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All-Star Line-Up (called All-star Line-up[1] on the schedule and BBC iPlayer) is the third episode of the seventh series of Numberblocks. It is the 138th episode overall.
Synopsis[]
It’s showtime with the Family of Fives’ All-star Line-up. But when half of the performers get stranded, it’s up to Five to Twenty-five[2] to discover how to make Thirty to Fifty.
Plot[]
The episode starts midway through the Five's band's live concert. Five announces who performed and who is next to perform before calling a break and heading backstage, hoping that the later multiples. She gets a call from Fifty, but it wasn't good news. The tour bus has broken down. With no way for the multiples to get to the concert on time, the smaller multiple have to continue the concert without them. Twenty-Five reminds them that every member of the band is divisible by 5, so they can make the later multiples here! Thirty's up next, and she is six fives. Twenty-Five is already five fives. Add one more five, and that's six fives: 30! Thirty's act is juggling balls. Three tens, Three lots of two fives, six fives!
While Thirty is still performing, the other members backstage build 35. How many fives are they in all? 10 ÷ 5 =2, 15 ÷ 5 = 3, and 20 ÷ 5 = 4. We can add Fifteen and Twenty's fives to make seven fives: 35! His act is- that he's Rainbow Flower Sunshine? Oh, correction, his fives are Rainbow Flower Sunshine.
Time to make 40, 8 fives, with tens, now. Thirty and Ten are backstage. Is that enough? 3 × 10 + 1 × 10 = (3 + 1) × 10 = 4 × 10: 40! And since 10 is 2 5s, 40 is 4 × 2 5s, 8 5s! His act is showing off his forty favorite rectangles.
Forty-Five is up next, and she's nine fives. But- Thirty-Five is only seven fives, and he's all by himself. Or, that's what he thought at first. Five Tens drop from the sky and make Fifty. Hey, instead of adding fives, we can subtract fives. (10 - 1 ) × 5 = 9 × 5 = 45. Her act is playing on the vibraphone. The final act is by the superstar with the gold guitar: 10 × 5 = 50! She was about to play when, oh! The original bigger multiples came just in time, for Fifty's song for the all-star line-up!
Characters[]
- Five (normal and The Rainbow Flowers Sunshine Band)
- Ten
- Fifteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-Five
- Thirty
- Thirty-Five
- Forty
- Forty-Five
- Fifty
- Numberblobs
Math Magic[]
- 1 × 5 = 5
- 2 × 5 = 10
- 3 × 5 = 15
- 4 × 5 = 20
- 25 ÷ 5 = 5
- 5 × 5 = 25
- (5 + 1) × 5 = 6 × 5
- 6 × 5 = 30
- 10 ÷ 5 = 2 (Numberblocks and balls)
- 3 × 10 = 6 × 5 (mentioned)
- 15 ÷ 5 = 3
- 20 ÷ 5 = 4
- 3 + 4 = 7 (mentioned)
- (3 + 4) × 5 = 7 × 5
- 7 × 5 = 35
- 35 ÷ 5 = 7
- 30 ÷ 10 = 3
- (3 + 1) × 10 = 4 × 10
- 4 × 10 = 40
- 40 ÷ 10 = 4
- 4 × 10 = 8 × 5
- 8 × 5 = 40
- 5 × 10 = 50
- 50 ÷ 5 = 10
- (10 - 1) × 5 = 9 × 5
- 9 × 5 = 45
- 10 × 5 = 50 (mentioned)
- 45 + 5 = 50
Trivia[]
- On the CBeebies schedule, title has renamed "All-Star Line-Up" to "All-star Line-up" right now.
- 30-50's acts:
- Thirty: Dividing Juggling balls
- Thirty-Five: The Rainbow-Flower-Sunshine Band
- Forty: His rectangle collection
- Forty-Five: Nine-note chimes
- Fifty: Her golden guitar
- Similar to Fifty, About Time, and Sky High Fives, this is the fourth episode to involve skip counting by five.
- This episode marks the return of Thirty, Thirty-Five, Forty-Five and Fifty since Series 5.
- Only Numberblocks that are multiples of 5 appear in this episode.
- Thirty-Five's voice has changed since this episode.
- This is the fourth times table prologue episode. The first one is Twoland, the second one is Too Many Threes and the third one is Friendly Fours' Beach Day, while the fifth one is The Rolling Sixes, the sixth one is The Rainbow Makers, and the seventh one is the two-parted We Need Another Hero and Seventy-Two's Super Surprise.
- There aren't any One times table or Ten times table prologue episodes, most likely since counting and skip counting by tens have been covered before many times so these times tables should be easy to remember.
- Even though Sky High Fives aired in 2021, it is possible this prologue takes place before that said episode.
- This episode shows that Thirty-Five can play the acoustic guitar.
- This episode has a unique credits scene where the Family of Fives play their song instead of the actual music along the credits.
- This is the sixth Numberblocks episode to have a unique credits scene. The first is The Wrong Number where One is a detective, the second is One Thousand and One where the camera pans up to the night sky, the third is The Treasure of Hexagon Island where the Numberblocks wave goodbye to Hexagon Island, the fourth is 100 Ways to Leave the Planet where One is riding the Magic Mirror and the fifth is The Case of the Missing Blocks where One and O are detectives.
- The Numberblocks refer to the "Family of Fives" as if it was a club.
- The Distributive Property of Multiplication is briefly covered in this episode.
- The circular floor pads, used in multiplication magic segments, return in this episode.
- Fifteen has no solo lines in this episode.
Errors[]
- In one scene, Thirty-Five's right eye is missing.
- In the scene involving the seven Fives adding up to make 35, for a few frames, you can see that 35's right upper and left lower eyelid are coloured magenta.
- At the end of the episode, when the second half of the Family of Fives arrive, Forty is missing, and Twenty-Five, despite not being in the first scene where the bus has a flat tire, replaces him instead.
- When Forty-Five plays the ninth note on the xylophone, it is E, but when she splits into nine fives, the note the last one makes is an F#.
the error involving 35
Video[]
- ↑ CBeebies - Schedules, Wednesday 21 August 2024
- ↑ The teams behind Numberblocks are now spelling the Numberblocks whose names are like this-"Twenty-One"-without the second capital (Twenty-one). It is unknown if they this change is permanent or concurrent with the original spelling scheme.