Square One TV/Episode 103

Episode 103
Season 1, Episode 3
Airdate	January 28, 1987
Production Number	3
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 103 is the third episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the third episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Yeardley Smith (Jane Rice Burroughs)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• The Adventures of Spade Parade: In Search of Yucca Puck - Part 1

Spade Parade takes on the case of Vanessa Van Vandervan who has hired 3 consultants to tell her the route to the Yucca Puck. She doesn't know which one tells the truth, which lies, and which does both.

• Mathman: Decimals Less Than .5

Mathman plays a video game in which he must eat only decimal fractions less than .5.

• The Adventures of Spade Parade: In Search of Yucca Puck - Part 2

Spade Parade solves the case by asking several questions to sort out a declared liar, a truth-teller, and a third who sometimes tells the truth and sometimes lies.

• Exclusive Music Video: "Less Than Zero" (Negative Scratch) (cut from the Noggin version)

This song presents a diving, dance, skating, and hammer-throw competition to show arithmetic realizations of negative numbers.

• Game Show Lead-In

• But Who's Counting?: Fitzgeralds vs. Doles

Contestants arrange 5 randomly chosen digits in an attempt to form the smallest possible 5-digit number. To play, they must apply some knowledge of place value and probability.

• Data Headache (cut from the Noggin version)

A cab driver uses a pie chart to organize his business expenses and rid himself of a data headache.

• How Much Left

• Exclusive Music Video: "Count On It" (Count On It)

This song presents various ways that math shows up in the world.

• Warning: Remain Calm

• Mathnet: The Problem of the Missing Monkey - Part 5

The Mathnetters continue looking for the monkey, measuring the distance between footprints and using a map to figure distance, rate, and time.

• Next time...

Quotes

• Jane: And here's something else you haven't considered. Gorillas need a lot of rest and according to your own reports, Grunt has been robbering stuff for about 18 hours straight.
• George: Maybe he feels he's on a roll.
• Jane: Gorillas spend a least 14 hours a day sleeping.
• George: That's more than half a day.
• Jane: They have to renew themselves. Grunt could'nt have gone that long without sleep. You have to believe me.