Did You Notice Anything? Numberjacks

# In an ordinary sofa in an ordinary room

# There are extraordinary heroes who are standing by to zoom...

# To wherever they are needed They are speeding out today

# The Numberjacks are on their way

# They will help you with your problems

# They are waiting for your call

# No problem is too big for them

# No problem is too small

# Things may all be going wrong but you can bet it's not for long

# The Numberjacks are on their way

# The Numberjacks are on their way! #

Beautiful things. Beautiful.

Whoa!

-Oh, Four, do you notice anything strange?

-No.

Well, you won't notice if you don't look.

Hang on, I'm reading.

It's something strange... and beautiful.

Oh!

-Oh.

-Well, I can see strange. Not sure about the beautiful.

-I don't mean me.

-There's nothing else to notice.

Now now there isn't, no.

I've been stopped from reading my book to try to notice nothing?

-You were too slow.

-I was not!

Just admit you're not very good at noticing things.

I can, but there has to be something to notice.

-You're not a good noticer.

-I am a perfectly good noticer.

Ahh!

-Wow. You didn't notice that.

-That's true.

-CALL ALARM

-I noticed that, though.

-Agents calling in?

-Come on.

We've got a call.

Agent 81 here.

There's something going wrong!

But not for long!

-Tell us the problem, Agent 81.

-Look what's happening to this girl.

Putting it on screen.

That's weird.

And so's that.

Wow!

-That girl has got a very strange bedroom.

-Yes! Even Four noticed.

Well, Agent 81, we'll send someone out to investigate.

Oh, thank you.

And I think this is a job for...Number Four.

# We've got a problem What shall we do?

# Who's going out there? Who do we choose?

# We've got a problem to explore

-# Who's going out there?

-Number Four! #

ALARMS BEEP

-Good luck, Four.

-Thank you.

-Are you ready, Four?

-Yes.

Checking everything's clear.

-All clear.

-Stand by, Four.

-Off you go.

Four, three, two, one, zero!

Scanning for a four to land on.

Go for it, Five.

Found a four!

Whoa!

Oh.

-Keep your eyes open.

-There are strange things going on.

I'm on the case!

-CALL ALARM

-Looks like there's more work.

-Agent 108 here.

-What's happening, Agent 108?

There are more problems. Look at the cleaner.

On screen.

Oh, dear!

Whoa!

I've seen a posh lady getting ready to go out.

-And?

-You'd better see for yourself.

That looks normal.

Ooh, it's an interesting new look.

But I don't think she meant to do it.

-Four, we've got more problems.

-I know! Look what's happening here.

That's all right.

Can't she see what's going on?

Looks like nobody is seeing anything that's going on.

Wow. That's a very unusual school.

What's going on here? Agents, any ideas?

Agent 27 here. The problem is really the same every time.

A monkey is a bit different from tomato ketchup on your face.

The people didn't notice anything was different. That's the same.

Agent 27 is right.

These strange things keep happening, but nobody is noticing.

If you don't notice things, you can't do anything.

Now we have noticed, we're going to do something.

Yes, we better had, or anything might happen.

An artist might be painting a picture

and the brush goes strange

and she might make a terrible mess and not notice.

Or a man could be playing a lovely tune

and a bird flies into his tuba

and lays an egg and everything

and the man doesn't notice anything.

Or your bike could turn into the dancing cow, dancing a jig,

and you wouldn't even notice.

Even if you fell off, and the cow fell on you.

We've got to find out why people aren't noticing things.

Agents, everybody, keep your eyes open for anything strange happening.

See if there are any clues as to who is causing this.

There's something strange going on with the cleaner.

He hasn't noticed his vacuum cleaner's changed!

I'm sure I've seen that white one before.

More trouble for the teacher!

Where have I seen those white gloves before?

I think something's going to happen here, too.

Wait a minute...

A sucker-upper, white gloves, a tall white hat? They all belong to...

The Number Taker!

# Number Taker, Number Taker Have you seen the Number Taker

# Taking all the numbers he can see?

# Picking, nicking, getting, netting

# As mean a Number Taker as can be

# With his number sucker-upper He's a number mucker-upper

# He's as mean a Number Taker as can be. #

Wow. the Number Taker's behaving very strangely.

He is. Look!

He's...smiling!

Whoa!

He usually takes things.

He is! He's taking away people's noticing.

And he's having a joke!

Not a very nice joke.

Well, we can sort things out.

I'll get some Brain Gain going.

We'll send Brain Gain to get things back to normal.

And get people noticing, too.

# Brain Gain, Brain Gain To solve the problem, use our brain

# The way to get your brains all linking up together

# Joined-up thinking. #

Getting Brain Power now. Brain Gain!

Let's do it! Brain Gain to make people notice things!

Make people notice things...

..and sort them out!

Back to normal!

And sorted!

Yes!

We can help people spot the things that are wrong.

Oh, dear. Wait a minute...

We've helped people notice things being changed, but now look!

-Oh!

-I thought the Brain Gain got them noticing things again.

Why hasn't she noticed?

Because it's not a thing that's changed, it's a person!

Well, send the RIGHT Brain Gain! And quick!

Sending Brain Gain, notice things and people.

Notice things and people.

Yes! That sorted him.

But he might turn up somewhere else. After him, Four!

-It's the Number Taker!

-They haven't noticed.

He's pretending to be their teacher.

They've got to notice! It's the Number Taker!

They can't notice people!

Sending Brain Gain!

Notice things and people!

Let's get rid of the Number Taker and all his crazy jokes.

CHILDREN SHOUT

They've sorted the Number Taker out.

-Yes!

-Come back, Four.

All clear for landing.

One, two, three, four.

Well done, Four.

-Well, that was very strange.

-It's all on screen.

The Number Taker took away everyone's noticing skills.

-You'd normally notice that.

-And you'd certainly notice that!

And you really ought to notice things like that.

Clues helped us know who was causing trouble.

The Number Taker.

We helped people notice all the THINGS that changed.

But they weren't noticing when PEOPLE changed.

He's not right for you, lady.

We helped the lady to notice.

And helped the children to notice.

And everything was back to normal.

-I'll tell you one thing I did notice today, Four.

-What's that?

-You were very brave, facing the Number Taker.

-Oh. Thank you, Three.

-And I've noticed...

-Yes?

-You can be very kind.

Yes. I can, can't I?

Anyway, it's very important to notice things.

So you keep your eyes and ears open.

And if you see anything strange...

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Subtitles by Zoe Short Red Bee Media Ltd

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