Podcast / Odd Squadcast

"Attention, Odd Squad agents from all over the world..."

The Odd Squadcast is a podcast based on the PBS Kids show Odd Squad. A Spin-Off of the series, the podcast focuses on the Big O of the organization, Oprah, as she and her faithful audio/video assistant, Odeo, investigate odd happenings within the Big Office.

Seven episodes aired throughout the month of December 2020, with no plans for a second season to be made.

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This podcast contains examples of:

• Accidental Misnaming: Episodes mistakenly uses the name "Big O Headquarters" to refer to the Big Office.
• The Ace: Olnyk, an agent from Precinct 6785, refers to herself as an "unofficial pattern expert" and has both seen and solved a lot of patterns in her time working for Odd Squad. She ends up looking at Weather Heather's pattern for so long that she not only grows an inch, but she also goes up a pant size.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Oprah seems to have gotten a bit of a knock in IQ points in regards to catching the villain attacking the Big Office. In Broadcast Two, she jumps to conclusions and decides on one villain after scouring through a database of every villain in the immediate vicinity of the office, even though she has little data to go off of (something that Obie points out). She's aware of her idiocy, but doesn't bother to think things through any and pours confidence into her hasty actions, which causes her to fail time and time again and fire blame at villains who aren't the culprit.
• A Day in the Limelight: The podcast focuses on Oprah for a change instead of the Mobile Unit. In Season 3 proper, she only gets a few select episodes that focus on her.
• Almighty Janitor: For seven episodes, Oprah finds herself at dead end after dead end when it comes to catching the culprit and solving the mystery of whom is attacking the Big Office. The Odd Squad employee that ends up actually solving it and cracking the pattern the culprit is following? A custodian who works at Precinct 5876, is suffering from Sleep Deprivation, and has a lack of peripheral vision as a result of it.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Buried within the compliments Coach O gives the Big O in Broadcast Two is "defense wins championships".
  • In Broadcast Four, Threesie Three-Three lists her three favorite reasons why she loves the number three — it has three points on it like a triangle, it's an odd number that's horizontally symmetrical, and it allows batters in baseball to strike out, which she loves.
  • There are many instructions agents must follow in exact order to lose stripes acquired by being bitten by a zebrafly — make the sound of a car having trouble starting, tap-dance (but no rhythm tapping), make a funny noise, and call someone on the phone to tell them you care about them. Subverted when Oxford reveals that there is a fifth step, which is to play the tuba with your nostril.
  • Broadcast Seven forces Oprah and Odeo to relocate to the outdoors to record, where the birds are chirping, the sun is shining...and an Odd Squad delivery truck is making a delivery.
  Oprah: I should have seen that coming.
• Artistic License: Agent Okel manages to make a honking sound of sorts with only a handful of orange peels and a rubber hose. It somehow won them the Oddest Noise of the Year contest during Odd Squad Activity Day last year.
• Artistic License – Biology: Being a World of Weirdness, people are able to sneeze out fireworks, which then immediately shoot up into the sky and explode. The villainess Celebration Cheryl, who causes this, uses it as a power.
• As You Know: Each episode has Oprah recalling what rooms were struck by the culprit, how they are struck, and what patterns have been considered.
• Big Eater: Underwater Ms. O's whales are always hungry and must be fed constantly, lest they get grumpy. Justified by the fact that they are whales, who, by biological standards, often eat a lot.
• Black-and-White Morality: Played for laughs with Coach O in Broadcast Seven. According to him, either you're running, or you're sleeping. If you're in the gray area that is walking, then you might as well be sleeping.
• Bond One-Liner: Oprah delivers one to Weather Heather as she's escorted out of the room by Obie.
  Oprah: Weather Heather, go away, and don't come again another day.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Obie, one of Oprah's assistants, borrows her "something very odd has happened" catchphrase in Broadcast Two.
  • Oprah borrows the "keep on keepin' odd" catchphrase from both seasons of OddTube, which was first used by Olympia, then by Orla.
