03x06 - The Grapes of Plath

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Okay, there's this really
bad dude named hacker --

Hacker: the hacker, to you!

Whatever.
He wants to take over

The cyberworld
from motherboard.

[ Gasp ]
the three kids
are sucked into cyberspace,

And they use brain power
to help save everybody.

Jackie:
okay, here's the plan.

So they travel
all over and run into all these

Weird creatures...and have all
of these awesome adventures.

It's totally up to them
to save cyberspace.

Can three cool kids and a wacky
bird outsmart the hacker?

Hacker: never!
Matt: there's only one way
to find out!

Tune in
to "cyberchase"!

♪Cyberchase

♪ We're moving, we're b*ating
hacker at this game! ♪

♪ Don't tell that he's trying
to hack the motherboard, ♪

♪ We'll get him every time! ♪

♪ Cosmic worlds, ♪

♪ Freaky places
that we've seen, ♪

♪ We've got the power
of one, two, three, four! ♪

♪ Running in a cyberchase,
we'll meet him face to face, ♪

♪ We'll stick together
all the time! ♪

♪ Adventures in cyberspace, ♪

The chase is on!

♪ Just wait
and c-y-b-e-r-chase! ♪

Stringie:
hurry up, prince!
Don't be a scaredy-crab!

Prince crab:
I don't know...
Maybe I shouldn't do this.

Bow:
I think that crab is a chicken.
(Laughs)

I am not a chicken!

Stringie:
look, every crab prince
sneaks out the night before

His official "changing
of the shell" ceremony.

Bow:
yeah, and his friends always
take him to the abyss!

It's tradition.

Prince crab:
but I heard the abyss
is a cyber glitch.

And, and any prince who goes in

Comes out with
a glitch of his own.

I don't want a glitch.

Bow:
no way!

That's just an old crab's tale.
(Laughs)

Prince crab:
whoa! (Echo)

Stringie:
know what would really be cool?

If you proved that old tale
isn't true!

Prince crab:
huh? How?

By going down there!

Prince:
oh...

Stringie:
how else?

I'd do it,
but I'm not a prince.

But...

Bow:
oh, but you're too scared,
right?

Prince crab:
I am not!

Bow:
well, then go ahead.

I dare you.

Stringie:
double dare, scaredy-crab!

Prince crab:
I am not a scaredy-crab.

Watch this.

Whoa!

Both:
oh, no!

Queen crab:
that kid is so grounded!

Why isn't he home?

King crab:
he better not have gone
to the abyss,

That's all I know.

The last thing he needs now
is some weird glitch.

(Gasp) the abyss?
Oh, dear.

And tomorrow is his "changing
of the shell" ceremony.

Prince crab:
no, it isn't!

King crab:
there you are!
Where have you been?

At a baseball game.

I mean,
at the video store.

Really, i...
I was playing chess.

Queen crab:
(gasps) he never told
a lie in his life!

Prince crab:
yes, I have!

Millions of times!

You went into the abyss,
didn't you?

No!

King crab:
how many claws
am I holding up?

Prince crab:
twenty-nine!

Ah! The legend is true!

Now our son,
the future king of aquariyum,

Is a liar -
a fibber crab!

King crab:
he can't be king
if he tells lies.

It would create
incredible chaos!

(Sobbing)
I'm calling motherboard!

Inez:
bye, bye, binky!

Take care of that scepter!

Matt:
and don't let hacker fool you

Into thinking he's king tut
again.

Jackie:
ha! The real tut doesn't
look so tacky!

Let's blaze, jax.

Motherboard:
wait! Need your help.

Jackie:
but mother b,
we just finished our mission.

Inez:
(giggling)
and we made hacker so mad.

Too bad you can't see him
right now! (Laughs)

Hacker:
all I wanted
was one little scepter

With the power to revitalize
my noble chin.

The stress of trying to rule
cyberspace is making it sag.

It's losing its luster!

It's flopping where
it should be flipping!

Buzz:
whoa! You're right, boss.

You're chin
is slip sliding away!

Delete:
yeah! It's looking old.

Hacker:
it is not!

Maybe the cyber buying network
has something that will help.

Motherboard?

Must fix glitch in aquariyum.
(Static)

Bring grapes of plath
to prince in crab kingdom.

