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* ShoutOut: Wheelie Dan's name could be a potential reference to Dan Wheeler, an American former baseball pitcher who has played on such teams as the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets.
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* ShoutOut: Wheelie Dan's name could be is a potential reference to Dan Wheeler, an American former baseball pitcher who has played on such teams as the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets.music group Music/SteelyDan.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Freeze Ray Ray tells Sister Sally that "vase" isn't pronounced "vais", it's pronounced "vahs".
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Creator/PBSKids' closed-captioning for this episode on their online video player has Jamie Jam saying "damn" when attacking Sister Sally. In the episode proper, she says "jam" (although it is a bit indecipherable over the sound of the battle). The network was contacted about this issue, but it hasn't been resolved. [[note]] It's worth noting that Odd Squad episodes put up on PBS Kids' video player have a history of terrible and inaccurate closed-captioning, and it isn't the first time "damn" has been slipped into a show of theirs -- episodes of shows that have characters saying "dam" are often listed as them saying "damn" instead, such as in the ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' episode "Build It Beaver".[[/note]]
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Creator/PBSKids' closed-captioning for GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this episode on their online video player has Jamie Jam saying "damn" when attacking Sister Sally. In the episode proper, she says "jam" (although it is a bit indecipherable over the sound of the battle). The network was contacted about this issue, but it hasn't been resolved. [[note]] It's worth noting that Odd Squad episodes put up on PBS Kids' video player have a history of terrible and inaccurate closed-captioning, and it isn't the first time "damn" has been slipped into a show of theirs -- episodes of shows that have characters saying "dam" are often listed as them saying "damn" instead, such as in the ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' episode "Build It Beaver".[[/note]]future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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.* EnergyWeapon: Some of the villains fight like this, with laser beams shooting back and forth as Brutus and The Shadow hide.
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* FrickinLaserBeams: Some of the villains fight like this, with laser beams shooting back and forth as Brutus and The Shadow hide.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Shelly Catessan, a villainess who turns people into sandwiches, makes her debut in this episode, although she wouldn't be prominently featured until "The Sandwich Project".
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Shelly Catessan, a villainess who turns people into sandwiches, makes her debut in this episode, although she wouldn't be prominently featured until [[Recap/OddSquadS3E15TheSandwichProjectWaxOnWaxOdd "The Sandwich Project".Project"]].
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** Confetti Betty also makes a cameo appearance in this episode, although she isn't introduced until "Teach a Man to Ice Fish".
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** Confetti Betty also makes a cameo appearance in this episode, although she isn't introduced until [[Recap/OddSquadS3E16TeachAManToIceFish "Teach a Man to Ice Fish".Fish"]].
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* MistakenForThief: Subverted. Ono believes that since the villain was in the computer room for 2 minutes, they had no time to steal anything of value (i.e., the mega-computer itself), hence why she put on her report that the villain didn't steal anything from the mega-computer. She could not be more wrong -- in those two minutes, The Shadow, who is the real culprit, extracted data on every Odd Squad villain and made her escape before Ono came back. It's not directly stated whether she went through the doors leading to the mega-computer (which would cause Ono's alarm to go off), or if she phased through the doors using her InvisibilityCloak, but evidence mostly points to the latter.
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* MistakenForThief: Subverted. Ono believes that since the villain was in the computer room for 2 minutes, they had no time to steal anything of value (i.e., the mega-computer itself), hence why she put on her report that the villain didn't steal anything from the mega-computer. She could not be more wrong -- in those two minutes, The Shadow, who is the real culprit, presumably extracted data on every Odd Squad villain and made her escape before Ono came back. It's not directly stated whether she went through the doors leading to the mega-computer (which would cause Ono's alarm to go off), or if she phased through the doors using her InvisibilityCloak, but evidence mostly points regardless, she is revealed to not have escaped at all, lingering in the latter.room with the mega-computer up until she exposes herself to Ono and the Main 4.
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* VillainsOutShopping: The villains that The Shadow gathers all play a game of dodgeball at one point, per the Villain Rulebook. However, it quickly turns into a brawl with all of the villains' powers when Sister Sally throws a dodgeball at Jamie Jam.
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* VillainsOutShopping: The villains that The Shadow gathers all play a game of dodgeball at one point, per the Villain Rulebook. However, it quickly turns into a brawl with all of the villains' powers when Sister Sally throws a dodgeball at Jamie Jam.Jam after Brutus blows a whistle and calls for a water break.
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* WorldBuilding: This episode reveals that there are villain groups in the world of Odd Squad, and villains don't usually work alone. This is in contrast to past episodes, which showed otherwise.
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* {{Irony}}: Dr. Dry is someone who specializes in dryness.
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* {{Irony}}: Dr. Dry Dry, who wears a stethoscope, is someone who specializes in dryness.dryness. Dry mouth and dry skin are two health conditions related to dryness that doctors treat rather than create.
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** While it wasn't a universal rulebook for villains, [[Recap/OddSquadS1E32NotSoSplashByTheBook "By the Book" had Gooey Randall and Goopy Gus show Otto their own villain rulebook.
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** While it wasn't a universal rulebook for villains, [[Recap/OddSquadS1E32NotSoSplashByTheBook "By the Book" Book"]] had Gooey Randall and Goopy Gus show Otto their own villain rulebook.
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The Mobile Unit tries to figure out who broke into Odd Squad's Top Secret Security Facility to get to the mega-computer.
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The Mobile Unit tries is called to figure out who broke into Odd Squad's Top Secret Top-Secret Security Facility where an unknown villain has broken in to get to the mega-computer.
mega-computer. But when Lady Bread, Wheelie Dan, and the Utensiler's younger sister all claim to be the villain responsible, the team must recreate the break-in to discover the true culprit.