• Broadcast Live: Surprisingly, the episodes are recorded live, and events that happen in them line up with the release dates.
• Brutal Honesty: Underwater Ms. O has no problem trash-talking Wilbur by stating he gets grumpy when he's hungry. Naturally, he doesn't take too kindly to this.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Oona returns in Broadcast One and Broadcast Five to deliver gadget recall notices, with her last physical speaking appearance being in "Odds and Ends". Olivia Presti, her actor, provides her voice for both cameos.
  • Orson also returns in Broadcast One to give a message to all the baby agents that make up Odd Squad. Like Oona, his last physical speaking appearance was in "Odds and Ends".
  • Coach O, who was last seen in "Slides and Ladders", returns in Broadcast Two to provide health tips, and later in Broadcast Seven to give more health tips.
  • Delivery Doug, who was last seen in Season 2's "The Deposit Slip-Up", returns in Broadcast Five to advertise his business. This would be one month prior to his grand return in the "Teach a Man to Ice Fish" episode of Odd Squad, and then his official Put on a Bus moment in "End of the Road".
  • Red Fred, who was a character in "Odd Squad in the Shadows" who was mentioned but not seen, makes his vocal debut in Broadcast Six as another villain Oprah pins the attacks on.
• Color Motif: Red Fred is a villain who loves all things red — going to see Little Red Riding Hood at the theater, roses, and peppers being just a few things.
• Continuity Nod:
  • "Dawn of the Read" introduced the Flying-Book-inator, which defeats Flying Books and stops them from flying. Broadcast One introduces the Un-Flying-Book-inator, which seems to accomplish the same thing but has the name slightly altered.
  • When looking for the culprit behind the odd attacks in Broadcast Two, Oprah lists off Symmetric Al, Quarter Quinn, and Circle Sue as potential suspects. None of them fit the bill.
  • The segment "On This Day", introduced in Broadcast Three, might be a nod to the Odd Moments in History segments from Season 1 of the show, which were narrated by Olive and detailed important events in Odd Squad history.
  • Speaking of Olive, both her and Olympia were Odd Squad historians in personality only and never in name, as both demonstrated a surprising knowledge of the organization's workings and history. Broadcast Three has Oprah naming an actual Odd Squad historian in name, Professor O, who explains more about the badge phone.
  • In Broadcast Six, Obie gives almost the same "look on the bright side" pep talk Omar did in "Odd Beginnings: Part 1" — that is to say, she tells Oprah to look on the bright side, and when Oprah asks her if there's more she has to say, she responds that there isn't, and that Oprah should just look on the bright side.
  • Two of the rooms Obie, Odeo and Oprah have to cross to catch the Big Bad are the Volcano Room and the Pots and Pans Room.
  • The end of Broadcast Seven has Oprah using Olympia's, and later Orla's, Catchphrase from OddTube.
  Oprah: Agents, you made us proud. Stay strong, and keep on keepin' odd.
• Development Hell: The Odd Squadcast was initially set to premiere in the summer of 2020, but got pushed back to November. It then got pushed back again from November 25 to December 2nd, and although two episodes were set to premiere each week, the airing practice was abandoned after Broadcast Four, and Broadcast Five aired the following week. To make matters worse, Broadcast Six and Broadcast Seven were both leaked a week early on the same day, being put on the PBS Kids website before their proper debut.
• Didn't Think This Through: Oprah thought the case would be easy to solve and the culprit would easily be found. It takes her six episodes to realize that she was very wrong.
  Oprah: I thought this case would be easy, but there's so many kinds of patterns.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In Broadcast Two, the agent who eats lunch with Oprah and Odeo plays the first few notes of the Odd Squad theme tune by blowing into the top of her soda bottle.
• Disproportionate Celebration: One of the headlines in "The Latest News" segment of Broadcast One is Odd Squad solving one more case this week than they did the previous week. Oprah points out that it's not really a big win, but the case was gigantic in nature.
