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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Olympia and Otis are unaware of who Odal and Ozric are, since they weren't working at Odd Squad when Odal and Ozric went on their mission. A rather [[IncrediblyLamePun odd]] example in Olympia's case, as she is an Odd Squad historian and should have knowledge of the events of [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]].
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Olympia and Otis are unaware of who Odal and Ozric are, since they weren't working at Odd Squad when Odal and Ozric went on their mission. A rather [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} odd]] example in Olympia's case, as she is an Odd Squad historian and should have knowledge of the events of [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]].
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* LeftHanging: An in-universe example occurs as a RunningGag throughout the episode -- Ms. O is repeatedly cut off from telling the rest of the Total Zeroes story to Olympia and Otis by her needing to do something important. As a result, she interrupts them at the most inconvenient times (when on a case or dealing with a villain) to tell the rest of the story. It's taken UpToEleven when it takes her ''years'' just to tell the ''entire story in itself,'' to the point where Olympia and Otis have both grown elderly.
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* LeftHanging: An in-universe example occurs as a RunningGag throughout the episode -- Ms. O is repeatedly cut off from telling the rest of the Total Zeroes story to Olympia and Otis by her needing to do something important. As a result, she interrupts them at the most inconvenient times (when on a case or dealing with a villain) to tell the rest of the story. It's taken UpToEleven up to eleven when it takes her ''years'' just to tell the ''entire story in itself,'' to the point where Olympia and Otis have both grown elderly.
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* SocietyMarchesOn: The future that Olympia and Otis are in is depicted as them staying inside of a near-invisible dome, which is comprised of a table and three chairs for them and Ms. O to sit at. Considering Odd Squad is high-tech as it is, with fictious items that aren't even close to being made in the real world (for example, there's no gadget that can magically make plates yet), it's safe to say that it's a more peaceful future, although there are still oddities that run rampant.
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* HundredPercentHeroismRating: Odal returns with her partner Oz, and announces her return. When she does, a large crowd of agents begin forming around her, and when she and Oz leave the bullpen, the crowd follows her.
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* TheBusCameBack: Olympia/Odal from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]] returns in this episode after having spent a year with her partner, Oz, Ozric, fighting the Sandman. The two are also now Investigation agents following their promotions at the end of that episode.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Olympia and Otis are unaware of who Odal and Oz Ozric are, since they weren't working at Odd Squad when Odal and Oz Ozric went on their mission. A rather [[IncrediblyLamePun odd]] example in Olympia's case, as she is an Odd Squad historian and should have knowledge of the events of [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]].
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Right after Odal refers to Olympia as "Other Olympia", she, her partner Oz, and the crowd of agents leave as Olympia develops a [[TheUnSmile rather unsettling smile.]] Otis takes one look at her face, goes "Oh boy", and immediately knows what's going to happen. And of course, he's right on the money.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Right after Odal refers to Olympia as "Other Olympia", she, her partner Oz, Ozric, and the crowd of agents leave as Olympia develops a [[TheUnSmile rather unsettling smile.]] Otis takes one look at her face, goes "Oh boy", and immediately knows what's going to happen. And of course, he's right on the money.
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** One of the reasons Ms. O's assistant interrupts her for is because [[Recap/OddSquadS1E5ReindeerGames Santa has an odd problem.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: Brother Zero generally serves as TheDragAlong to his sister. He doesn't want to be a villain, but rather, he wants to quit villainy and run his own flower shop, but is unable to do so until the end of the episode, where he pulls a proper turn.
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* HeelFaceTurn: Brother Zero generally serves as TheDragAlong to his sister. He doesn't want to be a villain, but rather, he wants to quit villainy and run his own flower shop, but shop. He is unable to do so until the end of the episode, where he pulls a proper turn.
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* DerailedTrainOfThought: When Ms. O sits in the Interrogation Room and prepares to tell Olympia and Otis the rest of the story, Mr. Lightning invokes the trope by stating how he wants to hear the story and how storytelling "binds us as a culture". Olympia and Otis don't fall for it and outright call him out on wanting to stop them interrogating him. His response? "Maybe a little."
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* BigBadWannabe: Sister Zero starts out as this, but quickly grows into a powerful villain once she realizes that changing her math operation to a division sign serves as a useful power (since dividing something by 0 equals 0).
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* BigBadWannabe: Sister Zero starts out as this, but quickly grows into a powerful villain once she realizes that changing her math operation to a division multiplication sign serves as a useful power (since dividing multiplying something by 0 equals 0).
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* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: Sister Zero uses her power of "x 0" to remove ''everything'' in sight, from trash cans to cars to clouds in the sky. This eventually leads to her removing ''nearly everything from existence" to the point where she
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--> '''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Olympia:]] Come on, Mr. Lightning! ''What were you doing on the night of the 28th?!''
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--> '''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Olympia:]] Olympia:]]''' Come on, Mr. Lightning! ''What were you doing on the night of the 28th?!''
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* LeftHanging: An in-universe example occurs as a RunningGag throughout the episode -- Ms. O is repeatedly cut off from telling the rest of the Total Zeroes story to Olympia and Otis by her needing to do something important, or her being constantly busy. As a result, she interrupts them at the most inconvenient times (when on a case or dealing with a villain) to tell the rest of the story. It's taken UpToEleven when it takes her ''years'' just to tell the ''entire story in itself,'' to the point where Olympia and Otis have both grown elderly.
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* CompleteImmortality: Played with. While it's well-established that all Directors can live for at least 2 millennia (and potentially have a semblance of total immortality), and that Ms. O in particular has lived for a century, this episode seems to imply that she can live even ''longer'' than that, to the point where Olympia and Otis have grown elderly and nearly everything -- up to and including eating -- is dominated by futuristic technology. While they are elders, Ms. O stays the exact physical age of 7.
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* CompleteImmortality: Played with. While it's well-established that all Directors can live for at least 2 millennia (and potentially have a semblance of total immortality), and that Ms. O in particular has lived for a century, this episode seems to imply that she can live even ''longer'' than that, to the point where Olympia and Otis have grown elderly and nearly everything -- up to and including eating -- is dominated by futuristic technology. While they are elders, Ms. O stays the exact physical age of 7. Since it's a gag PlayedForLaughs, though, it's hard to tell whether Ms. O (and Odd Squad agents in general) are truly immortal or not.
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'''''Total Zeroes'''''
'''Airdate:''' June 22, 2018 [[note]]PBS Kids premiere[[/note]]
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!!Tropes:
* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Averted. This episode places the show roughly around 2017, going off of the Most Odd List's publication years. Similarly, Season 1 is revealed to take place over the course of 2014, if Odd Todd being on the cover of that year's Most Odd List is any indication.
* AnswerCut: Sister Zero thinks that she and her brother have too much power, and he says that he knows who they can turn to for help. Cut to the person in question: Ms. O, who expresses doubt about helping them.
* BigBadWannabe: Sister Zero starts out as this, but quickly grows into a powerful villain once she realizes that changing her math operation to a division sign serves as a useful power (since dividing something by 0 equals 0).
* BigNo: Sister Zero lets out one of these when she and Brother Zero end up last on the 2014 Most Odd List.
* BrandX: Averted -- Mr. Lightning outright name-drops Zumba at one point. [[note]] Zumba is a trademark name, and belongs to Zumba Fitness, LLC.[[/note]]
* CallBack: Crazy Eights was previously introduced via mentions in [[Recap/OddSquadS2E22HauntSquadSafeHouseInTheWoods "Haunt Squad"]], but was never seen. This episode has her making her first physical appearance as "Sister Zero", along with her brother, "Brother Zero".
* CheerfulChild: Olympia discovers a rare piece of Odd Squad history, and goes ''nuts'' over it, being completely adorable to boot.
* ChronicVillainy: While Sister Zero realizes that she went too far with her new power, she still wants to remain a villainess -- she just wants to be ''less'' villainous.
* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: For how stupid Brother Zero is, he has a point in suggesting that he and Sister Zero quit villainy and open up a flower shop. However, his words fall on deaf ears as his sister becomes power-hungry.
* CompleteImmortality: Played with. While it's well-established that all Directors can live for at least 2 millennia (and potentially have a semblance of total immortality), and that Ms. O in particular has lived for a century, this episode seems to imply that she can live even ''longer'' than that, to the point where Olympia and Otis have grown elderly and nearly everything -- up to and including eating -- is dominated by futuristic technology. While they are elders, Ms. O stays the exact physical age of 7.
* ContinuityCavalcade: The Most Odd List manages to attract a lot of villains seen in past episodes, such as Freeze Ray Ray, Jellybean Joe, and Evil Ninja, among others.
* ContinuityNod: Ms. O [[Recap/OddSquadS1E10TheTroubleWithCentigurpsTotallyOddSquad once again]] tells a story to her agents. This time, however, it takes her ''incredibly'' long just to tell the story, whereas "Totally Odd Squad" had her tell it in the span of 11 minutes.
** An ad for [[Recap/OddSquadS1E3MyBetterHalfTheConfalones The Confalones' restaurant]] is seen on the back of the 2014 Most Odd List catalog.
** One of the reasons Ms. O's assistant interrupts her for is because [[Recap/OddSquadS1E5ReindeerGames Santa has an odd problem.]]
** This isn't the [[Recap/OddSquadS1E23SoundcheckPartDeuxJinx first time]] someone has shown to have good welding skills.
* DerailedTrainOfThought: When Ms. O sits in the Interrogation Room and prepares to tell Olympia and Otis the rest of the story, Mr. Lightning invokes the trope by stating how he wants to hear the story and how storytelling "binds us as a culture". Olympia and Otis don't fall for it and outright call him out on wanting to stop them interrogating him. His response? "Maybe a little."
** He later interrupts Ms. O a second time to try and invoke the trope again, saying that the story is about "the basic human desire to make a difference". This time, however, the Director defies the trope by pointedly telling him to ask whatever question he has.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Once she realizes that multiplying things by 0 removes them from existence, Sister Zero modifies her glove so it has a multiplication sign instead of an addition sign. She begins to use her powers gradually, but landing the #1 spot on the 2017 Most Odd List sends her ''completely'' off the rails as she removes anything and everything in her line of sight, up to and including things in her and Brother Zero's SupervillainLair. Removing the lair itself causes the siblings to land in a WhiteVoidRoom, since there is nothing left to zap, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she immediately begins to regret what she's done.]] Luckily, her brother -- who had been constantly suggesting she stop -- suggests they go to Odd Squad for help.
