01x01 - Zero Effect/Bad Luck Bears

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- (narrator): Coming up next
on Odd Squad...

- Something very odd
has happened.

- Why did the ball of gum shrink
from , wads to one wad?

- What happened to the zero?
- (Olive): They're disappearing.

Otto's turning...!

- Tomorrow I'm going
to be in diapers!

- (Olive): My name
is agent Olive.

This is my partner, Agent Otto.

This is what I had
for lunch today.

But back to Otto and me.

We work for an organization
run by kids

that investigates anything
strange, weird,

and, especially, odd.

Our job is to
put things right again.

(theme music)

Who do we work for?

We work for Odd Squad.

(clock ticking)

(hiccupping)

- Yup, those are exploding
hiccups, all right.

- We've got just the thing.

Drink some of this.
Gets rid of them every time.

- Thank you, Odd Squad.
- Now, if you'll excuse us.

(rushing sound)

- (hiccupping): Uh-oh.

(breaking glass)
(car alarm)

- Incoming!
(roaring sound)

- (O'Brien): Morning, agents.
- (both): O'Brien.

- (Otto): Hey, uh, Olive,

I know we've been working
together for a little while now,

but it's my birthday tomorrow.

- "Otto's turning ". ?

- I'm tall for .

- I'm short for .

And I'd be happy to go.

Oh, quiet day at the Squad.

(whirring)
(clanking)

(T. rex roaring)

- (alien): Hey.

- (Ms. O): Olive! Otto!

In my office, now!

- At least Ms. O's in
a better mood than usual.

- (Olive): What's
the problem, Ms. O?

- Something very odd
has happened.

- Question. Who's that guy?

- Oh, that's Glenn. He's opening
the new cupcake shop in town.

- I'm going to have one million,
billion, trillion flavours.

We're gonna have chocolate with
vanilla frosting, vanilla
with chocolate frosting,

chocolate butterscotch
with ketchup centres--
- Thank you, Glenn.

- I'll just leave
my box right here.

- As I was saying...

Here's the photo

of the giant ball of gum
in the town museum.

It's made up of
, wads of chewed bubble gum.

Except this morning,
it shrunk down to one wad.

(gasps)
And the sign's different, too.

There used to be
three zeroes after that .

- (Otto): Why did
the ball of gum

shrink from , wads
to one wad?

- I have a hunch
what's happening,
but I need more evidence.

- What are you waiting for? GO!

I'm getting too young for this.

- (Olive): O'Brien,
send us to Polly Graph.

- (O'Brien): Preparing to
squishinate.

Squishinating.

- But we're not ready yet!
- Sorry.

- Yeah!
- Another turn!

- Woo!

- Hey, Olive. Hey, Otto.

Here's your usual.

- (Olive): Thanks, Polly.

- (slurping): Ahh, perfect.

- Say, there's some odd stuff
going on around town.

Have any graphs that
might help us out?
-Let me see.

This is a bar graph showing how
much money I make selling
hot chocolate.

Haven't made much today. I'm
never, ever gonna get that pony,

- Maybe because the price of
your hot chocolate has
gone down.

- Five cents?

But it used to say cents!
-!

What happened to the ?
- (Olive): Same thing that's

happening to zeroes all around
town. They're disappearing.

(gasping)
- NO--

--NOO...Wait. Why is
that a problem?

Zero stands for nothing, so
nothing is the matter.

Uh-uh. A only means nothing
when it's by itself.

Take Polly's marshmallows,
for example.

This is , marshmallows.

Right now, there's a
in the thousands place

and a in the hundreds place,
the tens place

and in the ones place.
- (Otto): Mm-hmm.

But take away one ,

the moves to the hundreds
place, and it becomes .

But lose one more ,

the moves to the tens place.
That's .

Take way the last ,
that's just .

Which is why the ball of gum
shrunk from , wads of gum

to wad.

But why would zeroes
just disappear?

- You know you gotta
pay for that, right?

- (Ms. O): Sounds like we've
got ourselves a number hog.

- (agents): A what?

- A number hog.
Oscar can explain.

Where is he?

OSCAR!
- Hey, guys!

So, a number hog is basically
someone who uses up
a number so much

that they start sucking up
all that number.

