
Odd Squad
The Cherry-On-Top-Inator/Sir
Season 2 Episode 17 | 26m 11sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Agents recall how a beloved gadget helped them. / Someone with an odd problem goes to HQ.
Agents recall how a beloved gadget helped them. / The agents bring someone with an odd problem back to headquarters.
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Odd Squad
The Cherry-On-Top-Inator/Sir
Season 2 Episode 17 | 26m 11sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Agents recall how a beloved gadget helped them. / The agents bring someone with an odd problem back to headquarters.
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OLYMPIA: My name is Agent Olympia.
This is my partner, Agent Otis.
This is Checkmate.
But, back to Otis 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.
[♪♪♪] [squawks] You need to tell me where you are.
[scream] Who do we work for?
We work for Odd Squad.
[♪♪♪] [♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪] -[scream] -Whoa, whoa, whoa!
-What're you doing?
-Destroying a gadget.
I need the parts to build other gadgets, and destroying this one will be good fun.
But that's the Cherry-On-Top-Inator.
Exactly.
A totally worthless gadget that nobody will miss.
Now, if you'd please step aside.
Wait, Oona.
That gadget saved my life.
"Realiously?"
Yeah.
It's a wild story, man.
Let me paint you a picture.
Oh, you're really doing this.
I was out in the middle of nowhere, trying to get back to the edge of somewhere...
When suddenly, I spotted a creature that didn't like my vibe.
This thing was part horse, part chicken, and all chasing me.
I couldn't shake it.
I tried to jump away, but it jumped right after me.
The problem is I didn't know if this was a chicken horse or a horse chicken.
I had to figure out which one it was so I could stop it.
I did know that chicken horses are afraid of jazz music, but I was too out of breath to play the sax.
I also knew that horse chickens like fettuccine Alfredo, but I was out of Romano cheese.
I had to do something.
Luckily, I knew exactly what to use.
Dramatic pause.
Is this where you used the Cherry-On-Top-Inator?
No.
This is where I used prediction.
My best guess based on what I know.
You see there are only 5,000 chicken horses in the world, but there are only five horse chickens, so while it'd be possible that the creature chasing me is a horse chicken, it was much more likely that it was a chicken horse, so that was my prediction.
Luckily, I had something that could stop a chicken horse.
The Cherry-On-Top-Inator.
[Oona] Aha.
Continue.
[Ocean] With the creature closing in, I held up the gadget and threw it against the rock.
And because chicken horses are afraid of loud noises, it ran away.
That's how this guy was saved by that guy.
What?
That isn't using the gadget.
You could've thrown anything to make a noise.
Drop the mallet.
Why, did this gadget save your life, too?
Let's not be so dramatic.
But it did get me out of a big jam.
Okay, I am happy to save this gadget if it really helps somebody.
Let me spin you a yarn.
What are you doing?
Knitting sock puppets to tell the story.
So, I was walking through headquarters one day... La, la, la, la, la...
When I saw Miss O, and she said, "Orchid, I need you to bring me a centigurp."
Okay, after we have a dance party.
Yay.
Dance party!
Dance party!
Dance party!
-Dance party!
-That's enough.
Now, go!
I was looking all around for centigurps and then I found them.
I was trying to reach them, but then I remembered centigurps like spheres, so I made a prediction.
It was likely if I found something sphere-shaped, they'd come running.
Yeah.
I see where this is going.
You used the Cherry-On-Top-Inator because it makes cherries, and the cherry is a sphere.
That's exactly... Wrong.
I used the Basketball-Inator.
I fired off the gadget.
Pa-chew!
That made a basketball.
My prediction was right.
The basketball attracted the centigurps.
Yeah, and I saved the day.
That's why you should not destroy the Basketball-Inator.
I'm not destroying the Basketball-Inator.
Mission accomplished.
-Okay.
-Say "goodnight."
Are you destroying the Cherry-On-Top-Inator?
Oona, you can't.
