And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird: Difference between revisions

''And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird!'' is a family film about young inventors Josh and Max building a robot named Newman, which winds up being possessed by the spirit of their late father, Matt. The dad reconnects with his family and helps his sons build the Newman robot. When rival inventors steal the robot to dismantle it for the purpose of reverse engineering, the kids contact the spirit of [[Useful Notes/Albert Einstein|Albert Einstein]] for help.

 

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Matt's "No bugs, no bytes."

* [[Child Prodigy]]: Max.

* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Josh and Beth.

* [[Cute Machines]]: Newman.

* [[Expy]]: Newman looks a lot like [[Star Wars|R2-D2]].

* [[First Father Wins]]: Subverted. Matt is dead, and he returns to the afterlife at the end, letting Steve marry his widow.

* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Beth seems to think so of Josh.

* [[Offscreen Crash]]: Max runs off and Matt tells him to "watch out for the... ''(crash)'' ...box."

* [[Paparazzi]]: Alice pursues the robot story to the point of breaking and entering.

* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: Max uses this to fix Newman's voice glitch.

* [[Ride the Lightning]]: Ghosts are electrical. This is how Matt possesses Newman.

* [[Shout Out]]: A poster for ''[[Metropolis (Film)|Metropolis]]'' is seen in the garage.

* [[Spooky Seance]]: The initial contact made with Matt, complete with [[Tentative Light]]. The seances with Einstein are less dramatic.

* [[The Symbiote]]: Matt's relationship with Newman.

* [[Teen Genius]]: Josh.

* [[Tin Can Robot]]: Newman.

 

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