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What If? is the twenty-ninth episode of the fifth season of Numberblocks. It is the 119th episode overall.

Synopsis[]

What if there were a way to explore every possible question? Imagine that! Learn the power of asking questions with the Numberblocks.

Lyrics[]

What-Iffer: What if you kept on counting forever? It would earn the admiration of your friends. You might make it to a million in a fortnight, but how high could you get if forever never ends? What if you kept writing zeroes after One? It’s the same as if you multiply by Ten. Pretty soon you’ll reach a million again. What then? What then? What if you start with a single grain of rice? Then double it, double it, double it every day? In a week, you’d have no more than a handful. In a month, you’d be giving it away!

Four: Stop the rice!

Two: Please stop the rice?

One: What if, the rice stopped?

What-Iffer: Interesting question. Ask me another!

One: What if One could be divided into pieces?

What-Iffer: Smaller parts, like the slices of a cake. You could cut into four or eight or sixteen, but is there any end to the fractions you could make?

Three: What if we tried to build a tower to the moon? Would it take a hundred years to reach the top?

What-Iffer: Though you might not want to think about the drop, don’t stop. Don’t stop!

Two: What if the Numberblocks each had a different name? Like-

New (One): New!

Fling (Two): Fling!

Plob (Three): Plob!

Flingty-Bun (Twenty-Six): Flingty-Bun!

What-Iffer: The amount you’d have to count would be no different, but you’d have to learn new words for every one!

New: New!

Fling: Plus Fling!

Plob: Plus Plob! Equals…

Bun! (Six): Bun!

Three: What if Three was the highest you could count to?

What-Iffer: It’s a question that could tie you up in knots. Counting sheep to get to sleep could be quite tricky!

One: One!

Two: Two!

Three: Three!

One - Three: Uh… many, plenty, lots!

Sheep: Baa! [x6]

What-Iffer and Numberblobs: What if the Numberblocks all disappeared one day?

What-Iffer: Would One and Two and Three still equal Six? You could count it using pebbles, blobs, or bricks. Or sticks. Good fix!

What-Iffer and Zero: What if there could be a number less than Zero?

What-Iffer: You could draw it on a line to understand. Or imagine there’s a lift that keeps on going…

Lift: Negative One. Negative Two. Negative Three, Negative Four, Negative Five, Negative Six, Negative Seven, Negative Eight.

What-Iffer: How far could you go under Numberland?

Three: What if everything was yellow?

What-Iffer: What if everything was flat?

Seven: What if Seven found a heptagon and wore it like a hat?

Two: What if One was made of jelly?

One: What if Two was made of cheese?

Five: What if beds were made of bubbles?

Six: What if buses grew on trees?

Ten: What if One was really massive?

One: What if Ten was really small?

Eight: What if Numberland was upside-down?

Nine: Which way would we fall?

One: What if you could spend forever?

Two: In a world that never ends?

Three: On a wonderful adventure?

One - Ten: With your favorite number friends?

What-Iffer: There are many other questions you would find, so say whatever pops into your mind! There are many other mysteries, and still you may not know, what if you thought up some questions of your own?

Characters[]

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 two - “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. (possibly) - "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; or base-3.
  • 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?"

Math Magic[]

  • 1 × 10 = 10
  • 10 × 10 = 100
  • 100 × 10 = 1,000
  • 1,000 × 10 = 10,000
  • 10,000 × 10 = 100,000
  • 100,000 × 10 = 1,000,000
  • 1,000,000 × 10 = 10,000,000
  • 10,000,000 × 10 = 100,000,000
  • 100,000,000 × 10 = 1,000,000,000
  • 2 × 1 = 2
  • 2 × 2 = 4
  • 2 × 4 = 8
  • and so on...
  • 1 ÷ 2 = 1/2
  • 1/2 ÷ 2 = 1/4
  • 1/4 ÷ 2 = 1/8
  • and so on until...
  • 1/32 ÷ 2 = 1/64
  • ◉ + ◫ + △ = ▩; ◉ = 1, ◫ = 2, △ = 3, ▩ = 6 (segment only)
  • ◉ + ◫ = △; ◉ = 1, ◫ = 2, △ = 3
  • 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 (segment, without Numberblocks)

Trivia[]

  • This is the second appearance of the What-Iffer. The first was in Twoland.
    • This is also the second appearance of One Thousand, Ten Thousand, One Hundred Thousand, and One Million. The first was One Thousand and One.
      • The episode also introduces Ten Million, One Hundred Million, and One Billion.
  • Three asks "What if we could build a tower to the moon?", but Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten had previously built a tower to a different planet in Building Blocks.
  • 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 5 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 despite being non-physical.
  • This episode ends the longest streak of Numberblocks (starting from Four On The Floor) to introduce a new character every episode, 6 episodes.
  • This is the first episode where a Numberblock isn't their usual size. The second being The Case of the Missing Blocks.
  • Numberblocks 11-20 can be heard cheering at the end but do not speak, 32, 64, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000, 10,000,000 and 100,000,000 also don’t speak in the episode.
  • This episode is called Asking Questions on Numberblock’s official YouTube account.
  • When the What-Iffer says “What if you started with a single grain of rice, and doubled it, doubled it, doubled it everyday”, it’s a reference to an Indian legend about a little girl who is asked to afford enough rice to feed her town. So she took a single grain of rice, and doubled it every day until she could feed her whole town.

Errors[]

  • In one scene where 10 Million appears, her pupils are still visible when she closes her eyes.
  • This episode was mistaken as a multiplication episode on YouTube.
  • When the camera zooms into 1 Billion’s eye, her Numberling is poorly cropped.
  • On YouTube, this is listed as the last episode of Series 5 when looking at the title, but however, 100 Ways to Leave the Planet is the last episode of Series 5.
  • The subtitles mistaken the Numberblobs as frogs at one moment in the episode.
  • In the Spanish dub, when Four tells the What-Iffer to stop the rice, he does not speak.

Videos[]

@Numberblocks_-_Full_Episodes_-_S5_EP30-_What_If?

@Numberblocks - Full Episodes - S5 EP30- What If?


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