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'''''Villain Networking'''''
'''Airdate:''' July 7, 2020 [[note]]PBS Kids premiere[[/note]]
The Shadow hosts a meeting of villains worldwide in order to convince them to join her Villain Network. But when she shows them their decline in villainy on a line graph, it catapults the villains into a game of blame. She must come up with a line graph that will convince them all to join, or her master plan will fail.
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* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Played with. This episode keeps continuity from the ''Odd Squad Agent's Handbook'' about the Mobile Unit forming in August. However, it's not explicitly stated when this episode in particular takes place, although it's implied that it takes place sometime in late December 2019, or early 2020.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When The Shadow asks the villains what Odd Squad has that the villains don't, Shelly Catessan says "ties", Dr. Dry says "gadgets", and Monsieur Papier-Mache says "good breath".
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Brutus ends up with spaghetti and tape on him when attempting to get to the stage with The Shadow. However, The Shadow herself doesn't have so much as a scratch on her.
* BigNo: Freeze Ray Ray gives one when Shelly Catessan zaps Dr. Dry and turns him into a sandwich.
* BlameGame: Each group of villains blames another group for their decline in villainy, then said other group blames another group, and so on.
* CatFight: Heavily downplayed. Sister Sally and Jamie Jam acting antagonistic towards each other is reminiscent of a catfight, but they aren't {{Fanservice}} characters, nor is the scene itself played for {{Fanservice}} (natch, since this ''is'' a kids' show).
* [[invoked]] ChaoticEvil: "Screw the Rules, I'm Evil" is in full effect when Sister Sally destroys the Villain Rulebook that Brutus holds when he reminds her and Jamie Jam of the rules for villains.
* ConflictBall: Jamie Jam initially starts the BlameGame by telling The Shadow not to blame the food villains for the lack of oddness and blames the weather villains, who blame Crazy Eights and the number villains. However, The Shadow never calls out one specific group of villains for the oddness decline -- she calls out ''all'' of the villains. Nonetheless, the strife between all four villain groups carries throughout the episode.
* ContinuityCavalcade: This episode brings back quite a few villains from previous seasons, such as Lady Sunshine and Equal Evan. It even brings back some villains seen in previous episodes from this season, such as one of the Sister Sallies and Monsieur Papier-Mache.
* ContinuityNod: Brutus brings up the Odd-o-meter, a tool previously used by Orla in [[Recap/OddSquadS3E9TheVoidIntoTheOddWoods "The Void"]] to test for oddness.
** While it wasn't a universal rulebook for villains, [[Recap/OddSquadS1E32NotSoSplashByTheBook "By the Book" had Gooey Randall and Goopy Gus show Otto their own villain rulebook.
** Just like in [[Recap/OddSquadS3E1OddBeginningsPartOne "Odd]] [[Recap/OddSquadS3E2OddBeginningsPartTwo Beginnings"]], Sister Sally goes to high-five someone, only to get stuck. She and Freeze Ray Ray break free much easier than her and her sister do, though.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Shelly Catessan, a villainess who turns people into sandwiches, makes her debut in this episode, although she wouldn't be prominently featured until "The Sandwich Project".
** The Villain Network's logo was briefly seen on the flash drive The Shadow had inserted in the mega-computer in the previous episode. This episode reveals the logo in full.
** Confetti Betty also makes a cameo appearance in this episode, although she isn't introduced until "Teach a Man to Ice Fish".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Shadow has no issue with bossing other villains around and being a BrattyHalfPint, but she does have the decency to throw in a "please and thank you" into her orders. [[note]] Whether this is ExecutiveMeddling from Creator/PBSKids or not is up for interpretation.[[/note]]
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Downplayed -- only The Shadow performs her trademark EvilLaugh at the end of the episode, and none of the other villains do their own evil laughs along with her.
* FantasticFireworks: Some shoot out of pillars placed on The Shadow's stage, igniting and going off when she does her EvilLaugh.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Some of the villains fight like this, with laser beams shooting back and forth as Brutus and The Shadow hide.
* {{Gasp}}: One ripples across the villain groups as The Shadow tells them that oddness is going down.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Creator/PBSKids' closed-captioning for this episode on their online video player has Jamie Jam saying "damn" when attacking Sister Sally. In the episode proper, she says "jam" (although it is a bit indecipherable over the sound of the battle). The network was contacted about this issue, but it hasn't been resolved. [[note]] It's worth noting that Odd Squad episodes put up on PBS Kids' video player have a history of terrible and inaccurate closed-captioning, and it isn't the first time "damn" has been slipped into a show of theirs -- episodes of shows that have characters saying "dam" are often listed as them saying "damn" instead, such as in the ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' episode "Build It Beaver".[[/note]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Shadow wants the villains to team up so they can destroy Odd Squad by using the organization's own modus operandi: teamwork.
* {{Irony}}: Dr. Dry is someone who specializes in dryness.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Freeze Ray Ray tells Sister Sally that "vase" isn't pronounced "vais", it's pronounced "vahs".
* ItKindOfLooksLikeAFace: Inverted. The logo of the Villain Network is meant to resemble two people with masks facing each other, but the villains believe it looks like a vase (they're not wrong -- it does look like a vase initially, since it's an optical illusion). The Shadow has to go up to the logo and point out the faces just so they understand.
* JokerImmunity: Played with. [[Recap/OddSquadS3E2OddBeginningsPartTwo "Odd Beginnings: Part 2"]] ultimately left the two Sister Sallies' fates unknown after Orla's headquarters collapsed (so it's unknown if they died in the accident or not). This episode has one Sister Sally return, although she's without her sister, so whether the second Sister Sally is alive or not is up for interpretation.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Directly after The Shadow tells the villains to join up with her since they're bad at causing oddness, she begins her EvilLaugh and music plays in the background. Jamie Jam stands up and tells her to "stop the music". The BGM then abruptly cuts off.
