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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Bob saying he needs slow food fast prompts a laugh from Al's waiter.



* BatmanGambit: With Hack and Slash on his tail and a gamecube about to drop, Bob opens a vid window to tell the villains that they'll never catch him. He knows they'll immediately stop and engage him in conversation, giving him enough time to be in position to enter the game without interference.



* ChekhovsGunman: The episode introduces Megabyte's pet Null, Nibbles, in the opening scene. He's a very incidental character for most of the show's run, but Season 4 will reveal his true identity, his connection to the main characters, and how he is directly responsible for the status quo.



* TheGlomp: Enzo again does this to Bob, upon him entering the diner. Dot points out this is a bad look for business.
* HopeSpot:
** After getting the food, Bob gets Hack and Slash out of Al's and beats it back to Dot's. Then a gamecube drops.
** Played for laughs when Hack and Slash resume chasing Bob before the gamecube hits. They're certain they're just barely going to make it into the game, chanting that all the way. As Megabyte expected, though, they crash into the landed cube instead.
* HypocriticalHumor: Phong insisted on Bob going through the trouble of beating him at his favorite game before giving him the solution to the problem. After everything is fully explained to Bob, Phong yells at him to get moving and says time is of the essence.
* MightyRoar: Megabyte when trying to take the magnet back from Bob. He makes an even louder one, as Bob escapes the Tor.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Enzo's reaction to Dot getting hit with the magnet.



* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The User knight seems unstoppable until Bob throws his broken sword [[AttackItsWeakPoint and hits the icon on his chest]].

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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Part of the game involves the knights riding fire-breathing dragons. For his dragon, Bob finds that Al's waiter is operating the flight controls, while Al himself is handling the fire blasts.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Dot tries to tell Bob how to get the slow food fast, but in her addled state, it just sounds like malfunctioning gibberish.
* SkewedPriorities: As before, Phong won't provide any information or advice, until Bob beats him at his favorite game. Due to Dot's condition, Bob is quite tweaked by this and barely indulges the game.
* TakeANumber: Bob is told to wait his turn to order, so he takes a number. He gets 1000000000000, but he doesn't think that's too bad, until the waiter says they're now serving 3. Megabyte's goons threatening the place gives Bob a bargaining chip to skip the line.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The User knight seems unstoppable until Bob throws his broken sword [[AttackItsWeakPoint and hits the icon on his chest]].chest]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Enzo tries out Glitch, ending up with a jackhammer that shakes up the diner. Bob is so distracted dealing with that that he doesn't notice the container housing the magnet is about to fall off the bar onto the floor. When it does, it bursts open right in front of Dot, leading to her getting hit with the magnet.

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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The danger of a magnet is based on computer technology at the time such as CRT monitors and floppy discs being vulnerable to being disrupted by magnets. Nowadays most computers use technologies that just aren’t effected by magnets at all or are just better shielded against them so magnets don’t pose much threat.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The danger of a magnet is based on computer technology at the time such as CRT monitors and floppy discs being vulnerable to being disrupted by magnets. Nowadays most computers use technologies that just aren’t effected by magnets at all or are just better shielded against them so magnets don’t pose much threat.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: When Dot hears her condition can be cured with some Slow Food from Al’s Diner, she tries to say something about it only for her to be too glitchy to understand and Bob insisting she rest while he go gets her the food. When she turns out to be just fine, she reveals what she was trying to say is that she’s good business partners with Al’s so she can simply order slow food with rush delivery and save a bunch of hassle.
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* OhCrap: The gate shuts on Bob, realizing he has to fight the skeleton warrior.

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* DemBones: A skeleton warrior game sprite.



* GroinAttack: Averted. Bob jumped out of the way before the skeleton warrior can drop its sword between Bob's legs.


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* NearMissGroinAttack: Bob jumped out of the way before the skeleton warrior can drop its sword between Bob's legs.

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* DraggedIntoDrag: Enzo hoped to reboot into a knight like Bob, only to be mortified to end up as "a damsel in this dress."



* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The User knight seems unstoppable until Bob throws his broken sword [[AttackItsWeakPoint and hits the icon on his chest]].
* UnplannedCrossdressing: Enzo hoped to reboot into a knight like Bob, only to be mortified to end up as "a damsel in this dress."

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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The User knight seems unstoppable until Bob throws his broken sword [[AttackItsWeakPoint and hits the icon on his chest]].
* UnplannedCrossdressing: Enzo hoped to reboot into a knight like Bob, only to be mortified to end up as "a damsel in this dress."
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* MunDanger: In the real world, magnets are harmless to people. Since Mainframe is a world inside a computer, magnets are treated as incredibly dangerous. Megabyte plans on using it as a weapon, Bob takes it from him for this reason (shielding it as though it was radioactive) and it slowly kills Dot when she accidentally touches it.
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* GroinAttack: Averted. Bob jumped out of the way before the skeleton warrior can drop its sword between Bob's legs.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Throughout the game, Bob keeps hearing Dot pleading for help, so he assumes she's the damsel. By the time he finally gets to the top of the tower, he sees that it's Enzo who has a megaphone to make him sound like Dot.



* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The User knight seems unstoppable until Bob throws his broken sword [[AttackItsWeakPoint and hits the icon on his chest]].

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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The User knight seems unstoppable until Bob throws his broken sword [[AttackItsWeakPoint and hits the icon on his chest]].chest]].
* UnplannedCrossdressing: Enzo hoped to reboot into a knight like Bob, only to be mortified to end up as "a damsel in this dress."
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The User knight seems unstoppable until Bob throws his broken sword and hits the icon on his chest.

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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The User knight seems unstoppable until Bob throws his broken sword [[AttackItsWeakPoint and hits the icon on his chest.chest]].
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* DamselInDistress: played with; Dot becomes endangered from magnetization leading Bob on a quest to Al's for the cure. When the game drops, Bob assumes Dot has rebooted into the role of the damsel, but when he gets to the tower, he finds it's Enzo, and Dot is just fine, having ordered some slow-food via vid-screen.

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* DamselInDistress: played Played with; Dot becomes endangered from magnetization leading Bob on a quest to Al's for the cure. When the game drops, Bob assumes Dot has rebooted into the role of the damsel, but when he gets to the tower, he finds it's Enzo, and Dot is just fine, having ordered some slow-food via vid-screen.
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'''Megabyte:''' They're not going to make it. ''(Winces when the robots crash into the game wall)''

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'''Megabyte:''' They're not going to make it. ''(Winces when the robots crash into the game wall)''wall)''
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The User knight seems unstoppable until Bob throws his broken sword and hits the icon on his chest.
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* DamselInDistress: played with; Dot becomes endangered from magnetization leading Bob on a quest to Al's for the cure. When the game drops, Bob assumes Dot has rebooted into the role of the damsel, but when he gets to the tower, he finds it's Enzo, and Dot is just fine, having ordered some slow-food via vid-screen.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Megabyte shows up at the end to demand the magnet. Bob is more than happy to oblige...throwing the magnet at Megabyte's head, putting him in the state Dot was!

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Megabyte shows up at the end to demand the magnet. Bob is more than happy to oblige...throwing the magnet at Megabyte's head, putting him in the state Dot was!was!
* GilliganCut: When Hack and Slash are racing to get into a game;
-->'''Hack and Slash:''' We are going to make it! We are going to make it!\\
''(Cut to Megabyte watching)''\\
'''Megabyte:''' They're not going to make it. ''(Winces when the robots crash into the game wall)''
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When Dot gets hurt by a magnet Bob took from Megabyte, the Guardian must go get some "slow food" from Al's Diner to fix her. The errand gets complicated when a game drops Bob into a game of knights.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Megabyte shows up at the end to demand the magnet. Bob is more than happy to oblige...throwing the magnet at Megabyte's head, putting him in the state Dot was!

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