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Can We Have Our Ball Back?

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Can We Have Our Ball Back? is the seventh episode of the sixth series of Numberblocks. It is the 127th episode overall.

Synopsis

The Numberblocks learn to make 3D shapes using 2D ones.

Characters

Trivia

  • This episode aired exactly three years after Fun Times One Times Table, and exactly twelve years after the Alphablocks episode: Fred.
  • The placeholder for the BBC schedule used to be Two looking at a giant red ball while One (holding a circle) looks at Two, but the placeholder changed on March 5, 2024 where the placeholder is now One (holding the same circle) talking to a Circle.
  • The square isn’t the first character to appear outside of Flatland, as in the debut episode of the same name, Line is shown in Numberland in the beginning.
  • This is the fourth episode with a question mark in the title, after What's the Difference?, What's My Number?, and What If?
    • Additionally, this is the first Numberblocks episode that has an interrogative title not to start with "what".
  • Despite Four being the biggest Numberblock in this episode (for the third time), it is Orange Level 2 since it features the Flatlanders and mentions the number six, and the colour of the cube is the same with Six.
    • This is also the second episode where a Four is the biggest Numberblock, the first is his debut.
  • Four saying "Oh no! Round thing!" is reused from Go Go Domino.
  • This episode is one of the two Orange Level 2 episodes with Numberblocks less than six and one of the three last ever episodes with only Red Level 1 Numberblocks, the other two are On My Way to Numberblock Fair and Feeding Time.
    • As such, this might be the first Orange Level 2 episode where only numbers less than six appear, and the first time the Series 2 intro is used in an episode where Four is the biggest number.
    • Despite the episode featuring Football (as that was the game the Numberblocks and Flatlanders were playing) Eleven is not present. This is probably because this is orange level two.
  • In a fan-made video, a Sound Effect Counter one, it uses Hanna-Barbera sound effects.
    • Overall this is the only episode to have that sound effect library as the other various episodes mainly used BBC, Warner Bros. and Dick de Benedictis SFX library samples.
  • The 3D shapes the Flatlanders make are the same colours as the Numberblocks whose numbers are the amount of surfaces the shape has.
    • The sphere is red because it has one surface.
    • The cone is orange because it has two surfaces.
    • The cylinder is yellow because it has three surfaces.
    • The tetrahedron (triangular pyramid) is green because it has four surfaces.
    • The cube is indigo because it has six surfaces.
      • Surprisingly, this isn't the first time Numberblocks has mentioned the amount of faces a cube has. In her debut, Six says, "This little block is full of tricks. It's got six faces, one to six!" referring to the six faces of the cubic dice.
    • Despite not being made by the Flatlanders, and despite not appearing in the episode, a square pyramid would be blue/cyan because it has five surfaces.
  • This is the first episode with Square as a native Flatlander.
  • It is arguable whether the solid shapes could be living as they don't have faces and can float and seemingly turn on their own. The living Flatlanders have all of these qualities (in this episode and the last one, they are often seen without faces).

Goofs/Errors

  • When Circle and Semicircle leave after making a cone, Semicircle is shown for a split second.
  • When Circle spins to make a sphere, her mouth clips.
  • The Cbeebies website incorrectly calls it "Can We Call Our Ball Back?"
  • In this episode, the flat shapes seem to be unfamiliar when making solid shapes, verifying that it's their first time doing this.
    • If that's the case, then it is unknown where the cones and cylinders in the beginning of the episode, who are the exact same colours of the ones the flat shapes made, came from.

Video

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🏀 Can we have our ball back? - Season 6 Full Episode 7 ⭐ - Learn to Count - @Numberblocks

The video

Series 1 High Five! One, Another One, Two, Three, One, Two, Three!, Four, Five, Three Little Pigs, Off We Go, How to Count, Stampolines, The Whole of Me, The Terrible Twos, Holes, Hide and Seek
Series 2 Ten out of Ten Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Just Add One, Blast Off, Counting Sheep, Double Trouble, The Three Threes, Odds and Evens, Fluffies, The Two Tree, Numberblock Castle, Ten Green Bottles
Series 3 Number Fun Once Upon A Time, Blockzilla, The Numberblocks Express, Fruit Salad, Zero, Now We Are Six to Ten, Numberblobs, Building Blocks, Peekaboo!, Hiccups, What's the Difference?, Numberblock Rally, Five and Friends, Octoblock to the Rescue!, Ten Again
Fifteen and Friends Flatland, Pattern Palace, The Legend of Big Tum, Mirror, Mirror, The Wrong Number, Eleven, Twelve, The Way of the Rectangle, Ride the Rays, Block Star, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Tween Scenes, Step Squads
Series 4 Series 4a Fifteen's Minute of Fame, On Your Head, Ten's Place, Balancing Bridge, Sixteen, Square Club, Seventeen, Eighteen, Loop the Loop, Nineteen, Twenty, Tall Stories, Flights of Fancy, I Can Count to Twenty, Heist
Series 4b Sign of the Times, Fun Times Fair, The Lair of Shares, Terrible Twosday, Divide and Drive, Twenty-One and On, We're Going on a Square Hunt, Thirty's Big Top, Land of the Giants, Fifty, Sixty's High Score, The Big One, One Hundred, One Thousand and One, More To Explore
Series 5 Series 5a Your Turn, Now You See Us, Ten's Top Ten, What's My Number?, Fun Times One Times Table, The Many Friends of Twenty, Ten Vaulting, Twoland, Two Times Shoe Shop, Odd Side Story, How Rectangly!, Rectangle Racers, The Team Factor, Hidden Talents, Making Patterns
Series 5b Now in 3D, Club Picnic, Too Many Threes, Circus of Threes, Figure It Out, Snow Day Doubles, Steps Versus Squares, Puzzle Square, Four on the Floor, Sky High Fives, One Giant Step Squad, Square on the Moon, Heroes With Zeroes, What If?, 100 Ways to Leave the Planet
Series 6 Series 6 Painting by Numbers, Leap Blob, Ice and Dice, Go Go Domino, Ten in the Bed, Shape Party, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Cuboid Castle, On My Way to Numberblock Fair, Octoblock and the Path of Justice, Five's Handy Shop, As Tall as the Sun, Feeding Time, Rockets and Rekenreks, The Pattern of Patterns
Series 7 Series 7 Grid Unlocked, Friendly Fours' Beach Day, All-Star Line-Up, Rescue Racers, The Rolling Sixes, Remix the Sixes, Grid Games Galore, The Rainbow Makers, Sail the Seven Seas, We Need Another Hero, Super Eights Assemble, Seventy-Two's Super Surprise, The Magical Nines, Nine's Time to Shine, Space Division
Specials The Treasure of Hexagon Island, Double Back, About Time, The Twelve Days of Christmas
Alphablocks and Numberblocks Making Friends, Crossover, The Case of the Missing Blocks, The Blocks v Blocks Games
Other Numberblocks Theme Song, Easter Egg Hunt, Numberblobs Count to 100, Numberblocks Live Lesson, Numberblocks Dance Routine, Numberblocks Day, Fourth Wall Breaks
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