Grapes of plath?

Inez:
where are these grapes?

Motherboard:
the oasis.

Find fountain of...
(Static) -outh.

Hacker:
fountain of "outh?"
What's outh?

Oh! She must mean youth!

Buzz:
youth. Yeah, youth, boss!

Delete:
the fountain of youth!

One little splash will bring
my chinny chin chin

Back to its former greatness!

Let's find that fountain, now!

Jackie:
cool! There's the oasis.

Inez:
and I see the fountain.

Matt:
let's get those grapes!

(Sniffs)
wait a sec, guys.

What stinks?

(Camel sounds)

Inez:
uh-oh. Smelly cyber camels!

Mm-mm. I'm not going
one step closer.

Matt:
but the only way
to the fountain

Is through that opening.

Unless...

We can hold our breath
long enough

To get past the camels.

Inez:
sounds like a plan to me.

(Holds breath)
let's go!

Jackie:
not so fast.

Before I go charging
into a herd

Of smelly, stinky,
cranky camels,

I want know how many camels
we've gotta get past.

(Exhales)

Inez:
let's estimate.

Close enough is good
enough for me.

Jackie:
inez! I can't believe
you said that!

Why not?

We can probably get past
one row of camels in...

Ten seconds.

How many rows are there?

Matt:
it looks to me like
a row of three in front,

And one, maybe two rows
of three behind.

So let's figure three.

That's three rows
of three camels each.

If we give ourselves
ten seconds for each row...

We can get past three rows
in about thirty seconds!

Matt:
that estimate works for me!
Let's do it!

Okay.
Let's get it over with!

Matt:
uh-oh. We're in trouble.

Jackie:
you can say that again.

Look at all these camels!

Inez:
where did we go wrong?

Our estimate wasn't
even close!

Jackie:
we only counted
what we could see!

Ew!

Matt:
and the camels we saw,
blocked our view of the others!

Inez:
we didn't have enough
information

To make a good estimate.

Ew!

Uck!

Pee-ew!

Double pee-ew!

Plath:
greetings. I am plath.

I shall give you

What the crab prince
of aquariyum requires.

Kids:
wow! Cool! Awesome!

Dip the crab
from head to toe.

Cover him completely,
and the glitch will go.

Matt:
crab, dip, goodbye glitch.

Plath:
precisely.

The grapes from the fountain
shall cure the youth.

Hacker:
that's what I'm hoping,
shortie!

I'm here for the cure!

All:
hacker?!

Soon to be the new
and improved hacker, to you!

Plath must depart.

The oasis as well.

The grapes must reach
the prince with the shell.

Kids:
run!

Hacker:
give up the grapes, kiddies!

The hacker won't hurt you!

Kids:
yikes!

Hacker:
hey, who turned out
the lights?!

Digit:
wonderbird at your service!

Kids:
digit!

Digit:
hop aboard, earthlies!

We've got a delivery to make!

Hacker:
I can't see!
Where did everyone go?

Delete:
we're here, boss.

Buzz:
yeah, right behind you.

I know where you are,
but what about them?

Buzz:
which them?

Delete:
that them?

Yes, them!

Jackie:
didge, do something!

Digit:
not to worry, earthlies.

Here's a little trick
I learned in driving school.

It's called fake and shake.

Matt:
cool! You shook him off!

Inez:
yeah, but is the tail supposed
to come off, too?

Digit:
the tail came off?

Kids:
whoa!

Prince crab:
I don't play soccer.

Stringie:
yes, you do!
You're the goalie.

Prince crab:
my favorite music is disco.

Bow:
no! You love oldies,
but goodies!

My grandmother
and great aunt.

Stringie:
come on, prince.

We're your two best friends!

I can't!

Oh, I mean, I can.
Yes, I can't!

Bow:
we never should have dared you
to go into the abyss!

Oh, why did I listen to you?

Why didn't I say no?

Digit:
the a*t*matic tail repair
takes a while to kick in.

We're sunk.

No kidding.

But at least we're sunk
in aquariyum.

But that doesn't help
the prince!

He needs to be dipped
from head to toe in the grapes,

And quick!

Matt:
jax is right.

