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Not to be confused with the "Mann ''vs.'' Machine" game mode on ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.
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* ParentsForADay: In "Billion Dollar Baby," Mann and Eve rescue a baby from people who planned to sell him. They have to look after him for a few days while his parents are tracked down. In the meantime, Eve develops maternal feelings for the baby.
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* ParentsForADay: In "Billion Dollar Baby," Mann and Eve rescue a baby from [[HumanTraffickers people who planned to sell him.him]]. They have to look after him for a few days while his parents are tracked down. In the meantime, Eve develops maternal feelings for the baby.
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''Mann & Machine'' was an American science-fiction cop show that ran for [[ShortRunners nine episodes]] on Creator/{{NBC}} in the spring of 1992. It follows Robert "Bobby" Mann (Creator/DavidAndrews), an LAPD detective working in the "near future," and his new partner Eve Edison (Yancy Butler), the first android capable of feeling emotions and learning from experience.
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''Mann & Machine'' was an American science-fiction cop show that ran for [[ShortRunners nine episodes]] on Creator/{{NBC}} in the spring of 1992. It follows Robert "Bobby" Mann (Creator/DavidAndrews), an LAPD detective working in the "near future," and his new partner Eve Edison (Yancy Butler), (Creator/YancyButler), the first android capable of feeling emotions and learning from experience.
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* AnalogyBackfire: In "Water, Water Everywhere," Mann tells Eve, "The course of one's life is about as predictable as the weather." Eve replies, "My point precisely. With modern tecnology, one can predict meteorological conditions with amazing precision."
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* AnalogyBackfire: In "Water, Water Everywhere," Mann tells Eve, "The course of one's life is about as predictable as the weather." Eve replies, "My point precisely. With modern tecnology, technology, one can predict meteorological conditions with amazing precision."
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* BenevolentBoss: Despite being a ruthless and prolific organ-stealing serial killer, Richards from "No Pain, No Gain" appeared to be a surprisingly nice boss, getting along so well with his henchmen that, during his escape, he actually stops to check and see if one who was knocked out was still alive and alright.
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* ThreeStoogesShoutOut: In one episode, Eve attempts to learn about human behavior by watching Three Stooges shorts.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Mann accuses Eve of this.
-->'''Eve''': I constantly compute velocity, traction, and road conditions, and make turns at optimal speed. Sometimes that means slowing down and sometimes it doesn't.\\
'''Mann''': Tell that to the jogger you nearly ran over.\\
'''Eve''': He was crossing against the light, Mann. I can hardly be expected to include disregard for the law in my calculations.
-->'''Eve''': I constantly compute velocity, traction, and road conditions, and make turns at optimal speed. Sometimes that means slowing down and sometimes it doesn't.\\
'''Mann''': Tell that to the jogger you nearly ran over.\\
'''Eve''': He was crossing against the light, Mann. I can hardly be expected to include disregard for the law in my calculations.
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* ElectronicEyes: Eve can remove her eyes from her skull and attach them to a wall, allowing them to serve as hidden cameras that transmit wirelessly. She has enough spares that she can afford to leave a few lying around.
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: In "Billion Dollar Baby," Eve tastes a pile of white powder and announces, "It's baby powder!"
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: In "Billion Dollar Baby," Eve tastes a pile of white powder and announces, "It's baby powder!"
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* ParentsForADay: In "Billion Dollar Baby," Mann and Eve rescue a baby from people who planned to sell him. They have to look after him for a few days while his parents are tracked down. In the meantime, Eve develops maternal feelings for the baby.
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* GoingToTheStore: In "Truth or Consequences," Eve becomes jealous of an attractive female witness she and Mann are guarding. To see if Mann is romantically interested in the witness, she takes advice from the witness's young daughter: she announces that she's going to the all-night supermarket, waits outside for twenty seconds, then goes back inside to get her purse. She sees Mann and the witness holding hands and leaning into each other.
* IdentityAmnesia: The villains of "Truth or Consequences" have ray guns that can wipe someone's memory. They use them mostly as a tidy way of silencing a witness.
* IdentityAmnesia: The villains of "Truth or Consequences" have ray guns that can wipe someone's memory. They use them mostly as a tidy way of silencing a witness.
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* BulletTime: Used in the climax of most episodes.
* LiteralMinded: Eve is better with metaphors than most fictional robots, but she still has trouble sometimes.
-->'''Mann''': If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.\\
'''Eve''': I don't see what ducks have to do with anything.
