And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird story
Two brothers attempt to invent a fully mobile robot with advanced artificial intelligence to help their mother with household chores.
20 total · 3 choice · 7 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| brother and brother | choice | The story follows the Carson brother, Josh and Max, as the mobile, helper robot they invent becomes inhabited by the consciousness of their deceased father. |
| father and son | choice | The story is about two grieving brothers whose recently deceased father's consciousness inhabits a helper robot they'd built in an effort to put things right with his family. The inventor father son team of Walter and Dwayne Kotzwinkle. |
| robot helper | choice | The Carson brothers, Josh and Max, invented a mobile, helper robot (named Newman) that became inhabited by the consciousness of their deceased father. |
| coming to terms with things | major | Josh resented his deceased father for leaving the family in financial turmoil in the wake of what everyone presumed was his suicide. However, the consciousness of his father set the record straight while inhabiting the family helper robot: His death was an accident, not a suicide. As a result, Josh got over his resentment toward his father. |
| coping with the death of a parent | major | Each Carson brother, Josh and Max, was coming to terms with the death of their father two years prior in their own way. |
| human childhood | major | The story follows the Carson brothers, Josh and Max, as they invent a mobile, helper robot. |
| husband and wife | major | Sarah was reunited with the consciousness of her dearly departed husband, Matt, which was inhabiting the family mobile, helper robot. |
| mother and son | major | Sarah was and her two adolescent sons Josh and Max. |
| single motherhood | major | Sarah was struggling to support her two adolescent sons, John and Max, owing to her husband having died unexpectedly two years prior. |
| what if someone I knew returned from the dead | major | The consciousness of Matt Carson inhabited the Carson family mobile, helper robot in an effort to set things right in the wake of Matt's unexpected death two years prior. |