Space Janitors

Space Janitors is a science fiction comedy show hosted on The Escapist, which updates every friday. Find it here.

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Tropes used in Space Janitors include:

• Almighty Janitor: Invoked, Darby explains to Mike that they're really the most important people on the ship because they maintain the hyperdrive and the giant laser.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Subverted, what appears to be the Robot Girl L severely malfunctioning is really her reacting strongly to a taste bud upgrade.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Invoked, Darby is upset that no-one thinks he's important enough to take a shot at.
• Backhanded Compliment:

Darby: "...one of these days, I'm going to be somebody someone's gonna want to shoot at."
Mike: "Hey, if it's any consolation, I already think you should be shot."

• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Dark Lord
• Expy: One of the rebel operatives from the pilot episode bears a strong resemblance to Zoe from Firefly if Zoe had an afro.
  • Squall Troopers are, of course, Storm Troopers
• Fantastic Racism: Referring to an android as cold and calculating is enough to make her cry.
• Frickin' Laser Beams
• Future Food Is Artificial / Soylent Soy: Imperial rations are various colors of "mush"; pink mush, yellow mush, sweet mush. Also, some or all of it may be made from recycled Squall Troopers, or other emperial subjects. The crew appears to like it, however.
• Homage: The setting is more or less classic Star Wars with the Serial Numbers Filed Off.
• Human Resources/To Serve Man:

"This is Mike Chet; we've got two squall troopers ready for soylent."

• Machine Monotone: the psychoevaluation computer, Dr. Sabato
• One-Way Visor: Squall Troopers wear them.
• Ridiculously-Human Robots: LN6-K, or just L for short
• Shout-Out: Squall Trooper uniforms are 90% Storm Trooper, but have white Master Chief helmets with silver visors.
  • Squall trooper training is dodging shots from a remote.
  • Imperial fighters look like TIE Fighters; rebel fighters look like X wings.
  • Dr. Sabato is very reminiscent of HAL 9000.
• Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot: Subverted; it's really an extreme close-up shot of a bottle of window cleaner.
• Stock Yuck:

Milk is gross...

• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The pilot shows Mike and Darby blithely performing their duties while a dramatic space battle takes place outside the window they're washing.
• We Will Use Manual Labour in The Future: The Empire has yet to invest in some cleaning robots.
  • They do, however, appear to have at least one robot that cleans up when a minion needs cleaning up. This may have been a custom robot, since it appears to be under control of Dark Lord.