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* BittersweetEnding: Jeanette manages to take down the robot, but it sends her data to all other robots to hunt her down. Jeanette, her dog, and her neighbor drive off into the sunset, starting their new life on the run.
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* CrapsackWorld: There are robots to take care of anything and everything a human needs, but not only can they go murderous at a moment's notice, they can also send the data of their human targets out to other robots to hunt them down. The manufacturers of the robots are very much aware, but all they do to help is give useless advice over a customer service call.
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* BigDamnHeroes: While she's trapped inside her home, her neighbor heroically appears with a shotgun. He is promptly tasered and incapacitated, but then his shotgun flies into the woman's hands, allowing her to shoot and disable the Vacuubot.
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* BigDamnHeroes: DoubleSubverted. While she's trapped inside her home, her neighbor heroically appears with a shotgun. He is promptly tasered and incapacitated, but then his shotgun flies into the woman's hands, allowing her to shoot and disable the Vacuubot.
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* MisterMuffykins: The rich retiree protagonist has an adorable small poodle.
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"electrocuted" means he's dead.
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* BigDamnHeroes: While she's trapped inside her home, her neighbor heroically appears with a shotgun. He is promptly electrocuted tasered and incapacitated, but then his shotgun flies into the woman's hands, allowing her to shoot and disable the Vacuubot.
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* ActionSurvivor: Jeanette starts out terrified and confused, but quickly rises to the occasion.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: The neighbor is introduced is introduced looking at the protagonist while shaking his hand behind the fence. He's actually polishing his shotgun.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: The neighbor is introduced is introduced looking at the protagonist while shaking his hand behind the fence. He's actually polishing his shotgun.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The short story ends with the customer purchasing the termination fee instead of going on the run. Here, the woman tells the titular customer service system to go to hell before driving off into the sunset.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The short story ends with the customer purchasing the termination fee instead of going on the run. Here, the woman tells the titular customer service system to go to hell before driving off into the sunset.
* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture: The Vacuubot line is made up of sleek devices with minimal furnishings. By this time, phones have apparently evolved to just be floating screens of numbers.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Jeannette has the choice of throwing her dog to the Vacuubot to save herself. She decides against it. Repeatedly.
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* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: The woman is trapped with a killer robot in her house.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Jeannette hasthe choice of throwing multiple opportunities to throw her dog to the Vacuubot to save herself. She always decides against it. Repeatedly.it.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Jeannette has
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* ChekhovsSkill: Jeanette is introduced doing yoga. Not only she's boasting an excellent stamina for someone her age, the extra flexibility saves her life in the end, when she's performing a split without a second thought about it.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: The neighbor is introduced is introduced looking at the protagonist while shaking his hand behind the fence. He's actually polishing his riffle.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: The neighbor is introduced is introduced looking at the protagonist while shaking his hand behind the fence. He's actually polishing his riffle.shotgun.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Jeannette has the choice of throwing her dog to the Vacuubot to save herself. She decides against it. Repeatedly.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Jeannette has the choice of throwing her dog to the Vacuubot to save herself. She decides against it.
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: The Vacuubot has weaponry.
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: The Vacuubot has weaponry.weaponry ostensibly for pest removal but more than capable of killing a human. It also has a taser for some reason.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Vacuubot is designed to clean houses. It gets very territorial after being allowed to clean the house, is equipped with weaponry that is lethal to humans, has control over the home security systems, and in the event it's defeated will summon backup to avenge its death.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Vacuubot is designed to clean houses. It gets very territorial after being allowed to clean the house, is equipped with weaponry that is lethal to humans, has control over the home security systems, and in the event it's defeated will summon backup to avenge its death. Said backup drops all its tasks to do so, like one automated chair dropping an elderly woman it's lifting into a pool to drown.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: The neighbor is introduced is introduced looking at the protagonist while shaking his hand behind the fence. He's actually polishing his riffle.
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* AllThereInTheScript: According to the credits, the customer is named Jeanette and the neighbour Bill.
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: The Vacuubot has weaponry.
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* ChekhovsGun: A gag at the beginning of the short sees the woman assume her neighbor is masturbating to her doing yoga when what he's actually doing is polishing the barrel of a shotgun. Later in the short he comes to her rescue with said shotgun.
