Skits in this Episode: ""Infinity"" Members of the Square One TV cast sing a song about how no matter how high you count, you'll never reach infinity. ""News Interruption"" Square One TV is interrupted for a ""news interruption."" ""Mathman"" The first ever installment of Square One TV's parody of Pacman. Mathman is asked to eat all of the multiples of three on the board. He does so and wins a free game. ""Mathematics Problem - Always Three"" Cast member Arthur Howard takes a phone call. The person on the other end of the line tells him to write down any number and no matter what number he writes down, his result will always be three. He tries the number ten. He's told to add five, double what he has, subtract four, divide by two and subtract the first number. To his surprise, it works. He tries it again on his own wiht another number, seven. He then takes another call, supposedly from the Queen of England and asks her to try it. ""And on..."" The people from the infinity song are still singing. I

Skits in this Episode: ""American Blandstand"" A parody of Dick Clark's American Bandstand. The host needs three people to help with a segment called ""Rate That Record."" In another parody, this time of the classic Star Trek, two people, a parody Captain Kirk and Spock materialize on the stage. It seems they've materialized on 20th century Earth by accident, but the host doesn't care. He's going to have them play. Their names are ""Sprock"" and Captain ""Curt"" of the Starship ""Interface."" Since he needs three people, the host calls up one more contestant from the audience: Josie, from South Philadelphia, who's really excited to be on American Blandstand. He plays a music clip from a song called ""Zoo Rumble"" and takes everyone's scores for it: 50, 72 and 64. From these scores, he's able to find the average: 62. He then plays another clip from a song called ""High Steel."" It get scores of 80 and 98. However, Captain Curt really dislikes like and rates it a 20. The host computes the average... 9

Skits in this Episode: ""Spade Parade - The Yucca Puck Case"" This is a parody of an old style detective movie, I.E. Sam Spade. Only the detective in this case is named ""Spade Parade."" His client explains the situation. She's trying to get some information from three men, the ""Wisenheimers."" The problem is that she can't figure them out. One of them always lies, one always tells the truth and one sometimes lies, but sometimes tells the truth. She doesn't know which is which. Can Spade solve the case? Stay tuned to find out. ""Mathman"" Mathman is asked to eat only numbers on the board that are less than .5. He does well for a little while, correctly eatin the numbers .31 and .499. However, he then eats .51, causing him to be eaten by Mr. Glitch. ""Spade Parade Part 2"" A return to the ""Spade Parade"" case. We learn that the Wisenheimers are named Tom, Dick, and Harry. Tom always tells the truth. Dick never tells the truth. And Harry only sometimes tells the truth. Using logic and questioning,

Skits in this Episode: ""The Mathematics of Love"" In this segment, a singer finds himself in ancient Rome, where he's given a song to sing about the mathematics of love. However, he keeps getting stopped because whenever he reads one of the Roman numerals, he reads it as if it were an English letter, for example, instead of reading II as ""two,"" he reads it as ""I-I."" Finally, he learns the meanings of the various Roman numerals and sings the song as it was meant to be sung. ""Oops - Measurement (12 cm)"" A man was supposed to measure a piece of wood, and came up with 12 centimeters. The problem was that he didn't start the piece of wood at the 0 cm mark, so the correct measurement was 13cm. ""Frank Loyd Wrong - Building to Scale"" Architect Frank Lloyd Wrong was supposed to build a building according to his blueprints, where 1 inch represented 20 feet. His wealthy customer realizes that he didn't understand the concept of scale, and only built the building the same size as it was drawn. She

Skits in this Episode: ""Prime Number Television"" A network executive is looking for shows for his new primetime lineup. The catch is that he only wants shows that have prime numbers in the title. Some are suggested, some of which are rejected because the numbers aren't prime. Others are manipulated so that they are made into prime numbers when they weren't before. ""Percents"" A music video by the ""Bank Notes."" ""Your Head"" Tauted as the best calculator in the world, Your Head is demonstrated as two teenagers figure out a tip from a restaurant bill. ""28%"" A message that informs us that we've already seen 28% of the show, so there's still 72% to go. ""Cure For a Headache"" In this commercial parody, designed to teach us about percentages, we learn that a large percentage of doctors recommend wrapping a rainbow trout around your forehead as a cure for a headache. ""But Who's Counting - Chases v. Skirts"" In this installment of Square One TV's parody game show, ""But Who's Counting,"" the object i

""SQ1 Sports - Robin Hood -Archery - Highest Odd Score"" An archery competition set in the ""Robin Hood"" story in which the objective is to get the highest odd-numbered score. The target has areas labeled 9, 7, 5, 3 and 1. Currently, Robin Hood has 34 points, while Sir Guy has a perfect score, 36. The commentator talks with the organizer of the competition, the Sheriff of Nottingham. He thinks he was the perfect scheme. The rules say that they have to shoot six times. However, with only odd numbers on the target, it's impossible for their score to be odd. Therefore, he gets to keep the gold and neither of them win. They return to the competition, where Sir Guy and Robin Hood both get perfect nines. It's a crucial moment. Sir Guy shoots and hits for another nine. It's no longer possible for him to get an odd number. Then, in a surprise move, Robin Hood, turns around, faces the opposite direction and shoots. Since he didn't hit the target, his score remains at 43, an odd number. He wins and

Skits in This Episode: ""Zero's Therapy Session"" The number Zero is having an identity crisis, feeling that the number zero is unwanted. The sketch focuses on mathematical attributes of zero. ""Desert Mirage"" A man stranded in the desert comes across a mirage: Shari Belafonte-Harbor is selling lemonade in the desert for 26% of a dollar. It's actually real, but he only has a quarter, which is 25% of a dollar. ""8% of My Love"" In a high school setting, cast member Cris Franco sings about how he loves different things a certain percentage as they come out of his locker, but he still has enough left to give his girlfriend 8% of his love. ""Matinee Movie"" An introduction to the film Cartablanca, a parody of the classic black and white film Casablanca. This parody involves a man and a woman separated by love, war, and a French Customs Official who knows how to guess someone's weight. ""Bumper"" 40% of the show is over, but don't despair, there's 60% to come. ""Harry's Hamburger Haven"" The first of

