What kind of robot are you?

October 9, 2001 8:24 AM

What kind of robot are you? [via Sean Meade]

I'm "Data, the slightly annoying android from Star Trek TNG". Who would have guessed?
posted by silusGROK (92 comments total)

hmm, it said I'm Al Gore.
posted by corpse at 8:27 AM on October 9, 2001

1142!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:29 AM on October 9, 2001

is there a wisecracking existentialist robot I can be? any suggestions? I always think the teddy bear in A.I. is going to do a Joe Pesci on me, but it doesn't.
posted by theplayethic at 8:31 AM on October 9, 2001

I got Al Gore, also. Strange.
posted by bjgeiger at 8:35 AM on October 9, 2001

are we all Al Gore?
posted by epersonae at 8:37 AM on October 9, 2001

Maximillian: Slices and dices those pesty humans.
posted by whuppy at 8:40 AM on October 9, 2001

No Al Gore for me! I'm R2D2.
posted by UncleFes at 8:42 AM on October 9, 2001

No, I'm Roy Batty...Whoo Hoo! In your faces, MetaFis!
posted by y2karl at 8:42 AM on October 9, 2001

I'm Roy Batty...of course, I haven't seen Blade Runner in over 15 years, so that really means nothing to me.
posted by byort at 8:42 AM on October 9, 2001

Maximillian as well.
posted by Fat Elvis at 8:42 AM on October 9, 2001

I was happy to find that I am Roy Batty from Blade Runner.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."

*or, the R-rated version:*

"I want more life, fucker!"
posted by Kafkaesque at 8:43 AM on October 9, 2001

Al Gore???? I was thinking I should be C3PO. I'm a politician! Shoot me!
posted by presto at 8:44 AM on October 9, 2001

perhaps that explains everything about MeFi: Al Gore vs. Roy Batty?
posted by epersonae at 8:45 AM on October 9, 2001

It said I would be disappointed and I am. Al Gore?! I don't look anything at ALL like Al Gore. *pout*
posted by Hildegarde at 8:46 AM on October 9, 2001

I am Roy Batty.. thank god I'm not Al Gore.
posted by zempf at 8:46 AM on October 9, 2001

I haven't seen Blade Runner in over 15 years, so that really means nothing to me.

Think Rutger Hauer
posted by y2karl at 8:47 AM on October 9, 2001

"Under my skin I'm really David the kid that made you cry in A.I."
posted by SuperBreakout at 8:49 AM on October 9, 2001

I'm Rachael, the innocent, loving replicant from Blade Runner... um, ok.
posted by starvingartist at 8:52 AM on October 9, 2001

aww, someone broke the click thingie and now I don't get to know what robot I am.
posted by ginz at 8:54 AM on October 9, 2001

oh I see, it's because I'm the Iron Giant. Never heard of her. Thought it was a link.
Duh.
So, is this Iron Giant real cute?
posted by ginz at 8:57 AM on October 9, 2001

I'm R2D2 - "wise trash can." Hey, don't be insulting my R2, dude.
posted by dnash at 8:59 AM on October 9, 2001

Another R2 here. Not sure how I feel about that.
posted by jpoulos at 9:01 AM on October 9, 2001

Data.

I'm still terribly confused by the drop down menu question (#29). I do not know how to operate a drop down menu, but the only answer is yes, which would require me to lie and answer that yes, I do know how to operate a drop down menu. This would violate my programming. I sought help, but once I'd been helped I now knew how to operate a drop down menu, so I had to answer yes. However answering yes based only on the fact that I needed to answer no seems to negate the question.
posted by joemaller at 9:01 AM on October 9, 2001

Iron Giant
posted by bjgeiger at 9:01 AM on October 9, 2001

Which one was Roy Batty again?
posted by Lynsey at 9:03 AM on October 9, 2001

Tally another closeted Gore. I never would have guessed.

ginz- The Iron Giant is kind of cute, I guess. Big, but cute.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:04 AM on October 9, 2001

C3P0. I think it's because I like chocolate.
posted by djfiander at 9:06 AM on October 9, 2001

i am gort.
posted by asok at 9:07 AM on October 9, 2001

My result was the Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger terminator, not that other guy according to the picture. This is the only time that anyone has every put forth the opinion that Arnold Schwarzenegger and I had any trait in common.
posted by rks404 at 9:08 AM on October 9, 2001

I am the pusher robot...I help by pushing things.

(OK...not really.)
posted by byort at 9:09 AM on October 9, 2001

R2D2- The Wise Trash Can- That about sums it up for me
posted by redhead at 9:09 AM on October 9, 2001

I wish I was Goldar from Valley of the Giants. One day, God willing and with the help of massive surgery á la Tigerman, I will be.

Lynsey, Roy Batty is the head of the replicants in Blade Runner that has a bit of a jesus complex, likes to release doves dramatically and say things like "All these...moments..will be lost now. Like tears. In rain."

