Season 1, Episode 7

Adu Du and Probe trapped BoBoiBoy and Gopal inside a video game, can they get out of the game or will be trap forever?

Plot
The episode begins with two characters facing off in an empty city. The hero, Papa Zola, is defending earth from the evil invading Sleep Monster. He mocks the monster’s sleep-based powers, but is affected by the Sleep Monster’s Sleep Wave and falls asleep. He wakes himself up by subconsciously reminding himself that he must stand up to evil, and proceeds to kick Sleep Monster down.

The ordeal is revealed to be an episode of a TV show that BoBoiBoy and Gopal are watching as the former switches the TV off. Gopal protests BoBoiBoy’s reasons as to why the show is “stupid”, and instead pulls out the newly released Papa Zola videogame, Papa Zola 5. The boys eagerly set up to play the game.

Meanwhile, in Adu Du’s spaceship, Adu Du catches Probe singing the lyrics to the BoBoiBoy theme song while cleaning. Probe nervously lies that he’s singing Adu Du’s song, and makes up lyrics about him on the spot. Luckily, Adu Du approves and continues to ask Computer what BoBoiBoy is doing. He finds out that he’s playing the latest Papa Zola game, an extremely popular franchise he hasn’t heard of. Probe and Computer are surprised, so Probe shows him his copy of the Papa Zola 5 videogame. The game gives Adu Du an idea on how to defeat BoBoiBoy.

Back at Tok Aba's house, the boys have just finished setting up the game. As they start to play, Tok Aba asks them to help him and Ochobot move some boxes. BoBoiBoy promises that they will help later, which Gopal says is just five minutes. Five hours later, BoBoiBoy and Gopal are still engrossed in the game, while Tok Aba has been straining his back along with Ochobot. He warns them that if they continue to play like this, they might get sucked into the game. They brush off his claims, right before they’re actually sucked through the TV and into the videogame world.

Probe appears on the Tok Aba’s TV screen, revealing this to be Adu Du’s doing. He explains that he has orders to destroy them here, and the boys discover that they are unable to move on their own, but don’t know why. Probe shoots missiles at them as Ochobot grabs a controller for himself and Tok Aba. Panicking, Tok Aba repeatedly pushes a random button that makes Gopal jump and avoid the missiles, while Ochobot controls BoBoiBoy to jump on Probe’s head, making Adu Du order him to retreat. The boys see Ochobot through the TV screen and they realise where they are. Probe returns to explain that they will be trapped in the game world forever unless they win the game, much to Adu Du’s anger.

Tok Aba and Ochobot continue the game, despite Tok Aba not knowing how to play at all, and makes mistakes that accidentally cost Gopal two of his three lives. He and Ochobot start improving as they progress, surviving by either avoiding or jumping on enemy robots. Adu Du orders Probe to attack again. Tok Aba jumps on Ochobot in the real world, thinking he would knock him out of the way. BoBoiBoy loses a life in-game, and Probe fires more missiles.

Ochobot reads instructions on the videogame cover and discovers the button combination for character attacks. They both manage to successfully defend themselves and defeat Probe, forcing him to retreat. Tok Aba is relieved that it’s over, but faints when Gopal explains that that was only Stage 1.

BoBoiBoy and Gopal passed many levels like caves and the outer space until they reached the level where the met Probe again.

Suddenly Yaya told Tok Aba that she can't play anymore because of her limit to play only 30 minutes per day or else she'll get scolded by her mom, Tok Aba called her mom and agreed that can still play.

Trivia

 * The complaints that BoBoiBoy makes about the Papa Zola TV show can also be applied to the BoBoiBoy series.
 * Townspeople aside from the main characters (and some minor recurring characters) are rarely seen around Rintis Island, making the town appear “empty”.
 * During the original airing of the show, it’s likely that there would have been re-runs of episodes.
 * Adu Du says the word ” numbskull ” again, which is cut in Disney Channel Asia as it's considered to be a bad word, especially for children, to hear.
 * He first mentioned it in Season 1, Episode 1, where it’s neither cut nor muted.
 * In the Youtube English version, he says "Useless Robot".
 * In the YouTube English version, "Papa Zola 5: Truth Against the Forces of Darkness" is called "Papa Zola 5: Truth In the Alley of Darkness".
 * At 14:56 in the YouTube English Version, you can see Papa Zola flying in the background in Outer Space. This implies that he can breathe in Space or where there is no oxygen.
 * This is also hinted at in Episode 6 of BoBoiBoy Galaxy, where Papa Zola survives for a time in Outer Space when he is stranded outside the TAPOPS spaceship.

Cultural References

 * The Papa Zola 5 game is very similar to the Super Mario games. Both games are platform styled and the two main characters either attack the enemies with special moves or jump on them to defeat them.
 * Video games often have bosses, mini-bosses and final bosses at the end of their levels, and games, respectively. Probe serves as a mini-boss at the end of the first level, and Super Probe and Super Duper Probe and Adu Du are the final bosses of the game.

Continuity

 * This is Papa Zola’s first appearance. He becomes a recurring character throughout the franchise.
 * If you listen carefully when Tok Aba is talking to Mrs.Yah in the telephone, you can hear that Mrs. Yah is repeatedly saying "popet".
 * Probe speaks in this manner later in the series when indistinctly whispering something to Adu Du.
 * Probe states that Papa Zola 5 is ”The best game of the century.”
 * A similar phrase is used in Season 1, Episode 10 when Papa Zola’s book is referred to as "The best book of the century".

Transcript
For the YouTube English version of this episode, click here.