I know Itchy and Kearn were under the hypnotic spell

of Ken

who made both of them pull the plug on the server

. Mike was held captive at Bintel headquarters under guard of GS eyepieces

and couldn't rescue the servers. DaveP meantime was planning to take over the world from The Apple Isle, but realising the futility of it all decided to watch the clouds

on TV instead. Meantime, Ving secretly unleashed the power of astrobell

, who once off her leash ran to greener pastures

.
Basically we all go crazy without access