So, say you liked the number ,
you'd be like, , ,

, , , ,

... And then--
(slurping)

- So, if we don't
find our number hog,

he's going to suck up
all the zeroes in the world?

- Wait, if we don't
fix this problem,

I'm not turning tomorrow.

- Otto's turning...!

- But I don't want
to turn into a baby!

No offence, Agent Orson.

(whimpering)
- (Olive): Agent Otto, listen.

Somehow, some way,

we will find that number hog.

If we have to climb the highest
mountains or swim the deepest
ocean, we will--

- Or you could just use my
number hog finder.

- That'll work.

Come on, partner.

Agent Orson, I want that report
on my desk by :.

(gurgling)

(humming)
- (Olive): Here we are.

Eight Main Street.

- But...where's the number hog?
- I... I don't know. This is

where the gadget said to go.
- It's over.

Tomorrow I'm going
to be in diapers!

- Ugh, what are we missing?
- Unless...

Something is missing
from the directions!

- (together): Zeroes! The
directions are missing zeroes

because zeroes are disappearing!

Stop talking at the same time
as me! You stop!

- So, how do we figure out
the real directions?

- Otto, I can't hold it anymore.

I really have to go
to the Mathroom.

- Me too.

(whooshing)

- Greetings, Agents.
- (Olive): Hi, Mathroom.

Okay, so Main Street
wasn't right.

- But what if we add one ,

so the from the ones place
moves to the tens place

to make Main Street.

- (Mathroom): Generating
Main Street...

- (Otto): The town lake?

- Let's see what happens when we
add two zeroes,

so the moves to
the hundreds place to make .

- Generating Main Street...

- (Otto): A cupcake shop?

- Wait, remember that
cupcake guy in Ms. O's office?

He was gonna have
one million, billion,

trillion flavours?

- Generating the number
one million, billion, trillion.

That's a lot...

...of zeroes!

He must be the number hog!
- Let's go.

(whooshing)

- So many zeroes!
(doorbell ringing)

- (both): Odd Squad! Odd Squad!
Stop right there, number hog!

- Number hog?

- (Otto): There's the zeroes!
- (Olive): Get them!

(yelling)

(explosions)

- (Otto): Partner! Partner!
That's enough!

- Wonderful. Ooh, may I?
- Sure, sure.

- (Oscar): They did it!
Look everyone!

The zeroes are coming back!
(all cheering)

(phone ringing)
- Good work, agents!

- Thanks, Ms. O.

- Otto's turning . Wahoo!

- I had no idea I was a number
hog. I'm so embarrassed!

- It's okay. It happens
to the best of us.

- How am I gonna get people to
visit my cupcake shop now?

- You know, I do need cake
for my party.

(giggling excitedly)

♪♪♪

- Happy birthday, Agent Otto.

- Thanks, partner.

- (Glenn): Plain cupcake,
no frosting.

- Oh, that's me!
- Looks good.

- Glad to have you on the squad,
Otto. You're so much better
than Olive's last partner.

- Who was her last partner?

- Uh, uh...
Look at Agent Orson, huh?

Out of control as usual.

- Crazy...baby.

(gurgling)

- Greetings, Agents.

If you got time between cases,

make sure you visit the Odd
Squad break room.

It features lots of odd foods,
like bagels with no holes,

soupsicles, and you won't be
able to get enough

of our invisible pizza.
(chewing)

Delicious! Oops...
(pizza hitting ground)

This reminds of that one time
I lost an invisible tiger.

(roaring)
- Oh!

(roaring again)
Wait, he's over here!

And there's no need
to go back for seconds,

thanks to the zeronator,
located in the condiments tray.

As you can see, this agent is
dining on head of lettuce.

You can see the
in the ones place.

But, with the push
of a button,

a appears in the ones place,

and the gets moved
to the tens place,

making... heads of lettuce.

And with another zap,
you can add yet another .

Now, there's a
in the ones place,

a in the tens place,
and the in the hundreds place,

which is the number....
Wow!

Now, at first, this might seem
like too much lettuce

for one person -
but what you don't know is

this agent has stomachs.

(machine humming)

Bon appetit.

- (Otto): What seems to be
the problem, ma'am?