* EnemiesList: The Odd Squad Most Odd List functions in this way, as it's published by the organization's publishing division and ranks villains from the most odd to the least odd (which would give agents a good idea of who is a threat and who is not). Ms. O of Precinct 13579 is its brainchild, and eventually decides to stop putting out the Most Odd List after Sister Zero becomes DrunkOnTheDarkSide because of it.
* EnemyMine: Due to Sister Zero going too far with her powers, Brother Zero decide that the two siblings should go to Precinct 13579 for help. While Ms. O is initially (and rightfully) skeptical, she eventually caves in and decides to help them since it'll make the world less odd.
* EurekaMoment: When reading the 2014 Most Odd List and finding out that she and her brother are ranked last for the second year in a row, Sister Zero becomes enraged enough to tear the catalog into two and throw it onto the ground, where it makes an X shape. This gives her the idea to change her glove with the arithmetic operation from an addition sign to a multiplication sign, which gives her a ''huge'' power boost.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: When the Puppy Master finds out that she's ranked #12 on the 2013 Most Odd List, she calls up her mother to tell her the news. Once she congratulates her, she says to put her father on.
* EvilWearsBlack: The Zero siblings both wear predominantly black outfits.
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: A paper boy quotes the trope name verbatim when handing out the 2013 Most Odd List to villains. He later says the line again when handing out the 2017 Most Odd List, but subverts it by saying "this issue costs extra" instead of "read all about it".
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Averted. The TimeSkip years into the future shows that the Main 4 are still friends with each other, although Olympia and Otis are more bonded with each other than with Ms. O and Oona.
* FoodPills: In the future, there are orbs which come in a variety of colors and can be shared with multiple people. The orbs shoot out beams of light to the feeders' brains, rather than having them eat and digest them.
* FreezeFrameBonus: A few shots from when the villains receive the Most Odd List shows the Toronto logo sitting in Nathan Phillips Square, which further confirms that both Season 1 and Season 2 of the show take place in Toronto.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The Total Zeroes go from being essentially powerless and ineffective to being two of the most dangerous and feared villains in the entire history of Odd Squad, simply by changing their powers to multiply things by 0 rather than add or subtract.
* HeelFaceTurn: Brother Zero generally serves as TheDragAlong to his sister. He doesn't want to be a villain, but rather, he wants to quit villainy and run his own flower shop, but is unable to do so until the end of the episode, where he pulls a proper turn.
* HiddenDepths: Apparently, Ms. O knows how to weld.
* HologramProjectionImperfection: Averted. The {{Hologram}} Ms. O conjures up of Brother Zero on his first day at his flower shop is perfectly solid and suffers no glitching.
* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: Ms. O tells the Zero siblings that she has an idea on how to make them less odd. Cut to her in their SupervillainLair, welding an 8 onto one of their gloves.
* LeftHanging: An in-universe example occurs as a RunningGag throughout the episode -- Ms. O is repeatedly cut off from telling the rest of the Total Zeroes story to Olympia and Otis by her needing to do something important, or her being constantly busy. As a result, she interrupts them at the most inconvenient times (when on a case or dealing with a villain) to tell the rest of the story. It's taken UpToEleven when it takes her ''years'' just to tell the ''entire story in itself,'' to the point where Olympia and Otis have both grown elderly.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Being the less knowledgeable of the duo when it comes to Odd Squad history, Otis has no idea what Olympia is holding in front of him. He looks at it in silence, and then says that he's pausing so she'll explain.
* MeaningfulRename: Sister Zero changes her name to Crazy Eights, reflecting her new power of multiplying things by 8.
* MistakenForProfound: Olympia, an Odd Squad historian, believes that the 2013 Most Odd List is a rare historic item...when the episode takes place 3 years after its publication. Otis doesn't find much interest in it.
* MomentKiller: Ms. O. By ''God,'' Ms. O.
--> '''Mr. Lightning:''' C'mon, Odd Squad. I've told you everything I know.
--> '''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Olympia:]] Come on, Mr. Lightning! ''What were you doing on the night of the 28th?!''
--> '''Mr. Lightning:''' I don't remember! ''[stammers]''
--> '''Ms. O:''' ''[casually strolls in and sits]'' Okay, where were we?
--> ''[Olympia and Otis exchange confused looks]''
--> '''Ms. O:''' The story? The Total Zeroes.
--> '''Olympia:''' Ohh.
--> '''Otis:''' Right. ''[as Olympia points to Mr. Lightning]'' Ms. O, we're kinda busy.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sister Zero gets hit with this ''hard'' when she takes her new powers too far -- so much so that she has no other choice than to turn to Odd Squad for help.
* NeatFreak: While it's well-established that Olympia likes being organized, this episode takes it a bit further by stating that on her break, she was in the Filing Room refiling her favorite filing drawers.
* NoSell: Anything the Zeroes attack isn't affected due to them using the "-0" equation -- since they subtract 0 from things and add 0 to things (which would still be 0), it does nothing. Ms. O even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how useless their powers are and how they don't affect anything at one point.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Instead of using her trademark StealthHiBye ability, Ms. O does this when Olympia wonders why Odd Squad doesn't out out the Most Odd List anymore. Not only that, but she manages to do it with a couch, a sofa, and ''a full fireplace.''
* PerpSweating: Olympia and Otis are doing this with Mr. Lightning when Ms. O becomes a MomentKiller and decides that it's a good time to tell Olympia and Otis the rest of the story. Once she leaves, it's right back to yelling at the villain and demanding he confess where he was on the night of the 28th.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: This gem of an exchange occurs between Ms. O and Sister Zero.
--> '''Sister Zero:''' ''[zaps Ms. O's juice boxes, which aren't affected]'' Who are the worst villains ''now, Ms. O?''
--> '''Ms. O:''' You. You're ''still'' the worst villains. Your powers don't do anything.
* RiddleForTheAges: {{Immortality}} has long been a discussed topic amongst fans, especially with Investigation agents, with a common theory being that agents' badge phones grant them the ability to become immortal and remain a child forever. This episode features a TimeSkip that shows Olympia and Otis as elders, while Ms. O stays the same age, which could potentially disprove the "badge phones grant agents {{Immortality}}" theory. However, it appears to be a gag played for laughs per RuleOfFunny, and Olympia and Otis are reverted back to children in the very next episode, so whether the theory holds some truth or not is up for debate.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Mr. Lightning attempts to do this after Ms. O leaves due to an emergency and has to abandon the rest of the story regarding Brother Zero. Olympia and Otis [[DefiedTrope defy]] the trope with Olympia ready to stand right back up and stop him and Otis giving a stern ''"Sit."'' And then they continue performing PerpSweating on him.
* SiblingsInCrime: Sister Zero and Brother Zero, true to their names, are siblings. However, Brother Zero doesn't want to be a villain and wants to work in the floral industry, while Sister Zero wants to be a villain.
* SkewedPriorities: Olympia and Otis are busy dealing with some sort of oddity or doing some PerpSweating on a villain? To Ms. O, it's a great time to tell the rest of the story.
* SocietyMarchesOn: The future that Olympia and Otis are in is depicted as them staying inside of a near-invisible dome, which is comprised of a table and three chairs for them and Ms. O to sit at. Considering Odd Squad is high-tech as it is, with fictious items that aren't even close to being made in the real world (for example, there's no gadget that can magically make plates yet), it's safe to say that it's a more peaceful future, although there are still oddities that run rampant.
* SpaceClothes: Ms. O, Olympia and Otis are all seen wearing these. Otis' is perhaps the simplest outfit of them all, while Olympia dons a red visor and Ms. O wears a triangular-shaped piece on her body.
* StartOfDarkness: Of a sort. The episode revolves around Ms. O telling the story of how the Total Zeroes, a duo of ineffective villains, became a viable threat via [[{{Flashback}} flashbacks]] and turned good.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Unlike what the TimeSkip years into the future depicts, Olympia and Otis don't stay elderly for the rest of the season, and are turned back to their normal child selves in the very next episode.
* TheStoryteller: Ms. O becomes one of these throughout the episode, telling the story of how the Crazy Eights became "the most feared villains in Odd Squad history". It gets to such an extent that she interrupts Olympia and Otis when they're busy with something else.
* StupidEvil: Brother Zero is so dimwitted and so ineffective that he can barely even qualify as a villain at all. The only "evil" thing he really does is go along with his sister, but even then, just like her, his powers don't do anything.
** Sister Zero also gets hit with this. She doesn't know her arithmetic operations very well, and decides to go with "- 0" and "+ 0" as her powers despite the fact everything she zaps with it isn't affected. Not even ''Ms. O'' views her and Brother Zero as viable threats, especially when her juice boxes become a NoSell to the villainess's attacks.
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: Sister Zero uses her power of "x 0" to remove ''everything'' in sight, from trash cans to cars to clouds in the sky. This eventually leads to her removing ''nearly everything from existence" to the point where she
* TimeSkip: This episode skips ahead months and even ''years'' in advance so Ms. O can tell the story.
* TrickedOutGloves: Sister Zero's gloves are the source of her powers and must be used together. One glove has a math operation like addition or subtraction, while the other glove has the number 0 on it.
* TyopOnTheCover: A majority of PBS Kids stations, as well as TVO Kids, can't decide if the episode title is "Total '''Zeros'''" or "Total '''Zeroes'''".
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: When the Total Zeroes manage to surpass even those like ''Odd Todd'' in the rankings, that's how you know they're a threat. And that they are -- they manage to remove everything to the point where there's nothing left but themselves.
* VillainDecay: Inverted. The Total Zeroes go from barely a threat at all and being at the bottom of the list, to the top of the list with the power to remove anything by subtraction. This ends up biting them in the butt later on when they end up taking away enough things for them to land in a white void and need Ms. O to help them out.
* VillainsOutShopping: Sister Zero apparently went to a night class to learn how to weld, which allows her to alter her gloves, and by extension, her powers.
** Mr. Lightning also goes to Zumba class with Crazy Eights, or Sister Zero as she was formerly known as.
* WhatHeSaid: Otis says this as part of his and Olympia's PerpSweating with Mr. Lightning.
--> '''Olympia:''' ''Where were you on the night of the 28th?!''
--> '''Otis:''' ''What she said!!''
* WhiteVoidRoom: The Zero siblings wind up in one when they take away most everything in existence.
* WomenAreWiser: Once again, the show plays the trope straight for the Total Zeroes -- Brother Zero is incompetent and doesn't want to be evil, while Sister Zero is ''far'' more intelligent and wishes to be a competent villainess (but even she has some incompetency up until the climax).
