Failure to Lunch Odd Squad

My name is Agent Olympia. This is my partner, Agent Otis.

This is my lunch after I ate it.

But back to Otis 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.

Hurry, Olympia!

I'm coming, Ms O!

FIREWORKS CRACKLE

THEY BOTH YELL

Who do we work for?

We work for Odd Squad.

Thanks for coming, Odd Squad.

I would tell you what the problem is,

but I think it seems pretty obvious.

Not to worry, ma'am, we have an animal-personator gadget.

Oh.

Hang on, partner.

Do you want us to change you back to all-person or all-horse?

Oh, boy. Oh.

I didn't know I had a choice. Um...

Let's go with horse.

Er, wait. No, person.

No, horse.

No. Person.

No. No, no, no, horse.

No, person.

No, horse.

Person, horse, person.

Definitely horse.

-Are you sure?

-Yes.

No, wait! Person!

ZZZAP!

-Thanks, Odd Squad!

-SHE LAUGHS

Not the way I would have gone.

JACKALOPE BLEATS

SHE SINGS AN UPBEAT TUNE

This is for you.

Ready to go!

Wow. You never stop working, do you?

Me? Pfft!

Says the guy who eats his lunch at his desk every single day.

Because you never stop working.

Don't get me wrong, it's amazing.

What? I can stop whenever I want!

See? Boom.

And your other keyboard.

Fine. You don't think I can stop working?

Um...let's go out for lunch, right now.

You, me and zero work.

Olympia, you don't have to do this.

I think you're afraid to do this.

Me? Afraid to stop working?

Or maybe you're afraid I'm right.

Or maybe you're afraid that I'm afraid that you're afraid I'm right.

Are we still going for lunch?

Yeah, I think so.

JACKALOPE CROWS

You didn't think I could do this, but I'm totally doing this.

That's the 12th time you've said that.

I didn't even realise that. Probably cos my work brain's on vacation,

lying on a beach somewhere, probably in a hammock, not checking e-mail.

Odd Squad! Welcome to Confalone's Ristorante.

I'm Sabatino Confalone.

Hi, Sabatino. I'm Olympia, and this is my partner, Otis.

Oh, it's a pleasure.

Otis thinks I can't sit here and enjoy lunch without doing work,

-but that's exactly what I'm going to do.

-Oh, I'm sure you will.

We have some fantastic lunch specials...

In fact, I'm going to turn off my badge phone right now.

Boop! BADGE BEEPS

-Fantastico!

-And I'm going to give you all my gadgets.

Because the only gadget I'm going to need is a fork and a knife -

maybe a spoon depending on what the soup of the day is.

Minestrone.

Spoon, for sure. And I'll have the spaghetti, as well.

-I'll have what she's having.

-Great.

I'll take these to the coat closet

and then, when I come back, I'll bring back your food, all right?

OK, thanks.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go wash my hands before we eat.

The restroom's that way

unless you're going to check on your gadgets?

Pfft! Why would I want to do that?

That's hilarious.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Ha. Ha....

You can do this. You are in charge of yourself.

Empty your mind of all thoughts of work. You are cool...

-Odd Squad, help! There's oddness in my kitchen!

-What?!

Gino, what did I tell you? She came in here to have lunch, not to work!

I was asking just to be sure.

What do you have to ask for? I already told you.

THEY ARGUE AND SHOUT

-BOTH:

-Where'd she go?

Whoa!

An upside-down kitchen.

Yeah, hey, guys. How's it going?

I've never seen one of these before.

Ugh! I want to solve it so bad, but I can't,

or Otis will be right about me.

Don't worry about it, Olympia. It's no problem, OK?

We'll call Ms O, she'll send somebody else.

In the meantime, the chef will keep cooking.

Yeah, I'm OK. I'll just keep the lids on.

SHE CHUCKLES

-What if you two zap it? BOTH:

-What?

Go to the coat closet and get the un-upsidedowninator.

Then it'll be like I solved it without actually working,

because I didn't touch a gadget.

-THE CHEF GRUNTS

-Oh, yeah, that's ruined.

We don't even know what the un-upsidedowninator looks like.

It's 25 centimetres long. Measure the gadgets and you'll find it.

I have one request.

-Yes.

-No.

Yes.

Yes. Yes.

I need you to tell me exactly what you feel like when you zap it -

like, the feeling, the taste, everything.

I need to know all of the details.

Wait! If they're getting the gadget, who is waiting on tables?

Send down two bowls of soup!

-ALL:

-Nice catch!

Why are you standing?

Why are you our waiter?

Er...I'm not.