• The Ditz: Odeo isn't exactly the brightest agent in the organization, but as an agent in the Audio/Visual department, he is very skilled at his job.
• Don't Wake the Sleeper: In Broadcast Four, Oprah and Odeo have to work around a slumbering invisible dragon that they aren't aware of until a Creature Care agent named Oxford points it out to them. Luckily, there's a way to put it back to sleep if it does wake up — giving it half of a pizza. This works when Odeo wakes it up the first time by playing an odd noise, but nearly fails a second time when Threesie Three-Three eats a slice. The third time, on the other hand...
  Oprah: Wait. What if it wakes up a third time?
  Oxford: Easy. You run for it.
• Dreadful Musician: Renaissance Agent Odeo may be in regards to instruments, but the one instrument he can't play well are his homemade bagpipes, as demonstrated in Broadcast Seven.
  Oprah: Nice bagpipe playing, Odeo.
  Odeo: [confused] Thanks, I made them myself.
• Dressed in Layers: In Broadcast One, Odeo wears four different shirts because he couldn't decide which shirt to wear. This leaves him more immune to Recording Studio 3 getting chillier, as he doesn't feel the cold temperatures and the wind until later — Oprah, only dressed in a single-layer Big Office uniform, feels the effects right away.
• Edutainment Show: Wouldn't be an Odd Squad Spin-Off if it didn't feature math lessons.
• Employee of the Month: "Agent of the Week" segments highlight a particular agent who has done a heroic deed or has worked hard for the organization.
• Evil Genius: It's telling that Oprah has Security agents posted everywhere inside the Big Office, and yet Weather Heather manages to launch multiple attacks in multiple separate rooms.
• Failed a Spot Check: Whoever the Odd Squad Groundskeeper is, they don't seem to have a good eye for noticing three employees with a bunch of podcast-recording equipment set up — let alone when one said employee is their own boss.
• Feathered Fiend: Chef O goes outside wearing her Odd Squad Snack Hat to demonstrate its powers in blocking sunlight. Unsurprisingly, she immediately gets divebombed by seagulls and has to rush back inside.
  "It looks like I may need to rethink this idea."
• Foreshadowing: As Broadcast Five premiered before "Teach a Man to Ice Fish" had its United States premiere ^note ABC Me in Australia had premiered the episode six months prior, in June 2020, Delivery Doug's advertisement for his egg salad restaurant in the Arctic functions as this.
• Freudian Excuse: Weather Heather's motive behind attacking various rooms in the Big Office is her anger about the Odd Weather Reports featured on the podcast, which tell agents what the weather is in certain locations so they can plan for it accordingly.
• Friendly Pirate: It's left ambiguous as to whether Ohoy is a sailor or a pirate — his manner of speaking leans towards the latter but his mannerisms lead towards the former — but nonetheless, he is a friendly kid on the heroes' side.
• Heel Realization: Weather Heather begins to realize that everyone loves predicting the weather except for her, but before she can go through any kind of redemption, Oprah orders Obie to take her away. We never find out if she makes a Heel–Face Turn or not.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Obie being Oprah's most prominent assistant is rather amusing following the events of "Odd Off The Press", where Orpita was in the role and ascended to become Oprah's Number Two once again, but in a higher position.
  • Alien Odd Squad agents might have been canonized here as living somewhere in the depths of space, but "Why Did the Chicken Cross the Dimension?" had something going with what they looked like and how ingrained they were into Earth society. In addition, whereas Orkel speaks a Starfish Language here, the aliens from "Why Did the Chicken Cross the Dimension?" speak perfect English.
• The Hilarity of Hats: The Odd Squad Snack Hat is a hat that allows agents to eat a delicious and portable snack on the job and have it blend well with the color of their uniforms — that is to say, you can actually eat the hat, and it comes in a variety of flavors. And it makes a good sun blocker. That too.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Chef O, introduced in Broadcast Four, seems to have "Chef O" as an actual name and not a title of any kind. This puts her on a contrast with others in the Food and Beverage department like Oksana and Olly, who did not bear the title of "Chef O".
