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Square One TV/Episode 115

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Episode 115
Season 1, Episode 15
Airdate February 13, 1987
Production Number 15
Written by head writer
Jim Thurman
writers
Jim Thurman, David D. Connell, Harry Crossfield, C.C. Berg, Michael Winship, Douglas Anderson, Ellen Fogle, David Yazbek, Bob Brush, Jack Kenny
Directed by Dan F. Smith
Mathnet director
Charles S. Dubin
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Episode 115 is the fifteenth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the fifteenth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Jerry Anderson (John Phillips Lousa), Ken Hill (Floyd Tyrone), Alan Stock (Steve Stringbean), André Gower (Eddie "Rimshot" Harris)

Co-Starring:

Contents

Segments

  • Daddy Knows Different Lead-In


  • Daddy Knows Different: Stainless Forks

Rusty gives his father the option of paying him a fixed sum or starting with a penny, doubling the previous day's amount for a month. The amount on the 30th day would be well over $5,000,000.


  • Apple Rap Intro


  • Music Video: Apple Rap (Jonathan)

Arthur solves the problem of how many apples he and another character can peel in 3 hours by using addition, multiplication, and division.


  • Tessellation Animation


  • But Who's Counting?: The Barberas vs. The Meads

Contestants arrange 5 randomly chosen digits to create a 3 digit plus 2 digit addition problem. The largest sum wins. Contestants must apply some knowledge of place value and probability to play.


  • Data Headache

A woman uses a bar chart to organize her monthly expenses and rid herself of a data headache.


  • Mathnet: The Problem of the Passing Parade - Part 5

The Mathnetters successfully solve the problem and rescue Steve Stringbean.

Credits

Mahnet

Notes

Trivia

The Show

Allusions and References

Quotes

  • Lousa: Here's one of my favorites.

(he plays the piano then starts singing to "Stars and Stripes Forever")

75 trombones is what you have
If you march down the field you can blow them
  • Kate: Mr. Lousa, we know you kidnapped Mr. Stringbean.
  • George: Where is he, Mr. Lousa?
  • Lousa: In the other room. [stops playing and reacts] Oops!


  • Kate: Mr. Lousa, what you've done is...well...
  • Lousa: Not nice?
  • George: Worse.
  • Tyrone: Rotten?
  • Mathnetters: Illegal.
  • Lousa: I was afraid you were gonna say that.


  • Mathnet Announcer: Both John Phillips Lousa and Floyd Tyrone were convicted of stealing a rock musician and sentenced to an appropriate number of years away from society and the University of Michigan marching band.