Oscar and the Oscarbo- hey, wait, things don't look right...
Oona and the OonabotsAirdates: July 19, 2017 note , December 16, 2016 note
Oona uses her Oonabots to fix an odd problem.
Tropes:
- A Day in the Limelight: This episode focuses mostly on Oona and Ocean.
- An Aesop: While the show has given out mathematical Aesops in past episodes, this episode veers more towards a science Aesop, and teaches about basic coding skills. note
- Answer Cut: Oona asks Ocean how many shades of blue there could possibly be. Cut to a woman working at a paint supply store placing different blue color swatches down as she lists off just some of the many shades of the color.
- One is done without the cut at the end of the episode. Olympia asks Oona what time it is, only for the third Oonabot to come marching through, singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame". Oona then dryly remarks that it's 12:00.
- Art Evolution: The special effects used for the agents turned to stone are given an upgrade in this episode. Compare Olive
in Season 1's "Dance Like Nobody's Watching" to Olympia and Otis in this episode. - Beat: When Oona remarks that she has an idea on how to release everyone from stone, an awkward pause ensues before Ocean asks her if she's going to tell him what the idea is.
- Call-Back: This is the second episode to focus on Oona and Ocean, with the first being "A Case of the Sillies".
- All of the main characters being turned into stone by some outside, uncontrollable force? Sounds a bit familiar...
- Cannot Tell a Joke: Inverted. The first Oonabot is programmed to laugh at all of Oona's jokes, but doesn't know what jokes are, and as a result, it laughs at things Oona says that aren't meant to be jokes.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The creature is colored aqua blue, and as a result, it only goes after objects with that exact hue — it isn't just any blue, as Ocean points out to Oona.
- Comically Missing the Point: When the Stone-Turner is pecking at the floor (enough to leave very large cracks in it), this exchange ensues.Ocean: This is bad.Oona: Yeah! We'll have to get a new floor!Ocean: Yes, and also because under this floor is the Dinosaur Room.
- Continuity Nod: Oona and Ocean visit the same paint store owner that the former visited in "O is For Opposite". Ocean even asks the same question that Oona did in that episode, of who names the color swatches — however, instead of saying it's her and her husband (who name red color swatches), the paint store owner says that for blues, she asks her sister.
- A Tyrannosaurus rex breaks free from the Dinosaur Room when the creature pecks its way through it, just like it did in "6:00 to 6:05".
- Cross-Referenced Titles: With "Oscar and the Oscarbots".
- Dancing Is Serious Business: Oona built her Oonabots to help around the lab, and for dance parties. To demonstrate how the robots are used for the latter purpose, Oona activates one and dances with it for a while.
- Deceptively Human Robots: While the Oscarbots act more like Ridiculously Human Robots, the Oonabots don't act entirely humanoid. They walk and talk like one would expect a robot to do.
- Determinator: Averted with Oona when she realizes that the only two not turned to stone are her and Ocean, and plots to either run away or make good poses for when the creature catches them.
- Didn't Think This Through: While inputting code into the Oonabot, neither Oona nor Ocean are specific with their directions. The first time around, they input "turn, walk, turn", which leads the first Oonabot to walk straight and keep walking in that direction. The second time, they input "walk 10, turn left, walk 2, if blue...pick up", which leads the second Oonabot to follow all of the directions but pick up a blue bar, not the creature of the same color.
- By the third go-around, the trope is averted — Oona and Ocean get it right, and in addition, Oona planned one more command for the robot: if the dinosaur attacks, then touch it with the creature.
- Emotionless Girl: The paint store owner, who speaks in a Creepy Monotone and rarely smiles. Even when Oona and Ocean compliment her, she puts on a smile that lasts for all of 2 seconds before she reverts back to a frown.
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Oona does this for Ocean while he explains how Olympia and Otis turned to stone.Ocean: So they were helping me catch this creature, except the creature's called the Stone-Turner, and if you touch it-Oona: You turn to stone?Ocean: Thanks. That story was getting long.
