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In this sketch-comedy series for preteens, principles of mathematics are presented through parody and music videos. Also featured is a mock video game called "Mathman," the bumbling cartoon detective Dirk Niblick, and a farcical serial called "Mathnet." In "Mathnet" (a parody of "Dragnet") Los Angeles detectives George Frankly and Kate Monday (and later Pat Tuesday) solve various capers with the help of mathematics.
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- Episode 301E1
Episode 301Wanna Be Bobby McFerrin sings an exclusive music video about the power of math. ""Mathathon"" A new program feature parodies traditional telethons and features clips from past programs about finding area. ""1000 vs. 1 Million"" A booming voice relates the amount of time for one thousand seconds to elapse, then one million seconds ""What's My Number?"" A binary sieve sends up What's My Line? The panelists ask yes-no questions to reveal The Number is 56 ""1 Million vs. 1 Billion"" A booming voice relates the amount of time for one million seconds, then one billion seconds ""Mathnet: The Case of the Ersatz Earthquake Part 1"" Kate and George set out to prove that an assumed earthquake-predictor is a faker. - Episode 302E2
Episode 302""Never Give Up On Math"" A segment helps viewers to figure out the area of a lawn by using math. ""Dirk Niblick - Your Stereo is Running on One Ear, Part One."" Fluff and Fold are getting bamboozled again by Microft MacBerger. Fortunately, Dirk Niblick of the Math Brigade is there to help them use math to solve their problem. ""Music Video: The Jets - Infinity There Is No End"" The Jets sing about the concept of infinity - noting that no matter how high you try to count, there'll always be a higher number. This segment is later used in the Square One TV Video Jukebox - and there may be a numerical error in one of the crawls. ""Dirk Niblick - Your Stereo is Running on One Ear, Part Two"" Fluff and Fold's biggest mistake was not in the math, but in dealing with Microft MacBerger. ""Time Check"" Since 55% of the show is over, how much is left? ""Math Makes It Work"" Parody of insurance commercials centers around a lemonade stand. ""Phone Call - Number Trick"" Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode - Episode 303E3
Episode 303""Close Call"" The popular little game show takes on a new format. Arthur and Luisa ask the audience in advance to estimate the number of bottle caps on a bird feeder. The audience member whose estimate comes closest joins two other contestants (as in The Price is Right) for the main game. The next two estimation games are scored by a new estimate-o-meter. On it is a range of numbers; the better a contestant's estimate, the more points he/she gets. Lyle, Jessica, and audience member Thomas are asked to estimate the number of characters in a hieroglyphics panel, as well as the length of a column made from squares. ""Math Pitch"" George Washington kids us not: mathematics is more than arithmetic. ""Exclusive Music Video: Tappin' The Rhythm"" Guest Savion Glover tap-dances through a song about the different kinds of notes that fill up one bar on a music staff. ""Animation: Beasley and Schneider"" Mr. Beasley (Dirk Niblick's neighbor) answers the door to one of General Schneider's number puzzles. - Episode 304E4
Episode 304""Math-a-Thon Installment"" The second pledge break of the season sees regular Cris Franco interviewing the late René Descartes, who discusses the Cartesian plane. Later in the pledge break, Reg and Larry estimate how close Square One TV is to its goal. The thermometer has no marks between 0% and 100%, but they estimate that 40% of people have called in pledging to mathematics. ""Positives vs. Negatives War"" Recycled from the first season (and now in a letter-box format), the war between the Positives and Negatives wages on. This time three of each are flushed (toilet sounds), because -3 plus +3 equals 0. ""Lost at Sea"" How easy is it for sailors who are lost at sea to divide zero sea biscuits? ""Elvis for Math"" Cris, impersonating Elvis, says that math is more than ""pushing numbers around."" ""But Who's Counting?"" After a year's absence, But Who's Counting? returns, but with Monte Carlo spinning the big wheel and no Amber. This year, competition is down to single-contestant showdowns. W - Episode 305E5
