The main characters are all hanging around
, not doing much, when Calvin starts worrying that a villain will come along and ruin the moment. He and Hobbes debate this for a bit, before the MTM shows up. He complains about being bored of his abilities, and suggests Calvin install a new one. After a bit of thinking, Calvin comes up with the ability to send people inside computers.
A while later, Calvin tests the new feature - and it works! Heading home satisfied, the feeling of joy is shattered when the MTM is reduced to speaking in word salads, concerning Hobbes.
The next day, Socrates reveals that he finally signed up for MySpace, and has somehow invited every single member to be his friend. Hobbes then confides his concerns about the MTM to him, and he doesn't think much of it.
Not long after, Calvin finds out that he downloaded a virus onto the MTM, and when the anti-virus software he chose doesn't do a whole lot, he decides to go in and delete it himself.
Later, after everyone's assembled, the boys enter the MTM... except for Hobbes, who stepped out of range and thus remains in the real world. Nonplussed, Calvin heads onwards, going through the various bits of the MTM with the help of Hobbes.
They find the virus, but their attempts to kill it fail, and only get Calvin, Socrates, and Andy stuck to it. With nothing to do, the protagonists just wait... until the MTM comes back online, having reorganized some stuff to reactivate his voice chip. He frees the boys and teleports them back into reality.
With everything solved, Calvin and Hobbes begin to relax once again, and the MTM gets a message from Socrates asking him to join MySpace and friend him. He would, but he's got more stuff to do on Facebook.
Tropes:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:Calvin: Okay, how about... how about something that can send people inside of...
Hobbes: Food?
Andy: Video games?
Sherman: Books?
Socrates: Trees? - Art Shift: The "animation" (such as it is) turns into CGI when inside the MTM."Think Jimmy Neutron."
- Breather Episode: It starts out as one, and it's quickly discussed.
- Content Warnings: Parodied with WARNING! EDUCATIONAL CONTENT!
- Didn't Think This Through: Calvin didn't quite think through how they'd get out of the MTM. It's pointed out to him that he was actually lucky that Hobbes didn't get digitalized, as he's the only one who can get them out.
- Edutainment Show: Lampshaded, as Sherman's lecture on Minesweeper is preceded by "WARNING! EDUCATIONAL CONTENT!"
- Genre Savvy: Calvin knows that a peaceful moment will be ruined by some villain.
- The Internet Is for Porn: Downplayed, as Socrates warns Calvin of "all those dirty websites and whatnot."
- Medium Awareness:Hobbes: But aren't we due for an episode where we just sit around and talk?
Calvin: Nah, these guys are here. Usually, we're the only ones in those shows.
Hobbes: Drat. - Non Sequitur, *Thud*: Inverted by Hobbes."Light suds?"
- Perfectly Cromulent Word: "Prankful".
- Saw It in a Movie Once: Socrates' suggestion of going inside a tree was apparently inspired by The Magic School Bus.
- Shout-Out: Calvin apparently owns a Sonic Screwdriver.
- Also, in the computer Calvin plays "Mindsweeper".
- Among Socrates's MySpace friends is Lord Voldemort.
- Fred is mentioned.
- Stuck on Band-Aid Brand: Downplayed, as "Google" is always appended with "™"... but Internet Explorer isn't.
- Talkative Loon: The MTM becomes one.
- Take That!: An insane lady named Kayla is apparently the only inhabitant of Montana (sans Ted Turner and Dana Carvey).
- Word-Salad Humor: The MTM.