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'''''Total Zeroes'''''
'''Airdate:''' June 22, 2018 [[note]]PBS Kids premiere[[/note]]
Ms. O tells Olympia and Otis a story about a famous villain duo.
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!!Tropes:
* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Averted. This episode places the show roughly around 2017, going off of the Most Odd List's publication years. Similarly, Season 1 is revealed to take place over the course of 2014, if Odd Todd being on the cover of that year's Most Odd List is any indication.
* AnswerCut: Sister Zero thinks that she and her brother have too much power, and he says that he knows who they can turn to for help. Cut to the person in question: Ms. O, who expresses doubt about helping them.
* BigBadWannabe: Sister Zero starts out as this, but quickly grows into a powerful villain once she realizes that changing her math operation to a division sign serves as a useful power (since dividing something by 0 equals 0).
* BigNo: Sister Zero lets out one of these when she and Brother Zero end up last on the 2014 Most Odd List.
* BrandX: Averted -- Mr. Lightning outright name-drops Zumba at one point. [[note]] Zumba is a trademark name, and belongs to Zumba Fitness, LLC.[[/note]]
* CallBack: Crazy Eights was previously introduced via mentions in [[Recap/OddSquadS2E22HauntSquadSafeHouseInTheWoods "Haunt Squad"]], but was never seen. This episode has her making her first physical appearance as "Sister Zero", along with her brother, "Brother Zero".
* CheerfulChild: Olympia discovers a rare piece of Odd Squad history, and goes ''nuts'' over it, being completely adorable to boot.
* ChronicVillainy: While Sister Zero realizes that she went too far with her new power, she still wants to remain a villainess -- she just wants to be ''less'' villainous.
* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: For how stupid Brother Zero is, he has a point in suggesting that he and Sister Zero quit villainy and open up a flower shop. However, his words fall on deaf ears as his sister becomes power-hungry.
* CompleteImmortality: Played with. While it's well-established that all Directors can live for at least 2 millennia (and potentially have a semblance of total immortality), and that Ms. O in particular has lived for a century, this episode seems to imply that she can live even ''longer'' than that, to the point where Olympia and Otis have grown elderly and nearly everything -- up to and including eating -- is dominated by futuristic technology. While they are elders, Ms. O stays the exact physical age of 7.
* ContinuityCavalcade: The Most Odd List manages to attract a lot of villains seen in past episodes, such as Freeze Ray Ray, Jellybean Joe, and Evil Ninja, among others.
* ContinuityNod: Ms. O [[Recap/OddSquadS1E10TheTroubleWithCentigurpsTotallyOddSquad once again]] tells a story to her agents. This time, however, it takes her ''incredibly'' long just to tell the story, whereas "Totally Odd Squad" had her tell it in the span of 11 minutes.
** An ad for [[Recap/OddSquadS1E3MyBetterHalfTheConfalones The Confalones' restaurant]] is seen on the back of the 2014 Most Odd List catalog.
** One of the reasons Ms. O's assistant interrupts her for is because [[Recap/OddSquadS1E5ReindeerGames Santa has an odd problem.]]
** This isn't the [[Recap/OddSquadS1E23SoundcheckPartDeuxJinx first time]] someone has shown to have good welding skills.
* DerailedTrainOfThought: When Ms. O sits in the Interrogation Room and prepares to tell Olympia and Otis the rest of the story, Mr. Lightning invokes the trope by stating how he wants to hear the story and how storytelling "binds us as a culture". Olympia and Otis don't fall for it and outright call him out on wanting to stop them interrogating him. His response? "Maybe a little."
** He later interrupts Ms. O a second time to try and invoke the trope again, saying that the story is about "the basic human desire to make a difference". This time, however, the Director defies the trope by pointedly telling him to ask whatever question he has.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Once she realizes that multiplying things by 0 removes them from existence, Sister Zero modifies her glove so it has a multiplication sign instead of an addition sign. She begins to use her powers gradually, but landing the #1 spot on the 2017 Most Odd List sends her ''completely'' off the rails as she removes anything and everything in her line of sight, up to and including things in her and Brother Zero's SupervillainLair. Removing the lair itself causes the siblings to land in a WhiteVoidRoom, since there is nothing left to zap, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she immediately begins to regret what she's done.]] Luckily, her brother -- who had been constantly suggesting she stop -- suggests they go to Odd Squad for help.
* EnemiesList: The Odd Squad Most Odd List functions in this way, as it's published by the organization's publishing division and ranks villains from the most odd to the least odd (which would give agents a good idea of who is a threat and who is not). Ms. O of Precinct 13579 is its brainchild, and eventually decides to stop putting out the Most Odd List after Sister Zero becomes DrunkOnTheDarkSide because of it.
* EnemyMine: Due to Sister Zero going too far with her powers, Brother Zero decide that the two siblings should go to Precinct 13579 for help. While Ms. O is initially (and rightfully) skeptical, she eventually caves in and decides to help them since it'll make the world less odd.
* EurekaMoment: When reading the 2014 Most Odd List and finding out that she and her brother are ranked last for the second year in a row, Sister Zero becomes enraged enough to tear the catalog into two and throw it onto the ground, where it makes an X shape. This gives her the idea to change her glove with the arithmetic operation from an addition sign to a multiplication sign, which gives her a ''huge'' power boost.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: When the Puppy Master finds out that she's ranked #12 on the 2013 Most Odd List, she calls up her mother to tell her the news. Once she congratulates her, she says to put her father on.
* EvilWearsBlack: The Zero siblings both wear predominantly black outfits.
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: A paper boy quotes the trope name verbatim when handing out the 2013 Most Odd List to villains. He later says the line again when handing out the 2017 Most Odd List, but subverts it by saying "this issue costs extra" instead of "read all about it".
* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Averted. The TimeSkip years into the future shows that the Main 4 are still friends with each other, although Olympia and Otis are more bonded with each other than with Ms. O and Oona.
* FoodPills: In the future, there are orbs which come in a variety of colors and can be shared with multiple people. The orbs shoot out beams of light to the feeders' brains, rather than having them eat and digest them.
* FreezeFrameBonus: A few shots from when the villains receive the Most Odd List shows the Toronto logo sitting in Nathan Phillips Square, which further confirms that both Season 1 and Season 2 of the show take place in Toronto.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The Total Zeroes go from being essentially powerless and ineffective to being two of the most dangerous and feared villains in the entire history of Odd Squad, simply by changing their powers to multiply things by 0 rather than add or subtract.
* HeelFaceTurn: Brother Zero generally serves as TheDragAlong to his sister. He doesn't want to be a villain, but rather, he wants to quit villainy and run his own flower shop, but is unable to do so until the end of the episode, where he pulls a proper turn.
* HiddenDepths: Apparently, Ms. O knows how to weld.
* HologramProjectionImperfection: Averted. The {{Hologram}} Ms. O conjures up of Brother Zero on his first day at his flower shop is perfectly solid and suffers no glitching.
* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: Ms. O tells the Zero siblings that she has an idea on how to make them less odd. Cut to her in their SupervillainLair, welding an 8 onto one of their gloves.
* LeftHanging: An in-universe example occurs as a RunningGag throughout the episode -- Ms. O is repeatedly cut off from telling the rest of the Total Zeroes story to Olympia and Otis by her needing to do something important, or her being constantly busy. As a result, she interrupts them at the most inconvenient times (when on a case or dealing with a villain) to tell the rest of the story. It's taken UpToEleven when it takes her ''years'' just to tell the ''entire story in itself,'' to the point where Olympia and Otis have both grown elderly.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Being the less knowledgeable of the duo when it comes to Odd Squad history, Otis has no idea what Olympia is holding in front of him. He looks at it in silence, and then says that he's pausing so she'll explain.
* MeaningfulRename: Sister Zero changes her name to Crazy Eights, reflecting her new power of multiplying things by 8.
* MistakenForProfound: Olympia, an Odd Squad historian, believes that the 2013 Most Odd List is a rare historic item...when the episode takes place 3 years after its publication. Otis doesn't find much interest in it.
* MomentKiller: Ms. O. By ''God,'' Ms. O.
--> '''Mr. Lightning:''' C'mon, Odd Squad. I've told you everything I know.
--> '''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Olympia:]] Come on, Mr. Lightning! ''What were you doing on the night of the 28th?!''
--> '''Mr. Lightning:''' I don't remember! ''[stammers]''
--> '''Ms. O:''' ''[casually strolls in and sits]'' Okay, where were we?
--> ''[Olympia and Otis exchange confused looks]''
--> '''Ms. O:''' The story? The Total Zeroes.
--> '''Olympia:''' Ohh.
--> '''Otis:''' Right. ''[as Olympia points to Mr. Lightning]'' Ms. O, we're kinda busy.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Sister Zero gets hit with this ''hard'' when she takes her new powers too far -- so much so that she has no other choice than to turn to Odd Squad for help.
* NeatFreak: While it's well-established that Olympia likes being organized, this episode takes it a bit further by stating that on her break, she was in the Filing Room refiling her favorite filing drawers.
* NoSell: Anything the Zeroes attack isn't affected due to them using the "-0" equation -- since they subtract 0 from things and add 0 to things (which would still be 0), it does nothing. Ms. O even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how useless their powers are and how they don't affect anything at one point.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Instead of using her trademark StealthHiBye ability, Ms. O does this when Olympia wonders why Odd Squad doesn't out out the Most Odd List anymore. Not only that, but she manages to do it with a couch, a sofa, and ''a full fireplace.''
* PerpSweating: Olympia and Otis are doing this with Mr. Lightning when Ms. O becomes a MomentKiller and decides that it's a good time to tell Olympia and Otis the rest of the story. Once she leaves, it's right back to yelling at the villain and demanding he confess where he was on the night of the 28th.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: This gem of an exchange occurs between Ms. O and Sister Zero.
--> '''Sister Zero:''' ''[zaps Ms. O's juice boxes, which aren't affected]'' Who are the worst villains ''now, Ms. O?''
--> '''Ms. O:''' You. You're ''still'' the worst villains. Your powers don't do anything.
* RiddleForTheAges: {{Immortality}} has long been a discussed topic amongst fans, especially with Investigation agents, with a common theory being that agents' badge phones grant them the ability to become immortal and remain a child forever. This episode features a TimeSkip that shows Olympia and Otis as elders, while Ms. O stays the same age, which could potentially disprove the "badge phones grant agents {{Immortality}}" theory. However, it appears to be a gag played for laughs per RuleOfFunny, and Olympia and Otis are reverted back to children in the very next episode, so whether the theory holds some truth or not is up for debate.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Mr. Lightning attempts to do this after Ms. O leaves due to an emergency and has to abandon the rest of the story regarding Brother Zero. Olympia and Otis [[DefiedTrope defy]] the trope with Olympia ready to stand right back up and stop him and Otis giving a stern ''"Sit."'' And then they continue performing PerpSweating on him.