* LegionOfDoom: The Shadow's second, and ultimate, plan is to form a Villain Network with every villain worldwide teaming up with her so she can beat the Odd Squad Mobile Unit. However, conflict arises among the villains when she points out how their villainy has been on a decline in recent months, and the entire episode is spent trying to get them to work together. While The Shadow wants to target the Mobile Unit specifically (since that's where her main foe, Opal, is), the other villains want to target Odd Squad as an entire organization, which she agrees with.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: The BGM that accompanies The Shadow doing her EvilLaugh is abruptly cut off when Brutus interrupts her.
** It veers into RunningGag territory throughout the episode, with The Shadow encouraging villains to join her Villain Network, doing her EvilLaugh accompanied by FantasticFireworks, and some other villain interrupting her.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: None of the currently-existing villains know who The Shadow is, due to her being new to villainy, as Brutus points out.
* {{Overcrank}}: Used when Brutus and The Shadow attempt to get to their stage while avoiding attacks from villains.
* PungeonMaster: Jamie Jam, natch.
--> '''Jamie Jam:''' Stop the music! ''[music stops]'' Firstly, that's not my jam.
* RulesLawyer: Brutus becomes this in order to stop the villains from leaving.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Every villain sans The Shadow and Brutus attempt to do this, but Brutus repeatedly defies it.
* SeriesContinuityError: Equal Evan and Jamie Jam were both seen at Todd's Home for Villains[[{{Tradesnark}} ™]] in [[Recap/OddSquadS2E35OddsAndEnds "Odds and Ends"]], which was implied to be a place where villains can perform [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turns.]] This episode has them being full-time villains again, for no determined reason.
* SequelEpisode: To "Odd in 60 Seconds", as it's implied that this episode picks up from where that one left off, and that it's some time later after The Shadow has gathered all of the villains. However, there's no ToBeContinued or PreviouslyOn, as would be the case for [[MultiPartEpisode multi-part episodes.]]
* ShoutOut: Lady Sunshine's pose while holding up a ball of sunshine for the villains' picnic is strikingly similar to the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/b8/33/54b833eb090d9d95927f67e4a62e2513.jpg "torch lady"]] in the logo of Creator/ColumbiaPictures.
* SupremeChef: Shelly Catessan, true to her PunnyName (on "delicatessen"), is an exceptionally good sandwich maker. However, she doesn't make sandwiches with the usual edible ingredients -- she makes sandwiches by turning objects into them.
* {{Understatement}}: Once The Shadow hides along with Brutus, he fills her in on what's happening.
--> '''The Shadow:''' What's going on here?!
--> '''Brutus:''' The villains are having a ''little'' trouble getting along...
--> ''[a laser beam hits a bowl behind them as it clatters to the floor]''
--> '''The Shadow:''' A ''little?!''
* VillainEpisode: This episode focuses solely on the villains, as The Shadow attempts to recruit all of them for her Villain Network. None of the Main 4, nor the Big O, make any appearance, making this the only Season 3 episode where the Main 4 are absent outside of mentions.
* VillainsOutShopping: The villains that The Shadow gathers all play a game of dodgeball at one point, per the Villain Rulebook. However, it quickly turns into a brawl with all of the villains' powers when Sister Sally throws a dodgeball at Jamie Jam.
* VillainTeamUp: It's revealed that each of the four groups of villains worked together with another singular group of villains (the weather villains with the assorted villains, etc.) to cause oddness in July.
* WorldBuilding: This episode reveals that there are villain groups in the world of Odd Squad, and villains don't usually work alone. This is in contrast to past episodes, which showed otherwise.
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[[caption-width-right:350:It's time for The Shadow's ultimate EvilPlan formation.]]
'''''Villain Networking'''''
'''Airdate:''' July 7, 2020 [[note]]PBS Kids premiere[[/note]]
The Shadow hosts a meeting of villains worldwide in order to convince them to join her Villain Network. But when she shows them their decline in villainy on a line graph, it catapults the villains into a game of blame. She must come up with a line graph that will convince them all to join, or her master plan will fail.
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!!Tropes:
* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Played with. This episode keeps continuity from the ''Odd Squad Agent's Handbook'' about the Mobile Unit forming in August. However, it's not explicitly stated when this episode in particular takes place, although it's implied that it takes place sometime in late December 2019, or early 2020.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When The Shadow asks the villains what Odd Squad has that the villains don't, Shelly Catessan says "ties", Dr. Dry says "gadgets", and Monsieur Papier-Mache says "good breath".
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Brutus ends up with spaghetti and tape on him when attempting to get to the stage with The Shadow. However, The Shadow herself doesn't have so much as a scratch on her.
* BigNo: Freeze Ray Ray gives one when Shelly Catessan zaps Dr. Dry and turns him into a sandwich.
* BlameGame: Each group of villains blames another group for their decline in villainy, then said other group blames another group, and so on.
* CatFight: Heavily downplayed. Sister Sally and Jamie Jam acting antagonistic towards each other is reminiscent of a catfight, but they aren't {{Fanservice}} characters, nor is the scene itself played for {{Fanservice}} (natch, since this ''is'' a kids' show).
* [[invoked]] ChaoticEvil: "Screw the Rules, I'm Evil" is in full effect when Sister Sally destroys the Villain Rulebook that Brutus holds when he reminds her and Jamie Jam of the rules for villains.
* ConflictBall: Jamie Jam initially starts the BlameGame by telling The Shadow not to blame the food villains for the lack of oddness and blames the weather villains, who blame Crazy Eights and the number villains. However, The Shadow never calls out one specific group of villains for the oddness decline -- she calls out ''all'' of the villains. Nonetheless, the strife between all four villain groups carries throughout the episode.
