Most weekday mornings the Ladybug and I watch The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, a cartoon in which Mickey, Minnie, Donald, daisy, Goofy and Pluto solve various problems by asking rhetorical questions and staring blankly at the screen for minutes at a time, which is what passes for “interactive children’s programming” these days. However, in each episode, Mickey’s team gets help from “Toodles,” Mickey’s self-imaged sentient, all-terrain mechanical gizmo that, through some unexplained combination of artificial intelligence and quantum physics, is not only able to see into the future enough to accurately predict the various tools they will unexpectedly need throughout the day, but can also store all of them in its (apparently) lap-top sized body:
To summarize: Toodles is a sentient, prescient computer capable of transforming itself into various planes, submarines, and vehicles while simultaneously predicting the strategic weaknesses of its biological users…
Mickey Mouse invented Skynet.