-->'''Mann''': If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.\\
'''Eve''': I don't see what ducks have to do with anything.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Mann is an abrasive CowboyCop. Eve is serious and by-the-book.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Mann is an abrasive CowboyCop. Eve is serious serious, polite, and by-the-book.
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* TheTeaser: Most episodes open with a short scene shot from Eve's perspective before the TitleSequence.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The show takes place in "the near future." A few episodes mention 1995 as a previous year.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The show takes place in "the near future." A few episodes mention 1995 and 1997 are both mentioned as a previous year.years.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: "Mann's Fate" has Lomax, aka the Laughing Bomber. He spent eight years locked up before being "cured" by a medication pump in his arm; as soon as he got free, he ripped the pump out and went back to a life of crime. His main symptom seems to be a fondness for jokes and CriminalMindGames.
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* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: In "Mann's Fate," a bomber enters Mann's house dressed as a technician he murdered and hooks a bomb up to the meter. Mann and Eve realize what happened and rush to the house on time to save Mann's dog.
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* InterruptedBath: At the beginning of "Water, Water Everywhere," Mann tries to take a shower, but is interrupted first by a phone cal from Captain Claghorn and then by a reporter knocking at his door. Los Angeles is having a years-long drought, so Mann's water shuts off before he can finish, and he ends up having to rinse the soap out of his hair with bottled water.
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* InterruptedBath: At the beginning of "Water, Water Everywhere," Mann tries to take a shower, but is interrupted first by a phone cal call from Captain Claghorn and then by a reporter knocking at his door. Los Angeles is having a years-long drought, so Mann's water shuts off before he can finish, and he ends up having to rinse the soap out of his hair with bottled water.
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* AndroidsAndDetectives: Not only Eve, but also Mann's previous partner, Warner. Warner drove Mann crazy and almost got him killed, and after he is destroyed in a gunfight, Mann requests a human partner. He isn't happy to find that Eve is a robot, too.
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* AnalogyBackfire: In "Water, Water Everywhere," Mann tells Eve, "The course of one's life is about as predictable as the weather." Eve replies, "My point precisely. With modern tecnology, one can predict meteorological conditions with amazing precision."
* AndroidsAndDetectives: Not only Eve, but also Mann's previous partner, Warner. Warner was a lot less sophisticated than Eve. He drove Mann crazy and almost got him killed, and after he is destroyed in a gunfight, Mann requests a human partner. He isn't happy to find that Eve is a robot, too.
* AndroidsAndDetectives: Not only Eve, but also Mann's previous partner, Warner. Warner was a lot less sophisticated than Eve. He drove Mann crazy and almost got him killed, and after he is destroyed in a gunfight, Mann requests a human partner. He isn't happy to find that Eve is a robot, too.
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* InterruptedBath: At the beginning of "Water, Water Everywhere," Mann tries to take a shower, but is interrupted first by a phone cal from Captain Claghorn and then by a reporter knocking at his door. Los Angeles is having a years-long drought, so Mann's water shuts off before he can finish, and he ends up having to rinse the soap out of his hair with bottled water.
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* SuperSenses: Eve has these. She can tell if a car needs an oil change by the smell of its exhaust.
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* {{Womanchild}}: Eve is intellectually brilliant, but she has an emotional age of seven. The scientists hope that by being partnered with Mann, she'll be able to experience the full range of human emotions so her emotional age can catch up with her appearance.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The show takes place in "the near future." In the pilot, Mann mentions 1995 as a previous year.
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* ArtificialMeat: According to "No Pain, No Gain," hot dogs haven't technically counted as meat since 1995.
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* OrganTheft: "No Pain, No Gain" involves a series of dead bodies that have washed up on the beach with their organs harvested and replaced with gravel.
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* UndercoverAsLovers: In "No Pain, No Gain," Eve and Mann go undercover as a husband and wife trying to buy a testicle from [[OrganTheft organ thieves]].
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* ZippingUpTheBodybag: In "No Pain, No Gain," [[DaChief Captain Claghorn]] flips a sheet over a dead body's face.
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* AndroidsAndDetectives: Not only Eve, but also Bobby's previous partner, Warner. Warner drove Bobby crazy and almost got him killed, and after he is destroyed in a gunfight, Bobby requests a human partner. He isn't happy to find that Eve is a robot, too.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Bobby has to explain why Eve shouldn't change her clothes in front of him.
* RedOniBlueOni: Bobby is an abrasive CowboyCop. Eve is serious and by-the-book.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Bobby has to explain why Eve shouldn't change her clothes in front of him.
