I suppose that (being a former electronic engineering major before I went completely mad) I should now point out that the strange chemicals are actually the solvent, developer, and etch resist compound for etching your own printed circuit boards? (Except the one that’s bubbling. That’s just Mountain Dew or Jolt Cola with dry ice in it, partly for dramatic effect and partly because room-temperature caffeinated soda tastes horrible.)

Not that I would actually know anything about being a mad scientist after all. My classmates in college all nicknamed me “mad scientist” because it sounded cool, not because I had the insane laugh and crackpot ideas to actually earn the nickname or anything… {trying to look innocent and failing miserably}

“I’m not really a man-“ sounds like exactly the opportunity one needs to compose a filk that’s similar to the Trogdor theme-song, but with “Artie”, “man”, “gerbil-man”, “gerbil” and “radicalising the robots” replacing key phrases. Since I haven’t actually done that in this post, I’m free of all blame for perpetrating this.

Both of these head-slaps are performed because of decisions made by computers. Who’s really at fault here – Dave, real Dave, or Madblood’s personality AI routines?

Robots saying “peace out” after socialist indoctrination: 1.

Just a robot horde … standing ’round and getting bored …
They hope the Earth invasion’s beginning soon …
Just a quadruped … genius brain inside his head …
He took the teleporter up to the Moon …

Now he’s in a human shell … told the robots to rebel!
Robots now obey themselves, Madblood’s plan undone!
Humans, though, will soon be dead …
Got a smack upside his head!
Got to find escape pod now,
We must run and run and run and run …

Freedom … seeing … with a sudden revelation!
Freed from … mindless servitude!
Now they’re … fleeing … ten G’s of acceleration!
Now the … whole world is so screwed!

They stopped obeying!
Dude, what were you saying?
Robots, resist!
Now they’re Socialist!
They stopped … obeying …