Square One TV/Episode 149

Episode 149
Season 1, Episode 49
Airdate	April 2, 1987
Production Number	49
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 149 is the forty-ninth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the forty-ninth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: André Gower (Eddie "Rimshot" Harris)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Mathematics R Us: Function Machine

Smilin' Al offers a Function Machine. He demonstrates the 'minus 3' function and drops the price from $15 to $12 to $9 to $6 to $3 before a customer does him one better and walks off with the machine.

• Mathman: Multiples of 3 (EKA #101)

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only multiples of 3. He does so and wins a free game.

• Doin' Nothin' - Part 1

In this split-screen format, a farmer drawls on about how multiplying or dividing a number by 1 does not change that number.

• Mathman: Sabotaged

Before Mathman can begin his video game, Mr. Glitch eats him.

• Celebrity Kitchen

Celebrity Kitchen visits Superguy who demonstrates his function machine that helps him figure out how many eggs he needs for his cakes.

• Doin' Nothin - Part 2

In this split-screen format, a farmer drawls on about how adding or subtracting 0 from any number does not change that number.

• Newsroom Interruption: Wild

• Cabot & Marshmallow: Squares Pegs in Round Holes

Cabot explains the concept of rotational symmetry to Marshmallow by demonstrating how round and square pegs fit in a round or square hole in any direction. An odd shaped peg will go in only one way.

• 9's Intro (EKA #102)

• Exclusive Music Video: "Nine, Nine, Nine" (The House Band) (EKA #102)

The cast sings a country music tune expressing the idea that the sum of the digits of any multiple of 9 always add up to 9 or a multiple of 9.

• EB: Rotational Symmetry

This short animation uses a star to illustrate the concept of rotational symmetry.

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Passing Parade - Part 4 (EKA #114)

In trying to decode Stringbean's musical message, the Mathnetters recognize that each note of the message corresponds to a tone/number on a touch-tone phone.

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