Cyberchase
A Piece Of The Action: Act 2
Clip: Season 3 Episode 4 | 8mVideo has Closed Captions
Hacker traps the CyberSquad with their tiny friends the Scritters.
Digit disappears while visiting his friends the Scritters, so Motherboard sends Matt, Jackie and Inez to investigate. They discover that Hacker has found a supply of Magnetite, and will use it to fill up a rocket capable of erasing all of Motherboard's memory disks. Can the kids stop Hacker before he collects a hundred percent of the Magnetite he needs to launch the rocket?
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Cyberchase
A Piece Of The Action: Act 2
Clip: Season 3 Episode 4 | 8mVideo has Closed Captions
Digit disappears while visiting his friends the Scritters, so Motherboard sends Matt, Jackie and Inez to investigate. They discover that Hacker has found a supply of Magnetite, and will use it to fill up a rocket capable of erasing all of Motherboard's memory disks. Can the kids stop Hacker before he collects a hundred percent of the Magnetite he needs to launch the rocket?
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(BOOM) DELETE: I AM NOT PUTTING GEORGE BACK!
I TOLD YOU, THE NAME'S SHELDON!
YOU HEARD THE BOSS, THE SCRITTERS MAKE HIM ITCH!
NOW PUT SHELDON BACK AND LET'S SEE IF WE CAN FIND THOSE KIDS!
KIDS: (SHOUT LOUDLY) (PUSHES BUZZER) (PRISON DOOR WHIRS OPEN) (CRASH) (DOOR SLAMS SHUT) HACKER: YES, OH, YES!
60% FULL!
ONLY 40% MORE TO GO THEN BLAST OFF!
BUZZ: BOSS!
BOSS!
WE CAPTURED THE KIDS!
YEAH, JUST LIKE YOU ASKED!
(CLAPS) SPLENDID!
NOW BRING ME SOME MORE MAGNETITE SO WE CAN LAUNCH THIS BABY!
(EVIL LAUGH) INEZ: WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN HERE?
HACKER'S GRINDING UP THESE GLOWING ROCKS CALLED MAGNETITE AND ONCE HE GETS ENOUGH HE'S GONNA USE IT TO ERASE MOTHERBOARD'S MEMORY FOREVER!
WHOA!
HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
SHELDON: I HEARD HACKER SAY HIS ROCKET IS SOMETHING FURCENTFUL.
FURCENTFUL?
WHAT'S A FURCENTFUL?
DUNNO.
WHO CARES WHAT A FURCENTFUL IS?!
WE GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE AND STOP HACKER!
DIDGE, CAN'T YOU DRILL US OUT?
SORRY.
I DON'T DO STALACTITES.
WAIT!
THERE'S A WAY OUT!
MATT: WE CAN'T GET THROUGH THERE, WE'RE TOO BIG!
ROXY: WHOA!
WE'RE NOT.
AND WE'RE GOOD JUMPERS, TOO.
JACKIE: OKAY, HERE'S THE PLAN.
WE LIFT ONE OF YOU UP THROUGH THAT HOLE THEN YOU JUMP FROM THE CAGE TO THAT ORANGE BUTTON... AND WE'RE OUTTA HERE!
BUT WHAT IF WE MISS?
WE'RE TOO SMALL TO REACH THE BUTTON FROM THE GROUND.
WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!
WE'VE GOT TO GET UP THERE ON THE FIRST TRY.
WHO'S THE BEST JUMPER?
ASHLEY, SHELDON AND UH, IRV!
THESE ARE OUR BEST JUMPERS.
COOL!
WE'D BETTER TEST 'EM!
MATT: DIDGE, MAKE A SCORECARD.
A CHECK FOR A HIT AND A ZERO FOR A MISS.
JACKIE: OKAY GUYS, JUMP AS MANY TIMES AS YOU CAN IN ONE MINUTE.
AT THE END, WE'LL COMPARE YOUR SCORES.
INEZ: PRETEND OUR HANDS ARE THE ORANGE BUTTON.
READY... JUMP!
(BOING) (SLAP) COME ON, SHELDON, JUMP!
(BOING) (SLAP) WAY TO GO, SHELLY!
(BOING) (BOING) (LOUD POUNDING OF DRILL) BUZZ: CUT THE TEARS, DEEDEE, AND GET THAT MAGNETITE LOADED!
B- B- BUT I MISS SHELDON, BUZZY.
I, I MISS HIM (SOBS) SO!
(CLANK) (ELECTRICITY CRACKLES) BUZZ: OH FORGET THE SCRITTERS AND STOP BLUBBERING!
WHAT'S A SCRITTER?
BUZZ: WELL, THOSE LITTLE FURRY THINGS.
EXCUSE ME, WHO ARE YOU?
BUZZ: OH NO!
THE MAGNETITE ERASED YOUR MEMORY.
(GIGGLES) I GUESS THAT STUFF REALLY WORKS.
WHAT WAS I ALL SAD ABOUT, BUZZY?
INEZ: OKAY, SHELDON HAD 7 HITS OUT OF 10 TRIES.