Go Vangelis go!
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:10 AM on October 9, 2001

well, actually it gave me terminator 2 'liquid metal. pfff
posted by asok at 9:11 AM on October 9, 2001

Aargh! C3PO. I wish my eyes glowed red as I was about to disintegrate a petty human!
posted by jennyjenny at 9:12 AM on October 9, 2001

thanx bjgeiger and mr_crash_davis
Í'm big!
What's that little human boy doing in my hand? Is it food?
posted by ginz at 9:12 AM on October 9, 2001

I'm R2D2... But I've never even seen Star Wars!
posted by mrbula at 9:13 AM on October 9, 2001

super sweet! ... i'm roy batty - now i get to spend my whole day feeling cool and breaking fingers.
posted by ggggarret at 9:14 AM on October 9, 2001

hmm... i tried three different random variations on answers and got Data every damn time!
posted by nyomi at 9:32 AM on October 9, 2001

Ginz.. go watch The Iron Giant.. best animated movie in a long time. Brad Bird is awesome.
posted by Hildago at 9:34 AM on October 9, 2001

I'm Maxmillion...I always loved The Black Hole.
posted by Benway at 9:34 AM on October 9, 2001

I'm David and I make people cry! But I really -wanted- to be Al Gore.
posted by Cecilia at 9:42 AM on October 9, 2001

Oh yeah, a poet and a psychotic - that's so me. (not!)
I wanted to be Chalmers in "Spacehunter, Adventures in the
Forbidden Zone" (only alive, of course!). "Best damn model they ever made," said Wolf about her.
posted by Lynsey at 9:44 AM on October 9, 2001

Iron Giant for me. Bleh.
I wanna break stuff.
posted by Su at 9:56 AM on October 9, 2001

I wish I was a robot on crack.
posted by kahboom at 9:59 AM on October 9, 2001

I am very, very disturbed to see that I am the only person so far that got "Johnny 5" from "Short Circuit."

Great, I'm in tight with Steve Gutenberg. That'll take me places.
posted by ColdChef at 9:59 AM on October 9, 2001

No.5 from "Short Circuit", and I'm running for president in 2004.
posted by liam at 10:06 AM on October 9, 2001

On a joint ticket with Coldchef, I guess.
posted by liam at 10:08 AM on October 9, 2001

Happy to see the link has brought such joy to the masses!

GINZ: Iron Giant = Way cool... one of the best films in ages.
posted by silusGROK at 10:08 AM on October 9, 2001

Iron Giant rocks. It really could have put Warner Bros on the map for animated features had they bothered to promote it. It's far better than anything Disney (aside from Pixar) has put out lately.

Brad Bird, by the way, is now working with Pixar. Those guys know talent when they see it.
posted by kindall at 10:12 AM on October 9, 2001

C3PO - How can this be? I was hoping for something a little less star-wars-pansy-like. Actually something in the neighborhood of Ash from Alien would have made my day.
posted by FidelDonson at 10:15 AM on October 9, 2001

I'm R2D2-- and I couldn't be a happier midget robot that goes bleep bloop!
posted by schlomo at 10:18 AM on October 9, 2001

Whoohoo! #5 from Short Circuit!
posted by nickonomicon at 10:18 AM on October 9, 2001

Sign me up to the Data club, too. Now, is this the TV Data, or the movie Data?
posted by darukaru at 10:18 AM on October 9, 2001

Hmm ... I'm a terminator. But I did lie on question 29 ...
posted by walrus at 10:19 AM on October 9, 2001

Chalk up another one for David, the kid from A.I.

I wonder if D.A.R.Y.L. is somewhere on the list, speaking of boy robots.
posted by Chanther at 10:25 AM on October 9, 2001

nyomi: hmm... i tried three different random variations on answers and got Data every damn time!

Did you try changing your email address?
posted by walrus at 10:27 AM on October 9, 2001

if you don't answer any of the questions, you get to be Bender.
posted by corpse at 10:38 AM on October 9, 2001

surely it isn't based on that??

R2D2
posted by Mossy at 10:42 AM on October 9, 2001

i was hoping to be a fembot from "Austin Powers," or maybe Buffybot.
posted by tolkhan at 10:43 AM on October 9, 2001

C2PO -- Less cool sidekick? (And I said I wouldn't be disappointed.)
posted by fpatrick at 10:45 AM on October 9, 2001

C3PO, "the less cool sidekick robot of Luke Skywalker." I'd cry, but I'm not programmed to do so.
posted by kirkaracha at 10:51 AM on October 9, 2001

So I'm guessing no-one got Urkelbot yet?

