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Square One TV/Episode 121

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Episode 121
Season 1, Episode 21
Airdate February 23, 1987
Production Number 21
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 121 is the twenty-first episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the twenty-first episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Ric Mancini (Truck Driver #1) Sena Ayn Black (Truck Driver #2), Mike Muscat (Truck Driver #3)

Co-Starring:

Contents

Segments

  • Hundred Square: Common Multiple 15 - 18

This animation takes a number chart, highlights the multiples of 15, then highlights the multiples of 18, and finally highlights the multiples that they have in common.


  • Clown School Lead-In


  • Clown School Investigation

Bozo proves the seriousness of his clown school by showing that if 1 clown enters every 15 seconds and the other enters every 18 seconds, the 2 clowns will enter simultaneously at 90 seconds.


  • But Who's Counting? Logo


  • But Who's Counting?: Lagosas vs. Merrybores

Contestants arrange 5 randomly selected digits in an attempt to form a 2-digit and a 3-digit number with the largest possible sum. The players must apply some knowledge of place value & probability.


  • Common Multiple Man

When a couple has to figure out how many hors d'oeuvres to buy to serve either 12, 16, or 24 guest equally, they call Common Multiple Man, a super hero with a very strange super power.


  • Exclusive Music Video: "Less Than Zero" (Negative Scratch) (EKA #103)

This song presents a diving, dance, skating, and hammer-throw competition to show arithmetic realizations of negative numbers.


  • Pos vs. Neg Jousts: Paratroopers

When 5 "positive" clay-mation creatures parachute onto 3 "negative" creatures, 2 "positive" creatures remain.


  • Show Remainder


  • Ratings War

Larry uses a double bar graph to contrast the number of people who eat rutabagas with the number of people who watch Square One TV.


  • Mathnet: The Problem of the Dirty Money - Part 1

The Mathnetters investigate 3 reports of dump trucks mysteriously disappearing and reappearing before they realize that what is being stolen is the dirt!


  • Next time...

Notes

Trivia

The Show

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