We have to find another way
to reach the kingdom!

We could swim there,
if we knew where it was.

Brain spark!

Motherboard thought
this might come in handy!

Matt:
we're here, in taco valley

And we need to swim past
croissant cave

And hot dog reef
to crab kingdom.

Jackie:
that's way too far to swim.

No problem.
We have six a-pums.

Kids:
a-pums?

Digit:
environmentally correct air
powered underwater motorcycles.

And we can breathe with these.

Motherboard thinks
of everything!

The different size tanks hold
different amounts of air.

They have six, eighteen
and twenty-four minutes

Worth of air power.

Inez:
that six minute t*nk
looks really light.

It is.

The smaller the t*nk
the faster the bike.

Matt:
and faster is what we need.

Six minutes of power

Should get us
to the kingdom and back.

Digit:
and you know that how?

Matt:
well, check the map.

It doesn't look
that far away.

Inez:
but you don't really
know for sure.

So you're just guessing.

Yeah, I guess I am.

Jackie:
what?! We can't guess.

We need to estimate

And a lot closer
than we did last time.

So let's break the trip
into smaller pieces,

That could help.

Inez:
okay.

We've got to go
to croissant cave,

To hot dog valley,

And to crab kingdom.

And the same three places
coming back.

If we knew about
how much power it took

To travel to croissant cave,
we could use that to estimate

What we need for
the whole trip.

Matt:
there's the cave.

It's not that far away.

It's about the same distance
as from my house to the park

And I can ride my bike
to the park

In about two minutes.

Inez:
so riding one of those
a-pums there and back

Should take about four minutes.

This one's got six minutes.

I'll double check the time.

Send me out, didge!

Jackie:
matt, maybe you better take one
with a bigger power t*nk,

Just in case.

Don't worry,
I've got two minutes to spare.

Digit:
keep your eye
on the power gauge

And head back
before your power's half gone,

No matter what,
okay?

Delete:
I like it down here, buzzy.

Food makes me happy.

Buzz:
keep your eyes open
for donuts.

Hacker:
we're looking for grapes,
you dimwitted duncebuckets!

Once those gooshy grapes
grace my chin,

I'll be re-hackerized!

Buzz:
boss, look!

Delete:
it's one of those earth brats!

Uh-oh.

The power's almost half gone.
I better head back.

Hacker!

Where are those grapes?

Digit:
six minutes is almost up!

Either our estimate is way off

Or something happened to matt!

Wait!
Isn't that matt?

Jackie:
yeah, but isn't that hacker?!

Digit:
that's not the worst of it!

Matty's almost out of power!

Hacker:
where did that meddling
moppet go?

Buzz:
he went this away.

Jackie:
matt, that was way too close!

Hacker almost nailed you.

Not only that,
I'm out of power!

Inez:
good thing we tested
our estimate.

Matt:
yeah, it took almost three full
minutes to reach the cave

Not two, like I thought.

Inez:
so now we know that for each of
the distances we have to ride,

We need at least three minutes
of power.

Three minutes from
here to here,

Plus three minutes
from here to here,

Plus three minutes
from here to here,

Equals nine minutes of
power to reach crab kingdom.

And we need nine minutes
to get back.

Nine plus nine is eighteen.

Digit:
this baby right here.

Eighteen minutes
worth of power!

Inez:
I don't know, didge.

That's cutting it
way too close for me.

Better estimate high,
just to be safe.

Good point!

The twenty-four minute
t*nk is the way to go.

But the bigger the t*nk,
the slower we go.

Jackie:
better to be slow than sorry,
matt.

What if we run out of power
before we get back?

Inez:
twenty-four minus eighteen
leaves six.

We've got six extra minutes
of power.

We're good to go!

Digit:
we made it, earthlies!

Estimating high
did the trick!

Matt:
we used almost half
the power to get here,

Which leaves us more than
half of a t*nk to get back.

Cool!

King crab:
hello! Welcome to crab kingdom!

We're so glad motherboard
sent you.

Digit:
glad to be of service,
your crabbiness.

King crab:
as you know,
all of crab kingdom

Will attend the ceremony
tomorrow

When the prince changes
his shell.

Queen crab:
during the ceremony,
he must say "yes"

When asked if he's ready
to be the future king.

