#buzz and delete cyberchase

[vikenticomeshome]

Cyberchase Comics: Half-Off Hacker by Ron Barrett

Here is the second of a group of three one-shot Cyberchase comics produced by Ron Barrett for the pbskids.org website sometime in 2011. They were placed under the "activites" section, but they have since been removed. I will transcribe the dialog.

Ollie Nollie (?): Who keeps putting up these signs? My mall's business will be ruined!

Ollie Nollie (?): We take down the signs, but they keep coming back!

Inez: Could be the work of Hacker

Matt: He's probably trying to run yo!

Jackie: But why?

The Hacker: Yes! Haker Mart!

The Hacker: I will dominate Cyber Shopping!

The Hacker: For clothes - The Hack! All the latest fall-apart fashions!

The Hacker: Every techno-toy will be at Radio Hack with a no-money back guarantee.

The Hacker: And I will rule with my Mocha Hackerccino!

The Hacker: And to this end I will spread confusion, confabulation and lamp-pulling!

Unnamed Woman with Green Hair: I'm taking this lamp!

Unnammed Poddle: No you're not! I've had my eye on it!

Mummsy(?): It's mine! I'm wrapping it up!

Matt: Time out! The mall owner wants happy customers!

Jackie: Why don't we divide the lamp into three pieces? One for each of you?

Unnamed woman with green hair, Unnamed Poddle, and Mummsy (?): Okay, but three equal lengths.

Matt: Yes, equal lengths!

Inez: But how do we do that?

Jackie: How about starting with the lamp cord?

Jackie: Use it to measure the lamp...

Jackie: Then, fold the measured length into three equal parts.

Jackie: Now I can measure one-third of the lamp.

Jackie: Cut it, Inez!

Jackie: There! Three equal shares!

Unnamed woman with green hair: Thank you for the lovely stool!

Unnamed Poddle: And for the stick! It's so useful for so many things!

Mummsy(?): And this hat will protect my wrappings from the Sun!

Matt: What's going on over there?

Jackie: More unhappy customers.

Louie(?): Help! Only two egg rolls left and three customers. Each wants one!

Unknown Patrick Star Impersonator: My doctor says I gotta have an egg roll a day!

Eukie(?): I need egg rolls to stay bee-yew-tiful!

Hacker's Son(?): I didn't have an egg roll at Easter - I want one Now!

Jackie: Here's the plan - we slice the egg rolls into equal shares, like we did with the lamp.

Inez: So, how many pieces do we need?

Matt: Well, if we had one egg roll, we'd cut it into three pieces.

Jackie: But we have two, so why don't we cut each one into three equal pieces?

One of the Earthlies: Let's look at it on the Skwak Pad...

One of the Earthlies: Two Egg rolls... and three people to share them with...

One of the Earthlies: It's a fraction!

One of the Earthlies: When we divide each egg roll into three equal pieces...

One of the Earthlies: And give each person two pieces, they each get two thirds of an egg roll.

One of the Earthlies: I get it!

Unnamed Patrick Star Impersonator, Eukie(?), and Hacker's Son(?): We get it, too! Yum!

Matt: Look! There's Buzz and Delete in disguise!

Inez: Stop them!

Delete: Excuse us, we're escaping.

Huge Guy in Hawaiian Shirt: Wrong way, Guys!

Delete: Where did we leave the Wreaker?

Buzz: Parking lots are so confusing.

The Hacker: you two chrome domes! You're not supposed to come back until you put that mall out of business!

Delete: Sorry, boss.

Buzz: They found us out.

The Hacker: Well, I'm not going to stop at reducing prices by half! I'm going to turn everything in that mall into a fraction of itself! That ought to create chaos!

Delete: Chaos is cool!

The Hacker: The mall will fail and fall into my hands!

Delete: Goody.

Buzz: Goody.

The Hacker: With my new Fractionizer!

The Hacker: Behold!

Delete: Awesome

The Hacker: This Fraction Ray will fractionalize everything in the mall. Delete! Careful where you sit!

Delete: Gee boss, I'm tired.

Narration: FRAK!

The Hacker: Delete, didn't I say "careful where you sit"? Didn't I say that?