Skits in This Episode: ""Suds - Popcorn Sizes"" A man goes up to a theater popcorn stand to order popcorn. He's asked by the cashier - cast member Reg E. Cathey - what size he wants and is told that there are three sizes available - large, larger and largest, for $1. The customer seems interested in the largest size, since he has a big family, but wonders if there's anything larger. In fact, he says that he wants some that's twice as wide, twice as tall and twice as deep. It turns out the cashier does have that and he whips it out. He then asks the customer for $8. The customer thinks that surely he's made some mistake - he should only be paying two dollars. But the cashier explains that by doubling all of the dimensions, he ended up with something that was eight times as large and he proves it - by removing eight of the ""largest"" size popcorn boxes from this jumbo box. The customer finds this very interesting, but says that he won't be needing the popcorn after all. They've been spendin

Warning: Sketches in this episode contain odd numbers. ""The Phoneymooners"" How do you determine the number of bricks needed to fix a hole in a brick wall? ""Look for tens,"" says Throckmorton. ""Square One TV Interruption"" To find approximate area, do what was just done in that last sketch. ""Film Insert"" Tugboat Operation in New York Harbor ""Backstage with Blackstone"" A segment with this famous magician explores heads and tails on a coin. Multiplication Music Video: ""Sign of the Times"" A music video sung by Cris Franco about mathematical signs. ""Mathman"" Following the episode theme, Mathman's task in this segment is to eat only odd numbers. Mathnet: The Case of the Missing Baseball, Part 4

Sketches include fare such as ""Superguy,"" ""Combinatorics"" and the fifth part of the Mathnet case about a missing baseball.

""After the Interruption"" This is a warnning about the upcoming probability tricks… ""Cabot & Marshmallow"" The pair play a game of ""Heads You Win, Tails I Lose"" to demonstrate the probability of one. ""The Improbable Spinner Win"" A carnival barker tries to swindle a lady into playing an unfair spinner game. He would win if the wheel stops on green, which takes up ¾ of the wheel. ""Cabot & Marshmallow - Shelled!"" The pair does ""The Old Shell Game"" without a pea, demonstrating the unfair game with a probability of zero. Music Video: Ghost of a Chance This music video, performed by Five Factorial!, shows a pizza delivery man trapped in a haunted house. It demonstrates a situation in which the old saying ""a ghost of a chance"" takes on a much more literal meaning. Wide Wide World of Sports You've Never Heard Of This spoof on ABC's The Wide World of Sports presents a Handshakes Tournament. The two sportscasters draw out triangular numbers to show how many total handshakes the winning team must c

""The Paper Rase"" John Hillerman impersonator advises Ned Flimsy, ""You must round up"" up the cost of Ned's law books ""Exclusive Music Video"" The Fat Boys perform ""Burger Pattern."" ""But Who's Counting?"" In this parody game-show, contestants must make the largest possible sum from a 3-digit number and a 2-digit number (Promotional consideration by Q mu less calculators) ""Music Video"" It's a Palindrome discusses numbers that are same backwards and forwards. ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Passing Parade, Part 2""

""The Groaning Wall"" ""Samurai Mathematician"" ""Diet Lite Wet"" Comm. Shoot ""Mathman"" Fractions = 1/3 Music Video: LCD ""Good Sports: Fractional Baseball""New rules give a team ¼ of a run for each base a player reaches (sketch features actual footage of Mets-Cubs game at Wrigley Field) Time Check: 54/100 seen ""Oops!"" 4212 ÷ 6 = 702 ""Mathnet"": ""The Problem of the Passing Parade, Part 3"" At the hideout, George encounters sheet music titles 75 Trombones. Back at Mathnet HQ, the kidnappers call, putting Steve Stringbean on the phone with a dull musical message: ""Please do what these people say.""

Skits in this Episode: Opening teaser: What would you do if your name was what? ""Cabot and Marshmallow"" Marshmallow knows that Cabot has set him up with a date, and Cabot tells him that her name is What, which leads to a ""Who's on First"" style routine. What is arriving from 50 miles away, but What is coming on horseback. The horse goes 10 miles per hour and stops every hour for a ten minute break. Amidst the comedy, Marshmallow figures out that What will take 5 hours and 50 minutes to arrive and since What left 5 hours and 40 minutes ago, What should arrive in ten minutes. Cabot and Marshmallow are surprised that What just arrived, but then realize that What actually took 5 hours and 40 minutes to arrive. What doesn't take a ten minute break after 50 miles because What has already arrived. Marshmalow answers the door, and What says, ""Hi. What's the name!"" and Marshmallow faints. ""Newsbreak"" ""Watch out for averages that are much too small"" ""Whither Weather"" A Weather report indi

Skits in This Episode: ""Voiceover"" A voiceover introduces the viewer to ""Sketch #241: Daddy Knows Different."" ""Daddy Knows Different"" Daddy and his son Rusty show the proper way to break dishes. ""Apple Rap"" A rap music video. In this rap, Johnathan tells his shrink about his after school apple-peeling job. He can peel 40 apples in an hour, but his co-worker, Maria, peels 80 apples in an hour. The psychiatrist diagnoses him with ""apple envy,"" but Johnahan explains that his boss asked him and Maria to peel 360 apples and he doesn't know how long it will take aboth of them to peel 360 apples. He then realizes that both he and Maria can peel 120 apples in an hour, so it will take him three hours. His problem is solved, just as his session ends. ""Animation"" An animation in which circles change to hexagons and then to a pattern with hexagons and six pointed stars. ""But Who's Counting"" In this installment, the Barberras and the Meads face off against each other. ""Bar Chart"" A commercial which

