What ever happened to that rascally raccoon who appeared at the conclusion of this episode? In fact, the creators/writers forgot to include the athletic team from the game in "Enzo the Smart," the road racer from the game in "Bad Bob," the tank from the initial game in "Identity Crisis: Part One," the shark-shaped submarine from the game in "AndrAIa," despite the fact that a shark from that same episode was featured, any character from the game Megabyte prevented Enzo Matrix from entering, and many more. Speaking of which, what was the cube's game Bob surmised would cause the system crash? They never even alluded to it at any time during the episode.

I don't think the writers intended EVERY game to be represented; I think the ones chosen were just kind of "easter eggs" for longtime fans of the show. Also, AndrAIa says that she'll take care of the raccoon, and presumably she does it off-camera.

M@

There's a Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan reference after Bob comes back from the core. He says "The system… out of danger?" just like Spock did. Only difference is, Bob isn't dead.

Bob frantically trying to save the city by pushing in those hex-shaped controls is straight out of "The Lawnmower Man."

You know, the writers gave Bob this cool new power to fix tears with his Captain Eo hand-beams--and then worked hard both this episode and in "Showdown" to keep him away from tears! How cruel of them!

I kept expecting Binky and Sir to show up and rescue AndrAIa from the pterojet. They fly something in every other episode....

Hey, why did the balsa wood dino arrive in miniature (during the fight with the users), but Penelope Pitstop was full sized?

Flashback: "The system...out of danger?" was also featured in "Where No Sprite Has Gone Before." And speaking of Star Trek, AndrAIa must have learned the Vulcan Nerve Pinch from the hero sprite druing that episode. She used it on Old Man Pierson.

Ya know, you have to watch this episode at least twice, to catch all the pop culture references in the first five minutes! Like, the Fax Modem character trying to decide between "BC" and "LA"; or the Indiana Jones Binome being chased by the 8-Ball (again!); or KISS; or Sailor Moon; or....

What a great episode.

Sailor Moon was in this? Where? I wish I'd known so I could have been looking for it!

Oh I thought that was in the next episode! Now I'm gonna have to wait for it to rerun!

Ask, receive: all the pop culture stuff I referenced is in the very first scene, where the city is collapsing. Sailor Moon is very obvious, because she activates her compact (to save the day)--just before a building falls on her. The Sailor Scouts watch on with horror. The compact emits a yellow ball of light.

I didn't mention that the camerawork for KISS matches my dim memories of one of their movies.

The Indiana Jones Binome ought not be alive. Need I remind every one of the episode "Gigabyte" in which a web creature infected Megabyte and consequently merged with Hexadecimal to constitute Gigabyte who later phlebotomized the Indiana Jones Binome's energy, so to speak? Unless the Indiana Jones Binome had somehow recuperated, his existence in this episode is incorrect.

AndrAIa did not use the Vulcan nerve pinch, she used her fingernail. As she said in "AndrAIa," "Not poison. They paralyze."

Umm, need I remind you, Hack or was it Slash recovered from Gigabyte's energy drain, it seems perfectly reasonable that the Binome could also have survived. So his existance is not incorrect or even inconsistent.

Yours Truly,
Allan Olley

Megabyte is gone. What's left of the plot is stretched out a bit to fill the remaining two episodes.

What's the point of having User characters reappearing in Mainframe? Why do they all want to attack? Why must they all be beaten? How is this necessary to the plot?

However, the one scene with Herr Doktor and his assisitant is too much fun to leave out.

There's no good reason for Bob to encounter a simulated Megabyte inside the core except that Bob hasn't had a chance to face Megabyte since he returned to Mainframe, and this is as close as can be provided.

When Bob sweeps his hand through the simulated Megabyte, the big green icon does not reappear on Megabyte's chest.