Buzz: Boss, looks like you were in a half-off sale.

Delete: And you don't look half bad, either.

That is the end of the comic.

So, what did I think about it?

This more or less follows the same plot as Season 1 Episode 6 "Zeus on the Loose", but with much lower stakes.

The kids have to divide a single item equally among three people. However, in that episode, they were being held captive in the home of the Three Fates.

They could have just let the three customers beat each other up because they all want a lamp of all things. My money's on the Poddle.

The kids have to divide two items equally among three people. However, in that episode, they were facing a three-headed dog that wanted to eat them.

I don't think our three customers in this comic were going to eat the kids, but I guess it could have happened.

There are quite a few incidental characters here that I don't recognize. I think the little kid, who may be The Hacker's son or something, was inspired by this character from The Search for the Power Orb book.

[princess-draws]

For @cyberweek

Cyberweek Day 1: Redraw

So I decided to redraw from the Poddlevile Case episode!

This is actually better than the traditional one that I draw two years ago 😊

[tuhhadkeryo]

Home Life of Le Characters

Old art while I’m redrawing screenshots :)

[minsugagal]

15. Who is your favorite Cyberchase Character?

Inez & Delete

This is another tie for me. I couldn't decide between the two.

I really like Inez because I feel like a lot of her personality is similar to mine. I know all 3 main characters are smart but she is kind of portrayed as the smartest of the bunch. She is focused on information and studying and I was always like that growing up. However, she's way better at math than I am haha.

I also really have a soft spot for Delete. I know he's technically one of the "bad" guys. However, he's really so sweet. He mostly is just sticking by his best friend Buzz and he is just trying to please Hacker. He's often mistreated by both of them and it makes me so sad. Most of the time he's just looking for approval and appreciation. I really don't think he's that bad at all.

[knightmareaceblue]

Cyberweek2023 Day Two: Role-Reversal

I think I went a little overboard with this one. Explanation below the cut.

The basic idea was that Hacker’s team and Motherboard’s team switch roles. I was having trouble thinking about how this would, but then I thought a little more about the current state of the internet and corporate interest in controlling it, and it wasn��t too hard to turn Motherboard into a totalitarian dictator and Hacker into a well-intentioned extremist.

The story starts out the same way as the show, with Motherboard as the benevolent ruler of Cyberspace, with Marbles as her right hand. Marbles creates Hacker, Hacker creates Digit, everything’s good. Then, suddenly, Motherboard begins acting strange. She begins cracking down, creating harsher rules and harsher punishments, banishing people on a whim. When Hacker uncovers evidence that she plans to begin erasing undesirable sites, he, Digit, and Dr Marbles stage a coup. Unfortunately, Marbles turns on them for no discernable reason. Hacker gets his battery drained, more or less torn apart, and banished to the Northern Frontier. Digit, they keep.

Hacker uses the limited resources available to him to repair himself, as well as create a special battery that would allow him to function at full power, with the cost of basically immobilizing him. He then creates Buzz and Delete, and the three go about attempting to liberate Cyberspace, with limited success. Motherboard keeps a tight reign, and the people fear her. In the process, they learn Digit has been reprogrammed and is now a loyal footsoldier for Motherboard. The virus is a last-ditch effort, though in this reality Hacker is not happy to involve real kids in his rebellion, but no matter how hard he, Buzz, and Delete worked, they weren’t making a dent.

The trio getting sucked into Cyberspace was a mistake. Motherboard reacted violently and opens the portal that brings the children in. Hacker, who hadn’t even known Motherboard had that power, sends Buzz and Delete to protect the kids. The first episode revolves around getting control of the Portal system to send them home, though at the last second the kids decide instead to keep Digit and Doctor Marbles from getting the Encryptor chip that would restore Motherboard.

Now rebels trapped in Cyberspace, Matt, Inez, and Jackie join the side of the Freedom Fighter Hacker, in hopes of freeing the internet and going home someday.

