Rad finds love in an unexpected place.
Tropes:
- Alas, Poor Yorick: The episode ends with Rad and Shannon being enemies again, Rad knocking off Shannon’s head in the heat of battle. Rad then picks up Shannon’s disembodied head and uses it to make a dramatic soliloquy, only for the still-conscious head to snark at him.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's not clear if Shannon rebooting actually would have or did made her stop loving Rad, or if it only happened because of Rad's comment afterward. Perhaps, she still loves him secretly.
- Battle in the Rain: How the episode starts off, eventually causing Shannon to malfunction after getting struck by lightning. Lampshaded by Enid.Enid: Of course these jerks would attack on the middle of a thunderstorm!
- Bindle Stick: Shannon is carrying one when she's about to run away with Rad.
- Break His Heart to Save Him: Raymond and Darrel want Shannon to break up with Rad out of fear that if Lord Boxman were to find out, she would be discontinued.Raymond: We can't let Father get wind of this, or we'll never see Shannon again!
Darrel: But how?!
Raymond: There's only one way, brother. Destroy that who she desires most. - Driven to Suicide: Shannon hits her self-destruct switch after hearing Rad's comments about her.
- Gave Up Too Soon: Shannon appears to self-destruct to reboot, causing Rad to lash out and say loving her was impossible and that she was just "cold metal". Then we see Shannon was Faking the Dead, overheard Rad, and so reboots for real.
- Gloomy Gray: After Rad says he never loved Shannon, she's heartbroken and her reset button and eyes turn from red to gray.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: A lightning strike causes Shannon to deviate from her programming by falling in love with Rad.
- Never Say "Die": As Raymond puts it, if Boxman catches Shannon with a hero, she'll be "discontinued". Justified as Shannon is a robot made on an assembly line who gets Resurrective Immortality from transferring her program to another body; "discontinue" has a more precise and relevant meaning than "die".
- Offing the Offspring: Raymond and Darrell fear that if Boxman finds out Shannon was in love with Rad, he won't just reboot her, he'll end her product line entirely.
- Robosexual: The plot is about Rad and Shannon falling in love.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: The episode is pretty obviously a Romeo and Juliet parody.
- Sickening Sweethearts: Enid's thoughts about Rad and Shannon's romance.Enid: Already, it's been 2 seconds and I already want to barf.
- Singing Voice Dissonance: Rad and Shannon sound completely different while singing, even
having a different voice actor in Rad's case. Lampshaded afterward when both note how amazing the other's singing voice was. - Sudden Downer Ending: Playing into the Romeo & Juliet Shout-Out, the episode ends with a sudden tragedy due to quick case of miscommunication between Rad and Shannon. After Shannon fakes rebooting herself, a posturing Rad tries to brush of K.O.'s and Enid's concern by saying he could never fall in love with a robot. Shannon over hears this and decides to reboot herself for real.
- Whole-Plot Reference: For Romeo & Juliet. It involves two star crossed teenagers who plan on running away together but are hindered. As a result one pretends to commit suicide but later ends with a real one.
