With Mainframe teetering on the brink of destruction, Bob has one last desperate gamble- allow the User to win a game, and hope the crash will force a re-start.

This episode has examples of

• All-Loving Hero: Bob talks Phong into giving Hexadecimal an icon so she won't be deleted when the system restarts.
• Back from the Dead: Characters that were deleted are brought back.
• The Big Damn Kiss: Two of them;
  • First, just before the system crash, Mouse and Ray share one.
  • Second, after the system restore, Bob and Dot, after three seasons of Ship Tease and several episodes of Moment Killers, finally have one of their own.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Mike addresses the viewers directly to explain that while the heroes rest, a recap of the third season will be done- in the form of a musical, no less. He even interrupts the credits to take the audience to the theater so they can watch the musical recap with the heroes.
• The Cameo: Cyrus shows up as one of the dancers in the recap show.
• Comically Missing the Point: "Hey! Who's the big, ugly green guy?"
• Credits Gag: The resolution of the story happens just over halfway through the episode, and suddenly the end credits start. Mike then interrupts the credits to present a musical theater recap of the series, which takes the episode to its proper runtime.
• A Day in the Limelight: The "Mainframe Strolling Players" was a running gag in previous episodes, where binome actors playing "True Stories of Mainframe" and re-enact events from previous episodes. This episode has them recap the Myth Arc in a big theater production that closes out the episode.
• Deus ex Machina: When all hope is lost, the User makes the command to restore Mainframe after it crashes — although unlike typical examples of this trope, it absolutely makes sense that the User would want their computer up and running again, with it even being a gamble that the User would try to do this and not simply just restart from scratch or abandon the system and a new computer.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Mainframe is restored to what it was before the Web invaded, with deleted characters brought back, Megabyte's former army cured of their infections, and the protagonists finally able to relax.
• End-of-Series Awareness: As the plan was always to follow up the story from here with a Made for TV movie, this episode is written with the intention of being the series finale, exclusively focusing on giving the characters a happy ending in the moment and not mentioning any loose ends at all.
• Failed a Spot Check: Anticipating the User would restore all of Mainframe, they quickly gathered survivors to the Principle Office and scanned their PIN icons for record keeping. Matrix showed old man Pearson how he survived the games via the icon format change. When Mainframe is restored Enzo from season one was also brought back, complete with 01 on his shirt. Matrix quickly realized he didn't revert his icon back to normal and the system restore uploaded the last saved version of himself.
• Foreshadowing: When the anti-virus phase of the World-Healing Wave takes place, it also tries to cure Hexadecimal, who appears to be unaffected by it, simply remarking that it tickled. The system isn’t done trying though, and will try again later.
• Glass Smack and Slide: The Camera Abuse version happens during the Major General Song; the binome playing Enzo is tossed against the TV screen, says his verse of the song, and then slides down.
• The Glomp: How does Little Enzo make his appearance? By tackling Bob, of course!
• Godzilla Threshold: No chance of fixing the system the normal way? Just let it crash on the hopes the User will fix it, and specifically do so with a system restore rather than wiping the slate clean and starting over.
• Have You Tried Rebooting?: The central plot device of the episode; Bob and the rest of the cast deliberately stand by and let Mainframe crash from one last Game Cube, accurately gambling that it will prompt the User to reboot their computer and restore the system to how it stood before Megabyte's ruinous war of conquest.
• Held Gaze: As the system crashes, Bob and Dot stare deeply into each other's eyes. Once Mainframe has been restored, they move on to The Big Damn Kiss.
• Huge Girl, Tiny Guy: Specky and Princess Bula, the latter at least three times the size of the former, have some romantic teasing.
• I Choose to Stay: Ray offers to take Mouse away from Mainframe, but she refuses, having stuck by the Mainframers too long to abandon them at the end. Falling for Mouse, Ray decides to stay as well.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: The pirates, Old Man Pearson, Mr. Mitchell and his entourage, and Binky and Algernon all have one last rowdy drink together as the system is crashing, to the consternation of Cecil.
