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What If? is the fourteenth episode of Season 8 of Numberblocks and the 119th episode of the series overall.
Synopsis
What if there were a way to explore every possible question? Imagine that! Learn the power of asking questions with the Numberblocks.
Characters
- What-Iffer
- Numberblobs
- Zero
- One (New)
- Two (Fling)
- Three (Club)
- Four
- Five
- Six (Bun)
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven (doesn't speak)
- Twelve (doesn't speak)
- Thirteen (doesn't speak)
- Fourteen (doesn't speak)
- Fifteen (doesn't speak)
- Sixteen (doesn't speak)
- Seventeen (doesn't speak)
- Eighteen (doesn't speak)
- Nineteen (doesn't speak)
- Twenty (doesn't speak)
- Twenty Six (Flingty-Bun)
- Thirty-Two (doesn't speak)
- Sixty-Four (doesn't speak)
- One Hundred
- One Thousand
- Ten Thousand
- One Hundred Thousand
- One Million
- Ten Million
- One Hundred Million
- One Billion
Mathematical concepts mentioned
- Infinity: "But how high could you get if forever never ends?"
- Orders of Magnitude: "What if you kept writing zeroes after One?"
- Powers of 2: "What if you start with a single grain of rice? Then double it, double it, double it every day? "
- Fractions: "What if One could be divided into pieces?"
- Years: "Would it take a hundred years to reach the top?"
- Numerals: "What if the Numberblocks each had a different name?"
- ...languages that only have words for 1-3, I guess? "One, two, three, plenty, many, lots!"
- Numeral systems and number bases: in the same scene as above, 4, 5, and 6 are shown as "three-one", "three-two", and "three-three", which is similar to Ternary.
- Abstract thinking: "What if the Numberblocks all disappeared one day? Would One and Two and Three still equal Six?"
- Negative Numbers: "What if there could be a number less than Zero?"
Trivia
- This is the 2nd appearance of the What-Iffer
- This is also the second appearance of One Thousand, Ten Thousand, One Hundred Thousand, and One Million.
- The episode also introduces Ten Million, One Hundred Million, and One Billion.
- 3 asks "What if we could build a tower to the moon?", but 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 have already built a tower to a different planet.
- This is the second appearance of the full-month calendar.
- Oddly, Thirty-One doesn't appear in this episode, though he does make a cameo ON the calendar.
- There are references to Twoland, One Thousand and One, Figure It Out (the calendar), and some other episodes.
- This is the last episode of Season 8 that introduces a math concept since 100 Ways to Leave the Planet is mainly a recap of the show.
- Sixty-Four is a bit bigger in this episode.
- This is the first time a numberblock reaches the height of 1000 blocks
- This episode ends the longest streak of Numberblocks (starting from Four On The Floor) to introduce a new character every episode, 6 episodes.
- 11 - 20 don't speak in this episode however they can be heard chearing at the end of the episode.
- This is the first episode where a Numberblock isn't their usual size. The second being The Case of the Missing Blocks.
Errors
- In one scene where 10 Million appears, her pupils are visible when she closes her eyes.
Videos
@Numberblocks - Full Episodes - S5 EP30- What If?