• History Repeats: Agents may be solving cases at exponential rates, but that doesn't stop oddness levels from reaching all-time highs — meaning that Odd Squad's work is quite literally never done.
• Hostile Show Takeover: Invoked by Oprah, who allows Threesie Three-Three to host the Odd Squadcast as an apology for wrongfully accusing her. Odeo, on the other hand, doesn't like it, but goes along with it anyway and allows her to talk about the number three.
  • Invoked again in Broadcast Six with Red Fred, who, like Threesie, is wrongfully accused by Oprah of being the culprit behind the attacks, and gets to host the show in her stead as a way to make up for her mistake. Odeo isn't too fond of letting Fred host the show either, but he doesn't protest against it and seems to express his disapproval by playing the sound of a buzzer after every red thing Fred lists.
• I Always Wanted to Say That: A variant occurs in Broadcast Five, where Odeo rings a gong and then says that he's always wanted to do that.
• I Have No Idea What I'm Doing: Oort goes up into space to report on the oddness that the Odd Squad Space Division battles. Unfortunately, he doesn't have much of a knowledge of space to begin with and thinks things like a lack of air, a lack of gravity, and the Moon looking bigger than what he's used to seeing on Earth constitute as oddness that needs to be solved. Oprah has to tell him that he's basically just describing normal occurrences that happen in space, and he ends up dropping his request for agents to help him and decides to head back to Earth in the Odd Squad spacecraft.
• Impeded Communication: Weather Heather's indoor snowstorm causes the call between Oprah and Agent Ooooooo to be cut out before the latter can finish her story, as the cold temperatures cause the equipment to begin malfunctioning and the wires to freeze. Oprah tries to give a message to Odd Squad agents listening to Broadcast One, telling them that she wants the organization's best agents to help her and Odeo figure out the cause of the odd weather, but the transmission dies before she can complete it.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: The uniforms of Odd Squad Investigation agents have an absurd range of features that no clothing in real life could possibly have. They can play music and make toast without burning the wearer, among many other things.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: At the beginning of Broadcast Three, Oprah reassures listeners that in spite of the repeated attacks on the Big Office, everything is all right and there's nothing to worry about. Oxford, an agent of the Creature Care department, then enters the room and delivers the news that the room Oprah and Odeo are in is the Invisible Dragon Room.
• Instant Waking Skills: Oprah rings a gong to wake Odeo up when he falls asleep in Broadcast Five, and it doesn't even take him a second before he's bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
• I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday: Exaggerated in Broadcast Three, where Oprah says that she remembers the day badge phones were first invented "like it was over a hundred years ago".
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Oasis's story in Broadcast Seven of how she cracked the pattern and knows who the culprit is begins with "it was a stormy night".
• "Jar of Jellybeans" Contest: Odd Squad has their own spin on the trope — instead of counting how many jellybeans are in a single jar, agents must guess how many jars are in a single 24-foot-tall jellybean.
• Kansas City Shuffle: Subverted. Weather Heather attacks many different rooms and plants Red Herrings in order to throw Oprah and Odeo off of her trail, using the power of unpredictability. This throws them off for a while because they're not sure which pattern she's working in, and the general rule of thumb is that all villains, even the ones who use confusing tactics, work in some kind of a pattern. Eventually, Weather Heather is revealed to have been working in a pattern all along, attacking only square-shaped rooms. At first, one might think that this is irony at work...up until she reveals that she threw a square-themed villain named Sammy Square under the bus to make Odd Squad think he was the culprit and not her, because he loves predicting the weather. This ends up failing because Sammy Square is never even considered to be the culprit in the first place.
• Lampshade Hanging: In Broadcast Seven, Oprah remarks on how Obie running up to her and Odeo and stating that "I've got some big news!" is starting to become a bit of a habit for her.