* ContinuityCavalcade: This episode brings back quite a few villains from previous seasons, such as Lady Sunshine and Equal Evan. It even brings back some villains seen in previous episodes from this season, such as one of the Sister Sallies and Monsieur Papier-Mache.
* ContinuityNod: Brutus brings up the Odd-o-meter, a tool previously used by Orla in [[Recap/OddSquadS3E9TheVoidIntoTheOddWoods "The Void"]] to test for oddness.
** While it wasn't a universal rulebook for villains, [[Recap/OddSquadS1E32NotSoSplashByTheBook "By the Book" had Gooey Randall and Goopy Gus show Otto their own villain rulebook.
** Just like in [[Recap/OddSquadS3E1OddBeginningsPartOne "Odd]] [[Recap/OddSquadS3E2OddBeginningsPartTwo Beginnings"]], Sister Sally goes to high-five someone, only to get stuck. She and Freeze Ray Ray break free much easier than her and her sister do, though.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Shelly Catessan, a villainess who turns people into sandwiches, makes her debut in this episode, although she wouldn't be prominently featured until "The Sandwich Project".
** The Villain Network's logo was briefly seen on the flash drive The Shadow had inserted in the mega-computer in the previous episode. This episode reveals the logo in full.
** Confetti Betty also makes a cameo appearance in this episode, although she isn't introduced until "Teach a Man to Ice Fish".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Shadow has no issue with bossing other villains around and being a BrattyHalfPint, but she does have the decency to throw in a "please and thank you" into her orders. [[note]] Whether this is ExecutiveMeddling from Creator/PBSKids or not is up for interpretation.[[/note]]
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Downplayed -- only The Shadow performs her trademark EvilLaugh at the end of the episode, and none of the other villains do their own evil laughs along with her.
* FantasticFireworks: Some shoot out of pillars placed on The Shadow's stage, igniting and going off when she does her EvilLaugh.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Some of the villains fight like this, with laser beams shooting back and forth as Brutus and The Shadow hide.
* {{Gasp}}: One ripples across the villain groups as The Shadow tells them that oddness is going down.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Creator/PBSKids' closed-captioning for this episode on their online video player has Jamie Jam saying "damn" when attacking Sister Sally. In the episode proper, she says "jam" (although it is a bit indecipherable over the sound of the battle). The network was contacted about this issue, but it hasn't been resolved. [[note]] It's worth noting that Odd Squad episodes put up on PBS Kids' video player have a history of terrible and inaccurate closed-captioning, and it isn't the first time "damn" has been slipped into a show of theirs -- episodes of shows that have characters saying "dam" are often listed as them saying "damn" instead, such as in the ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' episode "Build It Beaver".[[/note]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Shadow wants the villains to team up so they can destroy Odd Squad by using the organization's own modus operandi: teamwork.
* {{Irony}}: Dr. Dry is someone who specializes in dryness.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Freeze Ray Ray tells Sister Sally that "vase" isn't pronounced "vais", it's pronounced "vahs".
* ItKindOfLooksLikeAFace: Inverted. The logo of the Villain Network is meant to resemble two people with masks facing each other, but the villains believe it looks like a vase (they're not wrong -- it does look like a vase initially, since it's an optical illusion). The Shadow has to go up to the logo and point out the faces just so they understand.
* JokerImmunity: Played with. [[Recap/OddSquadS3E2OddBeginningsPartTwo "Odd Beginnings: Part 2"]] ultimately left the two Sister Sallies' fates unknown after Orla's headquarters collapsed (so it's unknown if they died in the accident or not). This episode has one Sister Sally return, although she's without her sister, so whether the second Sister Sally is alive or not is up for interpretation.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Directly after The Shadow tells the villains to join up with her since they're bad at causing oddness, she begins her EvilLaugh and music plays in the background. Jamie Jam stands up and tells her to "stop the music". The BGM then abruptly cuts off.
* LegionOfDoom: The Shadow's second, and ultimate, plan is to form a Villain Network with every villain worldwide teaming up with her so she can beat the Odd Squad Mobile Unit. However, conflict arises among the villains when she points out how their villainy has been on a decline in recent months, and the entire episode is spent trying to get them to work together. While The Shadow wants to target the Mobile Unit specifically (since that's where her main foe, Opal, is), the other villains want to target Odd Squad as an entire organization, which she agrees with.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: The BGM that accompanies The Shadow doing her EvilLaugh is abruptly cut off when Brutus interrupts her.
** It veers into RunningGag territory throughout the episode, with The Shadow encouraging villains to join her Villain Network, doing her EvilLaugh accompanied by FantasticFireworks, and some other villain interrupting her.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: None of the currently-existing villains know who The Shadow is, due to her being new to villainy, as Brutus points out.
* {{Overcrank}}: Used when Brutus and The Shadow attempt to get to their stage while avoiding attacks from villains.
* PungeonMaster: Jamie Jam, natch.
--> '''Jamie Jam:''' Stop the music! ''[music stops]'' Firstly, that's not my jam.
* RulesLawyer: Brutus becomes this in order to stop the villains from leaving.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Every villain sans The Shadow and Brutus attempt to do this, but Brutus repeatedly defies it.
* SeriesContinuityError: Equal Evan and Jamie Jam were both seen at Todd's Home for Villains[[{{Tradesnark}} ™]] in [[Recap/OddSquadS2E35OddsAndEnds "Odds and Ends"]], which was implied to be a place where villains can perform [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turns.]] This episode has them being full-time villains again, for no determined reason.