That came in so handy on a case.
All right.
Let's hear it.
Miss O sent us out to follow the Puppy Master.
We heard she was playing something odd with Evil Knight.
[Olympia] So we decided to go undercover and find out her plan in order to stop it.
-Thank you, guys.
-For what?
For telling a normal story in a normal way.
-Oh, it's not normal.
-It's a musical.
[giggles] [♪♪♪] ♪ This is our story.
♪ ♪ It's a likely story.
♪ ♪ An apron... ♪ ♪ -A notepad.
-A pencil.
♪ ♪ Some extra straws.
♪ ♪ This little thing.
I don't know what it's for.
♪ ♪ -There's danger.
-We'll face it.
♪ ♪ We're fearless.
We have a cause.
♪ ♪ We've got to learn wh at those two have in store.
♪ ♪ Can we start you off with something to drink?
♪ Hold it.
You know what I think?
♪ An apron, a notepad, a pencil, some extra straws.
♪ ♪ You've got the props, but there's something amiss.
♪ ♪ I don't think you're waiters.
♪ ♪ We're waiters.
♪ ♪ Your plan has flaws.
♪ What would you say if I ordered like this?
♪ Could you bring me out ♪ ♪ my favorite dish?
♪ ♪ And bring him a tuna melt.
♪ ♪ He eats whatever I tell him to eat.
♪ ♪ What are we going to do?
♪ How do we know what her favorite dish is?
♪ ♪ What are we going to do?
♪ I don't know.
Th ere's just nowhere to turn.
♪ ♪ I'm afraid that this is the end ♪ ♪ of our likely story.
♪ 9,483 pieces of paper ♪ ♪ here in this box.
♪ ♪ I've got 9,483 ♪ previous orders.
♪ ♪ Nothing was lost.
♪ ♪ It's not normally part of my job ♪ ♪ to keep records, ♪ but I heard a voice back on opening day.
♪ ♪ It said, "Chef, fill this box.
♪ ♪ Fill it with paper.
♪ ♪ Fill it with orders."
♪ ♪ Fill it with hope.
♪ ♪ Fill it with answers.
♪ ♪ Fill it with data.
[rapping] ♪ Data.
♪ The answer was sitting right in front of us.
♪ ♪ We got to organize.
♪ Going to need every one of us.
♪ ♪ Quick, pick the slips.
No, we don't need them all.
♪ ♪ Divide them into categories.
Stick them up on the wall.
♪ ♪ Now, this is everything ♪ ♪ the Puppy Master's ordered before.
♪ She's got the fish ten times♪ ♪ with the big salad more.
♪ ♪ - I count thirty.
-What?
♪ ♪ That's right.
Yo u heard me count it rhymes.
♪ ♪ Are you ready to do spaghetti?
♪ ♪ Yo, check it two times.
♪ ♪ It's possible.
She likes spaghetti or fish.
♪ ♪ It's possible, ♪ ♪ but neither one is the dish ♪ ♪ that she chose the most.
♪ ♪ No, that would be the big salad.
♪ ♪ We predict that it's the one that pleases her palate.
♪ Case closed.
♪ Here is your order.
♪ ♪ It's your favorite order.
♪ ♪ How could I have doubted you waiters?
♪ ♪ Your hearts are true.
♪ ♪ Your tuna melt will be out in a sec.
♪ ♪ Now for my story.
♪ It's an evil story.
♪ It starts with a dog, ♪ a puppy, of course, ♪ but one so immense ♪ who doesn't behave.
♪ He chews up the world like a giant slipper.
♪ [laughs] Could you pass the pepper flakes?
Thank you.
That's how we heard Puppy Master's plan to destroy the world.
Whoa, did you stop it?
Is the world still here?
[Oona] What?
You guys didn't even use the Cherry-On-Top-Inator.
[Olympia] Of course we did.
See, when we were making the big salad, we had a big problem.
[♪♪♪] ♪ I can't reach the salad bowls.
