oddsquad

[clock ticking]

[hiccup]
[glass shattering]
Olive: Yup, those are exploding hiccups alright.
Otto: We’ve got just the thing. Drink some of this. Gets rid of 'em every time.
Woman: Thank you, Odd Squad.
Olive: Now, if you’ll excuse us.
[whooshing]
[hiccup]
[glass shattering]
Woman: Uh-oh.
[hiccup]
[glass shattering]
[car alarm]
O’Brian: Incoming!
[beeping]
O'Brian: Morning, agents.
Olive and Otto: O’Brian.
Otto: Hey, uh, Olive, I know that we’ve been working together for a little while now, but it’s my birthday tomorrow.
Olive: [reading] Otto’s turning 10. [to Otto] 10?
Otto: I’m tall for 10.
Olive: I’m short for 12. And I’d be happy to go. Huh. Quiet day at the Squad.
[robot beeping]
[dinosaur growling]
[fish swimming]
Unknown: Hey.
Ms. O: Olive! Otto! In my office, now!
Otto: [to Olive] At least Ms. O’s in a better mood than usual.
[dinosaur roars]
Olive: What’s the problem, Ms. O?
Ms. O: Something very odd has happened.
Otto: Question. Who’s that guy?
Ms. O: Oh. That’s Glenn. He’s opening a new cupcake shop in town.
Glenn: I’m going to have one million, billion, trillion flavors! We’re going to have chocolate with vanilla frosting, vanilla with chocolate frosting, chocolate butterscotch with ketchup centers!
Ms. O: Thank you, Glenn!
Glenn: I’ll just leave my box right here.
Ms. O: As I was saying...
[beeping]
Ms. O: Here’s the photo of the giant ball of gum in the town museum. It’s made up of 1,000 wads of chewed bubble gum. Except this morning, it shrank down to 1 wad.
Olive: [gasps]
Ms. O: And the sign’s different too.
[beeping]
Ms. O: There used to be three zeros after that one.
Otto: Why did the ball of gum shrink from a thousand wads to one wad?
Olive: [to Otto] I have a hunch what’s happening, but I need more evidence.
Ms. O: What are you waiting for? Go! I’m getting too young for this.
[slurping]
[beeping]
Olive: [to O'Brian] O’Brian, send us to Polly Graph.
O’Brian: Preparing to squishinate. Squishinating!
[beeping]
Otto: Hold on, I’m not ready yet!
O’Brian: Sorry!
[theme music]
Olive: Yeah!
Otto: Not another turn! [moaning]
[whooshing]
Polly: Hey, Olive! Hey, Otto! Here’s your usual!
Olive: Thanks, Polly.
[slurps]
Otto: Ah… perfect.
Olive: [to Polly] Say, there’s some odd stuff going on around town. Have any graphs that might help us out?
Polly: Let me see.
[metal creaking]
Polly: This is a bar graph showing how much money I make selling hot chocolate. Haven’t made much today. I’m never, ever going to get that pony.
Olive: Maybe because the price of your hot chocolate has gone down.
Polly: 5 cents? But it used to say 50 cents! Five zero! What happened to the zero?
Olive: Same thing that’s happening to zeros all around town. They’re disappearing!
Polly: [gasps]
Otto: [screaming] Noooooooo! [normally] Wait. [to Olive] Why is that a problem? Zero stands for nothing, so nothing is the matter.
Olive: [to Otto] Uh-uh. A zero only means nothing when it’s by itself. Take Polly’s marshmallows for example.
[zapping]
Olive: This is 1,000 marshmallows. Right now, there is a one in the thousands place, and a zero in the hundreds place, the tens place, and in the ones place. But take away one zero--
[zapping]
Otto: [grunts]
Olive: The one moved to the hundreds place, and it becomes 100. But lose one more zero--
[zapping]
Olive: The one moved to the tens place. That’s 10. Take away the last zero--
[zapping]
Olive: That’s just 1. Which is why the ball of gum shrunk from 1,000 wads of gum to 1 wad.
[zapping]
Olive: But why would zeros just disappear?
Polly: [to Otto] You know that you have to pay for that right?
Ms. O: Sounds like we’ve got ourselves a number hog.