* SequelEpisode: To "Odd in 60 Seconds", as it's implied that this episode picks up from where that one left off, and that it's some time later after The Shadow has gathered all of the villains. However, there's no ToBeContinued or PreviouslyOn, as would be the case for [[MultiPartEpisode multi-part episodes.]]
* ShoutOut: Lady Sunshine's pose while holding up a ball of sunshine for the villains' picnic is strikingly similar to the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/54/b8/33/54b833eb090d9d95927f67e4a62e2513.jpg "torch lady"]] in the logo of Creator/ColumbiaPictures.
* SupremeChef: Shelly Catessan, true to her PunnyName (on "delicatessen"), is an exceptionally good sandwich maker. However, she doesn't make sandwiches with the usual edible ingredients -- she makes sandwiches by turning objects into them.
* {{Understatement}}: Once The Shadow hides along with Brutus, he fills her in on what's happening.
--> '''The Shadow:''' What's going on here?!
--> '''Brutus:''' The villains are having a ''little'' trouble getting along...
--> ''[a laser beam hits a bowl behind them as it clatters to the floor]''
--> '''The Shadow:''' A ''little?!''
* VillainEpisode: This episode focuses solely on the villains, as The Shadow attempts to recruit all of them for her Villain Network. None of the Main 4, nor the Big O, make any appearance, making this the only Season 3 episode where the Main 4 are absent outside of mentions.
* VillainsOutShopping: The villains that The Shadow gathers all play a game of dodgeball at one point, per the Villain Rulebook. However, it quickly turns into a brawl with all of the villains' powers when Sister Sally throws a dodgeball at Jamie Jam.
* VillainTeamUp: It's revealed that each of the four groups of villains worked together with another singular group of villains (the weather villains with the assorted villains, etc.) to cause oddness in July.
* WorldBuilding: This episode reveals that there are villain groups in the world of Odd Squad, and villains don't usually work alone. This is in contrast to past episodes, which showed otherwise.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Which villain can get through this Security facility in 60 seconds, and avoid all detection?]]
'''''Odd in 60 Seconds'''''
'''Airdate:''' July 7, 2020 [[note]]PBS Kids premiere[[/note]]
The Mobile Unit tries to figure out who broke into Odd Squad's Top Secret Security Facility to get to the mega-computer.
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!!Tropes:
* AmusingInjuries: Wheelie Dan gets some via {{Slapstick}}, as he repeatedly slips and falls on the marbles littering the second hallway, causing Ono and the Main 4 to all cringe.
* BadLiar: Lady Bread and Wheelie Dan aren't very convincing in telling the Main 4 that they broke into the facility. Lady Bread is perhaps the worst offender out of the duo.
--> '''Lady Bread:''' ''[attempting to pick the lock with her FingerlessHands]'' This is how...the professionals do it!
--> '''Opal:''' I don't think she's doing as well as she thinks she's doing.
* BatmanGambit: The Shadow manipulates three villains to distract and lie to the Mobile Unit by threatening them with her sheer power, and has enough confidence in them that they won't turn their backs on her (and they don't -- with how powerful she is, she could destroy them as she sees fit if they disobey her), to such an extent that she lingers around at the mega-computer for a long while after she performs her theft. She knows that the Mobile Unit would want to know the culprit and that they would find out who it was eventually, but also knows that Odd Squad agents aren't the ones to shoot first and ask questions later, meaning that they would be taken aback by her sudden appearance (wearing an InvisibilityCloak to disguise herself initially) and be too shocked to attack. [[XanatosGambit The Shadow still commits the crime successfully and makes a quick exit, and everything goes according to plan for her.]]
* BigWhat: The Main 4 all give these when Ono tells them that a villain broke into the facility.
* TheBusCameBack: Lady Bread returns after having last been seen in [[Recap/OddSquadS2E16RookieNightWhoLetTheDougOut "Who Let the Doug Out?"]].
** The Utensiler is also mentioned, having last appeared in [[Recap/OddSquadS2E30TheDepositSlipUpVillainsAlwaysWin "Villains Always Win"]].
* CallBack: Opal recalls how The Shadow [[Recap/OddSquadS3E10SlowYourRoll took control of the Mobile Unit's van]] just a couple episodes ago.
* ContinuityNod: The Utensiler expresses confidence at getting through the LaserHallway, and Omar makes an AsideComment to Opal that he thinks she's going to dance through them. Otto and Otis did that exact thing in TheMovie.
* DeadpanSnarker: Due to her BrutalHonesty, Orla tends to snark a lot, but this episode has her snarking at Dan as she watches him make his way through marbles scattered onto the floor, calling him ridiculous.
* TheDentistEpisode: Downplayed. Ono says that the villain broke in while she was at the dentist, but all we're shown are X-rays of her teeth, which Opal compliments her on, telling her that her teeth look good.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: After seeing how she is able to get through all three doors in the facility, the Mobile Unit, and Ono, all become convinced that the Utensiler's younger sister was the one who broke in, as she states that she tried to download all of the secrets on the mega-computer, but Ono came back before she was able to, so she snuck out. However, Omar realizes that no alarms were set off when the Utensiler's younger sister -- who leaves via the doors as soon as she proves that she's the culprit -- went through each door, like they should have, and starts to say that the real culprit never left the place before The Shadow, the real culprit, finishes his sentence for him.
* DramaticDrop: When Ono says that The Shadow took a file on Opal, Omar drops the folder he's holding in pure shock as Orla and Oswald steer their gazes towards a very concerned Opal.
* DynamicEntry: Inverted -- The Shadow makes an exit by going straight through the roof of the facility and out of Devils Tower.
* EpicFail: Lady Bread and Wheelie Dan are unable to open the first and second doors leading to the mega-computer, respectively -- the latter even more so, as he suffers many AmusingInjuries just ''trying'' to get to the door, to such an extent where the agents ''feel pity for him'' and ask if they want him to stop the timer used to see if he can get to the door in 60 seconds.
