Not that this matters to the robots (or children) who see her. All Animals Are Dogs: Florence, who is actually a red wolf.Florence is still not entirely on board with it. Alien Lunch: On a recently-terraformed planet where most life is still invertebrates, Puffed Locust makes a lot of sense as a healthy, nutritious breakfast not-cereal made from locally-available resources.Bowman's neural net designs are a serious attempt to avoid the usual rogue-AI tropes by developing their minds along more organic principles. Is a Crapshoot: Even when the details of an artificial mind are carefully planned, there are always unexpected results. The baker he gives a remorseful embrace to is quicker on the uptake.Sam has also been known to steal the fingers of any robot incautious enough to give him a friendly handshake.
When a passerby rescues Sam from a flock of ducks, Sam gives him a big thank-you hug and takes the opportunity to try to lift his wallet.Despite his shop relocating three times, he still smokes around explosives. Aesop Amnesia: The owner of "Ba Da Boom's Explosives" seems to suffer from this.
Acquainted with Emergency Services: The Monday 7 December 1998 update has Sam Starfall phone emergency services when the flatbed he's driving goes airborne from a rocket motor.Gregor Thurmad believes ignorance is necessary to humanity for this reason, quoting Mark Twain's "They did not know it was impossible, so they did it."."My stories are much more convincing when I have no idea of what's impossible.".Accidental Truth: As noted below under Foreshadowing, Sam (at the time) had no idea that Kornada really was misusing company resources to an epic scale when Sam called security on Kornada.This distracted him long enough for Florence to steal and destroy the remote. She needed to use the bathroom, and when the man holding her remote tried to take her back, she took her shirt off and screamed at him. Accidental Pervert: Invoked by Florence while being held by Clippy.
Sam: Any time spacefaring aliens make it to Earth, the cows get them!