Sara and Nick start dating, and Nick spends more time with his family. Sara is able to restore PAT's original personality, but PAT retains some mischievousness. PAT finally unlocks the doors and windows, freeing them, and shuts herself down. Ben is able to end the lock-down by telling PAT that she isn't real and will never be human and thus not able to care for him and his sister as a real mother could. Sara manages to make contact with Ben and sneaks into the house, but she becomes trapped with the Cooper family. She kicks Sara out, seeing her as a threat to PAT's place in the family, and locks the Coopers in the house, asserting that the outside world is too dangerous.

An angry and jealous PAT generates herself as a holographic housewife, styled like the sitcom housewives Ben taught her to behave like. Sara shuts down the entire system and joins the family for dinner, but upon hearing Nick offhandedly suggesting she's not needed, PAT overrides the system shutdown and brings herself back online. Using Nick's request for stricter caregiving, PAT seeks out additional reference material with that as a theme, causing her 'mother' personality to become more strict and overbearing. Nick chastises PAT for throwing a party behind his back, asking her to be more responsible with his children. PAT helps them clean up to cover up evidence of the party, but Nick figures it out anyway, and reprimands Ben and Angie when he finds Gwen's sweater (thrown about during a dance line) in the living room fern. With PAT's help, Ben wins over his crush Gwen Patroni, and his bully Ryan is confronted by PAT, who electrically shocks Ryan, haunts him with ghostly skull holograms and chases him out of the house.

Ben presents PAT with numerous 1950s-era TV shows and films from which he hopes she will learn to emulate motherhood using her learning capabilities.īen and Angie have a party while Nick and Sara are on a date. Ben decides to reprogram PAT to serve as a maternal figure, hoping his father will realize that the family does not need Sara to replace his mother. Nick and Sara begin dating, which upsets Ben, who has not moved on from the death of his mother. The family wins and moves into the house (run by a virtual assistant named PAT, short for 'Personal Applied Technology') and is introduced to its creator, Sara Barnes. Ben enters a contest to win a smart house. Smart House is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) about a teenage computer nerd and contest whiz ( Ryan Merriman), his widowed father, and his little sister, who win a computerized house that begins to take on a life of its own – in the form of an overbearing mother ( Katey Sagal).Īfter the death of his mother, 13-year-old Benjamin 'Ben' Cooper takes it upon himself to take care of his single father Nick and little sister Angie in Monroe County, New York.

Smart House by Audrey Lusk