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3''Technological Threat'' is a 1988 Oscar-nominated short by [[Creator/KroyerFilms Bill Kroyer]] and Brian Jennings.
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5It's about Creator/TexAvery-esque wolves being replaced by CGI robot "dweebs" with one wolf fighting back against one of the robots.
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8* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: One of the earliest examples, and probably one of the first in which the conspicuousness is deliberate.
9* AlliterativeTitle: T-alliteration. ''Technological Threat''
10* BadBoss: The BullyBulldog [[spoiler:and his robotic replacement]] care more about efficiency in the workplace than the well-being of their workers.
11* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[LiteralMinded Albeit a different kind of]] [[BadBoss "boss"]], [[spoiler:the BullyBulldog who replaces the workers with robots in the beginning is himself replaced by a robotic counterpart who serves as the BigBad for the rest of the short.]]
12* BlackComedy: The first wolf worker is replaced because he had a heart attack and died on his desk.
13* BullyBulldog: The boss who replaces the workers with robots [[spoiler:before being replaced himself]] is one.
14* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Happens twice. The first five wolves get dropped through trapdoors in quick succession, but the last wolf is able to persist until the boss leaves. He then starts knocking his new coworkers down the same trapdoors. Again, the first four dweebs fall easily, while the last one fights back and nearly proves a match for the wolf.
15* DisproportionateRetribution: Slack off work for one second and you get replaced by a robot.
16* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:As the last wolf and last dweeb fight, the robot boss returns and attempts to dispose of them both. So they put aside their differences just long enough to drop him down the hole, instead. But the truce is short-lived. The wolf takes advantage of the dweeb's distraction and shoves it down the hole as well.]]
17* InflatingBodyGag: The last wolf deals with one of the dweebs by inflating it with a bike pump, until it smacks a lamp with its head and gets electrocuted.
18* JawDrop: The wolf workers when the first dweeb robot appears.
19* JobStealingRobot: The dweebs end up replacing all but one of the workers, [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedKarma including the boss who deployed them in the first place]]]].
20* PlotSensitiveButton: The boss just has a single BigRedButton marked with a skull-and-crossbones, yet it opens a different trapdoor every time he pushes it.
21* PortableHole: [[spoiler:When the last wolf and last dweeb realize they're standing on a trap door, they escape falling in by ''sliding the door across the floor'', so it winds up underneath the boss instead.]]
22* RapidFireComedy: See ShoutOut.
23* ShoutOut: To Creator/TexAvery (JawDrop included).
24* SpeakingSimlish: The BadBoss berates his workers at a few points, but all his dialogue is gibberish.
25* StealthPun: The wolf workers that are dropped beneath a TrapDoor and replaced by the {{Job Stealing Robot}}s are the [[spoiler:literal underdogs]] in this situation.
26* TrapDoor: There's one under each desk to dispose of those workers who can't cut it. [[spoiler:The last worker uses it to dispose of the boss robot, as well as the last remaining dweeb.]]
27* VisualPun: The dweebs have literal pencil necks.
28* XRaySparks: As one of the dweebs gets electrocuted, there's a brief X-ray shot, which includes a human skull inside his head.
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