Grin, it's a standard SF quiz question, about the origin of "Robots", so the sad geeks among us (yay Mike!) will have spotted it immediately or fair soon ... R.U.R. ... makes a lot of sense really, and is a nice "in-joke".
Looking at the Wikipedia article after you mentioned it I noticed that it actually mentions the connection at the bottom. (I still haven't read, or even seen a copy of, the play. I only know about it by reputation.)
I haven't seen Dollhouse, but I did pay my respects at Capek's grave, when we were in Prague a few years ago.
I've never seen R.U.R. performed. However there was a production of another of his plays, War with the Newts, in London back in the 1980s that was quite fun.
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Date: 2010-02-23 10:25 pm (UTC)I've never seen R.U.R. performed. However there was a production of another of his plays, War with the Newts, in London back in the 1980s that was quite fun.