Odd Squad (TV series)

Odd Squad
The Official Shield of the Odd Squad
Also known as	ODD SQUAD
Genre	Math
Directed by	Various
Starring	Dalila Bela Filip Geljo Millie Davis Sean Michael Kyer
Opening theme	Odd Squad theme
Ending theme	Odd Squad theme
Composer(s)	Paul Buckley
Country of origin	Canada United States South Korea Australia
Original language(s)	English Korean
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	J.J. Johnson Tim McKeon Blair Powers Paul Siefken
Producer(s)	Matthew J.R. Bishop Georgina Lopez
Editor(s)	Jennifer Essex-Chew Courtney Goldman Christopher Minns
Location(s)	Toronto, Ontario
Running time	Approx. 25 mins
Production company(s)	The Fred Rogers Company Sinking Ship Entertainment
Distributor	PBS
Release
Original network	TVOKids/Ici Radio-Canada Télé PBS Kids
Picture format	HD
Audio format	Stereo
First shown in	November 26, 2015 (USA)
Original release	November 26, 2014 (2014-11-26) – present
Chronology
Preceded by	None
Followed by	None
Related shows	Peg + Cat Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
External links
Odd Squad website

Odd Squad (Stylized as ODD SQUAD) is a Canadian/American children’s live action television series that premiered on TVOKids in Canada and PBS Kids in the United States on November 26, 2014, both on the same day. The series is created by Tim McKeon and Adam Peltzman and is co-produced by The Fred Rogers Company and Sinking Ship Entertainment in association with TVOKids and Ici Radio-Canada Télé. The series features young agents who use indirect reasoning and math to solve and investigate strange happenings in their town. This is commonly in the form of satire—or other comedic archetypes—and is used to teach the audience math and math-related topics. In the UK it airs on CBBC. ^[1] In Latin America it airs on Discovery Kids.

Series overview

Characters

Main Characters

• Ms. O / Agent Oprah (Millie Davis) - Head of Odd Squad, the stern Ms. O leads the organization with an iron fist. Whenever something goes wrong, she has the tendency to yell and is frequently seen sipping a juice box. Despite appearing younger than most of the agents, Ms. O has worked for Odd Squad since the 1870s, and her actual age remains a mystery. Before she was Ms. O, she worked as an Odd Squad field agent, and became Ms. O by passing a test set up by the previous Ms. O in 1983. Before she worked as an agent, she worked at a fruit stand in the 1800s. Her first name is Oprah.
• Agent Olive (Dalila Bela) - A veteran agent of Odd Squad, Olive is adapting to working with and training her new partner, rookie agent Otto. Olive is usually calm, brisk, and serious, unless the subject turns to her favorite basketball team, the Bears. She has a morbid fear of pies, which she acquired after saving Odd Squad HQ from a pie-related disaster.
• Agent Otto (Filip Geljo) - Olive's partner, the newest Odd Squad agent. He turned ten in the first episode. The fun-loving Otto acts as a comic foil to Olive's straight-man demeanor, frequently annoying her. Although a rookie, Otto frequently uncovers the facts needed to solve the case at hand, even doing so in Olive's absence, proving his worth as an agent.
• Agent Oscar (Sean Michael Kyer) - Odd Squad's resident scientist and gadgeteer, Oscar is a quirky genius who spends most of his time at Odd Squad Headquarters tinkering with gadgets in his lab. Incredibly knowledgeable, Olive and Otto go to him for technical solutions to their problems. Oscar has a goofy side, delivering his zany scientific rants with a generous dose of hand gestures and vocal sound effects.
• Math Room (voiced by T.J. McGibbon) - The virtual-space construct which Odd Squad agents can retreat to the room by twisting their badges when they need to visualize mathematical problems. When transport is initiated, they start to spin and sometimes get to the Math Room dizzy. The Math Room is inhabited by sentient origami papers with a unified personality and hive mind. The origami can unfold to visualize numbers, charts, and instant replays as instructed by agents. The Math Room also goes by Carol, and is addressed as such by Ms. O. The Math was originally invented by Ms. O before she joined Odd Squad in the 1800s.

