Episode
Odd Squad: Mr. Unpredictable / Down The Tubes
Overview
A new villain named Mr. Unpredictable calls out the Mobile Unit to try and solve his pattern, which he claims is actually not a pattern at all! Opal can't believe a villain can work without a pattern, but when the team keeps being blindsided, she starts to question herself. Meanwhile, the others take a tour of Villain University to see if they can gather any information about one of its alumni, who just happens to be Mr. Unpredictable. When the tube system is shut down due to a scrambler installed by a villain, the Mobile Unit van becomes a taxi service for other Odd Squad agents. Once they realize their service will be rated on a scale up to 10 stars, Omar and Opal dedicate themselves to giving the coolest van experience. Meanwhile, Orla rides the tubes for the first time as she and Oswald attempt to figure out where the wires are getting crossed.
Details
- Series
- Odd Squad
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 2020-07-08
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Mr. Unpredictable / Down The Tubes is Episode 13 in Season 3 of Odd Squad. It aired on 2020-07-08. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 12: Odd in 60 Seconds / Villain Networking
The Mobile Unit is called to Odd Squad's Top-Secret Security Facility where an unknown villain has broken in to get to the mega-computer. But when Lady Bread, Wheelie Dan, and the Utensiler all claim to be the villain responsible, the team must recreate the break-in to discover the true culprit.
"The Shadow" hosts a meeting of villains worldwide in order to convince them to join her Villain Network. But when she shows them their decline in villainy on a line graph, it catapults the villains into a game of blame. She must come up with a line graph that will convince them all to join, or her master plan will fail.
Episode 14: Sample of New York / It's Not Easy Being Chill
The Mobile Unit is sent to New York City to fill in for the local Odd Squad agents, who are on strike because they don't like what's being served for lunch. It's up to Opal and Oswald to figure out what they would like to eat. Meanwhile, Orla and Omar must venture out into the city to solve oddness, and see the sights along the way.
Agent-in-training Orpita decides to do her agent profile report on Omar, who is on creature duty, while the rest of the Mobile Unit goes out to defeat a giant robot. But when Orpita turns out to be too laidback, Omar must use fractions to feed the creature properly before it grows too big and escapes.
More episodes from this season
Episode 11: The Music of Sound
When Orla is accidentally responsible for breaking up the band Soundcheck, the Mobile Unit team must use Venn diagrams in order to convince the band members that they have things in common and reunite. On top of that, the Mobile Unit must make sure a villainous rival band doesn't hypnotize people with their music. To do that, they have to learn how sound works.
Episode 15: The Sandwich Project / Wax On Wax Odd
When the members of the Mobile Unit get zapped into sandwiches by the villain, Shelly Catessan, The Big O comes to the rescue. As she combs through video footage taken by Omar to celebrate their 100th case, The Big O must use clues she sees in the videos to figure out the order in which the agents were zapped so she can return them to their agent form.
Curriculum: Time - Order of Events
The Mobile Unit faces a series of challenges that Orla knew was coming from overhearing a sorcerer's conversation 450 years ago. Through flashbacks, Orla shows the rest of the team the times she prepared each of them-unbeknownst to them-for the upcoming challenges. Curriculum: Calendar
Episode 10: Slow Your Roll
When the mysterious masked villain, "The Shadow", takes over the Mobile Unit van's computer, the team must act fast to regain control of the van before it drives into The Lake of Goo. While Opal attempts to get to the van's main computer room to re-boot it, the others learn about different types of friction and how they can help slow down a moving object (in this case, the van).
Episode 16: Teach a Man to Ice Fish
When the villain, Confetti Betty, strikes the Odd Squad headquarters in the Arctic, the Mobile Unit returns to help Opal and Omar's old squad. As they attempt to crack the villain's pattern, they must teach the Arctic agents how to solve cases for themselves so that they don't keep getting called back to help.
Curriculum: Addition Patterns, Force and Friction
Episode 9: The Void / Into the Odd Woods
The Mobile Unit is called to investigate an odd tunnel that some (but not all) agents have disappeared into. When Omar insists they drive the van through the tunnel, he ends up stuck in a white void all alone. By collecting and comparing data, Omar must figure how to escape.
When Omar catches a case of Clown-i-tosis, Orla must keep track of him in the van before he runs off to join the circus.
Episode 17: The Weight of the World Depends on Orla / Substitute Agents
Orla shares the story of how she was chosen to protect the 44-leaf clover in order to stop the villain, Jellybean Joe, from causing oddness to the Mobile Unit van.
Curriculum: Measurement - Weight / Density
When Odd Squad maintenance and kitchen workers Oxley and Olanda discover the Mobile Unit has been trapped in a snow globe by the villain, Sue Venir, they try their hands at being agents, setting out to stop Sue and save the team. This unlikely duo uses prediction and probability to figure out where the villain will most likely strike next in order to stop her. Curriculum: Prediction and Probability
Episode 8: Overdue! / Train of Thoughts
Orla is kicked off the squad when a library book she took out 400 years ago is overdue. The Mobile Unit must use budgeting to turn their $1 into $10 to pay the late fee, or else Orla will not get her badge back.
There's a villain turning train cars odd, and the Mobile Unit must figure out the pattern in which the villain is striking. Oswald takes it upon himself to solve the train mystery just like his favorite book character: Detective Shmumbers.
Episode 18: Oswald in the Machine / The B-Team
An Odd Squad gadget has been stolen and is being kept in a warehouse run by robots, forcing Oswald to go undercover as a robot to get it back. Since the gadget is being stored in a room only accessible by actual robots, the team must take control of a robot and use coding to program it to retrieve the stolen gadget.
Curriculum: Coding
The Mobile Unit learns how things might have been if they hadn't joined the team by using "What-Would-It-Have-Been-Like-Inator" helmets.
Curriculum: Addition and Doubling
Episode 7: Odd Squad in the Shadows
The Mobile Unit is called to Pinehurst, North Carolina to stop a villain who is stealing various objects. If they don't catch the villain in time, the local Odd Squad will be forced to cancel their annual mini golf tournament. But the Mobile Unit is having trouble figuring out who the villain is, because they don't know what the stolen objects share in common.
Episode 19: 16-and-a-Half Blocks / Follow the Leader
Evil Sculptor approaches the Mobile Unit, because he wants to leave the Villain Network, and offers to give them top-secret villain info. The team must bring him 16-and-a-half blocks away to meet The Big O at a safe house and enter the villain protection program. The problem is, the other villains have caught wind of his defection and won't let him go so easily. Curriculum: Mapping
Using the tip from Evil Sculptor, the Mobile Unit goes undercover as villains to catch the leader of the Villain Network. But first, they must go through a series of tests to prove they really are villains.
Curriculum: Deductive Reasoning