The Perfect Lunch 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...

Thanks for coming, Odd Squad.

What seems to be the problem, mam?

Well, as you know, I use many ingredients when I bake

but the problem is with my milk.

Whoa-ho-ho! Hands off the merchandise.

And I really need that milk to make my cake.

-Did you try asking if you could use him?

-Asking?

-Yeah, instead of just grabbing.

-Oh, yeah, OK.

Excuse me, Mr Milk.

-The name's Leonard.

-OK, Leonard...

Can I please just use you to make my cake?

Ah, thanks for asking

but no!

So now we just zap it.

-Thanks, Odd Squad.

-Happy to help.

Ahem.

Go ahead, say it.

I hate it when milk goes bad.

And we're done.

Where is everybody?

I sent everyone home early.

Why is there a nest on your head?

It's not just a nest, Otto, it's a symbol of hope and freedom.

Oh...

At least that's what The Featherites tell me.

I'm confused. The who?

-The bird people.

-These are The Featherites.

We're hosting an important lunch with them today

and everything has to be perfect.

I've heard stories about these lunches.

If even one thing is wrong they get extremely upset.

Which then creates oddness everywhere.

Look, this was a result of our last lunch.

We forgot a plate.

How can we help?

By working with the head of the party planning committee.

# Obfusco. #

BOTH: Aggrrhhhh!

-Please can we have someone else?!

-Anybody but him.

Listen up! The Featherites will be here in an hour

and I need to get ready.

Don't let me down!

Here's the table, Obfusco.

Oscar reminds me of a basket flavoured kite

from Guadalupe.

Just tell us how many chairs.

Your wish is my command.

BOTH: Eugh!

"At the first meeting of The Featherites,

"there were three guests.

"At the second there were 12, at the third there were four.

"This year there will be eight less than the second.

"Also my sock can sing opera?!"

THE SOCK SINGS OPERA

BOTH: So weird!

# Obfusco. #

-Lolagia!

-Can't we just put out a bunch of chairs

-and if there's extra, so what?!

-No!

Last time there were too many chairs, things did not go well.

Too many chairs!

SCREAMING

SQUAWKING

-Sounds bad.

-(So bad.)

Hey!

While you were thinking about the last time we had extra chairs,

I made a chart to help us out.

This is a word problem so we have to break it down into pieces.

Along the bottom I've listed the first,

second and third meeting.

Along the side numbered lines show us

how many Featherite ambassadors were there.

Three at the first meeting, 12 at the second meeting

and four at the third.

But that still doesn't tell us how many Featherites are coming.

Hold on.

Obfusco said that there were 12 Featherites at the second meeting.

This year there will be eight less than the second.

Less than! That means it's a subtraction or a minus problem.

We're trying to figure out 12 minus eight.

So if this is 12, we take away eight.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight

and we're left with four.

So we need four chairs for The Featherites.

-One.

-Two.

-Three.

-And four.

Done.

Well done my gorgeous ham sandwiches.

Now, you must set the food. You say Obfusco, I say sombrero.

-What?!

-No idea.

-I'm lost.

Obfusco! In my office!

But Ms O, we need him for more information.

He needs to finish teaching me to speak Featherite.

Or, as The Featherites would say, "Buck-buck! Buck-buck!"

Oh!

You're coming along very nicely, Ms O.

Let's see what this says. Each Featherite gets one plate.

So that's four plates because four Featherites are coming.

Platenator.

-Next?

-"Every plate must have ten worms.

"Two must be green and the red worms must be double

"the amount of green worms."

Can't we just put a whole bunch of worms

and they help themselves to whatever they want?!

No! The Featherites are very specific.

Last time I got the food wrong it was hailstorm in the ocean...

We have no time for flashbacks.

-We trust you, it was bad.

-(So bad.)

This is a word problem, like the last one.

"Every plate must have ten worms and two must be green."

So that's two greens on each plate. Easy.

Done. Now, how many red worms?

"The red worms must be double the amount of green worms."

We already know there are two green worms on each plate.

So if we double that, it's two added to itself.

Two plus two is four.

-Four red worms per plate.

-On it.

The only worms left are brown.

-How many of those do we put out?

-It doesn't say!

-We're done for, it's over!

-Let me see that.

Obfusco said, "Every plate must have ten worms."

OK, so we know there's two green and four red.

So that's one, two, three, four, five, six worms.

And to get to ten we add one, two, three, four.

So everyone gets four brown worms.

The Featherites are here!

ALL: Seriously?!

I have a bird nest on my head, do I look like I'm kidding?

-But we're not done with the worms.

-Or the cups.

The Featherites will need one for each of their mouths.

Otto, go meet the Featherites in the tube lobby and stall them. Go!

-You two, finish setting that table.

-On it, Ms O.

And that's why they call it the tube lobby.

These would be your tubes and this would be your lobby.

Bing, bang, boom! Tube lobby.

It's very blue as you can see...

I knew it! The Odd Squad isn't ready for our arrival.

Of course we are but before we go in I just wanted to...

..to...

..give you some gum.

Now we just need to put out the right amount of cups.

Obfusco said The Featherites need one for each of their mouths.

Well, that's easy, there are four of them, so four cups.

One for each mouth.

Cupenator.

We do enjoy gum.

SQUAWKING

I just hope you have enough for all our mouths.

CHIRPING

You guys stay here, I'll be right back. Stay here.

-Go for Olive.

-Olive! The Featherites have five mouths!

What?!

Yeah, one on their face part and four on their wings.

But it's kind of cool

but creepy.

But so cool!

-The Featherites have five mouths!

-We need more cups but how many?!

Five cups on each spot, instead of just one.

We can count by fives.

-Five, ten...

-15, 20. BOTH: 20 more cups!

-Hold on, they already have one cup each.

-Grab them!

-Cupenator!

-Now at 20.

SQUAWKING

Erm... Do you guys want to see the hallway? The...

BOTH: Ta-da!

This table looks absolutely...

..wonderful!

There's only one problem,

where's Ms O?

Like a beautiful banana in Kangaroo City,

Obfusco presents Ms O.

APPLAUSE

SQUAWKING

Is this going well? I can't tell.

Yeah, it's going very well.

SQUAWKING

Great work, team.

In fact, you did such a great job, you can

help next week with The Mole People dinner.

GROANING

Luckily, we have someone that knows all about The Mole People.

We know, Obfusco!

-No, not me.

-Yes!

My sister.

# Obfuscolina. #

Aggrhh! She's so confusing.

I can't understand a word she says.