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What's going on, everyone? Welcome to the Part-Time Nerd Podcast
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with your pals Alan and Rapid Dave. I'm Alan.
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I'm R.D., man.
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How you doing, brother?
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Oh, just another day. Another terrible 80s movie.
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Oh, my gosh. You watch your hooker mouth when you
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say that.
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Yeah.
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Today, we're watching the 1986 movie Short Circuit coming in
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in one hour and 38 minutes. What do you got
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on it?
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When one of an experimental range of military robots is
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hit by lightning, it's giving consciousness. It escapes from the
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military and befriends a young woman, Stephanie Speck, His creator,
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Newton Crosby, is desperate to find it. I don't know
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why I put it like that. Or his entire project
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may be scrapped. It was released May 9th, 1986. Director
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John Battam. Rated PG, which I've been noticing the movies
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from the 80s that are rated PG. That's crazy. And
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then running time is an hour and 38 minutes. So
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it's a comedy slash sci-fi.
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Yeah. And this was like, being a kid, I remember
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absolutely loving this movie.
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I didn't like this one. I'm a Short Circuit 2 kid.
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Short Circuit 2 was better, definitely. But I still, to
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this day, when I think of your mother jokes, I
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always think of it. Your mother was a snowblower. That's
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always stuck with me since then. That's been a go-to,
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your mom joke for me. But yeah, you've got number five.
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He is alive, obviously. Part of Nova Robotics. They're doing
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this military demo there at the beginning of it. And
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part of the demonstration, like they go through the whole
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military demonstration, right? And then they're showing, you know, a
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little bit more of what the robot can do. What
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do they show? The robot making a drink.
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Absolutely.
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Hey, look, he can also make a drink, you know?
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But yeah, number five gets struck by lightning and essentially
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gains consciousness, you know? Comes self-aware. The AI has become aware. Um,
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he's alive and you've got just, I don't know, just
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a series of just blunders and comedy. You've got Steve
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Gutenberg in this.
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Yeah. I was watching police Academy at one point. I
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was like, I thought the channel had changed GW Bailey. Yeah.
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You know, uh, Schroeder he's in this, uh, you have
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the very, the very weird casting of Fisher Stevens as,
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as Ben, the Indian guy in this one. Yeah.
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Brown face. Yeah.
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Yeah, I guess there just wasn't a ton of Indian
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guys that were in the acting scene back then.
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Yeah, maybe Flush if they were in Frisco or Prosper
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these days. Just pick anybody.
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Also, I mean, look. He did a good job. I
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liked him.
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He's funny. He's funny.
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He's definitely one of the highlights of the movie for me,
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for sure. And then the great Ally Sheedy's in this.
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I don't know why you say great. I mean, she's
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all right. Come on, man. I thought you were going
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to say the great Steve Guttenberg. I was like, okay,
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I can get behind her.
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That's fine.
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Ally Sheedy was fine in this. She just....
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The character she plays is just kind of annoying, right?
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Oh, yeah, very annoying.
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She's just very this super... Almost like she's a child, right?
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Yeah.
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But she's not. She's a grown-ass adult who's just very childlike.
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But yeah, and number five ends up showing up at
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her place. And he decides he wants to watch TV
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for the rest of his life, essentially, you know, live
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and watch TV.
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I mean, I get it. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
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Okay. He just wants info, feed me info. He's reading
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the encyclopedias. He's watching TV. The Nova Robotics Group is
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trying to hunt him down. Dr. Crosby, he's trying to
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find him. He wants to figure out
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It's a race to get him, yeah. It's a race
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to get him.
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It's a race to get him. Hilarity ensues. They send
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other robots after him, and he defeats all of them.
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He reprograms three of them to be the Three Stooges, which,
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I mean, I remember laughing my ass off at that
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scene when I was a kid. I still laugh today. But,
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I mean, the Three Stooges are always funny. That's just
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all there is to that, right? Okay. Can't go wrong
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with the Three Stooges. They end up kidnapping Crosby so
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that they can prove to him that number five is alive.
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And then it's just a series. They spend like all
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night just going back and forth trying to figure it out.
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And the way that he figures out that he's alive
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is he tells him a bad joke. And he laughs
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at it and he gets, he's like, oh, I get it.
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He starts laughing. He's like, holy crap, he is alive.
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He laughed at my bad joke.
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They put a bounty on him right so everybody was
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like looking for the robot and what I remember like
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the oh yeah the ex-boyfriend or whatever was like shooting
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at him and uh they took his car apart and
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then like the bus boy at the restaurant was like
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oh man 20 I think it's 25 grand or something
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like that I don't know what the number was but
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yeah it's like oh my god.
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Yeah everyone's trying to find him she's she's had him
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right um and then it ends up with a big
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military stand off there at the end Right. And he's
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he's fighting his way. And he just figures, you know, hey,
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let me just go ahead and create a whole nother.
