Sure, they'll take an ingredient for the cure back to Dr. O...
but first, let 'em take a selfie.
The Odd Antidotebut first, let 'em take a selfie.
Airdates: January 5, 2015 note , February 9, 2015 note , April 5, 2015 note
When Ms. O has bizarre side effects after being sprayed by a weird plant, Olive and Otto must travel around town finding the correct measurements of the ingredients for the medicine to cure her, all while keeping Ms. O's condition a secret.
Tropes:
- All Women Love Shoes: The Cold Open client is a woman in a shoe store, who wants shoes for her two left feet.
- Amusing Injuries: While protesting against Rivka and Baby Genius's departures, Olive ends up tripping and injuring her leg, causing Baby Genius to laugh. Rivka encourages them to do more if they want the giraffe's milk they've come to obtain. What follows is a brief scene of Olive and Otto intentionally falling down, making silly noises and faces throughout.
- Answer Cut: Otto asks Dr. O what the "seriously weird things" are. The next scene shows Ms. O with an enlarged ear combined with a few Smash Cuts and a Musical Sting.
- When Olive and Otto are about to get the Loganberries, Otto asks how they're going to turn berries into juice. Logan offers a response of using a juicer, but there's no electricity outdoors. Transition to the next scene, where Otto is shown mashing loganberries with his feet while Logan plays a violin and Olive collects the juice.
- The Anticipator: Hilariously defied when Olive believes Rivka and Baby Genius are behind her and Otto, only for them to turn and not find them there. As they turn to leave, the nanny and baby suddenly emerge from behind them, causing them to scream.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment:Olive: Thanks for your help, Logan, but we gotta get back to Headquarters and-Logan: Halt! 'NONE SHALL LEAVE THIS PLACE!![Beat]Logan: Until we take a selfie together!
- Body Horror: The Cold Open client's two left feet is pretty Squicky to look at.
- The Bus Came Back: After debuting in "My Better Half", Rivka and Baby Genius return with speaking roles.
- Chicken Joke: In contrast with Otto's "Knock Knock" Joke, Olive tells one of these to get Baby Genius to laugh. However, it doesn't fly well with the baby or his nanny.Rivka: [while Baby Genius is crying] What is with all the chickens? You two need to get out more!
- Commonplace Rare: The final ingredient needed for the cure is water, which Dr. O describes as being a very rare liquid. Otto is quick to point out that there's a water cooler right in her office.Dr. O: How long has that been there?Olive: Uhh...always?Dr. O: Well, that frees up my Mondays.
- Continuity Nod: Olive initially tries to win over Baby Genius with some pocket lint. Another nod from the same episode has Dr. O shaking the rattle the same way Ms. O did.
- Dr. O happens to have unicorn tears in her office in order to make a part of the cure. Her Wall of Agents profile
has her favorite food listed as unicorn tears.
- Dr. O happens to have unicorn tears in her office in order to make a part of the cure. Her Wall of Agents profile
- Dragged by the Collar: Olive drags Otto out of Dr. O's office by his arm at one point.
- Ear Ache: Otto's bawking was loud enough to cause Olive to take an index finger to her ear — never mind the fact they're in an echoing warehouse.
- Easily Forgiven: Surprisingly for her character, Ms. O is quick to forgive Dr. O once she explains what was happening to her boss.
- Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy: Invoked by Olive, who uses the excuse that she and Otto didn't get enough sleep as justification for their screaming. Ms. O yells at them to get some sleep just before she walks off...revealing a lion's tail.
- False Reassurance: Dr. O takes the plant off of Ms. O's hands, wanting to take a look at it just in case. Once Olive and Otto leave Ms. O's office, Dr. O calls them over to her office and explains how the plant is dangerous. Lampshaded by Olive, who asks why Dr. O told Ms. O she was fine in the first place.
- Find the Cure!: Well, find the ingredients to the cure, anyway.
- Food Slap: Played with. In a panic, Dr. O throws the cure onto Ms. O, which turns her back to normal.
- Foreshadowing: Another 43 can be seen inside of an X-ray hanging on the wall.
- Funny Background Event: When Olive and Otto see Ms. O's face after getting Loganberry juice, one agent in the background also sees Ms. O's face and promptly turns away.
- Gilligan Cut: Olive and Otto begin protesting against Dr. O telling them to go see Baby Genius. Transition to both of them walking down the hallway of the Odd Squad Warehouse.
- Here We Go Again!: Otto gets sprayed by the plant at the end of the episode by accidentally leaning close to it.Otto: So. Back to the ogre?
- Implausible Deniability: Ms. O manages to spot the small pile of mirrors Dr. O has collected. Olive and Otto quickly conceal them with their bodies while rattling off a series of rapid-fire "no's" when Ms. O asks if one of the mirrors is hers.
