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Dimension 404
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We're sorry troper, the web page you're searching for cannot be viewed in your reality. Please stand by for reconnection.Dimension 404 is an anthology series streaming on Hulu, created by Dez Dolly and Will Campos, co-created by Dan Johnson and David Welch, produced by RocketJump and Lionsgate Television, and narrated by Mark Hamill. Each episode is a different story with a twist (like The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Black Mirror). | |
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Arc Symbol | |
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Arc Symbol: To a lesser extent to the above, a throbber also may show up on any digital screen 404 appears on. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: The episode starts out like a morality tale on performance-enhancing drugs, with the implication that Val will lose a few months or years of her life and not like the person she has become. However, after the first tournament the jump forward is twelve years and it turns into a post-apocalyptic story. | |
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The Game Plays You | |
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The Game Plays You: Polybius entices players to play, who are then marked for death. At the climax it brings the labyrinth of the game to life inside the arcade. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: It turns out that Time Ryder is this. He says that he comes from a future that is perfect...but Entropy comes from a future that "sucks." | |
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Home by Christmas | |
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Home by Christmas: Jane is literally trying to get home to her family by Christmas before the NSA takes her to help fix Bob. Unfortunately, Bob is suffering from several psychological issues, and these problems cannot be fixed by two hours of talk therapy. Bob ultimately isn't "cured", and is shut down at the end of the episode. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Bob is not able to locate the terrorist before his attacks succeeds against the Chicago subway. Bob does manage to track him down afterwards, though, and the FBI arrests him. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: Val comes out of her Impulse-induced stupor in a post-Apocalyptic wasteland. Apparently, the President drank too much Impulse and snapped back with his finger on the nuclear launch button. | |
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Stable Time Loop | |
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Stable Time Loop: The Time Ryder cartoon from the 90's inspired countless children and thus contributed to a utopian future and the creation of a real time machine and a real Time Ryder. However, it is later revealed that the cartoon itself was created by time-travelers from the future, including the real Time Ryder, to inspire the creation of their own future. Related to the above. Sue is revealed to be the inventor of time-travel. However, Sue was largely inspired to create time-travel because of her lifelong obsession with the Time Ryder cartoons - which will only exist if she invents time-travel! Although the ending suggests that even in a timeline where the Time Ryder cartoon never existed, Sue will end up inventing time-travel. | |
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Pac-Man Fever | |
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Pac Man Fever: Averted, however Field of Fire is Titanfall 2 with all the titan combat edited out (or played as a pilot-vs-pilot fight) and the menu screen is taken and edited from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: Bob "broke" when he looked at the people sitting on the subway with the terrorist he was following and saw all the ways that they were petty and miserable all on their own. The last straw was when a girl told her younger sister that there was no Santa Claus because she kept excitedly talking to a man in a costume sitting next to them. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Janes gets to her family for Christmas and Bob gets his wish of being Santa Claus for a night, but he is still ultimately unplugged and shut down (killed). As he himself says, it would not be much of a dying wish if he did not die afterwards. | |
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Gayngst | |
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Gayngst: Andrew is bullied and insulted for being rumored to be gay, which is made the worse for him since he actually is gay. He is in love with Jess, his best friend, and does not know how he could possibly come out to anybody. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The Running Gag ads for Make-A-Match are made to look like the Real Life ads that typically interrupt Hulu videos, complete with the ad timer in the corner. | |
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Tired of Running | |
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Tired of Running: Andrew spends most of the episode running away from his problems, and explicitly tells Amy to do the same. It is only towards the climax that he begins to think that he needs to stay and fight, and runs back. | |
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Organic Technology | |
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Organic Technology: Bob is a giant, organic supercomputer grown from modified human brain cells. Jane throws up the first time she sees him. | |
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Big Brother Is Watching | |
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Big Brother Is Watching: Bob is the supercomputer which is tasked with monitoring all of the entire world's electronic information for the NSA. | |
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Fallen Angel | |
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Fallen Angel: According to the lore Andrew managed to uncover, Polybius was once an angelic muse that inspired great creative works. Growing jealous that only God got the credit for this, it tried to inspire people to pay tribute to it instead, which got it cast into Hell to wander forever. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The bottle of Impulse that Val first tries is labelled "For Export Only". The manufacturer clearly knew there were side effects and did not want to deal with the ramifications close to home. | |
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Claimed by the Supernatural | |
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Claimed by the Supernatural: Whoever plays Polybius is marked by a brand of its logo somewhere on their body. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Val ultimately takes a megadose of Impulse and uses it to take out the Death Lizards. Taking mortal wounds in the process, she manages to shoot off a flare to let everyone know that it's safe to return. | |
