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Considering that each episode of the series is 15 minutes each per episode, it is quite likely there are numerous scenes that might be considered missing, and even more unanswered questions. Here they are as follows...

Twipsy and the Real World

There's no doubt that the series focuses on when worlds collide – particularly with Nick Walker's first encounter in cyberspace, and Twipsy's first encounter with the real world. In fact this poses some interesting questions throughout the course of the series...
  • Between the second episode (Welcome to Cyberspace) and the third episode (Hello real world!), how did the Walker kids - Nick and Lissie - keep the newly arrived Twipsy safe under wraps?
    • There is a likelihood that they may have hidden him under the bed, but considering that Twipsy doesn't need sleep (after all, he is an energy being), perhaps finding that humans sleep, after all, would be quite a bore to him. How does he cope?!

Twipsy's Biology

Twipsy's own species, the cyber couriers, are sentient beings made of pure energy, which enables them to reach speeds of light (essential since their job is to deliver information). Of course, there are some interesting questions in places that leave us wondering...
  • In the seventeenth episode, The Case of the Missing Pastry, Twipsy continues with his newfound appreciation of real world delicacies, and stuffs himself sick with a bellyache. However, he realises that he has spent too long outside of cyberspace, and because he is an energy being, he is at risk of fading into another form of energy... heat energy that can burst popcorn kernels. Poor thing!
    • How is he able to digest all that food in later episodes, and not have a problem? Perhaps this little anatomical chart might help explain a little?
    • And more importantly, since he returned to cyberspace safely, how will his fellow cyber couriers react to his current stuffed condition? Do they have medical and diagnostics centres in cyberspace? How did Twipsy recover to live another day?
      • I would imagine the other cybermessengers being in shock upon seeing Twipsy in such a condition. I have never seen any hospitals of some sort in cyberspace, but it must be Fridge Logic that let Twipsy survive.

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