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Childhood favorites that you realized were terrible

Childhood favorites that you realized were terrible

Or, the Short Circuit Effect

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Liam McEneaney
Jun 14, 2023
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When I was a kid, my dad took me and my best friend James to the movies to see Short Circuit, a comedy about a military robot that gets hit by lightning and becomes sentient. It starred Steve Guttenberg, Ally Sheedy, and Fisher Stevens, as well as the robot Johnny Five.

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