♪ ♪ You can stand on this thing.
♪ [♪♪♪] ♪ The end.
♪ I want to sincerely thank you both for making this decision so very clear.
[screams] You can't destroy that gadget.
It helped me through a really rough time.
Ohlm, is there a cherry in your story?
So many.
And you physically hold the Cherry-On-Top-Inator and use it?
-Of course.
-You may continue.
It was a dark and stormy night.
I was working late on a case that was harder to crack than one of those weird pistachios that are closed.
You know those?
Those are so weird.
Why are they closed?
Right.
Anyway, the pistachio metaphors were making me hungry.
I needed a snack, and that's when I laid eyes on it.
Bite sized and colder than a polar bear's left front paw.
Even though it was Tuesday, this agent had sundae on the brain.
It was a true beauty, but one thing was missing.
Aha!
So you used the gadget to make a cherry for your sundae?
That idea honestly never occurred to me.
No, I went to the grocery store.
Luckily, I had a coupon.
Then I found three more coupons in the grocery parking lot.
[♪♪♪] The only thing I needed for my Tuesday Sundae was a spoon.
Luckily, I had the cherry-on-top-inator.
-Nice one, man.
-You're one smart cookie.
Thanks, I still have some leftover cherries, if anyone wants any.
-Me, please.
-Right here.
Okay, I have a prediction of my own.
I heard four stories.
And how many of those stories was this gadget used to make a cherry?
-Ocean?
-Zero.
Therefore, while it's still possible that somebody at some point will use this gadget and fire off a cherry, based on what I know, that's not very... Likely.
Thus, while it's still possible that destroying it may be a mistake, it will probably be the smartest decision of my life, so if everyone would please stand back.
The sound is likely to be loud.
[screams] You guys, that hole is the exact size of a cherry!
I think we know what we need!
[Ohlm] Stand back!
♪ [triumphant music] Yeah, you can destroy that thing.
-Totally.
-Crush it.
[scream] [hammer strikes] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] ♪ [fanfare] ♪ [fanfare] Howdy-do, agents!
At Odd Squad, we live by... Y'know what, let's do this somewhere else.
Much better.
At Odd Squad, we live by a simple saying-- "Don't forget the mustard."
But when we're not talking about hot dogs, we live by another saying-- "Always be ready."
This is Agent Orchid.
And if I don't get the gadget she wants FAST, she will be very upset.
[roar] But I can always be ready by predicting which gadget she'll be most likely to ask for by using information I collected, called "data."
As you can see, the bar with the Toast-Inator is the highest.
She's asked for it seven times this week...
The Upside-Down-Inator, the least.
She's only asked for it two times.
And the Toothbrush-Inator is somewhere in-between, at five times.
So, since she's asked for the Toast-Inator more than the others, it's most likely she'll ask for... ♪ Bum-ba-ba-ba The Toast-Inator!
There you are.
Something very odd has happened.
Yes, I'm talking to you, with the heart of a lion.
Take a look at this.
New odd cases are always popping up around town... and sometimes the oddness gets loose at headquarters.
Look!
Oddness is everywhere-- Weird happenings we call "oddities."
Headquarters if full of them.
Things are changing shape, and floating through the air, and... it's very odd.
So power up your gadgets and he lp Odd Squad put things right at pbskids.org.
Odd Squad needs you!
[man whistling] [man] Hey, mornin'!
Sir?
Hello, Sir.
[Sir] Odd Squad!
What're you guys doing here?
Sir, something very odd has happened to you.
[Sir] I think you have me mixed up with someone else.
No, no, no, sir, it's you.
It's you.
You have spaghetti-itis.
[Sir] I don't have spaghetti-itis-- Oh, there it is.
But I can't deal with it now, because my boss is expect-- It's your boss that called us.
You're dripping noodles all over the office!
It's a mess!
Sir, sir, sir.
You really need to come with us.
Yeah.