* SiblingsInCrime: Sister Zero and Brother Zero, true to their names, are siblings. However, Brother Zero doesn't want to be a villain and wants to work in the floral industry, while Sister Zero wants to be a villain.
* SkewedPriorities: Olympia and Otis are busy dealing with some sort of oddity or doing some PerpSweating on a villain? To Ms. O, it's a great time to tell the rest of the story.
* SocietyMarchesOn: The future that Olympia and Otis are in is depicted as them staying inside of a near-invisible dome, which is comprised of a table and three chairs for them and Ms. O to sit at. Considering Odd Squad is high-tech as it is, with fictious items that aren't even close to being made in the real world (for example, there's no gadget that can magically make plates yet), it's safe to say that it's a more peaceful future, although there are still oddities that run rampant.
* SpaceClothes: Ms. O, Olympia and Otis are all seen wearing these. Otis' is perhaps the simplest outfit of them all, while Olympia dons a red visor and Ms. O wears a triangular-shaped piece on her body.
* StartOfDarkness: Of a sort. The episode revolves around Ms. O telling the story of how the Total Zeroes, a duo of ineffective villains, became a viable threat via [[{{Flashback}} flashbacks]] and turned good.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Unlike what the TimeSkip years into the future depicts, Olympia and Otis don't stay elderly for the rest of the season, and are turned back to their normal child selves in the very next episode.
* TheStoryteller: Ms. O becomes one of these throughout the episode, telling the story of how the Crazy Eights became "the most feared villains in Odd Squad history". It gets to such an extent that she interrupts Olympia and Otis when they're busy with something else.
* StupidEvil: Brother Zero is so dimwitted and so ineffective that he can barely even qualify as a villain at all. The only "evil" thing he really does is go along with his sister, but even then, just like her, his powers don't do anything.
** Sister Zero also gets hit with this. She doesn't know her arithmetic operations very well, and decides to go with "- 0" and "+ 0" as her powers despite the fact everything she zaps with it isn't affected. Not even ''Ms. O'' views her and Brother Zero as viable threats, especially when her juice boxes become a NoSell to the villainess's attacks.
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: Sister Zero uses her power of "x 0" to remove ''everything'' in sight, from trash cans to cars to clouds in the sky. This eventually leads to her removing ''nearly everything from existence" to the point where she
* TimeSkip: This episode skips ahead months and even ''years'' in advance so Ms. O can tell the story.
* TrickedOutGloves: Sister Zero's gloves are the source of her powers and must be used together. One glove has a math operation like addition or subtraction, while the other glove has the number 0 on it.
* TyopOnTheCover: A majority of PBS Kids stations, as well as TVO Kids, can't decide if the episode title is "Total '''Zeros'''" or "Total '''Zeroes'''".
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: When the Total Zeroes manage to surpass even those like ''Odd Todd'' in the rankings, that's how you know they're a threat. And that they are -- they manage to remove everything to the point where there's nothing left but themselves.
* VillainDecay: Inverted. The Total Zeroes go from barely a threat at all and being at the bottom of the list, to the top of the list with the power to remove anything by subtraction. This ends up biting them in the butt later on when they end up taking away enough things for them to land in a white void and need Ms. O to help them out.
* VillainsOutShopping: Sister Zero apparently went to a night class to learn how to weld, which allows her to alter her gloves, and by extension, her powers.
** Mr. Lightning also goes to Zumba class with Crazy Eights, or Sister Zero as she was formerly known as.
* WhatHeSaid: Otis says this as part of his and Olympia's PerpSweating with Mr. Lightning.
--> '''Olympia:''' ''Where were you on the night of the 28th?!''
--> '''Otis:''' ''What she said!!''
* WhiteVoidRoom: The Zero siblings wind up in one when they take away most everything in existence.
* WomenAreWiser: Once again, the show plays the trope straight for the Total Zeroes -- Brother Zero is incompetent and doesn't want to be evil, while Sister Zero is ''far'' more intelligent and wishes to be a competent villainess (but even she has some incompetency up until the climax).
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'''NOTE:''' For simplicity's sake, the Olympia from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]] is referred to as "Olympia 1", while the Olympia who is a main character is referred to as "Olympia 2", where applicable. Please keep this in mind when reading and editing.
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'''NOTE:''' For simplicity's sake, the Olympia from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]] is referred to as "Olympia 1", while the Olympia who is a main character is referred to as "Olympia 2", "Odal", where applicable. Please keep this in mind when reading and editing.
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* HundredPercentHeroismRating: Olympia 2 returns with her partner Oz, and announces her return. When she does, a large crowd of agents begin forming around her, and when she and Oz leave the bullpen, the crowd follows her.
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* HundredPercentHeroismRating: Olympia 2 Odal returns with her partner Oz, and announces her return. When she does, a large crowd of agents begin forming around her, and when she and Oz leave the bullpen, the crowd follows her.
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* AffectionateNickname: Olympia 1 refers to Olympia 2 by a few nicknames, such as "Other Olympia" and "Triple O". The affection is entirely one-sided on her end, however -- for Olympia 2, they're all [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing Nicknames.]] When Olympia 1 calls Olympia 2 "Olympia", she is thankful...before Olympia 1 says that she was talking to herself.
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* AffectionateNickname: Olympia 1 Odal refers to Olympia 2 by a few nicknames, such as "Other Olympia" and "Triple O". The affection is entirely one-sided on her end, however -- for Olympia 2, Olympia, they're all [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing Nicknames.]] When Olympia 1 calls Olympia 2 "Olympia", she is thankful...before Olympia 1 says that she was talking to herself.]]
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* TheBusCameBack: Olympia from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]] returns in this episode after having spent a year with her partner, Oz, fighting the Sandman. The two are also now Investigation agents following their promotions at the end of that episode.
* ChekhovsGun: Harry's hands are used to help Olympia 2 win the final competition of testing the temperature of a bucket of water.
* ChekhovsGun: Harry's hands are used to help Olympia 2 win the final competition of testing the temperature of a bucket of water.
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* TheBusCameBack: Olympia Olympia/Odal from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]] returns in this episode after having spent a year with her partner, Oz, fighting the Sandman. The two are also now Investigation agents following their promotions at the end of that episode.
* ChekhovsGun: Harry's hands are used to help Olympia2 win the final competition of testing the temperature of a bucket of water.
* ChekhovsGun: Harry's hands are used to help Olympia
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* {{Dissimile}}: Olympia 1 gives this gem to Olympia 2 when she can't find her elevator card.
--> '''Olympia 2:''' Did you leave it in one of the hot closets?
--> '''Olympia 1:''' More like a cold closet, only instead of a closet, it wasn't a closet.
--> '''Olympia 2:''' A room?
--> '''Olympia 1:''' Ha. ''[chuckling]'' That's the word.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Hilariously defied by Olympia 1, who pulls her cake slice backwards towards her when Olympia 2 accuses her of eating the cake that was rightfully Olympia 2's.
--> '''Olympia 2:''' Did you leave it in one of the hot closets?
--> '''Olympia 1:''' More like a cold closet, only instead of a closet, it wasn't a closet.
--> '''Olympia 2:''' A room?
--> '''Olympia 1:''' Ha. ''[chuckling]'' That's the word.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Hilariously defied by Olympia 1, who pulls her cake slice backwards towards her when Olympia 2 accuses her of eating the cake that was rightfully Olympia 2's.
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* {{Dissimile}}: Olympia 1 Odal gives this gem to Other Olympia 2 when she can't find her elevator card.
-->'''Olympia 2:''' '''Olympia:''' Did you leave it in one of the hot closets?
-->'''Olympia 1:''' '''Odal:''' More like a cold closet, only instead of a closet, it wasn't a closet.
-->'''Olympia 2:''' '''Olympia:''' A room?
-->'''Olympia 1:''' '''Odal:''' Ha. ''[chuckling]'' That's the word.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Hilariously defied byOlympia 1, Odal, who pulls her cake slice backwards towards her when Olympia 2 accuses her of eating the cake that was rightfully Olympia 2's.Olympia's.
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* FauxPaw: Olympia 2 is shown making a variant of one when the scoreboard is shown, as she extends her fingers and bends them as though they're claws.
* GracefulLoser: Olympia 1 harbors no ill feelings towards Olympia 2 for winning the competition.
* GracefulLoser: Olympia 1 harbors no ill feelings towards Olympia 2 for winning the competition.
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* FauxPaw: Olympia 2 is shown making a variant of one when the scoreboard is shown, as she extends her fingers and bends them as though they're claws.
* GracefulLoser:Olympia 1 Odal harbors no ill feelings towards Olympia 2 for winning the competition.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Otis thinks it's ridiculous that Olympia is getting worked up over having the same name as someone else, but doesn't do anything about it. The end of the episode has him meeting a new agent to the precinct...whose name happens to be Otis, causing the ''original'' Otis to become angry enough to declare a name-off ''right off the bat.''
* IdiotBall: Pretty much all of the agents sans Ms. O and Otis share the ball. All of them seem to play the OneSteveLimit trope straight and believe that no two agents can have the same name, when in fact, the opposite is true -- not just for agents, but for other people as well (like there being 2 Glenns [[note]]The cupcake shop owner from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E1ZeroEffectBadLuckBears "Zero Effect"]] and the drink vendor from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Picture Day"]][[/note]], 3 Tonys [[note]]the {{Bouncer}} from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Oscar and the Oscarbots"]], the Soundcheck member, and the chef from [[Recap/OddSquadS2E17TheCherryOnTopinatorSir "The Cherry-on-Top-inator"]][[/note]], etc.). It's made painfully obvious with Owen, who refuses to believe Olympia 2 when she tells him that there's another girl named Olympia.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Ms. O sides with Olympia 2 in Olympia 1 being called "Other Olympia" (since it's an Odd Squad rule) and explains what a name-off is, Olympia says that a name-off won't be necessary, as she's fine with the nickname and can handle this situation. A second later and Otis tells Ms. O that his partner ''can't'' handle this situation, causing Olympia to shoot him a "what the hell" look. Of course, he could not be more correct.