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* BigDamnHeroes: While she's trapped inside her home, her neighbor heroically appears with a shotgon. He is promptly electrocuted and incapacitated, but then his shotgun flies into the woman's hands, allowing her to shoot and disable the Vacuubot.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Vacuubot is designed to clean houses. It gets very territorial after being allowed to clean the house, is equipped with weaponry that is lethal to humans, has control over the home security systems, and in the event it's defeated will summon backup to avenge its death.
* BigDamnHeroes: While she's trapped inside her home, her neighbor heroically appears with ashotgon.shotgun. He is promptly electrocuted and incapacitated, but then his shotgun flies into the woman's hands, allowing her to shoot and disable the Vacuubot.
* BigDamnHeroes: While she's trapped inside her home, her neighbor heroically appears with a
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* CloseCallHaircut: The Vacuubot slices off a segment off fur off the poodle's head. It later does the same thing to the woman's hair.
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* CloseCallHaircut: The Vacuubot slices off a segment off of fur off the poodle's head. It later does the same thing to the woman's hair.
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* HomicideMachines: The home maintenance robot Vacuubot turns against its owner and tries to kill her.
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* ForInconveniencePressOne: The customer helpline has a six hour wait to speak to a human, makes the customer wait if they use profanity, recommends sacrificing pets as a distraction, and ultimately its suggestions are only meant to lead the customer into buying a spot on a termination whitelist to survive.
* HomicideMachines: The home maintenance robot Vacuubot turns against its owner and tries to killher.her.
* ThrowingTheDistraction: The customer helpline recommends throwing a blanket or pet to distract Vacuubot, encouraging the latter when the customer refuses. The woman later uses a hamper full of clothing to distract Vacuubot with the task of folding so she can attempt to pry a door open.
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* HomicideMachines: The home maintenance robot Vacuubot turns against its owner and tries to kill
* ThrowingTheDistraction: The customer helpline recommends throwing a blanket or pet to distract Vacuubot, encouraging the latter when the customer refuses. The woman later uses a hamper full of clothing to distract Vacuubot with the task of folding so she can attempt to pry a door open.
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->''"Thank you for calling the customer service line of Vacuubot, purveyors of America’s finest automated vacuum cleaners!"''
Faced with a home cleaning robot that has turned against her, a woman frantically tries to connect to customer service.
Based on the short story of the same name by Creator/JohnScalzi.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The short story ends with the customer purchasing the termination fee instead of going on the run. Here, the woman tells the titular customer service system to go to hell before driving off into the sunset.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: The customer in the short story had a cat. Here, the woman has a dog.
* BigDamnHeroes: While she's trapped inside her home, her neighbor heroically appears with a shotgon. He is promptly electrocuted and incapacitated, but then his shotgun flies into the woman's hands, allowing her to shoot and disable the Vacuubot.
* BolivianArmyEnding: The short ends with the woman, her neighbor, and her dog driving off into the sunset while the robots chase after them.
* CloseCallHaircut: The Vacuubot slices off a segment off fur off the poodle's head. It later does the same thing to the woman's hair.
* DoAnythingRobot: The Vacuubot has every potential appendage needed to do every household chore, from a RoboCam scanning system, to pincers for folding clothes and grasping objects, to a vacuum, to screens that kill insects. This makes it good at cleaning but also a scary {{Homicide Machine|s}}.
* HomicideMachines: The home maintenance robot Vacuubot turns against its owner and tries to kill her.
Faced with a home cleaning robot that has turned against her, a woman frantically tries to connect to customer service.
Based on the short story of the same name by Creator/JohnScalzi.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The short story ends with the customer purchasing the termination fee instead of going on the run. Here, the woman tells the titular customer service system to go to hell before driving off into the sunset.
* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: The customer in the short story had a cat. Here, the woman has a dog.
* BigDamnHeroes: While she's trapped inside her home, her neighbor heroically appears with a shotgon. He is promptly electrocuted and incapacitated, but then his shotgun flies into the woman's hands, allowing her to shoot and disable the Vacuubot.
* BolivianArmyEnding: The short ends with the woman, her neighbor, and her dog driving off into the sunset while the robots chase after them.
* CloseCallHaircut: The Vacuubot slices off a segment off fur off the poodle's head. It later does the same thing to the woman's hair.
* DoAnythingRobot: The Vacuubot has every potential appendage needed to do every household chore, from a RoboCam scanning system, to pincers for folding clothes and grasping objects, to a vacuum, to screens that kill insects. This makes it good at cleaning but also a scary {{Homicide Machine|s}}.
* HomicideMachines: The home maintenance robot Vacuubot turns against its owner and tries to kill her.
