Missing from every streaming service, Robot in the Family is hard to find today, but clips of it keep popping up on social media, and even if you see them in context, don’t worry; they still don’t make sense. Short Circuit, even with the controversy of a white actor playing a stereotypical Indian, is a significantly better movie because it, shockingly, includes significantly fewer offensive stereotypes.
Today, Joe Pantoliano is retired from acting, and John-Rhys Davies is still going, at 80, with over a dozen projects currently in the works, but it’s likely that both would like to forget Robot in the Family was ever made.
