Dear Johnny Fanboy,

I recently picked up the cult Melanie Griffith movie Cherry 2000 and spotted what I think is a nit-pick.

Sam Treadwell owns a Cherry 2000 model pleasure robot, which acts as his wife. When she blows a fuse he takes her memory and identity chip and goes in search of another body to house it.

Why then, when he finally finds a replacement body, is she so wet and childlike? At the start of the movie she isn't that wet (though she is a little). Surely it wouldn't have been too difficult for the robot's programmers to make her more intelligent. What is the attraction of someone who acts so naive?

Robert Hamm

Johnny Fanboy replies:

Sadly, lots of men are attracted to such naivety because they find intelligent and/or independent women threatening. How do we know that the robot isn't in fact highly intelligent but that Sam instructed that she behave all "wet and childlike" in front of him?

Furthermore, the Cherry 2000 seems to have spent her entire "life" to date serving Sam and catering to his every whim. Therefore when she is taken out of her familiar surroundings she is lost, which is why she seems so childlike out in the desert. In fact, she explicitly gives this away when she and Sam are being shot at. She says that she would rather be at home watching this on TV.

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