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Recap / Numberjacks S 1 E 30 Bad Circles

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In the gym, Five is introducing Three and Four to a new game called the Circle Game. Three demonstrates a circle by running in a circle, but Five says that the game is about a small, red circle painted on the floor, namely sliding into it. Neither of them have much luck: Five doesn't quite get into the circle, Four misses by a mile, and Three goes beyond it. Five has another go, though, and she gets it.

The alarm sounds, so they go to the control room, where an agent reports trouble with kids on a beach: for some reason, a little boy physically can't throw his frisbee, and a little girl's plate is shaking uncontrollably, making her spill her jello on her lap.

Six gets launched (after Three rings the doorbell) and lands on a flag. By now, the boy is being pulled along by his frisbee as well as being unable to throw it. The girl, meanwhile, is being forced to put the plate on her head. The Numberjacks and agents look for a link between the two objects and conclude that they're both circular.

At a cafe, a janitor is having trouble with his mop bucket moving away from him. He grabs hold of it, but then the Shape Japer appears in it and says, "Circle bad!", and disappears. Then, the man is forced to spill the soapy water all over himself. Soon after, the Shape Japer does the same thing with a flowerpot, leading to a gardener being covered in dirt.

That same janitor tries to vacuum the floor, but the Shape Japer, due to the circle at the end of the tube, makes it spiral out of control. That gardener from before tries to water his lawn, but the Japer makes him spray his hose into the air.

Five imagines wheels flying off of vehicles, pizzas landing on people's faces and heads, and a girl bouncing off her trampoline and into a tree.

Back at the beach, the Shape Japer has made holes in a girl's tetherball racket, a boy's sand bucket, and the jello girl's drinking cup. Six is unable to reason with the Shape Japer, so the agents think of a plan: make so many circles the Japer can't handle it.

They make brain gain which causes the kids to print circles in the sand and the janitor to make his vacuum hose into a circle. The Shape Japer tries to make that circle go bad but is having trouble stretching herself. They make the gardener form a circle with his hose, but she can't stretch herself to make it bad, so she flies away.

Six comes back, they recap the episode, and Three speculates that Six did a good job because of the circular hole in his body. Five asks the viewers to look in their mirrors for circular body parts.

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  • Ambiguous Situation: This episode leaves it up in the air as to whether Six really does have a knack for circle-related problems due to his hole, or if it's just his usual Numberjack confidence.
  • Beach Episode: Downplayed— a lot of scenes take place at the beach, but a lot of scenes also don't, and of course, it isn't played for Fanservice.
  • Big "YES!": Three says, "YES!" when Five wins the Circle Game.
  • Covered in Gunge: The Shape Japer makes the janitor spill soap suds all over himself, then she makes the gardener spill dirt all over himself.
  • Ding-Dong-Ditch Distraction: This is one of the episodes involving someone ringing the doorbell to distract the humans. In this case, it's Three distracting the woman.
  • Radish Cure: The Shape Japer is defeated by her being given too many circles to deal with.
  • Russian Reversal: When the boy's frisbee comes to life and pulls it along, Four says, "He's not throwing the frisbee, the frisbee's throwing him!".
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the Shape Japer can no longer make all the circles bad, she flies off.
  • Slapstick:
    • A little girl spills her jello on her lap.
    • Five imagines a girl getting a pizza splatted on her face, two more girls getting pizzas splatted on their heads, and a fourth getting flung off a trampoline and into a tree.

 
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