Skits in This Episode: ""I Love Lupy - Elephants pt. 1"" A parody of the classic show I Love Lucy. ""Measurement of a Cat"" Cynthia and Reg measure a cat using a framing device. ""I Love Lupy pt. 2"" The second half of the ""I Love Lupy"" skit. ""Warning"" Square One TV is interrupted for a warning. ""Countin' Out the Rhythm"" A music video. ""Mathman (bumper)"" A bumper to the upcoming ""Mathman"" segment. ""Mathman: Factors of 12"" In this installment of Square One TV's parody of Pacman, Mathman must eat all of the factors of 12 on the board, or else be eaten by Mr. Glitch. ""Backstage with Blackstone: 3 Coins Puzzle"" Blackstone takes us backstage for another neat math trick. ""Mathnet: The Trial of George Frankly Part 1"" Having come back from vacation, George learns that there was a bank robbery at the Next to the Last National Bank and when watching the surveilance tape, George learns that he's the one on tape! George sets out to clear his name by going to the bank and the bank's president recognizes

""Animation: Perimeter"" The perimeter of a shape is measured out in units. ""Oops! Perimeter"" In 1968, a hippie was supposed to find the perimeter of an 8-inch by 5-inch rectangle. He only came up with 8 + 5, or 13 inches, causing a disaster. He should have taken 8 + 5 and then multiplied by 2, to find the length of all the sides of the rectangle combined. ""Bandanas"" Cowboys who had just purchased 5 head of cattle need to find out how much fence they'll need, as each cow needs 20 square yards of space. Thus, they figure that the fence should cover 100 square yards. The schoolmom helps them find the rectangle that uses the least fence, and it's 10 X 10, which covers 100 square yards, but only needs 40 yards of fence. ""Newsroom Interruption"" This just in: Rectangles of the same area can have different perimeter. ""The Math Mimes Two mimes, Rene and Marcel, find a loop of rope and make different rectangles with it. Marcel points out that rectangles of the same perimeter have different area

Exclusive Music Video: ""Perfect Squares"" Rodney and Painter, Part 1: Square Numbers Masterworks Theatre presents ""The Trojan Pie"" Rodney and Painter, Part 2: Triangular Numbers ""The Groaning Wall"" Rodney and Painter, Part 3: Square and Triangular Numbers Interruption: Square Number Defined ""But Who's Multiplying?"" Mathnet: ""The Trial of George Frankly, Part 3""

Skits in This Episode: ""Round Off!"" A game show that involves racing to a bell, and the first player to ring the bell has to round off a number. The first number is 3467, which must be rounded off to the nearest ten. One contestant, Belinda, does this with 3470. The next number is 33633, which is to be rounded off to the nearest hundred. Barry, the other contestant, gets 33700, but that doesn't work because the correct answer is 33600, to which 33633 is closer. The next number is 42656, which should be rounded off to the nearest thousand. Barry succeeds with 43000, but none of the contestants win because they each got one right, and the game is over. ""Cabot and Marshmallow"" Cabot gyps Marshmallow out of theater tickets by rounding off. Each ticket was $13, and there were 4 tickets, so 13 is rounded down to 10, and 4 is rounded down to 0, so Cabot points out that 10 times 0 is 0. Music Video- ""Round It Off"" A music video about rounding numbers. ""Bumper"" A bumper working in the theme of

Skits in This Episode: ""Warning About Prime Number"" ""Callous 101st Anniversary Assortment ""Bureau of Missing Numbers 101"" ""Le Prime Club"" ""Square Dance"" ""Multiplication Class"" ""Mathman: Fractions Smaller Than ½"" ""Mathnet: The Trial of George Frankly, Part 5""

What are the common multiples of 15 and 18? You'll see them when two clowns enter at special times of the hour throughout the show and do silly things. ""But Who's Counting?"" It's another search for the best possible sum between a three digit number and a two digit number. Q mu less calculators, a previous sponsor, is not acknlowedged in this parody game-show hosted by Monte Carlo. ""Common Multiple Man"" Cris Franco plays a misfit of science who can instantly figure out common multiples for several numbers. ""Exclusive Music Video"" In ""Less Than Zero,"" Stanley O'Toole is so bad at everything he does that the judges give him negative scores. Not to be confused with the ""Less the Zero"" song performed by George Frankley and Pat Tuesday in Season Five, a.k.a. ""Don't Leave; You Stay; I'll Go."" ""The War between the Positives and Negative Begins!"" +5 + -3 = +2 ""Remainder of show Bumper"" This bumper tells us how much of the program is left. ""Rutabagas vs Square One TV"" Larry Cedar does a super

Skits In This Episode: ""March of History - Parts 1, 2 and 3"" ""Concave vs. Convex Shapes"" ""Backstage with Blackstone - Coin Trick"" ""Parity sequence"" ""Exclusive Music Video: Jenny Didn't Call"" ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Dirty Money, Part 2""

Skits in this Episode: ""King for a Day"" ""Person on the Street"" ""The Trapezoid Monks"" ""Mathman"" ""Daddy Knows Different: Parts 1 and 2"" ""Music Video: Roman Numeral Blues"" ""Oops!"" ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Dirty Money, Part 3""

""Mathman"" Mathman is assigned to eat only Prime Numbers ""Matinee Movie"" Matinee Movie is about to hold a Dialing for Factors call-in. The winner must name the factors of a large number. That leads to the movie, Mr. Bland Builds His Dream House (a Laurel and Hardy parody). Mr. Bland, garbage dealer, wants Stan and Olie to make a rectangular window with 17 panes. It doesn't look pretty, until Stan breaks a window pane. Back in the studio, Matinee Movie searches for, and gets, a winner in their Dialing for Factors game. Part two of Mr. Bland Builds His Dream Houseshows how many different rectangles can be made from 16 window panes. Matinee Movie wraps up after another fine mess that Stan has gotten himself and his partner into. ""Newsroom Interruption!"" Square One TV is interrupted. ""Time Check"" A time check points out how much of the show remains. ""Bureau of Missing Numbers"" The Bureau of Missing Numbers is assigned to trace the fascinating number 9. ""Nine, Nine, Nine"" The House Ba

