Get Smart

Summary
A battle begins when HUGO, the new interactive whiteboard, corrects Mr. Ratburn in front of the class.

Plot
The intro starts as a match between Mr. Ratburn and the unknown Challenger as announced by Arthur. Francine and Buster were shocked to see the Challenger.

The episode starts with Principal Haney announcing that Mr. Ratburn's class was chosen to test out a whiteboard for two weeks. After Brain helped Mr. Ratburn turned on HUGO, the smartboard, the students asked HUGO questions. Then, Mr. Ratburn tried to read the directions but was unable to do so. Luckily, Brain offered to help him after Mr. Ratburn tried to read the directions. With that, Mr. Ratburn accepted Brain's offer, and after school that day, Brain spent some time trying to help Mr. Ratburn; then they manage to go through the whole manual. Then Brain saw something in the manual that said that HUGO was 100 percent accurate and questions how something can be 100 percent accurate. The next day at school, HUGO said that Mr. Ratburn was incorrect when he said that Jacob Katzenellenbogan was Elwood City's founder because HUGO believed that Francis Wheaton was the actual founder of Elwood City.

But it turned out that Jacob Katzenellenbogan was Elwood City's real founder. Brain did some research on the history of Elwood City and even brought Alfred Katzenellenbogan, the great-nephew of Jacob Katzenellenbogan, to school to reveal a letter that says that his great-uncle was the founder of Elwood City.

After HUGO was proven wrong by the evidence Brain presented, HUGO malfunctioned. Mr. Ratburn asked if Alfred Katzenellenbogan would mind telling the class about Elwood City in the earlier days, which Alfred Katzenellenbogan was more than glad to do.

Major

 * Alan Powers
 * HUGO
 * Nigel Ratburn

Minor

 * Alfred Katzenellenbogan
 * Arthur Read
 * Binky Barnes
 * Buster Baxter
 * Dave
 * Francine Frensky
 * Francis Haney
 * Paige Turner
 * Technician

Cameo

 * Alex
 * Carlos (pictured)
 * Fern Walters
 * Francis Wheaton (pictured)
 * George Lundgren
 * Jacob Katzenellenbogan (pictured)
 * Maria Pappas
 * Muffy Crosswire
 * Prunella Deegan
 * Vladimir and Estragon

Songs

 * "Daisy Bell"

Cultural references

 * This episode is set in 2012, as 'cymotrichous' was the winning word of the 2011 national spelling bee, and Mr. Ratburn said it was the winning word of last year's national spelling bee.
 * When Mr. Ratburn asks Hugo a question about poetry, a theme music similar to the music theme from "Who Wants to be a Millionare."
 * The device looks similar to the Smartboard, and was referred to multiple times as "the smartboard".
 * Hugo is a reference to the supercomputer HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. In fact, both computers sing the 'Daisy Bell' song when they break down.
 * In Brain's dream segment, one of the scientists in the lab testing on Hugo is referred to as Dave, which is the name of a main character in 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * The title is a reference to the television show Get Smart.
 * "Smart" also refers to high-tech devices.
 * HUGO is a parody of the smart boards
 * In the cold open of the episode, "The Challenger" is said to originate from Cupertino, California, home of worldwide electronics brand, Apple.

Errors

 * In the scene where HUGO is first switched on, the class start asking HUGO many frivilous questions like asking what the school dinner is or if they can watch a movie. Right before that, HUGO is shown with HUGO's face on the screen, however when HUGO next appears a few seconds later HUGO's screen is blank (as if HUGO had been switched off). It is possible that HUGO had in fact been switched off (because Mr. Ratburn was explaining that he needed to read the instruction manual first) but the time between HUGO being shown switched on and HUGO supposedly switched off was too short for Mr. Ratburn to have decided to switch HUGO of and to then also subsequently carry out the action.

Episode connections

 * The Bolivia postcard from Sue Ellen's old journal from "April 9th* can be briefly seen as one of the pictures right after "Alan Powers" turns on the new computer.
 * This episode's plot is similar to "Mr. Alwaysright," where Buster continuously tries to prove Brain wrong. However, this time, it is Brain who is trying to prove HUGO wrong.
 * Vladimir and Estragon appear again since their debut in "Cents-less".

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