Uploaded Nov 26, 2021
Summary
Yellow has managed to connect an arcade console to his PC (yes, he has a PC inside Alan's PC) so they can play Arcade games. His friends tries but they quickly fail, so Yellow steps up and start playing Tetris, until a log from Frogger suddenly appears. He checks other games and finds elements and games had been mixed up, until he notices Q*bert in two different games, the last of which is Pac Man, also devoid of the titular character, so he realizes that he is the cause of everything. The sticks enter the window to chase him, and put it on full screen to have more mobility, but Q*bert manages to suck the Arcade Machine's escape and the Stickmen find themselves stuck.They realize that they have to clear the game to escape, so they venture through other games, where Q*Bert continues sucking and releasing enemies and items for other games, mixing up everything. Finally they reach Q*bert's game, where he releases heroes and enemies from various games and controls them using the arcade machine, and also makes Tetris blocks fall from the sky. The Stickmen however still manages to reach him, so he sucks everyone except for Yellow who manage to saves himself and tries to escape using a floating platform. However, Yellow use the machine to summon the spaceship from Galaga and a bar from Pong, knocking him out. Upon achieving victory however, Yellow discovers that Q*bert is doing all of this only to find food for his family, so he uses the arcade to summon fruits from Pac Man and release his friends and the videogame protagonists. They make peace with Q*bert and create a "Q*bert mode" to mix up the games on purpose and made them more interesting.
Tropes:
- Adapted Out: Despite being in the video's thumbnail, Blinky is shown to be missing from the Pac-Man stage and doesn't appear at any point in the episode.
- Anti-Villain: It turns out Q*bert was stealing everything because he was trying to feed his family.
- Big Bad: Q*bert, who is stealing objects and characters from the other arcade games.
- Black-Hole Belly: Q*bert swallows tons of objects that are bigger than him.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Q*bert makes Pac-Man, a frog from Frogger, Lady, Jumpman, and Mario attack the Stick Figures by controlling them from Yellow's arcade machine.
- Brick Joke: The first time Yellow plays Pong, one of the paddles is replaced by a line block from Tetris. When the Stick Figures end up in Pong while chasing Q*bert, the line block is still there.
- Bullet Hell: There are multiple occasions where the Stick Figures are attacked by the aliens from Space Invaders, who can fire projectiles much more quickly than they usually do.
- The Cameo: Luigi only ever appears on the "Mario Bros." game select screen.
- Chekhov's Gun: The cherries. Yellow grabs them in Pac-Man and gives them to Q*bert's kids when he sees that they're hungry. When he saw that they loved them, it gave him the idea to use his computer to spawn more Pac-Man fruit.
- Cutting the Knot: Yellow manages to beat Donkey Kong by just throwing a hammer at Donkey Kong himself.
- Decomposite Character: Due to their games being separate programs, Jumpman and Mario are portrayed as separate characters.
- Eating the Enemy: As a last ditch effort to save himself, Q*bert uses his Vacuum Mouth to eat all of the stick figures except for Yellow, who had held on to the terrain.
- Hand Stomp: When the Stick Figures end up in Tetris, Green is hanging from a ledge until Q*bert stomps on his hands, causing him to fall into a gap he can't climb out of.
- Handy Feet: Q*bert proves to be quite adept at controlling the arcade cabinet with his feet.
- Hope Spot: After beating Donkey Kong, Q*bert falls from the sky due to the platforms disappearing, but ends up landing on a conveniently timed Pong ball just out of reach of the stick figures.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Characters and objects from Pong, Breakout, Space Invaders, Q*bert, Pac-Man, Frogger, Tetris, Mario Bros., and Donkey Kong all collide here. Near the end, Yellow also adds Galaga.
- No-Sell: The laser cannon from Space Invaders proves useless agains Pac-Man, since he can just eat the bullets. The hammer from Donkey Kong works just fine against him, though.
- Shout-Out: Pixels is referenced when a hammer is thrown at Donkey Kong.
- Stomach of Holding: When the Stick Figures confront Q*bert, he spits out some of the objects he swallowed to hinder them.
- That Russian Squat Dance: A character from Tetris does this, as well as Q*bert when he's about to leave Tetris.
- Vacuum Mouth: Q*bert is able to inhale objects into his mouth.
- Wham Shot: Everything goes well until a log from Frogger suddenly appears in Tetris.
