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Flatland is the sixteenth episode of the third series of Numberblocks. It is the 46th episode overall.
Synopsis[]
When Four accidentally visits Flatland (where all the flat shapes live), he becomes a real square!
Plot[]
Squarey discovers a red stick. Four plays fetch with her, but the stick ends up flat on a wall. Squarey jumps into the wall and becomes flat (and remains unharmed otherwise). When Four discovers that a place exists on the wall, he enters it and becomes a real, flat square. Four wonders where he is, since he has a feeling they're not in Numberland anymore.
Speaking with One's voice, the red stick welcomes them to Flatland, where all the flat shapes live. The line demonstrates becoming another shape by adding with another line to become two lines, in the shape of an angle. Angle Two then adds another line to make Three, in the shape of a triangle. She is then joined by three other, different triangles.
Squarey wanders off. Four follows her and sees four lines. At first the lines seem to be making another square; instead, they stretch out and make a rectangle, much to Four's confusion. Rectangle shows Square Four other four-sided shapes. Each one introduces themselves: Rectangle, Rhombus, Trapezium, Kite, Dart, Parallelogram, and Square for Four.
Squarey leads the Square Four to other shapes: A five-sided pentagon, six-sided hexagon, and seven-sided heptagon.
Squarey wants to go home. An octagon very similar to Eight appears. The octagon becomes a flying basket. Three new lines appear -- one of them making One, who joins her ends into the shape of a circle. They connect to the basket, forming a balloon. On the way home, they pass by Nine the nonagon and Ten the decagon. Octagon Eight says goodbye before he returns Four and Squarey to Numberland.
Four lands at a picnic with the other Numberblocks. He tells them about his time in Flatland where he was a real square but claims that he is relieved to be Four again. The other Numberblocks cheer for him.
Characters[]
- One
- Circle
- Line
- Two
- Digon
- Three
- Triangle
- Four
- Squarey
- Square
- Rectangle
- Quadrilaterals
- Five
- Pentagon
- Six
- Hexagon
- Seven
- Heptagon
- Eight
- Octagon
- Nine
- Nonagon (silent)
- Ten
- Decagon (silent)
Trivia[]
- Squarey makes her third appearance in the series.
- This episode teaches about 2D shapes.
- Nine and Ten are the only Numberblocks whose Flatland counterparts have no dialogue throughout the episode.
- Angle Two is the only Flatland inhabitant to stay made of lines and not create a face.
- Parallelogram Four sounds like Eight.
- This episode is named after Edwin A. Abbott's novel called Flatland, and distantly inspired by the 2007 movie adaptation.
- Every quadrilateral Four meets has a different accent (and presumably a different personality) from his. However, all of them are voiced by Marcel McCalla.
- The food at the picnic includes several items that appeared in earlier episodes: the square cheese and square bread from Four; the flapjacks first seen in How to Count; the cookies from Once Upon A Time; the fruits from Fruit Salad; the cupcakes, milkshakes, and sweet jar from Zero; and a custard pie from Octoblock to the Rescue!
- Four says, "Squarey, I've a feeling we're not in Numberland anymore.”; this is a reference to the line, "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." from The Wizard of Oz.
- This episode may discourage the official existence of a "Shapeblocks", a concept of a Learningblocks show with shape characters, as shapes have already been covered, but this episode has not covered enough of shapes or geometry.
- Flatland returned in Numberblocks Series 6 in the episode Shape Party.
Goofs[]
- When Four says "Hey, wait for me!" his right arm is disconnected.
- Rhombus Four stays frozen when Square Four leaves.
- When Four slides to the picnic basket, Seven slurps out of nothing. Eight is also holding nothing, but in the next shot he has a teacup and saucer. Furthermore, Seven is drinking from his cup of chocolate milk.
- Four does not fear the circular One in Flatland, despite other episodes establishing that he is afraid of round things. Shape Party takes this up to eleven; he calls them round, but still isn’t afraid of them.
- Sideways Rectangle was supposed to appear in this episode originally, but was instead reserved for the Numberblocks Annual 2023.
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