- Whenever I play my cello,
this happens!

(trumpet playing)
- Whoa!

- I have a concert in an hour!
- Don't worry, ma'am.

We'll fix it with
our musical switchinator.

(dinging)

(various instruments playing)

(cello playing)

- You're good to go.
- Thanks, Odd Squad!

- Have a great show tonight.

- Now all I have to do is figure
out how to play the cello.

(playing terribly)

- (together): O'Hara.
- (Ms. O): There you two are.

- Something very odd
has happened.

Follow me!

This is--
- (Olive): --Coach Roberts!

I'm Olive Agent.
I mean, uh, Agent Olive.

Such an honour, sir.
- Nice to meet you.

- Sorry, who are you?
- Are you serious?

This is Coach Roberts!
He coaches

the Bears basketball team!

I know all of your plays. Um,
like, the "Grizzly Bear Growl".

(growling)

I even made my own uniform!

- Wow.
- So, big fan, huh?

- Can you imagine playing
for the Bears, Otto?

The lights, the fans...

(crowd cheering)
Sinking the perfect basket...

- I have an idea.

Let's all stop working
and talk about

how much you love the Bears.
- Really?

- NO! We have a case to solve.

Coach, tell 'em what happened.

- Ahem. Well,
I was at practice...

This doesn't get fixed,

we're not going to win
the big game tomorrow.

I haven't been this upset

since we lost the game on
February th.

- Or the game on January th.
- What other games did you lose?

There was, uh, December th,

November th -
we lost that by points...

...to a bunch of -year-olds.

- Does anybody else
see a pattern here?

Bad things happen to the Bears
when the number is involved.

It must be
your team's unlucky number.

- OH NO!
...I'm out of apple juice.

Also, good work Agent Otto.

Oscar, prep the lab to scan
a basketball team for thirteens.

- Wait. All my favourite players
are coming here,

and I'll get to meet them.
- Yup.

- Excuse me.

- (muffled): YEAH! Wa-hoo!
Yes, yes, yes!

- This gadget will
be able to detect

any thirteens
on your players, Coach.

Uh... Olive,
mind stepping aside?

- Oh, uh, sure thing.
(giggling)

- Commencing scan.

(making scanning noise)

(beeping)

- I have no thirteens,
I swear.

Look, all I have are
these buttons in my pockets.

So I like buttons... So what?
- Yeah, so what?

Don't judge him!
- The problem is,

he's got in this hand and
in this hand.

- Yeah, and plus equals...

!
(all gasping)

- (whistling): All right, who
else has got plus , huh?

Hand 'em over!
- Coach, Coach!

It's not just plus that
makes . There are other
combinations,

like plus , or plus .

(scanner beeping)
- Got another one!

- Ma'am, how many water bottles
you got there?

in this one and in this one.

- plus equals...!
(all gasping)

- I will never
drink water again!

- Uh, yes you will.
Hydration.

- Well, that's it.
Your team is good to go, Coach.

- Thanks, Odd Squad.

- As thanks, here are tickets
to tomorrow's big game.

- (agents): Thank you.
- Let's go!

- "Burly Bears against the
Rambunctious Rams".

I can't believe you're
so calm about this.

- Just the top half of my body.

Oh, my, oh, my! Look, look!

We are in A.
- (Otto): Scan her.

- Section . Burly Bears
vs. Rambunctious Rams!

- (announcer):
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to Shmumber Stadium

where the Burly Bears
are facing off against

the Rambunctious Rams. I'm your
announcer, Tony Francisco,

but you can call me
Bob Thompson. Let's go!

- Woo! Yeah!

- (Otto): I thought there'd be
more Bears fans here.

- What are you talking about?
This is a great turn-out.

Both Larry and Phyllis are here!
- (both): Hey, Olive!

- Arr!
(whistle blowing)

Come on, Bears!

(groaning)

- Got some odd activity
on the court, tonight.

- Ahh!
- Ow!

- (both): Uh-oh!
(whistle blowing)

- (Coach Roberts): Time out!
Time out!

- (Olive): Coach Roberts!
- Odd Squad!

You're k*lling me!
I thought you fixed this!

- There's gotta be
another somewhere!

- We'll find it,
Coach, but first, we
have to go to the Mathroom.

