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Teral

Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary

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Mom's robotfactory is called "Mom's Friendly Robot Company". My theory is the "The Friendly Robot" company was a competitor to Mom, who later bought it and merged it with her own company "Mom's Robots" to form "Mom's Friendly Robot Company". It's a simple hostile take-over. One of the things required to qualify for a loan, is responsibility (on your behalf) and trust (from the auditor in your ability to pay). An unstopable killing machine doesn't really reflect any of those things, and strangely enough banks are very reluctant to give loans to people who'd rather kill them in a gruesome manner, than pay the interests on time.  Anyway, I guess Farnsie came up with a new gizmo, a "decency-chip", a "reliability sub-rpogram" or something like that.
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Sil

Professor

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Maybe the fact that he said "the Friendly Robot Company" is just a reference to "Mom's Friendly Robot Company"? If Mom is the only person who produces robots, then you wouldn't need to specify it with "Mom" for people to know what you were talking about. I think we were just meant to take it as read that Farnsworth is talking about "Mom's Friendly Robot Company," he just didn't say it. My tuppence worth! 
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Sil

Professor

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That I don't know. The only thing I can think of, is if they set the standard too high, then presumably Santa would have killed the engineers that made him because they were too naughty, and no-one has been able to get near him to sort it out. It's possible he was actually *made* wrong as opposed to something *went* wrong. I know the professor says *went* but that's really a figure of speech - we may not be supposed to take it literally.
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Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary

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Farnsworth say in "Xmas Story" that Santa's standards was set too high due to a programming error. Imagine if Santa made´his decision based on a complicated equation, and then compared it with a fixed value, but the consequences contained an error.
If naughtyness<10 then subject=bad If naughtyness>10 then subject=good (sorry, I only know Basic)
If the value should've been 1, then it's virtually impossible for anyone to be good.
Thanks to his crumble zones he's probably difficult to destroy, and the Earth army doesn't seem were capable to me. Sure they can beat a couple of spiders, but Santa actually fires back with modern weaponry.
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Sil

Professor

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Yeah - and if you look at Bender in Eric Rogers' section of AOI1 (2ACV16), the electricity from their guns doesn't hurt him at all. Now, that may be because of his size, but if they *were* going to affect him, the sheer number would have done so. So I guess, since Santa is also a robot, the Earth army's electrical guns aren't going to affect him either, unless there was a massive number of people firing simultaneously.
Did that make sense?
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