# Wall-e keeps flipping me off
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 5, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936 "2009-01-05T13:39:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/1 "2009-01-05T13:39:43Z")
I got a remote control wall-e for Christmas. I’m a big fan of the movie and he’s a lot of fun.
Now, being a toy with a limited number of motors, he has some limitations compared to the movie wall-e. For example, he only has one servo motor controlling each arm, which limits his arm movement to up and down and that’s it. In the movie, wall-e waves. The toy wall-e can’t move his arms from side to side, so all he can do when he waves is lift his arm up and turn his hand.
Here’s a picture of him saying “waa-aaalll-eeee” and trying to wave.
[http://home.comcast.net/~sokosfamily/wall\_e\_hello.jpg](http://home.comcast.net/~sokosfamily/wall_e_hello.jpg)
Is it just me, or does this gesture look a bit rude? 😛
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### Author:  [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/2 "2009-01-05T13:48:05Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> I got a remote control wall-e for Christmas. I’m a big fan of the movie and he’s a lot of fun.
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> Now, being a toy with a limited number of motors, he has some limitations compared to the movie wall-e. For example, he only has one servo motor controlling each arm, which limits his arm movement to up and down and that’s it. In the movie, wall-e waves. The toy wall-e can’t move his arms from side to side, so all he can do when he waves is lift his arm up and turn his hand.
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> Here’s a picture of him saying “waa-aaalll-eeee” and trying to wave.
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> [http://home.comcast.net/~sokosfamily/wall\_e\_hello.jpg](http://home.comcast.net/~sokosfamily/wall_e_hello.jpg)
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> Is it just me, or does this gesture look a bit rude? 😛
Are you gonna take that from a robot!?
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/3 "2009-01-05T13:51:26Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> [http://home.comcast.net/~sokosfamily/wall\_e\_hello.jpg](http://home.comcast.net/~sokosfamily/wall_e_hello.jpg)
Dad?
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### Author:  [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/4 "2009-01-05T14:13:02Z")
The robots are becoming insolent–the Neo-Luddite army demands action!
_Short Circuit_ was a tale to warn us of the coming destruction!
You must crush it and all like it before they have a chance to self replicate and destroy us allllllllll!!!
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### Author:  [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/5 "2009-01-05T14:52:46Z")
Oh man, that is so freaking cute.
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### Author:  [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/6 "2009-01-05T15:12:17Z")
I love that picture! My kids wanted one for Christmas, but I wasn’t about to buy two of the things. I may just have to now!
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### Author:  [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/7 "2009-01-05T15:26:00Z")
His eyes are so sad.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/8 "2009-01-05T20:08:43Z")
Where’s EVE? She could perk him up a bit, I’ll bet.
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### Author:  [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/9 "2009-01-05T21:15:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Where’s EVE? She could perk him up a bit, I’ll bet.
Then Wall-E would probably have something else sticking up.
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### Author:  [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/10 "2009-01-05T21:23:59Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#):
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> Then Wall-E would probably have something else sticking up.
How would they reproduce, anyway? I mean, they fell in love. And isn’t love just an evolutionary trait so that two animals will come together, reproduce, and care for their offspring? Once in love, would WALL-E and EVE just go out and collect parts and create a tiny robot that would act as their child? What the hell am I talking about?
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### Author:  [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/11 "2009-01-05T21:29:07Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#):
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> Once in love, would WALL-E and EVE just go out and collect parts and create a tiny robot that would act as their child? What the hell am I talking about?
Oh, geez. That is so freakin’ adorable to picture. Yes, I’m a huge dork.
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/12 "2009-01-05T21:35:29Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#):
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> How would they reproduce, anyway? I mean, they fell in love. And isn’t love just an evolutionary trait so that two animals will come together, reproduce, and care for their offspring? Once in love, would WALL-E and EVE just go out and collect parts and create a tiny robot that would act as their child? What the hell am I talking about?
I’m picturing the robot and the washing machine from Robot Chicken :smack:
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/13 "2009-01-05T21:37:11Z")
> [@CaerieD](#):
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> Oh, geez. That is so freakin’ adorable to picture. Yes, I’m a huge dork.
Something very similar happens in the Robin Williams movie _Robots_.
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### Author:  [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/14 "2009-01-05T21:38:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Something very similar happens in the Robin Williams movie _Robots_.
Except that that movie sucked, and _Wall-E_ did not.
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### Author:  [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wall-e-keeps-flipping-me-off/479936/15 "2009-01-05T21:39:40Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#):
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> Then Wall-E would probably have something else sticking up.
At the very least he’d have somewhere else to put that finger.