History WesternAnimation / Cyberchase

** Inverted in the sixth season and onwards when it transitioned to [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] animation, causing the movements to end up getting rather cheap-looking and stilted. The look of the new puppet-rigged approach has improved slightly since Season 8, but it's still noticeably jankier than when the show was traditionally animated.

** In Season 1, Motherboard is mostly shown from a static angle; the closing credits headings use the font Mata (of ''Film/SpiderMan1'' and [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 PlayStation]] infamy) instead of also using Wevli, and the Nelvana logo is a still print logo[[note]]as opposed to the "Blue polar bear in space" logo used the next season (and which was also used on the ''PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch'' shows), or the "polar bear bumping star with haze behind it" logo used until Nelvana dropped out[[/note]].

** Listen for a soft techno beat when the kids go into educational mode. The extended, more synth-heavy version that is used occasionally is somewhat reminiscent of the UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows XP setup tune.

* AnAesop: Different learning styles and problem-solving methods can work just as well and make for powerful teamwork. All of the [=CyberSquad=] members do [[PuttingOnMyThinkingCap unique things to help them think]] and can offer different insights, skills, and strategies for the problems they encounter. Digit tends not to follow along well, but just by voicing his confusion, he accidentally offers a valuable outside perspective and crucial paradigm shift. There's a reason his PhraseCatcher is "Didge, you're a genius!" The moral gets further emphasis in "[[Recap/CyberchaseS1E18ProblemSolvingInShangriLa Problem Solving in Shangri-La]]", where Jackie needs a different approach to the GameOfNim that the team must win. Once she gets a nudge in the right direction and finds her own way of looking at it, she makes a key insight that wins the next round and leads the [=CyberSquad=] to the winning strategy.

* AnAesop: Different learning styles and problem-solving methods can work just as well and make for powerful teamwork. All of the [=CyberSquad=] members do [[PuttingOnMyThinkingCap unique things to help them think]] and can offer different insights, skills, and strategies for the problems they encounter. Digit tends not to follow along well, but just by voicing his confusion, he accidentally offers a valuable outside perspective and crucial paradigm shift. There's a reason his PhraseCatcher is "Didge, you're a genius!" The moral gets further emphasis in "[[Recap/CyberchaseS1E18ProblemSolvingInShangriLa Problem-Solving in Shangri-La]]", where Jackie needs a different approach to the GameOfNim that the team must win. Once she gets a nudge in the right direction and finds her own way of looking at it, she makes a key insight that wins the next round and leads the [=CyberSquad=] to the winning strategy.

* GameOfNim: In "[[Recap/CyberchaseS1E18ProblemSolvingInShangriLa Problem-Solving in Shangri-La]]", both the kids and [[BigBad Hacker]] have to win two out of three games of him before they can leave. Shangri-La being a LandOfDragons, it's played with sentient mini-Terracotta warriors and [[[[DragonsUpTheYinYang dragons]]. They all struggle to find the winning strategy until Jackie realizes to solve the last move and work back from there to control previous turns.

* AnAesop: Different learning styles and problem-solving methods can work just as well and make for powerful teamwork. All of the [=CyberSquad=] members do [[PuttingOnMyThinkingCap unique things to help them think]] and can offer different insights, skills, and strategies for the problems they encounter. Digit tends not to follow along well, but just by voicing his confusion, he accidentally offers a valuable outside perspective and crucial paradigm shift. There's a reason his PhraseCatcher is "Didge, you're a genius!" The moral gets further emphasis in [[Recap/CyberchaseS1E18ProblemSolvingInShangriLa "Problem-Solving in Shangri-La"]], where Jackie needs a different approach to the GameOfNim that the team must win. Once she gets a nudge in the right direction and finds her own way of looking at it, she makes a key insight that wins the next round and leads the [=CyberSquad=] to the winning strategy.

* GameOfNim: In [[Recap/CyberchaseS1E18ProblemSolvingInShangriLa "Problem-Solving in Shangri-La"]], both the kids and [[BigBad Hacker]] have to win two out of three games of him before they can leave. Shangri-La being a LandOfDragons, it's played with sentient mini-Terracotta warriors and [[[[DragonsUpTheYinYang dragons]]. They all struggle to find the winning strategy until Jackie realizes to solve the last move and work back from there to control previous turns.

* AnAesop: Different learning styles and problem-solving methods can work just as well and make for powerful teamwork. All of the [=CyberSquad=] members do [[PuttingOnMyThinkingCap unique things to help them think]] and can offer different insights, skills, and strategies for the problems they encounter. Digit tends not to follow along well, but just by voicing his confusion, he accidentally offers a valuable outside perspective and crucial paradigm shift. There's a reason his PhraseCatcher is "Didge, you're a genius!" The moral gets further emphasis in "Problem Solving in Shangri-La", where Jackie needs a different approach to the GameOfNim that the team must win. Once she gets a nudge in the right direction and finds her own way of looking at it, she makes a key insight that wins the next round and leads the [=CyberSquad=] to the winning strategy.

* GameOfNim: In "Problem-Solving in Shangri-La", both the kids and [[BigBad Hacker]] have to win two out of three games of him before they can leave. Shangri-La being a LandOfDragons, it's played with sentient mini-Terracotta warriors and [[[[DragonsUpTheYinYang dragons]]. They all struggle to find the winning strategy until Jackie realizes to solve the last move and work back from there to control previous turns.

* GameOfNim: In "Problem Solving in Shangri-La", the Earthlies are pitted against Hacker to win a version of this game played with [[DragonsUpTheYinYang dragons]]. They all struggle to find the winning strategy, until Jackie realizes to solve the last move and work back from there to control previous turns.

->'''Narrator:''' Whatever. He wants to take over the Cyberworld from Motherboard. [So] The three kids are sucked into Cyberspace, And they use brain power to help save everybody.
->'''Jackie''': Okay, here's the plan.

* ThreadsOfFate: In one episode, the [=CyberSquad=] meet the three fates of Greek myth. One of the fates cuts a string [[NeverSayDie when someone's time is up]].

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: In "[[Recap/CyberchaseS5E6TheFlyingParallinis The Flying Parallinis]], despite their unique appearances, Hacker doesn’t recognize the Parallinis from when they rescued him from Mount Wayupthere.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Digit has one in "R-Fair City" when trapped captive in a cage.

** Inez's giggle from "R-Fair City" (when catching Hacker trying to cheat at a carnival game) is re-used in several subsequent episodes.

* ItsACostumePartyISwear: Harry accidentally does this to himself in one segment. His friend gave him a coded note in a Viking rune cipher, and Harry translated the first part telling about the time, but only translated up to "Co" on the last bit and assumed that the rest meant "Costume Party" based on how long the words were. He arrived at his friend's house dressed in a homemade Viking outfit, only to have his friend correct him saying the note read "Concert Start".

** [[Series/DrPhil Dr. Bill]]
** [[Literature/HarryPotter Shari Spotter and Professor Stumblesnore]]
** [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen Mary-Pat and Brittany Wholesome]]
** [[Series/JudgeJudy Judge Trudy]]

* AssemblyLineFastForward: In "[[Recap/CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu]]", the [=CyberSquad=] get jobs to earn enough Snelfus to get the encryptor chip to cure Motherboard from Hacker's virus. Jackie gets a job packing chocolate candies into boxes, but she quickly gets overwhelmed when the speed picks up and winds up covered in a mountain of chocolate.