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Recap / Numberjacks S 1 E 28 On And Off

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Four, Five, and Six are in the gym, with their Buddy Blocks, which, along with One's, Two's, and Three's, have grown larger and stacked themselves up like stairs. Five and Six decide to have a go jumping up and down them but Four is dubious. Five only goes up to her own blocks, but Six goes all the way up and back down backwards. With encouragement, Four jumps up to his own Buddy Blocks, but doesn't think he can go back down even when the alarm goes off. He does though, and heads to the control room.

The trouble is that a little boy is trying to put a toy zebra into his toy truck and a block onto his block tower, but they keep jumping off the toys. Four is sent out (with Jasper watching) and lands on a lamppost.

The Numberjacks and agents find the pattern with the strange goings-on: things are coming off of other things. A man then has trouble staying on his skateboard, and soon after, another man has trouble staying on his unicycle and can't even get back on. The skateboarding boy tries to eat his lunch, but his lunchbox comes off his lap.

Five guesses the Spooky Spoon as the culprit since it involves "mixing things up", and as if on cue, she arrives, laughing her trademark laugh. She insults Four, who insults her back, who calls him rude. She brags about how cool she thinks she is and her misdeeds.

Five imagines a girl being forced off her bed, a boy's birthday candles and cake decorations falling off the cake, and a clock falling off the mantle piece and breaking.

Then, Spooky makes the unicycle guy's unicycle be on him instead of vice versa, and the skateboarding guy have the bench be on him instead of him being on the bench. Four tells her off, but she doesn't listen and continues to rant arrogantly.

Three makes brain gain which corrects everything, but Spooky isn't giving up and puts Four on top of a pole. He asks how to get down and they tell him to jump onto the nearby bus stop shelter, then onto the bin, then onto the ground. He's a bit nervous to do it on his own, so Three uses brain gain. Now, it's time for Spooky Spoon to be dealt with: they use brain gain to make her go onto the bin, shelter, and away.

Four comes back, they recap the episode, Four tries to have another go at the Buddy Block game (trying to jump to five) and Six tells the viewers to look for things that are on other things.

This episode provides examples of


  • Baby Talk: Spooky Spoon mocks Four by calling him "little Numberjack Four" in a high voice.
  • Borrowed Catchphrase: When discussing one thing she likes, Spooky Spoon borrows Three's "Me, me, me" line.
  • Buffy Speak: Spooky Spoon calls herself the "bestest".
  • Evil Gloating: Shortly after arriving on the scene, Spooky brags about how she's mixing things up as usual.
  • Hypocrite: Spooky calls Four rude for calling her horrible, despite that being a rebuttal for her calling him the exact same thing.
  • Loud Gulp: Four is heard gulping when Six prepares to jump on the Buddy Blocks.
  • No, You:
    • When Four tells Spooky to "look", preparing to make a point, she replies, "You look!".
    • When Four says, "Look here!", Spooky replies, "No, you look there!".
  • Russian Reversal:
    • Spooky claims that a unicycle on a man is more fun than vice versa, and makes the man's unicycle be on him.
    • Then, she makes the bench be on the man instead of the other way round.
  • Signature Laugh: Lampshaded when Three recognises Spooky Spoon's laugh.

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