And I can't wait to find out who's a Simon machine.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:55 AM on October 9, 2001

cheesebot
posted by cheesebot at 11:56 AM on October 9, 2001

So am I liquid metal or a wooden FBI agent?
posted by perorate at 12:00 PM on October 9, 2001

Crap... wanted Gort.... ended up with Roy Batty. Is there no justice? So can I assume that no one got Vicki from Small Wonder?
posted by Localemperor at 12:15 PM on October 9, 2001

posted by arielmeadow at 12:21 PM on October 9, 2001

ariel, that perm has got to go.
posted by Kafkaesque at 12:28 PM on October 9, 2001

awwwww... I am David, and I make everybody around me cry... what BS is that?!?!? I wonder what the full range of robots constitutes?
posted by prototype_octavius at 12:30 PM on October 9, 2001

I am C3PO, human-cyborg relations. Oh, well...
posted by briank at 12:41 PM on October 9, 2001

I'm Bender! I'm Bender!! YAY! Surely I can't be the only one!
posted by kevspace at 12:54 PM on October 9, 2001

I'm Bender! I actually answered all the questions, and I'm still Bender!! YAY! Surely I can't be the only one!
posted by kevspace at 12:55 PM on October 9, 2001

whoops, server burp while I was editing my post. my apologies.
posted by kevspace at 12:55 PM on October 9, 2001

chalk me up as Data ... which is, truly, my robot of choice. well after bender and, of course, Camryn Manheim's vibrator
posted by danOstuporStar at 1:27 PM on October 9, 2001

my apologies:
Speaking as the liquid metal Terminator, I reject your apologies and will shortly be eliminating anyone that has come into contact with you. But I will somehow fail to eliminate you.
posted by aramaic at 1:27 PM on October 9, 2001

I'm R2D2. I'm so cute. Now if only I could get rid of my annoying sidekick (Luke Skywalker).

ColdChef, I'm not sure, but I think it probably has something to do with Izod shirts.
posted by witchstone at 1:46 PM on October 9, 2001

NUMBER FIVE IS ALIVE!...

and wearing bad clothes from the 80's.
posted by ColdChef at 2:02 PM on October 9, 2001

(Watch me dance to the timeless tunes of El Debarge)

"Who's Johnny?" she said/And smiled in that special way/
"Johnny." she said/You know I love her.

"I am thinking she is a virgin. Or else, she used to be."
posted by ColdChef at 2:07 PM on October 9, 2001

Yeah, I'm Bender too. Flexo, really, since I have the goatee.

"Hey, sexy mama...want to help me kill all humans?"
posted by Dean King at 2:42 PM on October 9, 2001

and, of course, Camryn Manheim's vibrator

The "Mannheim Steamroller"???
posted by UncleFes at 2:43 PM on October 9, 2001

Hat off, UncleFes.

*Or the Thomas Mann model:

The Magic Mountain.
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:51 PM on October 9, 2001

Is this thing calling me a pussy by saying I'm a 'Data'?!?
posted by hellinskira at 3:07 PM on October 9, 2001

Al Gore
Now I'll have to go shave...
posted by jazon at 3:47 PM on October 9, 2001

Hmm R2D2, but if I had a mission in life I'd be Maximillian...
posted by PeterOA at 3:55 PM on October 9, 2001

Iron Giant.

BooYa!
posted by Shadowkeeper at 4:08 PM on October 9, 2001

Looks like a lot of MeFi'ers are ready for 'retirement.'
posted by skallas at 4:32 PM on October 9, 2001

Answering truthfully, I came up as C3PO. Answering the direct opposite (aka lying), I came up as Bender. Interesting juxtaposition. (Which should make me Data.)
posted by debrahyde at 6:03 PM on October 9, 2001

Another #5... I have no idea what that means, or who that is.
posted by e^2 at 7:41 PM on October 9, 2001

Evidently, I'm Twiki from Buck Rogers, which means I sound like Mel Blanc, and am of almost no use to anyone whatsoever.
Not bad for a simple test.
posted by dong_resin at 10:07 PM on October 9, 2001

I am R2-D2. But if I had a mission, had eyes that glowed red before laying waste to humans or didn`t value human life, I`d be maximillian.

Of course, I`d really want to be Vincent, but I can live with R2.
posted by chiheisen at 10:19 PM on October 9, 2001

i'm r2d2. mierda.
posted by wantwit at 10:27 PM on October 9, 2001

OK, so I'm Data. I too wonder which one -- the coolly efficient and amusingly naive, emotionless Pinocchio-Data, or the incredibly annoying emotional wreck I'd like to put aboard a doomed shuttle with Wesley Crusher and Deanna Troi?

Also, I went back and lied about every answer and came up with Pris, Daryl Hannah's nasty, sexy football-player-eyeshadow-wearin' replicant from "Blade Runner." Sounds much more fun (especially the hair and the lethal handsprings), but I have to admit, Data is more me, and not just anatomically.

Great link, Vis10n.
posted by diddlegnome at 1:28 AM on October 10, 2001

Of course, I am Roy, the Achilles figure of Blade Runner.
posted by Zurishaddai at 1:36 AM on October 10, 2001