* IWarnedYou: Otis tells Ms. O (and by extension, Harry and Olympia 2) that Olympia 2 can't handle the fact there's someone with the same name as her. When Olympia 2 calls him up after retrieving the Un-Hot-Hand-inator gadget, saying that she's referring to Olympia 1 as "Sharlene" and accusing her of stealing Olympia 2's name, Otis tells Harry that "I told you she'd have a problem with this." To further hammer the point in, an agent passing by greets Olympia 2 by calling her "Other Olympia", causing her to grow ever more frustrated.
* IdiotBall: Pretty much all of the agents sans Ms. O and Otis share the ball. All of them seem to play the OneSteveLimit trope straight and believe that no two agents can have the same name, when in fact, the opposite is true -- not just for agents, but for other people as well (like there being 2 Glenns [[note]]The cupcake shop owner from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E1ZeroEffectBadLuckBears "Zero Effect"]] and the drink vendor from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Picture Day"]][[/note]], 3 Tonys [[note]]the {{Bouncer}} from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Oscar and the Oscarbots"]], the Soundcheck member, and the chef from [[Recap/OddSquadS2E17TheCherryOnTopinatorSir "The Cherry-on-Top-inator"]][[/note]], etc.). It's made painfully obvious with Owen, who refuses to believe Olympia 2 when she tells him that there's another girl named Olympia.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Ms. O sides with Olympia 2 in Olympia 1 being called "Other Olympia" (since it's an Odd Squad rule) and explains what a name-off is, Olympia says that a name-off won't be necessary, as she's fine with the nickname and can handle this situation. A second later and Otis tells Ms. O that his partner ''can't'' handle this situation, causing Olympia to shoot him a "what the hell" look. Of course, he could not be more correct.
* IWarnedYou: Otis tells Ms. O (and by extension, Harry and Olympia 2) that Olympia 2 can't handle the fact there's someone with the same name as her. When Olympia 2 calls him up after retrieving the Un-Hot-Hand-inator gadget, saying that she's referring to Olympia 1 as "Sharlene" and accusing her of stealing Olympia 2's name, Otis tells Harry that "I told you she'd have a problem with this." To further hammer the point in, an agent passing by greets Olympia 2 by calling her "Other Olympia", causing her to grow ever more frustrated.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Otis thinks it's ridiculous that Olympia is getting worked up over having the same name as someone else, but doesn't do anything about it. The end of the episode has him meeting a new agent to the precinct...agent...whose name happens to be Otis, causing the ''original'' Otis to become angry enough to declare a name-off ''right off the bat.''
* IdiotBall: Pretty much all of the agents sans Ms. O and Otis share the ball. All of them seem to play the OneSteveLimit trope straight and believe that no two agents can have the same name, when in fact, the opposite is true -- not just for agents, but for other people as well (like there being 2 Glenns [[note]]The cupcake shop owner from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E1ZeroEffectBadLuckBears "Zero Effect"]] and the drink vendor from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Picture Day"]][[/note]], 3 Tonys [[note]]the {{Bouncer}} from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Oscar and the Oscarbots"]], the Soundcheck member, and the chef from [[Recap/OddSquadS2E17TheCherryOnTopinatorSir "The Cherry-on-Top-inator"]][[/note]], etc.). It's made painfully obvious with Owen, who refuses to believe Olympia2 when she tells him that there's another girl named Olympia.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Ms. O sides withOlympia 2 Odal in Olympia 1 being called "Other Olympia" (since it's an Odd Squad rule) and explains what a name-off is, Olympia says that a name-off won't be necessary, as she's fine with the nickname and can handle this situation. A second later and Otis ''immediately'' tells Ms. O that his partner ''can't'' handle this situation, causing Olympia to shoot him a "what the hell" look. Of course, he could not be more correct.
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* IWarnedYou: Otis tells Ms. O (and by extension, Harry and Olympia2) herself) that Olympia 2 can't handle the fact there's someone with the same name as her. When Olympia 2 calls him up after retrieving the Un-Hot-Hand-inator gadget, saying that she's referring to Olympia 1 Odal as "Sharlene" and accusing her of stealing Olympia 2's Olympia's name, Otis tells Harry that "I told you she'd have a problem with this." To further hammer the point in, an agent passing by greets Olympia 2 by calling her "Other Olympia", causing her to grow ever more frustrated.
* IdiotBall: Pretty much all of the agents sans Ms. O and Otis share the ball. All of them seem to play the OneSteveLimit trope straight and believe that no two agents can have the same name, when in fact, the opposite is true -- not just for agents, but for other people as well (like there being 2 Glenns [[note]]The cupcake shop owner from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E1ZeroEffectBadLuckBears "Zero Effect"]] and the drink vendor from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Picture Day"]][[/note]], 3 Tonys [[note]]the {{Bouncer}} from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Oscar and the Oscarbots"]], the Soundcheck member, and the chef from [[Recap/OddSquadS2E17TheCherryOnTopinatorSir "The Cherry-on-Top-inator"]][[/note]], etc.). It's made painfully obvious with Owen, who refuses to believe Olympia
* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Ms. O sides with
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Olympia 2 and Otis are unaware of who Olympia 1 and Oz are, since they weren't working at Odd Squad when Olympia 2 and Oz went on their mission. A rather [[IncrediblyLamePun odd]] example in Olympia's case, as she is an Odd Squad historian and should have knowledge of the events of [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]].
* MaliciousMisnaming: For Olympia 1, "Other Olympia" is treated as a hurtful nickname, which both Olympia 2 ''and'' Ms. O refer to her as. The latter is forced to call Olympia 1 the nickname due to the former's seniority, which is an Odd Squad rule.
* MeaningfulRename: Olympia 1 is renamed "Odal" at the end of the episode. Apparently, "Odal" is her middle name, and everyone calls her "Odal" anyway.
* OneSteveLimit: This episode both [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the trope and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it. Olympia 2 is shown being unable to do simple things, like return gadgets or open a closet, because Olympia 1 gets to it in some way before she does. As a result, she begins to grow more and more frustrated until she is denied a slice of cake from a nearby retirement party, as Olympia 1 has already gotten one. She lets out all of her anger on Olympia 1, having been fed up with how she is treated, and the two Olympias compete against each other in a "name-off", an Odd Squad tradition wherein the loser is forced to change their name. By the end of the episode, Olympia 1 loses, and is forced to change her name to "Odal".
* MaliciousMisnaming: For Olympia 1, "Other Olympia" is treated as a hurtful nickname, which both Olympia 2 ''and'' Ms. O refer to her as. The latter is forced to call Olympia 1 the nickname due to the former's seniority, which is an Odd Squad rule.
* MeaningfulRename: Olympia 1 is renamed "Odal" at the end of the episode. Apparently, "Odal" is her middle name, and everyone calls her "Odal" anyway.
* OneSteveLimit: This episode both [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the trope and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it. Olympia 2 is shown being unable to do simple things, like return gadgets or open a closet, because Olympia 1 gets to it in some way before she does. As a result, she begins to grow more and more frustrated until she is denied a slice of cake from a nearby retirement party, as Olympia 1 has already gotten one. She lets out all of her anger on Olympia 1, having been fed up with how she is treated, and the two Olympias compete against each other in a "name-off", an Odd Squad tradition wherein the loser is forced to change their name. By the end of the episode, Olympia 1 loses, and is forced to change her name to "Odal".
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Olympia 2 and Otis are unaware of who Olympia 1 Odal and Oz are, since they weren't working at Odd Squad when Olympia 2 Odal and Oz went on their mission. A rather [[IncrediblyLamePun odd]] example in Olympia's case, as she is an Odd Squad historian and should have knowledge of the events of [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]].
* MaliciousMisnaming: ForOlympia 1, Olympia, "Other Olympia" is treated as a hurtful nickname, which both Olympia 2 Odal ''and'' Ms. O refer to her as. The latter is forced to call Olympia 1 the nickname due to the former's seniority, which is an Odd Squad rule.
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* MeaningfulRename:Olympia 1 Odal is renamed "Odal" such at the end of the episode.episode after having previously been referred to as "Olympia". Apparently, "Odal" is her middle name, and everyone calls her "Odal" anyway.
* OneSteveLimit: This episode both [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the trope and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it. Olympia2 is shown being unable to do simple things, like return gadgets or open a closet, because Olympia 1 Odal gets to it in some way before she does. As a result, she begins to grow more and more frustrated until she is denied a slice of cake from a nearby retirement party, as Olympia 1 Odal has already gotten one. She lets out all of her anger on Olympia 1, Odal, having been fed up with how she is treated, and the two Olympias compete against each other in a "name-off", an Odd Squad tradition wherein the loser is forced to change their name. By the end of the episode, Olympia 1 Odal loses, and is forced to change her name from "Olympia" to "Odal".
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* RageBreakingPoint: Olympia 2 being denied a slice of cake while on her way to meet Otis and Harry despite not having had a slice already is the final straw for her as she sees Olympia 1 eating a cake slice of her own. She goes to confront her, and the two enter a name-off with each other.
* ReallyWasBornYesterday: Parodied with Owen, who gives this gem when confronting Olympia 2:
* ReallyWasBornYesterday: Parodied with Owen, who gives this gem when confronting Olympia 2:
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* RageBreakingPoint: Olympia 2 being denied a slice of cake while on her way to meet Otis and Harry despite not having had a slice already is the final straw for her as she sees Olympia 1 Odal eating a cake slice of her own. She goes to confront her, and the two enter have a name-off with each other.
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* RhythmGame: One of the challenges in the name-off is the Animal Clap Showdown, which functions in this way. One competitor claps in time with saying the names of various animals, then the other competitor has to follow suit, naming a different animal at the end than the one the other competitor used (for example, Olympia 2 uses "whale" while Olympia 2 uses "fox"). If a competitor repeats an animal name at the end of the chain, they lose.
* SanitySlippage: Olympia 2 suffers from this over the course of the episode as she becomes unable to assist Otis in helping the client they need to help due to unintentional meddling from Olympia 1. Luckily, it doesn't culminate in a FreakOut a la [[Recap/OddSquadS2E7OlympiasDayOtissDay "Olympia's Day"]], but the other agents' interactions with her aren't necessarily helping either.
* SanitySlippage: Olympia 2 suffers from this over the course of the episode as she becomes unable to assist Otis in helping the client they need to help due to unintentional meddling from Olympia 1. Luckily, it doesn't culminate in a FreakOut a la [[Recap/OddSquadS2E7OlympiasDayOtissDay "Olympia's Day"]], but the other agents' interactions with her aren't necessarily helping either.
