Terrible Twosday

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Terrible Twosday
Who knew aliens were secretly Numberblocks?
Season	6
Episode	4
Air Date	July 18, 2019
Level	Yellow Level Three
Writer	Ciaran Murtagh & Andrew Jones
Director	Simon Taylor
Episode guide
Previous	The Lair of Shares
Next	Divide and Drive

Terrible Twosday is an episode of Season 6.

Plot

Who can stop the invasion of The Terrible Twos?

This episode teaches kids about remainders.

Characters

• One
• Two (normal and as Terrible Twos)
• Four
• Five
• Six
• Eight
• Ten
• Twelve
• Fourteen
• Seventeen
• Eighteen

Synopsis

Numberland is being invaded by the Terrible Twos, who are playing "How Many Twos", getting ready to mess around with the Numberblocks.

Back on Numberland, Five and Six are playing hopscotch, when all of the sudden the ships the Terrible Twos are piloting arrive, and their ships' factor beams set to divide into Twos. Six is caught in one of the Terrible Two's factor beam, scaring Five as she hides in a bush to evade capture. She witnesses Six being divided into three Twos. The three Twos attempt to add back up, but it doesn't work. Five soon decides to head off for help.

Meanwhile, Fourteen is skateboarding, when the Terrible Twos suddenly come in. Eight attempts to protect him; unfortunately, his attempt to protect him is fruitless, as they instead both get divided into Twos (Eight into 4 Twos, and Fourteen into 7 Twos).

The Terrible Twos soon proceed to go after Seventeen next, who proceeds to make a painting of their ships. While Seventeen is distracted, the blue Terrible Two proceeds to try and split him into eight Twos. Unfortunately, there's a remainder of One, which causes his ship to malfunction and crash. The blue Terrible Two tries to locate the Reset Switch. While distracted, Five takes the opportunity to hijack it, setting its factor to five.

Five has a hard time trying to use it, accidentally dividing Ten into two Fives and picking up Seventeen on accident. The ship tries to divide Seventeen into Fives; however, the result is 3, with a remainder of 2. Five soon learns that the factorization beam wasn't meant to take any kind of remainder in mind; if there are any blocks that can't be divided by the pilot's number, the division will fail, and the entire ship will possibly malfunction and crash. Upon landing, she ponders on how to stop them- turns out, the only Numberblock that can divide Two is One, due to leaving no remainders behind. Five proceeds to split into Four and One. One pilots the ship, and proceeds off to stop them.

This works, and they are divided into Ones. Unfortunately enough, the effects from the factor beam wears off on them, as they soon retreat from Numberland in their ships.

Summary

Remainders are what are left from dividing a number that isn't divisible by the divisor. For example, 17 divided by 2 would give you 8 R1, while dividing it by 5 would give you 3 R2. Since all whole numbers are made of many 1s, 1 is capable of dividing any number without leaving remainders.

Trivia

• There's a teeny tiny error where "Octoblock, shield!" is loaded in by the subtitles as "Auto block, shield!".
• Eighteen is the biggest number in this episode. Concerning primes, Seventeen is the biggest.
• Eight saying "I've dealt with the Terrible Twos before" is a reference to Octoblock to the Rescue!
• Speaking of which, upon the blue Terrible Two being divided into Ones, they proceed to say "Bah!", then "Double bah!" when they land. This is likely a reference to the normal Two's "Ah! Another me! Double ah! Another another me!" line from the Terrible Twos' eponymous debut episode, when the normal Two saw the Terrible Twos.
• This is the third episode which takes "only one can 'X'" literally, seeing as One stopped the Terrible Twos single handed. This is also the only time where where it's not even mentioned by a character.
• Despite being an episode about remainders, it comes before Divide and Drive. This is likely because the division sign wasn't used in this episode.
• Eight is the only Numberblock to be shown back in to his normal self after the Terrible Twos got divided. Meanwhile, Eighteen is the only divisible Numberblock who manages to successfully escape them (Ten escaped them as well, but couldn't get past Five, although Five's dividing was an accident).
• When pink Terrible Two says "How many twos is too many twos, amigo?" the word "amigo" is Spanish language, meaning "friend".
• Three, Seven, Nine, Eleven, Thirteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Nineteen, and Twenty are absent in this episode.

Numberblocks episodes

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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	Season 5	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
	Season 6	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	Season 7	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
	Season 8	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
Specials		The Treasure of Hexagon Island, Double Back, About Time, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Making Friends, Crossover, The Case of the Missing Blocks, The Blocks v Blocks Games
Other Stuff		Numberblocks Theme Song, Fourth Wall Breaks