Roomba with animatronic chimp head

As Filled with Chocolate Pudding! points out, "this is a great day for science."

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Cazart

“I not dust Buster no more!”
coldspell

And to think that Sharp Image didn’t sell anything worthwhile!
chopp3r

Like a pet in that household is not going to need therapy.
ZombieBabyDiego

one of my team members at this ad agency i work at has one of those remote control monkey heads.

and yes, they are absolutely as creepy as they seem in this video.
minTphresh

this may be an outtake from the original Star Trek pilot episode. but just in case… i heartily welcome our simian-roomba, carpet sucking overlords.
Orchestra Spy

Don’t say banana. DON’T SAY BANANA!
Takuan

so, ah, what are you doing after work today?
IWood

I want one with an animatronic Charlton Heston head.
Orchestra Spy

I was thinking about electrocuting some pickles after work.
porkchop

Is it possible to experience a bad trip without taking any hallucinogenic drugs?
Akasha

Jeez-Haven’t laughed this hard in a long time, my stomach hurts. Creepy fantastic!

I vote this the best roomba hack ever.
Takuan

I wasn’t speaking to you
Doug Nelson

I already have the roomba, now I just need the chimp head and a cat to traumatize with them.
AirPillo

Imagine the horrific psychological scars this could inflict upon an unsuspecting child.

They’re sitting in their room minding their own business… and suddenly the door opens and in wheels a disembodied monkey head to vacuum the floors, screech and hoot.
guvnor

The only thing cooler than this would be to take TWO Roombas, glue an animatronic chimp head to one and an animatronic Elvis head to the other, then force the two jabbering electronic abominations to duke it out in a duel to the death!
dougp

do they make one for the woomba?
Orchestra Spy

Oh, I’m sorry, did you think I was replying to you? I wasn’t.
Brett Burton

If either presidential candidate promises to put a monkey-headed roomba in every home, he gets my vote.
Tensegrity

Foster-Miller TALON SWORDS units should have animatronic monkey heads.
phillamb168

Can I put this on a wedding registry?

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Johnson,

Thank you so much for attending our wedding, and also for the

MONKEY-HEADED ROOMBA ROBOT VACUUM CLEANER

which we so dearly enjoy.

Yours sincerely,

P&T

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It is indeed a great day for science.
Improbus

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

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Sorry, I was having a Planet of the Apes flashback. That was hill-air-eous.
eustace

Damned Dirty Ape must be revised now to Damned Cleaning Ape…
Anonymous

The thread where this originated: There’s a goddamn robot monkey vacuuming my house
humanpower

Keep laughing, everybody. I, for one, am gonna go lock myself in the garden shed with a shotgun and wait for the chimp head Roombas to realize their collective power and overthrow society. That Dinty Moore beef stew is going to taste mighty bittersweet when I’m the only human left alive.