I'm just a helpful customer.

Everything is normal, nothing is weird.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

This is going to be good.

BELL CLANGS

-Wow! There are so many gadgets. How are we going to find it?

-All right.

Look, Gino, my brother, Olympia told us

that the gadget was 25 centimetres long.

So, we'll use a ruler, we'll measure each one

until we find the one that's the right length.

Maybe like this one here?

I don't know. Let's put it down and measure it.

It's 18 centimetres, not 25. It's too short.

-Maybe this one?

-Hey, quit pointing it.

-I'm not pointing, I was holding it.

-You're pointing it at my eye.

-It could go off.

-I wasn't pointing it at your eye.

THEY ARGUE AND SHOUT

Give me this thing! Let me measure it.

It's 30 centimetres, it's too long.

So, we need to find something that's longer than this gadget...

..and shorter than this gadget.

-How about this one?

-Let me see.

25 centimetres exactly! We found it! We found it!

THEY LAUGH

Oh! Hold on.

This gadget here looks like it's exactly the same length.

Oh, it is exactly the same length. How are we going to be able to tell

which one is the un-upsidedowninator?

-BOTH:

-We'll use both!

Man, this is nice. Out of the office,

not a care in the... ZZZZAP!

SHE SCREAMS

What's the matter?

Nothing.

That was an excited scream.

I'm excited to not be working.

SHE SCREAMS I'm eating soup!

So fun!

Er, I'm going to get us more breadsticks.

There's still one right there.

All gone.

-OK, I'm here.

-We've been waiting ten minutes! What happened?

What happened is you guys are way too generous with the breadsticks.

-Talk to me.

-We found two gadgets that were both 25 centimetres long.

Right, and we didn't know which one to use, so we used both of them.

It's OK, I can cook through the meatballs.

Just go enjoy your meal!

-She's right, we'll get other agents.

-No way!

You do that and Otis will, for sure, find out I was working.

We're going back to that coat closet, aren't we?

There's an un-meatballinator. It's 13 centimetres long.

It's the only one that length, I'm positive.

Now, I have to get back to the table.

Here, take your food with you.

I really like you guys.

How does she fit all these gadgets in her jacket,

-is what I want to know...

-I don't know.

-But, Gino, my only brother, take a look at this one. Huh?

-Yeah.

This one measures...

-..13 centimetres exactly!

-My brother!

-What?

-Look.

-What?

This also measures 13 centimetres.

-Oh, no!

-What are we going to do?

Oh...

-BOTH:

-We'll use them both!

THEY LAUGH

JACKALOPE GOBBLES

-Are you OK?

-Yeah, totally.

-Are you OK?

-Why wouldn't I be?

It's freezing here and you're sweating.

Some people have different body temperatures.

ZZZAP! SHE SCREAMS

What now?

Er...

Er, I bit my tongue.

Ow, better go get a bandage.

-For your tongue?

-Yeah.

Got to put pressure on it or I'll blow up like a football.

And people will be like, "Hey, just catch a football with your mouth?"

And be like, "Hooray, touchdown, but not really, cos your tongue hurts."

Did you follow my instructions?

Yes, but we found two gadgets that measured 13 centimetres.

-Show her, Gino.

-This one, 13 centimetres.

This one, also 13 centimetres.

I said 13 centimetres long, not high.

-BOTH:

-What?

You're supposed to measure the length, end-to-end,

not the height, how tall it is!

Normally, I'd be really upset,

but I feel I'm learning a really important lesson about measurement.

What happened when you fired both?

THEY LAUGH NERVOUSLY

Ooh...!

I'm not OK any more!

-Whaa!

-POTS AND PANS CLATTER

ARGH!

What should we do?!

This is too out-of-control. I have to tell Otis the truth.

Otis, there's something I need to tell you.

What happened to you?

Nothing. If you need to leave and use the restroom, go for it.

Or go in the kitchen. Anything you need.

I'll just be here, resting.

Er, what's going on?

I'm not proud of it, but...

-..I've been secretly working all lunch.

-What?!

Every time you got up from the table,

I've been going outside to deal with this thing.

CHICKEN CLUCKS

Whoa.

I could have called Odd Squad to send someone else,

but it was just so cool.

I'm the one that can't stop working, not you.

Also, what did you want to tell me?

Nothing.

Nothing at all.

LOUD CLATTERING

SPAGHETTI GROWLS

OK, I may have been working just a tiny bit.

I can't help it, I love my job.

So do I.

SPAGHETTI GROWLS AND ROARS

Do you want to try not working another day?

Absolutely.

THEY BOTH YELL

ZZZAP!