MISTAKES/GOOFS

• DATE: Near the end of the episode, West mentions that the laboratory where they are being held is part of Doctor Articulus' plans to "...turn people into robots..." The word robot did not exist in English in the 1870s; it was coined in its current form in 1920 by writer Josef Capek for his brother's (writer Karel Capek) play about artificial humans, "Rossum's Universal Robots" aka "R.U.R.". It was derived from the Czech word "robota", which means "drudgery". R.U.R. is a morality play about the ethics of creating artificial but sentient slaves.

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