Bad Lemonade Odd Squad

My name is Agent Olive.

This is my partner, Agent Otto.

This is my lucky pencil.

But back to Otto and me.

We work for an organisation run by kids

that investigates anything strange, weird and especially odd.

Our job is to put things right again.

Who do we work for?

We work for Odd Squad.

Thanks for coming, Odd Squad.

What seems to be the problem, sir?

Well, this haircut for one.

But I'm trying to get some work done

except every time I try to hammer a nail, well, let me show you.

I can't get my work done.

Not a problem, sir. We have just the thing.

Yeah!

By the way, what are you building?

A chair.

Where are you supposed to sit?

I knew I forgot something.

BLEATS LIKE A GOAT

-There you two are.

-How are you doing, Ms O?

How am I doing? Are you seriously asking me how I'm doing right now?

Erm, yes.

I'm good, thanks for asking.

But something very odd has happened.

Check it. As you know,

Polly Graf is a tangraph expert and lemonade salesperson.

And she never misses a day of work.

But today...

THEY GASP

Polly's missing.

That's not all. Odd Squad's number-one villain,

Odd Todd, has her closed down for good and opened his own stand.

THEY GASP

And it's up to you to find out what happened.

THEY GASP

Why is that so surprising?

I think we just got used to gasping.

Well, what are you waiting for? Go!

# La, la, la, la. #

-O'Jameson.

-Where are you headed?

-Polly's lemonade stand.

Preparing to squishinate.

Squishinating.

Come on.

Odd Squad, Odd Squad, stop right there.

Well, well, well, if it isn't my old partner.

And her new partner.

-Hello, new Todd.

-I'll never be new you.

I'm old me. I mean new me.

I mean, regular me.

-What did you do to Polly?

-I ate her.

Polly is the name I gave to this ham sandwich.

I like to name all my sandwiches before I eat them.

But, if you're talking about the Polly who isn't a sandwich,

and sells lemonade, she quit.

-She would never do that.

-If you don't believe me,

go ahead and ask her yourself. She's in the park.

Oh, and have a free sample.

Please. Like we would ever drink anything made by you.

What? It's free...

Yuck!

..and sour.

But then again it's free.

OK, we've got to go.

Let's go. Come on.

NEIGH!

Polly, there you are.

-Hey, Olive. Hey, Otto.

-Todd said you quit your lemonade stand.

But we know that's not true.

-It is true.

-THEY GASP

It's OK. Now I have time to do my other hobbies.

Like learning to speak pigeon.

Coo. Coo.

That means fly up to my finger.

I'm not really good at that yet.

But how can you quit?

You love lemonade.

I had to. Everybody liked Odd Todd's lemonade better.

Odd Todd was lying to you.

I thought so too.

But then he gave me these.

Graphs.

He made this bar graph that shows how many people drank my lemonade

each day last week, but the bars aren't very tall.

And this graph shows how many people drank Odd Todd's lemonade

each day last week.

Todd's bars are taller so that means more people drank his lemonade.

When you say it out loud like that, it hurts even more.

But as an honourable lemonade salesperson,

I had no choice but to quit.

Something's going on.

Can we take these graphs back to Odd Squad HQ?

Coo, coo.

That means yes.

I think.

My true snifferinator will be able to sniff out

any false information on these graphs.

LOUD SNIFFING

I'm sorry, but the information on these graphs are true.

-That's impossible.

-A true snifferinator never messes up.

Unless it catches a cold.

I don't know.

Maybe Odd Todd is telling the truth.

Maybe he's actually selling lemonade now.

Todd never does anything normal.

His goal is to spread oddness at all costs.

Do you think it has to do with Otto's lemon head?

OLIVE GASPS

Meep-meep!

-What's he saying?

-Todd's lemonade is so sour,

it makes heads turn into lemons.

Don't worry, partner, I'll fix this.

Meep-meep!

I feel the same way.

Oh, man, I wish I could speak lemon.

No, everybody, don't drink Todd's lemonade.

It's so sour it turns your head into a lemon.

Please. Where's your proof?

That guy with the lemon head.

NONSENSE NOISES

CROWD GASP

My lemonade is perfectly safe.

Look at this pictograph I made.

It has cute little pictures instead of boring old bars.

I call it things that happen to people who drank my lemonade.

Exploded.

Nobody.

People who turn into a beaver.

No-one.

People who made this noise.

Hee-ha-pigo-bleurgh!

Nobody again.

But look here. Turned into a lemon head, there is one person.

So? It's just one person.

Besides, who's to say they didn't walk through a lemon head ray

-drinking my lemonade?

-Ha!

THE CROWD MUMBLES IN AGREEMENT

You shouldn't find that convincing.

My lemonade is perfectly safe.

And now half price.

Nice.

Something's not right. Time to go to the Math Room.

Greetings, Agent Olive.

Math Room, can you load Todd's two bar graphs?

Hold on. The lines on these graphs don't have any numbers on them.

Without numbers, who knows how many people each bar stands for?

Math Room, please put numbers along the sides of both graphs.

Generating numbers.

So this short bar is actually 30 people.

And this is only one person.

So Todd's bar looks taller because the number one is way up here.

And even though 30 people drank Polly's lemonade,

the numbers on her graph are way closer together.

So 30 looks like a really small number.

May I make a suggestion?

I love your suggestions, Math Room.

I can generate a new graph,

one that shows Polly and Todd's customers side-by-side,

and uses the same numbers for both.

Yes, that way we can measure the people who drank the lemonade

-and compare them.

-Generating new graph.

So these bars still show how much lemonade Polly and Todd sold,

Polly's bars are yellow and Todd's bars are black.

Polly's is 30 customers and Todd's is one.

30 customers is definitely more than one customer.

People do like her lemonade better.

Thanks, Math Room.

Now I feel like lemonade.

I don't know where these lemon heads are coming from.

My lemonade is perfectly safe.

That's a lie.

And I bet the graph about Todd's lemonade being safe is wrong too.

Yeah, right, Olive.

My graphs clearly show the truth.

Your graphs don't clearly show anything.

They're made to trick people. They're tricky graphs.

NONSENSE NOISES

Sure.

This graph has a picture of only one person over the lemon head column,

but what Todd didn't tell you is that each picture of a person

actually stands for 50 people. CROWD GASP

And here's the proof.

Here's a less tricky pictograph I made that clearly shows the facts.

And here's the proof.

Fine. But you can't stop me from selling other drinks.

Like Odd Todd's pickle juice.

Eww!

Exactly. And there's nothing you can do to stop me.

EVIL LAUGHTER

You're right. But my friends can.

Your friends? What are you...?

Coo, coo.

BIRDS SQUAWK

I'll be back.

You'll see.

Thank you, my pigeon friends.

MEOW!

Yeah!

Now that is good lemonade.

Meep-meep-meep-meep!

Did you have to drink the pickle juice?

Meep-meep-meep-meep!