ReBoot, the first 100 percent computer-animated TV series (ABC: Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.), tells the story of Mainframe, a virtual city. The story centers around the hero, Bob, his friend, Dot, and a pizza-delivery kid named Enzo. They are pitted against a couple of wicked virus supervillains hellbent on wiping Mainframe from the computer's memory.
Director Steve Barron, who brought computer animation to our television sets with Dire Straits's Money for Nothing video in 1985, pulled in Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book artist Brendan McCarthy to add some spice to the series. "Barron called me because I could add a subversive element, taking ReBoot out of the blandoid hole of children's Saturday morning TV," explains McCarthy. Characters in ReBoot speak high-tech talk - incorporating computer terms in their own special dialect. Enzo is encouraged to "cut and paste" the truth. Dot counsels him not to "quit file" so easily.
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