Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow

**Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow** is the 3rd episode of season 1 of Numberjacks, uploaded onto CBeebies on October 18, 2006, uploaded onto YouTube on June 11, 2015 and withdrawn from BBC iPlayer on June 29, 2011. The livestream of this episode was uploaded on May 26, 2014. This Epsiode Was Uploaded 23 April 2011

## Synopsis

After getting things disappeared and the mop grown longer, Six plots for revenge on both his youngest brother and second enemy by showing footage of his youngest brother making people's things disappear online, to the Shape Japer.

## Plot

Three and Four are arguing about whether Three can keep the Boing Ball going. She loses control sending the ball bouncing all across the room until Six enters and catches it. Three also attempts to get payback on both her second enemy and her youngest brother for the people's broken possessions (the bench from *The Trouble With Nothing* and the mop from *Going Wrong, Going Long*).

There is a problem reported by Agent 28 that all the spheres have turned into cubes. This could turn into a big problem so Six goes out to investigate. He finds more problems in the café as more spheres have also turned to cubes! As said by Agents 33, 101 and 70, Three sends Six brain gain to convert the cubes to spheres. He fixes the orange and the peas but there are reports of more problems either in the pet shop or the sports hall. On Agent 70's advice, Six travels to the sports hall. Unseen by the episode, Three convinces her oldest brother, Four, to give him his desktop to talk to a girl online. What she really intends to do with the desktop is to show her third enemy, the Shape Japer, the *The Trouble With Nothing* video.

With signals coming from the table tennis Six deduces the problem to be the Shape Japer! She turns all the cubes into spheres so Three sends more brain gain to revert it. With the marble run still left to sort out Six defeats the Shape Japer with brain gain for cube into sphere into nothing. Chasing all the spheres in the house and then returns to the sofa. The Numberjacks recap what happened to all the spheres.

Back in the Cosy Room, the Boing Ball is put safely away inside a cube-shaped storage container.

## Characters

### Numberjacks

* Three
* Four
* Five
* Six

### Agents

* 28
* 33
* 101
* 70

## Scanning Numbers

* 8
* 11 (debut)
* 12 (debut)
* 2
* 13 (only appearance)

## Locations

* House with marble run
* Café and work place
* Sports Centre

## Victims

 Shape Japer | Six | Zapped with Brain Gain to be defeated.

(Note that the items destroyed in *The Trouble With Nothing* and *Going Wrong, Going Long* are seen in this video.)

## Reception

The video currently has over 14,100,000 views, with a total of over 125,000 likes and almost 12,000 dislikes.

Some viewers believe that *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow* is fake since Three referred to the Numberjacks programme as "My brother's channel.".

However, Four, during the time of *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow*, was in charge of the channel. (Note that in *Going Wrong, Going Long*, the on-screen text is clearly from Six's perspective.

## Trivia

* *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow* is the first Numberjacks video to have a livestream uploaded in 2014.
* *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow* is the first Numberjacks video where Four's property was destroyed.
* *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow* is the first Numberjacks video to be filmed partly by a meanie.
* *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow* is the first Numberjacks video where Three is an antagonist, as well as the first time Four isn't.
* *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow* is the first Numberjacks video to be filmed by Three.
* The livestream of *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow* takes place exactly two years prior to *Behind the Scenes*.
	+ This is ironic because in both videos, a meanie is watching Three's channel.
* If one pauses the video around the 4:57 mark, they can see on the room screen how many views the first two Numberjacks videos had at the time this video was filmed.
* The picture of Three that is used as *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow*'s main image is popular among fans, with many of the YouTube channels and Twitter profiles impersonating Three using it as a profile picture.
	+ It also makes an appearance on the Numberjacks Twitch channel, as seen in *Nine Lives*.
* This Numberjacks video was remade as a YTP in 2016 with the title *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow (Role Reversal)*.
* When Three is scrolling to find *The Trouble With Nothing*, you can see *Going Wrong, Going Long*'s original description
* As revealed in the BTS, when Six looks through the window in the girl's room, the girl is looking at furry costumes although it cannot be seen well due to the glare from the window into the camera.
* The BTS also reveals that the video was inspired by the viral video about mixing spheres and cubes together. In that video, it results in a father mixing his daughter's spheres and cubes together.
* *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow* is the second Numberjacks video where a Numberjack gets chased. First being *Going Wrong, Going Long* and the third being *Out of Order*.