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GabrielGloom Since: Dec, 1969
#1: Sep 19th 2010 at 4:45:16 PM

Neat Freak has a picture of Wall-E and M-O that doesn't really convey the trope. I would suggest The Cleaner from Black Books as a replacement.

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#2: Sep 19th 2010 at 4:47:37 PM

Um, that's just a man in a suit. It's far worse that the current image.

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GabrielGloom Since: Dec, 1969
#3: Sep 19th 2010 at 5:23:25 PM

A man in a perfectly spotless, creaseless white suit in an environment that's obviously less clean than he is, yes. How about this deviantart pic of the same guy? The broom and the boots make it clearer.

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#4: Sep 19th 2010 at 5:28:45 PM

No. Not knowing the character I can't tell he's an example at all. Sorry. He doesn't look any more spotless than any other television character.

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#5: Sep 19th 2010 at 6:06:09 PM

I agree, he doesn't look particularly neat to me. Maybe we could find a picture of Monk obsessively cleaning something.

edited 19th Sep '10 6:06:21 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#6: Sep 19th 2010 at 7:01:20 PM

There's nothing wrong with the current example. As a robot specifically designed for cleaning, M-O is the perfect example of the trope. However, if you'd like pictures of him cleaning, I took some screen caps:

You know WALL-E just did that to annoy him.
His Obessive Compulsive Directive is on the fritz
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This one's pretty funny because he created a pile up from just cleaning.

edited 19th Sep '10 7:05:06 PM by Mattonymy

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#8: Sep 19th 2010 at 7:16:28 PM

Just thought I'd submit this one as well (it's pretty funny since you actually get to see him "trailing")

Guess who's the "clean" one  *.

edited 19th Sep '10 7:16:44 PM by Mattonymy

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TwentyOne Since: Sep, 2009
#9: Sep 19th 2010 at 10:01:01 PM

Having never seen Wall-E, I'd have to agree that the current pic doesn't work unless you know the character. The ones showing him(?) cleaning are also a little hard to make out action wise.

Sadly, Google Image Search gives me nothing.

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#10: Nov 20th 2010 at 10:56:35 AM

somewhere out there, there's got to be a Camera Abuse scene of someone cleaning the camera. I know I've seen one before, but I can't tell where.

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Nov 20th 2010 at 12:47:42 PM

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GiantSpaceChinchilla Since: Oct, 2009
#12: Nov 20th 2010 at 1:06:17 PM

[up] As much as I love that picture, I swear I can almost hear "The Ride Of The Valkyries". How are we supposed to know that's her past-time/personality/whatever and not her job?

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#13: Nov 20th 2010 at 1:18:54 PM

I'm sure there's some picture of Double D that would work...

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#14: Nov 20th 2010 at 4:23:37 PM

Sigh..., I love M-O and just like how a lot of people were against changing the image for One-Winged Angel, I think the current image is perfect.

Still, if we simply must change the image, then we have to use a picture of Adrian Monk for either this or Super OCD.

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#15: Nov 20th 2010 at 5:24:39 PM

I like the first one a bit more.

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Leaper Since: May, 2009
#16: Nov 20th 2010 at 5:31:36 PM

The current image is unclear. I had to squint a little to make out the tracks on the floor.

If the current image is kept, the tracks must be emphasized somehow.

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#17: Nov 20th 2010 at 5:45:38 PM

To be honest, I saw a bottle of alcohol instead of a spray bottle at first glance.

But looking again, it's pretty clear that it's a spray bottle, but I'm still not sure if it gets the point across.

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#18: Nov 20th 2010 at 5:48:16 PM

If he was holding an alcohol bottle, two questions. First, why is it blue- have you ever seen blue alcohol before? Secondly, why would he be holding a white cloth in his right hand?

I think the image from Monk is pretty clear inasofitself, but I want to see if I can first find a better picture of M-O.

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#19: Nov 20th 2010 at 5:51:55 PM

have you ever seen blue alcohol before?

Could be a fancy mix. I know next to nothing about alcohol drinks

And anyway, I only said that that was what I saw at first glance. It's still pretty clearly a spray bottle.

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#20: Nov 20th 2010 at 5:52:02 PM

I am not familiar with Monk except that one of my chemistry professors kept mentioning that he loves that character, and the image is clear to me. YMMV.

(It's funny how OCD, a debilitating medical condition, has decayed into meaning "neurotic", and you have to specify SuperOCD to mean the serious medical condition.)

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#21: Nov 20th 2010 at 7:57:28 PM

I think "His obsessive compulsive disorder is on the fritz" is the best of the M-O images, but the problem is that the robots from Wall-E really tend to show their personalities via animation, not quite so much in still images.

I like the Monk #1 image. In another one of those "surprising gaps in Internet Image Archiving," there don't seem to be any good images of Felix Unger.

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#22: Nov 20th 2010 at 8:19:04 PM

^That's true. I mean I really really like M-O (I'm the one who actually added the original image of him on the Neat Freak page) but I agree that actions speak louder than words, and without his unique animation he just looks like a cleaning robot.

At any rate, if I can't find a descriptive enough image of him, I'll just add in all of those images to the Neat Freak Image links page when we're done.

edited 20th Nov '10 8:20:17 PM by Mattonymy

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ThePope Since: Oct, 2010
#23: Jan 20th 2011 at 2:26:50 PM

I like the idea of M-O, but the image doesn't get the idea across very well.

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