• Literal Metaphor: The segment "Spilling the Beans" is accompanied by a sound effect of beans being spilled. Likewise, when Oprah asks Threesie Three-Three to spill the beans and confess that she is behind the odd attacks on the Big Office, she spills Oprah's actual beans on the table. And at the end of Broadcast Four, Odeo spills some more beans on the table.
  Oprah: Can we get someone in here to clean up all these beans?
• Literal-Minded: Oprah turns the mic over to an agent named Oval, who won a Jellybeans-In-A-Jar Contest, for a quick word. All she says is "a quick word" before the mic goes back to Oprah.
• Meaningful Appearance: Coach O, a Drill Sergeant Nasty, wears mini-treadmills on the soles of his shoes, allowing him to constantly be exercising while he's on his feet.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Odometer is the name of the agent who handles the Tube Traffic Reports in Broadcast One.
  • There's also Ozone, who handles odd weather reports in Broadcasts Two and Six.
  • Odios and Ohoy are two seafaring agents who debut in Broadcast Four. Ohoy speaks in a manner similar to a pirate, while Odios acts like a parrot.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: The Zebrafly is a hybrid odd creature, taking the traits of a zebra and a fly (what exact species is never said, but going by the other creature in the equation, it being a horsefly is very likely) and having the ability to bite people, which causes them to gain black-and-white stripes like that of a zebra.
• Mosquito Miscreants: Cake mosquitoes are known for sucking the frosting off of cakes, as a contrast to real-life mosquitoes sucking blood.
• Mouse Trap: Within one of the seven Big Offices exists a Mouse Trap Room, which is full of mouse traps. Obie, Oprah and Odeo are forced to go through it in Broadcast Four, and have to avoid getting their feet caught in a trap. They barely get by, judging from the number of traps going off we hear, but no one gets caught in one...or so we think.
  Oprah: That was a close one.
  Obie: We missed them all.
  Odeo: Speak for yourself...
• No Peripheral Vision: Due to being sleep-deprived, Oasis ends up walking right into a bookshelf. A map of one of the Big Offices — specifically, the same one where the podcast takes place — ends up falling out, which allows her to crack the pattern and find out who the culprit is.
• One-Letter Name: An exaggerated example with Agent Ooooooo, whose real name consists of twenty-five O's while her nickname is seven O's.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. One segment on the podcast is called "Odd Squad: Odds and Ends", which was a name used for a television event that premiered on PBS Kids and comprised the two-parter Season 2 finale, "Who Is Agent Otis?" and "Odds and Ends".
  • Also averted for Professor O from Broadcast Three, whose title is shared with another Professor O from "Invasion of the Body Switchers".
  • Barely averted in Broadcast Five. Don't confuse Giggleglorps for Grizzlegorps or Wrigglegorps, both creatures of which appeared in "Can You Wrangle It?" a year after the Odd Squadcast concluded. All three share similar features, with the Giggleglorp eating tennis balls and being neon orange in color, while the Grizzlegorp is yellow and the Wrigglegorp is blue.
  • Downplayed with Threesie Three-Three, who has the same first name as Threesie Louise-ie but not the same last name.
• Only So Many Canadian Actors: Odeo's actor, Aidan Vissers, voices the titular character of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, another PBS Kids show that was made in Canada.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: It's telling that Oprah, an agent who was once infamous for her Hair-Trigger Temper as a Tiny Tyrannical Girl, is actively trying to make Odeo tempt fate by making him try to get her enraged, only for it to not work. He goes for the tried-and-true tactic of "we're out of juice boxes", to which she barely breaks a sweat...before asking if they are actually still stocked with juice, causing Odeo to hastily reassure her that there is still juice available. Being The Alcoholic, it falls in line with her character, but the entire scene is quite a change from how she was depicted in Season 1 and shows off her Character Development as a more mellow and level-headed leader.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: Professor O can carry a badge phone that weighs 45 pounds and not break a sweat whatsoever.
