Square One TV/Episode 217

Episode 217
Season 2, Episode 17
Airdate	October 11, 1988
Production Number	92
Written by
Directed by
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Square One TV — Season Two

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Episode 217 is the seventeenth episode of the second season of Square One TV, and the ninety-second episode overall.

Starring:

Guest Starring: Wendell Burton (Bernie Woodward), Guy Stockwell (Raymond Sticker)

Co-Starring:

Segments

• Dirk Niblick: Mall or Nothing at Mall - Part 1

Dirk comes to the rescue of Fluff and Fold who are being deceived by a biased survey.

• Close Call: Joel, Chris, Ozlem & Jamie

Students compete against each other trying to get the closest estimate to: Rubber Balls in Phone Booth, Pumps of Air into a Balloon, Ball of Rope, and Hands on a Baseball Bat.

• EB: Number Pattern 37 (Version 2) (EKA #167)

This short animation illustrates a number pattern involving multiples of 3 and multiples of 37.

• Dirk Niblick: Mall or Nothing at Mall - Part 2

• EB: Palindrome (Version 2)

This animation illustrates generating a palingfrom from any 2-digit number: simply reverse the digits and add and repeat this process until the sum is a palindrome.

• Mathnet: The View of the Rear Terrace - Part 2

George meets with a reporter who has been receiving poems about the bank pranks. George goes over the facts in search of a motive. He is interupted when Kate calls claiming her neighbor has a bomb.

Quotes

• George: It was Monday, after breakfast, and a tractor trailer truck has jackknifed on the Hollywood freeway spiling its load of jackknives all over Tinseltown. Traffic was at a standstill due to flat tires. I was working the daywatch out of Mathnet. My partner, who usually has to do this, was laid up with a bad knee which had been put in a cast. Head of our computer division is Debbie Williams. My name is Frankly. I’m a mathematician.