
Odd Squad
My Better Half/The Confalones
Season 1 Episode 5 | 26m 11sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Someone is vandalizing symmetrical objects./Things and people disappear from a restaurant.
Someone is vandalizing all of the symmetrical objects in town! Can Olive and Otto figure out why? / Olive and Otto are called in to help when objects and people start disappearing inside an Italian restaurant.
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Odd Squad
My Better Half/The Confalones
Season 1 Episode 5 | 26m 11sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Someone is vandalizing all of the symmetrical objects in town! Can Olive and Otto figure out why? / Olive and Otto are called in to help when objects and people start disappearing inside an Italian restaurant.
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- My name is Agent Olive.
This is my partner, Agent Otto.
This is a waning Gibbous moon.
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.
Yeah!
- Who do we work for?
We work for Odd Squad.
- So, my brother Donnie and I are watching TV, and Donnie's really getting into the show.
And then he actually got into the show.
(knocking on screen) - Hey!
Uh, could you be of assistance, please?
(sighing) - Our TV-get-out-anator should do it.
Agent Otto?
♪♪♪♪♪ - Where?
(vacuuming sound) - Donnie!
Donnie!
Donnie!
- Whoa!
Woo!
- My Donnie!
My own brother!
I missed you, man!
Thanks, Odd Squad.
- No problem.
- Let's go.
- Hey, where's the remote?
- Look, you see, don't... - Donnie!
- Incoming!
- (Ms. O): Well, look who's here.
(very sweetly): Olive, Otto, welcome back!
- Thanks, Ms. O.
We're happy to be back.
- Enough chit-chat!
Go see Mayor Macklemore in the centre of town.
Something very odd has happened.
- But we just got back!
And I don't even have my jacket on!
- Oscar!
- Hey, guys!
Jacketinator.
- Well, what are you waiting for?
GO!
- Go, go, go!
- Preparing to squishinate... Squishinating.
- Whoa... - Mr. Mayor.
- Oh!
Agent Olive, thank you for coming.
I don't believe we've... - My new partner, Agent Otto.
- What's up?
- Ooh, I like him better than your last partner.
- Uh, yes.
Um, so, um, what seems to be the problem?
- Do you know what a snowman is?
- Yeah... - This will be a lot easier to explain, then.
Come!
SOMEONE'S RUINED ALL THE SNOWMEN!
- Oh, no!
- And that's not all.
Look at that bench!
And that's not the worst of it.
I used to call this my "special star sweater".
Gah!
Not so special anymore!
This just got real, yo.
- We'll get to the bottom of this, Mr. Mayor.
- Don't worry, sweater, you'll be special again.
- So weird!
Why is everything missing one half?
- Not everything, partner.
These trees are still whole.
I have a hunch what's going on.
We have to go to the Mathroom.
(whirring) - Greetings, agents.
- Mathroom.
Show us a picture of what the snowman, the bench, and Mayor Macklemore's sweater look like right now.
- Generating images.
- Now show us what they used to look like.
- I knew it.
These are all symmetrical objects.
- What's that?
- When an object has symmetry, it means that one half is exactly the same as the other half.
The line of symmetry is here.
See?
This half is the same as this half.
- Oh, yeah.
Same with the benches and the star.
Both halves are the same.
It's like a mirror image.
- That is correct.
If you hold a mirror up to one half, the mirror image looks exactly the same.
- Mathroom, bring up one of the trees from the town square.
- Generating foliage.
- (Olive): But this isn't symmetrical.
The two sides are different.
That's why it was left alone.
But who would be destroying symmetrical objects?
- Yeah, who?
- Yeah... Who?
- Yeah... Who?
- Yeah... Who?
- Yahoo.
- ♪ Yahoo... ♪ ♪ ...ooo... ♪ - Seriously?
- Hmm.
- Looks like the work of Symmetric Al.
- Symmetric Al?
- Let me show you a picture.
Nobody knows what he looks like.
Legend has it, Al's the most symmetrical person in the world.
One side of his body looks just like the other side.
- So, shouldn't he love symmetry?
- Oh, he does.
Just a little too much.
(slamming on desk) Symmetric Al wants to be the only symmetrical thing in the universe!
- He takes half of anything that's symmetrical?
- Like your name.
- (Otto): What do you mean?
