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Episode 436
Season 4, Episode 36
Airdate November 18, 1991
Production Number 191
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 436 is the thirty-sixth episode of the fourth season of Square One TV, and the one-hundred ninety-first episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Gregory Hines (Himself), James Earl Jones (Chief Thad Greene), Lewis Dawber (Airlene Captain), Chuck McCann (Sheriff Mooney Rooney), Jayne Meadows (Lady Esther Astor Astute), James DePaiva (Archie Leach), Morgan Stock (Butler)


Co-Starring:

Contents

Segments

  • Grown-Ups: Ed Koch

A child actor plays Ed Koch, before he was mayor of New York, explaining why he will need math in the future.


  • Dick & Vern: Pencil & Paper Quiz Show

Dick and Vern tell the viewer to get pencil and paper so they can play along with "But Who's Counting?"


  • But Who's Counting?: Limbs Akimbo vs. Col. "Fowl" Tip

Players arrange 4 randomly chosen numbers on their boards to form the largest sum of 2 fractions. To play, they apply understanding of probability and fractions.


  • Division of: Combinatorics

Different mouths, noses, and eyes can be combined to make a variety of faces. Combinatorics tells how many faces are possible with the given features.


  • Music Video: "That's Math" (Gregory Hines) (EKA #402)

Hines sings about the mathematics of a pizza bill, baseball statistics, hitting a target, and dancing.


  • Division of: Parabola

A golf ball is hit, and its path has the shape of a parabola. The sports scene is replayed in slow motion. "Brought to you by geometry"


  • Mathnet: The Despair in Monterey Bay - Part 1 (EKA #406)

George watches the rain. Pat & George get called to Monterey, CA, to protect the Despair Diamond from theft by Archie Leach. Before their flight, George discusses headwinds with the pilot.


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