* RedOniBlueOni: Bobby is an abrasive CowboyCop. Eve is serious and by-the-book.
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* AndroidsAndDetectives: Not only Eve, but also Bobby's Mann's previous partner, Warner. Warner drove Bobby Mann crazy and almost got him killed, and after he is destroyed in a gunfight, Bobby Mann requests a human partner. He isn't happy to find that Eve is a robot, too.
* DatingServiceDisaster: In "The Dating Game," Eve signs up for a dating service because three of its female users have been murdered. Before she finds the culprit, one of the suspects tries to rape her. She easily fights him off, but is still shaken by the experience.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Eve rescues a hostage by dressing as a pizza delivery girl.
* ElectrifiedBathtub: The victims in "The Dating Game" were all killed this way. During the climax, the villain tries to push Eve into an electrified swimming pool.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl:Bobby Mann has to explain why Eve shouldn't change her clothes in front of him.
* RedOniBlueOni:Bobby Mann is an abrasive CowboyCop. Eve is serious and by-the-book.by-the-book.
* WordAssociationTest: Eve takes one when signing up for a dating service in "The Dating Game." Her results are so eccentric ("Naughty"-->"Pine," "Pulsating"-->"Sphygmomanometer," "Sperm"-->"Literature/MobyDick") that the service can't find a single match.
* DatingServiceDisaster: In "The Dating Game," Eve signs up for a dating service because three of its female users have been murdered. Before she finds the culprit, one of the suspects tries to rape her. She easily fights him off, but is still shaken by the experience.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Eve rescues a hostage by dressing as a pizza delivery girl.
* ElectrifiedBathtub: The victims in "The Dating Game" were all killed this way. During the climax, the villain tries to push Eve into an electrified swimming pool.
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* WordAssociationTest: Eve takes one when signing up for a dating service in "The Dating Game." Her results are so eccentric ("Naughty"-->"Pine," "Pulsating"-->"Sphygmomanometer," "Sperm"-->"Literature/MobyDick") that the service can't find a single match.
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* AndroidsAndDetectives: Not only Eve, but also Mann's previous partner, Warner. Warner drove Mann crazy and almost got him killed, and after he is destroyed in a gunfight, Mann requests a human partner. He isn't happy to find that Eve is a robot, too.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Mann has to explain why Eve shouldn't change her clothes in front of him.
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* AndroidsAndDetectives: Not only Eve, but also Mann's Bobby's previous partner, Warner. Warner drove Mann Bobby crazy and almost got him killed, and after he is destroyed in a gunfight, Mann Bobby requests a human partner. He isn't happy to find that Eve is a robot, too.
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Unlike all previous police robots, Eve is a neural net capable of learning and developing.
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''Mann & Machine'' was an American science-fiction cop show that ran for [[ShortRunners nine episodes]] on Creator/{{NBC}} in the spring of 1992. It follows Robert "Bobby" Mann (Creator/DavidAndrews), an LAPD detective working in the "near future," and his new partner Eve Edison (Yancy Butler), the first android capable of feeling emotions and learning from experience.
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!!''Mann & Machine'' features examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The show takes place in "the near future." In the pilot, Mann mentions 1995 as a previous year.
* AlliterativeName: Eve Edison.
* AndroidsAndDetectives: Not only Eve, but also Mann's previous partner, Warner. Warner drove Mann crazy and almost got him killed, and after he is destroyed in a gunfight, Mann requests a human partner. He isn't happy to find that Eve is a robot, too.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Unlike all previous police robots, Eve is a neural net capable of learning and developing.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Mann has to explain why Eve shouldn't change her clothes in front of him.
* RedOniBlueOni: Mann is an abrasive CowboyCop. Eve is serious and by-the-book.
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!!''Mann & Machine'' features examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The show takes place in "the near future." In the pilot, Mann mentions 1995 as a previous year.
* AlliterativeName: Eve Edison.
* AndroidsAndDetectives: Not only Eve, but also Mann's previous partner, Warner. Warner drove Mann crazy and almost got him killed, and after he is destroyed in a gunfight, Mann requests a human partner. He isn't happy to find that Eve is a robot, too.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Unlike all previous police robots, Eve is a neural net capable of learning and developing.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Mann has to explain why Eve shouldn't change her clothes in front of him.
* RedOniBlueOni: Mann is an abrasive CowboyCop. Eve is serious and by-the-book.
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