- Just a Machine: Invoked by Oona, who tells Ocean that her Oonabots are not alive, and as a result, they can handle touching the creature without turning into stone. She even mentions that Oonabots can't think for themselves, leading into the Aesop of coding them to move.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: The Stone-Turner has four legs.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever led Oona to program her third Oonabot to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" every day at 12:00 is a complete mystery, but apparently she was suffering from Sleep Deprivation at the time.
- Ominous Crack: The bullpen has numerous cracks running along its floor, which threatens to give way when the dinosaurs start to break free. Conveniently, the only part that isn't cracked forms a path for Oona's third Oonabot to reach the creature, and by the time it does, the floor manages to give way and a T-rex emerges, threatening to attack it. By the end of the episode, the floor is replaced entirely.
- Portmanteau: Oona comes up with "perfectriffic" note at one point.
- Product Placement: Averted. While the episode was created in conjunction with Google and its Computer Science Education Team (according to one of the show's Facebook posts), Google isn't advertised as a company within the episode, and isn't even listed in the credits in any way.
- The trope is played straight with the third Oonabot when it outright name-drops Cracker Jacks while singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at the end of the episode.
- Repeat What You Just Said: Oona and Ocean engage in this when coming up with a plan to free their co-workers.Ocean: Problem is, I can't get the creature's spit because I'd be touching it, and it turns every living thing to stone.Oona: What did you say?Ocean: Problem is...Oona: After that.Ocean: To stone.Oona: Just a tad earlier.Ocean: Every living thing?Oona: That's the one.
- Right on the Tick: Oona's third Oonabot is programmed to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" every day at 12:00 sharp.
- Sequel Episode: To "Oscar and the Oscarbots". While not having the same premise, the episode effectively serves as one due to the inclusion of Oonabots, as well as Oona giving a Continuity Nod to Oscar having created the same thing, stating that she got the idea from him. Similarly, this episode has a Minimalist Cast much like "Oscar and the Oscarbots" does (that episode focuses on the Main 4, sans Ms. O).
- Ship Tease: It seems that the crew is getting a fair bit of mileage out of Oona and Ocean being paired up together — this episode has one of the most blatant references to the pairing yet, with Ocean saying that he likes Oona while she remarks that she likes herself too. Naturally, the fandom went crazy over this.
- Skewed Priorities: Oona's second Oonabot shorts out from the weight of the bars, and the Scientist's first words are that now she'll have to buy carrots at the grocery store like a chump.
- Stealth Pun: Numerous agents have been turned to stone, with Ocean and Oona working to restore them back to normal. Ocean's manner of speaking has often been joked about by fans who refer to him as being stoned, i.e. high on marijuana.
- Super Spit: The Stone-Turner's spit can apparently be used as part of a cure to turn other agents back to normal from being encased in stone.
- Taken for Granite: All of the agents in Precinct 13579, sans Oona and Ocean, are turned to stone thanks to the Stone-Turner, a creature that turns anyone who touches it into stone.
- The Tyrannosaurus rex that threatens to attack the third Oonabot at the climax of the episode is also turned to stone, by way of the Oonabot raising the Stone-Turner and touching the dinosaur with it.
- What Have We Ear?: As Oona is explaining that the second Oonabot is programmed to give her healthy snacks, the Scientist pulls a carrot from inside of the robot's ear, then asks if Ocean wants to see ranch dressing come out of her nose. The Creature Room Director declines.
- Wingding Eyes: While pecking at the floor, the dizzy Stone-Turner's eyes spin around in their sockets briefly before it shakes its head and goes back to eating.
Nothing says "I can't cook" like trading for food with a Ninja.
The Ninja SituationAirdates: July 19, 2017 note , December 16, 2016 note
Otis must go undercover to recover a stolen gadget from The Yum-Yum Twins.
Tropes:
- Blatant Lies: Otis resorts to these when the Yum-Yum Twins come close to sniffing him out.