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Interface Screw | |
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Interface Screw: Episodes are done in order to take advantage of the fact that it was meant to be streamed, leading to intentional loading/buffering signs, ads, and references to it being streamed. | |
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Magic A Is Magic A | |
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Magic A Is Magic A: Polybius will claim whoever plays it, even if that play was just limited to usurping someone putting their initials in on the high score. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Christmas Episode: Jane is trying to get home to her family for Christmas, but is hijacked by the NSA who want her to help 'fix' Bob in time to stop a terrorist bombing that is also scheduled for Christmas. | |
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Nostalgia Filter | |
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Nostalgia Filter: Dusty spends most of the episode talking down to modern movies and technology, while talking up how good older films are. | |
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Your Soul Is Mine! | |
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Your Soul Is Mine!: The catchphrase of the game, Polybius itself literally sucks out people's souls before or after killing them. | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: Andrew's parents believe that video games are a product of the devil, which is why he has to pretend he is going to bible study whenever he goes to the arcade. | |
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San Dimas Time | |
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San Dimas Time: Becomes a significant factor towards the end of the episode. Because of this, even though Sue is in the 90's, she's in a literal race against time to finish her paper before deadline, as time is still passing in the present. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: Cinethrax is some tentacled horror from another dimension, physically assaulting the world while it assimilates the minds of its people through a new 3D movie format. | |
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Bullet Time | |
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Bullet Time: Impulse heightens your reactions so much that you experience bullet time in real life. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: The entire episode is basically about how Adam has to figure out how to live without Amanda since he was specifically created to love her. | |
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These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know | |
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These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The agency that is covering up the incident does not actually know where Polybius came from or what it is. They just know that people die after it appears, and they cover everything up because the public would not be able to handle knowing that the supernatural is out there. | |
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"Pop!" Goes the Human | |
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"Pop!" Goes the Human: The bio mass recycling chamber is censored in the training video as dissolving the body in sparkles. In reality it essentially bursts the body and collects the slurry. | |
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Hive Mind | |
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Hive Mind: The people assimilated by Cinethrax are connected and on more than one occasion they're all staggered when one of them gets injured. | |
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Apocalypse Wow | |
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Apocalypse Wow: The episode ends with an invasion by giant tentacled creatures. The Earth is pretty much doomed. | |
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Arc Number | |
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Arc Number: 404 naturally. It shows up somewhere in the beginning of each episode. | |
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Ret-Gone | |
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Ret-Gone: Happens to the Time Ryder and the time-travel facility, as well as the Time Ryder cartoon and all related memorialize by the end of the episode, once their future is erased. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: After Dusty sees the creature and tries to warn people about it, the staff at the movie theater point out to Dusty that people ran in terror from the first movie because they thought the images were real. They explain that he is just panicking the same way over the new 4D system, and it is no different from the people a hundred years ago who thought they were going to be run over by a train. | |
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Haunted Technology | |
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Haunted Technology: The Polybius arcade cabinet itself. | |
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All-Loving Hero | |
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All-Loving Hero: Jane cannot turn away from anybody in pain, not even when it delays her getting home to her family and not even when the 'person' is a giant brain supercomputer. Bob just wants to make the world a better place, and is crushed beneath the guilt of what he does and what he cannot do. His one wish is for Santa Claus to be real so that everybody can get the presents and gifts they deserve. | |
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False Friend | |
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False Friend: Adam's friend Greg turns out to be an agent of Make-A-Match, essentially his handler when he's "in the field". | |
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Genre Anthology | |
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Genre Anthology: Each episode is a self-contained story. There are allusions to other episodes, but they may or may not take place in the same universe. Either way they're not directly connected. Possibly the American answer to Black Mirror. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Uncle Dusty is wearing a They Live! t-shirt, which foreshadows how his "Shifter" glasses make him the only one able to see the monster in the movie theater. | |
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This Is Reality | |
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This Is Reality: The other survivors talk frequently about "Death Lizards", which Val logically assumes to be some sort of lizard. However, the term is actually just the nickname for a dangerous gang of people, and her husband is incredulous that she actually thought there were radioactive mutant lizards out there. | |
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Time Travel | |
