Captain Fun 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.

Here's my number if you need to reach me.

Plus a backup number. And a backup backup number.

Remember, if there's any accident, Dr O is just upstairs, OK?

Olive, I'll be fine. Go enjoy your day off.

-But what if something happens while I'm gone?

-Nothing's going to happen.

Look! It's so quiet around here!

All right.

See you tomorrow.

A lot happening, people! Listen up!

What's going on, Ms O?

I'm looking for someone to be Captain Fun.

-The duties are pretty simple, but I should explain...

-I want to do it!

-Can I at least tell you...

-I'll do it!

OK, but since two of you want the job,

we need to hold a vote.

Ah, a vote!

What's a vote?

Every agent who's here today gets to pick who they want to be

Captain Fun. That's called a vote.

Whoever gets more votes wins.

That doesn't sound fair.

It's actually the fairest way to choose a winner.

So, who's going to keep track of the number of votes?

There's only one person who can handle organising an election.

Tap Dancing Tina!

Ms O, I thought you were going to say, "Polly Graph."

Me too, but I really wanted to see some tap dancing.

I'll call her once Tina's done.

You did the right thing calling me.

I know. Thanks for coming, Polly.

Before we get started, there's something you should know.

I'm probably going to be the president one day.

Also, there are 31 agents here,

which means there are 31 votes.

-And where do the people go to vote?

-Hmm.

I need a large room, good lighting and pink drapes.

-I've a broom closet.

-That will do.

Well? What are you waiting for? GO!

AH-HUH!

-AH! Hey, Oksana.

-What are you doing?

Waiting for people to vote for me.

You're never going to win Captain Fun that way.

You need to walk around, shake people's hands, flip burgers.

Look at Oren.

-I'm your Captain of Fun, folks. Vote for me!

-YAY!

-Look, Otto, I know you and I have had our differences...

-We have?

Big time. Lucky for you, I've had way more differences with Oren!

Ah-choo!

I guess no-one says gesundheit any more.

-Which is why I'll help you beat him.

-You're different, aren't you?

-Very.

Now the first thing to do is check to see how many more votes

Oren has than you. Let's do this.

WOW! Oren has 111 votes?

No. These lines are called, "tally marks."

It isn't a number. It's just a mark. One mark stands for one vote.

So, Oren has one, two, three votes.

Why don't you just put the number three?

Because I'd just have to keep erasing and writing every time

a vote was added. This way it's easier.

-When someone else votes for Oren...

-I vote for Oren!

I just draw another tally mark, like this.

See? Now Oren has four votes.

Yay!

I'm voting for Otto. And not just because I feel really bad for him.

-Yeah, me too.

-All right.

So, it's two votes for Otto and four votes for Oren.

That's pretty good, but I still don't have as many as him.

Time to fill the fun tank with a bunch of fun fuel and go into

fun overdrive and crush the pedal to the fun metal.

-You're wasting time.

-Right.

O'Higgins, if you vote for me, I have five words for you.

-Frozen yoghurt Friday dance party.

-Yeah, that's right.

DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

Otto, you're getting frozen yoghurt all over the floor.

But, man, your dancing is fun. You got my vote!

-Is it this card?

-Nope.

-Is this your card?

-Nope.

-Is it this one?

-OK, fine, which one's your card?

-I didn't pick a card.

-WHY?

Because I enjoyed seeing you struggle.

Kind of reminds me of tying my shoelaces.

-Did I struggle enough to get you to vote for me?

-Eh...

-What if he helped you tie your shoelaces?

-My vote is yours.

-YES!

-And he'll sharpen all your pencils every day.

-OK.

-What are you doing?

-I already got the vote.

-Sealing the deal.

He'll also empty your trash bin and

clean your desk and bring you lunch.

-Oh...

-And buy you a puppy.

-Yes, please!

This is great! Oren has a bunch of

-votes crossed out.

-No.

-No?

-No.

I'm hearing a lot of "no"s.

This diagonal line is actually the fifth tally mark.

So, Oren had one, two, three, four votes.

And then he got one more vote which is this one here.

So, Oren has five votes in total in this cluster.

-I don't think she knows what she's doing.

-She does.

It just lets her count faster.

Instead of counting each tally mark one by one, she can count each

cluster of five tally marks. So she's skip counting by five.

I can totally hear you guys. This room isn't very big.

-Sorry.

-Sorry.

-Check it out.

Oren has five tally marks here and five tally marks here.

So that's five, ten. He has 10 votes.

And Otto has one, two, three, four votes.

So how many agents have voted in total?

We can find that out by adding your votes and Oren's votes together.

Oren has 10 votes

plus the four votes you have equals 11, 12, 13, 14.

-So, 14 agents have voted.

-But there are 31 agents that could vote.

You still have a chance, Otto.

AH-HAH!

BOTH: Tie.

Let's do this.

THEY CHEER

-Vote for me, folks!

-Am I Captain Fun, yet?

What he means to ask is, "Is Oren Captain Fun, yet?"

Let's start with Otto's votes.

-5, 10, 15... 15 votes.

-Nice.

Now, let's take a look at Oren's votes.

5, 10, 15 votes.

-You're tied.

-BOTH: Seriously?

I don't kid around when it comes to democracy.

Hold on, if Otto has 15 votes and I

have 15 votes, that's only 30 votes.

Polly, you said that there was 31 agents who could vote.

I might have said it a little bit more dramatically, but, yes.

Which means there's still one person who hasn't voted.

That person can break the tie. I'm so going to beat you!

I'm way more fun than you!

Why do you two even want to be Captain Fun? The ship barely floats.

What do you mean, "ship"?

That's the ship?!

You never mentioned a ship.

I was trying to tell you both but you wouldn't let me finish talking.

-It's true.

-Yes, that was very rude!

How is this fun?

The ship takes away all my empty juice boxes for recycling.

-Follow-up question, how is THAT fun?

-I get new juice boxes.

You know what, Otto, you can be Captain Fun. You win.

-You win this time.

-No, you win.

-No!

It's not up to you guys any more.

Whoever wins the last vote is going to have to steer the ship

through some very choppy water.

BOTH: Who, who hasn't voted yet?

According to my notes, there is only one person left.

Sorry, Tina. The vote is kids only.

Awkward...

The last person really left is...

BOTH: Oscar!

-Oh, hey, guys.

-Do not vote for me. I'm not fun.

-Sure you are!

No, I'm not. I'm always taking your gadgets without signing them out.

That's the opposite of fun. And I'm even doing it right now.

I do that too, if you do not vote for me. Hey!

ZAP

BOTH: Oh, no.

Well, I sure know who I'm not voting for.

I'm going to vote for... Agent Orson.

Agent Orson wants to be Captain Fun?

Yeah! Didn't you hear his speech?

SPEAKS INSPIRING BABY TALK

So inspiring.

So, if Oscar votes for Orson, that means Oren and Otto are still tied.

Correctamundo!

-Which means Otto and Oren both win.

-Aw, man!

It's not so bad.

You both get to wear really fun uniforms.

THEY CHEER

Let me finish...

I love uniforms.

Here...we go again.

We really have to let people finish their sentences.

THEY SCREAM

That's the last time I'M taking a day off.