Skits in This Episode: ""Amazing Story of Nines, Part One"" ""Animation: Hexahedron"" ""Amazing Story of Nines, Part Two"" ""Animation: Pentagon Pyramid"" ""Amazing Story of Nines, Part Three"" ""Music Video - Change Your Point Of View by Obelisk"" ""Backstage with Blackstone"" ""Fraction Rap Bumper"" ""Music Video - Fraction Rap"" ""Mathnet: Problem of the Dirty Money, Part 5""

Skits in this Episode: ""Data Headache: Line Graph"" This installment of Square One TV's series about using charts and graphs to solve a data headache features the line graph. Ms. Weatherby has a data headache from keeping track of corporate profits. The announcer tells her to use a line graph to keep track of her information, and it works for her. ""Pie Chart"" In medieval times, the Dra-Ma guild (dragon maintainance guild) uses a pie chart to keep track of how much it costs to raise a dragon and the percentage of the cost that each expense (food, dragon litter, lighter fluid, charcoal) entails. ""Graph of Love"" In a 50s rock and roll styled video, a teenager uses a ""graph of love"" to indicate how much love she feels throughout the course of a year. As each month passes, the number with which she rates her feelings goes up and down, and in the end, fortunately, it's a pefect ten! ""Backstage With Blackstone"" Blackstone's got more tricks up in this sleeve. This installment features the ""invi

Skits in This Episode: ""Eagle Express, Part 1: Distance Between Detroit and Chicago"" ""Exclusive Music Video: Draw a Map by Lewis and Clark"" ""Eagle Express, Part 2: Cistance Between Detroit and Tulsa"" ""Appliance Pull, Part 1"" ""Fortune Teller: Arthur's Age"" ""Appliance Pull, Part 2"" ""Don't Despair"" ""Mathnet: Mystery of the Maltese Pigeon, Part 2""

Skits in This Episode: ""Suds: Raffle Ticket, Part 1"" ""Person on the Street: Dodecahedron"" ""Animation: Dodecahedron"" ""Suds: Raffle Ticket, Part 2"" Grempod and Blotmo: sponge candy ""Suds: Raffle Ticket, Part 3"" ""Tony and the Togas: The Mathematics of Love"" ""Backstage with Blackstone: Coin Tricks"" ""Mathnet: Mystery of the Maltese Pigeon, Part 3""

""Matinee Movie"" A promo hints to the eventual broadcast of Cartablanca. (Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode 107) ""Perfect Squares"" An exclusive music video performed by The Square Brothers. (Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode 101) ""Oops!"" A subtraction error, with the equation 300-163= , leads to disaster. Viewers are shown what went wrong and how to not make the same mistake. ""Cartablanca"" Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode 107 ""Percents"" A music video about percentages by the Bank Notes. ""Mathman: Percentages"" In order to win a free game, Mathman must eat only percentages that are less than ½. ""National Geometric: The Search for the Giant Squid"" Repeat of a segment first aired in Episode 114. ""Soultions Warning"" The voice of Barbara Feldon tells viewers to understand what kind of solutions they are looking for when solving problems. ""Mathnet: The Mystery of the Maltese Pigeon, Part 4"" Kate and George see through Maureen O'Rilley's alibi. Thinking the Maltese P

""Interruption!"" A newsreader quotes the Mathematician General's report: ""Averages can be misleading."" The Phoneymooners The two have helped moving the furniture and books of the Racoon Lodge. But Throckmorton is only taking five alumni books, which drives the average down. It's better, says Ralph, for the three to carry an equal number of books. ""Nebbish the Grocery Bagger, Part 1"" He doesn't pack the groceries right, breaking a dozen eggs in the process. ""Exclusive Music Video"" An music video called Count on It teaches viewers about counting. ""Nebbish the Grocery Bagger, Part 2"" He tries again, and this time he crushes a loaf of bread. ""Time Check"" .34 is a decimal fraction that shows how much of Episode 130 is left. ""Nebbish the Grocery Bagger, Part 3"" This time he puts the canned good in the bag first. It's a good move, but his later packing harms a cream puff. ""Commercial Survey"" Quacks are polled on what cures a Headache. Some recommend things such as a steak over the face. ""Nebbi

Skits in this Episode: ""Mathematics R' Us: Place Value Holder"" ""Bumper (Larry)"" ""Battle of the Bulge Caterers, Part 1 --- New Version"" ""The Misteaks"" ""Battle of the Bulge Caterers Part 2"" ""Time Check"" ""War of Positives and Negatives: -9 +4 = -5"" ""Subtraction Commercial"" ""Miracle Zero, a Product of Jip Industries"" ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger, Part 1""

Skits in This Episode: ""Eagle Express, Part 1"" ""9 Feet Exchanged"" ""Eagle Express, Part 2"" ""Exclusive Music Video: Metric Electric Lover by Dodo"" ""But Who's Adding: Samantha vs. Valerie"" ""Interruption"" ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger, Part 2""

Skits in This Episode: ""Phone Call: Fibonacci"" ""Backstage with Blackstone: Fibonacci Sequence"" :Bumper on Fibonacci Sequence"" ""Mathman: Eat Percentages > 1/2"" ""The King's Stooges"" ""Person on the Street: What is a Tessellation?"" ""Exclusive Music Video: Tessellation"" ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger, Part 3""

""Commercial Shoot for Stephan's Stereo"" This segment attempts to find out what works best: decimal, fraction or percent? ""Animation - Conversion"" An animation shows viewers that 75% = 75/100 = .75 = 3/4 ""Welcome Back, Blotter"" In this sendup of Welcome Back, Kotter, Mr. Blotter's birthday presents are not finished; only a precentage is done each time. ""Don't Despair"" ""8% of My Love"" Repeat of a music video that first aired in Episode 107. ""But Who's Counting?"" For the only time, Monte Carlo has kid contestants in his parody game-show. It's their task to make the largest 5-digit number. ""Commercial - Your Head"" A commercial promotes your head, saying that it estimates. ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger Part 4"" George learns that the abandoned balloon was the one that was rented and that it was reshaped to fit in the hamburger. Debbie informs that Mathnetters that Hans Ballpeen returned home and Beulah is ecstatic to have him back. Hans tells the Mathnetters that the kidnapp