- Bond One-Liner: Otis delivers an amazingly badass one to Evil Ninja upon leaving the restaurant with the gadget in hand.Otis: Pleasure doing business with you.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Subverted. Oona doesn't have a Macaroni-and-Cheese-inator, but she does have a Macaroni-inator, a Cheese-inator...and a Butter-Substitute-inator.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Subverted. While the initial reveal of Pearl and Earl having kids makes it seem like they're married to each other, it's eventually revealed that Pearl has 4 kids, and Earl has 3, both with different spouses (presumably, they're both single).
- Can't See a Damn Thing: Otis pulls part of Evil Ninja's costume over his eyes and spins him around, temporarily blinding him.
- Comically Missing the Point: Pearl and Earl view Otis's phone vibrating as a "terrible ringtone".
- Earl also misinterprets Otis's Bond One-Liner as being directed towards him, not Evil Ninja.
Pearl: You are making this day so much harder.Earl: Yeah.[Pearl does a Double Take] - Compromising Call: Otis sets his badge phone to the "vibrate" setting in order to prevent the Odd Squad theme song (the phones' common ringtone) going off during his meeting with the twins. However, the phone still manages to vibrate during one of his meetings regardless.
- Continuity Nod: The ice cream surveillance truck makes a return after having last been seen in The Movie.
- Olympia and Oona also don surveillance outfits, similar to what Otto and Oscar wore in "Undercover Olive".
- Crazy-Prepared: Oona didn't just bring a Macaroni-inator and a Cheese-inator — she also brought a Butter-Substitute-inator. She also has a Pie-Crust-inator and always carries a few coconuts around with her.
- Distinction Without a Difference: Otis hands the Yum-Yum Twins their pizza, and when they ask what it is, he replies with the obvious answer: it's pizza. Pearl Yum-Yum immediately fires back with her take on the pizza: it's a round, doughy insult with sauce.
- Edible Ammunition: Otis uses the pie he initially gave Pearl and Earl as a weapon against Evil Ninja. Of course, it barely manages to leave a dent.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Inverted. Pearl and Earl apparently have children that they love very much, and they seek to bring home pizza and macaroni and cheese for them.
- The trope is played straight for Pearl and Earl, as they love their parents as well as their grandparents and ask Evil Ninja to bring them a coconut cream pie for them.
- Eyedscreen: Used for both Otis and Evil Ninja just before they battle.
- Failure Montage: A brief one plays as Evil Ninja attempts to chop through a board made of titanium.
- Foreshadowing: When Ms. O picks Otis to go undercover as the Evil Ninja, he quietly explains to her that he doesn't feel comfortable pretending to be a villain because of "the thing we talked about". The Season 2 finale would reveal that he doesn't feel comfortable pretending to be a villain because he himself was a villain.
- Gender-Blender Name: Earl's three children are named David, David...and Little David. All of them happen to be girls.
- Great Big Book of Everything: Apparently, Ms. O has a book on how to be a ninja, which she has Otis read. However, it's quite thick.Ms. O: I hope you're a fast reader.
- Hidden Depths: Beneath Otis's stoic exterior is an agent who is exceptionally skilled in battle. He manages to take out Evil Ninja — a villain nearly twice as large as him — with absolute ease.
- Impersonation Gambit: Otis attempts to go undercover as the Evil Ninja in order to retrieve the MacGuffin-inator gadget back from the Yum-Yum twins. When the real Evil Ninja begins to head to the diner, Olympia and Oona stall him for time, blocking his path with things like boards and cinder blocks, and even mannequins to beat up. However, the real deal still manages to get to the diner, leading to a battle between him and Otis.
- Improvised Armour: Otis uses the case containing the MacGuffin-inator as a shield to defend against Evil Ninja's kicks. When the villain goes to use his arm, he winces in pain, giving the agent an opening.