- Insubstantial Ingredients: One of the ingredients needed for the cure is unicorn tears.
- It's a Long Story: When tasked with getting giraffe's milk, Olive complains that all of the giraffes are on the moon for the summer. When Otto asks her about it, she tells him, "Long story."
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: Olive and Otto attempt to keep Ms. O's transformation a secret from her, but they nearly blow their covers due to all the screaming they do every time they see her.
- "Knock Knock" Joke: Otto's joke, which he tells in an attempt to make Baby Genius laugh, is an "interrupting cow" variant. It doesn't work.Otto: Knock knock.Rivka: [completely deadpan] Who's there?Otto: Interrupting chicken.Rivka: Interrupting chick-[Otto bawks; Baby Genius starts crying]
- Little Bit Beastly: Part of Ms. O's transformation includes a lion's tail and a pair of antennae.
- Our Ogres Are Different: Logan the Ogre is initially presented as menacing, lumbering towards Olive and Otto with a large club in tow, but he's actually very nice and willing to help them out. And he likes taking selfies, if the above page image didn't give it away.
- Race Against the Clock: Olive, Otto, and Dr. O only have an hour to cure Ms. O.
- Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: Of a sort — Olive and Otto complain about traveling to a faraway place to get unicorn tears, only for Dr. O to reveal that she has some.
- Speak of the Devil: Dr. O appears right behind Olive and Otto a mere second after Ms. O remarks that she's not a doctor.
- Subverted Catchphrase: When Olive and Otto enter Ms. O's office.Ms. O: There you two are.Otto: Lemme guess. Something very odd has happened?Ms. O: Umm, why would you even say that?
- Talking to Plants: Ms. O engages in this briefly with a plant that she's trying to think of names for. She eventually settles on "Mr. Greenjeans".
- Tomato in the Mirror: Dr. O attempts to defy this trope by hiding all the mirrors she could find from Ms. O, so she doesn't see herself. Luckily, Ms. O never does see herself.
- Transformation Horror: A more milder example, but the plant that Ms. O gets ends up spraying her, causing her to undergo a gradual transformation into a Winged Humanoid creature. What's worse is that panicking can speed up the effects.
- Unusual Eyebrows: Along with antennae, Ms. O develops big, bushy red eyebrows as part of her transformation.
- Walk-In Chime-In: Ms. O does this at one point, combined with her Stealth Hi/Bye abilities.Olive: I think I know where we can find some Loganberry juice.Ms. O: [offscreen] Mmm, I love Loganberry juice.[Olive, Otto and Dr. O scream]
- When Trees Attack: The plant Ms. O has sprays a pink mist that causes her to go into a brief coughing fit.
- Winged Humanoid: Ms. O gradually turns into one, but doesn't use the wings for flight.
Reunited, one last time.
The One That Got AwayAirdates: January 5, 2015 note , February 9, 2015 note , April 5, 2015 note
The only thing that can bring Ms. O's old partner O'Donahue out of retirement is the very thing that put him there in the first place: a mysterious villain and a case that’s gone unsolved for years.
Tropes:
- A Day in the Limelight: Olive, Otto, and Oscar all take backseat in this episode to Ms. O and O'Donahue.
- Bothering by the Book: Ms. O demands that Oscar hand his remote to her. Oscar asks her to fill out her name on his sign-out sheet for gadgets, causing Ms. O to growl and for Oscar to comply with her wishes.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: A few shots of the Main 4 watching Equal Evan strike Mr. Hoogenstorf's 60th birthday party are framed like this.
- Call-Back: O'Donahue, who was first seen in "Totally Odd Squad" via flashbacks, returns in this episode and teams up with his old partner one more time.
- Chase Scene: One occurs with Ms. O and O'Donahue chasing down Tommy Twosie. After dodging a couple trash cans knocked over by Tommy and questioning a mime about where he is (with little success), the reunited partners eventually corner Tommy in a Blind Alley.
- Chekhov's Armory: Ms. O's daily juice box rations ends up being bait for Equal Evan, allowing her and O'Donahue to catch him.
- Comically Missing the Point: Otto manages to combine this with Growing Up Sucks — misinterpreting Ms. O's comment and forming an insult against a man who is 50 years older than him.Ms. O: Mr. H is very upset.Otto: Sure, he's 60!
- Continuity Nod: One of the gadgets Otto hands Oscar is the Shrink-inator.
- As O'Donahue is explaining Oscar's gadget theft, the Mathroom shows one gadget that has remained in each pile. The gadget on the right is the same one Olive used to expose the Shapeshifter in "The Briefcase".
- Crisis Makes Perfect: O'Donahue mentions that he hasn't caught anything in 30 years. When he and Ms. O attempt to catch Equal Evan (who is spinning around like a tornado), O'Donahue attempts to stop him by throwing his line out, causing the suction cup bait to latch onto his forehead. It works.
