The BEST episodes of ReBoot

Every episode of ReBoot ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of ReBoot!

Welcome to the city of Mainframe, a computer system inhabited by binomes and sprites who go about their business, trying to keep everything running smoothly. Unfortunately, they live under the constant threat of the user, whose games wreak havoc if left unchecked, and the viruses Hexadecimal and Megabyte, who seek to gain the power of the system's core so they can spread themselves throughout the Net. That's where the Guardian, Bob, comes in. Armed with the versatile key-tool "Glitch" he tries his best to keep citizens safe, upholding his mandate to mend and defend. ReBoot!

Last Updated: 12/8/2024Network: YTV (CA)Status: Ended
Painted Windows
star
8.79
100 votes

#1 - Painted Windows

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1995

Mainframe is thrown into utter chaos when Hexadecimal manages to tap into the system's paint function.

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Bad Bob
star
8.60
134 votes

#2 - Bad Bob

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1995

Megabyte makes a grab for the core energy, but ends up getting trapped with it inside a corrupt game. Now Bob must keep the game going until he can get the energy back to the Principal Office or Mainframe will shut down when game ends.

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Showdown
star
8.59
133 votes

#3 - Showdown

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1998

The battle for Mainframe begins and Matrix has a final confrontation with Megabyte. Meanwhile, Hexadecimal seems to have gone even more insane but Bob thinks he might be able to help her.

Writer: Len Wein
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Infected
star
8.43
134 votes

#4 - Infected

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1995

The joy of receiving a new upgrade is cut short when it turns out to contain Megabyte himself, who's decided to take a more direct approach to infecting the core.

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Talent Night
star
8.41
135 votes

#5 - Talent Night

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/12/1995

Dot is arranging a celebration for Enzo's first birthday, and Bob has to keep the young sprite occupied until everything is ready.

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Racing the Clock
star
8.29
79 votes

#6 - Racing the Clock

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1994

Megabyte takes advantage of Enzo's new delivery service to try to deliver a delete command to Hexadecimal. Bob unknowingly attempts to deliver the package, only to be trapped in a racing game where the user's vehicle becomes a ticking time-bomb.

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End Prog
star
8.28
137 votes

#7 - End Prog

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1998

Mainframe is all but destroyed and Bob realises that their only hope lies in the user.

Writer: Marv Wolfman
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System Crash
star
8.28
131 votes

#8 - System Crash

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1998

Mainframe begins to crash around them and users from games played break out into mainframe. Matrix meets up with an enemy from his past.

Writer: Marv Wolfman
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AndrAIa
star
8.25
106 votes

#9 - AndrAIa

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1995

Enzo is feeling alone since there are no sprites his age in Mainframe. Dot won't let him enter games with Bob and Frisket comes and goes has he pleases. So when a game cube drops on the Diner and he runs to a young female sprite named AndrAIa, he's all too quick to make friends with her. But there's something Enzo doesn't seem to realise about AndrAIa...

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Number 7
star
8.20
132 votes

#10 - Number 7

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/1/1997

Matrix is shocked when he finds Mainframe inside a game cube. Dot is there... Phong is there... even Bob! But why did he and AndrAIa reboot as Megabyte and Hexadecimal? And who is Number One?

Writer: Dan DiDio
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High Code
star
8.19
136 votes

#11 - High Code

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1995

A being of incredible power, known as a codemaster, arrives in Mainframe, demanding they bring out another codemaster who he believes is hiding there.

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Identity Crisis (2)
star
8.18
134 votes

#12 - Identity Crisis (2)

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/16/1995

With Dot stuck in a game, heavily depressed and about to give up, Phong decides to take drastic action, sending her into a possible future where she lost the game and got herself and Bob nullified.

Writer: Jono Howard
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Mousetrap
star
8.16
134 votes

#13 - Mousetrap

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/5/1997

The traps Mouse once placed to stop the web creatures from accessing Mainframe are now making it difficult for the sprites to return home.

Writer: Marv Wolfman
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Trust No One
star
8.06
103 votes

#14 - Trust No One

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/30/1995

Two special agents from the CGI are investigating disappearances in level 31. Their prime suspect is Mouse but the real abductor ends up being something far more dangerous: a web creature. The Guardians would destroy all of Mainframe to kill the web creature, but Bob has other ideas.

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The Tearing
star
8.05
109 votes

#15 - The Tearing

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1994

Bob and Dot fight to keep Megabyte from harnessing the power of a recently discovered, unusually large, "Tear". They nearly succeed, but a game unexpectedly drops down, enveloping them along with the tear, which has become a portal to the Supercomputer. Dot and Bob must defeat Megabyte inside the game, or he will escape through the stablized tear, infecting other systems and becoming more powerful.

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Quick and the Fed
star
8.03
133 votes

#16 - Quick and the Fed

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1994

An accident causes a magnet to drain Dot of energy and, according to Phong, the only way to save her is to feed her slow food from Al's on level 31. While in Al's, the sprites are caught in a medival fantasy game where Bob and the user are attempting to reach Dot, the damsel in distress. Or are they?

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Nullzilla
star
7.98
104 votes

#17 - Nullzilla

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/1995

Mike accidently shatters Hexadecimal's looking glass, unleashing a horrible black parasite that infects the virus. Suddenly, all the nulls react, flocking to Lost Angles, covering the altered Hexadecimal until she's became a gigantic mass of nulls, walking around and flattening random buildings.

Writer: Susan Turner
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Where No Sprite Has Gone Before
star
7.97
135 votes

#18 - Where No Sprite Has Gone Before

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/24/1997

Matrix and AndrAIa find themselves on different sides of a conflict between the mysterious Spectrols and a team of super hero sprites.

Writer: D.C. Fontana
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Web Riders on the Storm
star
7.97
136 votes

#19 - Web Riders on the Storm

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/29/1997

The Saucy Mare is attacked by a group of degraded sprites riding web creatures, and AndrAia is saved by an old friend.

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Gigabyte
star
7.93
105 votes

#20 - Gigabyte

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/23/1995

The infected Megabyte merges with Hexadecimal, turning into the energy devouring super-virus Gigabyte. It must be stopped before it gathers enough power to create a portal to the Net.

Directors: Ian Pearson
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Web World Wars
star
7.86
133 votes

#21 - Web World Wars

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/2/1996

Above Mainframe hangs the web creature's parting gift: A gigantic portal to the Web - a chaotic abyss filled with unspeakable horrors. It will take the combined might of all inhabitants of the system to close it, including the viruses, but can they be trusted?

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The Return of the Crimson Binome
star
7.80
135 votes

#22 - The Return of the Crimson Binome

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/15/1997

Matrix and Andraia meet up with Captain Capacitor who promises to help them find Bob as long as they release his crew from the prison in which the guardians have placed them.

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The Crimson Binome
star
7.79
111 votes

#23 - The Crimson Binome

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/7/1995

Mainframe is attacked by dastardly software pirates, who quickly scavenge the city, taking everything of worth - including Bob!

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The Episode with No Name
star
7.78
135 votes

#24 - The Episode with No Name

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/8/1997

Having finally found a system with ports to the Net, Matrix is overjoyed. But it doesn't last long, when access is blocked as the city comes under siege by a team of... guardians?

Writer: Adria Budd
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Megaframe
star
7.75
138 votes

#25 - Megaframe

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1998

Matrix and the gang finally return to Mainframe only to discover it has been almost destroyed by Megabyte. We learn what the resistance has been doing all this time and the plan to finally save their home.

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