A rusted wind-up toy robot with a red eye standing on a dark tile, casting a long shadow.

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"Oh, the Paranoid Android," he said. "Yeah, we'll take him."

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker recognises the name Paranoid Android and, with little fuss, accepts him: yes, they will take him. The exchange is brief and casual, and much of its humour rests on the name itself, which sounds like a suspicious machine being agreeably taken along.

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