Door to Door Boar

## Summary

Dirk helps Fluff and Fold see that they've been swindled by a cookie company. Mr. Cookie misuses fractions and percents to tell them he's doubled their pay.

## Episode Plot Part 1

This episode begins with Dirk Niblick playing the piano. Dirk tells the viewers that there's plenty of math involved in music, Quarter Notes, Half Notes, and Whole Notes. And if you're really good, they'll pay you in C notes. Meanwhile, at The Toss Your Cookies Company, Dirk's young neighbors, Fluff and Fold Noodleman are involved in a cookie sale operation. They've signed up with a door-to-door business, which gives them cookies to sell. The operator of the business, Mr. Cookie, tells them to go out and sell the cookies and he'll give them 1/10 of the money they collect. Before the kids begin their business, they decide to go to Dirk Niblick to find out if this is a good deal. When they got there, they heard his piano playing. They break down the door. Dirk asked them why they came. Fluff and Fold explain that they thought he was badly hurt. After dealing with this, Dirk address their question. He says that they could do quite well with this arrangement. 1/10 is the same 10%. Therefore, if they were to sell, say, $10 worth of cookies, they would make $1. If it were $100, then they would earn $10 and so on. So the kids go out and sell the cookies and return for their pay. They collected $250 and are given $25. Mr. Cookie then tells them he's giving them a raise. He's raising their pay to 1/20, or 20%. Fluff and Fold think this is great, unaware that they're not really getting a raise at all. As the episode goes to break, the narrator asks us to consider the board, on which is written "1/10=10% and 1/20=20%". "What's wrong with this picture?"

## Episode Plot Part 2

Fluff and Fold go once again to get their pay. They raised $300 and Mr. Cookie gives them $15. During their third delivery, they stopped by Dirk Niblick and tell him that they're doing very well, and they even got a raise. They were making 1/10 and now they're making 1/20. Dirk asked them to repeat what they said. They say they got a raise to 1/20? Fluff asks if they've been cheated. Dirk shows them 1/20 is actually 5%. Their pay "raise" was actually a pay "cut", much to Fold's dismay. He decides to use a picture to help out. To demonstrate 1/10, he draws a rectangle and divides it into ten equal pieces. He then shades in one of them to show 1/10. He then takes another rectangle and divides it into 20 equal pieces. He shades in one and, as the kids can see, the piece is clearly smaller. They've been gypped! Fluff and Fold decide to pay Mr. Cookie a visit. They return to The Toss Your Cookies Company and gave their ex-boss a taste of his own medicine (or at least his own cookies) by throwing cookies at him. Afterwards, Fluff tells Dirk that they got the remaining money they should have gotten, $30, from Mr. Cookie and that they quit the job for good. Dirk was glad Fluff and Fold stood up for their rights. The kids also tell them that they disposed of the remaining cookies on the keys of his piano. Dirk complains that that'll cause the piano not to work. They tell him that's the point. After they left chuckling, Dirk comments that he can't take a hint and continues playing his piano.