But he can't stop lying!
He'll say no!

Queen crab:
and that would be disastrous!
(Sobs)

Inez:
don't worry, we've got
the grapes of plath.

All we need now
is the little prince.

Where is he?

Stringie:
he's gone!

He's gone!

Bow:
but we know where he is.

Come on,
we'll take you there!

All:
prince! Prince crab!
Where are you?

Prince crab:
I'm not here!

Matt:
we know you're not here,
prince.

So where aren't you?

Prince crab:
I am not down here
stuck on a ledge.

I wasn't reaching a claw
into the abyss

To see if I could reverse
the glitch, when-

Inez:
you fell in again?

No, I didn't!

Stringie:
he means yes.
Can you reach him?

Inez:
don't worry,
we'll get him.

Didge, you hang onto
the grapes.

Once we get the prince up here,
we have to dip him.

Yeah, plath said we have
to cover him completely.

Digit:
we can't dip him in here,
he won't fit!

Jackie:
not only that, how do we cover
him from head to toe in grapes?

They're too hard!

Whoops!

Digit:
brain spark! You two guys,
come with me.

Matt:
I don't see how the prince
can climb up from that ledge.

Inez:
he could if he had a ladder.

Yeah, but we don't have
a ladder,

Or anything to use
to build one.

Matt:
sure we do.

Asparagus!

Jackie:
okay, let's try it!

But we have to be really
careful about how long

We make the ladder.

Look.

If we estimate too short,

The prince can't climb
over the top.

If we estimate too long,

The ladder can't balance,
and it'll fall over.

So our estimate of the distance
has to be really close.

Matt:
eyeballing it from up here
won't be very accurate.

We better drop something down
there to measure it.

How about your yo-yo?

No way!

Besides, the string won't
reach all the way down there.

Inez:
too short to measure
the whole way, yes.

But it might reach that
tree branch about halfway.

And if we wrap the yo-yo
around the branch,

We can measure the rest
of the distance

By dropping the string.

That would give us a good
estimate of the total distance.

I don't wanna be saved!

Inez:
he's lying again.

Matt:
I just got this one.

It's a brand new ballbearing
butterfly yo-yo.

On the other hand,

The string idea might just work.

Jackie:
let's mark how long the string
is on this asparagus,

So we have a record
of its length.

Matt:
perfect!

Jackie:
okay matt, make it sleep!

Cool!

Matt:
the distance to the branch
is about one yo-yo string.

Inez:
what about from the branch
to the ledge?

Jackie:
also about one yo-yo string!

Matt:
so our estimate of the total
distance

From here to the ledge
is two yo-yo strings.

Let's build that ladder!

Inez:
I sure hope our estimate's
really close.

Oh, no!

Matt:
(gasp) it's going to fall!

Inez:
yeah!

Matt:
all right!

Jackie:
it worked!

Digit:
chef digit leboid is happy
to say, the dip is ready!

Boys...

King crab:
son, your moment of truth
has arrived.

Kids:
hacker!

It's time to rejuvenate
my illustrious chin!

Kids:
no! Get away from there!

Relax, kiddies.

All I need is one splash
in those grapes

From the fountain of youth.

Matt:
fountain of youth?

Inez:
these grapes aren't from
the fountain of youth!

Hacker:
don't try to fool me!

I heard motherboard tell you
to get the grapes

From the fountain of youth.

She didn't say fountain
of youth.

She said fountain of...

Kids:
truth!

Not youth? Aargh!

Prince crab:
dudes! I'm myself again!

Thanks for helping me
ditch the glitch.

And now that I'm to be
future king,

I'm going to rid crab kingdom
of liars and thieves,

Like this one.

Happy birthday, princey.

Say hello to your
new best friend,

The meanest guy in cyberspace.

Oh, brother.

Hacker:
when it's my birthday,
I want a cute little pony!

No, a lollipop!

Guards!
Get him out of here!

Hacker:
follow me, you duncebuckets.

Prince crab:
and now I am ready
to change my shell.

King crab:
and are you ready to be
the future king of crab kingdom?

Prince crab:
the answer is, the answer is...

Digit:
c'mon, c'mon, say it!

Yes!

Audience:
(cheers)