Computer Packy is a segment of the second season of the Pac-Man animated series. In its original airing, it was the second segment of the fourth episode of the season (seventeenth overall), and was paired with The Genii of Pacdad; on the Season 2 DVD and re-airings, it is instead part of the seventh episode of the season (twentieth overall), and is paired with Super-Pac vs. Pac-Ape.
Synopsis
When Pac-Man's new computer sucks Pac-Baby into its hard drive, Pac-Man and P.J. must enter the computer themselves and rescue Pac-Man's son.
Plot
P.J. successfully powers on Pac-Man's computer.
Pac-Man picks up his delivery of a home computer and starts to build it by himself, which he has trouble doing. This ends up getting the attention of P.J. who helps set it up for Pac-Man and proceeds to insert Star Blasters into it, they then start playing Star Blasters together, then suddenly the spaceship in the game flies out of the screen and starts blasting anything in Pac-Man’s house. Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Baby show up with the former requesting Pac-Man to vacuum up the den, which prompts P.J. to reprogram the computer, makes it shoot out a red beam to possess the vacuum cleaner, polish the furniture, paint the walls and feed Pac-Baby Power Pellets.
Pac-Baby gets abducted by the computer.
Sour Puss shows up and tries to make the vacuum cleaner attack Chomp-Chomp but it instead goes for Sour Puss and makes the computer go haywire before P.J. ends up overloading the system and suck Pac-Baby into it. Pac-Man tries to figure out how to get Pac-Baby out but pushes the wrong button which causes both him and P.J. to be sucked into the computer as Ms. Pac, Chomp-Chomp and Sour Puss yell in horror.
Pac-Man and P.J. search inside of the computer.
Inside the computer, a microchip monster pursues Pac-Man and P.J., which prompts them to hide behind a piece of internal tech inside the computer, which in reality is another monster. Pac-Man uses his emergency Power Pellets but they have no effect on the monsters. Ms. Pac calls out for Pac-Man, P.J. and Pac-Baby while Chomp-Chomp tries to use the buttons as a way to do anything to save them. Pac-Man and P.J. are still looking for Pac-Baby and then receives a message from Ms. Pac, which causes P.J. to reply to their message that they are still looking for Pac-Baby. Pac-Man and P.J. reach the main memory center and look through various memory chips to find Pac-Baby, which leads to them being attacked by math and chess programs before falling into a hole, which leads to the both finding Pac-Baby on the disc drive.
P.J. riding away, using Pac-Man as a flag.
Unfortunately for Pac-Man and P.J., the microchip monsters from before return to terrorize them which leads to Ms. Pac in desperation to print everyone out and pop out of the papers besides Pac-Man who is too tired to exit it. P.J. then drives away while using Pac-Man as a flag.
Profiles
- TV Guides: "P.J. deals with Pac-Man's computer."[1]
- Tubi: "Pac-Man and his cousin P.J. have a hilarious "Tron"-like adventure in a computer."[2]
Trivia
- Much of the episode parodies the 1982 sci-fi movie Tron.