History WesternAnimation / Cyberchase

** Digit’s history as a cook, which turns out to be exceptionally useful for a cookbook cipher in food-themed Aquari-Yum, entering bake-offs in "A Time to Cook" and "A Recipe for Chaos", and whenever the [=CyberSquad=] needs measuring cups.

* DiligentHeroSlothfulVillain: Hacker is portrayed as the Slothful Villain in select episodes, such as "A Time to Cook", where he secretly has pre-made meals flown in for each stage of the CookingDuel that the kids try to win fairly

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu: Part 1]]", Hacker [[BatmanGambit successfully dupes the kids into purchasing the encryptor chip]] that had [[TrojanHorse secretly been loaded with an even more powerful virus]] allowing Hacker to completely take over Motherboard and gain control of Cyberspace.]]
* BatmanGambit: In "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu: Part 1]]", [[spoiler:Hacker knows the [=CyberSquad=] will save a lot of money to buy the Encryptor Chip. He rigs an auction and gives them every opportunity he can to let them place the last bid while putting on the act that he wants it. With the tampered chip, the [=CyberSquad=] compromises Motherboard for Hacker, putting him in charge. And he gets all their hard-earned Snelfus]].

* TheBigRace: The premise of "[[CyberchaseS3E5TheCreechWhoWouldBeCrowned The Creech Who Would Be Crowned]]", with some WackyRacing antics thrown in.

* CerebusRollercoaster: Most of the show maintains a fairly light tone, but it periodically [[MoodWhiplash has darker and more desperate storylines]] that can become outright NightmareFuel for the target audience. "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu]]" and "Hackerized!" are well-attested examples.

** Slider’s experience with tools and tinkering ends up [[spoiler:being what saves Motherboard in "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu: Part 2]]"]].

** Multiple episodes involve entering lava-filled volcanoes. Sometimes the characters bother wearing protective gear, but there's no time for Digit to do even that in "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu: Part 2]]", for example.

** In "[[CyberchaseS3E5TheCreechWhoWouldBeCrowned The Creech Who Would Be Crowned]]", Jackie and Matt make fun of the way Inez talks ''and'' her [[BerserkButton height]]. When Inez finds that Creech has a [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness similarly wide vocabulary]], Inez joins her and says to [[TellHimImNotSpeakingToHim Tell Them She's Not Speaking To Them]]. It takes needing to rescue Inez from a [[QuicksandSucks quicksand pit]] to get the Earthlies to reconcile.

* GoodParents: All the kids’ parents, though scarcely mentioned, are depicted benevolently, and Slider’s father Coop is also the BigGood of the arc following "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu]]". Creech's dad, Max, has earned the title of Cyberdad of the Year as of "Father's Day".

* ItsAllMyFault: Digit blames himself for what happens to Motherboard in "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu]]", since he was the one who put in the Encryptor Chip.

* MultiPartEpisode: "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu]]", "The Cyberchase Movie", and "Space Waste Odyssey" are double-length episodes that are each split into two parts. "The Snelfu Snafu: Part 1" ends with a [[ToBeContinued To Be Continued…]] caption.

** In "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu: Part 1]]" the group enters an auction to win a copy of the Encryptor Chip that will fix Motherboard's virus. It turns out that the contest was actually set up by Hacker who created a fake Encryptor Chip. Once inserted into Motherboard's computer she is overwritten and replaced by Hacker, allowing him to take over Cyberspace for the first time!

* RoadSignReversal: Hacker [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat stops to cheat]] in this way during "[[CyberchaseS3E5TheCreechWhoWouldBeCrowned The Creech Who Would Be Crowned]]". It doesn't work on Creech, since she's already worried about [[WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque taking a wrong turn]] after her last race.

* RushmoreRefacement: In "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu: Part 2]]", Hacker has made a "Mount Hackermore" out of one of the mountains on cybersite Nowhere. There's a similar gag in "Measure For Measure" where he places a Hacker-headed Sphinx on Pyramidia.

* SeriesGoal: Cure Motherboard's virus; fend Hacker off in the meantime. Stymied in "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu]]" when [[spoiler:Hacker sabotages the Encryptor Chip, the main cure the heroes were vying to find, though other options remain]].

** The initial arc involved the kids trying to retrieve [[MacGuffin a new and rare Encryptor Chip]] (a device of Motherboard's destroyed by Hacker's virus, that would enable her to completely recover), culminating in "[[CyberchaseS3E9AndS3E10TheSnelfuSnafu The Snelfu Snafu]]" two-parter. Since it spanned the entirety of the show's first Nelvana/WNET run, it can be considered a MythArc.

* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: Cost Creech an [[TheBigRace important race]] in her backstory in "[[CyberchaseS3E5TheCreechWhoWouldBeCrowned The Creech Who Would Be Crowned]]".

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In "The Snelfu Snafu", Hacker [[BatmanGambit successfully dupes the kids into purchasing the encryptor chip]] that had [[TrojanHorse secretly been loaded with an even more powerful virus]] allowing Hacker to completely take over Motherboard and gain control of Cyberspace.]]
* BatmanGambit: In "The Snelfu Snafu", [[spoiler:Hacker knows the [=CyberSquad=] will save a lot of money to buy the Encryptor Chip. He rigs an auction and gives them every opportunity he can to let them place the last bid while putting on the act that he wants it. With the tampered chip, the [=CyberSquad=] compromises Motherboard for Hacker, putting him in charge. And he gets all their hard-earned Snelfus]].

* TheBigRace: The premise of "The Creech Who Would Be Crowned", with some WackyRacing antics thrown in.

* CerebusRollercoaster: Most of the show maintains a fairly light tone, but it periodically [[MoodWhiplash has darker and more desperate storylines]] that can become outright NightmareFuel for the target audience. "The Snelfu Snafu" and "Hackerized!" are well-attested examples.

** Slider’s experience with tools and tinkering ends up [[spoiler:being what saves Motherboard in “The Snelfu Snafu: Part 2”]].

** Multiple episodes involve entering lava-filled volcanoes. Sometimes the characters bother wearing protective gear, but there's no time for Digit to do even that in "The Snelfu Snafu: Part 2", for example.

** In "The Creech Who Would Be Crowned", Jackie and Matt make fun of the way Inez talks ''and'' her [[BerserkButton height]]. When Inez finds that Creech has a [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness similarly wide vocabulary]], Inez joins her and says to [[TellHimImNotSpeakingToHim Tell Them She's Not Speaking To Them]]. It takes needing to rescue Inez from a [[QuicksandSucks quicksand pit]] to get the Earthlies to reconcile.

* GoodParents: All the kids’ parents, though scarcely mentioned, are depicted benevolently, and Slider’s father Coop is also the BigGood of the arc following “The Snelfu Snafu”. Creech's dad, Max, has earned the title of Cyberdad of the Year as of "Father's Day".

* ItsAllMyFault: Digit blames himself for what happens to Motherboard in "The Snelfu Snafu", since he was the one who put in the Encryptor Chip.

* MultiPartEpisode: "The Snelfu Snafu", "The Cyberchase Movie", and "Space Waste Odyssey" are double-length episodes that are each split into two parts. "The Snelfu Snafu: Part 1" ends with a [[ToBeContinued To Be Continued…]] caption.

** In "The Snelfu Snafu: Part 1" the group enters an auction to win a copy of the Encryptor Chip that will fix Motherboard's virus. It turns out that the contest was actually set up by Hacker who created a fake Encryptor Chip. Once inserted into Motherboard's computer she is overwritten and replaced by Hacker, allowing him to take over Cyberspace for the first time!

* RoadSignReversal: Hacker [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat stops to cheat]] in this way during "[[TheBigRace The Creech Who Would Be Crowned]]". It doesn't work on Creech, since she's already worried about [[WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque taking a wrong turn]] after her last race.

* RushmoreRefacement: In "The Snelfu Snafu: Part 2", Hacker has made a "Mount Hackermore" out of one of the mountains on cybersite Nowhere. There's a similar gag in "Measure For Measure" where he places a Hacker-headed Sphinx on Pyramidia.

* SeriesGoal: Cure Motherboard's virus; fend Hacker off in the meantime. Stymied in "The Snelfu Snafu" when [[spoiler:Hacker sabotages the Encryptor Chip, the main cure the heroes were vying to find, though other options remain]].

** The initial arc involved the kids trying to retrieve [[MacGuffin a new and rare Encryptor Chip]] (a device of Motherboard's destroyed by Hacker's virus, that would enable her to completely recover), culminating in the "Snelfu Snafu" two-parter. Since it spanned the entirety of the show's first Nelvana/WNET run, it can be considered a MythArc.

* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: Cost Creech an [[TheBigRace important race]] in her backstory in "[[TheBigRace The Creech Who Would Be Crowned]]".

->'''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.

->'''Hacker:''' ''[[Insistent Terminology THE]]'' [[Insistent Terminology Hacker, to you!]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from the left: Jackie, Matt, Inez, and Digit]]

->''"Cyberchase! We're moving, we're beating Hacker at his game..."''
-->-- '''Opening theme'''

''Cyberchase'' is an EdutainmentShow that has aired on Creator/{{PBS}} since 2002, with thirteen seasons under its belt. Until 2007, the show was a co-production of WNET New York and Creator/{{Nelvana}} of Canada; WNET has produced the show on its own since then.