* FingerlessHands: Lady Bread not only has these, but she also has bread loaves for feet, with no toes (something that Ono expresses slight disgust over). This proves to be a detriment for her, as she is unable to open the first door.
** The Utensiler's younger sister also has fingerless hands, although hers are apparently smaller than her sister's.
* GetOut: Wheelie Dan shoos Lady Bread out of the vault upon his arrival. The Utensiler's younger sister later does it with Dan.
* ICantBelieveImSayingThis: Omar says this when he realizes that the Utensiler may not be the culprit after all.
--> '''Opal:''' Come on, Omar. Let's go play your game. Case closed.
--> '''Omar:''' I can't believe I'm saying this, but I don't think it's closed.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Oswald confronts Wheelie Dan and asks him how he and the other agents know that he's not lying like Lady Bread did. Dan snaps back by saying that he has wheels, which Omar takes note of, saying that he doesn't see how that matters.
* InvisibilityCloak: The Shadow wears one of these, allowing her to go undetected by Ono and the Main 4 until the last minute.
* ImprovisedLockpick: Wheelie Dan unlocks the first door by using what appears to be two paper clips hidden in his upper arm pads as lockpicks.
** The Utensiler's younger sister also uses lockpicks in her utensil-storing hands, which also look like two paper clips.
* LaserHallway: The third and final hallway leading to the mega-computer is filled with lasers, some of which move back and forth. The Utensiler's younger sister deflects them with ease, and in 10 seconds.
* LiteralMinded: When the Mobile Unit gets to Devils Tower, Orla remarks how it doesn't look as devilish as she imagined.
* MirrorsReflectEverything: The Utensiler's younger sister deflects the lasers in the final hallway using mirrors attached to her utensil hands.
* MistakenForThief: Subverted. Ono believes that since the villain was in the computer room for 2 minutes, they had no time to steal anything of value (i.e., the mega-computer itself), hence why she put on her report that the villain didn't steal anything from the mega-computer. She could not be more wrong -- in those two minutes, The Shadow, who is the real culprit, extracted data on every Odd Squad villain and made her escape before Ono came back. It's not directly stated whether she went through the doors leading to the mega-computer (which would cause Ono's alarm to go off), or if she phased through the doors using her InvisibilityCloak, but evidence mostly points to the latter.
** It's played straight with Lady Bread, Wheelie Dan, and The Utensiler's younger sister, however -- they claim to be the culprits, but when trying to get to the next door, all of them (save the sister) fail spectacularly. It's eventually revealed that The Shadow intentionally invoked the trope.
* MysteryEpisode: The episode revolves around the Main 4 helping Ono, a local Security agent, figure out who broke into Odd Squad's Security facility and got to the mega-computer.
* NoNameGiven: The Utensiler's younger sister doesn't have a name, only being referred to as just that: "The Utensiler's Younger Sister".
* RaceAgainstTheClock: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As the title suggests,]] each villain that tries to get to the mega-computer has exactly 60 seconds to do so, and must avoid the traps that each hallway has in order to get to it. Lady Bread, Wheelie Dan, and The Utensiler's sister all try to get to the vault, and while Lady Bread and Wheelie Dan fail spectacularly, The Utensiler's sister succeeds in getting there within the time limit.
* RapidFireNo: Ono does this just after The Shadow leaves.
* RollerbladeGood: Wheelie Dan travels on roller blades. Not only that, but he has wheels ''all'' over his body, as part of his costume. He can ride just fine on the roller blades on his feet, but give him marbles on a surface and he repeatedly slips and falls.
* ShoutOut: Wheelie Dan's name could be a potential reference to Dan Wheeler, an American former baseball pitcher who has played on such teams as the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets.
* SkewedPriorities: It's par for the course when it comes to [[TheDitz Omar]] -- he repeatedly tries to get the rest of the Main 4, and Ono, to play the board game he bought at a nearby gift shop, only for the the others to rightfully brush him off. It gets to such an extent where he grips the IdiotBall near-consistently throughout the episode, only dropping it near the end when he realizes that the case isn't closed.
* StealthHiBye: The Utensiler's younger sister does this right after Wheelie Dan admits to not being the culprit.
* [[invoked]] TechnologyMarchesOn: An in-universe example. Ono's smartwatch seems to be more advanced than any of the smartwatches we've seen worn by other agents -- it can be used as a screen, to activate booby traps, ''and'' to open doors. It also comes equipped with an alarm to let Ono know when each door is opened.
* TrickedOutShoes: The Shadow wears sneakers with bright orange soles, which also grant her the power of {{Flight}}.
* WhamEpisode: Following her EvilPlan to destroy the van (and by extension, the Mobile Unit) in [[Recap/OddSquadS3E10SlowYourRoll "Slow Your Roll"]] failing, this episode has The Shadow working on her second, and final, plan: form a VillainTeamUp of her and every Odd Squad villain in existence in order to stop the Mobile Unit themselves (and Odd Squad) for good. She does so by breaking into a top-secret facility, stealing information on all of the villains (and Opal), and taking off to her SupervillainLair, all without being detected. The following episode, "Villain Networking", shows her expanding on her plan, gathering all of the villains together and trying to get them to team up with her.
* WhamLine: Two in this episode.
** When The Shadow reveals herself.
--> '''Opal:''' Are you saying...
--> '''Omar:''' The real villain that did this?
--> '''The Shadow:''' ''[revealing herself]'' Never left.
** When Ono checks the mega-computer after The Shadow escapes.
--> '''Ono:''' She took a list containing the names of all the villains around the world.
--> ''[Opal and Omar exchange worried looks as Ono continues typing]''
--> '''Ono:''' She also took one agent profile.
