YMMV / Square One TV

• Hilarious in Hindsight: The pilot episode of the "Mathnet" sketch involved a kid losing his dad's priced baseball that was signed by Babe Ruth, which was also a subplot in The Sandlot.
  • The whole premise of Mathnet is this you remember there would eventually be a procedural built around using mathematics to help solve crimes!
• Just Here for Godzilla: Most people only watched Square One TV for the Mathnet segments.
• Memetic Mutation: One One Two Three
  • Five Eureka!
• Narm Charm: Up to eleven if it can make a compelling plot (and a likeable character) from a BSoD'd ventriloquist who can only communicate via his dummy.

• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Reg E. Cathey, of The Wire, House of Cards (US) (2 Emmy nominations), and Fantastic Four (2015) as one of the repertory players.
  • First-season and second-season writer David Yazbek later co-wrote the theme songs to Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego and Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego and also co-created The Puzzle Place. Pat Tuesday and George Frankly even appeared in a first-season episode of Where in the World.., in which they gave out clues to the gumshoes to where the crook had gone.
  • The voice of Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, has a guest starring role as "Jane Rice Burrows", the teenage friend of the gorilla Grunt, in the Mathnet story "The Problem of the Missing Monkey".
  • One episode featured a Japanese chef making popovers in a lecture about measuring. That chef, played by Alan Muraoka, would go on to play "Alan" on another popular PBS show, Sesame Street.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: An episode of Mathnet dealt with popular music. Rocker Steve Stringbean was slated to perform at a parade, but then he was kidnapped by two failed Michigan State Marching Band musicians named Floyd Tyrone and John Phillips Lousa. Stringbean's song, which was also the kidnapper's telephone number was "Please do what these people say", which sounds very similar to Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A."
• Wheelchair Woobie: In one Mathnet week, Kate Monday was in a wheelchair. It made you feel sorry for her, and it made her a Damsel in Distress at one point, too. Neither the audience nor the other characters ever learned just how she got injured; she said on-screen that it was embarrassing in response to being asked about it.

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