The Trouble With Nothing

***The Trouble With Nothing*** (originally titled ***Trouble With Nothing***) is the pilot episode of season 1 of Numberjacks, uploaded onto CBeebies on October 16, 2006, uploaded onto YouTube on May 28, 2015 and withdrawn from BBC iPlayer on May 21, 2010. The livestream of this episode was uploaded on December 22, 2012. This Epsiode Was Uploaded On 31 March 2008

## Synopsis

Heading to the park, an angry and psychotic brother aims at and makes the people's things disappear.

## Plot

Three is trying to show off to Five that she can go out on a mission like the bigger Numberjacks do and slides down a tunnel to 'practice' being launched. Five thinks Three could do it, but is a bit worried as she is a bit of a 'small number'. Then, the girls see that Four is returning from a mission he went on earlier that day. After a quick room check by Six, Four lands in the gym. He is terribly shaken up from being a washing machine control, and Five uses this as an example of why it’s hard to go out and do missions. Three, still convinced she could do that, tries to demonstrate how she could be a number three on a washing machine control, door, and clock, but Five tells her she just isn’t ready. As a slightly disappointed Three leaves the room, Four reveals to Five that he's now fine but has a slight headache. A split second later, Six sounds the alarm from the control room.

As Three, Four, Five and Six regroup, Agent 33 calls up, and the Numberjacks see that a jug, cup and teapot are vanishing from the café. Three offers to go, but the others say that she is a bit small to do so, and Four declines on account of the fact that his headache is bothering him. Six decides he will have to go today. Three wistfully watches her friend streaming through the sky, while Four finds him a spot to land on.

After arriving at the scene, Six discovers that an ice-cream and a bench have disappeared, (causing a man to flop to the ground), and then a football vanishes, causing a boy to kick thin air. Agents 42 and 16 call in to advise Six to look carefully at what’s going on. They then discover that Zero is out there, making zero of everything, when he should be having a nap. After rerunning the clips of things in the park, they find him by the various things that have disappeared, finding the common pattern (namely his presence). Six realizes he must find Zero before he does any more damage.

Six then proceeds to chase Zero around the playground: on the climbing frame, on a park bench, past the swings, past a bike, down the slide, by a bench, (tripping over a human foot in the process), and then back to the climbing frame, where Zero makes *himself* disappear.

Five then imagines Zero making clothes disappear on a man, making traffic lights disappear causing accidents, and making the Dancing Cow’s spotlight and stage disappear, causing her to fall down.

Three, Four and Five debate on what to do from the base, causing Four's head to ache even more. Then, Agents 42, 16 and 68 explain there used to be one of everything, causing Five to ask Three to find Numberjack One so that she can help make Brain Gain.

Once the Brain Gain machine is powered up, they realize One is having a bit of trouble due to her young age, and the Brain Gain is therefore a bit weak. Thanks to Agents 33 and 42, the Brain Gain leaves the sofa to Six, and forms an ice-cream cone, a jug, a teapot and a cup.

Six runs out of Brain Gain before he can make the football reappear, and One nearly falls asleep. Three tries to help by jumping in the middle, but she accidentally makes three footballs. However, One perks up and corrects the number of footballs to one.

Now, all they need is the bench to bring back. However, Zero comes in and makes the bench disappear again. They struggle for a while, but eventually, they get the bench back. One, Zero and the man become tired out once it's over. Six grabs Zero and the two fly back home.

Upon arrival, the Numberjacks congratulate Six on the mission. Three jumps back, afraid Zero might make *her* disappear, but Six assures her that he can't, and even if he could, he’s too tired.

After recapping the day's events, Four admits his head still hurts. Then, Six concludes Zero can make one more thing disappear: Numberjack Four’s headache. Zero proceeds to do so, much to Four's relief, and the others agree to keep their eye on Zero. Five then tells the agents to keep an eye for things with Zero of, and to tell them to call the Numberjacks if anything goes awry.

### Aftermath

Three soon found out that the video was uploaded to CBeebies and threatened to tell the meanies about it. After dealing with these threats for a while, the Problem Blob finally made a plan to get revenge on the meanies on Three's birthday. Three did eventually show the Shape Japer the video in *Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow*, to her detriment, however.

## Characters

#### Numberjacks

* Zero (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)
* One (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)
* Two (cameo)
* Three (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)
* Four (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)
* Five (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)
* Six (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)
* Seven (cameo)
* Eight (cameo)
* Nine (cameo)

### Agents

* 33 (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)
* 42 (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)
* 16 (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)
* 68 (Debut appearance in Numberjacks)

## Scanning Numbers

* 1 (debut)
* 2 (debut)
* 3 (debut)
* 4 (debut)
* 5 (debut)
* 6 (debut)

## Locations

* Café
* Garden
* Playground

## Victims

 Football

## Trivia

* *The Trouble With Nothing* is the only Numberjacks video to have a livestream uploaded in 2012.
* *The Trouble With Nothing* is one of the only two Numberjacks videos where Zero goes out on a mission, the other being *Tens Moments*.
* *The Trouble With Nothing* is the first shortest Numberjacks mission, after *In Out Shake It All About* and *Belongings*.
* Originally, the video didn't have the word "the" in it, as revealed on the Numberjacks Facebook page. Instead, the video was simply called "*Trouble With Nothing*."
* Coincidentally, Numberjacks begins with Three doing tricks and ends with Four doing tricks.
* A YTP of this video was made in 11 August 2016 with with roles reversed.
* According to Three, Four and Five, *The Trouble With Nothing* was intended to be a parody of *The Shiny Show* episodes but after seeing everyone believing that it was real, they decided to conceive a story around and thus *Numberjacks* is born.
* Two, Seven, Eight and Nine are absent in this video, but are seen in the promo at the start of the video.
* This is Numberjacks' tweet right after the video was removed.
* This was the first video on Numberjacks