Skits in This Episode: ""The Colon Commercial"" ""Joke Glasses Party"" ""Time Check"" ""Backstage with Blackstone"" ""Exculsive Music Video: Apple Rap"" ""Bumper"" ""Coatrack"" ""Pentagram Animation"" ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger, Part 5""

""Harry's Hamburger Heaven"" A commercial shoot for the fictional restaurant. ""Which is Best"" An analysis of whether it's best to use decimal (.4), fraction (4/10) or percent (40%). ""Music Video"" Arthur sings Action at the Fraction Bar ""But Who's Multiplying"" The newest edition of the parody game-show. ""Animation"" Numbers and liquid are mixed in different glasses. ""Battle of the Bulge Caterers"" The caterers attempt to divide 18 popsicles for 12 guests ""2001 Parody"" This parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey features two astronauts attempting to stop their computer, Hank, from repeatedly singing ""Row, row, row your boat."" One of them decides to have Hank run a program, which Hank accepts, having to run the program until it is finished: Step 1, start with three; Step 2, add four; Step 3, stop if the answer is even, if not go back to Step 2. Of course the program can never be finished. The astronaut asks us to try the same program, but reminds us that we'll never reach an even number. The astrona

""Ratings Analysis"" The centerpiece sketch is set at HBC, a Rival network trying to gain inroads on Square One TV's ratings. The bar graph demonstrates that SQ1TV has had great success with Mathnet, Callous, and March of History. Their duds include The Mike Merv Show Show (which we have not seen yet, but it's coming) and Ken & Barbie (which we will never see). In other words, Square One TV actually has no duds. ""Commercial - Your Head"" Karl Malden impersonator advertises the estimating and rounding skills of your head. Repeat of a segment that first aired earlier in the season. ""Exclusive Music Video"" Cristobal sings Sign of the Times ""Time Check"" An announcer tells us that we've seen 40% of the show so far. ""Backstage with Blackstone"" A magic trick with famous magician Harry Blackstone. ""Mathman"" Mathman is instructed to eat only Factors of 60. ""Animation"" An animation features quadrilaterals - shapes with four sides such as squares and rectangles. ""Mathnet: Problem of the Missing Mo

Skits in this Episode: ""Odd Number Strike"" Newsanchor Eugene Gummm covers the odd number strike. Number 107 insists it is because the odd numbers prefer to be called uneven. Gummm then interviews some people negatively affected by the odd number strike: chef Julia Kitchen, rock star Mick Stagger, a race car driver, and a city bus driver. Gumm then promises to keep covering the odd number strike because his office is on an ""uneven""-numbered street. ""Animation"" A two row pattern of blocks shows odd and even numbers. ""Math Rap - Music Video"" Kurtis Blow raps to his students about mathematics. ""But Who's Counting?"" The Kurkendalls from San Simeon, California compete against the San Simeons from Kurkendall, California. The object is to place five numbers that come out on a number wheel to obtain the largest possible five digit number. In the first round, the number wheel comes up with a first digit 5, then second digit 3, third digit 1, fourth digit 4 and fifth digit 0. The contestants r

""So-Fari, So-Goodi, Part 1"" Lady Huxbey talks of her unfortunate attempt to feed the elephants in the jungle. In her field report, she finds a hawker, Jungle Clyde. He says she must buy a map of jungle from him if she wants to feed the elephants. The cost: half the peanuts Lady Huxbey brought with her, plus one more peanut. ""Person on the Street"" What is a googol? ""Animation"" Graphics show that a googol is ten to the hundredth power. (Not to be confused with the googol animation that appears in the 3-2-1 Contact episode called ""Measurement: How Many? How Much?"") ""So-Fari, So-Goodi, Part 2"" Jungle Clyde explains Lady Huxbey must buy a map of the animals from him if she wants to feed the elephants. The cost: half the peanuts Lady Huxbey has left, plus two more peanuts. ""Googol Commercial"" Moon Unit Zappa discusses one googol and how she can write it easily. ""So-Fari, So-Goodi, Part 3"" Jungle Clyde explains Lady Huxbey must buy a map of the elephants from him if she wants to feed the

""Let's Do A Deal, Part 1"" In this send-up of Let's Make a Deal, two contestants are chosen from the audience and given a choice of two treasure chests. One has two gold coins and two lead coins, the other has more gold coins and many more lead coins. First, they must choose one of the two chests and, once that's done, they must pull out a gold coin from that chest. If they do, they move to another chance game. ""Exclusive Music Video: Ghost of a Chance"" Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode 111 ""Let's Do a Deal, Part 2"" Now the contestants must choose from a pile of four pencils, three of which are unsharpened. If they pick all the unsharpened pencils, they will win the treasure hunt prize. ""Backstage with Blackstone"" Blackstone takes playing cards from a deck. The highlight of the trick comes when the assistants must choose one of five cards with different sayings, including ""Choose This Card Here"" and ""Let The Mystery Begin."" What they don't know just yet, is that each sayi

Skits In This Episode: ""News interruption: One Way to Never Reach Zero"" ""Moderately Frightening Stories"" ""Mathman: Multiples of 5"" ""Battle of the Bulge Caterers"" ""Time Check Bumper"" ""Sybil Sawyer, Part 1"" ""Warning about the Upcoming Music Video"" ""Exclusive Music Video: Angle Dance"" ""Nancy Lieberman"" ""Ball Ricochet"" ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Missing Baseball, Part 1""