--> ''[Orla and Oswald exchange worried looks]''
--> '''Ono:''' Agent ''Opal.''
--> ''[Omar drops the folder in shock]''
* WhamShot: The Shadow disabling her InvisibilityCloak and turning around to reveal that she was the culprit all along.
* WorldBuilding: It's revealed that there is a top-secret Odd Squad Security facility in Devils Tower, which is maintained and protected by Ono, a Security agent. The facility contains a mega-computer, which not only holds info on various villains, but it's implied that it holds information on agents, as well as other various Odd Squad secrets.
* WorldTour: This episode has the Mobile Unit going to Devils Tower, a national monument situated in Wyoming.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Omar says "Are you kidding me right now?" in response to Orla saying that she's not convinced that the Utensiler's younger sister broke into the facility. Orla in turn responds with, "Have I ever [[BuffySpeak kidded?]]"
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[[caption-width-right:350:Which villain can get through this Security facility in 60 seconds, and avoid all detection?]]
'''''Odd in 60 Seconds'''''
'''Airdate:''' July 7, 2020 [[note]]PBS Kids premiere[[/note]]
The Mobile Unit tries to figure out who broke into Odd Squad's Top Secret Security Facility to get to the mega-computer.
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!!Tropes:
* AmusingInjuries: Wheelie Dan gets some via {{Slapstick}}, as he repeatedly slips and falls on the marbles littering the second hallway, causing Ono and the Main 4 to all cringe.
* BadLiar: Lady Bread and Wheelie Dan aren't very convincing in telling the Main 4 that they broke into the facility. Lady Bread is perhaps the worst offender out of the duo.
--> '''Lady Bread:''' ''[attempting to pick the lock with her FingerlessHands]'' This is how...the professionals do it!
--> '''Opal:''' I don't think she's doing as well as she thinks she's doing.
* BatmanGambit: The Shadow manipulates three villains to distract and lie to the Mobile Unit by threatening them with her sheer power, and has enough confidence in them that they won't turn their backs on her (and they don't -- with how powerful she is, she could destroy them as she sees fit if they disobey her), to such an extent that she lingers around at the mega-computer for a long while after she performs her theft. She knows that the Mobile Unit would want to know the culprit and that they would find out who it was eventually, but also knows that Odd Squad agents aren't the ones to shoot first and ask questions later, meaning that they would be taken aback by her sudden appearance (wearing an InvisibilityCloak to disguise herself initially) and be too shocked to attack. [[XanatosGambit The Shadow still commits the crime successfully and makes a quick exit, and everything goes according to plan for her.]]
* BigWhat: The Main 4 all give these when Ono tells them that a villain broke into the facility.
* TheBusCameBack: Lady Bread returns after having last been seen in [[Recap/OddSquadS2E16RookieNightWhoLetTheDougOut "Who Let the Doug Out?"]].
** The Utensiler is also mentioned, having last appeared in [[Recap/OddSquadS2E30TheDepositSlipUpVillainsAlwaysWin "Villains Always Win"]].
* CallBack: Opal recalls how The Shadow [[Recap/OddSquadS3E10SlowYourRoll took control of the Mobile Unit's van]] just a couple episodes ago.
* ContinuityNod: The Utensiler expresses confidence at getting through the LaserHallway, and Omar makes an AsideComment to Opal that he thinks she's going to dance through them. Otto and Otis did that exact thing in TheMovie.
* DeadpanSnarker: Due to her BrutalHonesty, Orla tends to snark a lot, but this episode has her snarking at Dan as she watches him make his way through marbles scattered onto the floor, calling him ridiculous.
* TheDentistEpisode: Downplayed. Ono says that the villain broke in while she was at the dentist, but all we're shown are X-rays of her teeth, which Opal compliments her on, telling her that her teeth look good.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: After seeing how she is able to get through all three doors in the facility, the Mobile Unit, and Ono, all become convinced that the Utensiler's younger sister was the one who broke in, as she states that she tried to download all of the secrets on the mega-computer, but Ono came back before she was able to, so she snuck out. However, Omar realizes that no alarms were set off when the Utensiler's younger sister -- who leaves via the doors as soon as she proves that she's the culprit -- went through each door, like they should have, and starts to say that the real culprit never left the place before The Shadow, the real culprit, finishes his sentence for him.
* DramaticDrop: When Ono says that The Shadow took a file on Opal, Omar drops the folder he's holding in pure shock as Orla and Oswald steer their gazes towards a very concerned Opal.
* DynamicEntry: Inverted -- The Shadow makes an exit by going straight through the roof of the facility and out of Devils Tower.
* EpicFail: Lady Bread and Wheelie Dan are unable to open the first and second doors leading to the mega-computer, respectively -- the latter even more so, as he suffers many AmusingInjuries just ''trying'' to get to the door, to such an extent where the agents ''feel pity for him'' and ask if they want him to stop the timer used to see if he can get to the door in 60 seconds.
* FingerlessHands: Lady Bread not only has these, but she also has bread loaves for feet, with no toes (something that Ono expresses slight disgust over). This proves to be a detriment for her, as she is unable to open the first door.
** The Utensiler's younger sister also has fingerless hands, although hers are apparently smaller than her sister's.
* GetOut: Wheelie Dan shoos Lady Bread out of the vault upon his arrival. The Utensiler's younger sister later does it with Dan.
* ICantBelieveImSayingThis: Omar says this when he realizes that the Utensiler may not be the culprit after all.
--> '''Opal:''' Come on, Omar. Let's go play your game. Case closed.
--> '''Omar:''' I can't believe I'm saying this, but I don't think it's closed.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Oswald confronts Wheelie Dan and asks him how he and the other agents know that he's not lying like Lady Bread did. Dan snaps back by saying that he has wheels, which Omar takes note of, saying that he doesn't see how that matters.
