Line #22 Recap/OddSquadS1E21SixOClockToSixOFive


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"But to tell you the whole story, I have to take you back 5 minutes."'']]
3	'''''6:00 to 6:05'''''
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5	'''Airdates:''' January 22, 2015 [[note]]PBS Kids premiere[[/note]], March 23, 2015 [[note]]TVO Kids premiere[[/note]], May 17, 2015 [[note]]ICI Radio-Canada premiere[[/note]]
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7	When dinosaurs break out of the Dinosaur Room in headquarters, Olive and Otto must travel back in time to save the day in only five minutes, using a gadget Oscar created.
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12	* ActorAllusion: This episode introduces Orchid's love for dinosaurs. Michela Luci, Orchid's actress, also plays the titular character in ''Dino Dana'', Dana Jain -- a girl who loves dinosaurs and sets out to conduct "dino experiments" that involve various species of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
13	* AdBreakDoubleTake: This is a zig-zagged trope -- most networks/stations play a Training Video instead of having a commercial break (although Discovery Kids in Latin America has commercial breaks in its airings of the show). Nonetheless, Olive repeats "we failed" before Part 1 of the episode ends and right after Part 2 begins. It also counts as MoodDissonance, as before the break she speaks in a serious tone, while after the break has her take on more of a despaired tone.
14	* AnswerCut: A strange variant occurs when Otto asks how long a minute is before he and Olive make their way to the Dinosaur Room. There's no cut, but rather, a 60-second timer appears onscreen and begins counting down.
15	* ApologizesALot: Zig-zagged; Olive isn't overtly apologetic, but she apologizes to Ms. O for failing the mission, only to have Ms. O tell her that ''she's'' sorry Odd Squad is going to get destroyed. It's justified due to the fact that Olive has immense loyalty to Ms. O and her primary goal is to take over the Director position someday in place of her.
16	* ArcWords: Olive is repeatedly asked by Octavia if she's seen her partner Oz, only for her to respond that she hasn't, and that it's not lunchtime, it's dinnertime -- followed by Octavia calling her a "kidder".
17	* BigNo: Olive and Otto both give one when Orchid is about to let the "dinosaurs" out. It comes to a slow halt when they see she meant her toy dinosaurs.
18	* CallBack: Olive is [[Recap/OddSquadS1E8CrimeAtShapelyManor once again]] a narrator for a story, and just like in that episode, her narration is sparse.
19	** The Dinosaur Room is also seen again after debuting in [[Recap/OddSquadS1E19HoldTheDoorFlatastrophe "Hold the Door"]].
20	** [[Recap/OddSquadS1E4BlobOnTheJobPartyOf54321 This isn't the first time]] that [[KidsDrivingCars Olive has driven a vehicle of some sort.]]
21	* CharacterNarrator: Olive serves as one for part of the story, BreakingTheFourthWall and all.
22	* ChekhovsGun: Oscar's Jetpack-inator, which he is attempting to make hover throughout all of the timelines, with Olive correcting him on what button to press to make it do so. She and Otto end up using the jetpack to race to the Dinosaur Room in a minute.
23	* ChekhovsTimeTravel: Somewhat [[EnforcedTrope enforced]] by Tim [=McKeon=], ''Odd Squad's'' co-creator, who likes the concept of time-travel and has mentioned on Twitter that [[https://twitter.com/TimMcPhone/status/1005158956405219328 he brought up so many time-travel episode ideas in the writers' room that he was banned from writing any more]]. ''Film/OddSquadWorldTurnedOdd'' would be his final time-travel-related contribution to the show, though not his final contribution altogether.
24	* ContinuityCavalcade: Olive's narration primarily consists of odd problems that the precinct has faced in past episodes such as [[Recap/OddSquadS1E3MyBetterHalfTheConfalones "My Better Half"]], [[Recap/OddSquadS1E15TheOddAntidoteTheOneThatGotAway "The Odd Antidote"]], and [[Recap/OddSquadS1E11HowToInterrogateAUnicornTheBriefcase "The Briefcase"]], among others.
25	* ContinuityNod: Another code is introduced for the precinct, following [[Recap/OddSquadS1E4BlobOnTheJobPartyOf54321 Code Ruby]].
26	* DoubleMeaning: When Oscar is asked about the whereabouts of Orchid, he explains that she left to let the dinosaurs out. Olive and Otto construe this to mean that she lets the dinosaurs in the ''Dinosaur Room'' out, but they soon find out Oscar was referring to Orchid's ''toy'' dinosaurs, who were taken off of her desk and placed in a special quiet room for them to relax.
27	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Surprisingly averted; Olive is a decent driver and doesn't manage to crash the cart at all.
28	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Olive and Otto are put through hell and back [[RaceAgainstTheClock racing against the clock]] in order to save their beloved workplace and their co-workers, and after [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal three time-traveling tries]], they manage to save it [[JustInTime in the nick of time]]. The episode ends with them taking a ''very'' well-deserved vacation in Orchid's peaceful dinosaur room while sharing a plate of cookies.