Most episodes involve the [=CyberSquad=] traveling to a unique or recurring "cybersite" (a planet-like body in Cyberspace) to thwart The Hacker's latest scheme.

'''Matt:''' He's not going to say no?

* ThreeAmigos: Except in this case, it's made up of two girls and one boy.

* DerangedAnimation: In the pilot/“The Poddleville Case”, everything in Poddleville exists on bizarre CGI planes of AlienGeometries, which Jackie {{Lampshade}}s frequently. The episode's animation in general also qualifies; being done by Creator/StudioBProductions, it employs their very rough and exaggerated style which stands in jarring contrast to the more clean and quasi-realistic look of the Creator/{{Nelvana}}-animated main show.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The original pilot, which was produced at least three years before the show debuted (tested three times in 1999 and aired once as a sneak peek in March 2000 on WNET, [[RecycledScript with a re-dubbed and re-edited version airing in January 2002 as part of the first season]] as "The Poddleville Case"). It's full of DerangedAnimation[[note]]It was animated by Creator/StudioBProductions, thus featuring a much sketchier and more exaggerated style than the rest of the series would with Nelvana at the helm.[[/note]] and bizarre jazz music, Jackie narrates the story, neither Digit nor Dr. Marbles appear (the final aired version has a mention of Digit dubbed in, however), and the ''Grim Wreaker'' has a black front window, instead of an orange one. Also the ''For Real'' segment accompanying the recut version is hosted by an unnamed presenter portrayed by Kareem Blackwell (best known as Quinn on ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark''), and not by either Bianca or Harry, who had yet to be cast at that point.

The series revolves around three Earth kids, Inez, Jackie, and Matt, and their "cybird" friend, Digit (voiced by Creator/GilbertGottfried), who lives in {{Cyberspace}}. Motherboard, ruler of the virtual world, [[DimensionalTraveler calls the trio inside]] to help defend and repair it from The Hacker (Creator/ChristopherLloyd)--who is not a [[PlayfulHacker playful one]], but an evil cyborg bent on conquering Cyberspace and spreading chaos.

->''"[[TitleThemeTune Cyberchase]]! We're moving, we're beating Hacker at his game..."''

The series revolves around three Earth kids, Inez, Jackie, and Matt, and their "cybird" friend, Digit (voiced by Creator/GilbertGottfried until 2022), who lives in {{Cyberspace}}. Motherboard, ruler of the virtual world, [[DimensionalTraveler calls the trio inside]] to help defend and repair it from The Hacker (Creator/ChristopherLloyd)--who is not a [[PlayfulHacker playful one]], but an evil cyborg bent on conquering Cyberspace and spreading chaos.

The series revolves around three Earth kids, Inez, Jackie, and Matt, and their "cybird" friend, Digit (voiced by Creator/GilbertGottfried), who lives in {{Cyberspace}}. Motherboard, ruler of the virtual world, [[DimensionalTraveler calls the trio inside]] to help defend and repair it from The Hacker (Creator/ChristopherLloyd)--who is not a [[PlayfulHacker playful one]], but an evil cyborg bent on conquering Cyberspace and spreading chaos.

* BagOfHolding:

** In Season 5, the final season to use traditional animation, the colors were noticeably brighter. Digit also saw some changes with the design of his mouth for this season only: he was no longer drawn with his rounded buck teeth, and the inside of his mouth was colored red instead of purple. Both of these changes were reverted when the animation switched to Flash.

** For the first four seasons, they were animated using Xeroxed pencils, while season 5 was animated using Xeroxed pens/markers, with thickened outlines and less sharp shading, giving it a less sketchy look.

* BareYourMidriff: Creech's typical outfit features this.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The original pilot, which was produced at least three years before the show debuted (tested three times in 1999 and aired once as a sneak peek in March 2000 on WNET, [[RecycledScript with a re-dubbed and re-edited version airing in January 2002 as part of the first season]] as "The Poddleville Case"). It's full of DerangedAnimation[[note]]It was animated by Creator/StudioBProductions, thus featuring a much sketchier and more exaggerated style than the rest of the series would with Nelvana at the helm.[[/note]] and bizarre jazz music, Jackie narrates the story, Digit doesn't appear (the final aired version has a mention of him dubbed in, however), and the ''Grim Wreaker'' has a black front window, instead of an orange one. Also the ''For Real'' segment accompanying the recut version is hosted by an unnamed presenter portrayed by Kareem Blackwell (best known as Quinn on ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark''), and not by either Bianca or Harry, who had yet to be cast at that point.