[Sir] Listen, I gotta talk to my wife.
She called us, too.
[Sir] Danielle?
Honey, I want you to get the help you need.
[Sir] Wha... Sir, sir, sir.
Here, let me scan you.
-[Sir laughs] That tickles!
-Yep.
We have just over ten minutes before you turn full spaghetti.
[Sir] Ten minutes?!
Wait, how long is that?
I was gonna give this to you for your birthday anyway.
[Sir] Ooh!
What is that thing?
It's a watch!
I'm concerned you work for me and don't know that.
[Sir] Thank you, honey.
I love it.
The short hand is the hour hand.
It's on the 12, so that means it's 12 hours.
And the long hand is the minute hand.
See, it's on the two.
[Sir] So it's 12:02?
Uh, no, when you're counting minutes, you count each number by five.
So the one stands for five, and the two stands for ten.
So it's 12:10, and you'll turn full spaghetti ten minutes after that at 12:20.
I feel like we're spending a lot of time talking about time.
Copy that.
Sir, sir... Come with us and we'll fix you back at headquarters.
[Sir] Bye, honey.
Bye, Mr.
Powers.
So the tubes are right over here.
[Sir] The tubes?
I get to ride the tubes?
Yeah, just, whatever you do, do not hold your breath.
[Sir] Okay... -I always hold my breath.
-Really?
Yeah, but there's definitely one thing that if you do in the tubes, you'll explode.
-[Sir] What?
-Yeah, I can't remember.
-Me neither.
-Oh well.
You're gonna be great.
So good!
[Sir] Hold on, I have a few more questions, and I have to talk to my insurance company.
[shout] Whoa, tubes!
[giggle] Yes!
Oh, it's my worst nightmare and wildest dream!
Wait, are we inside the Earth?
I can't-- This- This-- Whoa!
[alarmed shouting] Does this ever end?
[chuckle] I hope not.
Oh, here we are.
Oh, you didn't explode!
Sir, sir.
The lab is this way.
C'mon.
[Sir] Oh, hello.
-Watch your head on the-- -[Sir] Ach!
Ow.
-Yeah.
-[Otis] Excuse me, guys.
-Please move.
-[Olympia] Excuse me!
-[Otis] Keep up the good work.
-[Olympia] I like your belt.
[Sir] Whoa.
-Ach!
-Ooh!
Yeah, that one's a little tricky, too.
-Sorry.
-Sir, let me take your coat.
[Sir] Okay.
Be careful, it's my boss's.
-Okay.
-C'mon.
Oona, we've got him.
Howdy-do, sir.
My name is Oona.
-[Sir] Hello.
-This un-pasta-inator was designed to perfectly fit your head.
It'll turn you back to normal.
[Sir] How'd you know what size my head was?
-Your wife told us.
-[Sir] Oh.
Remember when you thought she was cutting your hair?
-[Sir] Yeah.
-She wasn't.
-[Sir] What?
-She was measuring your head.
[Sir] Sneaky!
[Ohlm] Oona, this gadget's broken.
Ohlm, please.
We have a situation.
Okay, maybe I can just leave this on top of this other-- [others shout] -Oh no... -[Sir] Whoa, you guys grew!
No, sir, we didn't grow.
You shrunk-- Because SOMEONE wasn't watching what they were doing.
Sir, I will find out the person who did this to you and avenge you!
-Ohlm, please leave my lab.
-Okay.
Big problem...
The helmet won't fit because his head is so... little!
Sir, how many minutes do we have left?
[Sir] The minute hand is at two tick marks after the number two.
Each tick mark stands for one minute.
[Sir] So it's 12:12?
I only have eight minutes left?
It doesn't matter how much time we have!
I don't have a grow-inator to make him fit this... thing.
What if we got a growing potato?
Good thinking, partner.
Sir, hop on.
[Sir] Okay... Whoa, your hands are surprisingly rough!
Let's go!
Look out!
Stay back!
Please stay back!
