Dot prepares a surprise talent show for Enzo's birthday; Megabyte, upset about not being invited, prepares his own act.
The YTV logo robot can be seen backstage, and has a line borrowed from Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet. A supporting Binome character, Emma, acts as the "Prog Sensor" during tryouts for the talent show; both this and the Small Town Binomes song "BSnP" reference the Broadcast Standards and Practices censors. The group Small Town Binomes themselves are references to the 1970s disco group Village People; the song BSnP is also a parody of their hit song Y.M.C.A. Another "band" to feature on the episode, "The Primitives," take the form of a ball, a triangle and a square which, along with their primary colours and being simple tracing shapes (i.e. "primitive" objects), resemble the logo for Electronic Arts at the time. An act that parodies the music video for "Money for Nothing," the first computer animated music video which was animated by Mainframe, the makers of Reboot. Phong's performance has similarities to Nat King Cole's 'Unforgettable'. One of the binomes trying out is named "Captain Quark;" he is a parody of Star Trek's Captain Kirk. He then sings "Rocket Man" by Elton John in a style similar to William Shatner's famous halting delivery. After the actual show starts Megabyte crashes the party and cranks up the volume to 11. In response Bob tells Glitch to convert to a guitar with the command "Glitch: BFG", a reference to the BFG 9000 supergun from Doom. (Much later, in 2006, Gibson Guitar Corporation introduced their "Gibson Les Paul BFG guitar). Afterwards, Mike says "ladies and gentlemen, Megabyte has left the building!" next to the Elvis Binome.
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These are taken from the Russian masters right?
vanbelkom 3 weeks ago
best reboot episode ever! thumbs up if you agree
TeletoonRetro4Life 4 months ago