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release date
March 27, 2009 (online debut)
synopsis
Lil' Brum's back with his most action-pack'd music video yet! This time he tackles a geeky subject we all ought to learn about! Why? Because robots will be our overlords someday, that's why!
We all know it's going to happen sooner or later. Our technology is going to become self-aware and destroy us. I mean, have you ever seen 2001: A Space Odyssey? I, Robot? Terminator? The Matrix? Seriously, if the zombies and aliens don't get us, the robots will.
director's comments
Usually Lil' Brum videos take no more than two or three days at most to shoot and edit. We usually come up with the idea rather spontaneously and do the whole thing over a weekend. The idea this time was just as spontaneous, but it ended up taking about a week from writing the song to posting the video. It's definitely the most effects-intensive Lil' Brum video to date. Editing was a real chore.
trivia & references
- The shots of actual robots were filmed at a FIRST Robotics competition.
- This is the first appearance of Marvin since Cherry Pi. He is once again shown playing a video game. This time he is playing "Team Fortress 2."
- John Connor is a character from the Terminator franchise who saves humanity from malicious robots.
- The line "There are paranoid androids with a complete lack of mirth" is a reference to the character Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series who, by the way, has nothing to do with Lil' Brum's agent Marvin.
- The Brain is a character from the cartoon show "Pinky and the Brain," a show about two lab rats who try to take over the world.
stills & production photos
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