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So he builds a whole nother robot with all the
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parts that were in the van and sends them off.
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And they start shooting at them, end up blowing them up.
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And you're like, oh, they're like, well, it's been fun.
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You've lost your job now. You know him. And then
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him and Ali Sheedy drive off in the truck. And
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the next, you know, number five is he just pops
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out of the bottom of the truck. He's like, hey,
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I'm here. They're like, what happened? They're like, well, built
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another one. They're like, holy crap. And they're driving off
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to Montana. His family left them property in Montana. She's
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moving in with him. That all moved very, very quick.
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But he's also a nerd who hasn't been out in
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the real world at all because he's just been building
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this robot. And so it's just funny to listen to
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him and Ben talk about girls like, They're like a
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couple of middle school kids.
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I like the way Ben talks about him though. He's
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the Indian guy. He's the funniest. Like when he's talking
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about doing like stuff and like, I should have wrote
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down some of his quotes, but yeah, he was, he
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had me rolling.
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He was, he was so funny. Um, but yeah, so
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they're going to go live in Montana now, uh, which
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we know is a lie because we've all seen short
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circuit too. And that's in New York. So, but yeah,
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so they're just driving off the Montana to go live
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a life with number five, the robot that they have that,
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but first of all, like they just let them drive
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off in the truck with all the parts and everything
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that's owned by the company that he no longer worked for.
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I don't, I don't think that would, that would happen.
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Yeah. Just take the company van and all our proprietary equipment,
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you know, things like that.
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Meanwhile, you've still got this robot who has this laser
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attached to him. That is just. Yeah.
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Military grade.
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Yeah. Yeah. Like, We need to make sure that laser's
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there before people start leaving. Oh, there's no laser here?
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Because they're not just carrying around an extra laser inside
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that van, right? That's just not happening. But yeah, just
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ignore
all that. But I mean, all in all, it's
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a movie that's made for kids. Like, you watch this,
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this was made for kids. But again, like I said,
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I remember watching this, loving it. Was excited when Short
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Circuit 2 came out. watched that one, was definitely a
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bigger fan of Short Circuit 2 than 1. I have
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to go through and re-watch that one now just to
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see where that one stands. But it's just, like, as
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an adult now, like, there's just parts that just got, like,
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Ally Sheedy's character, she's just kind of annoying, you know,
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with just how she is and just how childlike she is.
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It does. And you just see, she just makes bad choices. Like,
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you got the ex-boyfriend, right? And then now all of
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a sudden she's got this guy that she's talked to
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for all of 10 minutes that she's going to move
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to Montana with. And she's going to take all of
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her animals out there, right?
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Yeah, got to take all the animals.
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He has no idea. Which, that's a huge red flag
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right there.
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At least they're not all cats.
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It's true, but you got like a three-legged dog and
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all kinds of stuff that the ex-boyfriend's trying to take
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so he could take to go have him like experimented
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on or something. Like, that was just... It was just weird. Like...
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I don't know. But, I mean, all in all, it's
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still funny. I still laughed. Steve Guttenberg, I mean, he's
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just great. He's funny. At number five, still funny.
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He was hilarious.
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He's hilarious. Just him, just copying everything he saw on TV.
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Things that we did when we were a kid.
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Yep, essentially. So it relates. Let's see. IMDb 6.6 out
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of 10. Rotten Tomatoes 62%. Voodoos slash Vandango 4.5 out
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of 5. Highly rated Vandango. Highly rated.
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Short Circuit is about what happens when the military builds
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a robot, gets struck by lightning, becomes alive, and immediately
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decides it would rather watch TV than blow stuff up.
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Number 5 is the heart of the movie. He's funny, curious,
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surprisingly lovable, and somehow makes you care about a giant
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pile of metal. Steve Guttenberg and Ally Sheedy are great.
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There's plenty of classic 80s cheese and Number 5 is
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Alive is still iconic. Some parts definitely haven't aged well,
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but nearly 40 years later, Short Circuit is still a
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really fun 80s movie. It's an 80s movie. Movies were
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different in the 80s.
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I haven't seen it probably since 1990, and I don't
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I mean, I don't know if I'll ever see it again,
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but it's a, there you go. I watched it. Can't
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wait to see circuit short circuit too.
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I will definitely watch it again. Cause the kiddo hasn't
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seen it yet. And so we're going to sit down
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and watch it with the kid, but I had fun
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with it. If I was flipping through the channels and
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it was on, I stopped by, I stopped down, see
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what you got here. Tell me your story. Number five,
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let's hear it. Tell me if you're alive or not,
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but Hey guys, let us know. Have you guys seen
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short circuit? Did you love this as a kid or,
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And you just not watch it until now when you're
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an adult. And what do you think about it? Let
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us know. As always, I'm Alan.
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I'm Marty.
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Talk to you later.
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Deuces.