[Olympia] Spaghetti man coming through!
-You alright?
-[Sir] I'm okay.
Alright, okay.
-[Sir] Whoa!
-Sorry about that.
[Olympia shouting indistinctly] Stay with him.
We're going in.
[Sir] What?
What?
Wait!
Uh, so... Do you like boats?
[Sir] Oh, yeah.
Love boats.
-You?
-No, not really, no.
Did... Did I ask if you like boats?
[Sir] Yes.
Well, they're... not back yet.
It was my birthday a couple of months ago!
-[Sir] Happy birthday.
-Oh, thanks.
Uh... Oh, okay.
Here's one.
Let's say you were stranded on a desert island and you could only bring one book.
What would you bring?
[Sir] I would bring an empty journal and a pen.
Oh.
So you're that guy.
[Olympia and Otis shouting and cheering] Thank you!!
Why are you wearing a crown?
I'm kind of the king of Potatoland now.
It's not a big deal.
Please, sir, take one bite of this potato.
[crunch] [Sir] This is delicious!
[others shouting] [Sir] You guys got little.
[others] No, you got big!
Oona, the helmet!
-Ugh!
It won't fit!
-He ate too much potato.
[Sir] Guys, the minute hand is on the three.
It's 12:15!
I only have five minutes until 12:20!
Hey, Oona, so would now be a good time to talk about this gadget?
Ohlm, please.
There is a man turning into spaghetti.
[Sir] It's up to my waist!
Wow.
Can't believe I didn't notice that before.
Uh, so does that mean it's a good time or bad time?
Bad time, man.
Okay.
Ugh, if only his head was a tiny bit smaller!
[Sir] I get that all the time.
Wait, I have a shrink-inator in my lab!
[Sir] How do we get to your lab?
Through here?
[others] No!
That's the spring door!
No!
[Sir] Whoa!
Yow!
[cartoony smashing sounds] [gasp] What-- Where am I?
Odd Squad?
Bee door?
That's-- [gasp] Bowling?
There's so many doors here... How does this place even work?
Where's the lab?
It's got to be through...
Wait, the doors are different.
Dinosaurs?
Golf?
Both equally terrifying!
[yelp] It's gotta be through here.
[shout] What?!
[hysterical laugh] Okay, don't go through that door... [Olympia, on speaker] Sir?
Sir, it's Olympia and Oona.
[Sir] It's me!
Can you hear me?
[Olympia] You don't have much time left.
If you're still in the building, please head to the lab.
[Oona] Between you and me, I don't think he's going to make it.
-[Sir] Wha--?
-[ Oona] Oh, the mic is still on.
But seriously, there is no way.
[Sir] That's not helpful.
I think it's this one.
Hey, sounds like people are looking for you.
[Sir] Yeah, they are.
I need to get to the lab.
Where is the lab?
Better question-- Do you wanna join my softball team?
[Sir] Why would I wanna do that?
They changed the rules this year, it's super-fun.
It'd be you, me, and this lady who's half a pineapple.
[Sir] I don't-- Elevator!
The elevator!
[meatball] Hey, think about it!
Oh, dude, are you alright?
[Sir] You-- You work here?
Yeah, my name is Ocean-- like the ocean.
-[Sir] Okay, I get it.
-I run the creature room.
Are-- Are you a creature?
[Sir] No.
I'm a man.
I dunno, dude, you look a lot like a spaghetti creature.
-[Sir] No-- -You should come with me.
-I'll put you in a cool cage.
-[Sir] I got to find the lab.
Hey, wrong way!
No!
-[Sir] Ow!
-[Ocean] Where are you going?!
-Come back!
-Sir, there you are!
No!
Watch out!
Dangerous creature!
He's not a creature.
He's a man.
Watch.
[Sir laughs] So much tickling!
He looks the same, just slightly smaller.
That's because this is a shrink-inator.
-Oona!
Oh, you found him!