Supporting Characters

• Agent Ori (Samuel Faraci) - New agent. He tends to run off into dangerous places and is always up to trouble. Not to be confused with Agent Oren.
• Polly Graph (Ava Preston) - A girl who runs a stand selling hot chocolate or lemonade, depending on the season, outside her house. Odd Squad agents frequently patronize her stand. She's very fond of graphs and always has just the right visual representation to deal with the situation at hand.
• Agent Orson (Landon and Logan Rowan) - The youngest Odd Squad agent, Orson is a baby, whose primary job is handling paperwork and answering the phone.
• Agent Oren (Brendan Heard) - Agent Olaf's partner. Snarky and arrogant, Oren and his partner have an ongoing rivalry with Olive and Otto. Unlike their industrious rivals, Oren likes to weasel his way out of work whenever possible. Oren likes to brag and considers himself Odd Squad's best agent. Oren has a fear of pancakes and dreams of becoming director of Odd Squad. He didn't appear with Olaf in either "Reindeer Games" or "Rise of the Hydraclops".
• Agent Olaf (Eshaan Buadwal) - Agent Oren's partner. Olaf is happy-go-lucky and jovial in nature, but tends to be very simple-minded. Despite this, he has shown to have moments of intelligence, often to the shock and amazement of his fellow agents. He shares Oren's penchant for laziness. He dreams of becoming a dentist and fears not becoming one. He loves potatoes.
• Agent Octavia (Julia Lalonde) - Agent Oz's partner. It was noted in an episode that she is one of Ms. O's best agents. She is usually looking for her partner, the invisible Agent Oz. She also played Agent Olga (Agent O'Donahue's former partner) in A Fistful of Fruit Juice.
• Agent Oz (Carson Reaume) - Agent Octavia's partner. On one mission, he accidentally turned himself irreversibly invisible by misfiring a gadget (while looking down its barrel). He still works at Odd Squad, and is among the top agents, although it's hard for his partner to keep tabs on him.
• Agent Orchid (Michela Luci) - One of the younger agents. She tends to be extremely stubborn.
• Odd Todd (Joshua Kilimnik) - Arch-villain of the series, Odd Todd is an Agent-turned-odd and Olive's ex-partner. He was the most brilliant agent the Squad had ever seen, until he was fired, unleashed a Pienado and became the villain Odd Todd.
• Dr. O (Peyton Kennedy) The head doctor of Odd Squad. She's know for her eccentric behavior and frequently says things that make no sense, whilst frequently reminding the agents "I'm a doctor!" in a manner reminiscent of Star Trek's Dr. McCoy.
• Agent Odell (Elijha Hammil) - A nurse agent who works under Dr. O.
• Agent Owen (Christian Distefano) - The head of Odd Squad security.
• Agent O'Brian (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) - An agent engineer who runs the tube system Odd Squad agents use for transportation. Can be frequently heard calling out his catch phrase "Squishinating!" as he preps the agents for tube transport. In another reference to Star Trek (this time to Transporter Chief O'Brien), all the tube system agents have Irish surnames. O'Brian has a tendency to hold petty grudges, and has been know to deny tube access to agents who offend him.
• Mayor Macklemore (Seán Cullen) - Mayor of the city. It is mentioned he used to be in a high-school singing group called The Thirties. He once told Ms. O to do the New Year's Countdown.
• Baby Genius - A mysterious infant whom the Odd Squad agents bargain with for solutions to otherwise unsolvable problems. Baby Genius is never shown onscreen, only his black leather pram pushed by his inconsistently-accented Russian nanny. Baby Genius cannot speak, so his nanny, Rivka (Meghan Allen), interprets for him. The agents are terrified of him for an unspecified reason.
• The Baker (Aisha Alfa) - A recurring character in many Odd Squad episodes, the Baker runs a bakery in town and frequently requests the help of Odd Squad in solving problems around her shop.
• Delivery Debbie (Ashley Botting) - A local caterer who delivers pizza. After Debbie contracts a case of "the Doubles," three duplicates of herself appear. She turns to Odd Squad for help, but later decides to keep her doubles around to help her with her pizza business.
• Delivery Doug (Ali Hassan) - Debbie's chief business competition who runs a take-out egg sandwich business. Eventually, he merges his business with Delivery Debbie's.
• Tommy Two-sie (Sharjil Rasool) - A local character who likes to have two of everything. He frequently gets blamed for crimes he didn't commit and runs away from Odd Squad when confronted, even when he's innocent. He wears two hats, two shirts, two watches, and two pairs of pants held up by two belts.
• Agent O'Hara - One of the female tube system engineers.
• Agent O'Malley (Jack Fulton) - Another agent who works running the tube system.
• Agent O'Callaghan (David Webster) - A tube system operator with bright red hair which looks like a wig.
• Agent O'Donnell (Amariah Faulkner) - A particularly bright and cheerful tube system engineer who wears her red hair in pigtails.
• Agent O'Duffey - An agent engineer responsible for the Headquarters security code.
• Agent Oksana (Madeleine Barbeau) - Odd Squad's resident cook, who prepares all the meals by herself. She has a deadpan manner.
• Agent Obfusco (Jaeden J. Noel) - An Odd Squad agent and cross-cultural expert who speaks in obscure riddles. He's difficult for the other agents to understand, and extremely peculiar, even for an organization named Odd Squad, so the other agents try to avoid working with him. He has a sister named Obfuscolina who is even odder and is hard for even him to understand.
• Agent O'Grady - A tube system operator.
• Agent O'Donahue - Ms. O's old partner. He retired after he and Oprah failed to solve an ongoing case. After leaving Odd Squad, he worked as a fisherman, until Ms. O required his help in catching the perpetrating villain, Equal Evan.
• Mr. O - The head of the Odd Squad agency in the next town over who has an ongoing rivalry with Ms. O.
• Agent O'Connor - Helps Oscar on interstitial odd reports and instructional videos. He says everything excitedly. Most of his dialogue is "Yeah!" or "Comin' at'cha!"

The Odd Squad seal is a Jackalope holding a shield depicting himself and a bunch of bananas. The jackalope makes different sounds during scene transitions.

Episode list

Season 1 (2014-15)

Season 2 (2016)

Odd Squad has been renewed for a second season, scheduled to begin airing in 2016.^[22]

Guests

• Bruce Salomon as Mr. O
• Kevin McDonald as Lord Rectangle
• Ava Preston as Polly Graph
• Joshua Kilimnik as Odd Todd/Agent Todd
• Kaitlyn Yu as 1980s Ms. O
• Annie Chen as Clock Head Lady
• Aisha Alfa as Town Baker
• Tate Yap as O' Donahue
• T.J. Gibbon as Math Room (Voice)

References

External links

• PBS Kids Home Page
• Odd Squad on TVO Kids
• Organisation Super Insolite on Ici Radio-Canada Télé