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High Maintenance
2 cleaner girls
Season 2, Episode 14a
Production Information
Air DateNovember 10, 2016
Written byCharles Johnston
Directed byStefan Scanini
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High Maintenance is the A-plot of the 14th episode of Season 2 of Odd Squad.

Synopsis[]

Agents Olympia and Otis switch jobs with O'Mary and Obby for a day.

Olympia's Random Slide[]

This...is the road less traveled.

Learning Goal[]

  • Solving word problems using addition

Plot[]

The episode opens with Ms. O showing Olympia and Otis a case where giant textbooks are piling across town. After that, she, of course, tells the agents to go which they do. As the agents head to solve the case, they run into two maintenance workers, who happen to be O'Mary and Obby, that are trying to fix the door that leads to the tube lobby and the agents strike a conversation with them. At one point, the maintenance workers suggest that they switch jobs for the day, much against Olympia's and Otis's wishes. However, Ms. O shows up and agrees to switch their jobs without knowing the consequences. O'Mary and Obby are now agents while Olympia and Otis are maintenance workers. O'Mary and Obby head to solve the case.

Meanwhile, Olympia and Otis, still in maintenance suits, are taking a break from work after they had spent four hours fixing a door. Olympia gets a call from Coach O saying that there is a leak in his office. They both head to their office where a pipe is spitting out ping-pong balls. Just then, Owen comes in and tells the agents that the washing machine is acting up while Ohlm is having a problem with a popcorn. Olympia decides to help with the ping-pong balls while Otis goes to help with the washing machine and Olympia tells Ohlm that his popcorn problem has to wait. She goes back inside the room and opens the gauge. She tries to turn some random knobs which instead causes different types of balls to be spit out. She takes out a maintenance manual and goes to the section on how to turn off a ping-pong ball leak. The word problem is "There are 20 cold ping-pong ball valves and 5 warm ping-pong ball valves. To shut off the ping-pong valves, figure out how many valves are all together." She figures out that the answer is 25 and turns the knob on valve 25 which fixes the leak.

Meanwhile, Otis is working on fixing the washing machine which is scooping out clothes. He takes out a large spoon which scoops out clothes and it's unknown how it got inside the washing machine. He takes the clothes that were scooped out of the washing machine and opens the dryer door and puts the clothes in the dryer, at which point Dr. O meets Otis and tells him that the lights at her office are flickering. Otis heads there. Just then, a tube operator finds Olympia and tells Olympia that a salami portal opened up in the tube lobby and Olympia goes to help the tube operator.

In Dr. O's office, the lights are flickering with disco music playing. Dr. O starts feeling like dancing, and starts dancing while Otis starts fixing the lights. He opens a gauge and presses random switches which end up initiating more lights. He takes out the manual and reads the shutting off the disco lights in a medical bay section. The word problem is "One day the medical department drank 10 grape juice boxes, 10 coconut juice boxes, and 1 carrot juice boxes." The answer is 21 and he turns off switch 21 and it's fixed.

Meanwhile, back at the room, they are tired of working and they need a break. Just then, Owen comes in and tells them that the phone is ringing at Obby's office while they are at O'Mary's office. They head to O'Mary's office where so many phones are ringing and they answer as many calls as possible. Suddenly, an alarm sounds which indicates that headquarters is going to self-destruct and the "cancel self-destruct button" hasn't been pressed every 10 minutes. They head to south control room where headquarters is flooded with popcorn and it turns out that Ohlm was right about the popcorn machine problem. The panel leading to the cancel self-destruct button is at the other side and they have to swim all the way there. There is now one minute left before the headquarters self-destructs. They take out the manual once again and read another word problem: "If you need two slices of pizza to feed one hungry maintenance worker, how many pieces of pizza do you need to feed five maintenance workers?" They realize the answer is 10 and they push button 10 and the self-destruct deactivates and everything goes back to normal.

They happen to meet O'Mary and Obby, the original maintenance workers, who are still in their agent outfits. Olympia admits to them that the maintenance job is impossible which is pretty much what they expected. Otis also expects them to think that their jobs are also difficult too to which they agree. Meanwhile, Ohlm is struggling to eat up all the popcorn.

Trivia[]

  • This episode reveals that headquarters has a "cancel self-destruct button" that has to be pressed every 10 minutes.

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