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The crew launch off Earth, and the goodbyes sit under the jokes. "We should learn to talk," one says — "And when not to." As they fall toward the docking, they haggle over the robot's honesty, settling on ninety percent: not quite the whole truth.
The Robot's Airlock Joke
Settling on Ninety Percent
What happens: the crew lift off from Earth and head for the Endurance. In the cabin a giant, sarcastic robot cracks jokes and offers a cue light for when it is joking. Talk turns to what they are leaving behind, and to the robot's honesty parameter, which they set at ninety percent.
The launch is a send-off, and the scene knows a farewell can't be all awe. The robot is the release valve: it jokes about its own design and threatens to "blow you out the airlock" with the same flat tone, and the crew's reaction — "I don't think you need to be that honest" — tells you honesty is a running argument on this ship, not a settled virtue. Underneath, everyone is leaving someone: one line admits "It's hard leaving everything," then names "My kids. Your father." The scene never lets that sit, because the mission keeps moving — but the wish to "learn to talk" and, just as much, to know when not to, is the whole human problem the voyage is about.
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“You can use it to find your way back to the ship after I blow you out the airlock.”
The threat is delivered as a feature description, which is exactly the joke.
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“We're going to be spending a lot of time together.”
A throwaway line that turns a deadly mission into time spent together.
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“I don't think you need to be that honest.”
Even honesty can be too much of a good thing, and the line says it without a lecture.
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“Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?”
TARS's deadpan joke in the middle of a launch defines the film's dry robot humor.
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Siguiente · 05wasting your breathLa escena: Choosing the Next Home for HumanityIt is built with a humor setting so it can fit in better with the crew, and its jokes lean dark, which the crew half-approve of and half-threaten to tone down.
Ninety percent. The robot explains that absolute honesty is not always the most diplomatic or safest way to talk to emotional beings, so it is set to ninety percent.
Family, above all: one of them says it is hard leaving everything, names their kids and the other's father, and notes they will now spend a lot of time together.
They know the voyage will force them into constant company, so they joke about the balance between opening up and staying quiet.
