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Square One TV/Episode 218

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Episode 218
Season 2, Episode 18
Airdate October 12, 1988
Production Number 93
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 218 is the eighteenth episode of the second season of Square One TV, and the ninety-third episode overall.

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Contents

Segments

  • Dirk Niblick: Itty Bitty Business - Part 1

Dirk comes to the aid of the town merchants who are having to close business due to being swindled by a crooked accountant.


  • Kubrick's Rube (EKA #136)

In order to stop its incessant singing, Irving and Dave give Hank the computer a program he can never finish: start with 3; add 4; stop if the sum is even; if not go back to step 2.


  • Mathman: Show Interruption

Mathman is told that 1/3 of the show is over and must decide what fraction of the show remains.


  • Dirk Niblick: Itty Bitty Business - Part 2


  • Exclusive Music Video: "Perpendicular Lines" (Darling)

This rock video, colorized with computer graphics, illustrates the various places we find perpendicular lines in the world.


  • Phoner: The Answer is 5

Arthur has a 1-sided telephone conversation in which he chooses a number and performs a series of operations that always give him the answer of 5.


  • Oops!: 34 x 12

A confused character makes a mistake when multiplying 34 x 12 which causes a stock-footage disaster.


  • Mathnet: The View of the Rear Terrace - Part 3

George convinces Kate that her neighbor doesn't have a bomb. Then, when he looks more closely at the poems, he notices a pattern. Each poem is written on a slip from the next bank to be pranked.


Notes

Trivia

The Show

Allusions and References

Quotes

  • George: It was still Monday, 5:43 P.M. An air traffic over the greater Los Angeles area was in a standstill. My partner, Kate Monday, was incapacitated with a broken wheel. Her left knee had gone flat and it was in a cast. Head of our computer division is Debbie Williams. My name is Frankly. I’m a mathematician.