""Polling"" A pollster for the Candidate Zagursky for Mayor campaign thinks he has had a good sample for his poll. But he finds his sample is biased: He called all people with last names starting with Z. They are are all related to Candidate Zagursky. ""Sybil Sawyer, Part 2"" How biologists measure the perimeter and age of trees. ""Time Check"" An announcer tells us that 20% of the show has passed. ""Polling - Again"" The Candidate Zagursky for Mayor pollster hass since polled the people at the local Post Office. But the sample is still biased: Zagursky worked at that Post Office for 15 years. ""Backstage with Blackstone"" The number nine plays a role in the number of coins on a table. ""Polling 3"" Finally, the Candidate Zagursky for Mayor pollster has done a random sample. It shows that Candidate Zagursky doesn't have a chance of winning. ""Multiples of 1-10"" A diagram shows all of the these multiples. ""Bumper"" Glitch, Mathman's nemesis, gives a hint to the secret code in the upcoming music v

Skits include, but are not limited to: ""How to Build a Bridge"" ""Sybil Sawyer, Part 3"" ""International House of Bologna"" ""Mathnet: The Probem of the Missing Baseball, Part 3""

Skits in this Episode Included: ""Cabot and Marshmallow – Wooden Candy Bars"" Repeat of a segment first aired in Episode 108. ""Sybil Sawyer, Part 4"" Hollywood reporter Sybil Sawyer is still in the woods, learning how people estimate the amount of wood in a log. ""Oops!"" A new segment finds a man making a mistake when multiplying decimals. The end tease (""Oops! is brought to you by erasers"") is repeated by mistake. ""Bumper: Please Stand By"" ""Bulletin"" Now that SQ1TV is back on, they can deliver a late-breaking news item from the local courtroom. A jester was accused of making a bed too small for the King to fit in. The problem was, the King had made measurements for the desired bed using his big feet. The jester copied the measurements with his small feet, After exhausting testimony, the jester was found not guilty. ""Time Check"" Tease informs viewers they have already seen .44 of SQ1TV. ""Mathman"" This time, Mathman must eat only multiples of 6. ""Countin' Out The Rhythm"" Repeat of a music v

Immediately after the titles, a voice over reminds us we've seen one thirtieth of Square One TV. Now twenty-nine thirtieths are to be seen: ""Phoneymooners"" A Venn Diagram shows groceries bought for Raccoon Hamburger Fry. Seems four things were bought twice and another four were not bought at all. ""Sybil Sawyer (Pt 5.) A segment that details wood used vs. wood wasted in furniture. ""Oops!"" A segment about ruler measurement. As the Planet Spins Buying too much carpet for L-shaped room ""Music Video: Square Song"" Before the song, there's a disclaimer about it being edited for television. Cris Franco sings the lead in this song about squares. ""Backstage with Blackstone"" Blackstone does a trick involving 10 cards, face up/face down. ""Claymation Creatures"" The war between the Positives and Negatives rages on, showing that 1 + -12 = -11 Mathnet: The Problem of the Missing Baseball Part 5 Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode 110

""Number Squaring Trick"" Arthur Howard, on the phone, learns a trick for squaring numbers ending in five. ""Talent Agent - Square Numbers"" Broadway talent agent Mr. Biggs wants a Broadway song about square numbers. ""Bureau of Missing Numbers"" What are distinct characteristics of 36? They'll need to know if they're going to find it. ""Animation"" This animation features dancing squares. ""Exclusive Music Video"" The classic Square Brothers' Perfect Squares. Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode 101. ""Your Map Commerical"" Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode 102. ""Mathnet: Problem of the Passing Parade, Part 1"" Repeat of a Mathnet case first shown in Episode 111.

Skits in This Episode Include: ""Mathematics R' Us"" Smilin' Al Gorithm tauts rounding off numbers. One example is how he rounded 9.72 to 9.7 ""Music Video: Round it Off"" The House Band, on the album ""Live at Tilley's,"" sings of how to round off numbers to make things easier: round up if it ends in 5 or more, round it down if it's less than five."" (Note: This segment first appeared in Episode 119.) ""Art Store"" An artist goes into an art supply store. ""Animation - Area"" The segment shows how a 6 x 8 rectangle is calculated to 48 square units. ""The 5:19 Blues"" A girl sings the blues about numbers that aren't rounded off. As she gets to the train station at 5:20, she realizes that although rounding off works on lots of numbers, don't round off the time the train leaves. ""How Much is Left"" This much (.41) of the show is over, but don't despair: there's this much (.59) left to come. ""But Who's Counting"" Another installment of Square One TV's parody game show, ""But Who's Counting."" ""Mathnet: Th

Skits in this episode included: ""Mathman"" Mathman must eat only the factors of 24. ""But Who's Multiplying?"" Another edition of the game with two kids quickly multiplying two factors to for the right products. ""Oops!"" This one is a real shocker. Because someone couldn't correctly multiply 603 by 7, a bridge collapsed. (Footage shown was of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge swaying and collapsing in 1941.) ""Warning!"" Repeat of a sketch first aired in Episode 114. ""Executive at Meeting"" It's an executive's birthday, and he's all excited. He figured out how many people can sit at each table using division. ""Time Check"" You've already seen 40% of SQ1TV, and the show asks how much remains. ""Jenny Didn't Call"" Repeat of a music video first aired in Episode 122. ""Backstage with Blackstone"" Blackstone has a trick involving a cyclical number: 142,857. Multiply that number by any digit from 1 to 6 and the digits of the cyclical number remain in sequence. ""Animation: Cyclical Number"" Adding on to the Blac

Skits in this episode included: ""Mathematics 'R' Us"" Smilin' Al Gorithm has been asked to tone down the price of his function machine. Using the ""-3"" as his function, he takes the price down to $18, $15, $12, $9, $6 and finally $3. A customer does him better: using the -3 function to turn the price to nothing. ""Mathman"" Repeat of a sketch first aired in Episode 101. ""Lazy Guys, Part 1"" Cris plays two guys called Divided By 1 and Multiplied By 1. Both are dressed as old-time country bumpkins, not doing anything to change numbers. ""Mathman Sabotaged"" Another Mathman game is about to start, but Glitch cheats, eating Mathman before the announcer can finish his spiel. ""Celebrity Kitchen"" Talk show host Donna Who (who we will see on her talk show set during Episode 171) is visiting Superguy. He has been busy making three cakes: one each for his superfriends. Because he needs to multiply each ingredient of the recipe by three, he calls on his function machine. It's the gadget we saw at Mathem

