"Painted Windows" is the fifth episode of Season 2 of ReBoot, and the eighteenth episode overall. It originally aired on November 2, 1995 on YTV and November 4, 1995 on ABC.
DVD Log Line[]
Seeking attention for her art, Hexadecimal breaks into the Principal Office Archives and tampers with the paint program, using all of Mainframe as her canvas. Bob must go to Lost Angles to perform an UNDO command before all of Mainframe is saved in Hexadecimal's painted image. —ReBoot: The Definitive Mainframe Edition
Synopsis[]
Computer References[]
- "This is great! A V3!" "Yeah, it should give you a lot less trouble than your 262." Or, to punctuate it another way, he's trying to upgrade from v2.6.2 to v3.
Cultural References[]
- "Picture, if you will..." is a reference to Rod Serling's Night Gallery.
- So many artworks and artistic styles:
- The Scream of Nature by Edvard Munch, better known simply as The Scream
- Roy Lichtenstein
- The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
- Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh, specifically the third and/or fourth versions (with the signature on the vase)
- The Son of Man by René Magritte
- The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí
- Water Lilies and The Argenteuil Bridge by Claude Monet
- Piet Mondrian
- Joan Miró(?)
- Keith Haring
- Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
- The Thinker by Auguste Rodin
- Peter Max
- The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
- Pablo Picasso (with bonus "blue period" joke)
- David Hockney's photographic collages
- Voice of Fire by Barnett Newman
- Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
- "I'm ready for my close-up now, Mr. Guardian" is a paraphrase of the typically misquoted version of the famous last line from Sunset Boulevard, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
- The unseen movie Mike shows to Hexadecimal at the end is a riff on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Trivia[]
- The windows and masks in the reconfigured Archives resemble the structure of DNA.
Music[]
"Painted Windows - Hexadecimal" by Bob Buckley
"Painted Windows - Mayhem!" by Bob Buckley