• Pirate Parrot: Odios functions as a sort of right-hand parrot for Ohoy, speaking like one despite being, for all intents and purposes, completely human.
• Portmanteau: One client discussed in Broadcast One is named Timmy Peltzman, a portmanteau of Tim McKeon and Adam Peltzman, the creators of Odd Squad.
• Previously on…: Sans Broadcast One, every episode has Oprah recapping what went down in the previous week's broadcast in regards to the story.
• Rain of Something Unusual: In Broadcast Two, Agent Ozone reports on a storm in the Midwest United States where it is, quite literally, raining cats and dogs.
• Renaissance Man: Odeo can play almost every single instrument in existence. At one point, he even manages to play the guitar with the instrument behind his head, and he has absolutely no idea he had it in him.
  Oprah: Nice solo, Odeo. I didn't know you could play the guitar behind your head.
  Odeo: Neither did I!
• Rule of Three: Odeo is very fond of this trope to the point where it becomes a Running Gag.
  • In Broadcast One, he repeats "a gadget recall" thrice, the third time being just for fun.
  • Broadcast Two has him repeating "odd weather report" three times because "I love my job".
  • Broadcast Four has him triple-checking the Odd Squad Marching Band Room for any invisible dragons that might be lurking around. He also repeats "creature report" thrice because he loves saying those words.
  • In Broadcast Five, he repeats "creature report" thrice, but this time, it's on the basis that it feels important to say.
  • Broadcast Six has him repeating "odd weather report" thrice because "it's what I do".
  • The villainess Threesie Three-Three pretty much runs on this trope. She has to repeat things thrice and often skips by threes when committing odd crimes.
• Series Continuity Error: Odeo refers to the balls that tube-riding agents travel inside of as being made of metal. However, at least one episode in Odd Squad, "Trials and Tubulations", shows the balls as being made of plastic.
• "Shaggy Frog" Story: Inverted. In Broadcast Five, Obie tells Oprah and Odeo about how she purportedly solved the pattern. It starts out almost completely unrelated to the pattern itself and becomes focused on her red walking shoes, but she eventually circles around and explains her theory.
  Obie: I think I solved the pattern! [...] Okay, listen carefully. After sitting at my desk, staring at the numbers 3, 6, 12 and 17, for a very, very long time, I decided I needed to go for a walk.
  Oprah: And?
  Obie: So I put on these red shoes.
  Oprah: Please tell me there's more.
  Obie: There is! I went for a walk in them.
  Oprah: Really hoping there's more.
  Obie: And when I was on that walk, I remembered that the rooms here at Headquarters are all different.
  Oprah: That's right! All the rooms are shaped differently and have different numbers on them.
  Obie: And the doors! The doors are all painted different colors. There's red, blue and yellow.
  Oprah: Of course!
  Obie: And rooms 3, 6, 12 and 17 all have red doors just like my shoes. So the villain isn't using a number pattern, they're using a color pattern and hitting all the rooms with red doors.
  Oprah: And there's only one more red door left. That means the villain is going to strike again.
  Obie: Exactly!
• Sleepwalking: Coach O defines the term "power naps" as "sleeping and lifting weights at the same time".
• Ship Tease: One episode has Oxford calling up Oona and telling her that he cares about her. She thanks him, but then asks him if he just got bit by a zebrafly. He despondently says that there's No Time to Explain before he hangs up.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Underwater Ms. O can perfectly understand what her whale agents are saying.
• Starfish Language: Orkel, an alien Odd Squad agent, speaks in an unidentified language to other alien Odd Squad agents in one episode. We don't get a translation for what Orkel is saying, but Oprah and Odeo both seem to understand the language to some extent.
  Oprah: Thank you, Alien Agent Orkel. That was truly beautiful.
  Odeo: I'll never forget those words as long as I live.