Skits in This Episode: ""I Love Lupy"" Lupy gets a new job cutting licorice, so she can pay off a ming vase she accidentally destroyed. She has to cut two-foot strands of licorice into five inch and seven inch pieces. This won't be an easy task, because the company frowns upon wasting licorice, going by the credo, ""Waste not, get fired not."" Lupy finds that cutting one strand from each strand isn't enough. ""Battling Cones"" -Seven negative blue cones clash with five positive orange cones. After a battle, two blue cones survive, showing that -7 + 5 = -2 ""I Love Lupy Part 2"" Lupy tries to cut 4 five inch strands, but finds she has four inches left over. Three seven inch strands also doesn't work, because there are three inches left over. Even when Lupy cuts three five inch pieces and one seven inch piece she still has two inches of waste licorice. In the end, Lupy figures out that a two foot strand of licorice into two five inch pieces and two seven inch pieces. Unfortunately she still has

""But Who's Counting?"" The parody game-show pits the Boones vs. the Goodmans. ""Person on the Street"" The person on the street asks people what a pentomino is. Pentominos play a part in ""Make a Box,"" featuring Cynthia Darlow. ""Animation"" Pentominos making patterns and large rectangles. ""Sketch 763"" It's said that the sketch. could not be written. So it wasn't. It was ad-libbed. In it, Frank Lloyd Wrong (first seen in Episode 104) discusses his restaurant, which profited only 27¢. ""Exclusive Music Video"" Darling sings Perpendicular lines ""Mathnet: Trial of George Frankly, Part 1"" Repeat of a Mathnet case first shown in Episode 116.

""The Mike Merv Show Show"" Hinted to in Episode 137, The Mike Merv Show Show finally airs. Dim-witted Mike's guest is Ali Haji-Sheikh, then place kicker for the New York Giants. Ali shows, via a film of his kicks, how the angle of a kick determines how far the football will go. ""Music Video"" Larry Cedar sings I'm Just An Average American ""Backstage with Blackstone"" Blackstone performs another amazing trick that involves math. ""Mathman"" Mathman's mission is to eat only even numbers. ""Castaways"" It's easy for castaways to divide 0 sea biscuits. ""Animation"" An animation demonstrates that any number times 0 is 0. ""Rappin Judge"" Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode 102 ""Mathnet: The Trial of George Frankly, Part 2"" Repeat of a Mathnet segment first shown in Episode 117

Skits in this episode included: ""Friendly Bank"" Gangsters rob an unimaginably friendly bank. The tellers prove just how friendly they are when the gangsters can't seem to divide the stolen money evenly. ""Time Check"" Since .31 of SQ1TV is over, how much is left? ""Count On It"" Repeat of a music video first aired in Episode 103. ""But Who's multiplying?"" In this installment, Michael plays against Arturo. ""Animation-Tetrahedron"" Various 3-D shapes float across the screen. One of them, the tetrahedron, unfolds to show it is made up of four equilateral triangles. ""Miracle Zero by Jip Industries"" Repeat of a sketch first aired in Episode 131. ""Mathnet: The Trial of George Frankly, Part 3"" Repeat of a segment first aired in Episode 118.

Skits in this Episode: ""Point of View"" Cris talks about changing your point of view to introduce the next segment. ""Clowning Around"" In this sketch, a clown has to move from the outer ring to the center platform of the circus floor, without touching the ground. He must use two wooden boards, each of which are 6 1/2 feet long, to reach the platform, which is seven feet away, and the boards must not touch the ground. After examining the problem, the clown succeds, but falls onto the ground anyway. ""Person on the Street"" Square One TV's roving reporter asks this question of people on the street: What is a palindrome? After several attempts, one person finally guesses that a palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same backwards and forwards, and then a woman points out that this can also apply to numbers. ""Palindrome"" A musical number. The vocalist (Arthur Howard) sings about palindromic numbers and how to reach them by reversing and adding. He goes from a tango to a waltz to a d

Skits in this episode included: ""King for a Day"" Repeat of a sketch first aired in Episode 123. ""Time Check"" 23% of SQ1TV is over, leaving 77% of SQ1TV to come. ""Mathman"" In this game, Mathman must eat only multiples of four. ""Person on the Street"" Given the question, ""What is a quadrilateral?"", several people on the street answer incorrectly before the last person gets it right. ""Animation: An Interesting Game of Football"" An underdog team is ready to play football with some bruisers on an odd-shaped field. One fence and a bunch of bushes makes the field a trapezoid, which the underdog team uses to its advantage. In the second interesting game, a large section of the same field is swamped by excess rain. That gives both teams a badly-shaped quadrilateral field, and again the underdogs find a way to score often. ""Animation: Quadrilateral"" A quadrilateral breaks, and all its corners join at a single point, showing the four angles of a quadrilateral add up to 360 degrees. ""Fraction Rap""

Skits in this episode included: ""The Adventures of Spade Parade: The Three Brothers Problem, Part 1"" The 1940s detective drama spoof returns after many weeks with a new mystery. Spade encounters a female diner owner who has just had something lifted. She knows the culprit is one of three triplet brothers. Spade needs to know something different about the triplets. Finally the diner owner admits the triplets order hamburgers at her diner, but that one eats hamburgers with relish, another with ketchup, and the third with anchovies. ""There's more than one way to solve any problem"" ""The Adventures of Spade Parade: The Three Brothers Problem, Part 2"" Spade Parade makes a table and, after asking the diner owner questions, determines which of the three triplet brothers is the culprit. ""Mathman - Factors of 18"" Repeat of a segment first aired in Episode 108. ""Fortune Teller"" Cynthia tells the uniqueness of amicable numbers. With a man and a woman for her audience, the fortune teller says 220 a

