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The trope for robots whose creators ''forgot they were robots'', [[They Just Didn't Care|just didn't care]], or thought it would be useful to give mechanical characters unexplained human traits, perhaps as a way of humanising them.
 
Not to be confused with [[Ridiculously -Human Robots]], where the traits are deliberate and are all about making the robot [[Artificial Human|as human as possible]]. This trope is about [[Tin Can Robot|the more obvious robots]]. Compare [[I Would Say If I Could Say]].
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== Anime ==
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* The robots on ''[[MST3K]]'' switch between needing air and not needing air, depending on the situation. [[MST3K Mantra|Remember the mantra...]]
** Like C-3P0, Tom sometimes had references in the script to smiling or, worse, having a look in the eyes... that he hasn't got. To say nothing of them eating, their apparent ability to cry, Gypsy's inexplicable fixation with Richard Basehart, etc.
* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S17 E1 Destiny of the Daleks|"Destiny of the Daleks"]] opens with robot dog K-9 suffering some sort of malfunction that sounds like coughing. The Doctor teases him about it. "Laryngitis! Now why would a robot have laryngitis? I mean, what do you ''need'' it for? Romana, the dog's got laryngitis! Romana?"
 
 
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