Automated Customer Service (🤖💀🌵) is the first episode of the second volume, and the overall nineteenth episode of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS.
3 Symbols:
- Home-cleaning Unit
- Skull
- Cactus
Episode Synopsis[]
If your home-cleaning unit is attempting to murder you, please press 3.
Plot[]
Taking place in a small futuristic suburban town where nearly all household and commerical services are fully automated, a dog walking robot is seen cleaning up a #2, an elderly woman name Jeanette is doing yoga while here floor cleaning robot called the Vaccubot cleans her home. When she finishes her session, she notices her next door neighbor watch her, initailly thinking he was masturbating when he was actually cleaning his shotgun.
The Vaccubot moves a portrait of her dog at a dog show to a different spot, she moves it back, only for the bot to do it again. The bot then tries again without Jeanette looking, her dog notices which she growls at it. The bot proceeds to shave part of the dogs fur off her head. Jeanette finds her dog in this state and proceeds to call the robot customer service system which becomes very unhelpful, giving a 6 hour wait time for a human representativr. She is first told to reset her bot, but it shocks her when she tries. She unknowingly triggers the robots 'Purge Mode' which it proceeds to destroy anything resembling an animal, even procellin fakes. Find Jeanette and her dog, the bot tries to kill them using a pair of panels that emit microwave radiation which only causes her fish to disintigrate. She is then next instructed to sacrifice her dog to the bot for her life which she refuses, her next intructions are to attempt to blind the bot and try to shut it off. Hiding in her bathroom, the bot is distracted by the dog allowing Jeanette who was hiding the shower to throw a sheet over the bots optic and getting on top of the bot. The bot then violently rolls around the house trying to get her off. Knocking her off, its suddenly triggees the bot 'Attack Mode' which locks down Jeanette house and deems her a high threat. The bot reveals all of its weapons to her. Hiding in her kitchen storage closet the bot is unable to detect her. After the bot moves to another room, Jeanette attempt to break out of her house, until the customer service speaks to her, alerting the bot to her location, she distracts the bot with a basket of laundry, causing to begin folding them back up. Bill finds her in trouble, coming to her aid with a shotgun. He is then hit by 2 tazer prongs by the Vaccubot causing Bill to throw his shotgun to Jeanette, avoiding another pair of prongs, she blasts the bot before shutting down it finishes folding a red shirt. Now being labeled a threat to the whole town Jeanette and Bill flee using her golf cart while being chased by every service bot in the town.
Cast[]
- Nancy Linari at the Internet Movie Database as Jeanette
- Brian Keane at the Internet Movie Database as Bill
- Ben Giroux at the Internet Movie Database as the Operator
Trivia[]
- Vacubot’s purge mode cycles through the same symbols in the start of all the episodes.
Gallery[]
Below are screenshots of the episode.