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Team Sarah Jane investigates the owner of a computer company. The last two episodes of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', due to [[Actor Existence Failure]] on Sarah Jane's part.

 

 

A female janitor at Serf Computer Systems listens to owner Joseph Serf's advertisement for his new computer, the Serfboard. She resentfully mutters where her billion dollars is. She approaches an elevator and is grabbed by an unseen creature.

Sarah Jane and Sky meet up with Luke back at the Serf Systems office. Sarah Jane meets with Serf and Harrison. Sarah Jane keeps trying to get Serf to reveal that he is a hologram while she and Harrison keep tossing thinly veiled threats at each other.

 

 

As Sarah Jane keeps asking pointed questions, the aliens controlling Serf begin to panic and make mistakes. They try to hypnotize her but fail and Sarah Jane swipes her hands through Serf, exposing him as a hologram. Harrison points an alien weapon at Sarah Jane. Meanwhile, the aliens in the basement notice that they are being watched by Sky and Luke.

Outraged, Harrison runs to the roof and tries to grab one of his escaping slaves, getting "beamed" into the spacecraft with them. The spacecraft flies away with Harrison onboard. Impressed with Adrianna, Sarah Jane gives her a UNIT card and tells her to consider becoming an agent.

 

* [[Americans Are Cowboys]]: When Sky tries to make Serf sound American.

* [[Being Watched]]: Subverted. Rani says she feels like the Serfboard is watching her. Turns out the Serfboard is just an ordinary computer.

* [[Dead All Along]]: Joseph Serf.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Harrison. The best part:

'''Harrison''': What are you going to do? Hit me with your handbag? }}

* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: Justified, as it's the genetically engineered boy genius and the alien supercomputer who know it.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: loads from Harrison.

* [[Fantastic Slur]]: Harrison refers to the Skultians as "Scullions", an archaic and quite demeaning British English word for menial kitchen workers.

* [[Glamour Failure]]: Serf whenever he glitches or the Skullions mess up a command.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Serf's speech when Sky is at the speech controls.

* [[I Banged Your Mom]]: A kid-friendly version. Luke is visibly uncomfortable when Lionel starts flirting with his mother.

* [[I Know You Know I Know]]

* [[Intangible Man]]: The Serf hologram.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: When Sky's phone is smashed, Luke says "Join the club. I've had seven phones in the last two years."

** And again when Mr. Smith tries to contact Sarah Jane. "Oh, pick up for once Sarah Jane."

* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: When Mr. Smith learns that K-9 did not come home with Luke, he says "Oh, good...ness me what a terrible shame."

* [[Mass Hypnosis]]: How Serf convinces people to support his computer. Does not work on Sarah Jane Smith.

* [[No Biochemical Barriers]]: Averted. Skullions are burned by liquid water, but have no problem with citric acid.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Serf is obviously an [[Expy]] of Steve Jobs, combined with Howard Hughes (reclusive, autocratic, refuses to deal with people).

* [[Projected Man]] / [[Mobile Suit Human]]: Joseph Serf is a hologram controlled from a room by a team of Skullions.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: K-9 is back at Oxford backing up the Bodleian Library.

* [[Shock Collar]]

* [[Shoddy Knockoff Product]]: The Serfboard.

** To ''[[The Prisoner]]'': The pseudonym "Joseph Serf" was used by Patrick McGoohan.

** The Skullions, like [[Star Wars|the Jawas]], are short aliens with high, chittering voices who wear long brown hooded robes. They also act a lot like [[Despicable Me|the Minions]] or [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|the Oompa-Loompas]].

* [[Stage Whisper]]: Subverted. Clyde whispers to Rani that Mr. Smith may have been taken over by the Serfboard. Mr. Smith responds "I can hear you and no it hasn't 'got' me."

* [[Undercover As Lovers]]: Clyde and Rani pretend to be a married couple to rescue their friends.

 

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