[loudlyhappycupcake]

What if the hacker made wish instead of Betty part 4

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[beesgav]

I'm a little surprised I haven't seen anyone do this before

[xxjustavexx]

Rating s13 facial expressions bc that’s all I have left in life

8/10 why is it so funny but so creepy at the same time, like it’s weird seeing digit with human teeth-

7/10 it’s cool yet a bit basic

7/10 I LOVE THE MOUTH-

9/10 IT’S ADORABLE WHY-

10/10 I’M SORRY I PAUSED IT AND I LOST MY SHIT-

8/10 same mouth shape but still adorable

9/10 she is filled with D E T E R M I N A T I O N

6/10 WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE A CHAD-

7/10 mom pick me up I’m scared but WHY IS IT SO FUNNY IT’S LIKE SHE’S PURE EVIL-

8/10 aww :(

[king-minty]

[ravenlynclemens]

hacker's internalized homophobia

[vikenticomeshome]

Cyberchase Comics: The Great Cyber-skate by Ron Barrett

Here is the first of a group of three one-shot Cyberchase comics produced by Ron Barrett for the pbskids.org website sometime in 2011. They were placed under the "activites" section, but they have since been removed. I will transcribe the dialog.

The Hacker: This museum is all about me! I love it!

Caption #1: Buzz ironing my lovely cape

Caption #2: Generous me giving toys to Delete

The Hacker: Only one thing is missing...

The Hacker: A pedestal for my statue!

Buzz: Hey boss, look! There's a skateboard contest on Radopolis!

Cyber News: Trophy to be awarded to winner

The Hacker: That's it! The perfect pedestal! I'm going to win that trophy

Buzz: Too late! Entries are closed. Besides, you don't own a skateboard and you don't know how to skate.

The Hacker: FEH! I never let ignorance stop me!

The Hacker: I'll put together the ironing board and bunnies...

The Hacker: Presto! - A skateboard!

The Hacker: OOOOPS!

Narration: On Radopolis...

Jackie: Ouch! I hit my thumb!

Slider: Let me take a look at that.

Nezzie: Oh Slider, you did a terrific job designing this skateboard challenge.

Matt: Hey, guys! Can we finish building it?

Matt: Why do I suddenly feel invisible?

Slider: Well, I'm off to enter the contest!

Jackie: It is a challenge - It's got a banister, crazy cones, broken sidewalk...

Inez: Sewer half-pipe, a loop...

Matt: and a judge.

King Dudicus: Judge Dude.

The Hacker: Pardon me, young Radopolite, what time does the contest begin?

Young Radopolite: 2:30, its 2 O'clock now.

The Hacker: 2 O'Clock? May i see your watch?

Young Radopolite: Sure, mister.

The Hacker: Ah-ha! You're wearing it upside-down! It's only 8:30!

Young Radopolite: Silly me. I must be tired. I should rest before the contest.

The Hacker: Good idea! I'll hold your number for you.

Young Radopolite: Thanks.

The Hacker: He just dropped out. I am taking his place.

King Dudicus: You, dude?

The Hacker: Want to give me the trophy now or wait 'til after the contest?

King Dudicus: The dude who's best at finishing the course wins it.

The Hacker: Listen up, you bolts buckets - after I complete my great skate, I want you to cut a hole on the course...

The Hacker: So Slider will become a stumbler!

King Dudicus: Let the cyberskateboard contest begin! The first skater is... The Hacker!

King Dudicus: Go dude!

Jackie, Inez, and Matt: Hacker?

The Hacker: Whooooayy!!

The Hacker: Ai-yi-yi-yi!

Buzz: There he goes. Start cutting.

Digit: Oh no! The contest has already started. Huh? Hacker? Buzz? Delete?

The Hacker: HELLLLP!

Buzz: Heh-heh

Digit: I'd better squawk on the Sqwak! Earthlies! Buzz and Delete are cutting a piece out of the course!

Buzz: A hole to be filled by Slider.

Delete: Finished.

Jackie, Inez, and Matt: Thanks Didge! We're on it!

Inez: There's a whole piece missing. How do we make one that fits perfectly?

Jackie: It's a rectangle.

Matt: We can measure the hole...

Matt: and cut a new plank to fit out of this broken skateboard.

Jackie: measure with what?

Matt: I can measure with my shoelace.

Matt: It's one lace long...

