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Once Upon A Time is the first episode of the third series of Numberblocks. It is the 31st episode overall.
Synopsis[]
If you’re sitting comfortably, then we’ll begin a bedtime story all about the first five Numberblocks.
Characters[]
Plot[]
The first scene features a book with a picture of the first five Numberblocks on the cover. The book opens up to the first page:
Chapter 1: In the Beginning[]
One dangles from a rope and is getting lowered slowly.
One: "Once upon a time, a red block fell from the sky."
The rope breaks as One lands on her side, retracts her face and her limbs, and ejects them back out, but the right way up.
One: "I am One! This is fun! I am One block, and this is my Numberling, it means me, ONE!"
One starts hopping around until, she knocks one of the props over. She looks at the fallen prop, mildly embarrassed, clears her throat and starts talking again.
One: "But One was all on her own, so she decided to make friends. Oh! A Magic Mirror! "I'm one!"
Another One: "So am I. I'm another ONE!"
One: "Anyone for tennis?!"
She hits the ball, it bounces off of the top of the mirror, and bounces onto One, knocking her onto the other One.
1 + 1 = 2
Two: "I am Two. How do you do?"
Chapter 2: Me and You[]
Two: "I am Two. I have 1, 2, two blocks, and this [he points to his Numberling] means two. Wanna see me dance in my two dancing shoes?"
Two dances, but accidentally steps on a loose floorboard One is standing on, lifting her into the air.
2 + 1 = 3
Three: "I am Three. Look at me!"
Chapter 3: Me, Me, ME![]
Three: "I am Three. I have 1, 2, 3, three blocks. I have three juggling balls, and this means three."
Three juggles her balls while One and Two watch. Two tosses One onto her.
3 + 1 = 4
Four: "I am Four. Have we met before?"
Chapter 4: Four's House[]
Four: "Hello, I am Four. I have 1, 2, 3, 4, four blocks. can you guess what my favourite shape is? Right, it's a square. I have 1, 2, 3, 4, four sides, and 1, 2, 3, 4, four corners."
Four sees that someone has chewed four holes on the tablecloth. That someone is his pet square, Squarey. He fixes it with four square plates.
One, Two, and Three come in the house. Four asks them who wants a square cookie. But Four cannot reach the cookie jar. One jumps on Four.
4 + 1 = 5
Five: "I am Five. I feel alive!'
Chapter 5: The Star Turn[]
Five: "I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, five blocks. And I love stars 'cause they have five points. It makes me a rock star! Thank you and good night!"
As Five ends the story, the Numberblocks 1-4 fall asleep in bed.
Math Magic[]
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to be released in 2018 and Series 3.
- This episode is a callback to the first series of the show.
- Because of this, the Red Level One intro plays instead of the Level 2-5 one because the numbers bigger than Five don't appear.
- Only Numberblocks One to Five appear in this episode. This is the first time such happened ever since Hide and Seek.
- This is the first episode of Series 3 to have the Series 1 intro.
- The next 4 following episodes are also about Numberblocks Zero to Five, seemingly intentionally omitting larger numbers.
- Because of this, the Red Level One intro plays instead of the Level 2-5 one because the numbers bigger than Five don't appear.
- This is the first time in Series 3 where Five is the biggest number.
- Four breaks the fourth wall in this episode when he asks, "Can you guess what my favourite shape is?".
- This episode follows the debut of Squarey, a small brown character who is Four's pet.
- This is the first episode to have a bedtime story, second being Now We Are Six to Ten, third being Tween Scenes, last being Tall Stories.
- One's play is a callback to the episodes One and Another One.
- This episode marks the first time the word "Numberling" is said in the show.
- The cover of the book is from the intro.
- This episode is where the animation got a noticeable upgrade.
Errors[]
- In Chapter 5, similarly to Five, Four does not care about the round tops of the drums. Ironically, this episode was released after Double Trouble, the first episode where his fear of round things was shown, but in chronological order he likely developed it at a later stage after this episode.
Video[]
@Numberblocks- Once Upon a Time 👑 - Full Episode - Learn to Count