• Little "No": Matrix when the game lands without any of them inside it.
• Major General Song: The season recap song is done to the tune of this.
• Me's a Crowd: Sorta. Because Matrix left his icon in Game Sprite Mode, the system restore assumed he had been deleted and created a second Enzo — of his original, Season One design — from a back-up file.
• Morton's Fork: Mainframe can't enact repairs without power, but if they power up a sector, the stress will tear it apart.
• Musical Episode: The last five minutes is a musical recap of the Myth Arc, with the "Mainframe Strolling Players" performing in a theater with binome actors as the main characters and the main characters watching from the audience. It even includes subtitles with Scuzzy as the "bouncing ball" for a sing-a-long. Lots of Stylistic Suck is also included, with wardrobe and prop malfunctions.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After the game hits with no one it, Matrix can only ask, "What have we done?"
• My Greatest Failure: Matrix is visibly affected by the reproduction of his lost Game, and he looks down in shame when the musical describes him as a "grim aggressor man".
• Oh, Crap!: Phong, upon seeing what Hexadecimal did to Herr Doktor and Bunnyfoot.
• Pet the Dog: The User, though obliviously, spares the entire population and city of Mainframe by restarting the system.
• Power of Trust: How Bob gets Matrix to consider not entering the game.
• Race Against the Clock: Phong and the others race to ensure that every active PID is backed up in the event of a restart.
• Refusal of the Call: Bob advocates against entering the incoming game, much to Matrix's disbelief.
• Reset Button: Or in this case, restore command, as the User uses the system restore option to reset Mainframe to its Season One settings, minus Megabyte's presence and influence.
• Save the Villain: Well, for a certain quality of villain. Bob advocates giving Hexadecimal a PID so that she will be spared. Phong relents, while calling it utter madness to register a virus.
• Scenery Gorn: All of Mainframe falls apart as the system crashes, the destruction being shown in painstaking detail as Mainframe finally falls.
• Scenery Porn: The World-Healing Wave that restores Mainframe is just as visually impressive as the destruction that preceded it.
• Series Fauxnale: Much like "Web World Wars", the episode was meant to serve as a potential finale to the series in case it wasn't picked up again, though while leaving enough room to pick things up again, in the form of the Daemon storyline mentioned earlier in the season.
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: The musical recap features these lyrics:
  Actor Dot: But Megabyte betrayed Bob and
  He threw him deep inside the pit
  The pit was closed
  and Bob was hosed
  and all that he could say was
  Actor Bob: Noooo!
• Thank the Maker: "Thank the User! We are saved!"
• Undying Loyalty: Ray could easily escape from Mainframe and save himself, but he decides to stay and see things through to the bitter end for the sake of his new friends, especially Mouse.
• Unseen No More: A variant. This is the only time the physical presence of the User is ever actually observed; although we don't see them directly, we see Mainframe from their point of view (the user interface of their operating system) for the first and only time, and their keystrokes are heard as they decide to execute the system restore.
• Wham Shot:
  • Little Enzo appearing. The sprites can only stare in shock as the young sprite chatters on and on.
  • Mainframe crashes and all goes dark... and a green command line interface appears, showing the User's point of view.
  ]SYSTEM CRASH:
  ]RESTART? Y/N:
  YES (The letters audibly typed one by one)
  ]RESTORE? Y/N:
  YES (The letters audibly typed one by one)
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: With Megabyte defeated, the heroes don't have a physical enemy they can fight, instead it's a decaying and dying computer system that they can't fix. Bob's solution: do nothing. Let the system crash and hope the User will fix it for them. It works.
• World-Healing Wave: Mainframe's restart is depicted as one of these, with the wrecked city's buildings being restored to their former glory. The system's inhabitants also reappear in flashes of light. Viral binomes who were corrupted by Megabyte receive a second flash, this one curing them of Megabyte's infection and freeing them from his control.