Matt: by one third of a lace wide.

Jackie: Draw the lace lengths on the board. Hurry! Slider's starting.

Inez: Gee, it looks more like a tangle than a rectangle.

Matt: It should have square corners.

Inez: Wait! Here in our toolbag - A carpenter's square!

Inez: You can use it to square off the corners.

Matt: Great! I'll measure one lace length...

Matt: across the top and redraw the line.

Matt: Then measure and draw one third of a lace down the side...

Matt: turn the square...

Matt: so the corner is at the side. Draw one lace length across here...

Matt: Then turn the square and draw a line upward!

Jackie, Inez, and Matt: The rectangle is untangled!

Jackie: Cuttin' it out!

Matt: Perfect fit!

Digit: Nail! Nail! The gang's all here!

Inez: Thanks, Didge!

Narration: Just in time!

Digit: Go Slider!

Narration: Up ahead, Hacker enters - the loop!

Narration: And as he does...

Narration: The legs on his ironing board spring open!

Ironing Board: Sproing!

Narration: As Slider rolls past him to the finish!

Narration: And is awarded the trophy!

The Hacker: My pedestal! Sob! Sob!

Buzz: Don't be sad, boss. We'll fix up a nice pedestal for your statue.

The Hacker: I am gorgeous.

Delete: You're the iron man, boss.

Buzz: Yeah, we're never board with you!

That is the end of the comic.

So, what did I think about it?

Slider is great, but why is he entering a skating contest on a course that he built himself? That gives him an unfair advantage. Why did they keep the contest running while the kids tried to fix the sabotaged ramp?

We now know that citizens of Cybersite Radopolis are called Radopolites. Buzz's line about making a hole to be filled my Slider creeps me out.

[princess-draws]

This is the part where The Hacker dresses up as a serial killer to prank Buzz Delete and Jazz

[festerjesterr]

something something that trope where one thinks the other dies/is extremely injured/etc and goes apeshit

[tuhhadkeryo]

Purple Liquor

I figured I'd start posting a bit more of my writing here :)

The near empty bottle of vodka dangled uselessly from his fingers. The glass neck was slimy with his own slobber. Hacker had lost control of his basic motor functions a long time ago, but his grip stayed tight on the only thing that gave him life right now. 

His mind was bleary. His thoughts bounced dully inside of his pounding head before it seemed like they fell out. If he tried to collect himself, all he would hear inside his mind would be the laughter. 

He’d lost. Again. 

He didn’t even know why he’d felt so surprised.

And so he simply chose not to think. The bottle tilted up and moisture reached his mouth. The taste was long dulled by his drunkenness, but his throat burned as he swallowed sloppily. A satisfied sigh left his chest.  

He clipped his shoulder hard on the doorframe. Was that doorway always so small? He stopped to glare at it beside him, but his gaze couldn’t seem to focus. His eyelids were so heavy. Hacker wasn’t even sure which way this door led to until the bitter cold air of his prison invaded his nostrils. 

Boots stumbled and dragged on rough ground, catching on pebbles and jagged roots. He peered down his nose at the puffs of vapor from his breath until he felt cross eyed. 

Purple used to be his favorite color. But purple on the ground, seared across the sky, painted across the landscape…Hacker could puke looking at it now. Or maybe that was the alcohol. 

Another hard swallow of the liquor. It could quite possibly be from his current state, but the mountains ahead of him stretched awfully far into the sky. He sneered. Their stature was impressive, but the rock was soft. Crumbling. They wouldn’t even be a landmark soon. They - Mount Rigoletto, Etney, and Julius, despite being supposedly immovable statues of nature and code, served no better purpose than trodding ground for the matted-fur mountain goats that shat upon them. 

Hacker wretched at the thought of the goats, his mindless wandering harshly interrupted by the primal need to bend over, clutching at his spasming core. This whole dismal site displayed similar traits. The trees bore no fruit or leaves of any kind, but they refused to be felled, stubbornly holding fast to the rock-hard ground. The acids they had soaked in over time made burning them fatal. 

The moonlight flashed against the glass, the bottle lifting once more. There was no heat or life-giving sun rays here. Only dry, treacherous ditches where there used to be streams of water. 