• Super Window Jump: In Broadcast Seven, Obie, Oprah and Odeo re-enter the Big Office by jumping on a trampoline and soaring through an open window.
• Team Spirit: This is the reason why Agent Ooooooo won Agent of the Week. For help capturing a villainess known as Celebration Cheryl, Ooooooo's precinct reached out to another precinct for assistance. Although the exact details of the team-up are never given, Cheryl is eventually captured.
  • Odd Squad Activity Day, where agents partake in various activities and bond with their coworkers, also has this trope in mind.
• Tempting Fate: When stuck in a broom closet for the duration of Broadcast Six, Oprah remarks that since it's a broom closet that's very tiny, no one will bother her or Odeo. Sure enough, in walks Oxford, who needs a broom for some kind of emergency.
• That Reminds Me of a Song: In Broadcast Seven, Oprah sings the As You Know segment instead of giving it in spoken word, due to her renewed determination.
  Oprah: We might not have a clue what pattern the villain is following, but rest assured, I'm feeling more determined than ever to catch this villain. How determined? So determined, I'm going to sing. Odeo, give me a tune.
• Theme Naming: Every whale in Underwater Ms. O's Headquarters that belongs to the Whale Department has a name beginning with the letter "W".
• Thermal Dissonance: The first sign Oprah notices of something being off in the Big Office is the room she and Odeo are recording in getting chilly. Shortly afterwards, it begins to snow, which cuts off her conversation with Ooooooo.
• Tricked-Out Shoes: The new Odd Squad All-Purpose Shoes are powered via a remote, and according to Oars, they are able to do anything as well as become anything the wearer wants them to be. This includes materializing blades on the soles to make them ice skates, turning them into a hoverboard to gain speed, and enabling Trampoline Mode for high jumps.
• Underwater Base: An Odd Squad precinct exists over 1000 feet below sea level, where a Headquarters is situated under the order of the Big O. It is led by Underwater Ms. O, whose agents are blue whales instead of human beings.
• Viewers Are Morons: Many people who listen to this podcast are probably well aware of what Odd Squad is, both the show and the organization. Similarly, they are also familiar with aspects of the organization such as gadget usage and tube-riding. That doesn't stop the expositional Odd Squad Bylaw 437-76 from coming into play any, however, which states that "we must use every opportunity to remind agents about Odd Squad details". Oprah points out the worthlessness of the reminder in Broadcast One at one point.
  Oprah: Thanks Odeo, although I highly doubt any of our agents have ever forgotten what we do around here.
  Odeo: Not gonna lie, one time I forgot.
• Vine Swing: When chasing after Weather Heather, Oprah, Odeo and Obie use vines to swing over the Volcano Room's very-much-active volcano.
• Water Is Air: The underwater Headquarters that Underwater Ms. O rules over is no different than any Headquarters situated underground. The only difference is that her Headquarters is mainly populated (and guarded) by blue whales, and she refers to agents who live deep under the Earth's surface as "land-agents".
• We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: In Broadcast Two, Oprah and Odeo are forced out of Recording Studio 3 and must record in a cafeteria instead. From there, they are shuffled all over the Big Office and do not have one set place to record.
• Weather Dissonance: In Broadcast Six, Ozone reports on an "all-weather-nado", where all four seasons occur at the same time in the same location. Going by his location, where he reports what season is in each direction, he appears to be smack-dab in the middle of the storm.
• Weather Manipulation: This is the main power of Weather Heather, and she uses it in various rooms throughout Headquarters all because she hates the "Odd Weather Report" segments of the podcast.
• What Could Have Been: The podcast was originally going to be called Big O Hero before the name was changed to something more punny.
• Worldbuilding: Each episode features a different aspect of the Big Office Oprah and Odeo are located in (out of seven that are placed around the world) that has never been shown onscreen, such as the cafeteria.
  • Broadcast Two implies that Odd Squad is not an insanely-rich organization, and has to be delegated to raising money to get new rooms built in precincts' Headquarters.

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