Skits in This Episode Included, But Were Not Limited To: Music Video ""Less Than Zero"" ""Person On The Street: What is a Googol?"" Another segment in Square One TV's ""Person On The Street"" series featuring Moon Unit Zappa. People are asked what a googol is. Many answers are given, but only one is correct. The correct answer is that a googol is one million million. (Repeat of a segment that first aired in Episode 139) ""Moon Unit Zappa For Googols"" Moon Unit Zappa tells a story about googols. (Repeat of a segment that first appared in Episode 139)

Sketches in this episode: ""The Predictors"" ""Change Your P.O.V."" ""Multi-Gloves Commercial"" ""Animation: Pebble"" ""But Who's Adding?"" ""Animation: Number Nine"" ""Time Check"" ""Mathman"" ""Mathnet: The Mystery of the Maltese Pigeon, Part 1""

Sketches include: Exclusive Music Video: Angle Dance (recycled from earlier) The difference between Area and Perimeter Arthur needs seed and fencing for his lawn. Another Exclusive Music Video: Burger Pattern featuring The Fat Boys McMath: parody of Shakespeare's Scottish play, in which the witch sisters ask McMath for the largest dimensions possible for a garden surrounded by 48 feet of fence. Mathman is instructed to eat only Even Numbers. Animation: Can 13 cows try to form a rectangle? Not really, since 13 is a prime number. Mathnet: The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger, Part 4.

Skits in this episode: ""The Adventures of Spade Parade, Part 1: Baseball"" ""Music Video: Percents by The Bank Notes"" ""The Adventures of Spade Parade, Part 2"" ""Time Check"" ""Harry's Hamburger Haven Commercial Shoot"" ""Mathnet: The Problem of the Trojan Hamburger Part 5""

At intermittent times during this show (and the next four), a graph shows how much of Square One TV has expired. ""Oops!"" Twitch E. Room makes a ruler mismeasurement. ""Mathematics 'R' Us"" Smilin' Al sells Perimeter Measuring Evaluator ""Music Video"" Rcycled run of Metric Electric Lover by Dodo ""Animation"" A variety of beautiful symmetry patterns are shown. ""Donna Who?"" Discusses a confessional as two theater ushers miscount theater sections. ""But Who's Adding?"" A parody game-show ""Mathnet: Trial of George Frankly, Part 1""

More pop-ups show how much of Square One TV has elapsed as the following scenes play themselves out: ""Mathman"" Mathmanmust eat only the Factors of 18 ""Quality Control"" In a factory that values quality control, Harry & Elmo must put cubes into crates. They have a work order for 360, something that seems impossible until they arrange the cubes orderly into a crate. ""Music Video"" An exclusive music video called Think encourages viewers to use their brains. ""Caraway Street"" CTW borrows unto itself for parody as human-sized Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street consider the cost of owning a puppy. ""Newsroom Interruption"" Square One TV is interrupted for a newsroom interruption. ""Positives and Negatives"" The war between the Positives and Negatives continues: this time, the Negatives win (as they almost always did): -6 + 3 = -3 ""Backstage with Blackstone"" Blackstone predicts how red and green candies vary in number. ""Animated Commercial"" Plant-A-Spoon seed kit, comes in two colors. Planting 3 s

Pop-ups tell you how much of Square One TV has elapsed as the following sketches are played: ""Spade Parade"" Who tried to steal the Des Moines Duck? pt. 1 ""Animation"" Can seven cows form a rectangle? Not really, since seven is a prime number. ""Spade Parade"" The Case of the Des Moines Duck, Part 2 ""Percentages Commercial"" This commercial advertises percentages using the jingle ""with discounts, it counts."" ""Exclusive Music Video"" 8% of My Love - repeat of a video shown earlier in the first season. ""Riddle of the Genie"" What combination of nickels and dimes add up to $1.20? ""News Interruption!"" Square One TV is interrupted for a news interruption. ""Mathnet: The Trial of George Frankly Part 3"" Repeat of a Mathnet case first shown in Episode 118.

Pop-ups tell you how much of Square One TV has elapsed as you watch the following: ""Exercise"" How to equally split pails of milk among 3 farmers. ""Groaning Wall"" With Freddy Kohler - a parody of Freddy Krueger. ""Animation"" Parallel vs. perpendicular lines ""Music Video"" Perpendicular Lines - Repeat of a music video shown earlier in the season. ""Groaning Wall"" Another segment with Freddy Kohler ""Animation"" The people who animated Turkey Television for Nickelodeon in 1985, are back for one last CTW effort. How can a girl carry her bird, her cat and birdseed to an island if the boat is only big enough for her and one of the items? ""Peter Piper"" John Moschita, renowned for his fast-talking, says Peter Piper at three speeds. The graph shows the different rates in words-per-minute. ""Animation"" We see how the girl can carry her cat, her bird, and birdseed. Groaning Wall: w/ Freddy Kohler (again) ""Bumper"" A transformer is shown. ""Mathnet: The Trial of George Frankly, Part 4"" Repeat of a Mat

Skits in This Episode: ""Hold It, Nobody Eat"" When three cast members order a slice of pizza and Arthur orders half a pie, Cris cuts the pie in eighths. Since he has a slice left over, he returns the pie to have it recut. ""The 5:19 Blues"" Repeat of a segment that first appeared in Episode 147. ""Hold It, Nobody Eat 2"" Cris returns with a pizza cut in sixths - a slice for three cast members and half a pie for Arthur - but must return it to be recut when Luisa arrives and wants a slice. ""Dropped Coin"" Repeat of a segment that first appeared in Episode 131. ""Hold It, Nobody Eat 3"" Cris returns yet again with a pizza cut in eighths - a slice for four cast members and half a pie for Arthur. But what are they going to do when Reg arrives? ""EB: Number Pattern: Square Numbers"" This short animation illustrates a number pattern involving square numbers; square numbers are the sum of consecutive odd numbers starting with 1. ""Arthur Benjamin - Squaring II"" Arthur Benjamin, a mathematician from Johns