ASHLEY, 7 OUT OF 20, AND IRV HAD 8 HITS OUT OF 25 TRIES.
MATT: FRACTIONS AGAIN!
THE ONE WITH THE LARGEST FRACTION IS THE BEST JUMPER.
LET'S COMPARE 'EM AND GO!
DIGIT: WHOA, WHOA, WHOA!
THE FRACTIONS ARE ALL DIFFERENT!
HOW CAN WE POSSIBLY COMPARE THEM?
IT'S OKAY, DIDGE.
WE CAN COMPARE THESE FRACTIONS IF WE FIND A WAY TO MAKE THE BOTTOM NUMBERS, THE DENOMINATORS, MATCH.
TOO BAD SHELDON DIDN'T MAKE MORE JUMPS.
THAT'S IT, DIDGE!
WHAT IF SHELDON DID MAKE MORE JUMPS, LIKE TWICE AS MANY?
DIGIT: THEN HE WOULD HAVE TWICE AS MANY HITS?
14 OUT OF 20 TRIES?
MATT: YOU'VE GOT IT, DIDGE!
7 OVER 10 IS THE SAME AS 14 OVER 20.
DIGIT: OKAY, NOW I CAN COMPARE SHELDON AND ASHLEY, BUT WHAT ABOUT POOR IRV?
HE JUMPED 25 TIMES.
DON'T WE NEED A DENOMINATOR THAT WILL LET US COMPARE HIS SCORE TOO?
JACKIE: YEAH!
WE NEED A DENOMINATOR THAT WORKS FOR ALL THE SCORES.
WELL.
HOW ABOUT 50?
THERE'S TWO GROUPS OF 25 IN 50 AND...
RATS, IT WON'T WORK FOR 20!
TWO TWENTIES ARE 40 NOT 50.
DIGIT: GUYS, WE'RE LOSING TIME HERE.
HOW ABOUT 100?
THAT'S A NICE ROUND NUMBER!
INEZ: DIDGE, I THINK YOU DID IT.
SHELDON HAD 10 TRIES, RIGHT?
10 TIME 10 IS 100!
SO IF HE TRIED 100 TIMES HE WOULD HAVE HAD 70 HITS OUT OF 100.
MATT: AND ASHLEY HAD 20 TRIES.
20 TIMES 5 IS ALSO 100.
AND 7 TIMES 5 IS 35.
JACKIE: 25 TIMES 4 IS 100.
SO IRV'S SCORE IS 8 TIMES 4, OR 32 OUT OF 100.
DIGIT: COMPARIN' THESE FRACTIONS IS A WALK IN THE PARK NOW!
SHELDON IS OBVIOUSLY THE BEST JUMPER WITH 70 HITS PER 100 TRIES!
UM GUYS, YOU KNOW WHAT JUST HIT ME?
THESE ARE ALL PERCENTS - PARTS OF 100.
REMIND ME, WHAT ARE PERCENTS?
THEY'RE FRACTIONS THAT ARE PARTS OF 100.
PERCENT MEANS PER 100.
JACKIE: 70 OVER 100 IS 70 PERCENT.
AND THIS PERCENT SIGN TELLS YOU IT'S PARTS OF 100.
35 OVER 100 IS THE SAME AS 35 PERCENT.
DIGIT: SO 32 OVER 100 IS THE SAME AS 32 PERCENT?
MATT: YOU GOT IT!
PERC- PERCENT?!
(CHUCKLES) THAT'S WHAT I HEARD HACKER SAY, NOT FUR-SCENT!
HACKER'S ROCKET WAS 45 PERCENT FULL!
OH NO!
HE'S SURE TO HAVE MORE MAGNETITE BY NOW AND WHEN HE GETS TO 100 PERCENT IT'S ALL OVER FOR MOTHERBOARD!
SHELDON, YOU'RE UP!
(BOING) INEZ: HE'S OUT!
(BOING) MATT: HE JUMPS...
HE SCORES!
KIDS AND SCRITTERS: YAY!
ROXY: FOLLOW ME!
HACKER: GOING UP!
73, 74, 75 PERCENT FULL!
YES!
THREE FOURTHS OF WHAT I NEED!
(SCRATCHES AND MOANS) THAT'S ODD, THERE'S NO SCRITTERS IN HERE.
WHY AM I ITCHING?
(MOANS AND GROANS) DELETE: BOSS, BOSS!
THE KIDS ESCAPED!
WHAT?!
AND THOSE SCRITTERS TOO!
HACKER: YOU AND BUZZ BETTER FIND THOSE KIDS OR IT'S THE SCRAP HEAP FOR YOU BOTH!
(DOOR SLAMS) SHELDON: THAT'S HACKER'S CONTROL ROOM!
INEZ: WE HAVE TO GET IN THERE!
WE NEED SOMETHING TO DIG WITH.
(RUMBLE OF ENGINE) SOMETHING LIKE THAT!
BUZZ: (EVIL CHORTLE) DIGIT: RUN!
JACKIE: YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING!
A DEAD END!
(DRILL WHIRS LOUDLY) KIDS AND SCRITTERS: (SCARED YELL)
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