Square One TV/Episode 172

Episode 172
Season 1, Episode 72
Airdate	May 5, 1987
Production Number	72
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 172 is the seventy-second episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the seventy-second episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Harry Blackstone (Himself), Jim Thurman (Crusty)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Mathman: Factors of 18 (EKA #108)

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat all numbers that are factors of 18.

• Harry & Elmo

Harry and Elmo must count out 360 cubes and put them in crates. They keep losing count. They realize that because each crate holds 24 cubes, they can fill'em and multiply the number of crates x 24.

• Exclusive Music Video: "Think" (Think Hard) (EKA #172)

This song offers advice to a boy who is confused about which bike to buy. The music video stresses stepping back from a problem and looking at it from another angle.

• Bert & Ernie: Dog

Bert and Ernie learn that the cost of a puppy just begins with the initial purchase.

• Newsroom Interruption: B&E Dog

• Pos vs. Neg Jousts: 2 on 1 +3 Plus -6

When 6 "negative" clay-mation creatures attack 3 "positive" clay creatures, 3 "negative" creatures remain.

• Backstage with Blackstone: Miraskill Candies

Blackstone has an even number of candies, 1/2 red, 1/2 green. The spectator places the candy, 2 at a time, in piles according to color. Blackstone predicts that there will be 2 fewer candies in 1 pile

• Plant a Spoon - Part 1

This commercial offers a Plant-A-Spoon seed kit that contains seeds which sprout spoons of 2 different colors. Planting 3 seeds guarantees a matching pair.

• Mathnet: The Trial of George Frankly - Part 2 (EKA #117)

In their on-going attempt to clear George's name, the Mathnetters compute mileage according to an odometer and estimate distance using rate and time.

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