(knocking) - O-T-T-O.
This side is the same as this side.
- So?
- So that means you're in trouble.
(gasping) (screaming) (screaming) (screaming) - Calm down!
- Calm down?
Half my body's disappeared!
Oscar, can you fix it?
- Uh, yes.
Oh, sorry, I mean no!
Sometimes get the two words mixed up... (starts screaming again) - I'm afraid the only person who can fix this is Symmetric Al.
- Ms. O, how do I find him?
- There's only one way.
- No, please!
Anything but that!
I won't!
I can't!
(Otto screaming faintly) (Baby laughing) (objects falling) - So, you have come to see Baby Genius?
- Yes, I need help finding Symmetric Al, Your Excellency.
- And why should Baby Genius help you?
Oh, a unicorn.
(squealing) - He doesn't like unicorns.
- Oh... How about a comb?
- Great, a comb!
So Baby can comb all the hair he doesn't have.
- Wait a second.
I only have some pocket lint.
(Baby gurgling and laughing) - It is the simple things.
Go to this address on Main Street.
There you will find your Al.
- But this isn't an address... (baby's laugh echoing) ♪♪♪♪♪ Gopher Olive.
- What's happening?
- Baby Genius gave me an address, but it looks weird.
-You wanna talk weird?
I just watched Otto try to drink soup.
I can't unsee that.
- Symmetric Al is destroying half of anything that's symmetrical.
So maybe this doesn't look like a number because it's symmetrical and this is only half of it.
Gotta go, Ms. O.
"138..." That's the address!
138 Main Street!
Thank you, Baby Genius ...wherever you are.
I'm coming for you, Al!
Odd Squad!
Odd squad!
Which one of you is Al?
You're all named Al?
Well, which one of you loves symmetry?
Seriously?
Fine.
You're all coming with me.
Now.
- Remember, Symmetric Al is the most symmetrical person in the world.
- (Olive): Look at Al number 1.
Mole on one side of his face but not on the other.
- Not symmetrical.
What about Al number 2?
- Short hair on one side, and long, luxurious hair on the other.
- I used to style mine that way.
- Um... Not symmetrical.
What about Al number 3?
Look!
Identical watches on both wrists!
- And the same earrings on both sides.
That's symmetrical!
- And his hair is perfectly parted down the middle!
- It's you!
- Busted!
- Get him!
Ahh!
Yeah!
- And you're absolutely sure you wanna be whole again?
- Uh, yeah!
- Okay... (buzzing and whirring) - I'm back!
Oh, I missed me so much.
- Oscar, take him away to fix the rest of the town!
- Right away, Ms. O!
You're coming with me.
- I'm so happy I can finish the rest of that soup!
Ahh...
The lovely soup... Mmm... (slurping) - Ugh, he does eat soup weird.
- It's even weirder with his whole face.
- Mmm... - Ugh... - (Oscar): Welcome to Headquarters... - Greetings, agents!
Got time between cases?
Why not head down to one of the many Odd Squad pools?
We have pools with water, like this one, but also ice cream, fuzzy dice, and even chairs.
But no diving in that one.
Heh...
Seriously.
It really hurts.
I've been there.
Whichever pool you choose, it's easy to find your way around, because each pool is completely symmetrical.
You can tell the pool I'm standing in is symmetrical because this half is the same as this half.
See?
Same...and same, and same again.
The pools were designed by famous Odd Squad architect, Dr. Ossington, who himself was symmetrical, as his top half was the exact same as his bottom half.
Oh, you should have seen him swim...
It was really weird.
It was kinda like...this.
And then like... - There you are!
Something very odd has happened.
Yes, I'm talking to you!
With the glasses...or no glasses.
Take a look at this.
These cute, fuzzy creatures are called Centigurps, and Odd Squad headquarters is full of them.
Help us capture all the Centigurps so we can get back to solving cases.
Go to...and become and Odd Squad agent today.
Odd Squad needs you.
- (from inside): Who's there?
- (both): Odd Squad.
- Odd Squad who?
- Odd Squad!
We got a call that someone was stuck in a knock-knock joke.
- Who's there?
...Odd Squad who?
- Odd Squad.
- I think we may be here a while.
Let's try again.
- Who's there?
- You wanted to see us, Ms. O?
- Yes.