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* RhythmGame: One of the challenges in the name-off is the Animal Clap Showdown, which functions in this way. One competitor claps in time with saying the names of various animals, then the other competitor has to follow suit, naming a different animal at the end than the one the other competitor used (for example, Olympia 2 uses "whale" while Olympia 2 Odal uses "fox"). If a competitor repeats an animal name at the end of the chain, they lose.
* SanitySlippage: Olympia2 suffers from this over the course of the episode as she becomes unable to assist Otis in helping the client they need to help due to unintentional meddling from Olympia 1.Odal. Luckily, it doesn't culminate in a FreakOut a la [[Recap/OddSquadS2E7OlympiasDayOtissDay "Olympia's Day"]], but the other agents' interactions with her aren't necessarily helping either.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Olympia 2 naturally gets to keep her name at the end of the episode.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Right after Olympia 2 refers to Olympia 1 as "Other Olympia", she, her partner Oz, and the crowd of agents leave as Olympia 1 develops a [[TheUnSmile rather unsettling smile.]] Otis takes one look at her face, goes "Oh boy", and immediately knows what's going to happen. And of course, he's right on the money.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Right after Olympia 2 Odal refers to Olympia 1 as "Other Olympia", she, her partner Oz, and the crowd of agents leave as Olympia 1 develops a [[TheUnSmile rather unsettling smile.]] Otis takes one look at her face, goes "Oh boy", and immediately knows what's going to happen. And of course, he's right on the money.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: In [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]], Olympia 2 was shown being generally kind, if not a bit rebellious and impatient. This episode has her being out-and-out antagonistic towards Olympia 1, showing little concern for how much strife the younger agent is experiencing throughout the episode and even referring to her as "Other Olympia" rather than just "Olympia" (and at one point, referring to her as "''Other'' Other Olympia" due to one of her friends ''also'' being named Olympia).
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* TookALevelInJerkass: In [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]], Olympia 2 Odal was shown being generally kind, if not a bit rebellious and impatient. This episode has her being out-and-out antagonistic towards Olympia 1, Olympia, showing little concern for how much strife the younger agent is experiencing throughout the episode and even referring to her as "Other Olympia" rather than just "Olympia" (and at one point, referring to her as "''Other'' Other Olympia" due to one of her friends ''also'' being named Olympia).
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* YouAreAlreadyCheckedIn: A variant occurs with one of the elevators in Headquarters. Olympia 2 runs her card through the scanner over and over again in an attempt to access it, but fails every time. Owen, believing she has two elevator cards, stops her and reminds her that Odd Squad agents are only allowed one elevator card per person, so he turned Olympia 2's card off. She quickly realizes that it's Olympia 1 who has the active elevator card, and confronts her about it, only to have to go to ''another'' room to find the card.
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* YouAreAlreadyCheckedIn: A variant occurs with one of the elevators in Headquarters. Olympia 2 runs her card through the scanner over and over again in an attempt to access it, but fails every time. Owen, believing she has two elevator cards, stops her and reminds her that Odd Squad agents are only allowed one elevator card per person, so he turned Olympia 2's Olympia's card off. She quickly realizes that it's Olympia 1 Odal who has the active elevator card, and confronts her about it, only to have to go to ''another'' room to find the card.
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* IdiotBall: Pretty much all of the agents sans Ms. O and Otis share the ball. All of them seem to play the OneSteveLimit trope straight and believe that no two agents can have the same name, when in fact, the opposite is true -- not just for agents, but for other people as well (like there being 2 Glenns [[note]]The cupcake shop owner from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E1ZeroEffectBadLuckBears "Zero Effect"]] and the drink vendor from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Picture Day"]][[/note]], 3 Tonys [[note]]the {{Bouncer}} from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Oscar and the Oscarbots"]], the Soundcheck member, and the chef from [[Recap/OddSquadS2E17TheCherryOnTopinatorSir "The Cherry-on-Top-inator"]][[/note]], etc.). It's made painfully obvious with Owen, who refuses to believe Olympia when she tells him that there's another girl named Olympia.
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* IdiotBall: Pretty much all of the agents sans Ms. O and Otis share the ball. All of them seem to play the OneSteveLimit trope straight and believe that no two agents can have the same name, when in fact, the opposite is true -- not just for agents, but for other people as well (like there being 2 Glenns [[note]]The cupcake shop owner from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E1ZeroEffectBadLuckBears "Zero Effect"]] and the drink vendor from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Picture Day"]][[/note]], 3 Tonys [[note]]the {{Bouncer}} from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Oscar and the Oscarbots"]], the Soundcheck member, and the chef from [[Recap/OddSquadS2E17TheCherryOnTopinatorSir "The Cherry-on-Top-inator"]][[/note]], etc.). It's made painfully obvious with Owen, who refuses to believe Olympia 2 when she tells him that there's another girl named Olympia.
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* HatingOnMondays: Inverted -- Olympia discusses with Otis how much she loves Tuesdays. When Otis corrects her by saying it's Thursday, Olympia responds aptly by saying that every Thursday, she looks back on her Tuesday. Of course, since she's a {{Workaholic}} who works 'round the clock, it's justified.
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* HatingOnMondays: HatingOnMonday: Inverted -- Olympia discusses with Otis how much she loves Tuesdays. When Otis corrects her by saying it's Thursday, Olympia responds aptly by saying that every Thursday, she looks back on her Tuesday. Of course, since she's a {{Workaholic}} who works 'round the clock, it's justified.
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* ChekhovsGun: Harry's hands are used to help Olympia win the final competition of testing the temperature of a bucket of water.
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* OneHundredPercentHeroismRating: Olympia 2 returns with her partner Oz, and announces her return. When she does, a large crowd of agents begin forming around her, and when she and Oz leave the bullpen, the crowd follows her.
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* OneHundredPercentHeroismRating: HundredPercentHeroismRating: Olympia 2 returns with her partner Oz, and announces her return. When she does, a large crowd of agents begin forming around her, and when she and Oz leave the bullpen, the crowd follows her.
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'''''Other Olympia'''''
'''Airdate:''' June 22, 2018 [[note]]PBS Kids premiere[[/note]]
Olympia is not happy when an agent with the same name shows up.
'''NOTE:''' For simplicity's sake, the Olympia from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]] is referred to as "Olympia 1", while the Olympia who is a main character is referred to as "Olympia 2", where applicable. Please keep this in mind when reading and editing.
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!!Tropes:
* OneHundredPercentHeroismRating: Olympia 2 returns with her partner Oz, and announces her return. When she does, a large crowd of agents begin forming around her, and when she and Oz leave the bullpen, the crowd follows her.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Otis refers to the ColdOpen client as "Melissa", when her name is actually "Sharon". When he's corrected, he nonchalantly remarks that he "took a shot at it".
* AffectionateNickname: Olympia 1 refers to Olympia 2 by a few nicknames, such as "Other Olympia" and "Triple O". The affection is entirely one-sided on her end, however -- for Olympia 2, they're all [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing Nicknames.]] When Olympia 1 calls Olympia 2 "Olympia", she is thankful...before Olympia 1 says that she was talking to herself.
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''ot '''H'''ands '''H'''arry.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Harry's hands look (and function) more like he has second or third-degree burns than an odd illness, to the point where the ''sound of sizzling'' accompanies him holding them up and his hand manages to melt the packaging of one of Ms. O's juice boxes. Dunking a hand in water doesn't help to treat the burn, and instead, the water begins to boil immediately. Despite the fact that he could potentially have burned hands, he isn't shown overtly suffering from it nor does anyone suggest he visit a hospital for treatment (which is one should do if they are suffering from second or third-degree burns); instead, the Un-Hot-Hand-inator was created for such an affliction, and Harry's hands are used for various things like ironing clothing and making toast, to the point where it becomes a ChekhovsGun for the name-off.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Sharon's pug has grown to gigantic proportions as a result of her husband taking it out for a walk. It's a common affliction known in the world of Odd Squad as "giant-dog-itis".
* TheBusCameBack: Olympia from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]] returns in this episode after having spent a year with her partner, Oz, fighting the Sandman. The two are also now Investigation agents following their promotions at the end of that episode.
* ChekhovsGun: Harry's hands are used to help Olympia win the final competition of testing the temperature of a bucket of water.
* TheCoatsAreOff: Played with -- Otis has his coat off because it's getting ironed by Hot Hands Harry.
* ContinuityNod: Just like what Oscar had beginning with [[Recap/OddSquadS1E16OddOutbreakThePerfectLunch "Odd Outbreak"]], Oona also has a checkout system for keeping track of gadgets. (Doesn't come with free chocolate, though.)
** Both Olympias face off in a wrestling ring, like how Olive faced off against various villains in one in [[Recap/OddSquadS1E31UndercoverOlive "Undercover Olive"]].
* {{Dissimile}}: Olympia 1 gives this gem to Olympia 2 when she can't find her elevator card.
--> '''Olympia 2:''' Did you leave it in one of the hot closets?
--> '''Olympia 1:''' More like a cold closet, only instead of a closet, it wasn't a closet.
--> '''Olympia 2:''' A room?
--> '''Olympia 1:''' Ha. ''[chuckling]'' That's the word.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Hilariously defied by Olympia 1, who pulls her cake slice backwards towards her when Olympia 2 accuses her of eating the cake that was rightfully Olympia 2's.
* FatalFlaw: Olympia's tendency to be a MotorMouth and ask Coach O the [[SarcasmMode ever-so-intelligent]] question of how the game works earns her another loss in the name-off.
* FauxPaw: Olympia 2 is shown making a variant of one when the scoreboard is shown, as she extends her fingers and bends them as though they're claws.
* GracefulLoser: Olympia 1 harbors no ill feelings towards Olympia 2 for winning the competition.
* HatingOnMondays: Inverted -- Olympia discusses with Otis how much she loves Tuesdays. When Otis corrects her by saying it's Thursday, Olympia responds aptly by saying that every Thursday, she looks back on her Tuesday. Of course, since she's a {{Workaholic}} who works 'round the clock, it's justified.
* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the match, Ms. O comes up and introduces Otis and Olympia to the newest agent of Precinct 13579: Otis, who immediately shoots a DeathGlare at the other Otis, who in turn rips off his tie and throws it onto the ground in another name-off declaration.
* HypocriticalHumor: Otis thinks it's ridiculous that Olympia is getting worked up over having the same name as someone else, but doesn't do anything about it. The end of the episode has him meeting a new agent to the precinct...whose name happens to be Otis, causing the ''original'' Otis to become angry enough to declare a name-off ''right off the bat.''
