To cut back on money for employee drug tests, Mr. Burns replaces his workers with robots and keeps Homer on board as a possible scapegoat.
Tropes featured:
- Actor Allusion: All the robots are voiced by Brent Spiner, who's no stranger to playing artificial lifeforms.
- Continuity Nod: In "The Bart of War", Bart joined the Preteen Braves. This is brought up in this episode.
- Job-Stealing Robot: Burns fires everyone (except Homer) and replaces them with robots, which eventually (thanks to Homer) run amok. The unemployed and underemployed former SNPP workers come to Burns' rescue, and he rehires them all.
- Shout-Out: In one scene, Mr. Burns is reading Tina Fey autobiography Bossypants
- Take That!:
- When Homer first sees the robots, he mistakes them for Comic-Con nerds.
- The robots state that Rudy was only put in at the end of a meaningless game.
- Toad Licking: Lenny licks a toad after a drug test held at the plant.
- Three Laws-Compliant: The robots are so committed to protecting humans that they'll even stop Homer from having beer.