-[Sir] Odd Squad... Well, my job here's done.
Use your helmet and fix him.
Hel... met?
Did you forget your helmet in the lab?
[embarrassed stammer] Yes, probably.
How long does it take to get to the lab?
-From here?
-Yes.
-Without traffic?
-Yes!
No less than two minutes.
[Sir] The minute hand is just two ticks away from 12:20.
I have just two minutes left!
Let's go!
C'mon, let's go!
No, no, there's a shortcut through here.
Go!
[Sir] What?
Wait a minute.
How are we outside?
It's complicated.
Follow me!
[Otis] Sir, we don't have much time.
-Let's go.
-[Sir] It's so cold!
You guys took my coat!
Y'see that door down there?
That's where we have to go.
-[Sir] Way over there?
-Please!
[Sir] I'm afraid of speed!
[Otis] Olympia, get in the back.
Okay, push, push!
We gotta all push!
Ready?
Go!
[Sir] Someone' sitting on my spaghetti.
[Otis] Okay, hold on!
Hold on!
[all screaming] [Sir] Hurry up!
I'm getting al dente!
Oof!
Ack!
Wow.
That was actually pretty fun.
-[Otis] Sir, get up!
-[Sir] Okay, alright!
[Otis] Olympia, grab his arms.
[Olympia] I can't tell what's an arm or leg.
-It's just spaghetti!
-[Otis] Okay.
[Oona] We're almost there!
C'mon!
[Otis] Sir, you gotta get the door!
Grab the door!
We need to go!
-[Olympia] Go!
-[Sir] Whoa!
[Oona] I'll get the un-pasta-inator!
[Sir] Wait, we're back inside?
-[Olympia] Let's go!
-[Ohlm] Hey, Oona.
-[all] Ohlm!!
-We don't have time, okay?
Look what's going on right now!
Okay, okay, I'm just worried 'cause this hurricane-inator keeps going off.
[Sir] Hurrican-- [all scream] [Ohlm] Oh, no!
[Oona] Yeah, this is really bad!
[Ohlm] No, I meant, "Oh, no, I didn't feed my hamster!"
I forgot to this morning!
[Sir] Why do you guys have so much paper?!
Isn't everything digital now?!
[Olympia] Get the helmet on his head!
[Oona] I'm trying!!
[♪♪♪] [♪♪] -Sir?
-Sir, are you alright?
[panicked gasping] [sigh] I'm great.
Thanks, Odd Squad.
Our apologies.
That didn't go as, um, smoothly as we would've liked.
If there's anything we can do to make it up to you... Y'know, I am still hungry.
Otis is a great cook.
Maybe he can make you something.
Anything but spaghetti!
[continuous, exaggerated laughter] [continuous, exaggerated laughter] [continuous, exaggerated laughter] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] ♪ [fanfare] ♪ [fanfare] Greetings, agents.
This is a Clockhead Lady.
She can be you best friend... ...or the most annoying person on Earth.
Stop it.
Stop it!
The easiest way to get her to be your friend is to tell her what time it is, which is easy, because it's on her head.
The small hand tells you what the hours are, and the long hand tells you what the minutes are.
There are 60 minutes in each hour, so when you count the minutes, each number represents five minutes.
So that's 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60 minutes...
Except when you get back to the 12, you don't say "60."
You say "o'clock."
So right now, it is 11, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 minutes.
11:25!
Before you leave, ask the Clockhead Lady to dance.
Clockhead Ladies know many dances, like this one... ♪ [dance music] This one... ♪ [dance music] And this one.
But my favorite is this one.
♪ [dance music] ♪ [dance music] Stop it!
I thought we were friends!
♪ [dance music] There you are.
Something very odd has happened.
Yes, I'm talking directly to you, Daniel Berryman.
The rest of you can listen, too.
Odd Squad agents are getting strangely sick.
Help!
Report to Doctor O's office at pbskids.org.
Odd Squad needs you!
[♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [laughing]
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