* IdiotBall: Pretty much all of the agents sans Ms. O and Otis share the ball. All of them seem to play the OneSteveLimit trope straight and believe that no two agents can have the same name, when in fact, the opposite is true -- not just for agents, but for other people as well (like there being 2 Glenns [[note]]The cupcake shop owner from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E1ZeroEffectBadLuckBears "Zero Effect"]] and the drink vendor from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Picture Day"]][[/note]], 3 Tonys [[note]]the {{Bouncer}} from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Oscar and the Oscarbots"]], the Soundcheck member, and the chef from [[Recap/OddSquadS2E17TheCherryOnTopinatorSir "The Cherry-on-Top-inator"]][[/note]], etc.). It's made painfully obvious with Owen, who refuses to believe Olympia when she tells him that there's another girl named Olympia.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Ms. O sides with Olympia 2 in Olympia 1 being called "Other Olympia" (since it's an Odd Squad rule) and explains what a name-off is, Olympia says that a name-off won't be necessary, as she's fine with the nickname and can handle this situation. A second later and Otis tells Ms. O that his partner ''can't'' handle this situation, causing Olympia to shoot him a "what the hell" look. Of course, he could not be more correct.
* IWarnedYou: Otis tells Ms. O (and by extension, Harry and Olympia 2) that Olympia 2 can't handle the fact there's someone with the same name as her. When Olympia 2 calls him up after retrieving the Un-Hot-Hand-inator gadget, saying that she's referring to Olympia 1 as "Sharlene" and accusing her of stealing Olympia 2's name, Otis tells Harry that "I told you she'd have a problem with this." To further hammer the point in, an agent passing by greets Olympia 2 by calling her "Other Olympia", causing her to grow ever more frustrated.
* LiteralMetaphor: The expression "like finding a needle in a haystack" is taken more literally during the name-off -- one of the challenges is actually finding a needle inside of a bale of hay. Another challenge inverts the phrase and has both Olympias finding a haystack inside of a needle.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Olympia 2 and Otis are unaware of who Olympia 1 and Oz are, since they weren't working at Odd Squad when Olympia 2 and Oz went on their mission. A rather [[IncrediblyLamePun odd]] example in Olympia's case, as she is an Odd Squad historian and should have knowledge of the events of [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]].
* MaliciousMisnaming: For Olympia 1, "Other Olympia" is treated as a hurtful nickname, which both Olympia 2 ''and'' Ms. O refer to her as. The latter is forced to call Olympia 1 the nickname due to the former's seniority, which is an Odd Squad rule.
* MeaningfulRename: Olympia 1 is renamed "Odal" at the end of the episode. Apparently, "Odal" is her middle name, and everyone calls her "Odal" anyway.
* OneSteveLimit: This episode both [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the trope and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it. Olympia 2 is shown being unable to do simple things, like return gadgets or open a closet, because Olympia 1 gets to it in some way before she does. As a result, she begins to grow more and more frustrated until she is denied a slice of cake from a nearby retirement party, as Olympia 1 has already gotten one. She lets out all of her anger on Olympia 1, having been fed up with how she is treated, and the two Olympias compete against each other in a "name-off", an Odd Squad tradition wherein the loser is forced to change their name. By the end of the episode, Olympia 1 loses, and is forced to change her name to "Odal".
** The trope is also averted in the case of Otis, as he is introduced to another Otis who is a new agent of the precinct at the end of the episode...and immediately declares a name-off with him.
* ProWrestlingEpisode: Downplayed. The name-off at the climax of the episode takes place inside of a wrestling ring, and it's treated as a parody of ProfessionalWrestling, only with non-physical combat and names at stake. Hell, even the agents present at the showdown are wearing shirts with the ''competitors' faces'' on them!
* RageBreakingPoint: Olympia 2 being denied a slice of cake while on her way to meet Otis and Harry despite not having had a slice already is the final straw for her as she sees Olympia 1 eating a cake slice of her own. She goes to confront her, and the two enter a name-off with each other.
* ReallyWasBornYesterday: Parodied with Owen, who gives this gem when confronting Olympia 2:
--> '''Owen:''' Ohh. Yeah, right. Like there's just some ''other Olympia'' using your elevator card. Nice try, but I wasn't born yesterday. I think I would've remembered that if it was just yesterday I was born. ''[beat]'' And she's gone.
* RhythmGame: One of the challenges in the name-off is the Animal Clap Showdown, which functions in this way. One competitor claps in time with saying the names of various animals, then the other competitor has to follow suit, naming a different animal at the end than the one the other competitor used (for example, Olympia 2 uses "whale" while Olympia 2 uses "fox"). If a competitor repeats an animal name at the end of the chain, they lose.
* SanitySlippage: Olympia 2 suffers from this over the course of the episode as she becomes unable to assist Otis in helping the client they need to help due to unintentional meddling from Olympia 1. Luckily, it doesn't culminate in a FreakOut a la [[Recap/OddSquadS2E7OlympiasDayOtissDay "Olympia's Day"]], but the other agents' interactions with her aren't necessarily helping either.
--> '''Olympia:''' ''[regarding having a name-off]'' Seems a little extreme. I'm sure I'll get used to this.
--> '''Agent:''' Hey, Other Olympia.
--> '''Olympia:''' ''[shaky, unnatural sigh]'' All cool! Be right there.
* SelfBotchedCatchphrase: While Otis and Olympia share the "happy to help, have a great day" {{Catchphrase}} often, Otis messes up the "happy to help" line by being more eloquent with his words.
--> '''Otis:''' Happy to perform a functional duty at this loca- she- ugh, she's better at this.
--> '''Olympia:''' Happy to help, have a great day!
* SentientSands: The Sandman in the world of Odd Squad isn't stated to be a DreamWeaver -- rather, he's a ''literal'' sandman.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Olympia 2 naturally gets to keep her name at the end of the episode.
* StealthHiBye: Olympia does this while interacting with Owen, making a quick break for it when he elaborates on his "I wasn't born yesterday" comment.
* StealthPun: The agent who is retiring from Odd Squad is named [[GratuitousFrench O'Revoir]]. Fitting that they're leaving the organization, since their name is a pun on "au revoir", meaning "goodbye" in French.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Right after Olympia 2 refers to Olympia 1 as "Other Olympia", she, her partner Oz, and the crowd of agents leave as Olympia 1 develops a [[TheUnSmile rather unsettling smile.]] Otis takes one look at her face, goes "Oh boy", and immediately knows what's going to happen. And of course, he's right on the money.
--> '''Olympia:''' ''[unnatural]'' Whaaat? Why "oh boy", no "oh boy"!
--> '''Otis:''' You're gonna have a hard time with this.
--> '''Olympia:''' Just because someone else has the same name as me? Otis, I can totally handle this. ''[cue unnatural smile]''
* ThousandYardStare: Played for laughs with Oona, who is shown doing this as a way to practice her "statue pose".
* TookALevelInJerkass: In [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]], Olympia 2 was shown being generally kind, if not a bit rebellious and impatient. This episode has her being out-and-out antagonistic towards Olympia 1, showing little concern for how much strife the younger agent is experiencing throughout the episode and even referring to her as "Other Olympia" rather than just "Olympia" (and at one point, referring to her as "''Other'' Other Olympia" due to one of her friends ''also'' being named Olympia).
* TranquilFury: Ms. O is ''not'' happy when Harry picks up her juice box, causing the packaging to melt.
--> '''Otis:''' How about I bring Hot Hands Harry into the Warehouse where can't touch anything?
--> '''Ms. O:''' ''Good idea.''
* WorkCom: While the show is already well established as a kid-friendly version of this, this episode takes it a step further by revealing that there are retirement parties that are held for kids who are retiring from Odd Squad, as an equivalent to the retirement parties seen at actual workplaces.
* YouAreAlreadyCheckedIn: A variant occurs with one of the elevators in Headquarters. Olympia 2 runs her card through the scanner over and over again in an attempt to access it, but fails every time. Owen, believing she has two elevator cards, stops her and reminds her that Odd Squad agents are only allowed one elevator card per person, so he turned Olympia 2's card off. She quickly realizes that it's Olympia 1 who has the active elevator card, and confronts her about it, only to have to go to ''another'' room to find the card.
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'''''Other Olympia'''''
'''Airdate:''' June 22, 2018 [[note]]PBS Kids premiere[[/note]]
Olympia is not happy when an agent with the same name shows up.
'''NOTE:''' For simplicity's sake, the Olympia from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]] is referred to as "Olympia 1", while the Olympia who is a main character is referred to as "Olympia 2", where applicable. Please keep this in mind when reading and editing.
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!!Tropes:
* OneHundredPercentHeroismRating: Olympia 2 returns with her partner Oz, and announces her return. When she does, a large crowd of agents begin forming around her, and when she and Oz leave the bullpen, the crowd follows her.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Otis refers to the ColdOpen client as "Melissa", when her name is actually "Sharon". When he's corrected, he nonchalantly remarks that he "took a shot at it".
* AffectionateNickname: Olympia 1 refers to Olympia 2 by a few nicknames, such as "Other Olympia" and "Triple O". The affection is entirely one-sided on her end, however -- for Olympia 2, they're all [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing Nicknames.]] When Olympia 1 calls Olympia 2 "Olympia", she is thankful...before Olympia 1 says that she was talking to herself.
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''ot '''H'''ands '''H'''arry.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Harry's hands look (and function) more like he has second or third-degree burns than an odd illness, to the point where the ''sound of sizzling'' accompanies him holding them up and his hand manages to melt the packaging of one of Ms. O's juice boxes. Dunking a hand in water doesn't help to treat the burn, and instead, the water begins to boil immediately. Despite the fact that he could potentially have burned hands, he isn't shown overtly suffering from it nor does anyone suggest he visit a hospital for treatment (which is one should do if they are suffering from second or third-degree burns); instead, the Un-Hot-Hand-inator was created for such an affliction, and Harry's hands are used for various things like ironing clothing and making toast, to the point where it becomes a ChekhovsGun for the name-off.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Sharon's pug has grown to gigantic proportions as a result of her husband taking it out for a walk. It's a common affliction known in the world of Odd Squad as "giant-dog-itis".
* TheBusCameBack: Olympia from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]] returns in this episode after having spent a year with her partner, Oz, fighting the Sandman. The two are also now Investigation agents following their promotions at the end of that episode.
* ChekhovsGun: Harry's hands are used to help Olympia win the final competition of testing the temperature of a bucket of water.
* TheCoatsAreOff: Played with -- Otis has his coat off because it's getting ironed by Hot Hands Harry.
