Square One TV/Episode 129

Episode 129
Season 1, Episode 29
Airdate	March 5, 1987
Production Number	29
Written by
Directed by
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Episode 129 is the twenty-ninth episode of the first season of Square One TV, and the twenty-ninth episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Monty Landis (Arle Rodin)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Matinee Movie Promo

Shirley Schlemmer asks her viewing audience to tune into "Cartablanca", today's Matinee Movie.

• Exclusive Music Video: "Perfect Squares" (The Square Brothers)

A blues band sings about square numbers and graphically suggests their connection to geometry.

• Oops!: Subtraction (EKA #101)

A confused engineer makes a 'borrowing' mistake in a subtraction problem and causes a stock-footage plane crash.

• Matinee Movie: Cartablanca (EKA #107)

As 3 characters attempt to leave Cartablanca by plane, an Inspector rounds up their weights to make sure that they do not exceed the maximum load.

• Show Remainder

• Exclusive Music Video: "Percents" (The Bank Notes) (EKA #105)

• Mathman: Percentages Less Than 1/2

Mathman plays a video game in which he eats percentages less than 1/2.

• Giant Squid Lead-in

• In Search of the Giant Squid (EKA #114)

The navigator of a submarine fails to consider the concept of scale -- and mistakenly thinks that they are only centimeters away from a giant iceberg.

• Warning: Understand Kind of Solutions (EKA #102)

• Mathnet: The Mystery of the Maltese Pigeon - Part 4

The Mathnetters use a database to check for names associated with the Maltese Pigeon. They then talk with an ice sculptor and surmise that the Pigeon could have been an ice sculpture that melted away.

• Next time...

Quotes

• George: It's a heat lamp. That lamp could've melted the bird in no time at all.