| Life of O'Brian | |
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| Season 1, Episode 13a | |
Production Information | |
| Air Date | December 19, 2014 |
| Written by | Jeff Detsky |
| Directed by | Tim McKeon |
Episode Guide | |
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Life of O'Brian is the A-plot of the 13th episode of Odd Squad.
Synopsis[]
When O'Brian won’t let Olive access the tubes, she has to solve the mystery of what she did to upset him and what time she did it.
Olive's Random Slide[]
This...is my lucky basketball.
Plot[]
When Otto comments that he and Olive haven’t had a case yet today, Ms. O immediately calls them on a case. She tells them that there are Laser chickens in the park. When they go to the tube lobby, Otto goes to the park, but O'Brian accidentally fails to send Olive. He keeps pretending to try but purposely fails.
Oscar quickly escorts Olive out of the lobby and explains to her that he’s tube-blocking her as punishment for something she did to make him mad and now she has to apologize for what she did to him or he won't let her use the tubes. Olive at first asks O'Brian to tell her what she did so that she can apologize because she doesn’t know what to apologize for. O’Brian is offended by the fact that she doesn’t know and denies her tube access, and Otto is now stranded in the park with angry laser chickens. After Oscar escorts Olive out of the lobby again, Olive decides to go to Ms. O, but Oscar forbids her from doing so because Agent Orbot was the last agent who tattled on O'Brian, whom she never heard of. Oscar tells Olive that if she wants to help Otto, then she has to figure out what she did to make him mad. Olive points out that she made a mistake to O'Brian this morning. The current time is 12:00 PM so she had to have made the mistake before then. O'Brian arrived at headquarters at 9:00 AM. So Olive had to have done something to O'Brian in the three-hour period between 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM. Olive remembers that she was in the Odd Squad gym at 9:00 AM and she saw O'Brian there too. Something must have happened.
Olive then requests Owen to show her the security footage from the Odd Squad gym, but Owen stubbornly refuses out of fear of O'Brian's wrath given the last time Owen snitched on O'Brian, he got trapped in headquarters for three days, and missed his own birthday. Olive understands and asks Owen to go on break saying that if she happens to look on his computer it's not his fault. But when Owen still refuses, Olive tells him she won't and then Owen finally gives in and goes on break. Right after Owen leaves, Olive looks at the security footage and finds out that while Olive and O’Brian were in the gym, at 9:30 Olive accidentally hit O’Brian, hard, in the head, with a basketball. But when Olive goes and apologizes, O’Brian tells her that while he accepts her apology about the basketball incident, he brings up that she did something else to make him angry, and still denies her tube access.
After a being made fun of with a Door-blocking prank by O'Brian, a disgruntled Olive goes back to the lab and speculates that the other thing must've happened between 10 and 12 in the morning, but Oscar denies this saying that O'Brian was fixing a tube between 10 and 10:30. They both determine that the other thing occurred between 10:30 and 12 in the morning. Just then Octavia calls them to come to the ballroom. And when they meet Octavia in the Ballroom, she tells them that she talked to O'Brian and he was mad about something Olive did yet he wouldn't tell her. But when asked to get more info from him, like Owen, Octavia also refuses out of fear of O'Brian's wrath given the last time she snitched on O'Brian, she got trapped in headquarters for a week, and forgot what the sky looked like. Octavia says that she talked to O'Brian at 11:00, so the second thing happened before then. Olive and Oscar exit the ball pit and eliminate 11:00-12:00. They figure out that she was doing some paperwork at her desk and ate a snack between 10:30 and 11, and when they check Olive’s trash can, they find O’Brian’s yogurt. Olive then realizes that O'Brian was mad because she accidentally ate his yogurt.
Just then, Otto returns and tells them that the chickens are gone, and gives them a laser chicken egg. Olive goes to the tube lobby and apologizes to O’Brian, who accepts her apology and grants her tube access. She gives him a laser-chicken egg and threatens to hatch the laser chicken unless he promises to never tube-block her or anyone else again. He promises. She then tells O'Brian to take a long break. O'Brian back-answers her, but she forces him to do it. But after he leaves, it hatches, leaving Olive to deal with it as it annihilates the tube lobby.
Trivia[]
- The title is a tribute to the Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian".
- This is the first episode to center around the tube operators, the second being "Trials and Tubulations".
- It is revealed that Olive was not the only agent to be mistreated by O'Brian. Owen and Octavia were also mistreated by O'Brian.
- If an agent comments out loud that they were not given a case yet, Ms. O will give them a case.
- This is the first appearance of Owen.
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