July 5, 2002
Larry Jacobs
Dave Dias
George Arthur Bloom
Linear measurement
"Fortress of Attitude" is the 23rd episode of Season 1 of Cyberchase. It originally aired on July 5, 2002.
Characters[]
- Jackie
- Inez
- Matt
- Digit
- Motherboard
- Hacker
- Buzz
- Delete
- Jackie's piano teacher (mentioned)
Locations[]
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Plot[]
Hacker formulates a plan to force cybersites to surrender by annoying them big time. To that end, he broadcasts his loud and obnoxious voice across the vastness of Cyberspace from a massive statue shaped like himself in the Northern Frontier. He then gets Buzz and Delete to monitor a telephone hotline (known as the Surrender Hotline) to contact cybersites who have surrendered to his terms.
Unwilling to let any more cybersites give in to Hacker's demands, the Cybersquad are sent by Motherboard to the Northern Frontier, where they carry out a Mission Impossible-style scheme to silence the statue by disabling the voicebox. Using their skills at measuring length, the kids make their way up through the inside of the booby-trapped statue to Hacker’s pointy chin and big mouth, where the voicebox is located.
Though the Cybersquad succeeds in silencing the voicebox, this only alerts Hacker and his minions to head up to the statue, where Hacker unveils a new tape to force more cybersites to surrender, forcing the Cybersquad to escape without disabling the voicebox. However, having anticipated that Hacker would come back and reset the voicebox, Digit reveals that he programmed the voicebox to malfunction the moment Hacker puts in his new tape. This causes the statue to crumble, and the Cybersquad escapes victoriously back to Control Central, thus putting an end to Hacker's intimidation throughout Cyberspace for good.
Extras[]
- Math topic: "Fortress of Attitude"
- For Real Segment: On the Right Track
Transcript[]
- Main article: Fortress of Attitude/transcript
Trivia[]
- The episode's title is a reference to the Fortress of Solitude, a DC Comics location associated with Superman.
- This is the first episode where Jackie does a Tarzan yell when she swings. The second is "The Creech Who Would Be Crowned."
- Cyberlantis is a reference to Atlantis.
Errors[]
- When the CyberSquad yells "Hang on, Didge" as they rescue Digit from the trapdoor, only Matt's voice is heard.
- Even though Digit had earmuffs on (in the beginning), he still could hear.
- Digit says, "P.U.! Don't try this at home," breaking the fourth wall.
Gallery[]
- Main article: Fortress of Attitude/gallery