* ContinuityNod: Just like what Oscar had beginning with [[Recap/OddSquadS1E16OddOutbreakThePerfectLunch "Odd Outbreak"]], Oona also has a checkout system for keeping track of gadgets. (Doesn't come with free chocolate, though.)
** Both Olympias face off in a wrestling ring, like how Olive faced off against various villains in one in [[Recap/OddSquadS1E31UndercoverOlive "Undercover Olive"]].
* {{Dissimile}}: Olympia 1 gives this gem to Olympia 2 when she can't find her elevator card.
--> '''Olympia 2:''' Did you leave it in one of the hot closets?
--> '''Olympia 1:''' More like a cold closet, only instead of a closet, it wasn't a closet.
--> '''Olympia 2:''' A room?
--> '''Olympia 1:''' Ha. ''[chuckling]'' That's the word.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Hilariously defied by Olympia 1, who pulls her cake slice backwards towards her when Olympia 2 accuses her of eating the cake that was rightfully Olympia 2's.
* FatalFlaw: Olympia's tendency to be a MotorMouth and ask Coach O the [[SarcasmMode ever-so-intelligent]] question of how the game works earns her another loss in the name-off.
* FauxPaw: Olympia 2 is shown making a variant of one when the scoreboard is shown, as she extends her fingers and bends them as though they're claws.
* GracefulLoser: Olympia 1 harbors no ill feelings towards Olympia 2 for winning the competition.
* HatingOnMondays: Inverted -- Olympia discusses with Otis how much she loves Tuesdays. When Otis corrects her by saying it's Thursday, Olympia responds aptly by saying that every Thursday, she looks back on her Tuesday. Of course, since she's a {{Workaholic}} who works 'round the clock, it's justified.
* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the match, Ms. O comes up and introduces Otis and Olympia to the newest agent of Precinct 13579: Otis, who immediately shoots a DeathGlare at the other Otis, who in turn rips off his tie and throws it onto the ground in another name-off declaration.
* HypocriticalHumor: Otis thinks it's ridiculous that Olympia is getting worked up over having the same name as someone else, but doesn't do anything about it. The end of the episode has him meeting a new agent to the precinct...whose name happens to be Otis, causing the ''original'' Otis to become angry enough to declare a name-off ''right off the bat.''
* IdiotBall: Pretty much all of the agents sans Ms. O and Otis share the ball. All of them seem to play the OneSteveLimit trope straight and believe that no two agents can have the same name, when in fact, the opposite is true -- not just for agents, but for other people as well (like there being 2 Glenns [[note]]The cupcake shop owner from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E1ZeroEffectBadLuckBears "Zero Effect"]] and the drink vendor from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Picture Day"]][[/note]], 3 Tonys [[note]]the {{Bouncer}} from [[Recap/OddSquadS1E6OscarAndTheOscarbotsPictureDay "Oscar and the Oscarbots"]], the Soundcheck member, and the chef from [[Recap/OddSquadS2E17TheCherryOnTopinatorSir "The Cherry-on-Top-inator"]][[/note]], etc.). It's made painfully obvious with Owen, who refuses to believe Olympia when she tells him that there's another girl named Olympia.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Ms. O sides with Olympia 2 in Olympia 1 being called "Other Olympia" (since it's an Odd Squad rule) and explains what a name-off is, Olympia says that a name-off won't be necessary, as she's fine with the nickname and can handle this situation. A second later and Otis tells Ms. O that his partner ''can't'' handle this situation, causing Olympia to shoot him a "what the hell" look. Of course, he could not be more correct.
* IWarnedYou: Otis tells Ms. O (and by extension, Harry and Olympia 2) that Olympia 2 can't handle the fact there's someone with the same name as her. When Olympia 2 calls him up after retrieving the Un-Hot-Hand-inator gadget, saying that she's referring to Olympia 1 as "Sharlene" and accusing her of stealing Olympia 2's name, Otis tells Harry that "I told you she'd have a problem with this." To further hammer the point in, an agent passing by greets Olympia 2 by calling her "Other Olympia", causing her to grow ever more frustrated.
* LiteralMetaphor: The expression "like finding a needle in a haystack" is taken more literally during the name-off -- one of the challenges is actually finding a needle inside of a bale of hay. Another challenge inverts the phrase and has both Olympias finding a haystack inside of a needle.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Olympia 2 and Otis are unaware of who Olympia 1 and Oz are, since they weren't working at Odd Squad when Olympia 2 and Oz went on their mission. A rather [[IncrediblyLamePun odd]] example in Olympia's case, as she is an Odd Squad historian and should have knowledge of the events of [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]].
* MaliciousMisnaming: For Olympia 1, "Other Olympia" is treated as a hurtful nickname, which both Olympia 2 ''and'' Ms. O refer to her as. The latter is forced to call Olympia 1 the nickname due to the former's seniority, which is an Odd Squad rule.
* MeaningfulRename: Olympia 1 is renamed "Odal" at the end of the episode. Apparently, "Odal" is her middle name, and everyone calls her "Odal" anyway.
* OneSteveLimit: This episode both [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the trope and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it. Olympia 2 is shown being unable to do simple things, like return gadgets or open a closet, because Olympia 1 gets to it in some way before she does. As a result, she begins to grow more and more frustrated until she is denied a slice of cake from a nearby retirement party, as Olympia 1 has already gotten one. She lets out all of her anger on Olympia 1, having been fed up with how she is treated, and the two Olympias compete against each other in a "name-off", an Odd Squad tradition wherein the loser is forced to change their name. By the end of the episode, Olympia 1 loses, and is forced to change her name to "Odal".
** The trope is also averted in the case of Otis, as he is introduced to another Otis who is a new agent of the precinct at the end of the episode...and immediately declares a name-off with him.
* ProWrestlingEpisode: Downplayed. The name-off at the climax of the episode takes place inside of a wrestling ring, and it's treated as a parody of ProfessionalWrestling, only with non-physical combat and names at stake. Hell, even the agents present at the showdown are wearing shirts with the ''competitors' faces'' on them!
* RageBreakingPoint: Olympia 2 being denied a slice of cake while on her way to meet Otis and Harry despite not having had a slice already is the final straw for her as she sees Olympia 1 eating a cake slice of her own. She goes to confront her, and the two enter a name-off with each other.
* ReallyWasBornYesterday: Parodied with Owen, who gives this gem when confronting Olympia 2:
--> '''Owen:''' Ohh. Yeah, right. Like there's just some ''other Olympia'' using your elevator card. Nice try, but I wasn't born yesterday. I think I would've remembered that if it was just yesterday I was born. ''[beat]'' And she's gone.
* RhythmGame: One of the challenges in the name-off is the Animal Clap Showdown, which functions in this way. One competitor claps in time with saying the names of various animals, then the other competitor has to follow suit, naming a different animal at the end than the one the other competitor used (for example, Olympia 2 uses "whale" while Olympia 2 uses "fox"). If a competitor repeats an animal name at the end of the chain, they lose.
* SanitySlippage: Olympia 2 suffers from this over the course of the episode as she becomes unable to assist Otis in helping the client they need to help due to unintentional meddling from Olympia 1. Luckily, it doesn't culminate in a FreakOut a la [[Recap/OddSquadS2E7OlympiasDayOtissDay "Olympia's Day"]], but the other agents' interactions with her aren't necessarily helping either.
--> '''Olympia:''' ''[regarding having a name-off]'' Seems a little extreme. I'm sure I'll get used to this.
--> '''Agent:''' Hey, Other Olympia.
--> '''Olympia:''' ''[shaky, unnatural sigh]'' All cool! Be right there.
* SelfBotchedCatchphrase: While Otis and Olympia share the "happy to help, have a great day" {{Catchphrase}} often, Otis messes up the "happy to help" line by being more eloquent with his words.
--> '''Otis:''' Happy to perform a functional duty at this loca- she- ugh, she's better at this.
--> '''Olympia:''' Happy to help, have a great day!
* SentientSands: The Sandman in the world of Odd Squad isn't stated to be a DreamWeaver -- rather, he's a ''literal'' sandman.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Olympia 2 naturally gets to keep her name at the end of the episode.
* StealthHiBye: Olympia does this while interacting with Owen, making a quick break for it when he elaborates on his "I wasn't born yesterday" comment.
* StealthPun: The agent who is retiring from Odd Squad is named [[GratuitousFrench O'Revoir]]. Fitting that they're leaving the organization, since their name is a pun on "au revoir", meaning "goodbye" in French.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Right after Olympia 2 refers to Olympia 1 as "Other Olympia", she, her partner Oz, and the crowd of agents leave as Olympia 1 develops a [[TheUnSmile rather unsettling smile.]] Otis takes one look at her face, goes "Oh boy", and immediately knows what's going to happen. And of course, he's right on the money.
--> '''Olympia:''' ''[unnatural]'' Whaaat? Why "oh boy", no "oh boy"!
--> '''Otis:''' You're gonna have a hard time with this.
--> '''Olympia:''' Just because someone else has the same name as me? Otis, I can totally handle this. ''[cue unnatural smile]''
* ThousandYardStare: Played for laughs with Oona, who is shown doing this as a way to practice her "statue pose".
* TookALevelInJerkass: In [[Recap/OddSquadS1E33OVsTheBallcanoAssistantsCreed "Assistant's Creed"]], Olympia 2 was shown being generally kind, if not a bit rebellious and impatient. This episode has her being out-and-out antagonistic towards Olympia 1, showing little concern for how much strife the younger agent is experiencing throughout the episode and even referring to her as "Other Olympia" rather than just "Olympia" (and at one point, referring to her as "''Other'' Other Olympia" due to one of her friends ''also'' being named Olympia).
* TranquilFury: Ms. O is ''not'' happy when Harry picks up her juice box, causing the packaging to melt.
--> '''Otis:''' How about I bring Hot Hands Harry into the Warehouse where can't touch anything?
--> '''Ms. O:''' ''Good idea.''
* WorkCom: While the show is already well established as a kid-friendly version of this, this episode takes it a step further by revealing that there are retirement parties that are held for kids who are retiring from Odd Squad, as an equivalent to the retirement parties seen at actual workplaces.
* YouAreAlreadyCheckedIn: A variant occurs with one of the elevators in Headquarters. Olympia 2 runs her card through the scanner over and over again in an attempt to access it, but fails every time. Owen, believing she has two elevator cards, stops her and reminds her that Odd Squad agents are only allowed one elevator card per person, so he turned Olympia 2's card off. She quickly realizes that it's Olympia 1 who has the active elevator card, and confronts her about it, only to have to go to ''another'' room to find the card.
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