- Double-Meaning Title: "The One That Got Away" is a reference to both O'Donahue's inability to catch fish, and the Katy Perry song of the same name.
- Dramatic Drop: O'Donahue drops his fishing pole upon seeing Ms. O hold up Equal Evan's symbol.
- Everyone Hates Mimes: Tommy Twosie pushes a mime towards Ms. O and O'Donahue at one point during the Chase Scene in order to throw them off his tail. The mime doesn't prove to be much help to the partners, though.
- Fictional Holiday: Oscar has the Annual Gadget Repair and/or Tuneup Day, where agents can come and get their gadgets repaired.
- Friendly Address Privileges: Like Ms. O, O'Donahue is allowed to refer to the Mathroom as Carol.
- Freudian Excuse: Equal Evan explains that the reason he became villainous was because his sister always took more than he did.
- Help, I'm Stuck!: Otto manages to get himself stuck under Ms. O's juice bar with his legs caught in one of the seats' rings. He is also shown stuck inside Ms. O's painting later on.
- Here We Go Again!: The end of the episode has Ms. O and O'Donahue go on another hunt to catch a shoe thief.
- Heroes Gone Fishing: O'Donahue has taken up fishing while in retirement, but hasn't caught a single thing.
- Hidden Depths: The Mathroom is skilled in origami and is a good singer.
- I Can See You: Played with. Ms. O is able to see what Otto is doing while she's on the phone with Olive, but she isn't inside of the office. It's consistently lampshaded by Otto.
- Imaginary Enemy: O'Donahue invokes this when he asks Ms. O about the identity of the villain.O'Donahue: Do you even know where he is? Or what he looks like? Is he even a "he"?[Ms. O shakes her head dejectedly]O'Donahue: Then we're no better off than we were all those years ago, Oprah. This villain is the reason I quit the Squad. [turns around and sighs] I can't go back down that road again.
- In-Series Nickname: Ms. O refers to O'Donahue as "O'D" at one point.
- The Klutz: It's revealed that Otto apparently drops gadgets a lot.
- Miniscule Rocking: The song that the Mathroom sings for O'Donahue and Ms. O doesn't even last five seconds and only has one line.
- Paper Master: Her being a paper world aside, the Mathroom is able to make complex origami pieces.
- Reformed Criminal: Thanks to Ms. O, Equal Evan manages to reform and is shown cutting Mr. Hoogenstorf's birthday cake, this time with its candles restored.
- The Reveal: How many juice boxes does Ms. O drink in a day? 1,000. O'Donahue is rightfully shocked.O'Donahue: That's one day?Ms. O: Maybe I could cut back...
- "The Scream" Parody: At one point, Otto ends up in a painting resembling Edvard Munch's The Scream, imitating the same pose.
- Spy-Tux Reveal: O'Donahue tears off his fishing outfit to reveal his Odd Squad uniform underneath.O'Donahue: I never took it off.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Surprisingly, it's Oscar of all agents who pulls this off, emerging from behind Olive and managing to startle her while she's on the phone with Ms. O (much to her annoyance).
- Swivel-Chair Antics: Otto is seen swiveling around in Ms. O's chair at one point, which she calls him out on.Otto: Wait. How did she know I'm in her chair?[Olive shrugs]
- Terrible Artist: All Oscar can muster for a sign for his Annual Gadget Repair and/or Tuneup Day is a picture of a gadget and a smiley face.
- That One Case: Ms. O and O'Donahue team up to catch a villain that has been on the loose for over 30 years. Attempting to catch Equal Evan, and ultimately failing to do so, was the case that made O'Donahue retire from Odd Squad, and because of that failure he's initially reluctant to try again.
- This Cannot Be!: A non-villainous example — Ms. O utters "It can't be" when she spots Equal Evan's mark on the trash can.
- This Is No Time for Knitting: Subverted during this exchange when Ms. O and O'Donahue turn to leave.Ms. O: Carol, we don't have time for a song.O'Donahue: Oprah, the day we don't have time for music is the day we don't have time for time.Ms. O: What?
- Time-Passage Beard: Subverted; O'Donahue is first shown to have grown a beard over the last 30 years, but it's revealed to be fake.
- Toilet Humor: O'Donahue remarks that he has to go to the Mathroom when it's revealed Tommy isn't the culprit.
- To Make a Long Story Short: Oscar answers Otto's question in a Bad News Good News variant.Otto: What is this exactly?Oscar: You want the long version or the short version?Olive and Otto: [blunt] Short.Oscar: You give me your broken stuff, and I fix it!
- Tornado Move: Equal Evan has the ability to spin in order to turn himself into a twister, which is his default move when making things equal.
- You Rebel Scum!: A hero-to-villain variant — Ms. O calls Equal Evan an "equalizer".
