visions that always appear right before deadly accidents.
* ''The Infinite Journey'': Tim and his friends are invited to a video game tournament hosted by some of Progress' most powerful computing companies. Eve is hired to investigate the tournament by one of the companies, who fear that the tournament is a ruse by one of the other companies to steal technology. Then one of Tim's teammates disappears.
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* MixAndMatchCritter: Dina, after [[spoiler:Pauline gains RealityWarper powers]].
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* LackOfImagination: Pauline. Or, at least, she claims to be.


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* RealityWarper: Pauline gains these powers [[InsideAComputerSystem within a computer world]] after attempting to stop LivingProgram Dina from being dissolved and assimilated and absorbing some of her power.
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** An AI that takes the form of a dragon addresses the characters as [[Ride/JourneyIntoImagination "little sparks."]]

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** An AI that takes the form of a dragon addresses the characters as [[Ride/JourneyIntoImagination "little sparks."]]sparks"]], a reference to Figment. The dragon also says he once had a friend who was taken away, a reference to Dreamfinder and how he was removed from the ride.
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** An AI that takes the form of a dragon addresses the characters as [[Ride/JourneyIntoImagination "little sparks."]]
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* AcidTripDimension: What Tim sees after passing through the firewall in "The Infinite Journey".

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* ShoutOut: Several in-jokes regarding Disney, especially the theme parks.

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* ShoutOut: Several in-jokes regarding Disney, especially the theme parks.parks, as well as a few non-Disney ones.


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** The video game tournament takes place on "[[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley Day]]".
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** The tournament game contains a number of "SMRT functions." One of them is named [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/SMRT-1 SMRT-1]].
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Eve hates being called the "Technician of Temptation", a nickname given to her by a sensationalist conspiracy-theory show that speculated she had something to do with her boyfriend/boss' disappearance.
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** At one point, they see a tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus locked in combat, a reference to Ride/EllensEnergyAdventure.
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* AndroclesLion: Tim's video game tournament team turns an NPC dinosaur AI into an ally by giving it the ability to speak and being nice to it. The fable of Androcles and the Lion is even mentioned by name.
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* [[MistakenForRacist Mistaken For Sexist]]: When Tim rejects Pauline as a member of his gaming team, Annie thinks it's because she's a woman. Tim insists it's just because she's more interested in old-school gaming and that he's lost to girls many times before.
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** Dr. Eastman scans the Drones' minds and says [[Ride/JourneyIntoImagination "There's not much going on imagination-wise."]]

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** Dr. Eastman scans the Drones' minds and says [[Ride/JourneyIntoImagination "There's not much going on imagination-wise.upstairs in the imagination department."]]
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* ShoutOut: Several in-jokes regarding Disney, especially the theme parks.
** Tim examines a floor looking for a [[https://celebrationspress.com/2021/08/13/emerald-tile/ singular green tile]].
** Dr. Eastman scans the Drones' minds and says [[Ride/JourneyIntoImagination "There's not much going on imagination-wise."]]
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* CluelessDetective: Tim Less.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: An AI designed to manage the monorail system tries to [[spoiler:warn Eve's Aunt Carol of her death, but it lacks understanding of human interaction and only shows her the last thing she sees before she dies, a worker shouting a warning from the catwalk. Carol mistakes these warnings for ghosts, tormenting her with warnings she can't do anything about, so when the worker finally appears for real, she commits suicide.]]
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* JobStealingRobot: Annie and Eve's aunt Carol manages the monorails but the invention of an AI has made her job almost meaningless.
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* BadBoss: Eve remembers how Liam Crawford fired people simply for mentioning a contract the company had lost.
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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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* QuirkyTown: It's a town full of genius scientists, some of them [[MadScientist quite mad]].
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* ChristmasEpisode: "The Signal"


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* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "The Signal"
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* SequelHook: Each season ends with one.
** "Murder in Progress" ends with Eve's name being cleared but Liam's actually killer still at large. The season ends with Julia Io [[spoiler:meeting with the killer and attempting to make peace between him and the ACIP board]].
** "Fair Weather Foes" ends with [[spoiler:Doug in jail]] being recruited by a mysterious stranger.


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* TheVoiceless: Whoever or whatever killed Liam Crawford. They don't speak and are represented only by mechanical whirring noises.
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The story begins with the murder of scientist Liam Crawford at the hands of a robot. Private investigator Tim E. Less becomes entangled in the investigation when his girlfriend's sister Eve, who was dating Liam, becomes implicated.

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The story begins with the murder of scientist Liam Crawford at the hands of what appears to be a robot. Private investigator Tim E. Less becomes entangled in the investigation when his girlfriend's sister Eve, who was dating Liam, becomes implicated.

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