29	* FaintInShock: Octavia faints when she realizes that she forgot to feed the dinosaurs... four-and-a-half hours too late. Luckily, Otto manages to catch her before she can get a concussion as well from hitting the hard floor.
30	* ForWantOfANail: Octavia's forgetfulness in feeding the dinosaurs, as well as her brushing off Olive's remarks of it being dinnertime and not lunchtime, manages to cost Ms. O a headquarters as well as her life. Luckily, Olive and Otto stop her just in time and correct her right before they leave to stop the dinosaurs from breaking out.
31	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Olive bumps into Octavia's wagon while on her way to the Cookie Room, Otto is shown giving a smirk and a celebratory fist-bump as he walks away.
32	** Otto also gives Olive a nonverbal WhatTheHellHero reaction when she bumps into Octavia's wagon for a second time.
33	* GladYouThoughtOfIt: Otto and Oscar have this exchange while Olive is setting up the Before-Now Machine.
34	--> '''Oscar:''' ''[groans]'' There's gotta be a gadget that can fix this!
35	--> '''Olive:''' The Before-Now Machine!
36	--> '''Oscar:''' Of course! And then you guys can go back in time and stop all this from happening! Why didn't I think of that?
37	--> '''Otto:''' You ''did.''
38	--> '''Oscar:''' Well, congrats to me! ''[pats himself on the back]''
39	* HeroicSacrifice: Instead of evacuating like most other agents, Ms. O stays behind at headquarters and tries to beat back the dinosaurs as best she can.
40	* IdeaDing: One is heard when Octavia explains to Olive that the lunch she's mentioning is for the dinosaurs, not for her and Oz. This leads Olive to connect the dots as to who let the dinosaurs out.
41	* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Otto explaining to Olive how to resolve the issue of them botching up their mission in the first timeline.
42	--> '''Otto:''' Olive, we didn't fail. I mean, we ''did'' fail, but we can ''un-''fail by going back in time!
43	* IResembleThatRemark: Olive remarks how Oren and Olaf may be crazy, but they aren't ''that'' crazy. Cue Olaf giving an excited "whee!" as he and Oren make their way down a hallway.
44	--> '''Olive:''' Okay, even ''I'' stopped believing myself halfway through that.
45	* JetPack: Oscar is testing out a Jetpack-inator throughout the episode, which Otto employs as a sort of engine for his and Olive's makeshift cart.
46	* LikeADuckTakesToWater: While Olive has no issue adjusting to each of the timelines right off the bat, [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Otto]] takes a bit more time to get used to the timelines and how everything plays out (mostly) the same way.
47	* LoopholeAbuse: Otto decides to skip to the Cookie Room as a way to beat Olive to it, explaining that Ms. O may have said no running or fast-walking, but there's no rule against skipping.
48	* MistakenForThief: Oren and Olaf are initially suspected by Otto and Olive to be breaking into the Dinosaur Room with a bag of tools. However, it turns out that what they were transporting in the bag were ribbons, which they were using to practice for the Odd Squad Talent Show.
49	* MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks: Subverted. Despite Oren and Olaf just showing off by twirling their ribbons around, Otto is unable to look away and stares at them wide-eyed. Olive, on the other hand, nearly becomes dizzy by following the ribbons' movement (with her eyes darting to and fro), but manages to [[DraggedByTheCollar pull her entranced partner away.]]
50	* MultiPartEpisode: The third one after [[Recap/OddSquadS1E5ReindeerGames "Reindeer Games"]] and [[Recap/OddSquadS1E8CrimeAtShapelyManor "Crime at Shapely Manor"]].
51	* MyGodYouAreSerious: When Octavia is confronted by Olive and Otto about misunderstanding the time of day, she scoffs and calls Olive a "kidder"...before Olive remarks that she's being dead serious, causing Octavia's face to fall.
52	* MysteriousStranger: Olive tells Otto to "look for anyone suspicious" just before they spot a shifty-looking agent wearing a hat and a trenchcoat, who has a suitcase with a red question mark on it. Olive then rephrases her statement by adding, "...but not ''too'' suspicious".
53	* NeverSayDie: When asked if Ms. O will evacuate headquarters, she remarks that "the captain goes down with the ship!"
54	* NothingCanStopUsNow: A subversion -- Oren says this to Otto and Olive when they confront him and Olaf in the hallways, only for Otto to find out that they aren't carrying robbery tools like he thought, but ribbons.
55	* OurTimeMachineIsDifferent: Oscar has a "Before-Now Machine" which enables someone to go back in time...but only for 5 minutes [[NoodleImplements (any further than that and he'd need three bags of plutonium and surprisingly a lot of bananas)]]. To use it, Olive and Otto grip a sphere attached to the end of the gadget while Oscar pushes a button to activate it.
56	* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Of the "videocassette time travel" variety, as time is shown moving backwards as though someone were rewinding a VCR tape, with bubbles showing up repeating random bits of spoken dialogue.
