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Post by Alohilani on Aug 15, 2008 17:18:42 GMT -5
Oh, I'm sure there are ways for a robot to stink. For one thing, one of those crazy LGMs could have left a rotting baloney sandwich in there... for another thing, he was new, and probably freshly painted. Fresh paint smells. Bad. I'm sure there are other things I can't think of because I don't know about because I don't know machines- but, what if XR uses diesel fuel in some way, for a jetpack or something? That stuff smells reeeeally lovely.
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Post by RedRage on Aug 15, 2008 17:38:13 GMT -5
When a place is very old and very dusty, you can actually smell the dust, maybe not the dust but a scent that it leaves, it's very dry. A corner in a gym that I used to go to smelled like that, and there is this abandoned book shop near where I live that smells like that from the outside. It could be to make it smell nice instead of smelling like dust, or not smelling like anything at all.
Perhaps the air freshener is like those little bags that come with shoes, to absorb humidity.
In reality, I think the whole joke is because of those fresheners that are used for cars, no real explanation, for all they care it could have been a pair dices to hang from xr's chassis door.
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Post by Alohilani on Aug 15, 2008 17:58:57 GMT -5
Yeah, the whole thing made me think he smelled like a new car... though really, why would he? Hmm. I guess it's one of those 'YOU WEREN'T THINKING' things. Still, I can make up a reason. He's got a really old baloney sandwich in his storage compartment somewhere, I bet.
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Post by loony on Aug 15, 2008 19:41:29 GMT -5
I can see why you would need an air freshener if you just painted something, but the fresh-paint smell usually goes away in about 2 weeks, and I can see why you'd need an air freshener if your car ran on deisel, but I'm fairly sure that in an age of flying cars and AIs no one uses deisel anymore...
But probably the most likely reason that it's an air freshener is this:
Writer #1: The last episode we made sucked. Writer #2: You're right, it really did. Writer #1: How can we make a better episode? Writer #3: Oh! I know, let's make an XR-centric episode! Writer #2: That could work, but how can we make it new and exciting? Writer #3: How about we make XR special, and he has a special part inside of him? Writer #1: That's sweet? Hey, how about we drive a bunch of crazy fans insane and make it a useless device a robot would never need instead of something practical? Writers # 2 and 3: Works for us!
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Post by NinjaRabbit on Aug 15, 2008 20:11:27 GMT -5
Leaving a rotting baloney sandwich inside XR? Yup, sounds like something the LGMs would do. ;D Still, all this fuss over just an air freshener? Oh, well. Perhaps I'm just reading too much into this.
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Post by Alohilani on Aug 15, 2008 20:13:53 GMT -5
I actually always assumed it was a temporary thing, the AFD, so that... makes sense to me. Notice how no one seems to notice a smell after the AFD is stolen... true, maybe they're just being polite, but still. No one's in a big hurry to replace it.
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Post by NinjaRabbit on Aug 15, 2008 20:26:14 GMT -5
I actually always assumed it was a temporary thing, the AFD, so that... makes sense to me. Notice how no one seems to notice a smell after the AFD is stolen... true, maybe they're just being polite, but still. No one's in a big hurry to replace it. I can see it now. Buzz: XR, you stink. XR: Well, Buzz, I know that sometimes you and I have our little disputes, but don't you think name calling and insults are a little ... Buzz: No, XR. I mean, you really stink. ;D
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Post by xrofdoom on Dec 23, 2009 21:47:51 GMT -5
Yeah, that sounds right (the whole area around him stinking). Why else would a robot need an air freshener other than to freshen up a room full of stinky...stuff? But it was still funny to see XR (Although it was sad) go through all that trouble only to learn it was just an air freshener! Rofl. I would've been ticked (who wouldn't, thinking you lost your most needed thing in the world only to learn it wasn't that and something that you really didn't need).
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Post by littlefan on Jan 3, 2010 8:13:44 GMT -5
I don't get why XL was coughing when he broke the AFD. I mean, the smell couldn't get through his helmet, right?
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Post by xrofdoom on Jan 4, 2010 17:13:02 GMT -5
Who knows. The logic of Buzz's world is really different from ours...it's confusing! Take ratchet and clank for instance. (At the end of a Crack in time Quark and Snowball were drifting off in outer space! Shouldn't their heads be explody and stuff! Must...bring...LOGIC into world! (brain explodes!)
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