Something very odd has happened.
This is Sabatino Confalone.
- Hi, how are you?
Nice to meet you.
- So what's the odd problem, sir?
- It's my restaurant - its' been robbed!
- No offence, sir, but that sounds more like a problem for the police.
- Wait for it.
-By a table!
- (both): Table?
- Yeah, a table.
- Totally a job for us... Yeah.
- Definitely a job for us.
- Hey, Odd Squad!
Welcome!
- This is my brother, Gino Confalone.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hey... Nice to meet you.
- So are you gonna stand there, or are you gonna show them the table?
- I was gonna show them the table, but you interrupted me.
- How did I interrupt you?
- I was gonna but... (both yelling indistinctly) - (both): AHH!
(both laughing uncomfortably) - Well, my brother... - Right this way, uh... - Okay, watch what happens.
I take 1, 2, 3 cannolis and I put them on the table like this, then... - (both): Whoa!
- The same thing happens with this one loaf of bread here, like this.
- Why did you waste food like that?
- I didn't waste food, I just... - It's the same thing!
I only did it once!
- I only wanted to show them... (both yelling indistinctly) - Ahh!
(both laughing) - My brother, I just... - I love him, I... - But look, we can't continue to run a business like this.
We need some help.
- What do you think, partner?
- I see two options.
One: it's the table that's stealing the food.
- Right.
- Yes.
- Two, it's the food itself.
- I'll check the food!
- You know, for investigation purposes.
- Good idea.
Right this way, just follow me.
- Official Odd Squad business!
I'm going to have to taste all of this.
- Mamma mia!
What if it's the food that makes you disappear?
- I never said this job wasn't dangerous.
- We've tried a loaf of bread.
We've tried cannolis.
How about salad?
- Salad?
- I'll fix you up the greatest Caesar salad that ever was!
- Caesars?
What are you, pazzo?
It should be Greek.
- Greek?
We're Italians.
We're not making a Greek salad for her.
- So we can't get creative and make some Greek salad?
(both yelling in Italian) - Let's do antipasto.
Okay?
- Good idea.
- I love antipasto.
You love... - I love anti... - Come here!
(speaking rapidly in Italian) - (both): Okay, go get it.
- You go get it.
- I'll go get it.
I'll go get it.
- Thank you.
- Six antipastos.
- (Sabatino): You fixed it!
Oh, boy, oh boy!
Look at that!
- (laughing): She better than fixed it.
There was six antipastos, and now there's 7, 8, 9, 10!
- There are, in fact, 10 antipastos now!
- Oh boy, oh boy, look at that!
- Wait!
Now it's adding food?
Something's wrong here.
- Something's wrong?
Our table's making us free food, what could be wrong with that?
- But now it's making free food.
Before it was taking away food.
- That's good.
- That's a good thing.
- It's making more food!
- More food!
More money!
- Aye, yai, yai!
(laughing and shouting) - Mmm, this is really tasty.
You know, when I'm not out there saving the world from odd, I make a pretty mean sauce myself.
- How many meatballs do you put in?
- The recipe calls for 26 but I make my meatballs in groups of 10, so I just round up to 30.
- Hey, uh, what's rounding?
(tray clanging) - You don't know?
- No.
- Rounding is when you change a number to make it end with zero to make it easier to use.
So, if I had 16 or 17 ravioli, I would say, "Hey, I have about 20 ravioli."
- Ah.
So if I have 11 or 12 mice in the kitchen, I just say, "Hey, I got 10 mice in the kitchen!"
- Exactly.
By the way, you should still get that checked out.
- Right.
- But how do you know to round up or down?
- I'll show you, but you need to make me 20 pounds of spaghetti.
Yup.
It's a lot.
- I call this "meatball mountain".
Now, Tony, does 13 round up to 20, or down to 10?
- Uh, I don't know!
- Well, 13, here... Down to 10.
- Very nice.
What about 16?
- 16 rounds up to 20.
(applauding) - Wait!
What about 15?
It's right in the middle.
- If it's right in the middle, I make sure nobody's looking... ...and I give it a little nudge so it rounds up to 20.
- Get it?
- Got it.
- Good.
Now I can eat it.
- You've given us such a great gift today.
We're going to teach you the secret family dance.
- (both): LUIGI!
MUSIC!