Episode 305""Person on the Street"" The person on the street asks ordinary people the question: ""If someone is paid $10 a day, how long will it take for him or her to raise a million dollars? And then, how about a billion dollars?"" ""Million to Trillion"" A booming voice relates the numbers Million, Billion, Trillion in terms of seconds. ""Stadium Football Filling"" The show continues its infatuation with the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, at Michigan Stadium (capacity: over 101,000). How many footballs would it take to fill the Michigan Stadium to the top? ""Mathman: Hexagons"" He can only eat hexagons (i.e., six-sided figures, which does not exclude concave polygons.) ""Whatsina Name for Math"" The first installment of Square One Challenge pits Kenny vs. Shalyn in a new format. With each question, two members of the SQ1TV cast give answers. It's up to the contestants to figure out whether the cast members are telling the truth or bluffing. Contestants' responses are shown in a ""sets"" diagram. "" - Episode 306E6
Episode 306Skits in this Episode: ""Dirk Niblick: Door to Door Boar Part 1"" This Dirk Niblick Segment finds Dirk's young neighbors, Fluff and Fold Noodleman involved in a candy sale operation. They've signed up with a door-to-door business, which gives them candy bars to sell. The operator of the business tells them to go out and sell the candy bars and he'll give them 1/10 of the money they collect. They decide to go to Dirk Niblick to find out if this is a good deal. In the process, they break down his door, when they his piano playing, which sounds awful. They thought something was wrong. After dealing with this, Dirk addresses their question. He says that they could do quite well with this arrangement. 1/10 is the same 10%. Therefore, if they were to sell, say, $10 worth of candy bars, they would make $1. If it were $100, then they would earn $10 and so on. So Fluff and Fold go out and sell the candy bars and return for their pay. They collected $250 and are given $25. The operator of the busi - Episode 313E13
Episode 313Skits in this Episode Included, But Were Not Limited To: ""Person on the Street - Pizzas"" If you eat one pizza a day, how long will it take you to eat one million pizzas? People give answers, but the correct answer is 2700 years. Similarly, it will take 2,700,000 years to eat one billion pizzas. National Geometric Repeat of a segment that first aired in Episode 114. - Episode 317E17
Episode 317""But Who's Counting?"" Wilma Wright and Orva Wright do battle, vying for the best possible product from a three-digit and a one-digit number. ""Mathman"" Mathman is supposed to eat only symmetrical polygons. ""Math-A-Thon"" Interview with René Descartes and lecture on estimation. ""Mathnet: The Case of the Unkidnapping, Part 2"" - Episode 318E18
Episode 318""Square One Challenge"" A rare feat on this Square One TV game show, as Naomi and Kenny play the perfect game, ending in a tie! ""You Call The Angle"" Is Sean correct when he talks of 540 degrees? ""Arthur on Phone"" Arthur participates in a number-trick. Take any number, add 7, multiply by 2, subtract 4, divide by 2, and subtract the original number. The answer is always 5. Repeat of a segment first shown in Episode 218. ""Ball Bouncing Inside Rectangle"" An animation shows that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. ""Michigan Stadium Quiz"" How many frisbees would it take to cover the field? ""Mathnet: The Case of the Unkidnapping, Part 3"" - Episode 319E19
Episode 319""Math-a-Thon"" Superguy visits Math-a-Thon to discuss combinatorics (as used in Episode 110) and pie chart predictions. ""Exclusive Music Video"" Wanna Be sung by Bobby McFerrin ""Backstage with Blackstone"" Blackstone figures out the mystery among four papers with numbers after one is turned over. ""Beasley and Schneider's Binary Sieve"" Beasley determines the secret number among triangular numbers. ""Mathnet: The Case of the Unkidnapping, Part 4"" - Episode 340E40
Episode 340One last reminder: One Million seconds=11 ½ days; The Mathathon does its final break with swordfighters, graphing pledges, and a bear; One last reminder: One Billion seconds=32 years; The final visit to Michigan Stadium: How many ping-pong balls would fill the Stadium to the top? followed by ""Angle Dance"" video as seen in Season One Mathnet: The Case of the Unkidnapping, Part 5 - Square One Video JukeboxE41
Square One Video JukeboxMTV's ""Downtown"" Julie Brown presents 8 of Square One TV's music videos: ""Wanna Be,"" ""Square Brothers,"" ""Combo Jombo,"" ""Rappin' Judge,"" ""One Billion is Big,"" ""Nine, Nine, Nine,"" ""Less Than Zero,"" and ""Infinity."" According to Julie, Square One TV made 48 music videos up until now and these are about 17% of them, all in stereo.