“This miserable piece of lint site,” Hacker spat, wiping vodka off his chin with a rough swipe of his knuckles.

He took some kind of misstep and swayed on clumsy feet. He glanced about the barren area, hoping nobody had seen, taking care not to twist too fast. He felt dizzy. Yes, he was alone. Hacker tried to chuckle but all that came out was a wheeze. He’d forgotten he’d sent Buzz and Delete away. 

Why should they stay? This dismal desert place was all he’d ever rule, and his subjects, hairy, smelly goats and sand spiders. No, they could leave him alone, just as he’d always be. 

Hazy memories overtook his vision. Empty threats, broken promises, meaningless lies, uncontrollable anger. Even with all of his determination, his intelligence, and cunning, he always was sent staggering back to fall onto the rough, lifeless, purple ground. 

Shaking green hands raised the bottle to his lips. The moon’s reflection in the glass stung his eyes, making them water. Nothing quenched his need to drown himself. Through the moisture in his eyes, he could see that his liquor was all gone. 

A guttural scream split the air. The glass flung from his cold, nearly numb fingers in a burst of violent rage and shattered upon the dirt. The crunching of the shards against the ground amplified his uneven footsteps. The sound filled him with hatred. Why, he probably looked like a cad, like a toddler learning how to walk, like…a drunk. 

“I’m not drunk!” Hacker yelled. 

But Hacker knew he was. He just couldn’t see right, no matter how he squinted. His insides churned and his movements didn’t feel like his own. And he was alone. 

“I’m not drunk!” he bellowed again. He didn’t even know why. 

Not even his own voice would echo back to him from those shadowy purple mountains. 

He sunk to the dirt, an overwhelming flow of emotion rising in his chest. He watched his own fingernails scrape through the pebbles, trembling as his hands lifted the powdery soil. His hands, built for work from building, to delicate circuitry, to binding difficult metals, now as useless as the mirage of wildlife in front of him. His drunkenness only worsened the shaking and loss of control from his power depletion. His eyes stung again as dread built to a knot in his throat, a harsh truth realized. He fit in here. 

Hacker whispered so quietly he hardly was even sure he said it out loud. “I belong here.”

The air felt still and tense as Buzz watched the larger cyborg’s shoulders shudder. Sobs reached his audio receptors even from this distance. While he was no stranger to his boss’s fits, it still felt wrong somehow to watch as Hacker sank impossibly closer to the ground. He should’ve thought to hide their alcohol somewhere after this scheme’s failure. 

“Buzzy…shouldn’t we go help ‘im?” Delete’s voice was a harsh whisper. 

Buzz glanced beside him. The younger bot was curled up tight against the rock, trembling from fear and from the freezing wind that was particularly vengeful today. He peered over the top, wary of their boss’s wrath should he catch them despite his wish to comfort him. 

“Nah. ‘Da boss told us to leave. He wants to be alone.” 

“I thought he fired us.” 

Buzz rolled his eyes. “He always says ‘dat. He just wants to be alone.” Hacker had sounded particularly meaningful this time, his tone strangely depressed and his order missing a malicious threat. But the bot was trusting his experience to guide him, and that meant that soon the boss would forget all about that. 

Delete looked at him in confusion. “Then why’re we here, if we’re not helpin’ ‘im?” “We are, Dee-Dee. He’s plastered right now, so he’ll need help soon, after he’s done cryin’ and all ‘dat.” He looked back to the borg curled on the ground, far enough away that he remained ignorant of their presence, and close enough that they could hear shaky whimpering. “Y’know, after the cold gets to ‘im more. When you drink a whole bottle a’ licker it gets hard to remember where you’s at. You wouldn’t know, you’s never been drunk.”

[cartoondrawer]

(P.S, these aren’t my final sketches and these aren’t all the villains!)

[knightmareaceblue]

Cyberweek 2025 Day Three: Chase

Oh no! Doctor Marbles has been kidnapped!...again! But don't worry, the Cybersquad is on the case! Is it weird that Marbles being kidnapped was the first thing I thought of for this prompt? Anyways, went with a fun cartoony style on this one. Enjoy!