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Robot Repair

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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A robot hosting a repair programme grows furious as every attempt to clarify its title creates another misunderstanding.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

XG-7000 wants to demonstrate how to mend a grandfather clock, but viewers think his programme repairs broken robots. Each week the producer supplies another title, and the host spends his airtime explaining why it still misrepresents the show. A misplaced comma and an unwanted home-improvement makeover push the robot’s patience past its limits. The final broadcast replaces the workshop with a wanted-robot appeal, where the new host manages to misunderstand the original programme all over again.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

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Highly quotable.

It makes one wonder if the producer has even seen the show.

Warning! Warning! Producer must be destroyed!

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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