Olive and Otto: A what?
Ms. O: A number hog. Oscar can explain. Where is he? [yelling] Oscar!
Oscar: Hey guys! So a number hog is basically someone who uses up a number so much, that they start sucking up all of that number. So say you like the number four, you’d be like four, four, four, four, four, four, four, and then… [slurping noise]
Olive: [interrupting] So if we don’t find their number hog, he’s going to suck up all the zeros in the world?
Otto: Wait. If we don’t fix this zero problem, I’m not turning 10 tomorrow.
[magic sound]
Olive: [reading] Otto’s turning… [to Otto] 1?!
Otto: But I don’t want to turn into a baby! [to Orson] No offence, Agent Orson.
Orson: [coos]
Otto: [to Otto] Agent Otto, listen! Somehow, someway, we will find that number hog. If we have to climb the highest mountains, or swim the deepest oceans, we will--
Oscar: [interrupting] Or you could just use my number hog finder.
Olive: That’ll work. [to Otto] Come on, partner.
Ms. O: [to Orson] Agent Orson, I want that report on my desk by five.
Orson: [coos]
[gadget processing]
Olive: Here we are, 8 Main Street.
Otto: But where’s the number hog?
Olive: I, I don’t know! This is where the gadget said to go!
Otto: It’s over! Tomorrow I’m going to be in diapers!
Olive: What are we missing?
Otto: Unless, something is missing from the directions!
Olive and Otto: [to each other] Zeros! The directions are missing zeros because zeros are disappearing! Stop talking at the same time as me! You stop!
Otto: So, how do we figure out the real directions?
Olive: Otto, I can’t hold it anymore. I really have to go to the Mathroom.
Otto: Me too.
[cranking]
[paper fluttering]
[paper fluttering]
Mathroom: Greetings, agents!
Olive: Hi, Mathroom. Okay, so 8 Main Street wasn’t right.
Otto: But what if we add one zero so that the eight from the ones place moves to the tens place to make 80 Main Street?
Mathroom: Generating 80 Main Street.
[paper folding]
Otto: The town lake?
Olive: Lets see what happens when we add two zeros. So the eight moves to the hundreds place to make 800!
Mathroom: Generating 800 Main Street.
[paper folding]
Otto: A cupcake shop?
Olive: Wait. Remember that cupcake guy in Ms. O’s office? He was going to have one million, billion, trillion flavors?
Mathroom: Generating the number one million, billion, trillion.
[paper folding]
Otto: That’s a lot of zeros. [to Olive] He must be the number hog!
Olive: Let’s go.
[cranking]
[paper fluttering]
Glenn: So many zeros!
[bell rings]
Olive and Otto: Odd Squad! Odd Squad! Stop right there, number hog!
Glenn: Number hog?
Otto: Get the zeros!
Olive: Get them!
Olive and Otto: [screaming]
[paper tearing]
[bubbling noise]
Otto: [to Olive] Partner! Partner! That’s enough!
[pause]
Olive: [screaming]
Otto: Ooh! [to Glenn] May I?
Glenn: Sure, sure.
[pounding]
Oscar: They did it. Look everyone, the zeros are coming back!
All: [cheering]
[phone beeping]
Ms. O: Good work, agents!
Olive: Thanks, Ms. O.
[beeping]
[whooshing]
Otto: [reading] Otto is turning ten! [normal] Woohoo!
Glenn: I had no idea I was a number hog. I’m so embarrassed!
Olive: [to Glenn] It’s okay. It happens to the best of us.
Glenn: How am I going to get people to visit my cupcake shop now?
Otto: You know, I do need cake for my party.
Glenn: [laughs, claps]
Olive: [to Otto] Happy birthday, Agent Otto.
Otto: Thanks, partner.
Glenn: Plain cupcake, no frosting!
Olive: Oh, that’s me!
Otto: Looks good!
Oscar: Glad to have you on the squad, Otto. You’re sooo much better than Olive’s last partner.
Otto: Who was her last partner?
Oscar: Uhhh… Uhhh… Look at Agent Orson, out of control as usual.
Orson: [coos]
Otto: Crazy baby...
Orson: [coos]