Back to Backspace[edit]

Patti and her coworkers Herschel and Sweatpants, who are brothers, live and work
in Backspace, a world where "deletions" rejected ideas are sent. Their boss Yaga te
lls Patti to look for incoming rejections. At the headquarters of a newspaper co
mpany, its CEO rejects a design proposal for a cartoon man named Mustacki, sendi
ng the file to the trash and emptying it. After Mustacki is sent to Backspace, P
atti calls Yaga for a hovercraft so they can fly him throughout the world. Patti
and her workers explain that there are three types of deletions: "good-bad" one
s, which are sent back; "lousy-bad" ones, which are counseled and repaired; and
"evil-bad" ones, which are tortured and shredded. Patti becomes distracted by a
group of singing cubes, called soundcubes, and leaves the brothers to explain th
at "Krampses" are a group of "evil-bad" deletions whom are difficult to purge. H
erschel tells that Ranklin, leader of the Krampses, was captured by Sweatpants,
but Sweatpants suggests that it was actually Herschel who did so.
Patti collects the soundcubes for herself and then returns to find Mustacki miss
ing. Ranklin had appeared in her absence and is holding Mustakcki hostage at the
shredder. Patti and the brothers tell Ranklin that Mustaki is already dead, and
Mustaki spits out some gummy worms to demonstrate this. Falling for the trick,
Ranklin kicks Mustaki away, only to be laughed at for his gullibility. Before es
caping to the real world, Ranklin taunts Patti, by suggesting that the others sh
ould ask her about how she got sent to Backspace in the first place. When her co
workers and Mustaki ask what they should do next, Patti shrugs it off, tells the
m that she has to go, and suggests that Mustaki get a job at Backspace. At her a
bode, Patti houses her soundcubes in a container in such a way that they fit tog
ether as a rectangle. On her laptop, she records a song pondering her existence
in Backspace.