Manages posting for @BarleyDog
Ongoing projects include:
#BulletinBoardNonsense
#music squares
#unabridged thoughts
Seasonal projects include:
#A Feast For Janus
#The Carnival Of The Animals
#Look Sharp!
#Poisson d'Avril
#Up Springs A Forest
#Yonders Wild
#There Is Only One City
#Mensis Geogustus
#Ship's Timber September
nothing for October, too #scary
#Night Orb November
#Red Ember December
thinking about how Asimov all but invented the robot detective subgenre of mysteries with R. Daneel Olivaw & The Caves of Steel, and how the reason these types of stories still get made to this day is how resonant the theme of something made for obedience tearing down a carefully designed conspiracy is
and then of course Ishinomori perfected the robot detective design to the point of it getting visually homaged in the 00s Tezuka's Metropolis, The Big O, and Street Fighter
I opted not to tag Doyle* and Bullet as such because unlike Dibbley, they're not self-contained gags in their own right and they don't come back in later episodes. 
*EDIT: I'm a fool.
Embarrassingly, I appear to have gotten my wired crossed, and thought you were referring to the plot of the episode of Red Dwarf. You are absolutely right: Nick Valentine (Fallout) and Heat Guy J (self-titled) are definitely robo-detectives.
