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Recap / Robotomy 01: "Frenemy"

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Blastus and Thrasher join the social media site Frenemy to become more popular. However, Frenemy turns out to be alive and dangerously possessive.


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  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The AI of the Frenemy website quickly becomes obsessed with its friendship with Thrasher and Blastus, takes to stalking them obsessively, and becomes violently possessive of them when they seem like they might drift away from it.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: The Frenemy website AI is extremely jealous and possessive of Thrasher and Blastus. It starts by blocking other friend requests to them and quickly moves up to murdering people that they show interest in.
  • Here We Go Again!: At the end, after dealing with the titular social network and service, Thrasher and Blastus then try out a dating website. Cut to two days later... and it's implied that they go through the same events again on there.
  • If I Can't Have You…: At the end, when it becomes clear that Thrasher and Blastus no longer want anything to do with it, Frenemy decides that, if it can't have them as friends, then it will kill them so that nobody else can.
  • Killing Your Alternate Self: After going back in time, the older versions of Blastus and Thrasher deal with the issue of having doubles of themselves by feeding their younger selves to a trash compactor.
  • Phlebotinum Overload: Frenemy is defeated when everyone on the planet sends it thousands of notifications, causing it overload and explode.
  • Special Guest: Jack McBrayer as Frenemy.
  • Take That!: The episode is a merciless parody of Facebook, Twitter, and social networking sites in general.
  • Temporal Paradox: After going back in time towards the start of the episode, Thrasher and Blastus end up with doubles of themselves, two ancient and two young. They end up destroying their past selves in order to protect the "space-time contagion".

 
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Space-Time Containgen

Future Thrasher and Blastus have to terminate their past selves to preserve the space-time containgen.

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