(whirring)

-Come on, guys,
walk it off!

Walk it off,
it's gonna help!

- Greetings, agents.
- (Olive): Mathroom, I need you

to recreate the moment when the
bad luck started for the Bears.

- Generating basketball court.

- There's gotta be a around
here somewhere, we just

need to find it.
- How about

the number of
Jasper Jora's teeth? Mathroom?

- Dentistry mode enabled.

- (Otto): Nah, there's
more than .

- What about the numbers on
their uniforms? Mathroom?

- Generating .
- (Otto): , , , and .

No .

- Wait, what if those numbers
added up to ?

- Can you do that?

- We can add many numbers
together to make the same total.

Mathroom,
isolate these numbers.

Okay, let's take this
one step at a time.

We'll start with
the and .

So, , , ,

plus equals .

And now the other ...

- plus totals -
love my doubles.

- And plus the jersey
is still .

- All that's left
is and .

I'm out of fingers.
Mathroom?

- Generating fingers.
- We can do that?

- (Olive): So plus
, , totals...

- (both): !
(bell dinging)

-'s a bad luck number!
- High !

- Yeah, yeah. That...
That was kinda gross.

- Go Bears!
- (Bears): Yeah!

- Coach, Coach! It's the number
on the player's uniforms!

They're adding up to .
- (Otto): If you replace

just one of those numbers,
it won't add up to

and the bad luck will go away.
- Great, but I have no

other players to sub in,
they're all hurt!

- I know one player
that's not hurt.

- Agent Otto, I don't--
- Can it!

You're number .

is bigger than ,
so it can't add up to .

You can do this.

(yelling)

(Bears cheering)
- Well, get out there!

- Rawr!
(cheering)

Number takes to the court.
The Bears are moving the ball,

here comes a shot... Basket!

Well, I have a feeling
the Rams aren't going

to take this one lying down.
Ooh! The two fans are upset!

Fun fact, ladies and gentlemen,
this is not my real voice.

Here we go... Basket!
(groaning)

Coach Roberts working on some
plays, using a marker...

Yes, definitely a marker.

Number is really
driving the ball tonight.

- OLIVE!
- Ooh, high on the sidelines.

Things are neck and neck
here tonight.

We've got a real nail-biter
on our hands.

We've got the Bears scoring,
we've got the Rams scoring,

we've got so many numbers
I can't see my screen.

- (all) Yeah! Rawr!

- The score is tied with just
seconds left to play.

- Come on, Olive,
one more basket and we win!

- I don't have the shot, Coach!
Grizzly bear growl!

Rawr...
(whooshing)

(cheering)
- And the Bears win the game!

This is Gene Philip,
signing off.

- Woo-hoo!
- Woo!

- I'm in love with you!
- What?

- Just...never mind!
Ha ha, yeah! Bears! Woo!

- (Oscar): Attention, sports
fans! A giant golf ball
is on the loose.

The good news is,

is that you can make a hole for
it to drop into,

using the hole-in-one-there
gadget.

Did you forget your
hole-in-one-there gadget?

Not to worry.
Every Odd Squad gadget

has a number on
the bottom of it.

You can combine gadgets to make
the gadget that you need.

In this case, the hole-in-one-
there gadget is the number .

There are lots of numbers that
you can combine

to make the number .
You can use and ,

and , and , and ,

or, like these agents,
and .

Congratulations!
You made yourself a
hole-in-one-there gadget.

Now all you gotta do
is keep your eyes open
for the giant speeding...

...golf ball. Huh...

(groaning)

And now, an official message
quad history.

The time... The place...

A city full of spirit and cheer.

Also, a city
divided...literally.

By a wall of oatmeal.
No-one knew

who or how or where
it came from.

All they knew was
that it had raisins.

Houses...divided.
Cars...divided.

Seesaws...divided.

And even bowls of oatmeal
were divided.

Odd Squad was
called in to help.

They tried every gadget
known to man,

and this one gadget
only known to guinea pigs.

And though the oatmeal
was instant,

the solution was anything but.

In the end,
Odd Squad just used spoons,

and ate the wall down.

Another victory for Odd Squad,

and the reason we never serve
oatmeal in the cafeteria.

(theme music)