* InvisibilityCloak: The Shadow wears one of these, allowing her to go undetected by Ono and the Main 4 until the last minute.
* ImprovisedLockpick: Wheelie Dan unlocks the first door by using what appears to be two paper clips hidden in his upper arm pads as lockpicks.
** The Utensiler's younger sister also uses lockpicks in her utensil-storing hands, which also look like two paper clips.
* LaserHallway: The third and final hallway leading to the mega-computer is filled with lasers, some of which move back and forth. The Utensiler's younger sister deflects them with ease, and in 10 seconds.
* LiteralMinded: When the Mobile Unit gets to Devils Tower, Orla remarks how it doesn't look as devilish as she imagined.
* MirrorsReflectEverything: The Utensiler's younger sister deflects the lasers in the final hallway using mirrors attached to her utensil hands.
* MistakenForThief: Subverted. Ono believes that since the villain was in the computer room for 2 minutes, they had no time to steal anything of value (i.e., the mega-computer itself), hence why she put on her report that the villain didn't steal anything from the mega-computer. She could not be more wrong -- in those two minutes, The Shadow, who is the real culprit, extracted data on every Odd Squad villain and made her escape before Ono came back. It's not directly stated whether she went through the doors leading to the mega-computer (which would cause Ono's alarm to go off), or if she phased through the doors using her InvisibilityCloak, but evidence mostly points to the latter.
** It's played straight with Lady Bread, Wheelie Dan, and The Utensiler's younger sister, however -- they claim to be the culprits, but when trying to get to the next door, all of them (save the sister) fail spectacularly. It's eventually revealed that The Shadow intentionally invoked the trope.
* MysteryEpisode: The episode revolves around the Main 4 helping Ono, a local Security agent, figure out who broke into Odd Squad's Security facility and got to the mega-computer.
* NoNameGiven: The Utensiler's younger sister doesn't have a name, only being referred to as just that: "The Utensiler's Younger Sister".
* RaceAgainstTheClock: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As the title suggests,]] each villain that tries to get to the mega-computer has exactly 60 seconds to do so, and must avoid the traps that each hallway has in order to get to it. Lady Bread, Wheelie Dan, and The Utensiler's sister all try to get to the vault, and while Lady Bread and Wheelie Dan fail spectacularly, The Utensiler's sister succeeds in getting there within the time limit.
* RapidFireNo: Ono does this just after The Shadow leaves.
* RollerbladeGood: Wheelie Dan travels on roller blades. Not only that, but he has wheels ''all'' over his body, as part of his costume. He can ride just fine on the roller blades on his feet, but give him marbles on a surface and he repeatedly slips and falls.
* ShoutOut: Wheelie Dan's name could be a potential reference to Dan Wheeler, an American former baseball pitcher who has played on such teams as the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets.
* SkewedPriorities: It's par for the course when it comes to [[TheDitz Omar]] -- he repeatedly tries to get the rest of the Main 4, and Ono, to play the board game he bought at a nearby gift shop, only for the the others to rightfully brush him off. It gets to such an extent where he grips the IdiotBall near-consistently throughout the episode, only dropping it near the end when he realizes that the case isn't closed.
* StealthHiBye: The Utensiler's younger sister does this right after Wheelie Dan admits to not being the culprit.
* [[invoked]] TechnologyMarchesOn: An in-universe example. Ono's smartwatch seems to be more advanced than any of the smartwatches we've seen worn by other agents -- it can be used as a screen, to activate booby traps, ''and'' to open doors. It also comes equipped with an alarm to let Ono know when each door is opened.
* TrickedOutShoes: The Shadow wears sneakers with bright orange soles, which also grant her the power of {{Flight}}.
* WhamEpisode: Following her EvilPlan to destroy the van (and by extension, the Mobile Unit) in [[Recap/OddSquadS3E10SlowYourRoll "Slow Your Roll"]] failing, this episode has The Shadow working on her second, and final, plan: form a VillainTeamUp of her and every Odd Squad villain in existence in order to stop the Mobile Unit themselves (and Odd Squad) for good. She does so by breaking into a top-secret facility, stealing information on all of the villains (and Opal), and taking off to her SupervillainLair, all without being detected. The following episode, "Villain Networking", shows her expanding on her plan, gathering all of the villains together and trying to get them to team up with her.
* WhamLine: Two in this episode.
** When The Shadow reveals herself.
--> '''Opal:''' Are you saying...
--> '''Omar:''' The real villain that did this?
--> '''The Shadow:''' ''[revealing herself]'' Never left.
** When Ono checks the mega-computer after The Shadow escapes.
--> '''Ono:''' She took a list containing the names of all the villains around the world.
--> ''[Opal and Omar exchange worried looks as Ono continues typing]''
--> '''Ono:''' She also took one agent profile.
--> ''[Orla and Oswald exchange worried looks]''
--> '''Ono:''' Agent ''Opal.''
--> ''[Omar drops the folder in shock]''
* WhamShot: The Shadow disabling her InvisibilityCloak and turning around to reveal that she was the culprit all along.
* WorldBuilding: It's revealed that there is a top-secret Odd Squad Security facility in Devils Tower, which is maintained and protected by Ono, a Security agent. The facility contains a mega-computer, which not only holds info on various villains, but it's implied that it holds information on agents, as well as other various Odd Squad secrets.
* WorldTour: This episode has the Mobile Unit going to Devils Tower, a national monument situated in Wyoming.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Omar says "Are you kidding me right now?" in response to Orla saying that she's not convinced that the Utensiler's younger sister broke into the facility. Orla in turn responds with, "Have I ever [[BuffySpeak kidded?]]"
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