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Time Travel: The premise of the episode. It turns out Sue was the one who invented time travel and is the "Mother of Time." | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is A Nonhuman: Clones at the very least can't be killed against their will but are also treated as property of the companies that create them. They're given the choice of employment that's barely above slavery or euthanizing themselves to have their bio mass recycled. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Kojima and his drink are essentially responsible for the entire collapse of society and the destruction of Val's life, but he doesn't seem to care, and is never held accountable for any of it (he even seems to have a plentiful supply of food left over at the Gold Saucer, has working video game consoles, and doesn't seem to have aged a day). | |
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Chronic Hero Syndrome | |
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Chronic Hero Syndrome: Jane cannot bare to let anybody around her suffer, offering counseling and kind words to everybody she encounters. This has lead to her neglecting her own life and family, as she does not take time off and even volunteers for extra deployments overseas. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Given just how many rejected partners are seen in Make-A-Match, it seems like nobody actually likes the partner they wind up with. Creating somebody who is completely devoted to you makes them come across as clingy and obsessive, and loading them with your own favorite hobbies and interests winds up with you being bored and fed up. | |
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Sickly Green Glow | |
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Sickly Green Glow: Polybius' glowing greenness is a sign of its supernatural danger. | |
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Beast in the Maze | |
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Beast in the Maze: The gameplay of Polybius involves racking up points by avoiding a monster in an endless maze. The games only gets faster as it goes on, seemingly being unwinnable. | |
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Cyber Cyclops | |
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Cyber Cyclops: The most apparent electronic part on Bob is the electronic eye that constitutes his face. Fortunately, he's not like Hal. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Show Within a Show: Time Ryder and the Chrono-Teens. Sue describes it as like Captain Planet but better. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: A glance at Val's computer screen reveals that her FPS of choice is Field of Fire. The arcade where Val gets the Impulse is called The Gold Saucer and the proprietor is named Kojima. | |
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday | |
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The Little Arcade Cabinet That Wasn't There Yesterday. Polybius just showed up one day in the local arcade. Turns out that was because its creator snuck it in, to placate the game with other victims so it'd spare her. | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Andrew manages to beat Polybius by inducing a killscreen, breaking both the game and it. | |
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Equivalent Exchange | |
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Equivalent Exchange: Impulse gives whoever drinks it Bullet Time, but it also causes them to lose minutes, hours, or even years of their life. As Kojima explains: | |
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Reset Button | |
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Reset Button: By erasing her memories of Time Ryder, Sue basically resets the timeline, meaning that she can now write her paper without interference...and go on to invent time travel. | |
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The Matchmaker | |
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The Matchmaker: What Make-a-Match is supposed to be, although what it really does is specifically clone a person with all the traits that a user wants. And if that clone doesn't work out, well, there's plenty more clones to go around. | |
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Transformation of the Possessed | |
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Transformation of the Possessed: Those assimilated by Cinethrax are capable of assuming Blank White Eyes and black Tainted Veins. They can also project Cinethrax's tentacles through their mouth. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: The Time Ryder's "memoraser" is a very thorough example. It can not only erase specific memories, but also physical evidence as well as any information on a networked source like the internet. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Make-A-Match literally makes your perfect match. | |
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Kill Screen | |
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Kill Screen: Andrew starts the episode trying to reach the kill screen on Frogger, but he does not quite make it. This is also how they finally defeat Polybius, as he gets 100,000 points and the game cannot handle a score that high and crashes. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Amy only played Polybius because she was trying to knock off the slur that had been entered as the high-score name. | |
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Goggles Do Something Unusual | |
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Goggles Do Something Unusual: Two examples that work inverse to each other. Dusty's shifter glasses nullify any special visual effects while allowing him to see Cinethrax but apparently protecting him from assimilation. The cinethrax glasses, on the other hand, only allow people to see the special 3D effects as Cinethrax invisibly assimilates their minds. | |
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Santa's Existence Clause | |
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Santa's Existence Clause: Bob's one wish — if he were to have a wish — would be for Santa Claus to be real. He gets his wish by becoming Santa Claus and delivering toys — and paying off debts and restructuring the economy — for the entire planet. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: The video of a couple in love that met through Make-A-Match. As the episode goes on, the woman gets noticeably uncomfortable about how clingy her partner is. Then the ad changes when she switches to a new clone, but she likes that one even less. The final ad is interrupted by the clone revolt. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In the beginning of the episode, Sue says that if time travel is ever invented, she will put her finished term paper in a drawer, but when she looks, it's empty. At the end of the episode, she looks in the drawer at that moment to find a note from her other self telling her to write the paper herself. | |
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