- MacGuffin: The ever so aptly-named MacGuffin-inator. Yep, that's right, this episode is giving a hard-hitting Take That! to the common trope and does some Lampshade Hanging on it to boot.Ms. O: An important gadget called the MacGuffin-inator has been stolen.Olympia: What does the MacGuffin-inator do?Ms. O: Doesn't matter!
- McNinja: Otis isn't from Japan, but is forced to go undercover as a Ninja regardless. Similarly, the Evil Ninja also isn't from Japan.
- Mirror Boss: Otis is forced to fight Evil Ninja at the end of the episode, who has the same amount of skills as him. Otis manages to come out on top.
- Mundane Utility: The Yum-Yum Twins seek the help of an evil Ninja who is stealthy and skilled...to deliver food for them. Bonus points go for the fact that they're both dressed up like waiters at a restaurant.
- Murderous Mannequin: Olympia invokes this trope in order to deter the Evil Ninja. While none of them are alive, the villain still views them as real, albeit faceless, people.
- Musicalis Interruptus: Otis interrupts a ditty Olympia and Oona are singing about the Evil Ninja in order to ask them for mac and cheese.
- "No. Just… No" Reaction: Pearl has this reaction to Earl enunciating on her "deal's on" comment.Earl: If this is a switch for a deal, then it goes from off... [imitates the sound of the switch being flipped] ...to on. Deal is on.Pearl: Earl.Earl: What?Pearl: No.
- Nose Tapping: Not really tapping, but Olympia puts her finger to her nose as a way to decline going undercover as the Evil Ninja.Olympia: Rules are rules.
- Oh, Crap!: Olympia and Oona have this reaction when Otis informs them that the Yum-Yum Twins talked to the real Evil Ninja on the phone.
- Running Gag: In addition to lampshading the MacGuffin trope, this episode also lampshades the previous season-long gag of "If Sheila could see me now".Olympia: If Sheila could see me now!Oona: [chuckle] I don't think we're doing that anymore.
- There's also a gag throughout the episode of Otis asking others to show off his ninja moves. He doesn't get a chance to until the end of the episode.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Earl has a tendency to do this, to the point where it becomes an Overly Long Gag after Otis makes the pie into two pieces for his and Pearl's mom and dad, and four pieces for their grandma.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: Subverted for laughs. Oona, and later the Yum-Yum Twins, initially think that Otis's vibrating phone is a swarm of bees about to attack.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Both Pearl and Earl pull these numerous times when the "Evil Ninja" fails to bring them what they asked for. Luckily, they are lured back by him cutting up the food into equal pieces.
- As soon as Otis and the Evil Ninja begin battling each other, two people who are in the restaurant quickly make haste and leave.
- Severely Specialized Store: Olympia encounters a store that only sells mannequins and shower curtains, and uses the products inside in order to stall the Evil Ninja further. She later comes across a street vendor selling titanium.
- Siblings in Crime: Pearl and Earl Yum-Yum, also known as the Yum-Yum Twins, are a villainous brother-sister duo who have the appearance of restaurant workers, and wish to trade the MacGuffin-inator for a pizza. While Pearl is pretty competent, Earl is not.
- Solo Tabletop Game: Ms. O is seen playing Solitaire at the beginning of the episode.
- Spectacular Spinning: Otis does this when attacking the Evil Ninja, upon the villain ordering him to hand it over. He shoves the case into him, pulls part of his suit over his eyes, and spins him around rapidly, causing him to fall. The dizziness leaves Evil Ninja open, which allows Otis to get the case from him and retreat.
- Stupid Question Bait: Played with. When Ms. O is explaining the situation to Olympia and Otis, she doesn't give them much info other than a gadget has been stolen and a ninja has to get it back. When she asks the pair "Any questions?", Otis responds with "Yes. So many." We never hear what the questions are, however (for all we know, they could be about her Solitaire game).
- We Need a Distraction: Olympia leaves the ice cream surveillance van in order to stall the Evil Ninja and prevent him from entering the diner.
- Women Are Wiser: Pearl Yum-Yum is leagues above her brother in competence.