57	* RaceAgainstTheClock: Aside from Olive and Otto having to solve the mystery of who let the dinosaurs out in 5 minutes, the climax of the episode has the partner pair racing to the dinosaur room in exactly a minute, complete with timer.
58	* RememberedTooLate: Octavia is reminded by Olive that she forgot to feed the dinosaurs four-and-a-half hours ago. When she checks her watch, it finally sinks in, and she FaintsInShock.
59	* RetroactivePrecognition: Olive has a good memory of the past timelines, and characters like Octavia and Ms. O are confused by her jumping right to the chase.
60	--> '''Octavia:''' Hey, how'd you know I was gonna say...that?
61	* RightOnTheTick: The dinosaur breakout is at exactly 6:05 PM. With this knowledge, Olive and Otto must race to stop the breakout before the clock reaches that time.
62	* RippleEffectProofMemory: Olive and Otto remember exactly what happened with the first timeline, and aside from going to the Cookie Room (as well as confronting Orchid, Oren, Olaf and Octavia) and Ms. O issuing Code Topaz (complete evacuation), everything plays out the same way. By the episode's end, the partner pair share cookies from the Cookie Room inside Orchid's own dinosaur room.
63	* RulesLawyer: Ms. O is one in this episode, enforcing "no running" and "no walking fast" rules.
64	* RunningGag: Otto being hit by a flying goldfish (complete with haphazard warning beforehand) turns out to be one of these when Orchid does the same at the end of the episode, but with dropping a toy dinosaur on Otto's head.
65	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Oscar, twice.
66	* SeriesContinuityError: Otto is unaware that the precinct has a Dinosaur Room, despite having visited it [[Recap/OddSquadS1E19HoldTheDoorFlatastrophe a few episodes ago]].
67	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Olive and Otto must stop the dinosaur breakout that Octavia inadvertently caused.
68	* ShamuFu: Otto gets repeatedly slapped in the face by a flying goldfish. The first time around, he actually ''enjoys'' it. The fourth time around, he [[DefiedTrope defies]] it by catching the fish in his hand ''without even looking'' and tossing it.
69	* ShoutOut: Olive and Otto's makeshift cart, as well as the driving mechanism with Otto taking backseat, looks like something straight out of ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash''.
70	** One of the doors seen by the Cookie Room reads "221B", which is the address of Franchise/SherlockHolmes.
71	* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: Olive has to [[DraggedByTheCollar pull Otto by his wrist]] when the dinosaurs break out, as he laments not having a chance to go to the Cookie Room.
72	* SpinningClockHands: Occurs when Olive is explaining [[BreakingTheFourthWall to the audience]] how Octavia forgot to feed the dinosaurs.
73	* SustainedMisunderstanding: This conversation between Olive and Otto, and Oren and Olaf.
74	--> '''Olive:''' Stop right there!
75	--> '''Oren:''' You think you can stop us? ''Nobody'' can stop us! This ''is'' happening!
76	--> '''Olaf:''' ''[drops the bag he and Oren are carrying]'' Yay!
77	--> '''Otto:''' No it's not, because we got your... ''[opens up the bag and takes out a pair of ribbons]'' Ribbons? You're gonna use ''ribbons'' to break out ''dinosaurs?''
78	* ThisIsNoTimeForKnitting: Subverted when Otto attempts to explain to Ms. O in the first timeline how he and Olive are from the future. Olive tells him that they don't have time to argue, and tells Ms. O that everything's fine. After that, he doesn't try and convince Ms. O or anyone else of the fact.
79	* TimeTravelEpisode: The premise of this episode revolves around Olive and Otto stopping a dinosaur breakout from occurring in 5 minutes. They do this by repeatedly going back 5 minutes with the Before-Now Machine in order to find the culprit.
80	* TimeyWimeyBall: This episode somewhat conflicts its time-travel rules with [[Recap/OddSquadS1E7ACaseOfTheSingAlongsMsOUhOh "Ms. O Uh-Oh"]], which firmly established that NeverTheSelvesShallMeet, lest there be a timetastrophe. However, while that episode merely had Ms. O be sent from the past to the future, this episode has it vice versa, only with Olive and Otto being sent to the past instead of Ms. O coming to the present from the future. Olive and Otto don't meet their [[AlternateSelf alternate selves,]] either, nor are they concerned by the matter (Otto in particular expresses interest of seeing the day he was born). Similarly, there are now two time-travel machines in existence: the Day-inator (which lets you travel to a day in the past or future in the current year), and the Before-Now Machine (which lets you travel only 5 minutes into the past, with more time being available if the right ingredients are collected).
81	* WatchOutForThatTree: Olive manages to back up into Octavia's wagon full of dinosaur food numerous times. She also manages to run right into Oren and Olaf's bag at one point...''before'' backing up into Octavia's wagon. All in the span of a few seconds!
82	* WhiteVoidRoom: Olive is in one when narrating.

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