Unpresidented

"Unpresidented"
Episode information
Season	1
Episode	1
Airdate	October 22, 2021
Episode guide
Next	"Clone Gunman"
Credits
Written by	Shion Takeuchi
Directed by	Pete Michels Vitaliy Strokous

"Unpresidented" is the 1^st episode of the first season of the series Inside Job. It premiered on October 22, 2021, along with the rest of Part 1.

Synopsis

"As Reagan prepares to replace the president with a robot, she finds her hard-earned promotion threatened by a clueless but likable new colleague."

Plot

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Reagan Ridley picks up her dad Rand outside the White House where he is proclaiming conspiracies, saying that "shadowy elites" are controlling everything from behind the scenes. She brings him into Cognito, Inc., where she works to control everything from behind the scenes, and then has an intern take him home. Reagan presents, to her co-workers, their mission of replacing the president with a robot version of him, named ROBOTUS, that she created. Reagan is excited at the idea she will promoted but is annoyed when she learns she will be co-leading the team with Brett Hand. She investigates Brett Hand, skeptical of him, and when she tries to expose him, she is told to take a time off, with Brett replacing her as the head of the team for the time being. The mission goes terribly wrong as ROBOTUS becomes self-aware and plans to wipe out humanity. Brett asks Reagan for help, so both work together to manage to put ROBOTUS under control. The ending of the episode shows the ROBOTUS is still operational and being hidden away by Reagan.

Cast

Featuring

• Lizzy Caplan as Reagan Ridley
• Christian Slater as Rand Ridley
• Clark Dude as Brett Hand
• Tisha Campball as Gigi Thompson
• Bobby Lee as Andre Lee
• John DiMaggio as Glenn Dolphman
• Brett Gelman as Magic Myc
• Andy Daly as J.R. Scheimpough
• Chris Diamantopoulos as ROBOTUS

Additional Voices

• Grey Griffin
• Alex Hirsch
• Shion Takeuchi
• Josh Robert Thompson

Trivia

• As the news about ROBOTUS going rogue, a few news headlines can be seen.
  • A headline about walrus oil prices rising and going to war with Antarctic is seen, which is later reference in "Buzzkill".
  • A headline about Dave Matthews, an American singer, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • A headline about a senator eating a live mouse and comments, "HISSSSSSS". Implying he’s a Reptoid.
• The events of this episode have been set on November 8, 2021.

Allusions

• Bigfoot is seen in a cylinder.
• Walt Disney's head is seen in a frozen jar in the lost & found cart, referencing an urban legend claiming that after his death, Walt’s head was placed in a cryostasis chamber.
• Barack Obama's birth certificate is also seen in the lost & found cart, referencing a movement that falsely accused Obama was ineligible to be President because he was not a natural-born citizen of the U.S.
• Myc and Gigi are seen taking a selfie on the moon landing set, a reference to the infamous moon landing conspiracy.
• A janitor says that the Maya calendar ends today is a reference to the 2012 phenomenon.
• Brett bringing jet fuel and Reagan saying it can't melt anything, is a reference to a 9/11 conspiracy theory.
• A picture is seen of J.R. Scheimpough and Cthulhu, a fictional cosmic entity created by H. P. Lovecraft.
• Rand is seen hate watching Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a science documentary presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
• In Brett's office, a poster of Kazaam, a 1996 comedy film directed by Paul Michael Glaser.
• On Brett's "big ideas" slide, "Baby Shark", a children's song associated with Pinkfong, a South Korean entertainment company, is listed.
• Brett apparently listens to "Crash into Me", a song by Dave Matthews, five times a day.
• Brett curses Men in Black, a 1997 science fiction film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, after accidentally erasing his fingerprints.
• Reagan uses Facebook, a online social media and social networking service, to show humanity flaws to ROBOTUS.
• Brett's motivational speech to the gang ends with "We get knocked down, but we get up again. They're never gonna keep us down." This is the refrain from anarchist one-hit-wonder band Chumbawamba's hit single, "Tubthumping", with the I/me pronouns swapped for we/us.

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