- Ha ha ha!
♪♪♪♪♪ Ho!
Ho!
Hey!
Hey!
- There are 10 place settings on the table.
How come they're not disappearing?
- That's a good point.
- Yeah.
- Gino.
Could you please hand me 10 flowers?
- Right.
- Flowers?
- Yes.
Thank you.
- (Gino): They stayed the same!
Ay!
This table, it giveth, it taketh away, and now it stayeth the same!
Sabatino, I can't take it anymore!
- (Sabatino): Okay, calm down.
- You, you table... You driving me crazy!
You driving me crazy!
- Gino!
Where did he go?
Gino!
- Gino!
- Agent Otto!
♪♪♪♪♪ - Agent Otto!
(shouting and laughing) - Agent Otto, what are you doing?
(music stops) - (all): The Confalone dance!
♪♪♪♪♪ - We have a problem!
- Gino, my only brother!
I loved you like a brother!
- Uncle Gino's gone?
I loved him like an uncle!
- Odd Squad, can you get him back?
- There's only one way.
We have to go to the Mathroom.
- At a time like this?
- Especially at a time like this.
(whirring) - Luigi, play me a sad song.
♪♪♪♪♪ - (Mathroom): Greetings, agents.
- Mathroom, show us the number line, 0 through 10.
- Generating number line 0 to 10.
- All right, when I put 3 cannolis on the table, they all disappeared, but when I put down 6 antipastos, the table added some, so there was 10.
- Hmm...
It's meatball mountain!
- Meatball...what?
- Three cannolis is closer to 0, so it got rounded down to 0.
But 6 antipastos is closer to 10, so it got rounded up to 10.
- So what you're telling me is the round table has been rounding.
- Yes!
- Let's go.
(whirring) - when your brother touched the table, there was only one of him, so the table rounded him down to 0 and he disappeared.
- (all): Ohh... - But if we get 9 Confalones, the table will round up to 10, and it will add 1 more.
- So what you're saying is that... - (all): ...it's a family reunion!
Yeah!
(laughing and cheering) ♪♪♪♪♪ ♪♪♪♪♪ (speaking in Italian) (whistling) - Confalones!
On the count of 3 you're going to touch the table, and Gino will reappear.
- Or, if we're wrong, you could all disappear.
Just saying.
Just saying.
- 1, 2, 3, touch!
- Gino!
(all cheering) - Looks like now you can open for business.
- But first, we eat!
♪♪♪♪♪ - (together): We love this table!
(cheering) - Bellissimo!
-Hi, I'm Sabatino Confalone.
- And I'm Gino Confalone!
- Come visit Confalone's Ristorante and make your stomach happy.
Right, Stomachy?
- Right, guys!
- (both): Ha ha ha!
- (Sabatino): We've got pasta!
- (Gino): We've got lasagna!
- We've got so many meatballs!
And that's not all!
- No.
Now, hurry up and tell them about it.
- I'm trying to.
- Well, do it then.
(arguing in Italian) (laughing) - At Confalones, we love rounding.
- What's rounding?
- Good question, Stomachy.
- Think of it like a hill with numbers.
So, if the number falls on this side, you round up.
And if the number falls on this side, you round down.
And so if you order 18 bowls of macaroni, you'll get 20 bowls of macaroni.
If you order 13 bowls of soup, you get 10 bowls of soup... ...which is great, if you don't like soup.
- Soup's the best!
- Hey, listen, my brother Gino, what about the number 15?
It falls right in the middle.
- Well, that's a great question, my brother.
If a number ends in 5, we give it a nudge and round up, so 15 pizzas becomes 20 pizzas.
- (both): Enough to make everybody's stomach happy!
- (stomachs): Let's eat!
- (Oscar): And now, an official message from Ms. O.
- Has something odd happened to you at home or in your school?
Have you turned invisible or begun walking on the ceiling?
- Are things repeating themselves over and over again?
- Are things repeating themselves over and over again?
If so, Odd Squad can help.
We can fix odd problems and set things right again.
Call us today.
Our agents are standing by.
(phones ringing) ...Or sitting.
You know what?
Just go to the website.
Well?
What are you waiting for?
GO!
I said GO!
[♪♪♪♪♪] [♪♪♪♪♪] [♪♪♪♪♪] [laughing]

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